WTT Contender Lagos 2025...

[AJ Scott]

Buenos Aires isn't the only Contender event going on this week...  This
event also started this past Tuesday and will go on through Saturday:
https://www.worldtabletennis.com/eventInfo?selectedTab=Matches&innerselectedTab=Scheduled&eventId=3121
[Friday's schedule].  Nigeria is 5 hrs. ahead of us.

Player list:
https://www.worldtabletennis.com/eventInfo?selectedTab=Player%20List&eventId=3121&innerselectedTab=Scheduled.
The top 5 men's seeds are Ander Lind, Tomislav Pucar (pronounced
"TOE-me-slaf POOT-sar"), Ylane Batix (pronounced "elon bateeks"),
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Steffen Mengel (tallest guy in the Game).
Quadri Aruna had entered the event and was the 2nd seed, but then pulled
out last week.  Anyhow, for the women, the top 5 seeds are Hayata Hina,
Hashimoto Honoka, Hana Goda, Prithika Pavade and Kim Na-yeong.

Penholders...  The only 1 I see is Yu Fu, the Portuguese no. 1 woman.

Pips-out/Anti-spin players...  On the men's side, I see only 2 that I
recognize--Ylane Batix, the Cameroon no. 1 (long pips/bh), and Remi
Betelu of France (chopper--was eliminated earlier today).  On the
women's side, it's Hashimoto Honoka (top chopper in the world), Yu Fu
(she has pips on the bh--I dunno what size), Sreeja Akula (long
pips/bh--she took out the top seed Hayata Hina earlier today), and
Krittwika Roy (short pips/bh).  I watched a match of Yu Fu recently and
I think I actually saw her hit with the pips on the bh, so she does use
the pips on the bh occasionally.