World Championships of Ping Pong 2016

[TableTennisDaily]

World Championship of Ping Pong, 22-24th January 2016, Alexandra Palace, London, England

The prestigious World Championships of Ping Pong begins next week on Friday 22nd January and concludes on the 24th January. The spectacular event uses traditional sandpaper rackets which were used in the early days of ping pong. What we really love about this event is how each player is given the exact same racket and they battle in the famous Alexandra Palace!

There are 64 qualified ping pong players from all around the world both men and women who compete for a incredible $100,000 prize pot!

Centre Court

Follow all the results here.

Top 8 Seeds

01) Andrew Baggaley
02) Alexander Flemming
03) Maxim Shmyrev
04) Lubomir Pistej
05) Andrew Rushton
06) Gavin Rumgay
07) Chris Doran
08) Lilja Lupulesku

Prize Fund

The $100,000 prize fund

Winner - $20,000
Runner up - $10,000
Semi finalist - $5,000
Quarter finalist - $3,000
Last 16 - $2,000
Last 32 - $1,500
One win - $500

Will England's mighty Andrew Baggaley (pictured below) who is the reigning World Champion retain his title? Be sure to check out our latest podcast with World Ping Pong Champion Andrew Baggaley here.

Who do you think will win and who are you looking forward to watching? Will Russia's Maxim Shmyrev who is a 3 times world champion win for the fourth timOr will he be stopped in his tracks?

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We can use this thread as a means to display all the latest results, videos and news from this spectacular event! Who are you supporting in this event?

Photos by: worldchampionshipofpingpong.net
Any live stream links you find please post below.

 

[changed_23]

1 win? How much is it to compete?

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[Suga D]

1 win? How much is it to compete?

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you have to qualify...

 

[changed_23]

you have to qualify...

Oh okay, so it's worth lol. 500$ easy

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[Dan]

Great day hanging out and playing against the qualifiers practicing for the World Championships of Ping Pong! Dean Cundy, Ashley Stokes, Egle Adomelyte, Mario Genovese, Martin Gunn and Robin Ashleigh!

 

[darnner123]

... what

 

[urbanzakapa]

Are there any live streaming feeds for this tournament. Really love to watch it!

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[Suga D]

Are there any live streaming feeds for this tournament. Really love to watch it!

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There should be live broadcast by Sky Sports UK + also livestream by Sky Sports UK for all three days starting on the 22nd at 1800.

 

[urbanzakapa]

There should be live broadcast by Sky Sports UK + also livestream by Sky Sports UK for all three days starting on the 22nd at 1800.

Thanks Suga D.

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[urbanzakapa]

Can we get the bat anywhere online? I'd like to bring them to my club and have a go with the members..haha

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[Dan]

Can we get the bat anywhere online? I'd like to bring them to my club and have a go with the members..haha

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Here you go http://store.dunlopsport.com/dunlop-official-world-championship-ping-pong-bat-777000

 

[urbanzakapa]

Here you go http://store.dunlopsport.com/dunlop-official-world-championship-ping-pong-bat-777000

Great dan!

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[Dan]

I had lots of fun with some of the qualifiers and players (Ashley Stokes, Dean Cundy, Mario Genovese, Egle Adomelyte, Martin Gunn and Robin Ashleigh) for the upcoming World Champs of Ping Pong!

Enjoy It is not easy playing against these guys!

Another video thanks to TableTennisDaily member @Tinykin

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[Suga D]

I had lots of fun with some of the qualifiers and players (Ashley Stokes, Dean Cundy, Mario Genovese, Egle Adomelyte, Martin Gunn and Robin Ashleigh) for the upcoming World Champs of Ping Pong!

Enjoy It is not easy playing against these guys!

Oooweeee. Nice vid, Dan. These guys and gal(s) are pretty good.

I think that there is such a big acceptance and such a buzz about this form of our beloved tabletennis, is because this type of the game is not that much based on spin like tabletennis with inverted rubbers, and hence much easier to understand for the average Joe who doesn't really know what spin is and what spin can do.

But please don't get me wrong. No belittleling right here.

These players are really good, and honestly i'm not sure if i could beat one of them, even if i was allowed to use inverted rubbers, since i hardly play against players using these kinda rackets...

 

[Suga D]

Just to give you an idea, how good these players are. TTD Member Slimjimmii also played in german eliminations for eastern region and closely missed to qualify. What a pity. Would have been fun watching him....




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[UpSideDownCarl]

I am thinking a lot of these players are guys who played smooth with sponge, learned technique with sponge and then learned to adapt the technique to hardbat. Is that accurate?

