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@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.

Absolutely stunning performance. Looks like CN has 6 of the top 7 players in the world ranking and we only have 3 in the top hundred (36, 49, and 96). So is the ranking not representative of quality because players play different slates of tournament or are we on the rise? That is, will be have top...

This Chinese lady, Wang Miyu world #4, is really good at gamesmanship and slowing the game anytime Ayhika gets any momentum. Lots of good fight from Ayhika but she is 2 games down now.

sameerph wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 4:05 am Wow, I dont think we have ever seen our players beat world #1 and world #2 in any sport on same day. Quite amazing.

At least not in an actual sport played globally so not counting something like billiards.

We are comfortably beating HK in the women's QF as expected. 2-0 up and Ashmita has won her first game.

Will Lakshya Sen gain anything in term of Olympic qualification by wins here ? Because I think he is the only one with marginal chance for us. Prannoy, Sindhu, SatChi have their places sealed I guess along with one of Tresa-Gayatri and Ashwini-Tanisha. Lakshya with 5 wins would have a chance to rep...

It is a bit strange that we did not play Sreeja in the second singles given she has clearly been our most inform player in recent times.

Manika, as expected, lost 1-3 against the WR #1.

Ayhika has lost her first set/game against the WR #4.

Manika vs world #1 Sun in the 4th match, Manika will lose so we will go 2-2 into a decisive match.

The commentators for ESPN are like "what the fuck", "what are we watching" and laughing away at how ridiculous this is.

China won every match 3-0 in Chengdu in 2022. This is just absurd. In fact, they only lost 2 sets over 21 matches.