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For the preliminary grouping. To ensure that the 'strongest' (according to WR at least) players are not in the same group and knock each other out early on. Of course, we all know that WR is only a reference on paper.

ML 3-1 Lin Yun-ju

Meanwhile, if people are interested XD. Quite a number of changes to the schedule, again. 4th April 2019 (Thursday) 1900h – Table 1: Wang Manyu 4:1 Wu Yang (the actual score is 3:1 but WY had to pull out because she was injured) – Table 2: Lin Gaoyuan 4:3 Xu Chenhao 1945h – Table 1...

Oh dear, FTW 3-0 Ishikawa. Mmm. @zeio?

Jang Woojin 2-3 Kirill Gerassimenko

I wouldn't mind seeing Hirano shine for once actually. She has been severely fodderised since her win in 2017. Not a fan of ZYL but would be interesting to see whether she has upped her game.

Not sure if she's lucky. I think they are all rather evenly matched for now, maybe except Chen Szu-yu.

Ma Long flanked by the two young prodigies. If he intends to make a statement, this will be the time.

As mentioned elsewhere, CNT has the tradition of holding 'warm-up' matches before each major competition. In preparation for WTTC later this month, a total of 18 matches will be held to assess the form of the registered players. Seems like the opponents selected are meant to mimic either i)...

Sorry, the format for Asian Cup has always been a bit confusing for me. Am I right to assume that the seeded players (12 in total) will be allocated into three groups (A, B, C) and each group cannot contain players from the same association? Those who ended up as first and second in each group...

Well, Chen Meng is more well-rounded IMO and Wang Manyu has a more explosive game. Since you've referenced Wang to Zhang Jike, then it stands to reason that Chen is Ma Long, the player who is more stable. DN's decline is expected since she lacks kill shots which does not sit well in general with...

Ouch. And Asian Cup points will not take effect until after WTTC ~

Aww. Poor Ishikawa. I think some commentator once said one reason Ishikawa does well against others generally but not CNT is because her skills are very much influenced by the Chinese (courtesy of her Chinese coaches)? In that sense, the top Chinese women are very used to her style since it's...

Perhaps to conclude this thread, I would say the biggest winner is surely CNT. More specifically, the women's team as the order in the men's team (ML/FZD/XX) is clearly still rather firm. If I understand it right, they had three main goals for Qatar Open and all were met. 1) To ascertain the...

1) Chen Meng 2) Wang Manyu / Liu Shiwen / Sun Yingsha 5) Ding Ning 6) Zhu Yuling 7) Chen Xingtong 8) Wang Yidi 9) He Zhuojia

A bit of luck on her side too I would say. During the crucial third game, LSW led 9-8 and the rally went in her favour, only for the ball to clip the net at the end in a irrecoverable manner which WMY acknowledged empathetically. Then at 9-9, it was LSW's serve but that didn't go over the net...

If ML wins this, he will gain 2230 points and possibly return to top 5 o_O

They misheard "medal" at the end for "Ma Long" ~

Liu Shiwen completely shut down Wang Yidi. Seems like those famous CNT close-door training camps are quite something, well at least for the female players XD

I'm surprised Japan didn't switch out Hirano or Kasumi for Ito. After all, CNT did replace DN with CM to increase the chances of the latter clinching her first World Singles title (Asian Cup -> World Cup). I imagine Japan would want to do the same for Ito, grooming her to amass all the Singles...