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Latest World Rankings 1. Winter (39) 2. Han Ying (40) 3. Nina (55) 4. Wan Yuan (59) 5. Shan Xiaona (66) 6. Annett Kaufmann (96)

To put Hayata's victory against WYD in 2023 further into perspective, according to the ITTF museum of records (no results before R16 for 2003 and prior editions), the last time CNT was beaten in the medal rounds (QF) was in 1993 when Hyun Jung Hwa (KOR) beat Chen Zihe (CHN) 3-0 and eventually...

Hayata is the only female player in recent memory to have beaten two CNT players in two consecutive WTTCs. Most recent record of a player from another association beating CNT in WTTC women's singles is 2009, with KOR doing nearly all of the damage. 2009 R128: Park Y. Sook (KOR) beat Yao Yan 4-3...

General time wasting aside, she also successfully challenged a marginal serve after Kaufmann built up momentum in the 6th. When she was (finally) yellow carded for time wasting, she proceeded to waste even more time by asking for a ball change LOL. Credit to CXT for withstanding the pressure and...

Ito led in games 4, 6, and 7. Pretty much for the whole match. Just didn't play with enough conviction and blew a career defining match. She likely won't get a chance like this again which is a real pity.

unlikely but I'd like to see a YJN vs Ito rematch. Would be a very symbolic match.

Hashimoto is officially the 5th highest ranked Japanese player at WR13 and Hirano 6th at WR15. Miyuu Kihara WR19 Miyu Nagasaki WR22 Sakura Yokoi WR34 Hitomi Sato WR45 Fortunately or unfortunately, Nagasaki and Kihara have a chance to catch up at Contender Tunis, where Hashimoto is notably...

Kaufmann seemed pretty happy to tie with Diaz even though the last game probably won't matter. Diaz wins in terms of both h2h and total games won.

Shao Jieni's only chance was in game 1. She only has speed in straight rallies and you're never going to beat CNT with that game. Should have called a timeout at 9-9.

They could have all three players on court at the same time with best of 3, have all 3 matches in succession. Done and dusted, easy. I think having all three players might switch up the dynamics and atmosphere too.

Finally a big win for Yuan Jia Nan after a long period of lackluster results. If I'm not mistaken Yuan will make it out of the group if Shao Jieni wins one game tomorrow. Not really a massive surprise considering how close their previous encounter was. Of course that was in 2022 which was...

forgive me but where/how do you guys keep track of each player's number of active events?

I don't fancy Japan's chances in mixed team. IMO they are underdogs against SK in the current format where WS is the ONLY event they have a clear advantage. They're slight underdogs in all the doubles categories and probably only have a marginal advantage with Tomokazu in singles. With NK thrown...

very commendable effort!

Silly move to keep max quota. So close to opening up careers for many more players but no cigar. JTTA's response... lmao just business as usual.

This completely changes the selection process. It will be absolutely crazy if they want the exact same players for all 3 events. Good singles players =/= Good MD/WD players =/= Good XD players. Stonks for Hirano and Ito just crashed and Kihara, Nagasaki, Hashimoto, Sato, Yokoi, and Odo's value...

Li Jie comes out of hiding to sweep KNT Team B(C?) Wonder if she's planning on playing regularly. Eerland really needs a good teammate.

she needs to take pointers from zhu yuling and win points subtly. always going for the kill and missing after 9-9.

We know Olympics is out for Zhu Yuling, but will she get to play Asian Games and World Champs? That will determine how much JNT should place her on their radar. Regardless, not a good look having your main players lose to someone who was essentially kicked out of CNT core right before premature...