Japan Women's Race to Tokyo 2020 Singles

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Ishikawa wearing a wristband, some kind of reminder? Can't remember ever seeing that.
 
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Hirano falls at 11525 ...
It is not clear who will be in the November ranking at 9 - 10 places ....Certainly F.T. will rise higher ....We will wait a bit ... How will C.I.C. play .....
 
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Hirano couldn't handle the pressure. Lily Zhang played fantastic, really quick on her feet, covering the whole table and she beated Hirano at her own game, she got the upper hand in the BH rallies. Her solid FH flick got her the extra points to make the difference, while in the few lobbing rallies Hirano showed her blatant lack of FH power, Lily won all of them.

OTOH Hirano seemed as usual not to have a plan B or C and she totally collapsed mentally... 5-11 in the 6th and 7th. G7 was 1-5 -> 4-5 -> 4-11 ... a total disaster

looks like Ishikawa will take the spot, i think with this match its a done deal. Given how Hirano's level (far from her 2017 form), despite her track record against the Chinese, I think its the best chance for Japan, perhaps not for Gold, but for Bronze if she has a good draw.
 
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Hirano has arguably the easiest quarter. Will see what she says.
 
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Big blow to Hirano.

Hirano
R16 = 10295 pts

Ishikawa
QF = 10230 pts
4th = 10485 pts
3rd = 10615 pts

Yes ... Estimated (possibly erroneous!):

HIRANO Miu
1785/wwc-2018 - 1020/wwc-2019 = (-765 ) ( no reserv/900 , 1020 ! )
12140-765 = 11375...:(
 
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Looking strictly at the track records throughout 2019, Hayata deserves the place Ishikawa and Hirano are in right now. It's hard to imagine a player of this caliber still has to travel across the globe to compete in the Challenge series.
 
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Looking strictly at the track records throughout 2019, Hayata deserves the place Ishikawa and Hirano are in right now. It's hard to imagine a player of this caliber still has to travel across the globe to compete in the Challenge series.

Quite rightly ... I don’t understand why JTTA doesn’t send it to WWC or TWC at least ...It cannot be that the rules do not take into account possible substitutions of players .... These points would have helped Hayata now ...
 
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Hayata has improved this year a lot and her victory in Portugal Open stands out but since that one even though she did have good encounters against CNT members she has not many more victories than Ishikawa if IIRC.
But potential-wise she seems above Hirano already and about to edge Ishikawa. I’d say she is not as consistent as Ishikawa just yet.
 
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World ranking. They follow the ITTF rules to a T.

Ishikawa and Hirano were invited as the highest ranked(5th and 6th) for the AC and WWC in 2017.

They were invited as the highest ranked and ATTC Champion for AC and WWC in 2018 and 2019.

This is despite Ito and Hayata actually played better in 2019.
 
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The CNT used to decline invitations all the time until the LGL incident in 2017.

Ito and Hayata have beaten 8 and 6 CNT players this year. Hayata is even more consistent than Ito in terms of game score. Took at least 2 games in all the matches she lost and even led in some of the matches.

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The CNT used to decline invitations all the time until the LGL incident in 2017.

For AC 2016, XX(AC 2015 winner) and ZJK(WR5) and LSW(WR1) and LXX(WR5) were sent by China but ML(WR1) and DN(WR2) were actually invited by their ranking in Jan, 2016. It's in the rules. China made use of that to raise the rankings of ZJK and LXX for Rio 2016.

http://attu.org/storage/event_section/PEyhMzUXM0zuTqw3RIT1XlKe55iHUNBKMNSPA938.pdf
15. SUBSTITUTIONS
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- A ranked player may be replaced, on recommendation from the Association, by the next highest eligible ranked players from the same association who were ranked above the last reserved player on the list in ITTF world ranking issue Jan.2016.
- If an association wants to replace a certain invited player or to confirm invited player to participate, ATTU secretariat must receive player nomination or confirmation from association by the deadline of Feb. 4th, 2016, otherwise, player quota will be transferred to reserved player or wild card player.

By the same token, Japan could theoretically make use of that to replace Hirano with Ito in 2018 and 2019, and Ishikawa with Hayata in 2019.
 
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