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My gut feel is Ishikawa and Ito will be playing in the Olympics, although Hirano is currently ahead of Kasumi.
JTTA Oct 4 2019
Hina Hayata is back on the National Team, Shibata is now relegated to the Reserves.
Hayata hasn't been on the National Team for most of 2019 because of drop in WR, JTTA just put her back on Oct4.uh ? on jtta site http://www.jtta.or.jp/player/tabid/230/Default.aspx,
i can see that Hayata was #5 on JNT list in 2018, now she is still in the list in 2019 but as #6.
It makes little sense that Hayata was on the list last year but didn't participate in any of the big competitions, what is this list for ?
i stick to my conspiracy theory that she got some form of "punishment" for something which is not being disclosed to the public.
then good news indeed for Hayata !
So far, the biggest problem for Hayata (and for Ito, by the way!) Is the inevitable drop in the ITTF rating in December ...
Why drop?
Very happy for Mima Ito, but I gotta say, I've never seen Miu Hirano cover the table so well like this. So hard to get her out of position now.
Hayata relative to Shibata +320pt Oct
-1125, -900....-900, -900
In Nov Hayata should still be 95 pts ahead of Shibata.