World Team Table Tennis Championships 2018

[TableTennisDaily]

The World Team Table Tennis Championships is just around the corner with the action beginning in Halmstad on Sunday 29th April and concluding on Sunday 6th May 2018. What a year 2018 has been so far with recent the World Tours and World Team Cup. The next major event in store for the table tennis World will be the upcoming World Team Table Tennis Championships in Sweden! Reigning World team champions China, won the championships in 2016 defeating Japan in the final by 3 matches to 0. This year Germany enter the event ranked World number 1 in the teams. Can Germany pose a threat on the formidable Chinese National Team?

Today's Match Schedule.

Live matches from the World Team Table Tennis Championships 2018 links coming soon...

Group Stages

MEN - Championship Division - Second Division - Third Division

WOMEN - Championship Division - Second Division - Third Division


Men's Team Seedings


Chinese National Men's Team Champions 2016 in Kulala Lumpur - photo by: ITTF


Team and players

01) Germany - (Timo Boll, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Ruwen Filus, Bastian Steger, Patrick Franziska)
02) China - (Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Lin Gaoyuan, Ma Long Fang Bo, Wang Chuqin)
03) Japan - (Koki Niwa, Jun Mizutani, Tomokazu Harimoto, Kenta Matsudaira, Yuya Oshima)
04) France - (Simon Gauzy, Emmanuel Lebesson, Can Akkuzu, Quentin Robinot, Abdel Kader Salifou)
05) Korea Republic - (Lee Sangsu, Lim Jonghoon, Jung Youngsik, Jang Woojin, Jeoung Youngsik, Kim)
06) Chinese Taipei - (Chuang Chih Yuan, Chen Chien-An, Liao Cheng-Ting, Lin Yun-Ju, Lee Chia)
07) Hong Kong - (Wong Chun Ting, Ho Kwan Kit, NG Pak Nam, Jiang Tianyi, Lam Siu Hang)
08) Portugal - (Marcos Freitas, Tiago Apolonia, Joao Monteiro, Joao Geraldo, Diogo Carvalho)
09) Sweden - (Kristian Karlsson, Mattias Karlsson, Anton Kallberg, Jon Persson, Truls Moregard)
10) Brazil - (Hugo Calderano, Gustavo Tsuboi, Eric Jouti, Vitor Ishiy)
11) Austria - (Stefan Fegerl, Robert Gardos, Daniel Habesohn, Andreas Levenko, Alexander Chen)
12) England - (Paul Drinkhall, Liam Pitchford, Sam Walker, David Mcbeath, Tom Jarvis)
13) India
14) Belgium
15) Russia
16) Egyyt
17) Romania
18) Czech Republic
19) Belarus
20) Croatia
21) Singapore
22) Poland
23) Slovenia
24) Korea DPR


Full list of Men's teams in the Championship division here.


Women's Team Seedings


Chinese National Women's Team Champions of 2016 in Kuala Lumpur. Photo by: ITTF Flickr

In 2016 the Chinese National Women's team won the World Team Championships posting a 3-0 victory over Japan. Who will be crowed this years Women Team Champions?


Team and players

01) China
02) Japan
03) Chinese Taipei
04) Hong Kong
05) Korea Republic
06) Romania
07) Austria
08) Singapore
09) Russia
10) Hungary
11) Germany
12) Netherlands
13) Poland
14) Tailand
15) Ukraine
16) India
17) Egypt
18) Belarus
19) Korea DPR
20) Brazil
21) Luxembourg
22) Czech Republic
23) USA
24) Sweden


Full list of Women's teams in the Champion division here.


This is going to be a fantastic tournament so lets get started by discussing the seeds. Which country will be crowned this years Men's and Women's Team World Champions? So I'm sure everyone is looking forward to the World Team Table Tennis Championships 2016! Lets get things under way! Who have you voted in the TTD WTTTC 2018 poll? We can use this discussion as a means to display all the latest results, news, and more from this spectacular event! What are your predictions from each division?

