New Format - Team Preview of ITTF Mixed Team World Cup 2025,

[Tony's Table Tennis]

she has some wins against good players this year, you can go look on stats page of ittf for 2025.

if you look at UTT, it isn't the best team on paper between mens and womens that won, it is the one that can get as many sets. Pavade also had some sets against matches she lost against strong players this year.

My team had the best foreign women in Fan Siqi and a strong foreign men in Kirill. We also have a strong Indian men in Payas.
We finish 2nd last out of 8 teams. Siqi scored about half the teams point but the problem is the matches we loss, it was 0-3. If it was 1-2, we would of made it into the semis. 1 set makes a different, and gives hope to narrow the loss or overtake.

Pavade can also take 2, as I said with her results - she has the level. but if she takes 1, that job is 50% done.

French mens are strong, women is weaker, if the womens can get at least 1 set, and the mens take 3, that is half way there. I still stand my ground saying the French is missing 1 more women.

She might not have the form now, but she has the level. Or is it, according to you, her level is now no longer? lol

also, 3 set match is totally different.
I have been there, have you?
My experience is the pressure is on the stronger player not to loose a set, than the weaker player to try and gain a set.

Look at the Egypt vs Chile match

2-1 is so important, they are now 6-6.

the stronger player should of taken 3-0 and if it happened, the score would be 7-5 now and 1 set away from victory.

so the goal for these events is for the weaker player to score min 1 set and not to loose 0-3 and that is a minor victory in the battle.

imagine winning 3 of the 5 and loosing:
2-1
2-1
2-1
1-2
0-3
equals 7-8

 

[zeio]

Day 1 went more or less as expected.

Chitale missing her XD partner Shah here hurt their odds a bit more than I expected and Batra losing to Rakovac after blowing that lead changed the course of the match between IND and CRO.

Not having Goda (yet to fly in from WYC 2025?) put EGY on the defensive in WS and WD and fortunately they came out on top in XD/MS/MD. CHI fought well and made them earn the win.

Same for ROU without Chirita (yet to fly in from WYC 2025?). OTOH, GER performed slightly below par.

KOR came well-prepared as in 2023 and 2024. Not much to add for SWE.

S1
G1
M1 CHN 8-1 HKG
M2 EGY 8-7 CHI
G3
M1 KOR 8-3 SWE
M2 TPE 8-3 USA
G2
M1 JPN 8-1 AUS
M2 IND 6-8 CRO
G4
M2 FRA 8-0 BRA
M1 GER 8-5 ROU

CHN would've been Z tier if FZD, ML, and CM were there like at XTWC 2023.
JPN would've been A tier if Kihara were there and Harimoto siblings and Hayata could work along before their rift like at XTWC 2023.

 

[PoppaChubby]

 

[zeio]

Day 2. XD being the weakest link put KOR at a disadvantage but TPE couldn't keep up in subsequent matches w/o singles players. IND gave JPN a good scare after Ito and Matsushima played like amateurs.

S1
G3
M4 SWE 8-0 USA
M3 KOR 8-6 TPE
G2
M3 JPN 8-4 IND
M4 AUS 3-8 CRO
G4
M4 ROU 8-2 BRA
M3 GER 8-4 FRA
G1
M3 CHN 8-0 EGY
M4 HKG 8-2 CHI

Day 1 went more or less as expected.

Chitale missing her XD partner Shah here hurt their odds a bit more than I expected and Batra losing to Rakovac after blowing that lead changed the course of the match between IND and CRO.

Not having Goda (yet to fly in from WYC 2025?) put EGY on the defensive in WS and WD and fortunately they came out on top in XD/MS/MD. CHI fought well and made them earn the win.

Same for ROU without Chirita (yet to fly in from WYC 2025?). OTOH, GER performed slightly below par.

KOR came well-prepared as in 2023 and 2024. Not much to add for SWE.

S1
G1
M1 CHN 8-1 HKG
M2 EGY 8-7 CHI
G3
M1 KOR 8-3 SWE
M2 TPE 8-3 USA
G2
M1 JPN 8-1 AUS
M2 IND 6-8 CRO
G4
M2 FRA 8-0 BRA
M1 GER 8-5 ROU

 

[JackJohnson]

Day 2. XD being the weakest link put KOR at a disadvantage but TPE couldn't keep up in subsequent matches w/o singles players. IND gave JPN a good scare after Ito and Matsushima played like amateurs.

S1
G3
M4 SWE 8-0 USA
M3 KOR 8-6 TPE
G2
M3 JPN 8-4 IND
M4 AUS 3-8 CRO
G4
M4 ROU 8-2 BRA
M3 GER 8-4 FRA
G1
M3 CHN 8-0 EGY
M4 HKG 8-2 CHI

Never underestimate India. They are one of the couple of teams who have made big improvements in a short amount of time so far. To see Mima and Sora lose their games against Batra and Thakkur was not something I expected to see.

