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Shoo...nothing to see here. - zeio
As others have pointed out, CNT players almost always reach the later rounds and thus have more on-court time than the rest (like how they showed it on-screen for WTTC 2023), so you need to factor in both number of events and number of matches/games played to see the whole picture. If one wants to get anal about it, then the difficulty of match-ups must be taken into account as well but then there'd be no end to it.imo both point system has their own pros and cons.
the problem is 20+ events a year.
i feel 15 should be the cap, for players health.
mind you, CNT played the less and the head coach is saying they are tired...
just imagine those playing (and traveling) way more, some of it is near double of that of CNT players
As can be seen below for the top 16, despite playing 5 events less, SYS still played more matches than Harimoto did. Even though CIC played more events, she still only played roughly the same number of matches as most CNT players. Same for Polcanova and Szocs. Ito has played the least number of matches as a non-CNT player but has bitched about it the most. Diaz has played just 1 more match than Ito. Only SYB can claim that she has played double the amount of CNT players.
https://www.ittf.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024_44_SEN_WS.html
International events and matches played and last played in 2024 as of this writing:
SYS - 13 events, WT of ATTC 2024
9+4+9+8+5+6+10+1+5+14+5+10+7=93 matches
WMY - 12 events, China Smash 2024
9+4+3+10+5+6+6+2+5+8+4+7=69 matches
WYD - 12 events, WTT CS Montpellier 2024
3+6+6+4+3+7+12+4+5+9+10+2=71 matches
CM - 9 events, Paris 2024
8+8+9+4+5+10+2+4+10=60 matches
Hayata - 14 events, WS of ATTC 2024 (but it was W/O, so Paris 2024)
5+9+4+3+4+8+9+9+3+9+3+4+11+1=82 matches
Harimoto - 18 events, WTT CS Montpellier 2024
3+6+4+2+5+5+3+7+3+4+5+3+6+2+4+5+19+5=91 matches
CXT - 12 events, WTT CS Montpellier 2024
7+2+5+3+5+10+3+2+3+9+10+2=61 matches
Ito - 14 events, WTT CS Montpellier 2024
2+4+2+2+4+3+1+2+2+5+2+4+8+3=44 matches
CIC - 16 events, WTT CS Montpellier 2024
3+3+8+8+6+2+4+4+1+3+2+3+6+3+7+4=67 matches
SYB - 17 events, WTT CS Montpellier 2024
5+12+12+5+10+1+3+7+7+3+5+8+7+10+14+15+3=127 matches
Odo - 10 events, WTT CS Montpellier 2024
15+6+5+10+9+8+5+8+12+5=83 matches
Hirano - 14 events, WTT CS Montpellier 2024
8+4+1+4+4+4+2+6+3+11+1+2+5+2=57 matches
Polcanova - 12 events, ETTC 2024
6+4+9+8+3+3+6+1+1+4+4+16=65 matches
QTY - 7 events, WTT CS Montpellier 2024
9+4+4+4+4+9+4=38 matches
Diaz - 16 events, WTT CS Montpellier 2024
2+8+2+2+4+1+1+2+3+3+1+3+2+4+5+2=45 matches
Szocs - 15 events, WTT CS Montpellier 2024
7+3+8+5+3+3+4+4+1+4+7+1+4+13+2=69 matches