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TV Tokyo did an analysis of the Olympic team recently. Hayata's main results: 2023 All Japan Triple Crown WTTC Singles Bronze Asian Games Singles Silver 2024 All Japan Champion (2nd consecutive title) 2024 WTTC Team Silver VS China: 3W18L (2023 onwards) 4-3 Wang Yidi x2 3-1 Chen Meng...

Solja ate fukuhara for breakfast and she's also beaten Ito, Ishikawa, Hirano, Feng Tianwei, and Doo Hoi Kem to name a few. Winter is great but there's just no comparison.

There's another table tennis grandma on the block. 58 year old Zhiying Zeng (Tania) qualifies to play Olympic singles for Chile at 58, 38 years after retiring from professional table tennis in 1986. She only started ranking on WTT in June 2023 and to qualify within less than a year in such a...

My dark horse pick is Jeon Jihee. Wounded veteran wants a medal after being let down by her peers and association for two consecutive Olympics. I don't think she'll make it for singles (maybe 4th) but there's a chance for bronze in teams IF SYB can step up. If theories about Hayata and Hirano...

She seems like a really positive individual with exceptional athleticism that far exceeds the average table tennis professional. Unfortunately this isn't a sport that you can just brute force your way through so she'll probably have to work on things like touch, variation, and short game...

Kihara nearly 1000 points away from Ito. Personally I'd like to see Hashimoto selected after her recent performance, but she's nearly 1500 points behind Ito even after that Bangkok SCT finalist run. How many more tournaments left until the WTTC 2025 selection deadline?

No love for Sabine Winter, on the bench since 2010 but not even a P card after an early Solja retirement and last-minute injury withdrawal from Han Ying. https://www.google.com/amp/s/sportstar.thehindu.com/table-tennis/chinese-invasion-not-a-problem-for-solja/article19180254.ece/amp/ Solja...

Realistically the only way for Korea to win that match was to win doubles + solja + SXN. They gave away their X vs. C advantage in the deciding tie with that lineup. CHJ/SYB was a perfectly viable doubles that brought them through the entire Olympic qualification tournament but they decided to...

Nah by that logic Korea sent CHJ to lose two points which makes no sense. SXN is way more beatable than Han Ying.

I think Choi Hyojoo was the real culprit for that match. Lost 2 points and failed to play her role as the 'surprise ace'.

If Han Ying withdraws, I guess German women lose one singles member as the slot would automatically go to the next eligible player instead of Shan Xiaona. Also has their reserved player been announced? I guess it would be Winter but Kaufmann also makes sense as a lefty for teams. EDIT: seems...

Liu Shiwen is still playing in China' domestic tournaments so she'd make a great addition

Will Ishikawa still play lolol

Suthirta played amazing. Would be a huge statement if both Mukherjees made it to the final.

Is there a reason why athletes don't prepare a second racket? I remember Zhang Yining saying that her backup racket was like 'the bottom of a shoe' in her match against Feng Tianwei at the Olympics. Also, can the racket restriction rules be relaxed? It's not like the weaker/tactically poorer...

IIRC Hirano forfeited the Pavade match as a preventative measure against injury instead of outright losing. Ito falling sick at 2023 Nagoya + Hayata sitting out of WTTC finals 2022 are also signs of how brutal the entire schedule has been between endless internal trials, T-league, and world...

Chance at redemption for both Ito and Hirano as they're scheduled to meet Pavade and Takahashi respectively

M Missing out on 2 Star Contenders for yet another internal tournament is wild. I don't fancy Japan's chance against China if they're not going to have internal training. Covid 2020/21 was basically one huge internal training session for CNT and look how they steamrolled over the JNT girls at...

After Zagreb 2024: 5. Hayata (no change) 7. Shin (no change) 8. Miwa (2185, less than 100 behind Shin's 2270) 9. Hirano (1628, still ways to go from Shin but currently 5 seed if no deductions taken into account) 10. Szocs 11. Ito 19. Kihara

wonder if Britt Eerland can cause some trouble in the main draw