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Quadri beat Lim Junghoon for the first time! Fan Zhendong still in his future?

You aren't under increased pressure to defend points you can't relinquish and points like Singapore Smash you can regain if you do well in specific events. This will take place over 4 months - let's see where Szocs ends up under "increased pressure" when she has 500pts in the bank. Same with...

I believe so, but you can't believe everything you read on the internet...

She has to fit in doubles or play the singles spot. That's the challenge, and I suspect if Joo Cheonhui was eligible, this would be less of an issue.

Looks like a power/lighting outage of sorts just hit - Taylor Swift related?

Are they really though? Remember that doubles is part of the team event. Korea likely can't play their best team in doubles in the team event as that would require both their best players. So both of them have to get used to playing with another yet to be determined partner (not sure if KNT...

Wang Manyu doesn't like curry - but I suspect she will pull through as always, her backhand topspin is really too good to be struggling like this against pips.

I don't think top 20 players are allowed to play feeder events unless they are citizens of the host country. But who knows, WTT may have changed their rules back then... For me, there are more than enough issues between injury and underperformance to make these PDR claims moot, that said, let's...

To give players in the top 20 as many chances as possible to play as many events as they can to build up their rankings for the Olympics cycle. To avoid national associations who host events using those events selectively to manipulate the rankings of players.

How does any of this explain how PDR kept Hirano from improving her ranking and how does this explain why she cannot be seeded when people like Hayata, Ito and Harimoto can be and and are? You are the one wasting time by continually defending someone with an argument that absolves her of any...

Yes, I watched that. I wonder what happened in Italy, their women have seen a level jump of sorts, wonder whether it is a coaching/environmental improvement of some sort.

The race obviously. But other handled the race and kept their rankings. It is her responsibility.

And this impacts her ranking in 2024 in what way? Again it is easy to deflect away from Hirano, but she bears responsibility for her ranking.

I guess we can agree to disagree on sample size. The point is that elements of these results can be attributed to chance. The point is that it goes in both directions. And when the results are heavily skewed by repeated matches against one player, it should just be taken as a reliable...

The topic was world ranking. The topic was explaining Hirano's seeding. Does anything you are posting address the topic? What is Hirano's responsibility for having a better world ranking? The topic was not Hirano's head to head against first team CNT players in the current cycle. Thr funny...

I am pointing out the inconsistency in your logic not the supposed ones in mine. If the losses are a small sample size, so are the wins. And she has had the same opportunities as her teammates and chose to focus on internal events, just like Ito did, and to be honest, she was just as...

So are the wins, using the same logic.

It makes perfect sense, using hidden statistics with limited predictive power to make arguments will work only so long. No one other than yourself and maybe Tieba users thought trailing in win rate was more important than actually being dominant both in Japan and on tour. And ultimately, China...

But she had all the same opportunities as her teammates. It is simply finding special excuses when there is no reason she could not have done what Hayata did.

QTY also lost multiple matches that led to her being explicitly denied chances. So no one would argue that she is better than anyone ahead of her getting opportunities (but maybe you and Tieba users might). Miu Hirano would have have a hard time arguing that the reason she is being denied...