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There are rumours that CM will be coached by Ma Lin too, which personally I find unfair to both her and LSW because the other core players all have their own 'personalised' trainers (i.e. Ding Ning & Guo Yan, Zhu Yuling & Qiu Yike, Wang Manyu & Xiao Zhan). While these coaches also co-supervise...

The CNT has left for Austria to begin the last phase of their WTTC preparations, one of which includes overcoming jet lag XD. Aside from those participating in the events, the men's and women's teams have brought along other players as practice partners. Wang Yidi, Chen Ke, Liu Fei, Gu...

I'm more surprised by her choice of country instead of the lack of any visible/known connections. Is Austria poised to become a strong team? I imagine she would have much better luck representing Hong Kong, Taiwan or even Singapore.

Yeah, she didn't lose to them but most of the matches were won through a gruelling process which is why she was matched up against two defenders for this warm-up (Wu Yang & Liu Fei).

The closed-door training camp between M12 and Qatar should have augmented her ability to play against defenders though but it doesn't look like she is faring any better against them. For me, she just doesn't do well against people (e.g. male players who are stronger than her) or styles (choppers...

"出谋划策".

The rest of the world thanks ZYL for a lesson on how to beat CM ahead of the WTTC in two weeks' time.

I read somewhere yesterday that some spokesperson for the JNT said that the third player to represent Japan for Tokyo Olympics 2020 is still very much up for grabs at the moment after Hirano's terrible performance in the group stage. S/he even went on to state that Hina Hayata, Shibata Saki and...

I think this match proves that the CNT coaches made the right choice by excluding ZYL from singles.

A little random here but it seems Feng Tianwei is on a roll this tournament? 3-0 Ishikawa and now 4-0 Jeon. Maybe she will beat ZYL in the SF? Would be nice to see Hirano emerge victorious during the QF match with ZYL but, hmm.

For the preliminary grouping. To ensure that the 'strongest' (according to WR at least) players are not in the same group and knock each other out early on. Of course, we all know that WR is only a reference on paper.

ML 3-1 Lin Yun-ju

Meanwhile, if people are interested XD. Quite a number of changes to the schedule, again. 4th April 2019 (Thursday) 1900h – Table 1: Wang Manyu 4:1 Wu Yang (the actual score is 3:1 but WY had to pull out because she was injured) – Table 2: Lin Gaoyuan 4:3 Xu Chenhao 1945h – Table 1...

Oh dear, FTW 3-0 Ishikawa. Mmm. @zeio?

Jang Woojin 2-3 Kirill Gerassimenko

I wouldn't mind seeing Hirano shine for once actually. She has been severely fodderised since her win in 2017. Not a fan of ZYL but would be interesting to see whether she has upped her game.

Not sure if she's lucky. I think they are all rather evenly matched for now, maybe except Chen Szu-yu.

Ma Long flanked by the two young prodigies. If he intends to make a statement, this will be the time.

As mentioned elsewhere, CNT has the tradition of holding 'warm-up' matches before each major competition. In preparation for WTTC later this month, a total of 18 matches will be held to assess the form of the registered players. Seems like the opponents selected are meant to mimic either i)...

Sorry, the format for Asian Cup has always been a bit confusing for me. Am I right to assume that the seeded players (12 in total) will be allocated into three groups (A, B, C) and each group cannot contain players from the same association? Those who ended up as first and second in each group...