World U-19 #2 and top seed in U-15 by 8 000 points fails to even win a medal and loses to a 13 yo girl
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Very accurate reflection of her current skill level
Good win for Cocona, but Heo Yerim cannot be serious with ranking🤣🤣🤣
2nd in U-19, so she should be able to beat every youth in the world except Miwa?
Better win U15 singles to prove her worth but loosing twice in Teams final is already a joke
Peak Hayata is stronger than Peak Ito?
Curious to hear that rationale considering we have all seen Ito beating the entire Chinese National team in her peak and not loose to a single Non-Chinese player in 2019. If you meant peaks recently this year, a 2025 "washed-up" Ito could still beat WYD...
Hirano "ever-consistent"? 🤣 Please tell me where you got that from, because I never labelled any of them as such.
Shin also stayed consistent in losing to essentially Japan B-Tier Kihara. She is definitely not any more impressive just because she managed not to lose to people ranked below her...
You are right, except SYS fans are not a bit toxic, nor do much people love the sport because of them. I don't think ZJK, DN, ML combined had as much toxic fans corrupting table tennis so they are definitely not "always good" for the sport
Apart from that, they are also very delusional. Not...
If you would like to see some real stalling, watch CM v Hirano (2021) which took one and a half hour from start to end.
Although I do agree SYS's sportsmanship is not faultless, however her fan girls worship her
CXT lost a bit of her consistency she had last cycle that made me think she should have been a real olympic candidate.
It is far to early for SYS and WCQ's retirement even if they lose a few matches.
OTOH, I am surprised Zeio has not started a retire thread for WYD, who has blew most of the...
Agreed, because unfortunately Szocs is not ranked a top ten IRL so Shin is “supposed” to beat her. Szocs meanwhile is ranked way below CM so it’s much more of a deal. All of the losses are players who are ranked below her, regardless of how much exactly. The fact that you all think her ranking...
You would like a list? I mean, sure.
Alright let's start: (2024 mostly, majority of these losses in the first half alone. Scary)
Mukeherjee S
Takahashi
Diaz (0:3)
Mukeherjee A
Mittilham
Polcanova
Kihara(0:3)
Kihara
Kihara
Kihara(0:3)
Pavade (0:3)
Shan
Doo
Hashimoto
Jeon
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(Probably...
Not sure why you're comparing their head to head record and saying "Wow, She beat Hirano and Szocs, so she is more deserving". In that case Surtithka Mukeherjee should also be ranked higher than Shin as she has an 100% win rate against her.
I already gave her credits to her for beating Hirano. I...
Nice of you to mention her one win against Kihara while disregarding what happened all the other times they played.
I don’t have a problem with her being ranked so high if others have not shown more, but they have. Period. I’m “hung up” only because she is just quite overrrated, (something most...
So you are arguing that people must consistently beat players below them to prove a ranking even if they can sometimes beat players above them? What a great argument when SYB can do neither. At least Szocs and Hirano can do the latter.
As for CIC, I won’t bother looking it up but I can tell you...
It’s still questionable why this is only the case with her……
The top ten right now consists of the top Chinese (nothing to say about them) Hayata, Ito, Odo, Miwa, and SYB in some order. I’ll stop talking about Miwa and Hayata but even Ito and Odo have played better over the past year or two...
Of course she has beaten good players ranked below her. Everyone has. But she has also lost a lot, and if you cannot consistently beat those players below you while is never able to beat those above you, I think that says something about your ranking.
IRL I don’t think she will drop out of the...