 

[lugi2000]

I hope Germany send their top team. What are the confirmed lineups?

 

[ping fun]

On April 21, Beijing time, China’s table tennis team went to sweden wtttc . Guo Ping sent Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Lin Gaoyuan, Wang Chuqin, Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen, Zhu Yuling, Chen Meng, and Wang Manyu to play "Five Dragons and Five Phoenixes". Sparring players are Fang Bo, Zhou Qihao, Yan An, Gu Yuting, Hu Limei, Zhang Rui. After arriving in Sweden, the team firstly will train in Eskilstuna for five days and then will go to Halmstad on the 26th. The goal of the team is to bring back the men's team and women's team championship trophies .

 

[Sali]

I wonder what happened to Tristan Flore, he had great matches against top player (3:4 against Ma Long) and now suddenly I do not see him playing.
Of course his main weapon was serves, even Ma Long could not keep them short but anyway I liked his style

 

[Sali]

That is also interesting that japan sent Matsudaira who now is very predictable and is no threat for chinese or german players. I think Yoshimura, Ueda or even Masataka would make a difference. By the way Masataka has one of the best wining ratio in German League.

 

[Xylit]

I hope Germany send their top team. What are the confirmed lineups?

https://d3mjm6zw6cr45s.cloudfront.net/2018/04/WTTC18-Div1-M.pdf

 

[NextLevel]

I wonder what happened to Tristan Flore, he had great matches against top player (3:4 against Ma Long) and now suddenly I do not see him playing.
Of course his main weapon was serves, even Ma Long could not keep them short but anyway I liked his style

He has always had problems with injuries. He was a bigtime prodigy as a kid and one of the youngest French national champions ever, which if you know the French TT landscape is a huge achievement.

 

[zeio]

That is also interesting that japan sent Matsudaira who now is very predictable and is no threat for chinese or german players. I think Yoshimura, Ueda or even Masataka would make a difference. By the way Masataka has one of the best wining ratio in German League.

They needed his world ranking(2nd highest for JNT) to secure the team of the 3rd seed position(based on the 3 highest players) for the draw at the end of February. Besides, Matsu-ken and Oshima were picked based on their performance in 2017, as explained by JTTA.

In essence, all 5 members were chosen based on their World Ranking. Yoshimura was ranked at 21 and Morizono was at 48.

http://www.jtta.or.jp/Portals/0/ima...nament/2018pdf/20180311_2018WTTC_Halmstad.pdf

＜男子団体日本代表5名の推薦選手案＞ WR=世界ランキング
１．水谷 隼(木下グループ) WR7位(2017年12月)
●選考基準(1)-① 2017年12月発表世界ランキング順位最上位選手
２．張本 智和(JOC エリートアカデミー) WR11位(2月)
●選考基準(1)-② 平成29年度全日本卓球選手権大会シングルス優勝者
＜参考＞●選考基準(1)-③ 2018世界卓球選手権大会国内最終選考会の優勝者
３．丹羽 孝希(スヴェンソン) WR6位(2月)
●選考基準(1)-④ 2017年1月から2017年12月までの主要国際大会において世界ランキング順位3位以内の中国選手
に1度以上勝利した選手の中から最大1名 ＜アジア選手権にて許昕(WR3)に勝利＞
４．松平健太(木下グループ)WR10位(2月)
５．大島祐哉(木下グループ)WR18位(2月)
●選考基準(1)-⑥ ①〜⑤により選出された人数が、同一選手が重複して選出させるなどして5名に満たない場合は、
次の2点を勘案し強化本部にて選出する。
・2017年1月以降の主要国際大会の実績と内容の評価(松平健太・大島祐哉)
・国際競争力向上への高い潜在性があると思われる選手の評価

 

[Mytoman]

The seeding for the draw is based on the team world ranking 1-3, not on the entered players i believe. China could pick WR 79-83 and still be seeded #1, right?

