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I thought it would be a lot closer among compatriots, but Annett kept on insisting on attacking with her BH despite consistently losing points with it. I don't know if Sabine will be Germany's 1,2, or 3, but assuming she remains healthy, I can't see her not making the LA 2028 German TT Olympic...

Was actually asking zeio, but kudos to you for seeing the top 20 potential even if it was more hoping for than prediction. She's in elite company if you look at the names in the top 20.

Your comment at the time is understandable. In fact, I didn't think she'd make it to top 20 when she made the switch to anti. But I'm happy to be pleasantly surprised. Would it be fair to say she far exceeded your expectations?

Now that Montpellier is finished, an interesting picture emerges with respect to Sabine's matches. Since Sabine's loss to Han Ying at the 2025 Euro Top 16 in February, she has not lost to *any* European player. In fact she has only lost to top Chinese and Japanese players. She has beaten the...

Yeah, that's a tough 1st round matchup for Satsuki up against a surging ZJ. I guess it's a Champions level event so you have to expect it, but Hina, who had a 1st round match with WYD in Montpellier, has got another really tough 1st round matchup vs another surging player, Joo Cheonhui. JCH...

There will be better days for Sora, but today there's nothing you can do when Truls is playing lights out on both serve and receive. He made the Finals at a WTT Champions event which is progress.

Complete domination by Truls. Lots to like about his game, but in this match his reading of serves was impeccable.

Sabine in current form is easily Germany's #1. I don't see how that can even be questioned. There's a very good argument that she's Europe's #1 having beaten both Szocs and Han Ying in this tournament alone. In addition, she's beaten DHK and SYB to make it the Finals of this WTT Champions...

Good for doubles.... and singles SYB does it!!! So happy for her. She's good people.

Congratulations to Joo. She is an in game quick study. Able to neutralize Honoka's attacks better than most. She found a good pattern of safety to the BH and then attack to the middle.

I believe at present Kihara would be ousted from her 16th spot as Joo Cheonhui has advanced to the 2nd round of Champions Montpellier which is worth 90 pts. Since Joo and Kihara are separated by just 74 points, Joo should be ahead of Kihara in the Race To the WTT Finals on Tuesday's rankings...

Not sure if OP or ThePongCommenter are aware, but much of this interest originated during the Tokyo Olympic cycle from a thread created by @apacible: Japan Women's Race to Tokyo 2020 Singles There was genuine interest in who would make the Japan Women's Olympic Team when the selection was...

Revenge of the European women: Szocs, Samara, Polcanova creating big upsets.

Sabine says I see your long pips and raise you an anti. Big win this time over Han Ying in a 2025 European Top 16 Cup rematch.

Yangzi Liu always gives Team Japan trouble.... She deserves whatever high ranking she gets.

What?! Elizabeta Samara beats Mima Ito 3-2. Wow.

Bernie completely destroyed CXT.... just wow!

It's a pretty good draw in the sense that she is favored to prevent Honoka from increasing the gap which also would help Hina. She still has Frankfurt and Muscat to close or possibly eliminate that gap. Better to meet Honoka in the 2nd round than the Chinese. But she can't get ahead of...

It's more interesting to talk about the challenger (Team Japan) than the favorites that win most of the time (Team China). I think we would actually talk quite a bit more about the N. Korean team (especially about Kim Kum Yong) except for the fact that they just don't enter WTT tournaments. The...