Truls Moregardh Set to play in Chinese Super League

[mikeytt]

A swedish article (Behind a paywall but cant find anything else) has been posted which states that Truls Moregardh will be participating in the upcoming Chinese Super League making him the eighth european player to play in the prestigious league.

 

[JJ Ng]

A swedish article (Behind a paywall but cant find anything else) has been posted which states that Truls Moregardh will be participating in the upcoming Chinese Super League making him the eighth european player to play in the prestigious league.

Awesome. Can we view Chinese Super League matches on YouTube somewhere?

 

[Tinykin]

Möregårdh to China's Super League: "Biggest thing that happened"

UPDATED YESTERDAY 18:48 PUBLISHED YESTERDAY 18:45

Truls Möregårdh, 21, will play in the Chinese Super League.

Something very few Europeans have had the chance to do.

- It is among the biggest things that have happened in my career, says the Swedish table tennis star to TT.

This weekend, Möregårdh will become only the eighth European to play in the Chinese Super League since 2001.

- That's where you want to be, in China and meet the very best. It is among the biggest things that have happened in my career. It can hardly get bigger in table tennis, says Möregårdh.

The last time a Swede played in the Chinese Super League was in 2012–13 when the legendary Jörgen Persson got the chance.

- It will be great fun to see how difficult it is and feel the level. You have met a couple of the players before and you know that it is not always great fun to play against them, says the shooting star, who took silver in the WC in Houston 2021, jokingly.

 

[PaddyPolar]

Big change from the bundesliga.

 

[SFF_lib]

They used to invite Diaz and Hugo right? They should include more international players

 

[Fnub]

Sounds interesting . At the latest match T.Moregard - Wang Chuqin viewers could really see the difference in level, WCQ's footwork compared to the top Euro player. Truls just gave up in the third game. Always non-chinese player in Chinese league is pretty unique and interesting to watch

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

They used to invite Diaz and Hugo right? They should include more international players

Many internationals play in the Jia A league. one division below super.
There is more teams and more players in Jia A, compared to super league.
Jia A is so open for overseas that an overseas team can book a "team spot" in the league. Like this year (2 weeks ago), Hong Kong, Singapore and a Team from Taiwan took part.

CTTA and the club in Super will only recruit foreigners if there is 1) good commercial value and/or 2) good enough.

Ariel Hsing for example was somewhat of a commericial value as CTTA wanted to push the relationship with USA. Ariel only played one game if i'm correct.

 

[piligrim]

Many internationals play in the Jia A league. one division below super.
There is more teams and more players in Jia A, compared to super league.
Jia A is so open for overseas that an overseas team can book a "team spot" in the league. Like this year (2 weeks ago), Hong Kong, Singapore and a Team from Taiwan took part.

CTTA and the club in Super will only recruit foreigners if there is 1) good commercial value and/or 2) good enough.

Ariel Hsing for example was somewhat of a commericial value as CTTA wanted to push the relationship with USA. Ariel only played one game if i'm correct.

Is there is youtube channel with games from Jia A?

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Is there is youtube channel with games from Jia A?

I did see some videos surfacing around last 2 weeks with games of Taiwanese players
I will need to try and remember where I saw them. will post when I see them

 

[backspacer]

Awesome. Can we view Chinese Super League matches on YouTube somewhere?

A few channels cut highlights afterwards usually. You might find a restream on Twitch if you wanna see it live.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Few free to check Jia A here

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/2023-chinese-jia-a-table-tennis-league-videos.31554/

I will try and post Super League too

 

[SofaChamp]

Found this on a German forum- This year's lineups:

1 Shandong Luneng

MA Long
YUAN Licen
LIU Dingshuo
XU Yingbin
YAN An

Coaches: GUO Keli, YAN An

2 Shanghai

FAN Zhendong
XU Xin
ZHOU Kai
ZHAO Zihao
SUN Zheng

Coach: ZHANG Yang

3 Huangshi

LIN Shidong
XIANG Peng
XUE Fei
WEI Shihao

Coaches: WANG Jianjun, LI Meng

4 Shandong Weiqiao

WANG Chuqin
LIANG Jingkun
ZHOU Qihao
YU Ziyang

Coaches: YIN Xiao, LIU Yi

5 Lexuan

LIANG Yanning
SAI Linwei
GAO Yang
ZHOU Yu
MOREGARD Truls

Coaches: FAN Changmao, BAI Yang, LIU Yu

6 Shantou

LIN Gaoyuan
XU Haidong
MA Te
LI Yijie

Coach: ZHAI Chao

7 Sichuan

SUN Wen
CAO Wei
YAN Sheng
ZHU Linfeng
LENG Dapeng

Coach: XIE Yuezhang

8 Shenzhen

NIU Guankai
XU Chenhao
LIU Yebo
CHENG Jingqi

Coach: C
HEN Bin

9 Jiangsu

QUAN Kaiyuan
ZHAO Zhaoyan
YANG Shuo
SUN Jiayi
LIN Chen

 

[Zwill]

On paper this should be a wrap for Shandong Weiqiao but I like surprises.

Wang Chuqin strategically placed in the same team as Zhou Qihao, no 11-0 nonsense this year

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

On paper this should be a wrap for Shandong Weiqiao but I like surprises.

Wang Chuqin strategically placed in the same team as Zhou Qihao, no 11-0 nonsense this year

Shanghai looks stronger to me

 

[NextLevel]

Shanghai looks stronger to me

Interesting. Shandong Weiqao clearly has 2 #1s, maybe 3, and an amazing balance between lefties and righties, no other team can boast that, though it depends on how you rate Xu Xin and Zhou Kai for Shanghai. Ma Long also has a way of making the young ones like Yuan Licen and Xu Yingbin play better so that will be interesting as well.

 

[piligrim]

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

starts today!

 

[JJ Ng]

Found this on a German forum- This year's lineups:

1 Shandong Luneng

MA Long
YUAN Licen
LIU Dingshuo
XU Yingbin
YAN An

Coaches: GUO Keli, YAN An

2 Shanghai

FAN Zhendong
XU Xin
ZHOU Kai
ZHAO Zihao
SUN Zheng

Coach: ZHANG Yang

3 Huangshi

LIN Shidong
XIANG Peng
XUE Fei
WEI Shihao

Coaches: WANG Jianjun, LI Meng

4 Shandong Weiqiao

WANG Chuqin
LIANG Jingkun
ZHOU Qihao
YU Ziyang

Coaches: YIN Xiao, LIU Yi

5 Lexuan

LIANG Yanning
SAI Linwei
GAO Yang
ZHOU Yu
MOREGARD Truls

Coaches: FAN Changmao, BAI Yang, LIU Yu

6 Shantou

LIN Gaoyuan
XU Haidong
MA Te
LI Yijie

Coach: ZHAI Chao

7 Sichuan

SUN Wen
CAO Wei
YAN Sheng
ZHU Linfeng
LENG Dapeng

Coach: XIE Yuezhang

8 Shenzhen

NIU Guankai
XU Chenhao
LIU Yebo
CHENG Jingqi

Coach: C
HEN Bin

9 Jiangsu

QUAN Kaiyuan
ZHAO Zhaoyan
YANG Shuo
SUN Jiayi
LIN Chen

Xu Xin playing? I thought he retired?

 

[Fnub]

Xu Xin playing? I thought he retired?

He doesn't play International tournaments but still plays local like Chinese Super Legue. A year before he played too

 

[lodro]

great chance for Truls to learn some more tricks from the chines players.
great chance for the chinese players to study all Truls tricks 🙃