In summary:

Singles- Top 2 Chinese players in Olympic Points (not to be confused with WR points) by May 7, 2024. Olympic points consists of the total of (1) his/her WR points as of the May 7, 2024 WR list and (2) any bonus points earned by the CNT players in designated competitions from May 8, 2023 to May 7, 2024 according to the Points Table made by CTTA. See http://mytabletennis.net/forum/team-chinas-race-to-paris-2024-singles_topic93247_post1141469.html#1141469" rel="nofollow - this post for a detailed table on the bonus points.

Mixed Doubles- Top-ranked Chinese Mixed Doubles Pair when the May 7, 2024 WR list is released.

Team- If the aforementioned two pathways cannot select three players per gender for the team events, the last spot in the roster will be determined by the CTTA coaching group.

Thanks for posting the links to the Chinese Source. It seems some of the details of the Selection Criteria for the 2 Olympic Singles slots were omitted in the English Translation of the Xinhua News Article I cited.

I will edit my first post accordingly. However, to summarize, CTTA has its own Olympic Points Selection System for Singles. 

A CNT player's Olympic Points is the total of (1) his/her WR points as of the May 7, 2024 WR list and (2) any bonus points earned by the CNT players in designated competitions from May 8, 2023 to May 7, 2024 according to the Points Table made by CTTA. See the points table below (thanks zeio for https://www.douban.com/group/topic/288542066/?_i=4314289nhhSjWH" rel="nofollow - linking it ):

For Singles Events, players get bonus points for finishing 1st, 2nd, or 3rd (SF).

(Final- 800 pts per win, SF- 400 pts per win, QF- 200pts per win, R16- 100 pts per win)

zeio wrote: CNT: We zone in/narrow down on the candidates AND THEN we come up with the selection criteriA 😉 that fit them to a T.

Have to agree with zeio though. While it's ultimately up to the players to rack of wins for Olympic Points, when the tournament has a National Entry Restriction, CTTA still determines who plays. CTTA determines which 2 players play singles in the Asian Games and Asian Cup and what the CNT's team lineup will be in team matches, and these choices will affect the number of opportunities players have to earn Olympic points. The players chosen will have a head start over those not chosen. (Much like how Harimoto and Niwa had an edge over Mizutani in gaining WR points because they had the opportunity to play the 2019 Men's World Cup).

At first glance, it seems fairer than Tokyo 2020. If I understand correctly, the role of the CTTA coaching group has been markedly reduced. This is a good sign!

Because of the high amount of bonus points awarded for the WTTC 2023, it feels like World Champions FZD and SYS are almost locked for one of the singles slots for Paris 2024. The race will likely be for the other singles spot.

WMY's QF exit this WTTC 2023 hurts a lot since the bonus points she lost out on from not even making the Top 3 triples or even quadruples her gap with CM. As zeio also mentioned, WMY lost out on precious WR points, so it may also cost WMY her singles spot in the Asian Games in favor of CM further depriving herself the opportunity to get herself back in the race. There's still hope for WMY though since there will be some expiration of WR points in July, so we'll have to see if WMY can still overtake CM in WR before the entry deadline for the Asian Games.

The gap between WCQ in ML in the Olympic Points race is a lot closer since ML at least made the SF in WTTC 2023. However, ML is less likely to make up ground in the WR race to play the Asian Games Singles event because ML has a lot of WR points expiring in July as compared to WCQ which will only widen their WR gap. 

Will we see ML and WMY participate in some WTT Contenders in July and August to catch up in WR and try and secure an Asian Games Singles Slot?  Probably unlikely, but it would be cool if they did just like how in 2019 Niwa, Hayata, Ishikawa, and Hirano were flying across the world to play in Challenge Plus Series in their quests to improve their WR to try to earn a Tokyo 2020 Singles Spot.

I feel like the demands for excellence and responsibility actually ended up being his undoing when it mattered the most. 

Based on the http://mytabletennis.net/forum/team-chinas-race-to-paris-2024-singles_topic93247_post1141900.html#1141900" rel="nofollow - document released by CTTA wherein the Top 2 in WR in the CNT at the time of entry deadline will be chosen to play singles in the Asian Games, is 2023 WTT SCT Ljubljana the last chance for both WMY and CM to earn WR points to take a top 2 spot away from WYD?

If yes, each of both CM and WMY need to at least reach the finals for each of them to overtake WYD in points. WMY will need to go one round farther than CM in this tournament to secure the 2nd singles spot.

WYD also has 600 WR points expiring July 18, 2023 and 700 WR points expiring July 25, 2023, so who gets the 2nd Asian Games spot may also come down to which week's WR List will be used.

Unless there's some sort of major surprise, Sun Yingsha and Fan Zhendong will be the next Olympic champion as they're quite dominant against the other competing teammate. 

Yeah. The CNT will continue to mess around with the rules. 

Wouldn't that be counterintuitive to the safety layout that the team has favored all these years?? She's not flashy and despite struggles against Hayata, she still has not lost to the Japanese in years. 

Unless this is an "exam" for Wang Yidi like the Asian cup was an "exam" for Gaoyuan and Chuqin that they failed.

