Agree - he has been on fire and has to be favourite IMO.
US Open (since 1931), the oldest tournament in the US, it's even older than USATT (since 1933). Way older than US Nationals (since 1976) and never interrupted by WWI and WWII.
US open is one of the biggest and most open tournament in the world of table tennis, if not the most open.
for U level rating category, unrated player can't advanced outside the group
The ratings estimate for some of these players are jokes. Women can be over 2600 people! But I guess Amy's ranking/rating sets a limit on what is reasonable. But everyone and their unborn children and dead ancestors know that Ando is a stronger player than Amy. No way many of these international ladies should be allowed to play u2600, they are probably a threat to the men!
What do you think would be a good solution for this? Maybe established international players can have their rating estimated by some committee using some sort of ELO method using common opponents?
The problem isn't purely accuracy - I believe though I haven't checked in a while that there is a rule that ITTF rankings have to take precedence over local rankings for ITTF/WTT ranking events and I think the US Open has traditionally conferred some ranking points for ITTF. So Amy's ranking does place a limit on where they can rank the players if they want to be internally consistent. Same with Kanak etc. on the other side though it doesn't stick out as much because Kanak is playing well and there are no other huge names outside of national teams.
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