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No Yoshimura or Oshima? I would throw Niwa out I think... for 2 years his results are disappointing, but he keeps on being in the top 20, I don't know how, every tournament he loses to someone ranked way below him and never wins someone above him. He needs a wake up call
I understand your point and quite agree, but ranking is ranking. Niwa sometimes looses to poorer opponents but usualy he does not have troubles in preliminary rounds. If you look carefully to his tournaments you will see that most of cases he goes quite far. Oshima is very good player, but sometimes he looses even in first round, the same happened to yoshimura last year. So in my opinion Niwa is more reliable especially in team and less risky, while oshima and yoshimura can beat better players while at the same time loose to poorer ones.