Japan Women's Race to Tokyo 2020 Singles

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While we are at it, we could have Hashimoto and Sato playing doubles and Hayata or Kato playing singles. Wouldn't China prefer that?

Well, that's the "hidden obstacle" of this selection system, to prevent something like that from happening. Ishikawa, Ito and Hirano started the year as the top 3 in Japan. These 3 have a huge advantage over the others because they have huge points from playing the WTTC 2018.

Your results from the previous year have a strong bearing on where you start, yet they state in the document that they'll look at results from the current year only. In this sense, the system is actually far from fair.

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World Ranking Top 50
1/2019
3 Ishikawa
7 Ito
9 Hirano
12 Sato
15 Shibata
23 Kato
26 Hashimoto
36 Nagasaki
38 Ando
43 Hayata

12/2019
4 Ito
10 Ishikawa
11 Hirano
17 Sato
23 Kato
24 Hayata
32 Shibata
46 Hashimoto
 
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(Hitomi Sato is a great defender ... perhaps the strongest in women's table tennis at the moment ....)
 
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Fairness is subjective, and we all have our own opinions of what's fair. I don't consider points from T2 to be fair... it's an exclusive tournament where points are added *on top of* a player's best 8. But other's may consider it fair. It's interesting to me from zeio's spreadsheet if you look at Best-8 (not including T2), Hayata (7520) is ahead of both Sato (7495) and Kato (6985). True, Hayata was not successful against Chinese opposition at the NA Open and clearly has work to do, but her record this year vs. CNT is the best among Japanese contenders for 2nd place. Now, this defense of Hayata does not take away from IK, HM, SH, or KM. They all have achievements worthy of praise.
 
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Fairness is subjective, and we all have our own opinions of what's fair. I don't consider points from T2 to be fair... it's an exclusive tournament where points are added *on top of* a player's best 8. But other's may consider it fair. It's interesting to me from zeio's spreadsheet if you look at Best-8 (not including T2), Hayata (7520) is ahead of both Sato (7495) and Kato (6985). True, Hayata was not successful against Chinese opposition at the NA Open and clearly has work to do, but her record this year vs. CNT is the best among Japanese contenders for 2nd place. Now, this defense of Hayata does not take away from IK, HM, SH, or KM. They all have achievements worthy of praise.

Had Kato missed out on the WTTC and T2, she would probably.have played the Challenger tour more and had more points.

Hayata is a good player no doubt, but it gets tiring hearing how she has it so hard and others have it so much easier. Hayata has a lot of growing up to do and she has her opportunities just like everyone else did. The national championship will be her chance to state her case again.
 
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I have to pay tribute to the NextLevel and Sali for the balanced characteristics of the players of the JWT ....:eek:
 
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Hayata Has a lot of place to improve. She have very good FH and BH, footwork is there and power as well.
That works great for fast players who play simple game. But when the opponent has more varieties she is having hard times.
For instance Kato is young but she has many gears and is very matured comparing to Hayata but her strokes skills are much weaker.
Maturity is very important when we go for big tournament like olympics. In my opinion hayata and Hirano are not matured yet.
 
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Hayata Has a lot of place to improve. She have very good FH and BH, footwork is there and power as well.
That works great for fast players who play simple game. But when the opponent has more varieties she is having hard times.
For instance Kato is young but she has many gears and is very matured comparing to Hayata but her strokes skills are much weaker.
Maturity is very important when we go for big tournament like olympics. In my opinion hayata and Hirano are not matured yet.
Bear in mind Hirano won the Asian Championship beating all china could throw at her. In fact her problem is that asian success caused china to analyse her game very thoroughly, and they have found some answers
 
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Hirano did not just lose to Chinese. Her recent lost to Lily Zhang in Women’s World Cup and to Jeon Jihee in T2 Singapore showed her inconsistence which costed her the Olympic single spot.

Bear in mind Hirano won the Asian Championship beating all china could throw at her. In fact her problem is that asian success caused china to analyse her game very thoroughly, and they have found some answers
 
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It cannot be said yet that Hirano lost the Olympic place ..... It will finally be clear after the Grand Final ....
And after the TOP-12, December 21-22, 2019 .....
 
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