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Been watching WTTC17 and now some of Japan open, and often the results are nothing too suprising, the higher ranked player (even if it means only slightly higher) will usually win.
What i mean is that before a match you often will know who will win, usually the side with the Chinese player will win, that said, upsets do happen sometimes, but not often.
For example, looking at the WTTC in the mens singles the chinese player always won (except Zhang Jike losing to lee sangsu), and then Ma long beats Xu Xin then beats fanzhen Dong for the crown.
The same goes for the women's singles, the chinese beat everyone, then when it's CHN vs CHN the higher ranked player wins.
Adding further to this trend, i noticed that in the finals for both the mens and womens singles go to 7 games, being world #1 vs #2, but the other matches it would all be pretty one sided stomp, such as 4-0 or 4-1.
In the end we see world #1 for both mens and womens take the crown.
So far in the japan open 2017 we see similar results, Ma long is probably going to play fanzhendong again.
When i watch other sports and esports, the higher ranked player/team has the higher chance to win, but there is much more unpredictability in the results, upsets happen much more often, yet in table tennis if world #1 doesn't win then #2 will win.
Why is this?
EDIT: fan zhendong just won vs mizutani, so yes he will rematch ma long again in the japan open finals.
What i mean is that before a match you often will know who will win, usually the side with the Chinese player will win, that said, upsets do happen sometimes, but not often.
For example, looking at the WTTC in the mens singles the chinese player always won (except Zhang Jike losing to lee sangsu), and then Ma long beats Xu Xin then beats fanzhen Dong for the crown.
The same goes for the women's singles, the chinese beat everyone, then when it's CHN vs CHN the higher ranked player wins.
Adding further to this trend, i noticed that in the finals for both the mens and womens singles go to 7 games, being world #1 vs #2, but the other matches it would all be pretty one sided stomp, such as 4-0 or 4-1.
In the end we see world #1 for both mens and womens take the crown.
So far in the japan open 2017 we see similar results, Ma long is probably going to play fanzhendong again.
When i watch other sports and esports, the higher ranked player/team has the higher chance to win, but there is much more unpredictability in the results, upsets happen much more often, yet in table tennis if world #1 doesn't win then #2 will win.
Why is this?
EDIT: fan zhendong just won vs mizutani, so yes he will rematch ma long again in the japan open finals.
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