China Super League 2014 (CTTSL)

The first round of men's division will take place on May 17 while the women will have it a day after, May 18.

For this season a new team called "Shandong Weiqiao" will be added. This team is different from Zhang Jike's "Shandong Luneng".



Ningbo Team: The Champions of 2013 CTTSL


2014 CTTSL Men's Club Rosters

Club	Player
Ningbo	Ma Long, Yan An, Lin Gaoyuan, LYU Xiang, JOO Saehyuk (Korea Republic)
Shanghai	Xu Xin, Shang Kun, Zhao Zihao, Chen Zhiyang, Zhang Yang
Shandong Luneng	Zhang Jike, Hao Shuai, Fang Bo, Wu Hao, Wei Shihao, Liu Dingshuo, Timo Boll (Germany)
Bayi	Wang Hao, Zhou Yu, Fan Zhendong, Xu Chenhao
Jiangsu	Zhang Chao, Cui Qinglei, Lin Chen, Wu Jiaji, Cai Wei, Wang Yikai, Wang Kelin, Dimitrij Ovtcharov(Germany)
Tianjin	Li Ping, Ma Te, Kong Lingxuan, Chuang Chih-Yuan (Chinese Taipei)
Bazhou	Liang Jingkun, Zhai Chao, Cheng Jingqi, Fan Shengpeng
Guangdong	Liu Jikang, Yin Hang, Liu Yanan, Liu Weiheng, Wang Yang (Czech Republic), Yin Jingyuan (Singapore)
Sichuan	Qiu Yike, Xu Ruifeng, Zhu Linfeng, Chen Xi, Zheng Peifeng, Lai Jiaxin
Shandong Weiqiao	Ma Lin, Liu Yi, Zhang Yudong, Yu Ziyang, Ren Hao, Jiang Tianyi (Hong Kong)

Schedule: The men starts on May 17 and the women starts on May 18.

I. The first stage will have a total of 18 rounds on the following dates

	Month	Dates
Men	May	17, 20, 24, 27
	June	10, 14, 17, 21, 24
	July	1,5, 8, 12, 19, 22, 26, 29
	August	2
Women	May	18, 21, 25, 28
	June	11, 15, 18, 22, 25
	July	2, 6, 9, 13, 20, 23, 27, 30
	August	3

2. The second stage

Semi Finals : August 7,8

Finals:August 9,10

Note: A new playing system will be implemented this season. In prior seasons, the second stage of the competition or the playoffs were in best of three. This season, single Knock Out system will be imposed. This is the first time for the competition to have such system. A new playing system will also be implemented this season. In prior seasons, the second stage of the competition or the playoffs were in best of three. This season, single Knock Out system will be imposed. This is the first time for the competition to have such system.


