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A couple of prominent names seem to have been ousted. From the men's side, Filus Ruwen, Lebesson Emmanuel, Daniel Habesohn, Yu Ziyang, Truls Moregard, Kanak Jha, Jonathan Groth have all exited the tournament. Fewer surprises on the women's half but it's still goodbye to Ganna Gaponova, Adriana...

Quite a huge dip I believe. His German Open points (2250) will expire by the end of this month and the only other World Tour 2018 event currently not counted in his ranking points and will replace the aforementioned is his participation (more like registration) in the Swedish Open worth only 20...

From the current draw, it is up to Ding Ning, Wang Manyu or Chen Xingtong to stop Ito Mima if an all Chinese finals is to be guaranteed. Of course that is assuming that none of the trio loses prematurely and that the Japanese superstar can avenge her previous loss against Doo. The chances of Liu...

Promising Highlights Women's Singles – Japanese hopeful Ito Mima has not met Chinese players after her successful sweep at the Swedish Open last year. Will she be able to replicate that amazing run or get booted prematurely by players from other associations again? Not to mention her long-time...

Kato might have won but I'm not sure if she has the ability to cause any major upsets. Defenders will not reach the top but they have proven to be effective at weeding out some of the top players due to style differences.

The player they should swap out is probably Kato instead of Sato?

China's Pre-WTTC 2019 Warm-Up Matches 4th April 2019 (Thursday) 1900h – Wang Manyu vs Wu Yang – Wang Chuqin/Zhou Qihao vs Zhang Yudong/Sun Wen 1945h – Liang Jingkun vs Zhao Qihao – Sun Yingsha vs Gu Yuting 2030h – Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen vs Zhou Yu/Yan An –...

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Another off-topic response but kudos to Gu Yuting for being the only one to break into M12 again on her own merit, albeit her dismal results at the end. I discount DN, LSW, CM, ZYL, WY, WMY because they were pre-selected.

Off-topic but good female penholders are almost extinct following Li Jiao's retirement. Only Shan Xiaona remains? As far as I can remember.

I thought this was too good to pass. In a nutshell, CM got pissed after losing to WMY in the Asian Games Singles Finals (the former was leading 3 games to 1) so she got a new phone cover to remind herself to be more ruthless. Since then, CM has only fallen to WMY once (during CTTSL finals)...

Also because she's learning some new tricks from Ma Lin, particularly now that there are younger players who are faster than her so it's not just about speed now. Although she did not maintain this strategy throughout (which was odd), her last five points in game 3 of Marvellous 12 against SYS...

Wow so Kasumi lost her form so soon? I thought she had just won Japan Top 12. Mm.

Yeah the six core female players (DN, LSW, CM, WMY, ZYL and SYS) going for WTTC 2019 are all training with as well as being pitted against members of the male team. From what I know, only LSW emerged victorious over Xu Yingbin while her other five colleagues all fell to their opponents (but I...

Yup, you read it right When LSW was interviewed, she talked about how it requires a lot of focus and self-discipline when playing against male players because the shots are of higher calibre (greater speed, spin etc.) which will likely boost training results. She also revealed getting all...

Oops just realised that someone else had posted the above pictures. According to Weibo, some practice matches took place during the closed-door camp as well. Matches that I know of are as follows: 1) Ding Ning/Fan Zhendong 3:0 Fang Bo/Zhu Linfeng 2) Ma Long/Wang Chuqin 1:3 Zhang Yudong/Sun...

As per the closed-door camp tradition, the CNT always puts up posters of the players who pose the greatest threat to them for the upcoming WTTC in the training hall. Below are this year's: Third-Tier Male Players (top left to bottom right) Franziska Patrick, Kristian Karlsson, Mattias Falck...

After the annual pre-WTTC closed-door training camp (happening right now), a mock rumble (dubbed the 'warm-up competition 热身赛') will also be held to assess the progress of the players. This year, the matches will be held between 4th April to 6th April and I believe this will probably determine...

Basically, kenta matsudaira, yoshimura maharu and ueda jin have been relegated?

Sun Mingyang will be an important practice partner. Haha. Her presence lingers over Budapest in an oddly ghastly manner. HZJ is only a threat to people who are not her teammates.