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Sure, but how Wang Hao was selected?

Thanks for insights @Zeio, yet again. If I understand you correctly based on points 1-5 there was no such thing as a wild card, if all of them outlined 5 players. But since those points produced only 3 players, point #6 came into play. So 2 spots were given based on the international results...

If it was only one tournament, but as Vlad wrote: Portugal, All Japan, T-League, Oman ... Ironically WTTC qualification was like that. One knock-out tournament was actually good enough to run into conclusions. Oman definitely proves our point, if we were in a debate ; ) Hayata beat Hirano and...

Yeah, I don't want to coment too much beacuse of the respect for other girls. The 'lay' guys, not coaches could see how good her performance was in Portugal. I mean apparently the outcome of the Oman Open runs totally contrary to the JNT decisions. The only hope is that JNT will be able to...

Some of my colleges are planning to go too. They had participated few years ago and their experience was very positive. Dan, maybe TTD members and friends could play a sub/co-tournament for the TTD trophy? Maybe this could be a start for something bigger ... ? :)

Sure, stamina wise I would agree. No one should be practicing in the basement for sure ... Another way of defending my argument from nature would be, that we just specialized - men and women. We mastered different domains of our life, which was probably most beneficial. Say if you are a chess...

As much as I would defend my argument from nature, sure I'll give you that Harimoto's case is interesting. I mean athletic wise he should not be above say Ding Ning's level ... Listen if it was up to me, I would surely allow women to compete men in Budapest ... ; ) Of course + keeping their own...

To strawman you ... nice one ; ) not at all. I mean the statistical considerations and the number of extreme outliners based on the sample size are interesting. But, correct me if I'm wrong, you seem to say that if only women were permitted to compete with men, who knows how it would play out...

On the philosophical note ... : ) I think, there will be a gap for the simple fact that our bodies are different. It's just how we are, how we evolved so far ... Surely yoass, you are right that to become better you have to be challenged, so in terms of athleticism we are a challenge for women...

Part of "the Swedish ping wonder" ... 59 not too old. "At the European Championship in Moscow in 1984 BENGTSSON created a sensational upset in the final where he was opposed to Poland's great star, Andrzej GRUBBA (1958-2005). GRUBBA was a clear favorite beforehand but BENGTSSON played...

Basically in line with many of the posts on the ttd ... : ) Actually ... let's see how she does in Budapest. Maybe she'll have a breakthrough tournament ...

It must had been heavily photoshopped ... : ) I mean Ding's and Liu's legs are so thin, quite unnatural ...

Ishikawa just got beaten by the CNT's too many times. I think it's tricky for the JNT, say for the team she is somewhat indispensable because of her experience and stability she provides for younger girls, but if JNT is actually to beat CNT, it can only be done by Ito, Miu or ... Hayata (as she...

Fair enough. Let's just leave it there ...

@Next as I explained I never read any post in the USA committee selection topic, didn't have time and it wasn't really of my interest. What I wrote was more on a general note and based on the CNT and JNT ... and Hina Hayata ...

It wasn't meant as much to "provoke" you or something ... rather I thought it was unfair if you read my comment, moved on and then I would add something to the prev one. Anyways @Next I don't know the specifics of the dialog between you and Loopadoop .. so. Just in general I don't think all...

If I was to advise the CNT ... I would probably replace Jun with Hugo or Liam to be honest ... ; )

But I write about what I see here, you do not want me to have the knowledge about all the tt forums ... do you?

I'm just here ... sorry then NextLevel, didn't know you guys are on the crusade ... ; )

Ahh ... ok I was probably preachy ... but imho it's far better to just reinforce what knowledgeable guys are saying and present arguments, rather that direct remarks ... no wander Loopadoop went into defensive mode ...