July World Rankings 2018

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I dont see the point of that. seeding is meant to keep strong players from playing each other in the early rounds so as to get strong matches in the later stages. If a player is strong enough to win big tournaments, why the need to play smaller tournaments.

We aren't talking about "smaller" events. We are talking about ITTF World Tour Platinum events and World Tour events. They don't need to play challenger events to maintain their ranking, nor do they even need to play all of the world tour events. If they played all the platinum events (6) and a couple (2) world tour events they'd have the requisite 8 events to maintain world ranking points. But playing the WTTC and 1 other event during the year isn't adequate, and shouldn't be. There are provisions for long injury absences, and in the case of women, pregnancy for example. But just taking 6 months off with no real legitimate reason isn't acceptable anymore.
 
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