Who do you think will win the Australian Open 2017?

  • Dimitrij Ovtcharov

    Votes: 2 4.7%
  • Xu Xin

    Votes: 22 51.2%
  • Lee Sangsu

    Votes: 1 2.3%
  • Koki Niwa

    Votes: 1 2.3%
  • Tomokazu Harimoto

    Votes: 9 20.9%
  • Hugo Calderano

    Votes: 4 9.3%
  • Simon Gauzy

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Jun Mizutani

    Votes: 3 7.0%
  • Kenta Matsudaira

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other (Post Below)

    Votes: 1 2.3%

  • Total voters
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>Originally Posted by usualsuspect View Post
>Wow, you do realize the US is way bigger than Australia geographically, right?
>To which I reply: WRONG.

Thanks for making us aware of this, I would bet just like Ususalsuspect that Australia is just smaller ... Those flat maps we got used to, deform our perception. i.e. Russia seems so big on them while in fact (as far as I remember) it is actually about the size of the Sahara desert ... [edit: more like two Saharas actually - see Atas comment below : ]

Btw, the brackets are really interesting this year in the Australia. The clash between Japan and Chinese women seems promising.
How is the crowd in the arena?
 
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try two Sahara deserts :) But yeah, flat maps suck. Google 'Japan over Europe'.

yeah, just checked ... : ) it is more like a north part of Africa, probably a bit bigger ...
There are few yt's with interesting comparisons too.

Greenland is probably the absolute winner when it comes to the territory deception.
... or most likely Antarctica ; )
 
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How is the crowd in the arena?
There are 14,000 watching the Canterbury Bulldogs play Wests Tigers; 21,000 turned up to watch the North Queensland Cowboys play the Newcastle Knights; 29,000 watching Essendon play the Sydney Swans.

In Geelong watching the table tennis: 147. Break down: Officials 27, camera crew and technicians 63, players with nothing else to do in Geelong 26, vendors with no one to sell stuff to 11, wives/husbands and girlfriends/boyfriends 13, spectators 7. However the 7 does include 2 homeless guys who've come in to get out of the cold. And a dog.

It's the usual Australian table tennis crowd.
 
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There are 14,000 watching the Canterbury Bulldogs play Wests Tigers; 21,000 turned up to watch the North Queensland Cowboys play the Newcastle Knights; 29,000 watching Essendon play the Sydney Swans.

In Geelong watching the table tennis: 147. Break down: Officials 27, camera crew and technicians 63, players with nothing else to do in Geelong 26, vendors with no one to sell stuff to 11, wives/husbands and girlfriends/boyfriends 13, spectators 7. However the 7 does include 2 homeless guys who've come in to get out of the cold. And a dog.

It's the usual Australian table tennis crowd.

Outstanding ... you're doing a great job Geelong, you know that! : )
Keep us updated, will you? Is the dog by himself or came with somebody?
; )

Harimoto - Zhou You and possibly Xu Xin (of course if he beats Franziska) ... nice.

PS. tt is a very social sport, so maybe it will help those homeless guys with their problems.
 
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Results from Day 4 (Fri 27 July 2018):

Men's Singles

Round of 32:

Yu Ziyang 4:3 Dimitrij Ovtcharov [1] (11:7, 11:7, 6:11, 13:11, 15:17, 6:11, 11:3)
Maharu Yoshimura 4:2 Chuang Chih-Yuan [10] (11:6, 6:11, 8:11, 11:7, 11:4, 11:9)
Lin Yun-Ju 4:0 David Powell, AUS [16] (11:1, 11:3, 11:6, 11:1)
Liu Dingshuo 4:3 Jun Mizutani [8] (11:4, 12:10, 11:9, 6:11, 8:11, 5:11, 11:9)

Yuya Oshima 4:3 Hugo Calderano [6] (11:5, 11:7, 6:11, 5:11, 12:10, 8:11, 11:7)
[11] Quadri Aruna 4:2 Ricardo Walther (6:11, 10:12, 11:8, 11:7, 11:7, 12:10)
[12] Lim Jonghoon 4:2 Alvaro Robles (4:11, 8:11, 11:2, 11:9, 11:5, 11:6)
Jeoung Youngsik 4:0 Lee Sangsu [3] (12:10, 11:3, 11:8, 11:8)