2014 CTTSL Men's First Stage Schedule (Official)

Date	Round	Match	Teams	Home Court	Venue	City
May 17 (Sat.)	1	1	Ningbo vs Shandong Weiqiao	Shandong Weiqiao	Binzhou Sports Center	Binzhou, Shandong
		2	Shanghai vs Sichuan	Sichuan	Shifang Gym	Shifang, Sichuan
		3	Shandong Luneng vs Guangdong	Guangdong	Henry Fok Gym	Pangyu Dist., Guangzhou, Guangdong
		4	Bayi vs Bazhou	Bayi	Dalian University of Technoogy (DUT) Gym	Dalian, Liaoning
		5	Jiangshu vs Tianjin	Jiangsu	Huaiyin Gym	Huaiyin Dist., Huaiyin, Jiangsu
May 20 (Tue.)	2	6	Ningbo vs Sichuan	Sichuan	Shifang Gym	Shifang, Sichuan
		7	Shandong Weiqiao vs Guangdong	Guangdong	Henry Fok Gym	Pangyu Dist., Guangzhou, Guangdong
		8	Shanghai vs Bazhou	Shanghai	Shanghai Qingpu Gym	Qingpu Dist., Shanghai
		9	Shandong Luneng vs Tianjin	Tianjin	Tianjin University of Finance & Economics (TUFE) Gym	Hexi Dist., Tianjin
		10	Bayi vs Jiangsu	Jiangsu	Huaiyin Gym	Huaiyin Dist., Huaian, Jiangsu
May 24 (Sat.)	3	11	Ningbo vs Guangdong	Ningbo	Anji Longshan Sports Center	Anji County, Huzhou, Zhejiang
		12	Sichuan vs Bazhou	Bazhou	Bazhou Table Tennis Arena	Bazhou, Hebei
		13	Shandong Weiqiao vs Tianjin	Tianjin	TUFE Gym	Hexi Dist., Tianjin
		14	Shanghai vs Jiangsu	Shanghai	Shanghai Qingpu Gym	Hexi Dist., Shanghai
		15	Shandong Luneng vs Bayi	Shandong Luneng	Jinan Olympics Center Donghe Gym	Jinan, Shandong
May 27 (Tue.)	4	16	Ningbo vs Bazhou	Bazhou	Bazhou Table Tennis Arena	Bazhou, Hebei
		17	Guangdong vs Tianjin	Tianjin	TUFE Gym	Hexi Dist., Tianjin
		18	Sichuan vs Jiangsu	Jiangsu	Huaiyin Gym	Huaiyin Dist., Huaian, Jiangsu
		19	Shandong Weiqiao vs Bayi	Bayi	DUT Gym	Dalian, Liaoning
		20	Shanghai vs Shandong Luneng	Shandong Luneng	Jinan Olympics Center Donghe Gym	Jinan, Shandong
June 10 (Tue.)	5	21	Ningbo vs Tianjin	Ningbo	Anji Longshan Sports Center	Anji County, Huzhou, Zhejiang
		22	Bazhou vs Jiangsu	Bazhou	Bazhou Table Tennis Arena	Bazhou, Hebei
		23	Guangzhou vs Bayi	Guangdong	Henry Fok Gym	Pangyu Dist., Guangzhou, Guangdong
		24	Sichuan vs Shandng Luneng	Sichuan	Shifang Gym	Shifang, Sichuan
		25	Shandong Weiqiao vs Shanghai	Shandong Weiqiao	Binzhou Sports Center	Binzhou, Shandong
June 14 (Sat.)	6	26	Ningbo vs Shanghai	Ningbo	Wenzhou Sports Center	Wenzhou, Zhejiang
		27	Shandong Luneng vs Shandong Weiqiao	Shandong Luneng	Jinan Olympics Center Donghe Gym	Jinan, Shandong
		28	Bayi vs Sichuan	Bayi	DUT Gym	Dalian, Liaoniang
		29	Jiangsu vs Guangdong	Jiangsu	Wujin Gym	Wujin, Changzhou, Jiangsu
		30	Tianjin vs Bazhou	Tianjin	TUFE Gym	Hexi Dist., Tianjin
June 17 (Tue.)	7	31	Ningbo vs Bayi	Ningbo	Wenzhou Sports Center	Wenzhou, Zhejiang
		32	Jiangsu vs Shandong Luneng	Jiangsu	Wujin Gym	Wujin, Changzhou, Jiangsu
		33	Tianjin vs Shanghai	Tianjin	TUFE Gym	Hexi Dist., Tianjin
		34	Bazhou vs Shandong Weiqiao	Bazhou	Bazhou Table Tennis Arena	Bazhou, Hebei
		35	Guangdong vs Sichuan	Guangdong	Henry Fok Gym	Pangyu Dist., Guangzhou, Guangdong
June 21 (Sat.)	8	36	Ningbo vs Shandong Luneng	Shandong Luneng	Jinan Olympics Center Donghe Gym	Jinan, Shandong
		37	Bayi vs Shanghai	Shanghai	Shanghai Qingpu Gym	Qingpu Dist., Shanghai
		38	Jiangsu vs Shandong Weiqiao	Shandong Weiqiao	Binzhou Sports Center	Binzhou, Shandong
		39	Tianjin vs Sichuan	Sichuan	Shifang Gym	Shifang, Sichuan
		40	Bazhou vs Guangdong	Guangdong	Henry Fok Gym	Pangyu Dist., Guangzhou, Guandong
June 24 (Tue.)	9	41	Ningbo vs Jiangsu	Jiangsu	Wujin Gym	Wujin, Changzhou, Jiangsu
		42	Tianjin vs Bayi	Bayi	Dalian Maritime University (DMU) Gym	Dalian, Liaoning
		43	Bazhou vs Shandong Luneng	Shandong Luneng	Jinan Olympics Center Donghe Gym	Jinan, Shandong
		44	Guangdong vs Shanghai	Shanghai	Shanghai Qingpu Gym	Qingpu Dist., Shanghai
