WTT Star Contender Doha 2024

[backspacer]

It's like they are playing in the basement for themselves having no public crowd in the hall to clap and cheer. Embarrassing show for a Star Contender.

 

[OvrChkn]

Watching the stream for Ma Long vs Lin Gaoyuan is like watching the scrambled channels on cable back in the day.

 

[zeio]

SYS 3-2 Hayata (13, -8, 7, -7, 9)

Last chance to earn 10 extra pts, get her first win and Hayata failed (once again). Gave up on the XD and still couldn't win. I've run out of excuses here.

Wins over top 3 CNT players b/w 2023/1/30-2024/1/21:
25 pts Hirano
R32 3-2 WYD, Singapore Smash 2023
F 4-3 SYS, WTT CT Zagreb 2023
15 pts Hayata
QF 4-3 WYD, WTTC 2023

 

[mikeytt]

It's like they are playing in the basement for themselves having no public crowd in the hall to clap and cheer. Embarrassing show for a Star Contender.

Just depressing… No soul at these events

 

[Robin0910]

Did FZD forfeit because of injury after winning the 4th set?
This video quality is so bad that you can’t know shit from it. When watching the matches I could only tell the points apart by listening to the players’ chos.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

SYS 3-2 Hayata (13, -8, 7, -7, 9)

Last chance to earn 10 extra pts, get her first win and Hayata failed (once again). Gave up on the XD and still couldn't win. I've run out of excuses here.

Wins over top 3 CNT players b/w 2023/1/30-2024/1/21:
25 pts Hirano
R32 3-2 WYD, Singapore Smash 2023
F 4-3 SYS, WTT CT Zagreb 2023
15 pts Hayata
QF 4-3 WYD, WTTC 2023

Wow. Miwa loses 0-3... must have been that time of the month. Hina comes closest she's ever come to beating SYS.... She failed once again.. no excuses. I'm convinced that even if Hayata had won, you would have conjured up some type of criticism against her. But that's fine... she's got a good head on her shoulders.

 

[Gtsnake]

Just depressing… No soul at these events

What are those women doing in the stands? Half of them are staring into their phones. I doubt they even know what table tennis is.

 

[turbozed]

SYS 3-2 Hayata (13, -8, 7, -7, 9)

Last chance to earn 10 extra pts, get her first win and Hayata failed (once again). Gave up on the XD and still couldn't win. I've run out of excuses here.

Wins over top 3 CNT players b/w 2023/1/30-2024/1/21:
25 pts Hirano
R32 3-2 WYD, Singapore Smash 2023
F 4-3 SYS, WTT CT Zagreb 2023
15 pts Hayata
QF 4-3 WYD, WTTC 2023

What are you talking about? It went to 11-9 in Game 5, and in that game SYS benefited from 2 net cord points. If those hit the net, Hayata is the winner.

I know that result is what matters on paper, but you're acting like she had 0 chance when it's clear the match could've gone either way.

 

[turbozed]

Watching the stream for Ma Long vs Lin Gaoyuan is like watching the scrambled channels on cable back in the day.

This has been happening all event, but today the scrambled video was a big part of literally every single QF match. This is completely absurd. Not only did they do nothing to fix the issue, but it's gotten even worse. I expect the finals to look entirely like the scrambled "Spice" channel 30 years ago.

 

[turbozed]

Oh btw, there's a FAKE WTT channel and live stream here: https://www.youtube.com/@WTT-LIVE/featured

Looks like they are trying to scam viewers saying that they will give away free crypto, but they will probably ask for your account info. Pretty obvious but don't get scammed!

 

[zeio]

FZD's latest interview with Olympics.com and WTT
http://mytabletennis.net/forum/foru...eam-chinas-race-to-paris-2024-singles#1147936

 

[Robin0910]

I can’t believe I’m saying this but I want the shadows and pixels back instead of this greenish blue mess

 

[Robin0910]

Thank God, at least the logo of the tournament is visible !