Zhou Yu 4:2 Koki Niwa [4] (11:7, 11:9, 8:11, 5:11, 11:5, 11:9)
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran 4:3 Masaki Yoshida [15] (11:8, 7:11, 11:9, 7:11, 5:11, 11:6, 11:8)
Yuki Hirano 4:3 Kenta Matsudaira [9] (12:14, 12:10, 11:9, 9:11, 3:11, 11:8, 12:10)
[5] Tomokazu Harimoto 4:3 Chen Chien-An (9:11, 9:11, 11:7, 11:6, 11:13, 12:10, 11:9)

Achanta Sharath Kamal 4:2 Simon Gauzy [7] (6:11, 11:7, 11:7, 11:8, 7:11, 11:4)
[14] Patrick Franziska 4:1 Kim Donghyun (11:6, 11:9, 8:11, 11:8, 11:2)
[13] Jin Ueda 4:0 Masataka Morizono (13:11, 11:9, 11:9, 11:3)
[2] Xu Xin 4:2 Taimu Arinobu (11:8, 10:12, 11:8, 9:11, 11:7, 11:6)

Round of 16:

Yu Ziyang 4:2 Maharu Yoshimura (11:8, 9:11, 11:6, 5:11, 11:7, 11:7)
Liu Dingshuo 4:2 Lin Yun-Ju (8:11, 9:11, 11:8, 11:9, 11:8, 11:6)
Yuya Oshima 4:0 Quadri Aruna [11] (12:10, 11:9, 11:8, 11:4)
Jeoung Youngsik 4:0 Lim Jonghoon [12] (11:3, 11:7, 11:6, 12:10)

Zhou Yu 4:0 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (11:3, 14:12, 12:10, 11:5)
[5] Tomokazu Harimoto 4:1 Yuki Hirano (11:8, 11:3, 6:11, 11:5, 11:4)
[14] Patrick Franziska 4:3 Achanta Sharath Kamal (12:14, 9:11, 11:9, 11:3, 7:11, 11:7, 11:8)
[2] Xu Xin 4:2 Jin Ueda [13] (7:11, 11:8, 11:3, 7:11, 11:8, 11:1)


Women's Singles

Round of 16:

[1] Kasumi Ishikawa 4:1 Saki Shibata [13] (11:9, 11:13, 11:4, 11:7, 11:8)
[8] Hitomi Sato 4:2 Jeon Jihee [15] (9:11, 6:11, 11:7, 11:7, 11:9, 11:7)
[7] Ding Ning 4:0 Suh Hyowon [9] (11:3, 11:8, 11:7, 12:10)
[4] Miu Hirano 4:1 Yu Mengyu (11:4, 11:8, 11:2, 9:11, 16:14)

[3] Mima Ito 4:3 Zeng Jian (11:9, 11:5, 7:11, 9:11, 11:2, 2:11, 11:7)
He Zhuojia 4:0 Feng Tianwei [6] (11:7, 11:6, 11:7, 13:11)
Yang Haeun 4:2 Suthasini Sawettabut (6:11, 11:6, 11:7, 11:9, 6:11, 11:4)
[2] Liu Shiwen 4:2 Gu Yuting [11] (11:9, 11:5, 11:7, 12:14, 9:11, 11:3)

Quarter-finals:

[1] Kasumi Ishikawa 4:1 Hitomi Sato [8] (11:4, 11:6, 11:8, 8:11, 11:6)
[7] Ding Ning vs Miu Hirano [4]

He Zhuojia 4:2 Mima Ito [3] (11:7, 11:6, 11:3, 6:11, 10:12, 12:10)
Yang Haeun vs Liu Shiwen [2]


Men's Doubles

Quarter-finals:

[1] Jeoung Youngsik/Lee Sangsu 3:0 Achanta Sharath Kamal/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (11:7, 16:14, 11:4)
[7] Liao Cheng-Ting/Lin Yun-Ju 3:1 Patrick Franziska/Ricardo Walther [3] (11:13, 11:8, 11:8, 11:9)

[6] Jang Woojin/Lim Jonghoon 3:1 Koki Niwa/Jin Ueda [4] (13:15, 11:3, 11:9, 11:6)
[2] Masataka Morizono/Yuya Oshima 3:0 Chen Chien-An/Chuang Chih-Yuan [5] (11:8, 12:10, 11:5)

Semi-finals:

[1] Jeoung Youngsik/Lee Sangsu 3:1 Liao Cheng-Ting/Lin Yun-Ju [7] (11:9, 11:6, 6:11, 12:10)
[2] Masataka Morizono/Yuya Oshima 3:2 Jang Woojin/Lim Jonghoon [6] (6:11, 11:8, 11:9, 10:12, 12:10)


Women's Doubles

Quarter-finals:

[1] Hina Hayata/Mima Ito 3:1 Miu Hirano/Miyu Nagasaki [5] (9:11, 11:7, 11:3, 11:9)
[3] Jeon Jihee/Yang Haeun 3:1 Gu Yuting/Li Jiayi (12:10, 9:11, 11:3, 11:5)

Lin Ye/Zeng Jian 3:0 Manika Batra/Mouma Das [4] (11:7, 11:6, 12:10)
[2] Honoka Hashimoto/Hitomi Sato 3:0 Chen Hsien-Tzu/Liu Hsing-Yin [6] (11:5, 11:2, 11:6)

Semi-finals:

[1] Hina Hayata/Mima Ito 3:2 Jeon Jihee/Yang Haeun [3] (11:9, 10:12, 8:11, 13:11, 11:8)
[2] Honoka Hashimoto/Hitomi Sato 3:0 Lin Ye/Zeng Jian (11:6, 11:9, 11:7)


Mixed Doubles

Semi-finals:

[1] Lee Sangsu/Jeon Jihee 3:0 Chen Chien-An/Cheng I-Ching [3] (13:11, 11:9, 11:9)
[4] Lim Jonghoon/Yang Haeun 3:1 Maharu Yoshimura/Kasumi Ishikawa [2] (11:7, 11:9, 11:13, 11:6)
 
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There are 14,000 watching the Canterbury Bulldogs play Wests Tigers; 21,000 turned up to watch the North Queensland Cowboys play the Newcastle Knights; 29,000 watching Essendon play the Sydney Swans.

In Geelong watching the table tennis: 147. Break down: Officials 27, camera crew and technicians 63, players with nothing else to do in Geelong 26, vendors with no one to sell stuff to 11, wives/husbands and girlfriends/boyfriends 13, spectators 7. However the 7 does include 2 homeless guys who've come in to get out of the cold. And a dog.

It's the usual Australian table tennis crowd.

I gave you an upvote for the cynism level of your post, but actually this sounds a bit saddening. And sorry to say, but i can´t see any reason of having a platinum event when there is nearly no one who wants to see it.
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In that case tickets should be for free. Are they?
 
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Outstanding ... you're doing a great job Geelong, you know that! : )
Keep us updated, will you? Is the dog by himself or came with somebody?
; )

Harimoto - Zhou You and possibly Xu Xin (of course if he beats Franziska) ... nice.

PS. tt is a very social sport, so maybe it will help those homeless guys with their problems.
The dog left halfway through the Xu Xin match. Apparently not happy with the standard of play. The two homeless guys are staying. It seems they've struck a deal with one of the concession stand owners: all you can eat Four'NTwenty pies in return for promos on 3AW. (I don't expect that will make much sense to you, but then it doesn't make much sense to us either.)

The biggest concern we have going at the moment is that our Federal Minister for Home Affairs has got wind of a whole load of non-English speaking foreigners playing a non-true-blue, dinkum Aussie sport have arrived in an opposition-held electorate and is apparently considering instigating deportation procedures forthwith. He's a little sensitive given the number of overseas athletes who overstayed their visas after the Commonwealth Games back in April. Embarrassing that he still can't find the little blighters.

The organisers are going okay. Now that the qualifications are over, they've been able to move some of the hurricane lamps from the outer tables to courts 1 and 2. They've also hooked up a couple of our Olympic track cyclists to some big dynamos and the internet may pick up a little as a result. They had been hoping to have Richie Porte available after he crashed out of the Tour, but his team wouldn't release him. All in all (apart from the incident with the drop bear) we're pretty happy with how things are going.

Edit: Just saw the question about ticket prices. My ticket to the final is costing me less than US $24. It's not the ticket prices. It's all about hosting an event like this in a non-TT country. The only way you'd get an Australian crowd to this is if there was the possibility of a fatality. (Which is why the drop bear idea was genius. If only it hadn't turned on its handlers...)
 
