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LIEBHERR World Team Table Tennis Championships 2012, March 25th - April 1st
Total number of team entries is: 121
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The Liebherr World Team Table Tenis Championships is just around the corner with the action beginning on the 25th March 2012! This spectacular event in the lead up to the London 2012 Olympics will take place in the German city of Dortmund. Just a mere 11 days away with the Swaythling Cup in the Men’s event and the Marcel Corbillon Cup in the Women's event being the peak of success.
Live matches from the World Team Table Tennis Championships 2012 can be watched in our ITTF Live Streaming which has integrated chat!
Wow! What a year 2012 has been so far with recent World Tours. The next major event in store for table tennis World will be the World Team Table Tennis Championships! Reigning World team champions China, won the championships in 2010 defeating Germany in the final. Zhang Jike as seen in the picture below defeated Germany's Dimitrij Ovtcharov in the epic final two years ago which also saw Timo Boll defeat Ma Long in five games.
What will happen this time round, will China once again secure the Men's Team Title?
Zhang Jike recorded vital win in his first World Championship 2010 final - Photo by: Rémy Gros
So i'm sure everyone is looking forward to the World Team Table Tennis Championships 2012! Lets get things under way! Who have you voted in our WTTTC 2012 poll?
Men's Team Seedings
Chinese National Men's Team Champions of 2010 in Moscow - photo by: Xinhua/Tao Xiyi
Team and players
1 China - Ma Long, Zhang Jike, Wang Hao, Xu Xin, Ma Lin
2 Germany - Timo Boll, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Bastian Steger, Patrick Baum and Christian Suss
3 Korea Republic
4 Japan
5 Russia
6 Austria
6 Hong Kong
8 Portugal
9 Singapore
10 Sweden
11 CROATIA
12 FRANCE - Simon Gauzy, Quentin Robinot, Tristan Flore, Emmanuel Lebesson, Romain Lorentz
13 CHINESE TAIPEI
14 BELARUS
15 CZECH REPUBLIC
16 GREECE
17 KOREA DPR
18 SPAIN
19 POLAND
20 DENMARK
21 SLOVAK REPUBLIC
22 HUNGARY
23 SERBIA
24 SLOVENIA
Full list of Men's teams here
There are three divisions in the Men's World Team Championships. Below are the full teams in their respective divisions thanks to the ittf.com
Women's Team Seedings
Photo by Yuri Kadobnov / Agence France-Presse
In 2010 the Chinese National Women's team lost to Singapore in one of the biggest sporting upsets in table tennis history. The star of the show for Singapore was 23 year old Feng Tianwei, she beat both Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen as seen in the picture above. Singapore rewrote history books back in 2010, can the reigning champions defend their championship title? Below are the seeds for this years World Team Championships.
1 CHINA
2 SINGAPORE
3 JAPAN
4 HONG KONG
5 KOREA REPUBLIC
6 GERMANY
7 NETHERLANDS
8 ROMANIA
9 HUNGARY
10 CHINESE TAIPEI
11 RUSSIA
12 POLAND
13 SPAIN
14 CZECH REPUBLIC
15 BELARUS
16 TURKEY
17 UKRAINE
18 KOREA DPR
19 AUSTRIA
20 SERBIA
21 FRANCE
22 CROATIA
23 USA
24 SWEDEN
Full list of Women's teams here
There are three divisions in the Women's World Team Championships. Below are the full teams in their respective divisions thanks to the ittf.com
This is going to be a big tournament so lets get started by discussing the seeds. We can use this thread as a means to display all the latest results, videos and news from this spectacular event! What are your predictions from each event?
We will display the players representing each team once they have been announced on the ITTF page here
If anyone has any news on the players participating for their respective country please inform us