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He is in an elite group of only a few non Chinese who have beat Ma Long on the world tour.
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liam is flying the flag that's for sure,, He now has Zhang Yudong who Paul Drinkhall lost to.
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No. Ruwen Filus was the only one but he was knocked out by Ricardo Walther.
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Czech Open Saturday R8
D Ovtcharov and Liam Pitchford
Two top backhands
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D Ovtcharov and Liam Pitchford
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Any predictions
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It’s crazy that Zheng Peifeng isn’t in the top 20. It shows how flawed the ranking system is. We need a global system like chess where every official game in any federation counts in the ranking system.
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Shoo...nothing to see here. - zeio
Better than expected run. It will become progressively harder from here on as people take notice of him. Training and coaching conditions will need an overhaul to keep up. Start with getting a personal coach, perhaps?
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You can build one or use Ratings Central. In sports like table tennis, such rankings discourage participation in tour events.
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The funny thing is due to the high amount pf prizes, tennis has exactly the opposite problem, where injured players participate in the tour events to get the base money, and call it quits within the first set. I think money can solve the participation problem quite easily. But getting investments are not quite easy for table tennis.
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Part of the problem, for TV viewing 2 cameras are needed at the start of every point, one on each side, then use 1, to enhance the real game. The present camera system is used for convenience and cost efficiency.
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Money can solve participation for the lower level players, but it doesn't for the top players who may cherry pick how often they play for personal reasons. It's part of the reason why the TT tour has participation requirements - money is important, but it isn't everything. See Roger Federer as an example, who is picking his events to protect his form. That's essentially what the CNT did under the old system. So did players like Boll.
Under the new system, we have seen Boll play much more often except when he is legitimately injured. Ultimately, I know others may not care, but I prefer this and find it more important than the focus on the rankings reflecting true playing strength.
I got accustomed to the new WR system. Initially I thought it was idiotic. But as soon as you accept it's not meant to faithfully reflect who's the best player, or who's the most likely to win the next WTTC, you should come to appreciate that
1) it has possibly made pro tours more interesting to the viewers;
2) it does reflect who had the most success in ITTF events over the past year (++, with grand slam events); let's get real, this is highly correlated with who's been the best over the past year.
You can only get so many unlucky draws, and if you're really among top players you should be able to get through on average. If you don't play it's your problem, not the world ranking's. Maybe the new system is particularly inadequate to judge player's strength beyond WR 100(?), or whenever the requirement to play many events and the randomness introduced by the draws start to kick in badly, but many of us don't care much about the world ranking beyond the top 20 or top 50 anyway.
The old system had flaws too, it was a bit too conservative, like many association's national rankings, and this is equally annoying.
1) it has possibly made pro tours more interesting to the viewers;
2) it does reflect who had the most success in ITTF events over the past year (++, with grand slam events); let's get real, this is highly correlated with who's been the best over the past year.
You can only get so many unlucky draws, and if you're really among top players you should be able to get through on average. If you don't play it's your problem, not the world ranking's. Maybe the new system is particularly inadequate to judge player's strength beyond WR 100(?), or whenever the requirement to play many events and the randomness introduced by the draws start to kick in badly, but many of us don't care much about the world ranking beyond the top 20 or top 50 anyway.
The old system had flaws too, it was a bit too conservative, like many association's national rankings, and this is equally annoying.
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Sponsors, under this system, may encourage players to participate at tour events thru travel expenses and entry fees being paid by them.
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