Japan Open 2017

[Tiktian Chan]

China's up and coming women's players are doing quite well, only Chen XingTong and Yuan XieJiao out so far, and they've knocked out Doo HoiKem, Li Jie, Kasumi Ishikawa, and Feng TianWei. Albeit they have fielded quite a large group.

 

[ajtatosmano2]

UEDA Jin upsets CHUANG Chih-Yuan 4-2. well not really a surprise, UEDA is one of the most under-rated players in Japan. He doesn't go out much, but he won many tournaments in Japan against all the best players, including MIZUTANI (for example top12 this year, he also had a very good fight in the national championships if my memory is correct).

UEDA's serve and receive game is very good. He also won a Challenger ITTF this year. I wonder how he will perform against the Chinese

He beat Wang Chuqin, who might not be the CNT's best, but still a very talented player, who is capable beating any of the top 10 players in good form.

 

[Cornel]

What a start to the match between Lim Jonghoon and Fang Bo!

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

ITO leading 3-2 against CHEN Ke !!! she's playing well, sticking with her unusual style. Her misses are sometimes very odd. CHEN is making a lot of errors due to ITO's style. The Chinese girl looks nervous

Good chance for ITO to win now.

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

Mima needed full sets, but she's got her nice win against CHEN Ke. A bit of luck at the end 8-6 with a superb net ball rolling with side spin...

 

[Sali]

also laola does not work

 

[NextLevel]

Wow, at 3-1 8-7, Kenta enters a time machine and starts playing like his 2013 version with amazing blocking!

 

[Xanderngzien]

Honestly fengtianwei is overrated. She doesnt deserve to be wr3.

And mind u im singaporean

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

The party was soon over for kenta

Didn't watch his match

 

[NextLevel]

Honestly fengtianwei is overrated. She doesnt deserve to be wr3.

And mind u im singaporean

Ranking is about participation and performance, not playing strength.

 

[NextLevel]

China got a new enemy today, his name is Kazuhiro Yoshimura. I was a bit disappointed he could not win u21 and I am sure they will neutralize him eventually. Will fun to see such players when Mizutani is acting like his Olympic bronze completed his career.

 

[Garrison]

Headline on ittf.com:

Senior citizens depart, younger generation upsets seeding

Boll was sick at ttbl finals, I think he is not so unhappy with having one or two extra days before China Open.

 

[TTFrenzy]

Check ITTF website. Japan Open no longer Platinum in 2018
http://www.ittf.com/2017-ittf-world-tour/events/__trashed-2/
Seamaster 2018 World Tour Platinum

• Qatar Open, Doha: 8-11 March
• German Open, Bremen: 23-25 March
• China Open, Shenzhen: 31 May – 3 June
• Korean Open, Incheon: 19-22 July
• Austrian Open, Linz: 4-7 October
• Australian Open, Gold Coast: 8-11 November

Seamaster 2018 World Tour

• Hungarian Open, Budapest: 18-21 January
• Hong Kong Open, Hong Kong: 24-27 May
• Japan Open, Fukuoka: 7-10 June
• Bulgaria Open, Panagyurishte: 17-19 August
• Czech Open, Olomouc: 23-26 August
• Swedish Open, Stockholm: 1-4 November

Seamaster 2018 World Tour Grand Finals

• World Tour Grand Finals

Prestige and difficutly of a tournament has nothing to do with what ITTF announces, these tours are funded by sponsors and have certain criteria according to previous "top player" attendance, number of spectators etc etc

Players define a tournament (at least for me), austria open slovenia open and danish/english open were always of low attendance and viewership untill, ma lin, wang liqin, zjk ma long XX started attending for 2-3 years so imho that is what makes a tournament prestigious

A german open is not the same , as the grand finals, if most of the top 20 players dont attend and that happened several times in the past 10-15 years

 

[NextLevel]

Prestige and difficutly of a tournament has nothing to do with what ITTF announces, these tours are funded by sponsors and have certain criteria according to previous "top player" attendance, number of spectators etc etc

Players define a tournament (at least for me), austria open slovenia open and danish/english open were always of low attendance and viewership untill, ma lin, wang liqin, zjk ma long XX started attending for 2-3 years so imho that is what makes a tournament prestigious

A german open is not the same , as the grand finals, if most of the top 20 players dont attend and that happened several times in the past 10-15 years

Whatever the explanation, it makes absolutely no sense. It doesn't matter the explanation, everything I think of falls apart when considering Japan's current TT status and the 2020 Olympics.

 

[NextLevel]

For the doubles, they should have an automatic rule that when a country is to face itself in the Semis, they should end the semis and do a group of 4 round robin for the title, best of 3, all play all, games are to 15 with two serves rule. Automatic rule only applied to situations like Japan 2017 semis - I feel like I am being cheated out of at least 3 good matches with the current semis and finals.

 

[TableTennisDaily]

WOAH! Xu Xin pulls off this ridiculous behind the back shot

 

[Raylazyfo]

Just wondering, what happened to the ttd competition?

 

[TTFrenzy]

Whatever the explanation, it makes absolutely no sense. It doesn't matter the explanation, everything I think of falls apart when considering Japan's current TT status and the 2020 Olympics.

Actually, it never even crossed my mind when I was writing this post but ur absolutely right, tt grows slowly and ITTF should at least make serious efforts to promote even more in olympic host countries, japan open always has spectators and its somehow ridiculous to have 30 rich arabs watching the qatar open with top players and japan being in a lower tier in the world tours

 

[SFF_lib]

WOAH! Xu Xin pulls off this ridiculous behind the back shot

Incredible XX.
It's sad to see XX decline to the end of his career.

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[drunix80]

I could not believe it initially but LSS demolished LGY 4:0.