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Results from Day 4 (Fri 27 July 2018):

Men's Singles

Round of 32:

Yu Ziyang 4:3 Dimitrij Ovtcharov [1] (11:7, 11:7, 6:11, 13:11, 15:17, 6:11, 11:3)
Maharu Yoshimura 4:2 Chuang Chih-Yuan [10] (11:6, 6:11, 8:11, 11:7, 11:4, 11:9)
Lin Yun-Ju 4:0 David Powell, AUS [16] (11:1, 11:3, 11:6, 11:1)
Liu Dingshuo 4:3 Jun Mizutani [8] (11:4, 12:10, 11:9, 6:11, 8:11, 5:11, 11:9)

Yuya Oshima 4:3 Hugo Calderano [6] (11:5, 11:7, 6:11, 5:11, 12:10, 8:11, 11:7)
[11] Quadri Aruna 4:2 Ricardo Walther (6:11, 10:12, 11:8, 11:7, 11:7, 12:10)
[12] Lim Jonghoon 4:2 Alvaro Robles (4:11, 8:11, 11:2, 11:9, 11:5, 11:6)
Jeoung Youngsik 4:0 Lee Sangsu [3] (12:10, 11:3, 11:8, 11:8)

Zhou Yu 4:2 Koki Niwa [4] (11:7, 11:9, 8:11, 5:11, 11:5, 11:9)
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran 4:3 Masaki Yoshida [15] (11:8, 7:11, 11:9, 7:11, 5:11, 11:6, 11:8)
Yuki Hirano 4:3 Kenta Matsudaira [9] (12:14, 12:10, 11:9, 9:11, 3:11, 11:8, 12:10)
[5] Tomokazu Harimoto 4:3 Chen Chien-An (9:11, 9:11, 11:7, 11:6, 11:13, 12:10, 11:9)

Achanta Sharath Kamal 4:2 Simon Gauzy [7] (6:11, 11:7, 11:7, 11:8, 7:11, 11:4)
[14] Patrick Franziska 4:1 Kim Donghyun (11:6, 11:9, 8:11, 11:8, 11:2)
[13] Jin Ueda 4:0 Masataka Morizono (13:11, 11:9, 11:9, 11:3)
[2] Xu Xin 4:2 Taimu Arinobu (11:8, 10:12, 11:8, 9:11, 11:7, 11:6)

Round of 16:

Yu Ziyang 4:2 Maharu Yoshimura (11:8, 9:11, 11:6, 5:11, 11:7, 11:7)
Liu Dingshuo 4:2 Lin Yun-Ju (8:11, 9:11, 11:8, 11:9, 11:8, 11:6)
Yuya Oshima 4:0 Quadri Aruna [11] (12:10, 11:9, 11:8, 11:4)
Jeoung Youngsik 4:0 Lim Jonghoon [12] (11:3, 11:7, 11:6, 12:10)

Zhou Yu 4:0 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (11:3, 14:12, 12:10, 11:5)
[5] Tomokazu Harimoto 4:1 Yuki Hirano (11:8, 11:3, 6:11, 11:5, 11:4)
[14] Patrick Franziska 4:3 Achanta Sharath Kamal (12:14, 9:11, 11:9, 11:3, 7:11, 11:7, 11:8)
[2] Xu Xin 4:2 Jin Ueda [13] (7:11, 11:8, 11:3, 7:11, 11:8, 11:1)


Women's Singles

Round of 16:

[1] Kasumi Ishikawa 4:1 Saki Shibata [13] (11:9, 11:13, 11:4, 11:7, 11:8)
[8] Hitomi Sato 4:2 Jeon Jihee [15] (9:11, 6:11, 11:7, 11:7, 11:9, 11:7)
[7] Ding Ning 4:0 Suh Hyowon [9] (11:3, 11:8, 11:7, 12:10)
[4] Miu Hirano 4:1 Yu Mengyu (11:4, 11:8, 11:2, 9:11, 16:14)

[3] Mima Ito 4:3 Zeng Jian (11:9, 11:5, 7:11, 9:11, 11:2, 2:11, 11:7)
He Zhuojia 4:0 Feng Tianwei [6] (11:7, 11:6, 11:7, 13:11)
Yang Haeun 4:2 Suthasini Sawettabut (6:11, 11:6, 11:7, 11:9, 6:11, 11:4)
[2] Liu Shiwen 4:2 Gu Yuting [11] (11:9, 11:5, 11:7, 12:14, 9:11, 11:3)

Quarter-finals:

[1] Kasumi Ishikawa 4:1 Hitomi Sato [8] (11:4, 11:6, 11:8, 8:11, 11:6)
[7] Ding Ning vs Miu Hirano [4]

He Zhuojia 4:2 Mima Ito [3] (11:7, 11:6, 11:3, 6:11, 10:12, 12:10)
Yang Haeun vs Liu Shiwen [2]


Men's Doubles

Quarter-finals:

[1] Jeoung Youngsik/Lee Sangsu 3:0 Achanta Sharath Kamal/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (11:7, 16:14, 11:4)
[7] Liao Cheng-Ting/Lin Yun-Ju 3:1 Patrick Franziska/Ricardo Walther [3] (11:13, 11:8, 11:8, 11:9)

