USA Adult Ranking Tournaments

[NextLevel]

Shocking fact of the tournament - Juan Liu, who has no world ranking, wins it all (let's ignore that she has by far the highest USATT rating of all participants).

 

[Loopadoop]

Sure. Facts like Amy is young and improving escape you, don't they? Or that she had a 3-1 lead the last time they played as pongfugrasshopper pointed out?

Minor facts comparison to major results fact. Sure there are potential upsets or losses which happen all the time in sports.

 

[Loopadoop]

Shocking fact of the tournament - Juan Liu, who has no world ranking, wins it all (let's ignore that she has by far the highest USATT rating of all participants).

Juan Liu has won 2 US Opens, 1 US National, has never lost to Lily. She has back to back tournament wins at Weschester vs top men players. Her World Ranking is 523 based on not playing in enough Ranking Tournaments.

The tournament seedings were based on world rankings not on current Usatt ratings, so flawed.

 

[NextLevel]

Juan Liu has won 2 US Opens, 1 US National, has never lost to Lily. She has back to back tournament wins at Weschester vs top men players. Her World Ranking is 523 based on not playing in enough Ranking Tournaments.

The tournament seedings were based on world rankings not on current Usatt ratings, so flawed.

If you gave as much context to your shocking statements as you provided in this post, then you would come across as more in tune with table tennis.

 

[Loopadoop]

If you gave as much context to your shocking statements as you provided in this post, then you would come across as more in tune with table tennis.

My Shocking Results postings were specifically about Yue Wu and Lily Zhang only and accurate.

 

[Loopadoop]

Seedings

Based on current world rankings, this was used.

1 33 Yue Wu
2 55 Lily Zhang
3 226 Amy Wang
4 523 Juan Liu
5 685 Crystal Wang

Based on current USATT ratings

1 2679 Juan Liu
2 2593 Lily Zhang
3 2498 Yue Wu
4 2486 Crystal Wang
5 2471 Amy Wang

Actual Results

1 Juan Liu seeded 4 & 1
2 Amy Wang seeded 3 & 5
3 Lily Zhang seeded 2 & 2
4 Crystal Wang seeded 5 & 4
5 Yue Wu seeded 1 & 3

If I was doing the seedings before the tournament based on their US tournaments history

1 Juan Liu
2 Lily Zhang
3 Yue Wu
4 Amy Wang
5 Crystal Wang

If politics were used to pick one of the Olympic selections, Yue Wu WR 33 would probably get it over the two age 17 kids, saying they are the future, not experienced enough yet.

In all sports there are rookies and other young players who unexpectedly becomes stars in a new season.

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[NextLevel]

The Panam Championships is going on right now (surprised you have no thread) and may be a direct test of your theory as 4 players are playing singles (Juan Liu is the only one not playing).

 

[Loopadoop]

Theoretically, the team of Juan Liu Lily Zhang and Amy Wang might be a dark horse to medal at the 2020 Olympics.

 

[NextLevel]

Theoretically, the team of Juan Liu Lily Zhang and Amy Wang might be a dark horse to medal at the 2020 Olympics.

Amy Wang isn't very good at doubles so that will be interesting.

 

[Loopadoop]

Amy Wang isn't very good at doubles so that will be interesting.

Amy and Nikhil Kumar beat the top Brazil team today 3-0.

 

[NextLevel]

Amy and Nikhil Kumar beat the top Brazil team today 3-0.

She has a good lefty partner and she does attack serves - her footwork and forehand are still issues. Sunday will be interesting.