Re-posting the speech by Robert at ITTF AGM 2019 for future reference as the one over at MyTT is gone.
2019 ITTF AGM: 22 April
https://youtu.be/VU1kC5qz5sc?t=4596
I am from Uganada. This is East Africa. If you asked me, do I want my players to come to the World Championship
[s
], I will say it is 20% yes, and it is 80% no for now. Why? The 20% is because I want them to be exposed, maybe it is their dream to play in the World Table Tennis Championships, and that's just 20%, but like we have said, the most important thing for us is to be able to generate more revenue, and on that point,
I don't want my players to come and play here, because they are not yet good enough, they are going to be beaten very badly, and then when I go and tell my government for more money to train my players, they are going to say no, you're not yet good enough, so that's a very big problem. If you cannot win down in your zones, in your continents, why do you want to go up? So there's a bit of an issue there that we have to look at.