WTTC Finals 2022, Chengdu, 9/30-10/9

Will Nina finally make herself useful this match?

Congrats to GERHY, SXNNet, and Mittelham.

God : European women's players don't deserve standing ovations because they are old and rubbish.

Some idiots ridiculed the standard of European women's tennis not long ago. Sure they are not as good as china,  but they are still good enough to beat a team like Hkg.

kaitenNashi wrote: ABC toss only affects the first two matches which Hong Kong won so  The salt from Zeio is real

The ABC team always has an inherent advantage as the 1st singles playing in match 1 and match 4 gives them more flexibility in switching the 2nd and 3rd singles. They could avoid SWY from taking 2 points from HY and SXN, or ZCZ from taking 2 points from Mittelham and SXN.

jackwong23 wrote: kaitenNashi wrote: The weaker team won, I blame Lee Ho Ching Don't agree with you. A team which have Shan xiona and Han Ying can beat any team on it's day, except China and Japan.

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Romania was only 2 points away from eliminating hkg as well . 

ZApenholder wrote: Came across this https://www.ittf.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022_WTTC_Finals_2022_FAQv2.pdf Getting to Chengdu was not easy - maybe players pulled out due to the STRICT 10 day health monitoring policy prior to departure? and wow, the quarantine after the event to stay in China and then travel to Macau... Reading all those Q&As,,,,why didn't they just move all 3 tournaments to some place with less stress. CT level of 40 is also way too high, so it must be tough for all invovled

ZApenholder wrote: Out of the top teams, HK top players did terrible in this world champs (all credits to Zhu for her wins), they all still pretty young, accept for Lee Ho Ching. I wonder if it is lack of match practice leading up to the world champs - they haven't taken part in WTT in a while or are they all carrying injuries

DHK injured, SWY with her focal dystonia still managed to beat HY, ZCZ did well and you mentioned LHC isn't young anymore and she did OK overall. So they didn't actually do badly, if you look closely.

It may take another 5 years before we get a better picture of women's TT landscape in Europe, though the size of local, homegrown talent pools may means the China-trained players could still be around then. This said, even though Germany has heavily relied on SXN and HY lately, with Mittelhalm and Solja or Winter they've managed to train up a few decent players.

Edited by Bran - 10/06/2022 at 5:35am

Bran wrote: ZApenholder wrote: Out of the top teams, HK top players did terrible in this world champs (all credits to Zhu for her wins), they all still pretty young, accept for Lee Ho Ching. I wonder if it is lack of match practice leading up to the world champs - they haven't taken part in WTT in a while or are they all carrying injuries DHK injured, SWY with her focal dystonia still managed to beat HY, ZCZ did well and you mentioned LHC isn't young anymore and she did OK overall. So they didn't actually do badly, if you look closely. It may take another 5 years before we get a better picture of women's TT landscape in Europe, though the size of local, homegrown talent pools may means the China-trained players could still be around then. This said, even though Germany has heavily relied on SXN and HY lately, with Mittelhalm and Solja or Winter they've managed to train up a few decent players.

True, LHC didn't perform well. So it's really on her, the others did as well as they could or better. I thought SWY had retired to focus on her studies, so I was positively surprised by her wins. I just hope she's not worsening her condition by playing.

As for Chinese imported players, it can be a delicate balance between emulation and discouraging locals, but I suspect it's also sometimes that there simply enough TT interest in some countries for them to have much impact in either direction, and they end up staying on until they decide to retire.

ZApenholder wrote: zeio wrote: ZApenholder wrote: zeio wrote: kaitenNashi wrote: ABC toss only affects the first two matches which Hong Kong won so  The salt from Zeio is real The ABC team always has an inherent advantage as the 1st singles playing in match 1 and match 4 gives them more flexibility in switching the 2nd and 3rd singles. They could avoid SWY from taking 2 points from HY and SXN, or ZCZ from taking 2 points from Mittelham and SXN. At the toss (1h45m prior), you either get ABC or XYZ and the players names for ABC or XYZ are provided already. There is no flexibility after match 1, you can't change the players lists Have they changed it? http://sports.sina.com.cn/o/2014-06-24/10017225403.shtml 和半决赛按照主客队排阵不同，决赛中中国队定好无论抽主客队，马龙都打第一场，张继科打第二场，许昕上第三场。 yeah, your news is 2014. what hasn't been changed lol

So you mean the news agency is out of the loop?

https://www.yangtse.com/content/1536172.html

根据赛前抽签，中国队抽到了客队，于是一单马龙出战第二、第四场，二单樊振东出战第一、第五场，三单王楚钦出战第三场。在樊振东、马龙先后3：0轻取阿法纳多尔和冈萨雷斯后，王楚钦并没有延续这样速胜的势头，在首局11：1强势拿下后，二三局遇到了不小的挑战。

Yeah, blame the ABC toss, injuries, luck. Never give any credit to the opponent. Typical sour loser 

Looks like someone's been doing her homework. Mima just constantly drove Ema off the table. 

Would be nice if you can help me comprehend 3.7.7.3 from ITTF Handbook 2022.

https://documents.ittf.sport/sites/default/files/public/2022-02/ITTF_HB_2022_tc_v1_0.pdf

3.7.7 Team Match Procedure 3.7.7.1 All players shall be selected from those nominated for the event. 3.7.7.2 The name of the team captain, playing or non-playing, shall be designated beforehand to the umpire. 3.7.7.3 Before a team match the right to choose A, B, C or X, Y, Z shall be decided by lot and the captains shall name their teams to the referee or his or her representative, assigning a letter to each singles player. 3.7.7.4 The pairs for a doubles match need not be nominated until the end of the immediately preceding singles match. 3.7.7.5 A team match shall end when one team has won a majority of the possible individual matches.

ZApenholder wrote: zeio wrote: So you mean the news agency is out of the loop? https://www.yangtse.com/content/1536172.html [quote]根据赛前抽签，中国队抽到了客队，于是一单马龙出战第二、第四场，二单樊振东出战第一、第五场，三单王楚钦出战第三场。在樊振东、马龙先后3：0轻取阿法纳多尔和冈萨雷斯后，王楚钦并没有延续这样速胜的势头，在首局11：1强势拿下后，二三局遇到了不小的挑战。 You need to go ask the news agency that. I can't answer for them Maybe easier for you to ask ITTF competition manager, getting facts from the horses mouth is always better than just googling edit: I just read your news article - what is it that you want me to read there?