2022 WTT Doha Events 03/13-31

NextLevel wrote: zeio wrote: zeio wrote: Considering Minnie could push Shi Xunyao that far, there is no excuse Nagasaki could not. She has herself to blame for last week's defeat. Shi Xunyao 3-0 Nagasaki, 11:4, 11:2, 10:4, 10:7 TO for Shi, 11:7 Nothing to do with skills. This was better at the junior level - it is interesting how things diverge in such a short time... It's almost as if the Chinese figure out how to make Japanese players look bad...

Gao Jun has mentioned that Lily has got to work on her serve.

https://www.guancha.cn/internation/2021_11_22_615774_2.shtml

为此，张安还请高军牵线，说希望能帮着跟中国乒协沟通一下，争取一个和许昕在2021年休斯敦世乒赛上跨国组队的机会，还许愿道“要是能和许昕配混双就不退役了”。高军回她，“你要是想跟许昕打球，你得练得足够好！先把你�£发球练好了，才有资格跟许昕打。”

kakapo wrote: Diaz defeated by the 23 rd Chinese......If they could play each tournament, Chinese female players would be 40 in the top 50...

They are only like 20 something in the A team i think. 

ZZH 3-0 Groth
Calderano 3-0 Kallberg
Pucar 3-1 WCT
Yuan Licen 3-1 LYJ, 11:6, 11:5, 14:16, 11:9
Kihara 3-1 JJH
Zhang Rui 3-2 Polcanova, G5 6:6, 7:6(Polcanova affected by assistant ump who called let?), 11:6
Achanta 3-1 LJH, G4 16:14

Edited by zeio - 03/22/2022 at 12:11pm

Europe's last hope, Sofia Polcanova, ousted by Zhang Rui of China.  If Miwa can beat FTW, it will be an all China/Japan QF. Go Miwa!

troubadour wrote: pongfugrasshopper wrote: kakapo wrote: Diaz defeated by the 23 rd Chinese......If they could play each tournament, Chinese female players would be 40 in the top 50... Gotta hand it to the Chinese.  They almost always seem to all end up in the semi finals.   But...... Miwa Harimoto and LYJ, future world number ones (world includes China here).  Miwa highly likely since we've not seen any opponent her age that good, but Lin there's enough competitors within his age bracket ( +4 or - 4 his age is my standard taking into consideration the Olympic cycle) that will be a big roadblock to gaining world number one. And he's gotta be reaching the semis or finals all the time for that to happen.

Great match from Harimoto. FTW has become too slowwwwwww.

pongfugrasshopper wrote: Mima Ito won the 2015 ITTF Platinum German Open when she was 14.  There were no Chinese there, but the top players outside of China were there.

Che Xiaoxi: 😭
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ahQ4YpamI

zeio wrote: pongfugrasshopper wrote: Mima Ito won the 2015 ITTF Platinum German Open when she was 14.  There were no Chinese there, but the top players outside of China were there. Che Xiaoxi: 😭 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ahQ4YpamI

Does anyone know what happened to Qian Tianyi?  She's listed as walkover in her scheduled match up in her opening round match up with Yang Xiaoxin.

QTY hurt her lower back during warm-up.

https://weibo.com/6381669799/LkOtKmsse

Miwa is paired up with Zhang Rui who she lost 3-4 in the Feeder series.  She will be extremely motivated, and I think she will beat her tomorrow.

On Harimoto's world ranking in 2020, I made a prediction(based on then Elo-rating system) during WTTC 2017. Harimoto happened to comment on his world ranking after Tokyo 2020.

http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=78106&PID=981686&title=2017-wttc-germany-may-29jun-5#981686

If the trend keeps up, at this rate, he will be within anywhere from top 30 to top 10.

http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=91046&PID=1120542&title=the-end-of-the-harimoto-dream#1120542

記者：為了迎接3年後的巴黎奧運會，你長期面臨的課題是什麼？ 　　張本智和：我想成為更有決心的選手。這次奧運會握拍沒有調整好，奧運會前就幻想「希望抽籤分組能對我有利」、「希望遇到好打的對手」等。如果下次不能把抽籤結果不好當成理所當然，還會輕易輸球。�£因為參加過一次奧運會，當然還想參加，我想下次能夠更明確地想好比賽策略。 　　雖然（我的）世界排名很高，但不一定能贏過第30名左右的選手，並且最近完全沒贏過頂尖中國選手。我想今後3年是為了進入真�£世界前5的3年。坦率講，巴黎奧運會也不會是我最高光的時刻，但我希望能填�£�不足。希望進行一些能讓自己內心滿意的訓練。

Reporter: In order to meet the Paris Olympics in three years, what are the long-term issues you face?

Harimoto: I want to become a more determined player. My grip was not adjusted properly for this Olympic Games. Before the Olympic Games, I had fantasies such as "I hope the draw will be beneficial to me", "I hope to meet an easy opponent" and so on. If I can't take the bad draw for granted next time, I will still lose easily. Because I have participated in the Olympics once, of course I want to participate again. I think I can think more clearly about the competition strategy next time.

Although (my) world ranking is very high, I can't necessarily beat players around the 30th, and I haven't beaten top Chinese players at all recently. I think the next 3 years will be the 3 years in order to enter the top 5 in the world for real. Frankly, the Paris Olympics won't be my brightest moment either, but I hope to fill the gap. I hope to do some training that will satisfy my heart.

Edited by zeio - 03/22/2022 at 2:43pm

zeio wrote: Unrelated news. Yu Mengyu announced her retirement on her Weibo 6 hours ago. https://weibo.com/2672497143/LkWZ1aION

Qi Fei 3-0 Yang Huijing, 11:9, 12:10, 14:12
Fan Siqi 3-1 Shi Xunyao, 7:11, 11:9, 11:9, 11:9
Zhang Rui 3-1 Miwa Harimoto, 6:11, 11:4(Miwa lost 7 in a row?), 11:6, 11:4

Kato 2-1 Kihara
9:5, 9:6 TO for Kato, 9:7, 10:7, 10:12
6:8 TO for Kihara, 6:9, 7:9, 7:10, 9:10, 9:11
Kato: I'll be back!

Edited by zeio - 03/23/2022 at 7:41am