WTT Feeder Stockholm 2023, 10/2-7

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 apacible wrote:

 NextLevel wrote:

Yeah, that win over Han Ying is completely random. Thanks for the details.  Makes sense. 

Just an anecdote I'd like to share when Sakura Mori played Han Ying in a T.League Victory Match (VM) back on January 24, 2020:

Mori mentioned that in her last T.League match vs. Han Ying, she had difficulty with the backhand push. So during this VM, she changed her racket setup from double-inverted to short pips on the BH side just to counter Han Ying for the particular match. See the short pips on the red side of the racket and Han Ying's puzzled expression during the racket check (2:14:47) of the video. 

Mori went to win the VM 11-5. TV Tokyo also wrote an article on this incident: https://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/tabletennis/news/2020/07/012616.html

Just something to note-- In this team match, Mori played singles vs Kyoka Idesawa using her standard double inverted set up before changing it a BH short-pips set up for the VM vs Han Ying. In normal ITTF/WTT/Continental International Team Matches, I often observe players submitting their rackets to the umpire/referee in a brown paper envelope after finishing their first match. I think this means that players playing 2 matches in a team match need to use the same racket in both matches. It doesn't seem this rule is enforced in T.League which allowed Mori to use two different racket setups for two different matches.

Thanks for this.  I think the submission has to do with testing not so much restriction to previously submitted rackets.  As long as Mori submitted the racket for testing after the match, that would work as well.