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2017 ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Men’s singles: The Story so far up to day 6!

What an incredible start to the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships! We’ve already had some electrifying matches, huge upsets, and records broken. Perhaps the biggest shock coming in the form of 13 year old Japanese wonder kid ...

Qualification stage completed! The main draw starts tomorrow!

Over the last 2 days the 2017 World Championships has seen some intense matches in the qualification stages in the men’s and women’s singles. Meanwhile the doubles categories have progressed further and have started the main draws ...

Today the opening ceremony and draw took place in Dusseldorf at the World Championships and kicked off this huge, global competition. The players, officials and ITTF representatives were all present and excited to start off preceding's. ...

With the World Championships soon upon us, the TableTennisDaily team have been discussing the players who are heading to Düsseldorf at the end of this month, and deciding who we think will be the players to look out for during the tournament… ...

After the dominant display from Ma Long at the recent Rio Olympic Games, where he barely lost a set, most thought him untouchable. Fan Zhendong clearly didn't take notice of this however, completely dominating the grand slam champion in the China open final 4-0. After this recent success it's hard to see who can stop the young Chinese juggernaut who has a point to prove after not being selected for Rio. ...

China claimed all Olympic golds at the 2016 Rio Olympics this year in Rio. When the men's China team won gold in the team event CCTV5 interviewed World Number 1 Ma Long right after. ...

Since China claiming all golds in the table tennis event at the 2016 Rio Olympics there has been lots of speculation that Head Coach Liu Guolian will retire. In an interview with Sohu.com Liu Guoliang discusses these rumours. ...

Yesterday on the 16th August the formidable Chinese team were crowed Olympic team champions with a convincing win over Germany. ...

One can only imagine what it means for a top athlete, meticulously preparing for months and years on end for the great goal - and then missing out on it. Dimitrij Ovtcharov provides insight into his inner life after the singles quarter final knock out in Rio. "I tried to write off this matter as fast as possible to simply be as positive ...