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Mizutani posted this on his Twitter account moments after Abe announced the postponement of the Olympics. Haha. Can his health keep up for another year or will JTTA be forced to revise the team and Mixed Doubles lineups? In any case, I'm glad to see that he's still willing to fight to make his...

While watching the match live, I was quite shocked at the number of receive errors by WCQ against Ito's serve. It definitely played a big role in helping Japan secure games 1 and 3. Some shocking statistics from that match: In Game 1, Ito served to WCQ 5 times. Of those 5 times, WCQ missed on...

Post-Qatar Open Olympic Seeding Implications With the Qatar Open possibly being the last World Tour Regular or Platinum event before the Olympics due to the Corona Virus Scare, this might have been everyone's last chance to gain significant WR points for Olympic seeding. Mixed Doubles Japan...

Yes, that's correct. The new ranking system makes it easier for average Joes like us to compute and predict World Rankings even before the rankings are actually released. The postponement of the WTTTC is actually good news for her and Japan as it gives her more time to recover from her injury...

Speaking of Olympic Seeding, another hotly contested race is the Mixed Doubles Seeding Race. Xu/Liu has pretty much has secured the first seed, so now it's a 3-horse race between Japan, Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei for the 2nd seed, which is the only way to be guaranteed a draw in the half...

LSW might live to regret not showing up for the two T2 Diamond tournaments. Maybe she, like most of us, was unaware of the Olympic Rule change that did away with separation by association, so she made an uninformed decision in skipping the T2 Tournaments. Had she known, she could have just...

I'll just copy and paste what I posted in mytabletennis.net regarding my findings on the question of whether the Olympics will have separation by association for the benefit of the TTD community. The addition of this section in the 2019 ITTF Handbook, which applies to the Olympic Games, was...

Yeah, Hayata's shots are of very high quality, but she needs to improve on their consistency. It's the reason why she can lose Game 3 against Feng despite leading 6-1. However, it's also the reason why she can win Game 6 against Feng despite trailing 1-7. Some players lower shot quality slightly...

Oooh, what a good draw for the Chinese Women's team. There's a Chinese player guarding each eighth, so if all Chinese seeded players win out, we will have All-Chinese Quarterfinals. Some crazy luck for the only two non-Chinese players seeded in the Top 8 (Ito and Cheng I-Ching) to get paired...

My All Japan Table Tennis Championships Experience I was fortunate enough to watch the final day of the All Japan Championships live last Sunday during my vacation to Japan. It my first time watching the pros live and the experience was just incredible. Just wanted to share my thoughts and...

Yup, same as the usual tournaments. The latest WR list, which is the Feb. 2020 WR, will determine seeding. After doing the math, if China sends LSW and ZYL, Ito won't fall below the 2nd seed in February. Even if Ito loses in the first round of the German Open and ZYL and LSW get Champion and...

Just my thoughts on the new format: 1. Luck in the first round draw plays a bigger role in determining if you qualify for World Cup. Because the format is a single-elimination knockout, one bad match and you're out, so it's less forgiving as compared to the group round-robin format where you can...

"４．リザーブ候補選手1 名日本がメダルを獲得するために必要なダブルス及びシングルスでの国際競争力を持ち合わせている者1 名を、強化本部が決定し理事会に報告及びJOC に推薦する。リザーブ選手の発表時期はJOC へのエントリー期限直前とする" 4. Reserve candidate Japan has international competitiveness in doubles and singles necessary to win medals One person who has been combined shall be determined by the...

Funny how JTTA wanted to make things exciting and suspenseful with a whole press conference revealing the 3rd Olympic member of the Japanese Men's and Women's team on Jan. 6, 12:55pm Japan Time. It ended up being anticlimactic because the deadline for doubles entries for the German Open is Jan...

Chuang Chih-Yuan is listed to represent Taiwan in the Olympic Team Qualification tournament in January. Maybe he and the national association have reconciled? If that's the case, Chinese Taipei becomes an even stronger contender for a medal in the Olympic team event. Furthermore, it gives Japan...

Found video links to Day 2 of the Top 12. I don't know how long these will last since they may be deleted due to copyright concerns so better to watch as soon as possible! Women's SF1 Ito vs Hayata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O_GVOwdzNw Women's SF 2 Hirano vs Ishikawa...

It won't be easy for Hayata to win against the choppers given the schedule of matches. The scheduling of matches is brutal. All matches are best of 7 and only 1 hour rest between matches. In Hayata's case, she'll likely have to play two very good choppers in Hashimoto and Sato with only 1 hour...

We've Crossed the Finish Line With the WTGF wrapped up, the Singles Race is over. Congratulations to Ito and Ishikawa for crossing the finish line first. For the first singles spot, Ito took it convincingly with almost a 4000-point lead in WR points over Ishikawa. A big reason for this is Ito’s...

Looks like SEGA thinks Hayata will make the Olympics haha. Even if she doesn't, at least she made it to the Olympics in the Virtual World. The name of the video game is "Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 - The Official Video Game." Other players featured so far are Ito, Hirano and Fukuhara.