Great youtube footage but good for our sport,I don't think so.

Like most of us I watched this with a mixture of real amusement and incredulity that top players would behave like this. This is an extreme case,I know, but I have to say that watching top international matches lately I feel that top players are really pushing the rules.

A particular area where this is apparent is time wasting between serves. Boe and Mogensen really bought this to a new level in the recent world championships and. disappointingly, the officials let them get away with it. I always like to see Europeans do well at international level as they seem to be the underdogs these days but when the Danes lost in the final I found it very difficult to feel sorry for them.    

Hmm, very tricky subject. I agree with all of you. I too find it hard the time the Danes take to serve (on some occasions it's really beyond proper playing). But, same thing as on the OG in London, Paul is right. I cannot blame the players, the coaches need to pin this down. Period. That's what they are there for, and are payed for. Same as serving above the waste. How many times have they (not only Boe, others as well) looked disappointed, nearly dying, to the service judge, and then looking like a labrador towards the umpire, because a service fault was called. Some coaches really don't get it, so it looks. Umpires need to be consequent.

The Canada Open hassle, it hurt my eyes. On the very same day it happened, it was already on our private FB page of our club. But, look at the matches where Bodin and Maneepong were still playing together, in some of them Bodin really had it hard to control his temper and the umpire urged him to calm down. When they broke up, sad thing, I really thought they were a pair who could make it. But to be honest, I wouldn't like to play with a guy with such a temper either.

I just hope this (yet another incident) doesn't place our beloved sport into a corner it really doesn't deserve.

All the best, ED