BREAKING! Top chinese players at German Open!

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And it seems they changed their views about letting players to tournaments. Not just the top players, but nearly all of their promising stars are coming: Zhou Kai, Xue Fei, Liu Dingshuo, Yu Ziyang, Zhou Qihao...Wang Chuqin is missing, maybe due to his loss against Alexandre Cassin.
 
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Wang Chuqin is missing because he is selected to play in the Asian Continental Qualification Event for the Youth Olympic Games 2018. The qualification event will be in India, from Nov 3 to Nov 5.

This means CNT sees Wang Chuqin as the rising star. Only one male player per NA is allowed to play in the Youth OG. The male player selected by CNT to play in Youth OG 2014 is Fan Zhendong.
 
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And it seems they changed their views about letting players to tournaments. Not just the top players, but nearly all of their promising stars are coming: Zhou Kai, Xue Fei, Liu Dingshuo, Yu Ziyang, Zhou Qihao...Wang Chuqin is missing, maybe due to his loss against Alexandre Cassin.

As a matter of fact, Xue Fei, Liu Dingshuo and Zhou Qihao will only play U21.

I was about to make a thread to discuss about the new role that CTTA is playing now. They made announcements of who will play German Open and who will play World Cup on their website, which is quite unusual as there was no such announcement for Czech Open, Austrian Open or WTTC earlier this year. Without head coaches of CNT, is CTTA taking over the duty for player selection or is it just for transparency?
German Open announcement
http://www.ctta.cn/xhgg/qttz/2017/1002/159735.html
World Cup announcement
http://www.ctta.cn/xhgg/qttz/2017/1002/159736.html

There is also a leaked list from TT/Badminton center of who will play German Open and Swedish Open before the CTTA announcement. ML, FB, Liang Jingkun and WCQ were on that list but they will not play German Open for now. Will they play Swedish Open instead? As the deadline of Swedish Open is approaching, we can expect another CTTA announcement. Strangely, Ding Ning was not on the leaked list and she was pulled off World Cup due to "injury" around Sep 29th while ITTF confirmed her attendance on Sep 26th.
https://www.ittf.com/2017/09/26/ding-ning-great-legend-immortality-moment-history-awaits-markham/

Ding Ning wrote on her Weibo on Oct 2nd that she has injuries and wants to get recovered before attending major tournaments. However, she was seen training all these days. What made her and CTTA confirm the attendance before Sep 26 and then change the mind? We will not know. One thing we know for sure is that as she will not play World Cup, German Open, Swedish Open and ITTF Grand Finals, she will not play any international tournament for the rest of the year and her #1 world ranking will be folded from Nov.

Since ML will not play German Open, he will not be qualified for ITTF Grand Finals this year. The qualifications of FZD, XX, FB depend on whether they will play Swedish Open. LGY will be qualified as long as he finishes playing German Open. Liang Jingkun may also have a chance as ML, YA, Jun Mizutani who have high points will not play in Grand Finals.
 
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My theory is that ML was assuming all the responsibility for the boycott so he'd suffer the heaviest punishment so that the others (FZD and XX) only had light punishment. When I tried to escape from the communists 40 years ago and unfortunately got caught, my cousin took all responsibility so the commie gave him 4 years in prison while we the minors only got couple months.
 
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Stop theory. Ma Long will play world cup in two weeks. If they want, chinese could replace by another player.

Also, best chinese played lots of competitions (super league, trials, chinese championship, etc) + hard training, so it's not surprising that players miss an open.
 
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This theory does not work. CTTA has announced that ML will play the world cup. If GSA really wants to punish ML, he will be replaced by someone else in the world cup.
My theory is that ML was assuming all the responsibility for the boycott so he'd suffer the heaviest punishment so that the others (FZD and XX) only had light punishment. When I tried to escape from the communists 40 years ago and unfortunately got caught, my cousin took all responsibility so the commie gave him 4 years in prison while we the minors only got couple months.
 
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CNT announced the list for Swedish Open which follows German Open.
MS: XX, FZD, LGY, FB, LJK, Liu Dingshuo (wl:Zhou Yu, YA)
WS: DN, LSW, ZYL, CM, Chen Xingtong, Gu Yuting and 8 on wl
It is ironic that DN will not play World Cup due to "injury" while she will play Swedish Open two weeks later. ML will not play any international tournament after World Cup. XX, FZD, LGY, FB will play in Grand Finals. Will there be a new winner since ML will not play? Or will XX get his third Grand Finals?
 
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CNT announced the list for Swedish Open which follows German Open.
MS: XX, FZD, LGY, FB, LJK, Liu Dingshuo (wl:Zhou Yu, YA)
WS: DN, LSW, ZYL, CM, Chen Xingtong, Gu Yuting and 8 on wl
It is ironic that DN will not play World Cup due to "injury" while she will play Swedish Open two weeks later. ML will not play any international tournament after World Cup. XX, FZD, LGY, FB will play in Grand Finals. Will there be a new winner since ML will not play? Or will XX get his third Grand Finals?

Two weeks might matter a lot.
 
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Two weeks might matter a lot.
When CTTA told ITTF that DN was "injured" and had to withdraw, ITTF extended the deadline for DN but CTTA declined right away. It does not sound like she could recover so quickly if the injury really prevented her from playing WC.
 
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