WTT 2024 feeder events

[NextLevel]

It seems that it has been a long long time since WCT ever played good. Even the famous JackWong did not bother to talk about him anymore.

No, not really, JackWong just has disappeared. WCT has been very consistent, including the Asian Games bronze and the last WTTTC in Busan. Ultimately, you can't play the Teams event when you don't have a Team, even when you yourself don't lose any matches.

 

[NextLevel]

Odo and Yokoi won Doubles. Odo is fortunate to be the last player in the Main Draw for Feeder Dusseldorf. Yokoi is in the Qualifiers which literally starts tomorrow.

I thought Yokoi would avenge the last tournament but alas, after going up 2-0 and I Stopped watching, I find she lost 2-3. Seriously?

Odo, whenever I watch her, I keep seeing a smaller Hirano and for my mental attitude, I think it works.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

I thought Yokoi would avenge the last tournament but alas, after going up 2-0 and I Stopped watching, I find she lost 2-3. Seriously?

Odo, whenever I watch her, I keep seeing a smaller Hirano and for my mental attitude, I think it works.

Yokoi needs to work on her consistency on rallies, but I think it's mostly a mental hurdle she needs to overcome with Lee Eunhye. In fairness, Women's Doubles Finals was the last match of the evening at Feeder Varazdin, Croatia and she had to go to Dusseldorf for qualifiers the next day.

Yokoi may be more talented, but Odo seems to have a very carefree personality and doesn't seem bothered much when behind. Winning a Feeder is a confidence booster for her. She's currently battling against Shibata so we'll see where she's at.

 

[zeio]

Enough for me to tell that Odo is stronger than Yokoi. Still need more time to tell if both of them will really be passed over for LA 2028.

https://web.archive.org/web/2024012...4712600010&w=P11xObo7dKzIUdIH9s9ICDv1QhtJ72iw (11/26/2023 at 11:41am)

Judging from Odo's performance here in Osaka, I'd say she is even stronger than Yokoi.

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/fo...-be-revamped-for-paris-2024.24977/post-446366

More proof that Hayata and Hirano held back in league matches. IIRC, Yokoi came close but never beat Hayata and Hirano in the selection trials. Poor Ito, for losing at Zennihon Takkyu 2023.

Hirano has lost only 3 times this season and all to Yokoi. OTOH, Yokoi's win rate is still ugly but she has beaten Hayata, Hirano, Harimoto, and Kihara. Ugly win rate for Odo as well but somehow she managed to finish just 1 spot above Yokoi in the Road to Paris.

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/fo...-be-revamped-for-paris-2024.24977/post-438783

The field for LA 2028 will be far more contested. It's still early to tell how competitive it will be, but there are at least 5 more up-and-coming players besides Harimoto.

Continuing from where I left off (11/12/2022 at 3:52am):
Hirano (2000/4/14)
Hayata (2000/7/7)
Ito (2000/10/21)

Nagasaki (2002/6/15)
Yokoi (2004/4/23)
Odo (2004/5/16)
Kihara (2004/8/3)

AOKI Sachi (2007/4/10)
MENDE Rin (2007/12/31)
TAKEYA Misuzu (2008/4/17)
TAKAMORI Mao (2008/5/15)
Harimoto (2008/6/16)
OJIO Yuna (2008/7/5)

Where Yokoi, Odo, Takamori and Aoki are affiliated to Shitennoji and Miki House. Given Yokoi's and Odo's zero international activities in 2022 and 2023, whereas Takamori had been playing weekly for the most part since May, 2023 and Aoki started playing again in Nov, 2023, I get the impression that both Yokoi and Odo will be passed over in the next cycle, much like Nagasaki and Kihara.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Enough for me to tell that Odo is stronger than Yokoi. Still need more time to tell if both of them will really be passed over for LA 2028.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240124170044/https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=mytabletennis.net/forum/zennihon-takkyu-2024-1-2228_topic91479_page39.html&d=4944104712600010&w=P11xObo7dKzIUdIH9s9ICDv1QhtJ72iw (11/26/2023 at 11:41am)


https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/fo...-be-revamped-for-paris-2024.24977/post-446366


https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/fo...-be-revamped-for-paris-2024.24977/post-438783

Although at this point, it does look like Odo is stronger than Yokoi, it's too early to tell for any LA 2028 possibility. Yokoi played Hirano 3 times in T-League and won all 3 times. I think she did reasonably well at the latter half of the Paris race as well. But I do recall Odo making the finals which is very difficult to do meeting Hayata at one of the trials. But at least there will be good competition for LA 2028.

