WTT Contender Tunis 2024 6/25-6/30

[pongfugrasshopper]

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Two days of qualification which start tomorrow. Main draw starts Thursday. Tomo is top seed in MS. Sora Matsushima, Yoshimura, and Tanaka start off the race for highest world ranking to earn a spot for the Asian Championships later this year. Not sure how it happened, but Tanaka and Oikawa are in the qualifiers, but are ranked higher than a number of players in the Main draw.

[Edit: Looks like Hayata is now only signed up for Mixed Doubles] I guess Hina Hayata pulled out of this tournament to train in Paris as posted by Tempest/Comet in the JTTA thread as she was previously on the players list. This leaves Miwa Harimoto as top seed.

Also of note, this tournament is the beginning of a back to back with SC Bangkok.

 

[mikeytt]

a rare yukiya uda apperance, rooting for him to make it out of qualifying

 

[d3nium]

Both Lebrun brothers have withdrawn from Tunis & Felix has also withdrawn from Bangkok.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

since you can only withdraw once you entered by means of "injury"
this would be the pattern going forward, especially for contender and star contender.

the bests would have plenty of champion, smash etc, to get their points

SC and C will just become tier 2
while feeder is tier 3

 

[d3nium]

since you can only withdraw once you entered by means of "injury"
this would be the pattern going forward, especially for contender and star contender.

the bests would have plenty of champion, smash etc, to get their points

SC and C will just become tier 2
while feeder is tier 3

You called it in another thread Tony, gonna be plenty of "injuries"

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

You called it in another thread Tony, gonna be plenty of "injuries"

I really hope I am wrong, as this is not fair and very unnecessary

1) each country can only send x amount of players. So the star player that enters, is taking spots away from his/her country
2) then the stars can duct and dive when it suites them. Takes away the value of the event and other potential entrants.

some times it could be real injuries, but some how, this is going to be the trend with the 3 tier system.
It is impossible to expect stars to entertain a 3 to 6 tier 2 event in a year, while tier 1 is going to be around 10 events and ITTF events being another 3 to 5.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Makes complete sense for Hayata to skip this in favor of training for Paris. She is 1520 pts ahead of SYB so is in no danger of losing her #3 seed at the Olympics even with the zero point penalty. She will have a better chance at peaking for SC Bangkok.

Side note: Satsuki Odo got a wildcard into Contender Tunis as she was not originally scheduled to play here.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Updated the original post: Looks like Hayata is only signed up for Mixed Doubles. I guess this way she doesn't get a ZPP?

 

[zeio]

She will still get a ZPP for the late withdrawal from WS on the 3rd one. She should be fine for now.

 

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Lots of interesting matchups.

 

[NextLevel]

Truls finally in a winnable tournament. Anything less than a semi-final will be a massive choke job.

 

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[Tony's Table Tennis]

Truls finally in a winnable tournament. Anything less than a semi-final will be a massive choke job.

I think it is equally chance that he could loose and not reach SF
It is fair to say, of the 3 to "win" before SF, all 3 has threats

Simon and Sora's leg is probably easier (Sora the easiest)

 

[NextLevel]

I think it is equally chance that he could loose and not reach SF
It is fair to say, of the 3 to "win" before SF, all 3 has threats

Simon and Sora's leg is probably easier (Sora the easiest)

I don't really agree, at a certain point you need to beat players you are supposed to beat and none of his opponents have high risk games IMHO even if Shinozuka has seen better days.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

at a certain point you need to beat players you are supposed to beat

that is the case for anyone who needs to go to the top
I guess I just don't highly anticipate Truls in that range.
He / his style, isn't as dominating as "his status". In other words, he has been KO by a lot of players he should of beaten easily in the past 12 months.

 

[zeio]

Moregard has been losing left and right since 2023, even worse for the first half of 2024, that it's hard to imagine he is currently the highest-ranked player from Sweden.

 

[NextLevel]

that is the case for anyone who needs to go to the top
I guess I just don't highly anticipate Truls in that range.
He / his style, isn't as dominating as "his status". In other words, he has been KO by a lot of players he should of beaten easily in the past 12 months.

The players who beat him have identifiable pedigree, I don't agree that he has lost to a lot of players he should have beaten. He has lost yo a lot of dangerous floaters but while Shinozuka is a dangerous floater, I think Truls has a better chance in this draw than he had against people like Lebrun and Matsushima or Togami.