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A pretty strong team for WTTTC2020 actually. Ito, Ishikawa, Hirano, Hayata and (Nagasaki/Sato/Kihara/Hashimoto)?

Hayata: Choosing the Olympics Singles players purely by WR? You must be kidding me. Let me show you why it's a fair (i.e. transparent) but poor system. Oops, Ishikawa-senpai heard it and took game 4.

Ishikawa-senpai keeping the Olympics-trio flag flying ~

Nagasaki because ZYL is going.

Apparently, Yoo Nam-kyu (main coach for the Korean Women's Team) has resigned and is replaced by Chu Kyo-sung (two times WTTC Men's Team bronze medalist in 1995 and 1997). While the ostensible reason cited for You leaving is "personal", other sources claim that his (over)emphasis on endless...

What if Ishikawa-senpai wins the entire tournament LOL

Lol, the other teams thank Ishikawa-senpai for stopping JNT from sending their strongest WD pair to the Olympics.

I suspect it's a mix of different reasons: 1) Diversifying playing styles – Choi Hyojoo is a leftie who uses short pips on her BH. Lee Eunhye, Lee Zion and Shin Yubin are all righties and inverted-rubber users. Makes sense to add a chopper to vary the play a little. 2) Seniority – South...

South Korea's lineup has been decided. Men: Jeong Youngsik (by WR), Jang Woojin (by WR), Lee Sangsu (by WR), Lim Jonghoon (through round-robin internal trials), An Jaehyun (through round-robin internal trials) Women: Choi Hyojoo (through elimination-format internal trials), Lee Eunhye...

While Ma Long could surely have done better than he did, he actually doesn't perform as well as people expects of him for internal trials. Out of the 12 times that he had made an appearance, he only secured a seat through this method on 6 occasions (success rate 50%). The biggest beneficiaries...

Umm, Ito is most motivated when playing Chinese players, especially the top-tier ones. That's why she is sometimes pushed to the brink of defeat by non-Chinese players – her sights (the entire JNT's rather judging by the number of times Chūgoku is repeated in their videos which is actually...

Well, at least Ito vs ZYL or LSW are both worth watching. The self-proclaimed "good for nothing" needs to redeem herself (especially after defeating team-mates who have all won their most recent encounters with Ito) while the World Champion needs this win to secure her Olympics Singles slot.

Lol at Ishikawa-senpai. Collector of bronze, even that is her goal for Tokyo!

As far as I know from previous iterations, the invitees for Asian Cup are the i) defending champion; ii) reigning Asian Champion (from Asian Championships); iii) top 10 players from the January ITTF Ranking List; iv) four Regional Representatives, one each from South Asia, South East Asia, West...

Their play here (if Mizutani and Hirano are indeed the third players) is clearly to secure a XD gold to raise Ito's morale so that her chances of winning WS are higher. My read is that they are sidelining the women's and men's team events for this Olympics (more of the former since the latter...

He played only one match against Zhou Qihao during M12 and that match wasn't streamed.

But JNT is announcing their Olympics team tomorrow right? Any idea what time and how?

After winning M12, ZYL still didn't get selected to play any Doubles event for German Open. XD: XX/LSW, LGY/SYS WD: DN/SYS, CM/WMY MD: LGY/ML, FZD/Zhou Yu Seems like SYS is ahead of CM for now too. We shall see.

Logically DN but most likely WMY.

Unexpectedly, she made DN look good by showing the importance of keeping one's emotions under check. CM and SYS succumbed to their frustrations after realising they couldn't penetrate the ZYL of this M12.