How many of these guys are hardbat purists who never play with sponge and never have (or basically never)?

One thing I have to say that I think sad about this:

LOOK WHAT GREAT PRIZE MONEY these guys will earn and how many ITTF World Tour tournaments have a a much lower payout and less sponsorship. How come table tennis has so much trouble getting in the limelight and "Ping Pong" seems not to.

Well, I know, Suga_D really already explained this.


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[Tinykin]

I'm not a good TT player. But hardbats have a lot more options with regards to angles, spin and slowing the ball than sandpaper. Sandpaper to me, a low level player, is like normal sandwich bat play but with far less spin and speed. In other words, it's a very pure form of the game were there are no surprises for the players with regard to spin.
Another way to look at it, take up 2 bats and no rubber that's the same as sandpaper play.

https://vimeo.com/user3032850/ping pong practice

 

[TableTennisDaily]

For those who have access to Sky Sports the event will be live in 5 minutes time! We wish TableTennisDaily player Dean Cundy the best of luck!

 

[TableTennisDaily]

LAST 32 Draw

Andrew Baggaley (ENG) vs Adam Brat (SVK)
Matt Ware (ENG) vs Paul McCreery (N.I)
Richard Gonzalez (PHI) vs Filip Mlynarski (POL)
Dmytry Popov (RUS) vs Tlija Lupulesku (USA)

Andrew Rushton (ENG) vs Petr Silhan (CZE)
Zbigniew Leszczynski (POL) vs Zhao Jie (CHN)
Egle Adomelyte (LTU) vs Reginald Kraiijenbrink (NED)
Javier Benito (ESP) vs Lubomir Pistej (SVK)

Maxim Shmyrev (RUS) vs Vladislav Kutsenko (RUS)
Ashley Stokes (ENG) vs Martin Groenwold (NED)
Li Lei (CHN) vs Sebastian Carl (GER)
Li Yuxiang (USA) vs Gavin Rumgay (SCO)

Christopher Doran (ENG) vs Oriol Monzo (ESP)
Przemyslaw Salacinski (POL) vs Chen Jie (CHN)
Ewgenij Milchin (GER) vs Yu Ying (CHN)
Kazeem Adeleke (NGR) vs Alexander Flemming (GER)

 

[Dan]

You can follow results from the World Ping Pong Championships from the TableTennisDaily twitter account here: https://twitter.com/TweeTTDaily

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Maxim Shmyrev (RUS) through to the last 16 <a href="https://twitter.com/Yourallypally">@Yourallypally</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/pingpongWC">@pingpongWC</a> <a href="https://t.co/wsrDxjMj1K">pic.twitter.com/wsrDxjMj1K</a></p>— TableTennisDaily (@TweeTTDaily) <a href="https://twitter.com/TweeTTDaily/status/690985911178416132">January 23, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kazeem Adeleke vs Alexander Fleming in the last 32 <a href="https://twitter.com/Yourallypally">@Yourallypally</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/888sport">@888sport</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/pingpongWC">@pingpongWC</a> <a href="https://t.co/lhLdYQzW6L">pic.twitter.com/lhLdYQzW6L</a></p>— TableTennisDaily (@TweeTTDaily) <a href="https://twitter.com/TweeTTDaily/status/690994568775483392">January 23, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ashley Stokes is through to the last 16 after beating Martin Groenwold <a href="https://twitter.com/Yourallypally">@Yourallypally</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/888sport">@888sport</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/pingpongWC">@pingpongWC</a></p>— TableTennisDaily (@TweeTTDaily) <a href="https://twitter.com/TweeTTDaily/status/690996738719612929">January 23, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Andrew Baggeley into the quarter finals <a href="https://twitter.com/Yourallypally">@Yourallypally</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/888sport">@888sport</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/pingpongWC">@pingpongWC</a> <a href="https://t.co/GyE4HDs3FS">pic.twitter.com/GyE4HDs3FS</a></p>— TableTennisDaily (@TweeTTDaily) <a href="https://twitter.com/TweeTTDaily/status/691008497744502784">January 23, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Andrew Baggeley into the quarter finals <a href="https://twitter.com/Yourallypally">@Yourallypally</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/888sport">@888sport</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/pingpongWC">@pingpongWC</a> <a href="https://t.co/GyE4HDs3FS">pic.twitter.com/GyE4HDs3FS</a></p>— TableTennisDaily (@TweeTTDaily) <a href="https://twitter.com/TweeTTDaily/status/691008497744502784">January 23, 2016</a></blockquote>
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