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Look, there is ITTF Africa, ITTF Americas, ITTF Asia and ITTF Oceania, but NOT ITTF Europe. Why?

http://africa.ittf.com/
http://americas.ittf.com/
http://asia.ittf.com/
http://oceania.ittf.com/

Asian Table Tennis Union Announces New Website
https://www.ittf.com/2022/07/26/asian-table-tennis-union-announces-new-website/
I will let you and Tony complete this new tangent until you show relevance to my original point. In the infamous words of the Sharks, thanks, but I'm out.
 
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I will let you and Tony complete this new tangent until you show relevance to my original point. In the infamous words of the Sharks, thanks, but I'm out.
I have 2 full busy days coming up, especially tomorrow with Hong Kong's DHK's teacher and visiting 2 schools (1 in the morning) and then afternoon going to Cathay Life table tennis team.
Overall, I expect tomorrow to be a 14 hour day with table tennis

There is no ways to state ATTU website is better than ETTU, so I'm sure that conversation will stop there.
so, please stay in, and go out on Wednesday 🤣
 
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I have 2 full busy days coming up, especially tomorrow with Hong Kong's DHK's teacher and visiting 2 schools (1 in the morning) and then afternoon going to Cathay Life table tennis team.
Overall, I expect tomorrow to be a 14 hour day with table tennis

There is no ways to state ATTU website is better than ETTU, so I'm sure that conversation will stop there.
so, please stay in, and go out on Wednesday 🤣
Seriously, I am asking why ECL, a club championship in Europe and the ETTU"s ability to handle and reschedule it, is being compared to JTTA, CTTA etc. being able to reschedule events and asking whether Asia has an equivalent inter‐club competition that it is managing the schedule of relative to ITTF. Are those really hard questions to answer regardless of cause? While Saudi Smash hasn't started, these tangents are not for everyone, but if things are addressed directly, I am okay. When we start wasting time in order to avoid answering a direct question (I was wading through pages of links to find out where badminton talks about suspending a player without punishing the country for failing to field a team, or whether they discussed suspending the player when the country fielded other players to complete the team), I have to value my time a bit more (as well as the time of others). This weekend is State Championships in Texas and while I suck, I still try to play tournaments. And still have to return to my day job. On the whole my patience is too low for redirects just to avoid a simple admission that the original comparisons were wrong. And yes, Quadri may have no case in court, anyone using that as a basis of fairness is probably confused about how the legal system works, at least in the West. Because in many court systems, you have to show harms outweigh benefits, and part of the reason why Quadri is up in arms is that if the WTT continue down this path, at some point it might just make more sense to get a lawyer because at some point the harms to him will be worth it.
 
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Apparently, you guys don't read any of the various ITTF meeting minutes. There is a lot of resistance between ITTF and ETTU. I will spin off a new thread on this (if I don't forget) since Saudi Smash is starting.
 
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Did anyone else like me not follow all these hot arguments? :alien:
Your very post shows that Aruna's plea is futile. Nobody gives a damn.
 
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imagine how hard it is for those who can't read 90% of stuff zeio links because it's in Mandarin
Chinese. Mandarin/官話 is the spoken language and strictly speaking, it should be Putonghua/普通話. Chinese is the general term for both the written and spoken language.
 
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Does Quek beating Sathiyan qualify as a upset? It seems that Sathiyan is not quite consistent in his matches. He can beat some top players, but lose to others with much lower rankings.
Yes, it is, but Quek is young and getting better, and is clearly a talent.
 
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Does Quek beating Sathiyan qualify as a upset? It seems that Sathiyan is not quite consistent in his matches. He can beat some top players, but lose to others with much lower rankings.
Yes by world ranking. But once we look past that and compare their finishing positions in similar tournaments, then it becomes clear that they are not far apart. That's also what the H2H suggests, 1W1L (both in 2023) for either.

https://www.ittf.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024_18_SEN_MS.html
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