 

[zeio]

If you ask me, the levels displayed by Odo and Yokoi up to this point won't be enough for LA 2028. The time I need is actually not for them, but rather to see how far Ojio Yuna/Mende/Aoki/Takamori/Takeya will grow 3 years from now (not 4 but 3 as JTTA has the tradition of announcing the lineup in January of the Olympic year).

To be honest, if they didn't convert their potential in this cycle, it's not realistic to expect Odo and Yokoi (like Kihara and Nagasaki) to fulfill it in the next cycle, when the next wave will show explosive growth. So the 4 of them are caught between a rock and a hard place.

https://web.archive.org/web/2024012...ytabletennis.net/forum/topic91479_page12.html (11/12/2022 at 3:52am)

Hayata 4-2 Harimoto(10, 9, 9, -6, -8, 10)

I'll say it now.
Fukuhara(1988/11/1) - 2nd luckiest
Ishikawa(1993/2/23) - 1st luckiest
Shibata(1997/8/25), Sato(1997/12/23), Hashimoto(1998/7/5), Kato(1999/4/14) - 2nd most unfortunate
Hirano(2000/4/14), Hayata(2000/7/7), Ito(2000/10/21) - Golden Generation in terms of World Titles and Continental Titles
Nagasaki(2002/6/15), Kihara(2004/8/3) - 1st most unfortunate
Harimoto(2008/6/16) - The future is mine!

 

[Brs]

It seems that Kanak Jha comes back stronger. Too bad that he won't be able to play all these bigger events yet.

that’s the idea when you start doping, come back stronger

 

[kindof99]

It appears that Kanak Jha will not (can't) play in the coming Feeder Havirov. Maybe he will get a wild card or something to play again?

 

[NextLevel]

It appears that Kanak Jha will not (can't) play in the coming Feeder Havirov. Maybe he will get a wild card or something to play again?

His whole Bundesliga team got into the draw here, so I think this is a special case.

 

[NextLevel]

Although at this point, it does look like Odo is stronger than Yokoi, it's too early to tell for any LA 2028 possibility. Yokoi played Hirano 3 times in T-League and won all 3 times. I think she did reasonably well at the latter half of the Paris race as well. But I do recall Odo making the finals which is very difficult to do meeting Hayata at one of the trials. But at least there will be good competition for LA 2028.

Odo just looks more complete, though these things are not just about the player, they are also about the competition. Odo would be on any first national team outside of China and Japan.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Back to back Feeder wins for Odo!

Up next: Kanak Jha vs. An Jaehyun. Let's go Kanak!

 

[zeio]

Harimoto: Why did I lose to AJH at WTTC 2019?

 

[kindof99]

Congratulations to Kanak Jha. It seems that he was really good at deuces

 

[NextLevel]

Harimoto: Why did I lose to AJH at WTTC 2019?

An Jaehyun rewrote table tennis history with that win. That's the way it seems now.

 

[OvrChkn]

I want that Nexy Bull shirt that An Jaehyun had.

Kinda thought the tables were going to turn after Jha missed his serve late into the decider, but thankfully he pulled it off.

 

[zeio]

An Jaehyun rewrote table tennis history with that win. That's the way it seems now.

 

[NextLevel]

So if we take the rankings literally and estimate Kanak as being An Jaehyun's peer, Kanak is still roughly top 40 strength,

 

[TampaBayTableTennis]

incredible win and so nice to see Kanak back competing!

happy for him and Lily with these WTT Feeder wins, go USA!

 

[joshmak10]

Let’s be honest tho, if Cho Daeseong was at his absolute best he would’ve won the whole thing, he was way off in the semis against An Jaehyun

 

[kindof99]

Will Kanak Jha back to top 100 after this win? Still long way for him to climb on the ranking.