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Good news, Hayata's being sponsored by JTTA for the Swedish Open. Bad news, she's not sponsored for the German Open, so she'll have to pay her way to enter. Good luck figuring the JTTA out.

Now, when Hayata remembers the scoreline of "10-5," it won't anymore be a purely bitter memory. Today, she created her own happy memory to associate with it. :)

I think it has to do with WR more than anything. If you notice, JTTA sponsored the top 6 Japanese Women based on WR. (The number of 6 players also happens to be the supposed limit per National Association that can participate in the World Tour event, but this isn't usually enforced strictly...

Some notes on the Japan Women's Race to Tokyo 2020 Singles Ito, Hirano and Ishikawa have all played 8 events this year, which puts a cap on the WR points they can acquire by Jan. 2020. Now, each of them need at least a SF finish in a World Tour Regular Event (Bulgaria, Czech and Swedish Opens...

Ito doesn't necessarily need to play the Asian Championships to replace her poor Japan Open result. That result is already sure to be replaced when she plays the World Tour Grand Finals later this year where she'll get at least 1020 points. To make participating in the Asian Championships worth...

How ironic, Janard, that we posted at nearly the same time. I only noticed this post when I finished typing up and posting mine. Haha. Thank you for making a separate thread for this topic. I'll just paste here what I posted in the Japan Women's Race to Tokyo Olympics Singles Thread: Head's up...

Asian Table Tennis Championships Lineup Head's up! JTTA has just released the player lineup for this year's Asian Table Tennis Championships on the JTTA website. It remains to be seen if additional players will be added, but as of now, this is the lineup: Men's Team: T. Harimoto, M. Yoshimura...

Race to Tokyo Standings after T2 Malaysia T2 Recap: No one gained any ground among the 3 frontrunners in the Race to Tokyo since they all had early exits. The same happened in the men’s side. In case you’re curious, Mizutani currently has around a 200-point lead over Niwa in the Jan. 2020 WR...

This situation feels really similar to the 2012 North American Olympic Trials. At that time, Erica Wu, a teenage table tennis player needed her teammates and fellow teenagers Ariel Hsing and Lily Zhang to both qualify for singles so that Erica can make the Olympic Team event. In this video...

For Bulgaria and Czech, Hirano and Shibata will be playing Women's Doubles together again. Not really sure what JTTA is trying to accomplish by using this pairing for 4 events in a row. Certainly, it would be wiser to experiment with players who have better chances at making the Olympic team...

A year later and Dima still has the same effect on Mima. Haha. Still waiting for T2 Diamond to push for an exhibition match between these two given that both are already out of the actual T2 competiton. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=905368863160960

Want to hear an interesting yet strange statistic? The new uniforms for the Japan Women’s Team debuted during this year’s World Championships. There are 3 colors: red, blue and yellow-green. What’s really strange is that all of Ito’s singles losses to CNT members came when Ito wore the...

Update to Standings after Australian Open Recap of the Australian Open: 1. Women's singles- This tournament was insane and it had huge effects on the Race to Tokyo. Ishikawa's first win against a core CNT player couldn't have come at a better time. That win put her back in the race, and she's...

True, but your calculations are much appreciated. What struck me from your computation is that Hirano is now within striking distance from Cheng I-Ching in terms of ranking points. Generally, being seeded 6th, 7th, or 8th doesn’t really matter and won’t affect the draw. However, if Hirano...

Hi, Nemo. Posted my thoughts on the Japanese Men's Olympic selection on the "Japan Women's Race to 2020 Olympic Singles" thread. Didn't want to derail this thread regarding the Australian Open and the Japanese Men's Olympic Selection process will inevitably affect that Japanese Women's team as...

This is a reply to Nemo's post in the Australian Open 2019 thread regarding M. Yoshimura's chances to make the Olympics. I decided to post here as to not derail the Australian Open 2019 thread and since the team composition for the Japan Men's Team will affect who is selected for the Women's...

Yup, Australian Open will be Ito’s 8th event. I had to place the 0 in the spreadsheet so that the excel function highlighting the top 8 results in yellow would work. It won’t work with only 7 events inputted. I have the same sentiments with regard to the Women’s doubles pairings. I don’t mind...

Standings after Korean Open Hope the new design of the spreadsheet will make the data more presentable. Note that all players have reached the maximum 8 event limit except Ito who has 7 events. Top 8 event points for each player are highlighted in yellow. Top 2 players in standings are...

Very true, but Ishikawa and Hirano have equal chances of meeting a Chinese player in the opening round as well. The chances of Ito drawing Chinese players consistently while at the same time, both Hirano and Ishikawa consistently avoid a Chinese player over a span of several tournaments is low...

Classic example of Deus ex machina for Ishikawa. Definition from Wikipedia: "Deus ex machina is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly and abruptly resolved by an unexpected and seemingly unlikely occurrence, typically so much as to seem contrived." The way...