ITTF WTTC Finals Doha 2025, 5/17-25

[Tommy Lee]

Red table

 

[Tommy Lee]

Red surface+Gold boder
Need a color filter glasses...

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

if Calderano wins the title, tables for next edition is Green and Yellow

 

[Tommy Lee]

Before it said the color of table is maroon (the color of Qatar flag), but the real is RED !

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Red surface+Gold boder
Need a color filter glasses...

As if China doesn't already have enough advantages!

 

[backspacer]

The tables look to be pink top DHS tables. I know the Chinese and Japanese players have trained on these, but it may be an adjustment for other nations.

https://x.com/i/status/1922102214245458344

Ricardo Walther posted a video of the team's training in Düsseldorf and they had DHS tables set up.

 

[banbekas]

The table color is awful. I got dizzy just by looking at it from the screen.

 

[Free bird]

A google translated snippet from a Chinese article on this red table issue:

”
Data disclosed by the ITTF Equipment Committee show that the light wave length of the red table reaches 650 nanometers, which exceeds the threshold of the human eye's comfort zone by 37%. In a singles match of 7 games and 4 wins, athletes need to withstand strong light stimulation for up to 83 minutes, which is equivalent to continuous exposure to the midday sun, which can easily lead to excessive contraction of the ciliary muscle and accelerate visual fatigue. In addition, the red background may reduce the contrast between the ball and the table, making it more difficult for athletes to judge rotation and predict the landing point, and may weaken the player's perception of the trajectory of the side spin ball.
Japanese player Hirano Miu described the red table as "glaring like volcanic magma"; the German team urgently purchased filters; the South Korean team designed fluorescent pink uniforms to hedge against red interference.
In order to adapt to this special table, the Chinese table tennis team used the same red table for training during the closed training in Chengdu. Ma Lin, head coach of the women's table tennis team, said that the red table will affect the player's judgment of rotation, and the gold frame may distract attention, and must be adapted in advance. During training, Sun Yingsha wore fluorescent green socks to stimulate her visual nerves, Liang Jingkun changed his phone screen saver to a red gradient image, and the national table tennis players used various methods to adapt to the visual impact of the red table. Even so, in high-intensity competitions, the potential visual and psychological impact of the red table on the players is still difficult to completely eliminate.
”

https://www.shobserver.com/staticsg/res/html/web/newsDetail.html?id=910226&sid=11

 

[zeio]

LA 2028 Games venue for table tennis is too small-ITTF President
https://www.reuters.com/sports/tenn...ennis-is-too-small-ittf-president-2025-05-15/

For table tennis the capacity is around 7,000, Soerling said. That is a similar size to the Paris 2024 Olympics venue for the sport last year.

"In Los Angeles we think our venue is too small," Soerling told a group of international news agencies. "The location is excellent but I am sad to say we can only be maximum seven thousand.

"We are selling out bigger venues than that. Let's see what we can do. There is still time," she added.
Soerling, who is running for another term as ITTF president on May 28, said the sport had witnessed growth in recent years and got a massive boost by the success of the Paris Olympics in 2024.

"We want to grow more and the momentum we saw after Paris is just the beginning," Soerling said. "It is not only in China. It is also in other places.

"We have never seen what we are facing now. Seeing venues sold out in less than 20 minutes. We have a number one for the under-11 from Uganda. The Paris Olympics and Paralympics were sold out."

Historic year for female Olympic leaders sees table tennis president face election challenge
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...e-olympic-leaders-sees-table-tennis-121842879

The vote in Doha after the world championships shapes to be between the Swedish incumbent and the host nation’s Khalil al-Mohannadi, a veteran of ITTF politics since 1997.

“He feels that he’s been so long in this sport he says he deserves to become the next president,” Sörling told reporters Thursday in an online call. “It’s a democratic world and everyone is, let’s say, free to make their campaign.”

...

In this time, Sörling suggested, an election solution could be found “so we don’t have any losers. We have no time to waste on internal fights.”

ITTF chief Sorling outlines vision for global table tennis
http://en.people.cn/n3/2025/0516/c90000-20315777.html

In an interview with international news agencies on Thursday, the ITTF chief said she had wanted to increase the number of Olympic table tennis events ever since she was president of the Swedish table tennis association.