[6] Jang Woojin/Lim Jonghoon 3:1 Koki Niwa/Jin Ueda [4] (13:15, 11:3, 11:9, 11:6)
[2] Masataka Morizono/Yuya Oshima 3:0 Chen Chien-An/Chuang Chih-Yuan [5] (11:8, 12:10, 11:5)

Semi-finals:

[1] Jeoung Youngsik/Lee Sangsu 3:1 Liao Cheng-Ting/Lin Yun-Ju [7] (11:9, 11:6, 6:11, 12:10)
[2] Masataka Morizono/Yuya Oshima 3:2 Jang Woojin/Lim Jonghoon [6] (6:11, 11:8, 11:9, 10:12, 12:10)


Women's Doubles

Quarter-finals:

[1] Hina Hayata/Mima Ito 3:1 Miu Hirano/Miyu Nagasaki [5] (9:11, 11:7, 11:3, 11:9)
[3] Jeon Jihee/Yang Haeun 3:1 Gu Yuting/Li Jiayi (12:10, 9:11, 11:3, 11:5)

Lin Ye/Zeng Jian 3:0 Manika Batra/Mouma Das [4] (11:7, 11:6, 12:10)
[2] Honoka Hashimoto/Hitomi Sato 3:0 Chen Hsien-Tzu/Liu Hsing-Yin [6] (11:5, 11:2, 11:6)

Semi-finals:

[1] Hina Hayata/Mima Ito 3:2 Jeon Jihee/Yang Haeun [3] (11:9, 10:12, 8:11, 13:11, 11:8)
[2] Honoka Hashimoto/Hitomi Sato 3:0 Lin Ye/Zeng Jian (11:6, 11:9, 11:7)



These results you post are so helpful. We thank you sir
 
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I'm afraid it's not a matter of ticket prices Suga D ...

Maybe it should be organized next to the Australian Open, so we could borrow some crowd ... ; )

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I´m afraid you are most likely absolutely right.
Well, whatever helps shall help.
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The dog left halfway through the Xu Xin match. Apparently not happy with the standard of play. The two homeless guys are staying. It seems they've struck a deal with one of the concession stand owners: all you can eat Four'NTwenty pies in return for promos on 3AW. (I don't expect that will make much sense to you, but then it doesn't make much sense to us either.)

The biggest concern we have going at the moment is that our Federal Minister for Home Affairs has got wind of a whole load of non-English speaking foreigners playing a non-true-blue, dinkum Aussie sport have arrived in an opposition-held electorate and is apparently considering instigating deportation procedures forthwith. He's a little sensitive given the number of overseas athletes who overstayed their visas after the Commonwealth Games back in April. Embarrassing that he still can't find the little blighters.

The organisers are going okay. Now that the qualifications are over, they've been able to move some of the hurricane lamps from the outer tables to courts 1 and 2. They've also hooked up a couple of our Olympic track cyclists to some big dynamos and the internet may pick up a little as a result. They had been hoping to have Richie Porte available after he crashed out of the Tour, but his team wouldn't release him. All in all (apart from the incident with the drop bear) we're pretty happy with how things are going.

Edit: Just saw the question about ticket prices. My ticket to the final is costing me less than US $24. It's not the ticket prices. It's all about hosting an event like this in a non-TT country. The only way you'd get an Australian crowd to this is if there was the possibility of a fatality. (Which is why the drop bear idea was genius. If only it hadn't turned on its handlers...)

Bwwwaaaaahahahaaaaaa
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Strangely while reading this I instantly was reading this with a very well known voice.
Ozzy Man (Reviews) is this you posting here?
My belly starts hurting. This made me laugh a lot....

On a more serious note: i probably would have joined the dog.
 
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“Speculators 7”..,,,,

The guy is hilarious. I’d recommend boi to be TTD ‘s chief Australia correspondent:)
And if he manages to double the number of speculators next year, he’s up for promotion;)

There are 14,000 watching the Canterbury Bulldogs play Wests Tigers; 21,000 turned up to watch the North Queensland Cowboys play the Newcastle Knights; 29,000 watching Essendon play the Sydney Swans.

In Geelong watching the table tennis: 147. Break down: Officials 27, camera crew and technicians 63, players with nothing else to do in Geelong 26, vendors with no one to sell stuff to 11, wives/husbands and girlfriends/boyfriends 13, spectators 7. However the 7 does include 2 homeless guys who've come in to get out of the cold. And a dog.

It's the usual Australian table tennis crowd.
 
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