Day 1 - Chinese National Team at the Werner Schlager Academy! (Photos)

On the 17th March 2012, the Chinese National Men's and Women's team landed in Vienna for the Werner Schlager Academy in preparation for the World Team Table Tennis Championships which commences next week on the 26th March! Thanks to the Chinese National Team manager Huang Biao, he has posted photos off the teams preparation!

China will prepare at the legendary Werner Schalger Academy prior to the World Team Table Tennis Championships. For more on the World's click here

Liu Guoliang giving his famous disciplined speech prior to training below!

(Left to right - Xu Xin, Zhang Jike, Wang Hao, Ma Lin, Ma Long)

The National team waiting for the coach to arrive to travel to their first practice session at the WSA

The National team on the coach for the their training session!

Men's team practising in the WSA training hall

Women's team practising in the WSA traning hall

Ma Lin and Chen Weixing practicing in the Werner Schlager Academy: Photo courtesy of WSA

Team head to a Chinese restaurant in Vienna impressed with the place. Huang expressed, "foreigner people must like to eat, the restaurants are full"

Ma Long, Xu Xin and co hungry

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[Matt Hetherington]

mmm i'm hungry now lol 4:30am never a good time to look at pictures of people eating. More to the point I wonder if William will train with any of them...

 

[TableTennisDaily]

mmm i'm hungry now lol 4:30am never a good time to look at pictures of people eating. More to the point I wonder if William will train with any of them...

Aha! Good point, I wonder if he will. Would be awesome for some footage!

Sleep well Matt

 

[Matt Hetherington]

Already slept from 5pm yesterday evening, was one of those weeks had a lot of sleep to catch up on

 

[pcwyang168]

nice photos. Thanks