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Hopefully we can see Ishikawa/Hirano vs Ding Ning/Sun Yingsha. Both pairs are in similar predicaments – the lefties who also happen to be captains of their respective teams are usually the ones who don't perform as well while the righties are the younger, swifter and more explosive ones.

China donning their new jerseys for 2020. Seems like Japan is the only other country which also comes up with new designs. Can't wait to see theirs too ~

Mixed Doubles Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen Ho Kwan Kit/Lee Ho Ching Patrick Franziska/Petrissa Solja Wong Chun Ting/Doo Hoi Kem Jun Mizutani/Mima Ito Stefan Fegerl/Sofia Polcanova Lubomir Pistej/Barbora Balazova Lin Yun-ju/Cheng I-Ching Women's Doubles Chen Meng/Wang Manyu Lee Ho Ching/Minnie Soo...

I wanna watch her play Zhu Yuling. Both of them should be fairly confident at the moment after winning nearly everyone in their respective associations.

It's there.

Men's Singles 1/4 Xu Xin Patrick Franziska Jeoung Youngsik Mattias Falck 2/4 Lin Yun-ju Jun Mizutani Koki Niwa Lin Gaoyuan 3/4 Ma Long Jang Woojin Lee Sangsu Liang Jingkun 4/4 Tomokazu Harimoto Dimitrij Ovtcharov Timo Boll Fan Zhendong Women's Singles 1/4 Chen Meng Miu Hirano He...

She reminds me of Li Jiawei, except she serves like Shan Xiaona instead of her BH.

HK women scored 11 points in a row in game 4. Lol.

Yeah, saw reports about "recordings" and possibility of 'blackmailing' recently too although I'm curious as to what they actually contain beyond what was reported. Not sure that Yoo emphasising the need for endless competition is grounds for any disciplinary action tbh.

Republic of Korea: DPR unnie/noona, let's form a United Korea team again please.

Altho to be fair even with Jeon around, what's most likely is that there will be a deciding fifth match unless they replace Suh Hyowon completely. Well, I guess there is chance now for the Lees to appear in the 9th place matches.

Well, it's Suh, Choi & Shin again. Shin is a pretty decent doubles player though, I'll give her that. Both Lees will continue to be twin cheerleaders it seems. Singapore vs Netherlands = table-hoggers. M1: Li Jie's nifty switch between chopping and attacking gave Yu Mengyu/Lin Ye so much...

If memory serves, Choi Hyojoo and Lee Eunhye also achieved pretty decent results for last year's trials.

Yeah, agree that my conclusion is likely to be premature. And I guess what I should have said as well is I don't see the promised 'new synergy' from this first match and hopefully we do in subsequent matches, or else it's really about the naturalisation issue more than anything.

Maybe I should have elaborated further but one of the reasons Yoo Nam-kyu (ex-head-coach of the women's team) decided to allocate 3 slots to the winners from the internal trials was because he felt that they needed a revised team if any breakthroughs were to be achieved as the current core...

S. Korea is fielding Suh, Choi & Shin even against much weaker teams like Lithuania. I guess the other two Lees will just be benchwarmers? Jeon be like:

Oddly, Japan has yet to ratify the Mizutanito pairing to ITTF even though they are the only association to have publicly announced their XD pair. Meanwhile, XX/LSW, WCT/DHK and LYJ/CIC have been confirmed. https://www.ittf.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Tokyo_2020_XD_List_2020_01_15.pdf

Plot twist: Ishikawa-senpai is still around in 2024.

While I wouldn't occlude that possibility, I also think that it must be a 'strategy' that has been approved or instructed by the higher-ups. She was suspended by Kong Ling Hui previously under the allegation of "avoidance of matches out of fear" so it's unlikely that she would risk her Olympics...