		45	Sichuan vs Shandong Weiqiao	Shandong Weiqiao	Binzhou Sports Center	Binzhou, Shandong
July 1 (Tue.)	10	46	Ningbo vs Shandong Weiqiao	Ningbo	Anji Longshan Sports Center	Anji County, Huzhou, Zhejiang
		47	Shanghai vs Sichuan	Shanghai	Shanghai Qingpu Gym	Qingpu Dist., Shanghai
		48	Shandong Luneng vs Guangdong	Shandong Luneng	Jinan Olympics Center Donghe Gym	Jinan, Shandong
		49	Bayi vs Bazhou	Bazhou	Bazhou Table Tennis Arena	Bazhou, Hebei
		50	Jiangsu vs Tianjin	Tianjin	TUFE Gym	Hexi Dist., Tianjin
July 5 (Sat.)	11	51	Ningbo vs Sichuan	Ningbo	Anji Longshan Sports Center	Anji County, Huzhou, Zhejiang
		52	Shandong Weiqiao vs Guangdong	Shandong Weiqiao	Binzhou Sports Center	Binzhou, Shandong
		53	Shanghai vs Bazhou	Bazhou	Bazhou Table Tennis Arena	Bazhou, Hebei
		54	Shandong Luneng vs Tianjin	Shandong Luneng	Jinan Olympics Center Donghe Gym	Jinan, Shandong
		55	Bayi vs Jiangsu	Bayi	DMU Gym	Dalian, Liaoniang
July 8 (Tue.)	12	56	Ningbo vs Guangdong	Guangdong	Henry Fok Gym	Pangyu Dist., Guangzhou, Guangdong
		57	Sichuan vs Bazhou	Sichuan	Shifang Gym	Shifang, Sichuan
		58	Shandong Weiqiao vs Tianjin	Shandong Weiqiao	Binzhou Sports Center	Binzhou, Shandong
		59	Shanghai vs Jiangsu	Jiangsu	Wujin Gym	Wujin, Changzhou, Jiangsu
		60	Shandong Luneng vs Bayi	Bayi	DMU Gym	Dalian, Liaoning
July 12 (Sat.)	13	61	Ningbo vs Bazhou	Ningbo	Wenzhou Sports Center	Wenzhou, Zhejiang
		62	Guangdong vs Tianjin	Guangdong	Henry Fok Gym	Pangyu Dist., Guangzhou, Guangdong
		63	Sichuan vs Jiangsu	Sichuan	Shifang Gym	Shifang, Sichuan
		64	Shandong Weiqiao vs Bayi	Shandong Weiqiao	Binzhou Gym	Binzhou, Shandong
		65	Shanghai vs Shandong Luneng	Shanghai	Shanghai Qingpu Gym	Qingpu Dist., Shanghai
July 19 (Sat.)	14	66	Ningbo vs Tianjin	Tianjin	TUFE Gym	Hexi Dist., Tianjin
		67	Bazhou vs Jiangsu	Jiangsu	Wujin Gym	Wujin, Changzhou, Jiangsu
		68	Guangdong vs Bayi	Bayi	DMU Gym	Dalian, Liaoning
		69	Sichuan vs Shandong Luneng	Shandong Luneng	Jinan Olympics Center Donghe Gym	Jinan, Shandong
		70	Shandong Weiqiao vs Shanghai	Shanghai	Shanghai Qingpu Gym	Qingpu Dist., Shanghai
July 22 (Tue.)	15	71	Ningbo vs Jiangsu	Ningbo	Wenzhou Sports Center	Wenzhou, Zhejiang
		72	Tianjin vs Bayi	Tianjin	TUFE Gym	Hexi Dist., Tianjin
		73	Bazhou vs Shandong Luneng	Bazhou	Bazhou Table Tennis Arena	Bazhou, Hebei
		74	Guangdong vs Shanghai	Guangdong	Henry Fok Gym	Pangyu Dist., Guangzhou, Guangdong
		75	Sichuan vs Shandong Weiqiao	Sichuan	Shifang Gym	Shifang, Sichuan
July 26 (Sat.)	16	76	Ningbo va Shandong Luneng	Ningbo	Wenzhou Sports Center	Wenzhou, Zhejiang
		77	Bayi vs Shanghai	Bayi	DMU Gym	Dalian, Liaoning
		78	Jiangsu vs Shandong Weiqiao	Jiangsu	Wujin Gym	Wujin, Changzhou, Jiangsu
		79	Tianjin vs Sichuan	Tianjin	TUFE Gym	Hexi Dist., Tianjin
		80	Bazhou vs Guangdong	Bazhou	Bazhou Table Tennis Arena	Bazhou, Hebei
July 29 (Tue.)	17	81	Ningbo vs Bayi	Bayi	DMU Gym	Dalian, Liaoning
		82	Jiangsu vs Shandong Luneng	Shandong Luneng	Jinan Olympics Center Donghe Gym	Jinan, Shandong
		83	Tianjin vs Shanghai	Shanghai	Shanghai Qingpu Gym	Qingpu Dist., Shanghai
		84	Bazhou vs Shandong Weiqiao	Shandong Weiqiao	Binzhou Sports Center	Binzhou, Shandong
		85	Guangdong vs Sichuan	Sichuan	Shifang Gym	Shifang, Sichuan
August 2 (Sat.)	18	86	Ningbo vs Shanghai	Shanghai	Shanghai Qingpu Gym	Qingpu Dist., Shanghai
		87	Shandong vs Shandong Weiqiao	Shandong Weiqiao	Binzhou Sports Center	Binzhou, Shandong
		88	Bayi vs Sichuan	Sichuan	Shifang Gym	Shifang, Sichuan
		89	Jiangsu vs Guangdong	Guangdong	Henry Fok Gym	Pangyu Dist., Guangzhou, Guangdong
		90	Tianjin vs Bazhou	Bazhou	Bazhou Table Tennis Arena	Bazhou, Hebei