The link with the team players is updated once a day. The teams may change players until the jury meeting next saturday, but they can not add an extra player.

 

[Sali]

The seeding for the draw is based on the team world ranking 1-3, not on the entered players i believe. China could pick WR 79-83 and still be seeded #1, right?

The link with the team players is updated once a day. The teams may change players until the jury meeting next saturday, but they can not add an extra player.

Wrong China is no 2 seed. Germany is no 1 thanks to single ranking

 

[Ioiettino]

He has always had problems with injuries. He was a bigtime prodigy as a kid and one of the youngest French national champions ever, which if you know the French TT landscape is a huge achievement.

Aye, good thing people think about him.


http://fr.butterflymag.com/2018/02/tristan-flore-jai-le-moral/



In essence:

- He's always had a hip malformation, on his left side. He was operated three years ago, and in 95% of cases that does the trick.

- ...Not so for him, and mid-december of last year he was back on the operating table (I should never look up these things in too much detail, but basically they gave his hip-bone a little "shaving" from the inside of the articulation, as I understand it).

- Three weeks later, he was back on his feet and walking without assistance. The operation went more smoothly than the first time, and he says he's been doing well mentally speaking.

- Of course, that's not good enough at athlete level. He then spent three weeks of intense, full-time physical rehab in a dedicated centre in south-western France (a nice place - right by the Atlantic ocean, close to Spain and not too far either from Bordeaux, if you care about these things).

- The aim was to develop stronger muscles in the whole surrounding area - upper thighs and "backside", as well as core - so as to support the whole darn thing and to avoid a repeat. Was very happy with the staff there and expected his full recovery (i.e. coming back to competiting) to take less time than following his first operation, which had taken between 7 and 8 months back then.

- By now, he should have been back in training at Insep (French national TT training centre) for a little while. Of course the article was a couple of months old and, as stated, they should now be focusing on getting back into shape and finding the best time for a come-back - hopefully before summer.



Of course, as anyone who is serious about table tennis, I assume Tristan reads TTD so here goes: get well and come back soon, Tristan!

 

[Mytoman]

Wrong China is no 2 seed. Germany is no 1 thanks to single ranking

That is correct Sali. My point was ment to be: It is the world team ranking based on player 1-3 that is used for the draw, not taking in to account the players entered for the championship. This is different from the team world cup in London. So: Germany may send the players they like from regional liga, and still be seeded 1

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[ping fun]

On april 21th , Wang tao , Zhang jike and other national table tennis players came to see the team off in the rain . Wang tao was repeatedly talking and giving advise to Fan zhendong and wang hao . Although zhang jike's not going to sweden but he came to visit his team mates on time. Also before ma long got on the bus , zhang jike stopped him and clapped with ma long with laughter . The scene og the two brothers clap is touching .

 

[Ioiettino]

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This photo is great. Genuine warmth!



Ahah I just realised, quite the sense of fashion for Ma long too.

 

[lugi2000]

https://d3mjm6zw6cr45s.cloudfront.net/2018/04/WTTC18-Div1-M.pdf

If Germany had a strong third player it would make such a difference

 

[bzing]

Is Zhang Jike now completely retired and stopped playing in international tournaments altogether? Will never show up at any world tour anymore?

 

[ping fun]

Is Zhang Jike now completely retired and stopped playing in international tournaments altogether? Will never show up at any world tour anymore?

No , he was in xiamen closed training and will participate in hong kong open and maybe china open too . He ' s not retire yet .

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

Is Zhang Jike now completely retired and stopped playing in international tournaments altogether? Will never show up at any world tour anymore?

he's out of shape. he cannot compete as he used to due to repeated injuries; I wouldn't be surprised if this season is his last, just to say goodbye to the fans.

 

[ping fun]

Japan's women team is ready to fight !

 

[TTHopeful]

Is Zhang Jike now completely retired and stopped playing in international tournaments altogether? Will never show up at any world tour anymore?

I heard a rumor he would play World Team Champs... well that dream is shattered!