An Olympic Gold medal and a silver medal all but secures CM's place at the next Olympics imo which is what'll be her main goal to finish an illustrious career, In major tournaments that are of lesser significance compared to the WTTC/Olympics the goal is to win as always but I think they're giving themselves room to push players that they feel should be doing better. Or come to think of it, maybe the messaging to the players is Yidi - do your best and don't lose to foreigners at least, Shasha - No Chen Meng to stop Ito or Hirano , Onus is on you to get the job done, you must bring the cup home to prove yourself worthy of reliance. So more like a test for Shasha.

Don't mind me, just going through possible plots going through the coaching team's minds lol

I appreciate the discussion,  your perspectives are often interesting to me.

The main issue I think is that China doesn't want to risk sending people close to the age of 30 to the Olympics unless there is zero chance of their being caught by the foreigners.  Ma Long was a special exception as eas Wang Hao I think but nothing about Chen Meng's career strongly suggests she is one.

That's superstition. Sad way to pick a player and didnt Ma Long already kill that?

Interesting not to see WCQ/SYS for ATTC 2023. Given that the winner in the Mixed Doubles Event of the 2023 Asian Championships earns a Mixed Doubles spot in the 2024 Paris Olympics, I'm assuming that if either WYD/LGY or QTY/LJK win, China will likely decline their Mixed Doubles Quota. http://mytabletennis.net/forum/team-chinas-race-to-paris-2024-singles_topic93247_post1141447.html#1141447" rel="nofollow - China will likely stick to their criteria of qualifying their Olympic Mixed Doubles pair by WR 

apacible wrote: Mixed Doubles- Top-ranked Chinese Mixed Doubles Pair when the May 7, 2024 WR list is released.

In any case, without WCQ/SYS, there's a greater chance that one of the pairs from JPN, KOR, HKG, TPE, or IND can win the event and secure a XD quota for Paris 2024.

Finally some rest for Shatou

And some test for the new Yiyuan.

Isn't it great to be China, you can just find the money to make things happen that suit your agenda in a sport like TT?

Lol, Was there ever a "Lanzhou Star Contender" on the cards or in the bigger picture of the WTT??

Isn't this just China finding tournaments hosting tournaments here and there to keep a fig leaf on the WTT and at the same further their goals and designs??

What's Korea, Austria, Sweden and others doing?? 

WYD: Stop flaming me netizens. I didn't choose to play Asian Games, I was scapegoated to prevent CM from edging WMY out of the race completely. 

Poor Tianyi, practice partner it is.

As I can guess, there are some reward points which can become dramatic...especially for Wang Chuqin who got nearly no points from those Asian Championships.

Yeah.  Did WYD 3-4 Hayata happen on purpose as well?  Conspiracy theories are infinite...

If FZD won, ML might get a chance to play for the single in Paris Olympics. I think FZD would prefer to play against WCQ rather than ML in the Olympics. That is where the conspiracy came in.

Thanks for explaining the conspiriacy.  If WYD had won, and then she would have had at least finalist points at the Asian games, then Wang Manyu, Chen Meng and Wang Yidi would all be together fighting for the second spot at Olympics when the coaches likely want Wang Manyu.    WYD losing makes it easier for WMY to get in.  That is where the conspiracy came in.

I'm just back from the Pro A match between Angers Wolves and La Romagne, it was near my home in La Romagne, and it was the derby: only 60 kms between Angers and La Romagne. 

Interesting but doesn't quite belong here - perhaps you could start a thread on the French league(s) and post there regularly? It would also be nice to follow the MLTT players active in Pro A (Lily Zhang) and Pro B (several of the men).

Oh please, not again that kind of those picky peoples taking only what's fits their agenda.

It ACTUALLY fits EXACTLY in that topic, and zeio knows why:

- La Romagne is an official pre-game training center

- Xu YingBin is a member of the CNT

- in La Romagne there's also CHEN Tianyuan, ex-memeber of the CNT and former asian champion, he lives in Cholet with his wife YUAN Jianan

- if you read well, there's a personal security service available there, very important to the chinese government.

https://prepare.paris2024.org/training-camp/la-stella-la-romagne-hall/" rel="nofollow - https://prepare.paris2024.org/training-camp/la-stella-la-romagne-hall/

- if you pay attention to the matches with XU and CHEN, they both coach each other, you can guess that the integration works well, and that's the CNT wants: the sparring partners of the CNT must give as much information to their hierarchy, specially in a leagues when there are the CNT killers: the Lebrun Bros.

It's perfectly accurate to talk about the french pro A as long as you talk about the Olympics in Paris, as long as you talk about CNT's members involved there.

That's what I said to zeio: the CNT already prepares Paris 2024 INSIDE France RIGHT NOW: there's already 3 CNT sparring partners in the pro A alone.

https://www.fftt.com/pro/#/proam/jmtt" rel="nofollow - https://www.fftt.com/pro/#/proam/jmtt

https://www.fftt.com/pro/#/proam/lr" rel="nofollow - https://www.fftt.com/pro/#/proam/lr

This thread is about the SELECTION process for the Olympics, not about all aspects related to training and preparation. I don't think the CNT players active in Pro A are in the "race to Paris".

Feel free to keep posting here of course, but my suggestion was serious and not meant in a hostile way - a dedicated thread on the French leagues would be great.

I haven't been following this that much, but if they continue with the same selection criteria for the next cycle, I don't think LSD or KM need to individually be top 3 in singles to make the team as long as they have the highest XD ranking for the next cycle, right?