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Seems like it's official that Ito has been granted a Singles and Team spot for the Olympics?

Interviewer: These are the winners... Hina Hayata.... and... Harimoto... Tomokazu! Lol everyone could see who carried the team. P.S. Also Adam has to stop with his half-assed knowledge about the Chinese, culture and language wise. "Lin Gaoyuan, from Sichuan speaks Cantonese and Mandarin."...

ZYL: Hey Hayata, how about we pair instead? Hayata: Sure.

Plot twist, he got nominated for breakthrough star LOL

Oh dang, Kihara was so promising. I guess ZYL decided serving Nagasaki alone is enough. Top half looks promising for ZYL since the rest are all her own teammates and she's the teammate killer. Hayata looks on form (and with the LSW blade in hand which might be imbued with vengeful qualities?)...

他能撑到这个阶段已经超出意料了。水谷真的是个给力的学长，保送泥洼和张本两位学弟。

If Hariyata proves to be more potent than Mizuto, does that mean...?

Also, I was reading the XD Olympics qualifications on the ITTF website and was a little confused. Mixed Doubles qualification: *6 Continental Mixed Doubles qualification with a maximum of one (1) pair per NOC 4 World Tour Grand Finals 2019 with a maximum of one (1) pair per NOC 5 World Tour...

Wow, all the 'established' XD pairs have been ousted – Mizutani/Ito, Lee/Jeon, Lin/Cheng and Wong/Doo. Interestingly, Cho/Shin will be the ones appearing at the WTGF in Dec (Austria Open marks their 4th appearance and they outrank their seniors) and vying for an Olympics spot on behalf of South...

You're right in saying that Ito is the most successful Japanese woman at the moment, based on results, tactics and skills. By complete, I meant greater versatility (not to be confused with variation which Ito is of course famous for) that generally comes with inverted rubbers, complimented by...

Hayata has a more complete game than Ito I believe, so yeah she is one favourite to make the finals. My conservative estimate is ZYL/WYD vs Ito/Hayata, but somehow I have a good feeling about Kihara. Would like to see an upset later today (maybe Nagasaki taught her a trick or two).

Omg LSW lost after leading 3-1.

Mizutani is being such a good senpai by edging Niwa closer to the second Singles spot but also potentially screwing up the team and XD composition for Olympics.

I feel like sending LGZ back kind of shortchanges the other male players who are still there, considering not all the coaches from the men's team went (e.g. Chen Qi).

So, why did the Serbian pair forfeit? That's like giving LGY/ZYL a free ticket to the semis.

Miu: Hina, let me get ahead of Ishikawa-senpai so that you have the opportunity of being chosen as the third player. They will not allow two lefties!

Interesting Draw. There is a high chance that the Chinese (LGY/ZYL vs WCQ/LSW), Japanese (Mizuto vs Hariyata) and Koreans (Cho/Shin vs Lee/Jeon) will eliminate their own teammates during the QFs.

Or for the Japanese, their own teammates as well. ZYL is probably hoping that SMY can oust Nagasaki Miyu to feel more at ease.

Seeded draws are out Men's Singles Fan Zhendong Jang Woojin Robert Gardos Lin Yun-ju Timo Boll Jun Mizutani Dimitrij Ovtcharov Tomokazu Harimoto Hugo Calderano Patrick Franziska Koki Niwa Mattias Falck Liang Jingkun Wong Chun Ting Daniel Habesohn Lin Gaoyuan Women's Singles Zhu...

Super random but I was at the venue where T2 Diamond Singapore would be held and saw this LOL