Siddhartha Talukdar

Difficult as teams like South Korea and Netherlands stand in the way

If the Men's team do qualify, then it could also present a historic qualification for the other South Asian nations to achieve a Men's Singles quota. Earlier, the other NOCs didn't bother turning up in qualification from South Asia

I saw it in Table Tennis qualification forum. This practice was followed for previous Olympics as well. In fact the ITTF calender shows a qualification tournament for Western Asia region to be held in Jordan in 23-26 Feb https://www.ittf.com/2020-event-calendar/

Even if Women don't get the team quota, getting two singles quotas won't be a cakewalk. One Singles quota is confirmed from South Asian Region as I think one quota will be given to each of the 5 regions in Asian single qualifiers, then the sixth quota will be a fight among the rest; most likely would be between North Korea, Thailand and India. The next quotas would come at a qualification tournament and World Rankings. I estimated it will be distributed till Rank 101 whereas the next ranked Indian after Manika is Ayhika Mukherjee who is ranked 121.

Women's team winning is certainly unprecedented. Even Archana was trailing 1-2 game and then 4-7 points in final deciding game. She also saved a match point at 10-11 to win 13-11. But next assignment is Romania who are 5th seeded. Fingers crossed!!

Luxembourg is easy but both Slovenia and Iran are banana skins. If I remember correctly Noshad Alamian has defeated Achanta in the past and Alamian brothers are a decent doubles pair. But still fingers crossed for qualification For women, Sweden is a bit too tough and I see no hope here

I had read the Bridge article already which had piqued my interest in Protected Ranking. However I hope that Sania plays well enough to be at par with top 10 and qualify on her own might

Was going through Sania Mirza's chances through protected ranking and have several queries 1) As required for protected rankings, the player must send a written petition to ITF within 6 months of injury. Did Sania follow this? 2) Protected ranked players can't be seeded. So can Sania still qualify and select a doubles partner of her choice as her protected ranking was 9th? 3) Entry protected is available for 12 singles or doubles tournaments for players who have been not playing for 12 months or more. Does this include the Olympics as its not an ATP/WTA event? Basic information on Protected Rankings https://www.atptour.com/en/rankings/rankings-faq https://www.rolandgarros.com/en-us/article/roland-garros-2018-demystifying-protected-rankings

She is playing with the same partner she won Hobart Open. However she is unseeded https://ausopen.com/draws#!womens-doubles

Sania - Kichenok pair win 2-6, 7-6, 10-3 and progress to Quarterfinals of Hobart Open.

Pakistan and Sri Lanka ranked higher in Baseball https://rankings.wbsc.org/list/baseball/men Pakistan and Bangladesh ranked higher in Volleyball http://www.fivb.com/en/volleyball/rankings/rankingseniormen But real question is how many of them can qualify overall versus us

There is no entry of Japan in team qualification https://wtentries.ittf.link/index.php?option=com_fabrik&view=list&listid=36&Itemid=159&fab_plist_og___tournament_raw=76&fab_plist_og___gender_raw=M&resetfilters=1&fabrik_incsessionfilters=0 https://www.ittf.com/tournament/5171/2019/world-team-qualification-event/

Although India is 9th but China, Japan, Germany and Brazil have already qualified Men's teams hence we shall be seeded 5th in teams qualification

Very excited for 2020 and Tokyo Olympics. Expecting double-digit medal tally with few golds and some historic qualifications like Fencing, Equestrian, Table Tennis Team. In fact the first month January itself is big with events such as Table Tennis Team qualification, Fencing World Cups, Asian Volleyball qualification (not much hope really) and Sania Mirza's comeback with Hobart Open

http://www.470.org/uploaded_files/Final_Results_2019_470M_Asian_Champ.pdf_1170_en.pdf

How good are chances of an pair qualifying. I guess the best situation would be if and qualify in other World Tours then we can qualify in Asian qualification event

BWF World Tour Finals starts today and PV Sindhu is the only entry from . She is in tough group with Akane Yamaguchi, Chen Yufei and He Bingjiao

Not purely serpertine but the draw is such that 1st-8th seed shall face any team from 9th-16th seed

Actually it could be anyone among seeded 9-16 in final qualification match. Currently the teams are Croatia, Hong Kong, Slovenia, Belgium, Romania, Nigeria, Belarus and Czech Republic. Of these Croatia and Slovenia are real threats because their top 2 players are in top 60. Women's team is too weak to qualify The team qualifying draw procedure is given below https://ittf.cdnomega.com/eu/2019/03/2020_WTQT_Sport_Specific.pdf

Manav Vikash Thakkar wins U21 Men's Singles event of ITTF Challenge in Canada. Only Harmeet Desai, Sathiyan and Soumyajit Ghosh won an U21 singles event before. He also reached the quarterfinals of the senior singles event. All bodes well for crucial TT team qualification next month. India is already ranked 8th in Olympic Men's Team ranking and will be ranked 4th in the team qualifiers if it was held today. Jan 2020 rankings shall be considered for seedings in team qualifications

There are two forms of team rankings - Normal and Olympic system. In both systems, top 3 players' ranks from each NOC are considered and matches between all the NOC are simulated. Normal rankings are used for World Championships and other team tournaments because the playing system is best of 5 single matches viz : A v X, B v Y, C v Z, A v Y, B v X. Virtual matches are simulated between all NOCs, the NOC which wins a virtual match gets 2 points and the other NOC gets zero. For example, if top 3 players of NOC1 is 52, 65, 89 and for NOC2 is 43, 78, 81 then by the playing system the results of virtual matches is given below 52 vs 43 NOC2 wins 65 vs 78 NOC1 wins 89 vs 81 NOC2 wins 52 vs 78 NOC1 wins 65 vs 43 NOC2 wins So NOC2 wins the virtual duel 3-2 and gets 2 points and NOC1 gets 0. Similar simulations occur between all NOCs and they are ranked based on the points garnered If one notices since China has the best 5 men's singles players, it should win all virtual matches and hence it garnered 296 points as number of NOCs is 149 Olympic rankings are used for Olympic Games only and the playing system is BC vs YZ, A vs X, C vs Z, A vs Y, B vs X ie there are 4 singles matches and one doubles match. On a sidenote, India's ranking has been consistently been around 11th-13th because its top 2 players, Sathiyan and Achanta have been in the 30-40 rank range but the third ranked player was always above 100. The ranking leaped to 8th now because Harmeet Desai improved his ranking from 104 to 84

The Weightlifting event in South Asian Games was a Silver event and could avail Olympic ranking points but it was stripped of the status. The 49er class in Sailing qualification will start on 3 Dec and there's Indian participation. Although India is very unlikely to qualify from this event, it will help if any Asian nation qualifies. The Asian qualification will be in 2020

Deepika Kumari and Ankita Bhakat move to the semis of CQT earning an individual quota for India. Bigger news is earned a quota in women's archery.

Among unqualified NOC in women's archery only archers from Thailand, Kazakhstan and North Korea have progressed to fourth round. So if Ankita or Deepika can do better than any one of them, one archer qualifies to Olympics

Any news of Asian Archery Championships or any websites where its available Checked World Archery website but no info