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At 13 years old Kuo Guan-Hong is Taiwan's youngest player to make the mens senior national team (at 13 years and 2 month old), beating the 14 years old set by Lin Yun-Ju and Chiang Hung-Chieh.
Kuo is currently U15, U17, U19 and Senior mens team member.
Here is a video of him today at U17 trials finals, beating no 2 U17 national player.
Kuo is wearing blue
Here is a match from a year ago (12 year old then) during mens trials against seasoned pro Chen Chien-An
Getting into Taiwan's men senior team is not an easy process, not just because of Taiwan's high level, but its knock out trials format.
you need to win 8 matches in a row to get in.
It is a KO format, from Round of 256, and basically every round you could be facing a senior team member or former senior team member.
A bad run/form, you out for the day.
then next spot KO, you start from R256 and need to win 8 matches again. Its up to 6 rounds of the same over 4 days.
Its physically and mentally draining and for a 13 year old kid to do it by round 3 (or 20 odd matches inside 2 days) is not bad.
He currently isn't playing much WTT, so world ranking is extremely under rated
Kuo is currently U15, U17, U19 and Senior mens team member.
Here is a video of him today at U17 trials finals, beating no 2 U17 national player.
Here is a match from a year ago (12 year old then) during mens trials against seasoned pro Chen Chien-An
Getting into Taiwan's men senior team is not an easy process, not just because of Taiwan's high level, but its knock out trials format.
you need to win 8 matches in a row to get in.
It is a KO format, from Round of 256, and basically every round you could be facing a senior team member or former senior team member.
A bad run/form, you out for the day.
then next spot KO, you start from R256 and need to win 8 matches again. Its up to 6 rounds of the same over 4 days.
Its physically and mentally draining and for a 13 year old kid to do it by round 3 (or 20 odd matches inside 2 days) is not bad.
He currently isn't playing much WTT, so world ranking is extremely under rated
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