Sports is ultimately entertainment and to grow the sport, even when the points are meaningless, it is okay if the players are entertaining. This is what people need to accept if commercialization of the sport is important. All they had to do was plat respectably for one or two meaningless games. Is that really too much to ask?
You need to add history and further context to the lifes of these so called players.
Just a week or so ago, none of these players was paid by ITTF (owner of WTT) for almost 4 months.
You can’t blame players if they don’t have the entertainment view point as ITTF, since it doesn’t seem like an employee centric organization. New format / rules within weeks is not professional too.
If you get paid bad or late at the work place, or if you feel that your boss is treating you like guinea pigs (to test out new things at world cups), don’t expect staff moral to be high.
Maybe they should allow more voice by the players and get the players to buy in, for a change.
Not all players are from authoritarian backgrounds
I agree things looks terrible and fans should be pointing fingers at the organization for the mess, and not question the players.
It is a circus at the moment, the players got influenced negatively