Road to Tokyo 2020: Chinese TT Team

Originally Posted by Janard

She has an elbow/forearm injury that keeps flaring up after months of non-invasive treatment, since the commencement of German Open. Unsure if the success of those treatments were partially marred by her (or coaches') insistence to continue training, hence those "clips" that you have seen. Rumour has it that she's been back at Guangdong for about a week or two now, presumably to seek further treatment or break away from training to speed up the healing process. Nevertheless, the players will all return to their own provincial teams soon and regroup in July.

Let's hope a year is good time to recover and gets some form in. LSW along with XX just prove to be perfect pairing in XD. Interesting to see how this plays out.

Originally Posted by zeio

http://www.olympic.cn/news/olympic/2...16/333636.html

JTTA: Our predictions were spot on – DN, LSW & CM.



But this trio was probably who they had intended to send if the Olympics was indeed held this year. Not sure about 2021... Also, ZYL would have broken the tradition of being the first (?) reserve player from the previous iteration to not make it to the next as a confirmed player.

Originally Posted by Janard

JTTA: Our predictions were spot on – DN, LSW & CM.



But this trio was probably who they had intended to send if the Olympics was indeed held this year. Not sure about 2021... Also, ZYL would have broken the tradition of being the first (?) reserve player from the previous iteration to not make it to the next as a confirmed player.

Do you think LSW will be ready to go by Tokyo 2021?

Sponsors right now jumping off, good chance might not happen

CNT will be hosting a tournament simulating Olympic Games TT Tokyo 2020. The event will start on August 8 and be televised on CCTV 5. CNT members will form teams representing various countries and match times, draws, rhythms all follow exactly what the Games would dictate. Can’t wait!

Originally Posted by Free bird

CNT will be hosting a tournament simulating Olympic Games TT Tokyo 2020. The event will start on August 8 and be televised on CCTV 5. CNT members will form teams representing various countries and match times, draws, rhythms all follow exactly what the Games would dictate. Can’t wait!

Sounds good but not the same. Be nice see CNT playing again though

Lol who is gonna represent 'China' in this mock Olympics.

Originally Posted by MaLin2.0

Sounds good but not the same. Be nice see CNT playing again though

This is a highly anticipated and much hyped event considering the lack of activities as of late. Every CNT member will participate including LSW.

Originally Posted by Janard

Lol who is gonna represent 'China' in this mock Olympics.

I have little doubt that ML/FZD/XX, the de facto team, will be tested and battle all other teams. LJK/LGY/WCQ should be a very formidable challenger. Not so sure about women’s team. LSW/CM/DN against SYS/WMY/ZYL would be fun to watch

Details, except for the team compositions, about CNT's mock Olympic Games are out. Some key points as below.

Period: 8 August to 21 August 2020 (CCTV5 will be live-streaming the entire event)
Events to be Played: MS, WS, XD, MT, WT*

*Seedings will be based on ITTF April 2020's WR

Schedule

8 August – Preliminary Matches, XD Round of 16
9 August – XD Quarter-Finals, Preliminary Matches, XD Semi-Finals
10 August – Preliminary Matches, MS & WS Round of 32, XD Finals
11 August – MS & WS Round of 16
12 August – MS & WS Quarter-Finals
13 August – MS & WS Semi-Finals, WS Finals
14 August – MS Finals
16 August – MT & WT Round of 16
17 August – MT & WT Round of 16, MT & WT Quarter-Finals
18 August – MT & WT Quarter-Finals, WT Semi-Finals
19 August – MT & WT Semi-Finals
20 August – WT Finals
21 August – MT Finals

LSW will not participate as she is in the recovery phase. She had finally gone for an invasive surgery one month ago. DN has requested to sit out so that she can better spend the time regaining her form and improving her physique.

The CNT has also invited a couple of retired/retiring players back. On the men's side, there are Hou Yingchao and Zhang Chao (some young dude has also been asked to play) while Mu Zi, Wu Yang and Hu Limei will complete the list of participants on the women's side.


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Will Zhang Jike play in this event?

Originally Posted by Janard

Details, except for the team compositions, about CNT's mock Olympic Games are out. Some key points as below.

Period: 8 August to 21 August 2020 (CCTV5 will be live-streaming the entire event)
Events to be Played: MS, WS, XD, MT, WT*

*Seedings will be based on ITTF April 2020's WR

Schedule

8 August – Preliminary Matches, XD Round of 16
9 August – XD Quarter-Finals, Preliminary Matches, XD Semi-Finals
10 August – Preliminary Matches, MS & WS Round of 32, XD Finals
11 August – MS & WS Round of 16
12 August – MS & WS Quarter-Finals
13 August – MS & WS Semi-Finals, WS Finals
14 August – MS Finals
16 August – MT & WT Round of 16
17 August – MT & WT Round of 16, MT & WT Quarter-Finals
18 August – MT & WT Quarter-Finals, WT Semi-Finals
19 August – MT & WT Semi-Finals
20 August – WT Finals
21 August – MT Finals

LSW will not participate as she is in the recovery phase. She had finally gone for an invasive surgery one month ago. DN has requested to sit out so that she can better spend the time regaining her form and improving her physique.

The CNT has also invited a couple of retired/retiring players back. On the men's side, there are Hou Yingchao and Zhang Chao (some young dude has also been asked to play) while Mu Zi, Wu Yang and Hu Limei will complete the list of participants on the women's side.


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Looks amazing.
Team China doing one, appears Japanese team holding similar event, cam imagine other countries doing one, some maybe not as high profile but something I guess keep spirits and momentum up.

Wonder what means for LSW and DN? Hopefully time off does both plenty of good on regaining fitness and form.

So seems there’ll be 16 teams for men and 16 teams for women. It may make sense each of the top 16 players will lead a team.

Originally Posted by TTLOVE

Will Zhang Jike play in this event?

I’d say it’s very likely.

Originally Posted by zeio

Great minds think alike?

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It's like the CNT has accepted that will be China vs Japan final in both Men & Ladie's teams event.

For that to happen they must believe in singles big threat from outside is Mima and Harimoto as they have (Kasumi and Hirano plus Niwa and Mizutani) covered.

LSW big gamble if injury is still a concern, SYS good replacement as has proven can play XD with XX win a title together and singles has a good record against Mima.