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I personally find this format quite interesting because it puts pressure on the player for dropping a single game, even more so than BO5. It's the lack of incentives (i.e. ranking points) that hurt the players' motivation.

Imagine if they invested in Hawk-Eye technology instead of WTT. So many years of side/edge + illegal service controversies and nothing has improved. What a joke.

Amy Wang 2-2 Suthasini. Will come down to how well Ito can adjust her form.

Average ITTF/WTT stream quality

Ito (or her manager) announces that her contract with Japan Life Red Elf has ended and that she won't be renewing as she focuses on her new goal of becoming World No. 1

Another weird umpire call for Zhang Mo v. Kim Nayeong (same group as Miwa who beat Zhang 3-1 yesterday). Ball hits Kim's racket edge and flies out of court in 2-1 in games, 3-2 in points, clear point for Zhang. But umpire calls a let for that point after players are done warming up with a new...

Ito took her weird timeout again, this time after winning two points in a row from 2-6 down. Again it worked in her favour, she came back to win the next three points to make it 7-6 until Suthasini broke the momentum with her own timeout. Ito's playing her usual, can't rally for nuts and had...

Franziska not going is criminal. Women's team chances of making semifinals is also slim if Han Ying can't recover in time.

WTT Chongqing dates changed, unilaterally and without player discussion probably based on their track record:

They won't pay it on time anyway

Wow, the unevenly distributed prize money and mandatory participation was already bad enough, but delaying payments and punishing players for being sick really shows that WTT is just another rotting capitalistic corporation. They better fix this soon before more systemic problems rear their ugly...

KNT is really really dumb if they fire Jeon after this tournament.

Just watched the Ito v Jeon match. Don't think Ito played bad, she even played a crazy round the net shot with her forehand which is practically unheard of. That said, she still can't rally for nuts so she's basically screwed if she can't find the right timing for her smashes/sidespin shots...

Bring back world vs china, but make it pips vs china.

Source? I thought KNT was done with these antics especially since Jeon Jihee has been giving them some of the best results since Kim Kyung Ah's time.

Hirano vs SYS in round 1. Mima can potentially rematch YJN if the latter beats JJH. Miwa gets a chance to revenge Joo Cheon Hui and will be rewarded with another crack at Chen Meng if successful. Hayata gets to avenge her 2022 Asian Cup loss against Batra.

I don't know about no ceiling, it's just a feeder tournament after all. No ceiling applies if a pip player wins Olympics/World Champs but we haven't seen anyone come close in recent years (Falck didn't even meet Chinese players on his way to WTTC 2019 finals). But it's fair to say that the...

Hayata drops from 5 to 6 Ito moves from 14 to 8 Miwa and Hirano also move up to 12 and 14 respectively. Hirano is now 9th seed for the Olympics, still behind Nina.

Will Japan even make the finals of Olympics XD? Personally I don't think female lefty/male righty is a winning formula. All the other 3 semifinalists had the opposite combination. Jeon Jihee/Lee Sangsu didn't even make semifinals last Olympics.

CXT leading SYS 3-1