46^th World Table Tennis Championships

Osaka, Japan · April 23 - May 6, 2001

The Running Backhand Loop of Thiago Monteiro

Photo sequence by Diego Schaaf, taken at the World Championships, courtesy of alphatabletennis.com

Brazil's Thiago Monteiro, ranked #287 in the world coming into the World Championships, showed how accurate that ranking was by beating world #16 Christophe Legout. Below he shows the spectacular form that allowed him to play at such a level.

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