Game Time:

All Tuesday and Wednesday's games will be played in the evening starting at 19:30

Saturday and Sunday's games will be played either in the afternoon starting at 15:30 or in the evening starting at 19:30.

2014 CTTSL Second Stage Competition Guildlines
Published on 07-11-2014 CTTSL Official Site

(Partial translation)

I.Organizer

China Table Tennis Association, CCTV Sports Channel

II.Host

Weishan County People's Government

III.Date and Place

1. Date

Semifinals: August 7 & 8

Finals: August 9 & 10

2. Place

Weishan County, Shandong Province

IV.Qualifying Clubs

The top four men's and women's clubs from the first stage

V. Playing System

1. Single knock out

2. Draw:

a. The first and second place club from the first stage will enter position 1 and 4

b. The first place club will have the right to pick its opponent in the semifinal between the third and fourth place club

c. The selected club will enter position 2, and the unselected club position 3

d. There won't be an extra match for the losing clubs of the semifinals to determine the third and fourth place of the season. Instead, their final standing of the season will be based on their ranking in the first stage. The higher ranking club from the first stage will be the third place and the lower ranking club the fourth place.

3. Playing Methods

Same as the first stage

4. Competition Ball

Double Happiness 40+ Tristar Orange/White Double Color Plastic Ball



(Does that mean the new plastic ball will be used for the second stage while the old celluloid ball has been used throughout the first stage? I remember China Table Tennis Association indicated in April that CTTSL will still use the old celluloid ball for 2014 season.)

5. Schedule

Date	Time	Event
August 7	15:00 - 17:00	Men's Semifinal 1
	19:30 - 21:30	Men's Semifinal 2
August 8	14:00 - 16:00	Women's Semifinal 1
	16:00 - 18:00	Women's Semifinal 2
August 9	13:50 - 15:45	Men's Final
August 10	13:50 - 15:45	Women's Final

Both CCTV-5 and CTTSL will provide live stream for all semifinal and final matches.

6. Prize

First Place	RMB 500,000
Second Place	RMB 300,000
Third Place	RMB 200,000
Fourth Place	RMB 200,000

Originally Posted by MDanielCRO

Do you have list of clubs and players?

Teams doesn't changed for this year. The last years teams were:

Ningbo Haitian Club – Ma Long, Yan An, Joo Se Hyuk, Lin Gaoyuan

Shanghai Longteng Club - Xu Xin, Wang Liqin, Shang Kun, Lei Zhenhua, Zhang Yang

Shandong Luneng Club - Zhang Jike, Fang Bo, Zhang Chao, Hou Yingchao, Wu Hao, Chen Hao

Tianjin Bohai Club - Hao Shuai, Chuang Chih Yuan, Li Ping, Pan Deng, Zheung Yuk (Chinese Hongkong)

Jiangsu Super Cable Club – Ma Lin, Timo Boll, Chen Qi, Xu Hui, Lin Chen, Wu Jiaji, Cai Wei, Wang Yikai

Bayi Rongsheng IndustryClub - Wang Hao, Zhou Yu, Fan Zhendong, Xu Chenhao

Bazhou HairunClub - Cui Qinglei, Cheng Jingqi, Fan Shengpeng, Liang Jingkun

Sichuan ChanghongClub - Qiu Yike, Wang Jianjun, Xu Ruifeng, Zhu Linfeng

Guangdong ChenjingClub - Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Song Hongyuan, Ma Te, Liu Jikang, Yin Hang, Hu Bin, Li Yang


Wang Liqin will not play this year and i think Timo Boll, Dima and Ma Lin will not play too, but i'm not sure about it.
Also i don't know the new team, Shandong Weiqie, players.

