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I assure you having Olympic players at the same 4/5 star tournament as beginners is a feature not a bug. It provides funding for the USATT. It's a treat for the amateurs to see and in some cases (usually higher level amateurs) play with the pros. It provides an audience of hundreds for the...

Call for a referee while the umpire is asleep?

Ayano lost to Lucy Chen in the group stage. Lily lost to fellow national team member, Amy Wang, in the SF.

Yep, same tournament. That's one of things that Ayano finds pretty cool about tournaments in the USA. Depending on the tournament, you can find the full range of players from beginner to pro level players.

From https://www.ittf.com/2022/09/06/ittf-hosts-information-session-2022-ittf-world-championships-participants/“We also wanted to reassure everyone following the tightening of COVID-19 countermeasures in Chengdu; preparation for the event continues as planned without delay. I will travel to...

Do you also remember the Tiananmen Square Massacre?

I'm not sure by your definition I'm considered the common man, but I'm considered middle class here in the US. And to me it definitely does matter who is in charge especially in local elections where there is a more direct impact. They can make conditions better or worse. So I absolutely...

I'll give you the top 4 (SYS, WMY, CM, WYD), but aside from them, name 6 CNT women that can "easily beat" Hina Hayata, Mima Ito, Miyuu Kihara, Miu Hirano, and Miwa Harimoto (who lost 11-13 in the 7th to ZR in the latest Contender).

If her results show a few better wins, then at least somewhat better. I'm not at all going to deny that Sofia gets the Continental advantage as well. Is she better than players like Kihara, Hirano, Zhang Rui, Fan Siqi?... No. This is not a knock on Adriana or Sofia. They're doing what...

If you have more than 1 Continental result, only the best result is counted. Jorgic was winner of the 2022 Europe Top 16 Cup so that result is the one that counts. So ranking wise, there was nothing for him to be gained here.

European Champions Qiu Dang (#9) and Sofia Polcanova (#10) get top 10 World Rankings. The weight of a top 10 ranking is off Adriana's shoulders.

I'm posting the video link for the match you referenced because the players, video quality, and crowd are all amazing:

That's nice to know, but NCTTA has little to do with the development of pro level table tennis. Their goal is to popularize table tennis which is great! But by the time Adriana was college age, she was better than everyone in the colleges involved in NCTTA. Sports that are in the NCAA...

Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, but as far as table tennis is concerned it's part of the Latin America Table Tennis Union so doesn't "benefit" from U.S. Sport Services. I put the word benefit in quotes because USATT has no professional league and provides very little support for its athletes...

She is the pride of Puerto Rico (no sarcasm). To get to where she is from a small island with little table tennis infrastructure is amazing. But I do agree with you that she is ranked too high. Her game does not support this high of a ranking. I understand ITTF's desire to globalize the...

It's hard to say. I don't think the Continental advantage is that insurmountable. Already we've seen in the Contender Doha event that WR#8-#13 got knocked out early even before the QF. I can see someone like LSW or CXT winning or at least making the Finals of one or more Star Contender...

Another monkey in the wrench to consider is that the Initial Points is currently set at 20% the December 2020 points but will be revised lower and the temporary 16 month window (normally 12 month) is also stated to be revised before May 1. Right now, those initial points make up the bulk of a...

Adriana Diaz is obviously a very good player as are Kasumi (#7), DHK (#8), FTW (#9), but staying in the top 10 for them is next to impossible if China continues to play players like CXT, LSW, Kuai Man, Fan Siqi, Zhang Rui, QTY. And I even think Kihara will make a run at the top 10.

I'm not so sure it's true that Mima Ito would struggle to be in top 10 even with all Chinese. Outside of China's top 4, it's not clear she would necessarily lose to the others. If you go on ITTF's site and check out player's matches for Mima Ito, it shows she's had success against LSW, Fan...

Grand Smashes are similar to Tennis' Grand Slams. Those are the most important tournaments of the year. The "next best" refers to next after the WTT Champions. In the WTT Series, the top is the WTT Champions, then Star Contender, then Contender.