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Even if you came to the USA and could guarantee that you will win every single tournament you play in, and that is a big IF, making a living will be difficult. Maintaining your level will also be difficult as it will be hard to find enough good players to practice with you 6 or so hours a day...

She is still going ahead with her lawsuit. From my understanding, as it stands now, for each Gender the USA will send the highest world ranked player, the winner of a trials tournament and if the USA can have 3 athletes, the third will be picked by the High Performance Director. Chen wants all...

From the angle, it looks like it was the chopper's (Li Jian) point. One thing about Li Jian is that he is an extremely honorable player. I once saw him serve into the net (in a very spectacular way) on purpose after he broke the ball on the previous shot and the point was declared a let. He...

In a few years? How long have you been playing? I know people who played as kids and trained like maniacs never to break 2200. I also know a guy who was in his late 20s never rated higher than 2050 who eventually broke 2450. Right now you are 1500, just keep playing and don't worry about...

Things are starting to get interesting: https://www.gofundme.com/yjf8r-table-tennis-fair-play?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fb_co_campmgmt_w&fbclid=IwAR1zpSxnJ_WU8LhQbD9MvYMy9PiSFiKjKWQpWQYr_O8G44NO0xsRvcI9cbM

Also if the trials were fair and the team was determined through competition, I could say whatever I want to. However because one person gets to pick the vast majority of the team I have to walk on eggshells with what I say because I do not want to cause problems for potential players who might...

Only Two? Look harder... Take the top 25, look who attended for both men and women, then look who didn't attend. Quite a few of these players travel all around the country to play tournaments. Some of them were left off the official national team for whatever reason. I am not going to name...

Click on the top 25 ratings for men and women and click "US Citizens Only" to see who didn't show up and more importantly who did and their relative rankings. In the past, people outside of the top 25 have performed well at the trials and made the national team. Also just because other...

On the men's side of the 15 players that entered, 14 are currently living in California (where the event was held) and 1 was from Ohio. :rolleyes::rolleyes:SARCASM MODE ON:rolleyes::rolleyes: I think everyone is really enthusiastic about the new selection criteria for joining the national...

He was probably told he would make the team no matter what. I think in this tournament only the winner is guaranteed to make the team and the HPD will pick the rest of the team members himself. Lots of players didn't participate in part because of the silly way they are picking the team. In...

Sign the petition if you think it would be fairer to have the Olympic team decided by competition rather than being selected: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/table-tennis-fair-play

Does the HPD need to name his two players before the trials? If not he could just tell the players they made the team before the trials so there is less pressure on them, then if they win name someone else.

It is good to see Barney Reed speaking up. It would be interesting to see what members of the HPC are in agreement with this new change and how it was decided. I simply can't believe all of the HPC was on board with this change. Selecting the majority of the players for National or Olympic...

I overheard today, and I am fairly confident of the sources, that the initial plan was to have 100% of the team chosen with no trials. After being told what a storm of controversy this would cause, the HPD decided to just pick 2 players and have 1 position determined by the trials. I am not a...

China is China and America is America. The Chinese system is entirely different than the one in the USA. I can somewhat understand a team wanting to send an unorthodox player because they might be incredibly difficult to beat the first time someone plays them. Locally such a player might not...

Well, if the hopes and dreams can't beat the older players who have no chance at winning medals, then the hopes and dreams probably aren't going to win medals themselves. Once they can actually beat the older players fairly, maybe then they have a chance. Send the best team, not who might be...

To play in world tour events, I recall that you need to have the approval of your home association. I think it is not just as simple as going to sign up. So even if you are rich, if your home association doesn't approve, you are not playing. The more I think about this issue, the more...

In my opinion, if the referees do not fault her into oblivion, a match with Lily could be anyone's game. I think Wang Chen can beat Wu Yue. I think if Zheng Jiaqi decides to play it would be a tough match for Wang Chen. As you know certain players just seem to give other players trouble for...

I wonder if she could prove that the rule changes were specifically made to target her. On the one hand, certain people think the older players are probably playing the best they can and they have no chance to medal. Therefore they want to give some of the younger players experience with the...

I wonder who ultimately made the decision to change things. Based on some of the names on the HPC, I can't imagine them going along with this decision. I also wonder why this decision was made. Perhaps someone is worried the "wrong" people make the team through the trials?