 

[sky500]

I'm wondering if Ma Long has problems playing left handed players. All latest loses or close games have been against left handed players.

 

[OvrChkn]

This has been happening all event, but today the scrambled video was a big part of literally every single QF match. This is completely absurd. Not only did they do nothing to fix the issue, but it's gotten even worse. I expect the finals to look entirely like the scrambled "Spice" channel 30 years ago.

I was watching Table 2 yesterday and it was scrambling, but not as bad as today. The next Contender event is in Doha and it's literally less than 2 days away. Hope it can get fixed soon.

 

[Choosikick]

Even yesterday I couldn’t look at it without pain and, on principle, I didn’t look at tables 2 and 3 so as not to get upset.

 

[SFF_lib]

I wasn't able to catch the Togami vs Liang Jingkun rematch but judging by the scoreline it seemed one sided for LJK, a shame for me as a togami fan.

Truls vs WCQ was interesting towards the end, truls doing truls things but wcq is just too strong right now

Togami was a bit lost, winning a total of 16 points out of 3 games. A bit disappointing.

 

[SFF_lib]

FZD forfeit the last game due to injuries, hence losing 2-3 to LSD. It's really unfortunate. Does anyone know the extent of his injuries?

 

[SFF_lib]

This event kicked start 2024 with a terrible reputation of WTT - poor video quality. Did they do that on purposely in hope that people might turn up in person? 🤣

And now we end up with all CNT semifinals in MS and WS 😓

 

[zeio]

What are you talking about? It went to 11-9 in Game 5, and in that game SYS benefited from 2 net cord points. If those hit the net, Hayata is the winner.

I know that result is what matters on paper, but you're acting like she had 0 chance when it's clear the match could've gone either way.

You talk like it hasn't happened before. Hayata lost 2-3 once in 2023 and the score for the final game was the same, with SYS getting 2 nets as well, but Hayata was up 3:0 at the start.

WTT SCT Ljubljana 2023 QF Hayata 2-3 SYS (7, -7, -6, 5, -9)

It's ridiculous to put it down to luck at this point. She has lost to SYS 11 times before this, 7 times in 2023 alone. Luck doesn't work that way. Even Hayata said she felt frustrated that she wasn't able to do it even though she should have been able to do so after 2-3 CM at WTT Finals Women Nagoya 2023.

To this day, Hayata has defeated only 2 (make that 3 if you want) core CNT players. Hirano has defeated 5 (DN, CM, ZYL, WYD and SYS), 2 of which for the first time in 2023 alone. Ito has defeated 7 (DN, LSW, ZYL, WMY, SYS, WYD and CXT), but 0 in this Olympic cycle. Even though Hirano has the lowest number of wins against any CNT players, she has been able to score 4 of those 5 first-ever wins against the core CNT players when it meant winning all the way (backup link 11/26/2023 at 1:10pm), something that even Ito couldn't manage. If not for Ito's WR advantage, the point gap between her and Hirano would've been much greater than 34.5 pts and the race would've been over for her.

外协00后 VS 国乒 女乒篇（截至2023.10.08）
https://www.douban.com/group/topic/267660684
Portugal Open 2019 R16 Hayata 4-2 LSW
WTTC 2023 QF Hayata 4-3 WYD
Asian Games 2022 SF Hayata 4-3 WYD

Once again, luck doesn't work that way.
https://youtu.be/LYr50MDGdvc?t=2215

Both SYS and Hirano had a few nets in G7 at WTT CT Zagreb 2023 and still Hirano won by a 5-point margin.
http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=91479&PID=1142944

Hirano had tons of nets and edges in G5 and still CM came out on top at Asian Games 2022.
http://mytabletennis.net/forum/foru...&title=asian-games-2022-2023-9-2310-8#1145017

Hayata had tons of nets and edges and still SYS won G4 at ATTC 2023.
http://mytabletennis.net/forum/foru...450&title=attc-2023-pyeongchang-9-310#1144450