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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.
 
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JNT for this year's WTTC have been announced:

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Mizutani Niwa Matsudaira Muranatsu Harimoto

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Ishikawa Ito Kato Hirano Sato

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Oshima/Morozono
Niwa/Yoshimura

WD
Ishikawa/Hirano
Hayata/Ito

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Yoshimura/Ishikawa
Tazoe/Maeda

source ? i cannot see it on JTTA site
 
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How soon can we see some guality videos of the event on Youtube? Drop the relevant URL address in this thread, please.
 
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source ? i cannot see it on JTTA site

Sorry that it's in Japanese:
http://world-tt.com/ps_info/ps_report.php?bn=1&pg=HEAD&page=TOP&rpcdno=2178#2178

Should be up on JTTA site soon.

Thing about Niwa is that although his world ranking is the 2nd highest in Japan, his rating points are far below. He ranks 28th in rating points which makes him the 5th highest. Feel sorry for Yoshimura who ranks 2nd in the rating points.

Happy to see Harimoto though! Can't wait till another Harimoto hate thread coming up when the WTTC starts.
 
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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.

People let their dislike of Niwa spill over into their general evaluation of him. He still probably has the highest level serve and return game in Japan.
 
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No, I don't dislike Niwa, I like to see him play when he's on fire, he'- can be very creative in his chose of shots. But I think Yoshimura and Oshima can indeed lose maybe in earlier rounds, however, they can also surprise. And for selecting a younger player, Harimoto is quite young I would say :D
 
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Equipment from top 16 players(Source:Takyu Okoku).

Jun Mizutani
Butterfly Jun Mizutani ZLC
FH Butterfly Tenergy 80
BH Butterfly Tenergy 80

Kazuhiro Yoshimura
Butterfly ZJK ALC
FH Butterfly Tenergy 05
BH Butterfly Tenergy 05

Kaii Yoshida
Butterfly Kaii Yoshida
FH Butterfly Tenergy 64

Yuki Hirano
Butterfly ZLC(custom made)
FH Butterfly Tenergy 05
BH Butterfly Tenergy 80

Takuya Jin
Yasaka Garaxya carbon
FH Yasaka Rakza X
BH Yasaka Rakza X

Jin Ueda
Butterfly Innerforce ZLC
FH Butterfly Tenergy 05
BH Butterfly Tenergy 05

Tonin Ryuzaki
Butterfly Innerforce layer ZLC
FH Butterfly Tenergy 05
BH Butterfly Tenergy 05

Yuto Kizukuri
Butterfly Timo Boll ALC
FH Butterfly Tenergy 05
BH Butterfly Tenergy 80

Kenji Matsudaira
Butterfly 7ply wood(custom made)
FH Butterfly Tenergy 05
BH Butterfly Tenergy 80

Koki Niwa
TSP Swat power
FH Victas V>15 extra
BH Victas V>15 extra

Maharu Yoshimura
Butterfly ZLC(Custom made)
FH Butterfly Tenergy 05
BH Butterfly Tenergy 05

Yuma Tsuboi
Butterfly Inncerforce ZLC
FH Butterfly Tenergy 05
BH Butterfly Tenergy 80

Masato Kakitsuka
Butterly Apolonia ZLC
FH Butterfly Tenergy 05
BH Butterfly Tenergy 80

Kentaro Miuchi
Butterfly 5-ply wood(custom made)
FH Butterfly Tenergy 05
BH TSP Curl P-1

Hiromitsu Kasahara
Butterfly ZLF(custom made)
FH Butterfly Tenergy 05
BH Butterfly Tenergy 05

Kentaro Ogata
TSP Swat power
FH Victas V>15 extra
BH Victas V>15 extra
 
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