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Chen Qi must be thinking I got sent to the rice fields and he gets to be a commentator?

I prefer the Olympic format for a *team* tournament. Doubles players literally have to work as a team.

Is that possibly old data? Kihara looks to be a little bit taller.

Is there an ITTF Star award for most adorable doubles pair? Congratulations NM/KM!

OK, based on the evidence/arguments you've made as well as NL, I concede that it will be ML in the 2nd singles spot and XX in the 3rd spot. Even though this does solve the XD problem for LGL, I think it creates a different problem. Let's say ML can't seem to shake off whatever nagging injury...

He's had great results all year long against foreign competition including arguably the two strongest in Harimoto and LYJ except, of course, for his WTTC performance. I also don't think there's anything left for Ma Long to prove. IMHO, he's the greatest of all time whether or not he wins Tokyo...

I have to admit I was conflicted in this match. On the one hand, if XX loses, that's pretty much the death knell of his chance for Olympic Singles, and Tokyo will most likely be his last chance at Olympic Singles. On the other hand, Harimoto deserved to win this match. There will always be...

I dunno. Might simply be the pressure of the Olympics and playing one of China's biggest rivals.

Good for WYD. She needs (and deserves) to rise up the rankings and be a seeded player.

Whew! That was too close for comfort.

I think this is great. Interesting though that in the initial phase of this pilot, you cannot challenge a non-call of a serve. Will be interesting if/when that changes.

I agree with you that XX should get a singles spot. But FZD should get the other spot. True, he started off the year on the wrong foot, but has righted the ship: Platinum German Open winner, Platinum Austrian Open winner, Men's World Cup winner.

HM, why serve to the middle practically every serve? If she watched the WYD vs ZYL match, WYD is excellent when she can control the middle. WYD is the better player, but take a gambit. Paint the corners and make it about who has the better lateral movement.

Does WYD accept bribes? LOL. JK.

For Olympic Singles it's only based on ITTF World Ranking for calendar year 2019. Top 12 will matter for the 3rd spot.

WTGF draws are out. IK meets LSW, and HM meets WYD. According to ITF H2H stats, IK has never beaten LSW in 11 tries. HM lost her one match up with WYD at this year's German Open.

Fairness is subjective, and we all have our own opinions of what's fair. I don't consider points from T2 to be fair... it's an exclusive tournament where points are added *on top of* a player's best 8. But other's may consider it fair. It's interesting to me from zeio's spreadsheet if you...

I don't believe in "out of the question". It's all about probabilities. Though I'll agree that the probabilities are low for Japan for gold most events and extremely low in the teams event. However, Mima Ito has already shown that she's capable of beating *anyone*. If she can draw energy...

Congratulations Kasumi. She knew what's at stake and seized the moment. Though HM can still win the race between them, IK has put herself in a much better position. Though it won't be much consolation, to her credit, HM did take down two CNT members this tournament. She was also in a tough...