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Mukerjees did suffer a hiccup but eventually get the job done against 3rd seeds Miu Hirano and Miwa Harimoto . 

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Sreeja unlucky to lose to Wang Manyu  in distance. Manika should beat Wang Yidi anyhow later today.

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These days women's Table tennis has gotten pretty exciting especially with  struggling against  and losing every alternate match. 

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So our men's team taking revenge against the Germans with a good victory in the absence of CWG champion Sharath. Nice to see the so called European Champion Dang Qiu beaten.

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So our India B women's team stretched the full strength German team to 5 matches quite a suprise. I think we would have won with our best players if they were present.

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So after the highs of Oman with so many medals to Singapore lows (just QFs)  though the best of the best field came there. 

 

So back in Middle East in Doha it's Sharath Kamal in semis after beating Tomislav Pucar in straight games. Will face the chinese in semis. 

 

In the XD it's the first finals of the year for Manika/Sathiyan : 

 

Manika/Sathiyan v Cheng I Ching/Lin Yun Ju 

 

Great semis yesterday going the full distance against Doo Hoi Kem and Wong Chun Ting of Hong Kong 

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Pretty exciting week at the WTT contender in Muscat! 

 

MS QF

 Liang v  Persson

Lin S v  Lin G

 Liao v  Aruna

Wang v  Xiang

 

WS QF

He v Qian

 Fan  V Shao

 Yang V  Samara

 Man V  Manika

 

MD SF

Chuang/Peng v  Dyjas /Nyutnik

Eduard/Darius v Lin / Xiang

 

WD SF

 Ayika/Suthirtha v  Selena /Sreeja

Chen/Qian v Zhang / Man

 

XD SF 

 Archana/Manav beat  Eczeki/Imrei (3-0)

Cheng I Ching / Li  v  Wang / Chen

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Illya said:

We also have Ganna Gaponova and Kou Lei , and Pesotska start in second round due to Specific Rules 

Yeah I know but i don't know their draws

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1 minute ago, Illya said:

Someone can find it??

Your athlete Pesotska may face Manika Batra of India. But I want the full draw of all events 

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Can anyone share the draws

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.stabroeknews.com/2021/05/22/sports/edghill-tokyo-bound-after-earning-ioc-tripartite-spot/amp/

 

It's Chelsea Edgill qualifying 

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33 minutes ago, dcro said:

Following the rumor of North Korean withdrawal, the IOC released a statement claiming that they received no word about it from their NOC.

 

So, this whole rumor of PRK boycott could very well turn out to be a hoax...

Don't worry it won't. I doubt any change in the plans. 

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23 minutes ago, hckošice said:

so China with a bye in the W Team event 1st round ?

North Korea basically took the quota to North Korea ! Maybe France needs to go to North Korea to ask for it. 

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1 minute ago, Vic Liu said:

Ding Ning is obviously no more in her best condition and retired from NT. She went to college and play for clubs and provincial team now. After the national games this year right after OG, I guess she will be fully retired.

Oh I believe she could have given one last shot at Tokyo. So Sun Yingsha gets back to back Olympic events - Youth Olympic Games 2018 and Olympic Games this year. 

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51 minutes ago, Vic Liu said:

China announced the list

Men’s single: Ma Long, Fan Zhendong

Women’s single: Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha

Mixed Double: Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen

Men’s group: Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Wang Chuqin(P card)

Women’s group: Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Liu Shiwen, Wang Manyu(P card)

No Ding Ning? 

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23 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Probably not, ignoring nations with team quotas (Honduras and Montenegro) the largest tripartite nation will likely be Samoa. They have already qualified seven athletes and will qualify more in judo and weightlifting (plus a chance in rugby sevens, but that's a team sport). That's without getting any invitation places (they will be given one/two in swimming).

 

Due to their success, this means Samoa won't be eligible for tripartite quotas in 2024.

Actually I meant with tripartite places ,beach volleyball and current qualified  Vanuatu will have its biggest  squad ever at Olympics. 

 

I'm closely reading Samoan Newspapers once a week. I'm happy with their preparation for the Olympics. They can win a medal (or 2 with some luck) in weightlifting and rugby team is preparing well since last year I don't know about France though for the Qualifiers. 

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Now I just hope Miller/Toko can qualify for Tokyo , they have to do it they should do it for Vanuatu Beach Volleyball. That could mean the biggest squad with universality places 

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Slovakian XD pair will not qualify in singles I think. 

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22 hours ago, Benolympique said:

Congrats Yuan Jia Nan and Pritikha Pavade 385 World Ranking (16 years old) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Prithika is just 16 years old. I think by 20 or 24 she could be the one of the best table tennis players in the world. She was born in Pondicherry, India which is a French colony and like many others  studied in a French School and later went to France and settled down. 

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56 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Draw is based on rankings, so I think the former is correct.

Wow another medal chance for India. Either a Olympic Silver or no medal .

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3 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

As Fonseca already qualified in the singles, an extra quota will be available via the world rankings

How is mixed doubles draw at Olympics? Is it the  1v 16, 2v 15 ,....8v9.. type draw Or random 

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7 hours ago, mrv86 said:

It shall be official now, Batra and Achanta qualified in singles

 

Women's April Ranking

Men's April Ranking

 

 

But none of the Indians seem to have qualified in women's singles as per the pdf

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1 hour ago, Benolympique said:

but it's not official? you don't have a source?

You'll have to wait for the official source until entry deadline ends. 

 

https://www.nknews.org/2021/03/tokyo-2021-north-korean-olympic-committee-holds-mystery-meeting-in-pyongyang/

 

The economic crisis Means it'll be hard to give any opportunity for the virus. 

 

Safely you can see that's it from North Korea at the Tokyo Olympics. See you at Beijing 2022 ( winter)  and Hangzhou 2022 asiad for the tokyo hopeful / qualified  athlethes. 

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3 minutes ago, Benolympique said:

i didn't understand, north korea is withdrawing from the tokyo olympics? or in table tennis?

Withdrawing from Olympic completely. They just aren't interested to participate in any Olympic Qualifier where they had chances in those events to even medal. 

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Just now, Benolympique said:

how do you know ?

North Korea will miss the Olympics hence korea who missed the last team spot loosing to Korea will go through. 

 

Chances of North Korea in Olympics is extremely less.