Originally Posted by zjkfanforever

It is rumored that Timo Boll may join Shandong Luneng and become a teammate of Zhang Jike this year. Again, only rumored, not confirmed.

That would be massive news! Shandong are really looking to win the league this year I think.

Originally Posted by zjkfanforever

It is rumored that Timo Boll may join Shandong Luneng and become a teammate of Zhang Jike this year. Again, only rumored, not confirmed.

It will be great! I hope Shandong to be the Champion his time.

I. The first stage will have a total of 18 rounds on the following dates

Men	Month	Dates
	May	18, 21, 25, 28
	June	11, 15, 18, 22, 25, 29
	July	2, 6, 9, 13, 16, 20, 23, 27
Women	May	17, 20, 24, 27
	June	10, 14, 17, 21, 24, 28
	July	1,5, 8, 12, 15, 19, 22, 26

2. The second stage

Semi Finals : August 1, 2

Finals: August 3

Note: There have been conflicting information as to the game dates for men and women. One source says that men's games start one day earlier than women's while another source says that it's another way around. I'll make necessary changes when the final schedule becomes available.

According to Phoenix Info, women's games start on May 17 (女子赛的开赛日期暂定为5月17日) while men's games start on May 18 (男子赛的开赛日期暂定为5月18日), and men's teams will play on every Wednesday and Sunday while women's teams play on every Tuesday and Saturday (男队每周三和周日，女队每周二和周六)。

New plastic balls will be used in almost all ITTF events after July 1th. I'm wondering which ball they are going to use in CTTSL. They may use current or plastic balls for the whole season or switch the ball after 1th of July.
Very confusing

I have just updated the first post!

Originally Posted by Alborz

New plastic balls will be used in almost all ITTF events after July 1th. I'm wondering which ball they are going to use in CTTSL. They may use current or plastic balls for the whole season or switch the ball after 1th of July.
Very confusing

Good question! I am guessing the DHS plastic balls. Hopefully we will find out soon.

Originally Posted by Dan

Good question! I am guessing the DHS plastic balls. Hopefully we will find out soon.

I'm guessing that too. We will find out soon.

Few players won't play this year (I believe)
WLQ
ML
QYK

All taking up coaching/directorship roles.

I think if there will be no movement of players then Sichuan is dead in the water.
They either need to get in a foreign player or otherwise they should just take part in Jia A

Here is the womens list in Chinese

女子俱乐部
八一冀中能源
山东鲁能
大同平型关·金地矿业
山西大土河·华东理工
北控·燕京啤酒
金华银行
鄂尔多斯东方路桥
大连新衡业·上方
广东二沙
河南队 （2013女子甲A冠军）

Tournament rules/structure
http://images.sport.org.cn/File/2014...1126464835.doc


Mens start on 17 May, womens 18 May

Originally Posted by beeray1

I'm anxious to see the confirmed line-ups as the absence of some of these players can make or break teams depending on if there are replacement players.

Well, there will be more CNT B team players moving into super league.
It will be a nice season with more youngsters.
The youngsters from last year didn't do too well, but they still improving is all I can say.

Can't wait for team roster too

A new playing system will also be implemented this season. In prior seasons, the second stage of the competition or the playoffs were in best of three. This season, single Knock Out system will be imposed. This is the first time for the competition to have such system. A new playing system will also be implemented this season. In prior seasons, the second stage of the competition or the playoffs were in best of three. This season, single Knock Out system will be imposed. This is the first time for the competition to have such system.

Originally Posted by Dan

Good question! I am guessing the DHS plastic balls. Hopefully we will find out soon.

According to an announcement on April 8, 2014 by Chinese Table Tennis and Badminton Center, 2014 CTTSL will still use the old ball for the whole season. Actually, it was initially announced in 2014 CTTSL official document published on March 17th that the new plastic ball (DHS 40+ Orange/White Double Color Ball) will be used in this season. Don't know what prompted the change 20 days later.