"Sweden put forward a proposition in the 2021 [ITTF] AGM to have some kind of mixed [team] world championships, and the congress said this is very interesting and let's start it," she recalled.

"Then I went to my friends in the Chinese Table Tennis Association and discussed it with them, and how this could happen, and it ended up that we created a Mixed Team World Cup."

After gaining success in the past two editions of the tournament in Chengdu, the IOC gave the green light for the mixed team event to be included in the Olympic program.

"We could see in Chengdu how the teams were cooperating much better, not only playing together, but also planning the game together and cooperating in a different way. It was really gender equality in reality, not just on paper," she noted.

"I would actually put my head forward and say that the Mixed Team World Cup makes our member associations put priority and resources on female table tennis."

Sorling admitted that the inclusion of the mixed team event at LA28 "went much faster than I expected," while saying it is "a very good proof of concept from the cooperation that we did with the Mixed Team World Cup in Chengdu and from the proposition from 2021."

"LA28 will be a new milestone when this event is an Olympic event," she said.

 

[igorponger]

The main colour on table top looks like insane choice, indeed. 🤕🤕🤕

Google Search

 

[zeio]

XD R64
T1 LSD/KM 3-0 Pitchford/Hursey (7, 5, 8)
T2 Stoyanov/Piccolin 3-0 E. Ionescu/Szocs (13, 7, 11)
T5 Nicholas Lum/Ivy Liao 2-3 Pistej/Kukulkova (-8, 8, -4, 6, -6)
T6 Kuo Guan-Hong/Huang Yi-Hua 3-1 Javen Choong/Karen Lyne (7, -7, 9, 9)
T8 Omotayo/Ayoola 3-2 Helmy/Fathy (-9, -7, 6, 10, 7)

 

[JackJohnson]

Does this event have prize money on offer. If there is how much does each player get for reaching certain rounds?

 

[igorponger]

No prize money to earn there , but rating points. 😄

 

[zeio]

MS R128
T2 Redzimski 2-4 Yoshimura (9, -11, -3, 8, -5, -9)
G4 14 TO for Redzimski, 15, 75, 76, 96, 98, 118

T4 QD 4-3 Zeljko (6, -7, 5, -6, 8, -3, 8)
G7 41, 46, 66, 67, 87, 88, 118

T7 AJH 4-3 Monteiro (-10, 7, 9, 1, -3, -8, 9)
G7 02, 12, 13, 23, 24, 34, 35, 45, 46, 56, 66, 67, 77, 79, 119
3rd time is the charm for WTTC 2019 MS bronze medalist AJH, after 2 first round exits at WTTC 2021 and 2023.

T2 Shinozuka 4-2 XF (-9, -9, 11, 14, 12, 4)
The Shinozuka I know is truly back?

WS R128
T5 Monfardini 4-2 Balazova (-2, 8, 9, -9, 12, 9)
T6 Psihogios 2-4 SHW (9, 5, -9, -5, -10, -4)
T8 S. Sawettabut 4-1 Akula (-9, 8, 6, 5, 2)

MS R128
T3 Ham Yu Song 1-4 LJK (-12, -6, 10, -3, -8)
T5 Pucar WR40 4-3 Quek WR87 (-9, 10, -9, 8, 2, -11, 6)

 

[turbozed]

Pink table, really uncomfortable dentist office lighting. Bizarre choice.

Table 2 currently featuring an absolute dogfight between Shinozuka and Xue Fei. Great points and close games going to deuce.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Pink table, really uncomfortable dentist office lighting. Bizarre choice.

Table 2 currently featuring an absolute dogfight between Shinozuka and Xue Fei. Great points and close games going to deuce.

pink was a terrible idea.

and first Chinese loss.

 

[vik]

pink was a terrible idea.

and first Chinese loss.

Xu Fei choked .He had so many game points.Mental toughness of Shinozuka

 

[Grumms]

Why is Xiang Peng not playing the WTTC ?

 

[Bollwerk]

Why is Xiang Peng not playing the WTTC ?

China had internal trials for their last 2 spots which LGY and Xue Fei won

 

[zeio]

Why is Xiang Peng not playing the WTTC ?

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/ittf-wttc-finals-doha-2025-5-17-25.36703/post-523179

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/ittf-wttc-finals-doha-2025-5-17-25.36703/post-518076