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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?

I think a lot of people are against this or think it is unfair. Unfortunately if a player or player's parents are too vocal, they could potentially be blackballed from any selections in the future whether it be selected for a training camp or selected for a team. The direction things are...

I also think that most of the spots on the national team will be selected this way. 1 spot for the winner of the trials and the rest are appointed by the high performance director or a few other people. I am guessing their logic is that by choosing the "hopes of the future" and giving them...

Some players are very efficient when they play. Losing weight just from practicing TT becomes very difficult if not impossible. Several coaches at the club where I play are like this. One recently stopped practicing completely, started to work out by lifting weights and dropped 15 pounds...

I was in China training at the place where he was getting his degree in coaching. Although he was retired from playing, he had to practice at the college a few hours every day. I was told by some of the coaches that he was one of the very top players for his age in China in his early teens...

I have heard that the ITTF recently changed Olympic eligibility requirements to something along the lines of residence in the home country of at least 9 years. Many of the players who moved from abroad to the USA are ineligible for the Olympics. I 100% could be wrong about this as I do not...

The easiest way to get to 2200 from 2000 is to practice your service for hours on end. If you are 2000, you have room to dramatically improve your serve. With a better serve, everything becomes much easier when you play. If you want travel along a harder road to 2200, 2200 players loops...