Manush Shah should have definitely been selected for this squad. Can play XD and MD well and is also playing in the XD WTT Finals later on this month.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Never underestimate India. They are one of the couple of teams who have made big improvements in a short amount of time so far. To see Mima and Sora lose their games against Batra and Thakkur was not something I expected to see.

Manush Shah should have definitely been selected for this squad. Can play XD and MD well and is also playing in the XD WTT Finals later on this month.

Indeed, never underestimate India.
Look how they did in the World Youth Championship and even Asian Youth Championships.
I am sure CNT does not underestimate them, especially since AYC

 

[zeio]

Never underestimate India. They are one of the couple of teams who have made big improvements in a short amount of time so far. To see Mima and Sora lose their games against Batra and Thakkur was not something I expected to see.

Manush Shah should have definitely been selected for this squad. Can play XD and MD well and is also playing in the XD WTT Finals later on this month.

Not having Shah here is the primacy reason I place IND under Tier D along with CRO that has been playing well even without Gacina.

 

[zeio]

Day 3. Session 1 has finalized the group standings.

S1
G4
M5 GER 8-2 BRA
M6 FRA 8-6 ROU
G2
M5 JPN 8-2 CRO
M6 IND 5-8 AUS
G3
M5 KOR 8-0 USA
M6 TPE 2-8 SWE
G1
M5 CHN 8-0 CHI
M6 EGY 2-8 HKG

G1
CHN > HKG > EGY > CHI
G2
JPN > CRO > AUS > IND
G3
KOR > SWE > TPE > USA
G4
GER > FRA > ROU > BRA

Got right:
CHN, JPN, KOR and GER at the top of their respective group;
HKG in 2nd;
EGY in 3rd;
USA, BRA and CHI in 4th.

Got 50/50:
ROU and FRA were unfortunately drawn to the same group and the former lost to the latter by a 2-game margin. I guess that means the Lebrun brothers carried the team more than Szocs and Samara could manage.

Got wrong:
TPE (still held back by injuries) and IND took me for a ride.
CRO and AUS punched above their weight. A big pat on the back.

CHN would've been Z tier if FZD, ML, and CM were there like at XTWC 2023.
JPN would've been A tier if Kihara were there and Harimoto siblings and Hayata could work along before their rift like at XTWC 2023.

 

[OvrChkn]

If I have it right, the second round of groups will have each team playing each other, except for their first group opponent, so that means there are 5 more matches of at least for each country? I almost panicked cause I thought the results were match based, not games based. You get off to a bad start in doubles and your next singles player is going to have a lot of pressure.

 

[zeio]

Day 4. Harimoto2/Hayata for WD buff JPN to B+ tier.

S2
M1 CHN 8-0 CRO
M2 KOR 8-7 FRA
M4 JPN 8-2 HKG
M3 GER 8-5 SWE

CHN would've been Z tier if FZD, ML, and CM were there like at XTWC 2023.
JPN would've been A tier if Kihara were there and Harimoto siblings and Hayata could work along before their rift like at XTWC 2023.

 

[zeio]

Day 5, Session 1.

S2
M5 CHN 8-0 KOR
M6 CRO 3-8 FRA

M7 HKG 7 8-5 6 SWE
WCT/DHK 1-2 Kallberg2/Karlsson
ZCZ 3-0 Bergstrom
LSH 1-2 Kallberg1
CHW/WCT 2-1 (7-4) Kallberg1/Karlsson
ZCZ/NWL 1-1 Kallberg2/Bergstrom

M8 JPN 8-3 GER
Matsushima/Odo 2-1 Duda/Mittelham
Harimoto2 3-0 Kaufmann
Harimoto1 1-2 QD
Matsushima/Togami 2-0 Duda/Franziska
Harimoto2/Hayata - Kaufmann/Winter

p.s.
Session 2.

S2
M9 CHN 8-2 FRA
M10 KOR 8-5 HKG
M11 GER 8-1 CRO
M12 JPN 8-0 SWE

Stage 2 Group Standings after round 4:
CHN > JPN > KOR > GER > HKG > FRA > CRO > SWE

 

[zeio]

Day 6, Session 1.

S2
M13 CHN 8-4 GER
M14 HKG 8-7 FRA

p.s.
Session 2.

S2
M15 SWE 1-8 CRO
M16 JPN 8-2 KOR

Stage 2 Group Standings after round 5:
CHN > JPN > KOR > GER > HKG > FRA > CRO > SWE