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Race to Tokyo: December Events Breakdown With only 3 tournaments left until the singles spots are decided, here's a breakdown of the possible scenarios: Women's Race For Ishikawa to get a singles spot she either needs to win the North American Open or advance 1 round further than Hirano in the...

The TV Tokyo stream is much smoother than the ITTF stream. You can really tell the difference if you compare them side-by-side. Is it possible the sources of both are different? All the Highlight Videos are also in 60fps, so I'm puzzled why the ITTF stream quality isn't also on 60fps while TV...

If you guys are particular about the quality of the stream, try accessing the TV Tokyo Youtube stream for a better viewing experience. It's streaming at 60fps while ITTF's youtube stream is only at 30fps. You will need VPN though if you are outside Japan.

Ishikawa is not only a teammate killer but loves to rain on her teammates' parades, especially after they have big tournaments. In 2017, the tournament after Hirano's run at the Asian Championships was the Korean Open and Ishikawa destroyed Hirano 4-0 In 2018, the tournament after Ito's run at...

Ma Long and Fan Zhendong Not Playing T2 was probably pre-planned. After all, they need to prepare for the Men's World Cup next week. Niwa still wouldn't have gotten a spot, but because of WCQ's suspension, Niwa managed to squeeze in and get the last spot. In his mind, Mizutani's probably...

Actually, only the XD event in the European Games is considered a qualification tournament for the XD event in the Olympics. The other continental championships or games played this year don't qualify you for the XD event in the Olympics. Therefore, LSW/XX hasn't qualified for the Olympics yet...

I'd love to hear the details on that format if ever you have the time to elaborate further on it. :) The only leagues that I am aware of that uses the 4 player format is the US National College Table Tennis Championships, where the first four matches are singles matches played by 4 different...

I agree that maybe I was getting a bit carried away with my narrative. However, after all, it's just a theory. I only have circumstantial evidence to back it up and no conclusive evidence, so it's perfectly fine to disagree with it. At the same time, no one has presented any conclusive evidence...

Sorry for the misunderstanding! I do however, have some info to add about the reserve player from the official document for Olympic Qualifcation. Here's the google translated quotation from the 2020 Olympic Qualification Document of Japan: 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...

Given this news, Hirano and Ishikawa may end up withdrawing from the North American Open. Both of them can only gain points if they win the whole tournament and the field just got tougher with the additional Chinese Players. Given they still have the WTGF the following week on the other side of...

The reserve or alternate player only plays in the Olympics if one of the 3 Olympic players gets injured during the competition. I made a post on the reserve or alternate player in post #68 of the thread, which I'll copy below. The alternate or reserve player of the Olympics can replace a...

Thank you Zeio for pointing this out! This will definitely affect calculations to some extent and does make gaining WR points in these last few tournaments of the year more important for Hayata. Despite the different calculation for Olympic Team Seeding, it still seems highly unlikely for Japan...

For the Japanese Women's Race, the WR of the 3rd Olympic player isn't actually that important for team seeding. Japan's main goal is to stay the 2nd seed to be drawn in the opposite half of China. However, even if the 3rd player was WR 699 in the world, Japan would still be the 2nd seed as long...

From the Team World Cup Prospectus: "Change of the composition of a team may be accepted if notified by arepresentative of the nominating Association to the Competition Manager, up tothe time of 4 November 12:00 (local time); no further changes will be acceptedafter this deadline." Come on...

If the CNT sends players, even team B players, there's a good chance Ishikawa and Hirano withdraw their participation since there would literally be no margin for error for both. Either Ishikawa or Hirano can only gain points by winning the whole tournament, and if the CNT come, they may decide...

It won't affect the qualification for the WTGF, but it may impact the Japanese players' performances during the Grand Finals itself. Jet Lag will probably hit them pretty hard since the WTGF is in China since it's going to be very difficult adjusting from Canadian time. Just ask Niwa and his...

Episode 3 of the NHK documentary series on the Race to Tokyo 2020 series has recently been released. Wasn't able to find a high quality video, but maybe one will surface soon. If anyone finds a better copy, just post it on the thread. :)

I only found out today after browsing through the guidelines. The interesting part is that the 2020 WTTC trials will take place before JTTA has decided on the 3rd team member for the Olympics. That means that if a certain player does extremely well in the trials, and even beats either Ishikawa...

No need for VPN to watch the matches. Just go to the TV Tokyo Table Tennis Youtube Channel and watch :) Results can be found on the JTTA website. Just click the PDFs. http://www.jtta.or.jp/tournament/tabid/122/rptid/579/Default.aspx Format is similar to the 2019 trials where the winner of group...

To put into perspective just how costly Ishikawa's and Hirano's early exits were this World Cup: Feng Tianwei has 10585 WR points for Jan. 2020 after her amazing October performances. That's more than Hirano or Ishikawa. Whoever among them gets the second singles spot is in danger of not being a...