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This is it for Olympics qualification. The two big questions left are can Lakshya get back in the top-16 and who will emerge victorious between Ashwini/Tanisha and Treesa/Gayatri. From an Olympic medal perspective, we also need HSP and Sindhu to finish with a top-8 seeding and have Satwik/Chirag sta...

We are probably around the 10-12 spot in the women but we have to keep in mind that the Olympics team event has 1 doubles + 4 singles so with the Mukherjees, we will be slightly stronger. I am not sure we can send Manika, Sreeja and both Mukherjees (assuming we qualify). Indian media is claiming we ...

Similar to what we saw with the women, our best results in singles come at the end of these long home series. We need more of those and they need to be 3-4 weeks long.

Austria barely beat HK so does that mean we qualify. The other 2 results you mentioned did not happen. We needed the women to get the draw the men have. The men lost to #5, #19 and beat #33 and #35 in the group stages and barely beat #29 to reach the last 16. And their reward is the #9 team in the l...

Without Sreeja playing to her level, a lot of this is moot. It is also unfortunate that we drew #1 China and #4 Taiwan here. I would have liked to see india with Sreeja in form against a Romania or France.

And how did Prannoy get so many points and more than Lakshya despite losing matches?

sameer - we should use the same scale for both pairs. Tanisha/Ashwini are 19th and Treesa/Gayatri are 27 in race to paris. After removing pairs who are ineligible, the former are 11. Do you know why Tanisha/Ashwini got so many points for this tournament? Seems like they won points because of India g...

Sreeja did win but this was a terrible performance from the team and doesn't bode well for R32. Sreeja has now lost 3 in a row to top-100ish level players after beating the world #2 in straights.

@sameer do you know who we will play in the women, assuming we finish 2nd and win our R24. It will be the winner of Group 2, 4, 7 or 8 but unclear who. As per ITTF website- After the round-robin is completed, the top three teams from each group advance to the knockout phase. 24 teams advance in tot...

We should comfortably beat Spain. We should have beaten Hungary 4-1 or 5-0 as well, unsure why Sreeja lost both her matches. The men have been terrible and will likely lose in the Round of 24. @sameer do you know who we will play in the women, assuming we finish 2nd and win our R24. It will be the w...

Finally a good win.

She beat #29 and #43 in straight games which bodes really well for someone who turned 17 last month. Anmol also beat Ashmita in straight games in December so I think she is already playing at a top-30/35 level. This is also only her second international tournament. We need at least 2 out of Anmol, U...

Men will lose to Korea.

Very surprised by Sreeja's results. She has been on a tear recently and we need her to win these kind of matches if we are to get to the last 16/8.

Treesa/Gayatri have a higher ceiling right now than Tanisha and Ashwini. In form, the former can make a deep run at a top-level tournament. Ashmita Chaliha beat former world #1 and world champion Okuhara in straight games. That's a pretty impressive win even though the latter is only ranked 20 in th...

Aya Ohori is crushing PVS - not good.