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Here's a look at the men's draw from the first Doubles World Cup back in 1990. It shows China losing to the Korean pair in the group, and being knocked out by Germany in the quarterfinal. I made a post on Instagram about the event as well: CenturyTableTennis

It's astonishing really. If the Worlds wasn't in London I would avoid it. City for millionaires, haha!

This one is specifically for the London-based table tennis community. I am among the many thousands of travelers currently planning a weeks-long stay in the big city in April/May. With the knowledge of London's outrageous hotel and airbnb costs, it makes sense to ask here (where there is a...

Century Table Tennis

Happy New Year everyone! 🏓 I've been keeping a low profile since work with the ITTF wrapped up several years ago, but steadily building a portfolio of statistics from the last 100 years of table tennis. Will be in London for the WTTC anniversary, looking forward to catching up with everyone...

Keep doing your thing Kennedy. It takes a lot of time and effort to make videos. You're learning and developing quickly as a player and an editor. You also have a great temperament during the match with Jayden, from what I saw. Don't listen to anyone telling you what you can or can't do. They...

What a ripper of a video! You guys had him on the ropes there. Love seeing these challenges with the pros, keep em coming! :cool:

Is anyone else having trouble buying tickets for the world champs? Specifically buying tickets for multiple days. I can't exactly 'add to cart'. It just takes me to the payment page and expects me to pay a Booking Fee, Transaction Fee, and Facility Fee (adding up to 10 pounds) each time. If I...

Back on TTD after almost 7 years and my notifications told me to check this thread. I wonder if anyone in here would be interested in discussing the world rankings now that enough time has passed for it to settle. It all got derailed during the pandemic, but has fixed itself again. Do we feel...

Hawkeye will arrive eventually for WTT. I believe it has been trialed before. We are a long way behind tennis unfortunately. I work each year at the Australian Open tennis Grand Slam tournament which is on a whole other level compared to anything table tennis has to offer.

Hi Silvershamaa, The World Team Championships is a great opportunity for players to earn points, but often you will see those from teams of five get less at the end of the day, this is because points are stacked by 'wins', rather than earned from 'stage reached.' as pongfurgrasshopper mentioned...

What a great thread, so many different ranking systems being shared. I have worked in Table Tennis ratings and rankings for the past few years. If there are any national associations or clubs which require a system developed by someone with experience, I'd be happy to help. Even if you think...

I still have a green sheet of Butterfly D-13 which was later renamed Sriver. The rubber must be 30-40 years old now, still square, never put on a blade.

Boll also has a men's doubles silver from 2005 with Christian Suss.

Considering how open the lower half of the draw was, it makes me wonder about the chances of some players who had a rough draw in the top half. For example if Hugo Calderano had been in the lower half would he have reached the final? Koki Niwa is another one who is strong enough (although he has...

Robles and Ionescu have made history. Not only are they the first players from their countries to reach a men's doubles final (and first medal in WTTC history for Spain), they are the first international pair in a men's doubles final since 1995 when Samsonov and Primorac achieved that feat.

Careful Nemo, Dan does some commentary for ITTF on occasion, let's hope your account doesn't mysteriously get deleted ;)

Xu Xin is just warming up, he often drops a game or two against weaker players. Haven't seen him lose to a European in many years.

Consider also that these matches are not actual televised content, just live stream content, and are unimportant to the ITTF (a major reason for redesigning the WTTC in future years). When televised matches commence, with commentary and multiple cameras the ITTF are more selective with their...

Table 2 has the top ranked player from Oceania Heming Hu, (from AUS not NZL by the way) so there are likely a few people down under who give a hoot. There will be players from each of the listed countries watching their representatives. But it's unlikely that people from outside of those...