WTT CONTENDER TAIYUAN 2025

[zeio]

I still can't believe that someone hasn't found money for Kenji Matsudaira to make him do the right thing. As unfair as China is to the individual players, they would have resolved this already.

Matsudaira took out CDS at ATTC 2024 to reach MS R32 and secured his WTTC spot. Suppose Matsushima had the same draw, could he have done it, given his H2H at that point was 0W4L?

What a world we live in. In the span of one night, practically everyone now holds this view that goes against Tony's "all other countries are all independent."

https://results.ittf.com/ittf-web-results/html/TTE2994/results.html#/knock-outs

Year	EventName	Stage	Sub-Event	Round	PlayerA	PlayerB	Games	Result	Winner
2024	WTTStarContender,Ljubljana(SLO)	MainDraw	MS	QuarterFinal	MATSUSHIMASora(JPN)	CHODaeseong(KOR)	13:118:114:114:11	1-3	CHODaeseong
2024	WTTContender,Taiyuan(CHN)	MainDraw	MS	R16	MATSUSHIMASora(JPN)	CHODaeseong(KOR)	13:1111:94:1110:128:11	2-3	CHODaeseong
2023	WTTContender,Taiyuan(CHN)	MainDraw	MS	R16	MATSUSHIMASora(JPN)	CHODaeseong(KOR)	5:1114:166:11	0-3	CHODaeseong
2019	ITTFWorldTourPlatinumJapanOpen,Sapporo(JPN)	Pre.Round	MS	128	MATSUSHIMASora(JPN)	CHODaeseong(KOR)	9:1112:1011:76:117:119:11	2-4	CHODaeseong

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Huge laces Honoka is a mythical table tennis great. Nobody can even take one game off her.

Now, where do I buy a Nippon Paint Mallets Hashimoto jersey?

It's gotta be the shoe[lace]s

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

The Champions

 

[NextLevel]

Matsudaira took out CDS at ATTC 2024 to reach MS R32 and secured his WTTC spot. Suppose Matsushima had the same draw, could he have done it, given his H2H at that point was 0W4L?

What a world we live in. In the span of one night, practically everyone now holds this view that goes against Tony's "all other countries are all independent."

https://results.ittf.com/ittf-web-results/html/TTE2994/results.html#/knock-outs

Year	EventName	Stage	Sub-Event	Round	PlayerA	PlayerB	Games	Result	Winner
2024	WTTStarContender,Ljubljana(SLO)	MainDraw	MS	QuarterFinal	MATSUSHIMASora(JPN)	CHODaeseong(KOR)	13:118:114:114:11	1-3	CHODaeseong
2024	WTTContender,Taiyuan(CHN)	MainDraw	MS	R16	MATSUSHIMASora(JPN)	CHODaeseong(KOR)	13:1111:94:1110:128:11	2-3	CHODaeseong
2023	WTTContender,Taiyuan(CHN)	MainDraw	MS	R16	MATSUSHIMASora(JPN)	CHODaeseong(KOR)	5:1114:166:11	0-3	CHODaeseong
2019	ITTFWorldTourPlatinumJapanOpen,Sapporo(JPN)	Pre.Round	MS	128	MATSUSHIMASora(JPN)	CHODaeseong(KOR)	9:1112:1011:76:117:119:11	2-4	CHODaeseong

The US was independent in chess in 1970. Pal Benko gave up his spot to Bobby Fischer in the candidates and the rest is history. You don't need a country to have a CNT structure for Kenji to do the right thing. And no doubt, Cho may have beaten Sora. That's besides the point unless you are saying spots belong to the players and not to the countries.