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The German Cup dated January 8, 2023 conflicts with the date of the Asia Continental Stage of the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships (January 7 to January 13, 2023). Given that Togami is registered to play the Asian Qualifiers, it's unlikely that he (along with Lin Yun-Ju) will be able to...

While JTTA tries to adopt a selection system completely avoiding World Rankings and WTT tournaments, it seems that China has gone the opposite direction and has fully embraced the new WR and WTT by incorporating it in the selection of Team China for the Asian Games. China Table Tennis...

To answer your question regarding proposition 16, no it doesn't mean only the top 4 players will be seeded. I can understand the confusion as the wording was not precise. Provision 3.6.3.3 should be read together with provision 3.6.3.2 in the ITTF Handbook(page 58). It basically just means that...

Because the text in the BoD meeting notes and the ITTF Handbook isn't super clear, I don't think we will get a definitive answer regarding the applicability of the separation of association rule in the Olympics until ITTF makes a news article or issues a statement about the issue (which they...

While there may still be uncertainty about the status of the Tokyo Olympics, I just wanted to provide an important update that may factor in China's Olympic Team selection. Last April 14, 2021, ITTF updated the ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking Regulations. On page 2 of the document, it says...

Japan National Team 2024 Paris Olympic Team Selection Criteria Explained As reported by Zeio, JTTA has modified the criteria of selecting the Japan Olympic Team for 2024 Paris. The official criteria is already posted on the JTTA website here, and numerous websites have touched on some of the...

Yup, Hirano, Ishikawa, and Diaz are still seeded despite being wild cards. I've been studying and following Tennis the past few months to have a better understanding of how WTT will play out. WTT is basically ripping off the ATP and WTA tournament formats and systems lol. In Tennis, wild cards...

Yup, there are still incentives for players outside the top 20 to improve their WR. First, the higher your WR, the more chances you will automatically qualify for the main draw. The system in WTT Contender that has only 8 seeded players may mean that a qualifier and the 9th best player in the...

For the WTT Contenders Series, there are only 8 seeded players. The rest are unseeded. Therefore, only the top 8 seeds have fixed places in the draw. For example, Britt Eerland isn't actually the 11th seed but is actually unseeded. She may be the player with the 11th highest WR in the...

Timetable for KTTA Olympic Trial Matches I viewed the link and KTTA updated the schedule of matches for 1/31-2/1, the first leg of the final selection stage. Here is the English Translation. Note: I just used Google's Auto Translate. Just note that the names "Coarseness" is Cho Daeseong, and...

2021 All Japan TT Championships Days 5-7 MS and WS Main Draw Schedule Recap Days 1-4, which covered the Boys and Girls Junior events and the Qualifications for Men's and Women's Singles of the All Japan TT Championships, are now done. Congratulations to those who qualified for the main draw and...

Cheers to a new year of World Ranking Calculations. Especially with the new Table Tennis World Ranking Regulations out. ;)

The selection criteria for the upcoming WTT Middle East Hub certainly makes the 2021 All Japan Table Tennis Champs this week more interesting as a good performance can get a player priority to be selected to compete in the upcoming WTT tournaments. In order of priority: 1st Priority- Japan...

Tokyo 2021 Olympic Seeding Race Post-#RESTART Update With all 2020 ITTF International events being completed (except for WTT Macao, which is an exhibition event and won’t affect rankings), now is a good time to give an update on the Tokyo Olympic Seeding Race. As I have mentioned in an earlier...

Update on the new service toss rule proposed by JTTA during the ITTF AGM Update on the new service toss rule proposed by JTTA during the ITTF AGM: the proposal was not accepted. Only 50.41% voted "Yes" to the change and they needed at least 75% for the proposition to pass. Ma Young-Sam, the...

LSW actually doesn't need to play any more tournaments. Her Olympic spot was already confirmed when the Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen XD pair qualified through the 2019 World Tour Grand Finals. See this document. As stated in the document "Any qualified athletes in Mixed Doubles must be part of the team...

Well, with LSW dropping out of the 2020 ITTF Finals, it appears that SYS is the only Chinese player with a legitimate shot at overtaking Ito's WR by the July 2021 Olympics, which may help her case for Tokyo 2021. The rest of the Chinese players (aside from CM who is pretty much guaranteed WR 1)...

2020 Japan All-Star Dream Match Boys vs Girls Points Tally I made a tally of all the individual points scored during the Girls vs Boys Team Match. Niwa dominated the scored sheet. In other news, Mizutani pulled out of the event at the last minute and cited his poor physical condition as the...

One of the more notable part for me starts at the 32 minute mark of the video. It talks about AGM proposition 16 where JTTA proposed that the service rule be changed. The full text can be found on page 108 of this document...