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I should stress that I backed F. Lebrun back in 2021 when he had just started out in senior events. Yes, Felix won in Montpellier, but you have to factor in the help of the home crowd. The Lebrun brothers were on a mission as it was the first WTT event held in their hometown. However, his...

Time to pick up your dictionary again. Your post shows that you are anal but not as precise as you wished. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anal

20 years ago? This is where your agenda gets exposed again. Gatien's interview is from 2012. Rosskopf's interview is from 2019. Felix started playing penhold around 2010 after he watched Chen Jian playing in the leagues. So Gatien's comment is relevant.

Episode 2 of the TV series Table Tennis in China took a look at the 40-day summer closed-training camp of 2013 which doubled as a promotion and demotion tournament for the CNT B team. https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1j4411R7aK?t=988&p=2

By your logic, to make a living in China they also have to be competitive in training in order to earn opportunities to play international competitions. And if that were the case for Europe, Gatien and Rosskopf wouldn't have made the comments that their players needed to work harder. Feel free...

By the same token, CNT players train way more at home. It's not like they just sit there. In an article by Table tennis World from 2015, WCT and Ho Kwan Kit shared their experience training with the CNT and how they were overwhelmed by their training volume and intensity. Ito has also visited...

As others have pointed out, CNT players almost always reach the later rounds and thus have more on-court time than the rest (like how they showed it on-screen for WTTC 2023), so you need to factor in both number of events and number of matches/games played to see the whole picture. If one wants...

It depends if he has used his 2 free withdrawals.

To be fair, the current system is a logical extension of the WR reform that first came into effect in 1/2018, which was based on requests made by some players to the Athletes' Commission, which consisted of current and former players at the time...

As elaborated by Li Sun earlier today. The China table tennis team won all five gold medals for the first time at the Paris Olympics. The whole team worked together and made great efforts. After the WTT Champions Macao and the China Smash, the whole team entered a period of adjustment. Several...

And the source. 国乒回应近期比赛成绩起伏：严肃对待问题，及时认真总结 http://m.cyol.com/gb/articles/2024-10/29/content_X5GyjgTpEJ.html

Harimoto on 2-4 Odo at WTT CS Montpellier 2024. 【インタビュー】張本美和 大藤との日本人対決に敗れて準優勝「前回対戦した時より別人のように強かった」｜WTTチャンピオンズモンペリエ2024 [url unfurl=false]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-isycB54JLo[/url] Odo says she hasn't been feeling well lately but she was in good condition today. 【インタビュー】大藤沙月...

Except that WCQ is not young. He will be 30 when LA 2028 comes. So far he has an Asian Games title only. Tieba/Douban users have been making fun of that fact for a while. XX is the first-ever and so far the only lefty CNT player to have won a major title, World Cup 2013, when YA failed to...

He's not there for MS only (no separation by association and minimal seeding make the draw unpredictable as well). He needs the points for XD as well. 895 out of the current 4195pts will expire before 1/2025 and they have only played 7 events.

LSD needs to keep his WR2 for WTTC 2025 by renewing the expiring points. Both FZD and ML already have 2 ZPP (3 with WTT CS Montpellier 2024) and WCQ has 1 ZPP (2 with WTT CS Montpellier 2024).

Tokyo 2020 was just as tight. WTTC 2021? They dropped the MD title by intention and bagged 4 titles. ATTC 2023? 5-title sweep. WTTC 2023? 5-title sweep. Asian Games 2022? They dropped the WD title that they hardly worked on at that point and bagged 6 titles. World Cup 2024? 2-title...

With the WTT schedule, ZYL's style (多板相持/multiple-shot exchanges) that started with ZYN (who actually played aggressive serve-n-attack at first and lost quite a bit) and continued by DN could see a comeback. It's too hard to maintain the aggressive playing style that CNT pushed but was...

Fan sentiments before and after WTT CS Montpellier 2024: Before: Long live the ITTF! After: All hail the WTT!

It's way overblown. CNT has achieved all the major milestones for 2024. There were way more bumpy years for CHN on the men's and women's sides in the early to mid 2000s. KOR in MT SF at WTTC 2001, Samsonov at World Cup 2001, PRK in WT F at Asian Games 2002, Boll at World Cup 2002, Schlager...

Should've posted this back in June but now is a better time. Like how it was for Ito, Hirano was the reason again for Odo's transformation. Similar to Zhang Rui's suggestion to DHK, Sakamoto's suggestion to Odo helped her overcome the bottleneck. 「上に勝つことだけを考えて練習してきた」大藤沙月、アジア選手権代表選考会優勝コメント...