A five-place jump makes Sato Japan's third-ranked woman, behind Miwa Harimoto and Hina Hayata.
Hitomi Sato rose five places to a career-high world #8 after finishing runner-up in women's singles at WTT China Smash.
Sato became the first Japanese player to reach the China Smash women's singles final. She lost 0–4 to Wang Manyu in the final.[1]
Sato's previous career best was ninth. She now ranks third among Japan's women, behind world No 3 Miwa Harimoto and No 6 Hina Hayata.[2]
World ranking movement, points and player profiles.
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Without already knowing how it ended.
Finding out when a match starts in my time zone, which table it’s on and where to watch it, without stumbling across the result. Then searching through a video that covers several matches, with my eyes half closed to avoid spoilers.
That has often been my experience of following international table tennis. One day I got tired of that, that's when I built this website.
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