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Hi Silvershamaa, The World Team Championships is a great opportunity for players to earn points, but often you will see those from teams of five get less at the end of the day, this is because points are stacked by 'wins', rather than earned from 'stage reached.' as pongfurgrasshopper mentioned...

What a great thread, so many different ranking systems being shared. I have worked in Table Tennis ratings and rankings for the past few years. If there are any national associations or clubs which require a system developed by someone with experience, I'd be happy to help. Even if you think...

I still have a green sheet of Butterfly D-13 which was later renamed Sriver. The rubber must be 30-40 years old now, still square, never put on a blade.

Boll also has a men's doubles silver from 2005 with Christian Suss.

Considering how open the lower half of the draw was, it makes me wonder about the chances of some players who had a rough draw in the top half. For example if Hugo Calderano had been in the lower half would he have reached the final? Koki Niwa is another one who is strong enough (although he has...

Robles and Ionescu have made history. Not only are they the first players from their countries to reach a men's doubles final (and first medal in WTTC history for Spain), they are the first international pair in a men's doubles final since 1995 when Samsonov and Primorac achieved that feat.

Careful Nemo, Dan does some commentary for ITTF on occasion, let's hope your account doesn't mysteriously get deleted ;)

Xu Xin is just warming up, he often drops a game or two against weaker players. Haven't seen him lose to a European in many years.

Consider also that these matches are not actual televised content, just live stream content, and are unimportant to the ITTF (a major reason for redesigning the WTTC in future years). When televised matches commence, with commentary and multiple cameras the ITTF are more selective with their...

Table 2 has the top ranked player from Oceania Heming Hu, (from AUS not NZL by the way) so there are likely a few people down under who give a hoot. There will be players from each of the listed countries watching their representatives. But it's unlikely that people from outside of those...

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/showthread.php?20341-World-Rankings-2001-to-2019-video&p=262091&viewfull=1#post262091 This thread shows the top 10 in an infographic video, gives an idea of how the rankings change over time.

Hi everyone, Uploaded by YouTube channel RandomStats, this video shows a graph of the top 10 players according to the ITTF rankings from 2001 to 2019. Share your thoughts below, and please support RandomStats by subscribing to their YouTube channel. This is not my work (but I wish it was).

These are great videos. Thanks! An interesting playlist would be videos from the WTTC final every year (as far back as possible).

Going back to the 90s and 80s is a little bit trickier as many DOBs are not in the database. 1986 is as far back as I can go without the average age becoming unreliable. 1985 and before are missing at least 50% of the player DOBs in the top 20 for men and women. DOBs can be found for the various...

WOMEN 32 (63) Kim Song I 33 (41) Liu Jia 51 (74) Lay Jian Fang 52 (69) WU Yue 94 (119) Margaryta Pesotska The first four women in this list of notable jumps in the women's list are as a result of both 2017 and 2018 Women's World Cups being valid for one month. They...