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Ito's interviews before departing for Doha. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20210225/k10012884351000.html https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/sports/table-tennis/2806227/ https://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2021/02/25/kiji/20210225s00026000106000c.html...

The National Games is more important. http://www.ctta.cn/xwzx/ppxw/2021/0224/375918.html [/p]

On Feb 25th, JTTA has updated its webpage with an entry introducing the WTT structure, indicating they will try to send players to events with appropriate precautions. http://www.jtta.or.jp/news/aobut/tabid/103/Default.aspx?itemid=1091&dispmid=580

The ITTFWorld page has been changed to "ITTF High Performance & Development @ITTFWorld · Organization" The ITTF will ultimately turn into the ITF, focusing on the lower tiers of events.

Hate to be right? ML: walkome to dubblu tt. https://www.facebook.com/ITTFWorld = 奠

JNT will likely go as planned. http://www.jtta.or.jp/tournament/tabid/125/rptid/703/Default.aspx

CNT has decided to withdraw from both Contender and Star Contender out of safety concerns. http://www.ctta.cn/xhgg/ssxg/2021/0224/375902.html

Just found out Visnatura by 729 is manufactured by Daiki.

https://www.mizuno.jp/tabletennis/news/products/20210219_tt_fortiusFT_RE.aspx/?cid=ttwt20210221

That's why I wrote in my first post that manufacturers are playing dumb. Once the prices are raised, they stick.

Folks should give this article a read to understand how the world really works. https://research.hktdc.com/en/article/NDMwNDkwNzgw

Everyone alive right now has lived through that period. The problem is remembering them years later.

Butterfly was forced to raise their prices after the financial tsunami of 2007-2008 and it had nothing to do with CPI inflation. Their sales took a big hit between 2010 and 2016 and only recovered in 2017 with the introduction of Rozena. I'll just post these here...

http://www.thepingpong.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=5120 More or less the same rationale as I presented.

Is there any plan to put back the box at the bottom of each page that shows what permissions are allowed for posting(img, video, html etc.)? That's useful.

The Victas interview that yours truly mentioned where they explain why they wanted Victas Triple to be totally made-in-China and how more and more pros, female first 7 years ago and then male 3 years ago, are switching to Chinese tacky rubbers, which are gaining ground in Japan and South Korea...

And posts like this one keep popping up years after years on reddit.

Dainton suggested scrapping the individual events of WTTC last year. Needless to say, it was met with a huge backlash. https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1093082/ittf-chief-executive-ind-world-champs https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/table-tennis-needs-to-evolve-ittf-ceo...

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/showthread.php?19807-Butterfly-announces-new-Sping-Sponge-X&p=253545&viewfull=1#post253545

Donic's first rubber that was OEMed in China with tacky topsheet(based on RITC 729 or Globe 999) and Japanese sponge for international market. For China, it was sold either as topsheet only or with Tianjin sponge.