The Chinese National Men's Team has been announced for the World Team Championships 2012!

Last Friday, Liu Guoliang the head of the Chinese National Table Tennis team released the list of players to represent China in the upcoming World Team Championships 2012. The players sent are the players preparing for the London 2012 Olympics. The men's list is below. To see who will be representing the China for the Women's event click here

Xu Xin (Left), Ma Long (Right) - Photo by: Xinhua/Wang Lili

The line up for the World Team Championships for China this year in 2012 is identical to the team in Moscow 2010 which saw Ma Long, Zhang Jike, Wang Hao, Ma Lin and Xu Xin defeated Germany in the final.

Mens Team

Ma Long
Zhang Jike
Wang Hao
Xu Xin
Ma Lin

Liu Guoliang expressed in an interview on sohu.com that, "2012 is an important year, it's the Olympic year. We have our five men who all have a great chance to win the London Olympic games. This World Team Championships is our biggest tournament prior to the Olympics, we can use this as a measure to see if the training is paying off".

Good luck to China in the World Team Table Tennis Championships 2012! Be sure to follow all the latest news feeds from the WTTTC 2012 which begins on the 25th March here

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Photo source: sohu.com

 

[markog99]

standard line up

 

[TableTennisDaily]

standard line up

Haha yes, was expected ... such a shame for other fantastic players in the team tho.

 

[TTHopeful]

Good luck China!

 

[PingPonger]

Three Penholder. woohh!