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2020 has been the most challenging year in living memory, as the COVID-19 pandemic brought the international table tennis event calendar to a grinding halt early in the year. Many players, coaches and fans were confined to their homes or their local communities, unable to play or watch their...

Was asked to post details of the Chinese National Team's (CNT) Olympics preparation matches in a separate thread so here it is. My Chinese is not the best so please pardon any translation errors. I have attached the original sources as well so that others can verify the accuracy of the...

As far as I know from previous iterations, the invitees for Asian Cup are the i) defending champion; ii) reigning Asian Champion (from Asian Championships); iii) top 10 players from the January ITTF Ranking List; iv) four Regional Representatives, one each from South Asia, South East Asia, West...

Updated: 29 December 2019 The yearly affair is back again, only that it will be held between 1 January to 4 January 2020 this time. The World Team Table Tennis Championships 2020 is scheduled for 22 to 29 March 2020, Busan. Singles Format There will be two stages. Stage 1 adopts the...

Seeded draws are out Men's Singles Fan Zhendong Jang Woojin Robert Gardos Lin Yun-ju Timo Boll Jun Mizutani Dimitrij Ovtcharov Tomokazu Harimoto Hugo Calderano Patrick Franziska Koki Niwa Mattias Falck Liang Jingkun Wong Chun Ting Daniel Habesohn Lin Gaoyuan Women's Singles Zhu...

The biennial affair will take place between 15 to 22 September in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. There will be 7 events in total – Men's Singles, Women's Singles, Women's Doubles, Men's Doubles, Mixed Doubles, Women's Team and Men's Team. As of 12 September, the following line-ups have been announced...

First Stage: 9 to 10 July 2019 | Main Event: 11 to 14 July 2019 Geelong, Australia Seeding Lists Men's Singles 1) Fan Zhendong 2) Lin Gaoyuan 3) Xu Xin 4) Tomokazu Harimoto 5) Ma Long 6) Liang Jingkun 7) Hugo Calderano 8) Mattias Falck 9) Jang Woojin 10) Lee Sangsu 11) Dimitrij Ovtcharov...

First Stage: 2 to 3 July 2019 | Main Event: 4 to 7 July 2019 - ML and FZD in the same half again (not same quarter!) - Can Falck regain the promise shown during the WTTC two months ago? - Unfortunate for the host nation but Jeong & Jang will likely meet during the round of 16 - Repeat of...

As mentioned elsewhere, CNT has the tradition of holding 'warm-up' matches before each major competition. In preparation for WTTC later this month, a total of 18 matches will be held to assess the form of the registered players. Seems like the opponents selected are meant to mimic either i)...

First Stage: 26 to 27 Mar 2019 | Main Event: 28 to 31 Mar 2019, Doha, Qatar Men's Singles Seeding List 1) Xu Xin 2) Lin Gaoyuan 3) Harimoto Tomokazu 4) Timo Boll 5) Hugo Calderano 6) Lee Sangsu 7) Wong Chun Ting 8) Niwa Koki 9) Mizutani Jun 10) Jang Woojin 11) Ma Long 12) Mattias Falck 13)...

From the recently concluded Portugal Challenge, I was a little ambivalent over the effectiveness of playing defence in modern table tennis. The general school of thought seemed to be that defenders are not doing as well ever since bigger plastic balls were introduced (i.e. reduced spin). I think...

Marvellous 12 (地表最强十二人) 2019 Preliminary details for this year's Marvellous 12 have been published sporadically over the past two days. In a nutshell, it will be broken down into two main phases. Phase 1 – Selection of Final 6 (12 to 17 February 2019) 15 and 16 players from each of the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzUZzpAeAu4&t=230s Sorry that I didn't provide any translations but basically Chen Meng acknowledged (in the above interview) that the change to bigger plastic balls in recent years did work in her favour (or her style of play) to a certain extent. I don't quite...