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Hi, yes you're right. It's the All China Table Tennis Championships I was referring to. Actually, the top 8 seeds for the Singles and XD events have been announced yesterday and it seems all the top players are taking part. They are holding it in the same sequence as the Olympics, like a...

Probably taking time to recuperate since there is the Chinese national games (dubbed "hell level") in July after T2 Diamond. Non-stop for the top 6 players of the men's and women's teams.

Chen Meng's position in the Olympics has been severely threatened it seems. Her only bargaining chip at the moment is her steady performance on the World Tour (13 titles but no World Cup, Asian Cup, Asian Games, WTTC, Asian Championships, National Championships wins) but her #1 position (1300...

Absolutely heart-breaking for Franziska. He played well, and out-XX-ed at multiple occasions. About Bobrow, um, just take his words with a pinch of salt. I'm sure most people do that.

XX's BH being exploited here :rolleyes:

Seems like both national associations want the same thing – for either side's female team captain to be chosen :cool:

The power in DN's FH is almost non-existent compared to Ito's.

To take some attention away from the 'surprising' losses that have dominated this thread, I was wondering if anyone had watched the LJK vs Groth match? Seems like Wang Hao was peeved that the umpire kept warning (faulted?) LJK for his service and Groth also looked agitated from this short clip?

Kasumi saw ITTF's scathing post after her loss at Korean Open and became motivated?

I thought she could upset DN. That would make the second half much more interesting.

So... - ZYL is almost confirmed to be out of the Tokyo 2020 running, got wrecked by the lesser version of Ito a.k.a. Sun Mingyang - WMY at 100% (or 90% I guess if one argues that she had a doubles match in the morning) is doing badly against SYS when the odds are supposed to be 50-50 each. Even...

Hmm? Isn't she in the same quarter as Chen Meng?

But it's an odd rule that was only applied to the Singles event but not XD and WD since Choi Hyojoo/Lee Eunhye and Jun Mizutani/Ito Mima got walkovers? Then again, Chen Szu-yu meets Chen Meng – it's as good as having lost at the prelims.

Yeah, honestly what are the chances of that happening.

Is there such a rule? Hmm, wouldn't quite explain the need to take part in all the Opens endlessly though?

- So, Wang Manyu vs Sun Yingsha. That is like adding another layer of insurance to eliminate Zhu Yuling from the QFs whose fate is already precarious enough with Sun Mingyang as the opponent. - Free advancement for Ito (Minnie Soo) and Hamamoto (Lay Jian Fang)? - Early exit for Ishikawa (Kihara...

She's losing 1.6k points in total from her early exit in Korea Open and now Australia Open, causing her to drop to at least WR#5 (likely more). If she falls too much down the ladder and is selected for the Olympics Singles event, she may be allocated into the same half as her other chosen...

Probably not. I mean, just turning up = +400 points which she definitely needs now.

Oh dang. She's gonna lose so many points this month. Best case scenario, she is #5 but likely to be between #6-#8.

Oh wow, did Nagasaki Miyu underperform? Swept 0-4 by Zhang Qiang who is IMO among the weakest players in the 1st team. I was betting on Nagasaki actually. Can someone who watched comment on the match? This is like a bitch slap to ZYL's face :confused: