Table Tennis 2024 Discussion Thread

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2 hours ago, MatiReimundo said:

why not? internal requirements or he lost some sort of national trial?

Not sure on the factors, but if I had to guess, I’d think that the German table tennis federation decided their entries in men’s singles based off the World Rankings, and their 3rd player based off team event pedigree. Boll, who will only compete in the team event was actually ranked 27th, behind Franziska in 16th, but since he’s known to perform well during the team event that really helps Germany’s medal chances. IMO if it were up to me I would’ve picked Franziska instead of Ovtcharov for singles, even if he’s the reigning Olympic bronze medalist. He hasn’t been in the greatest of form so far this year.

Edited May 10 by Josh

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Table tennis legend  Timo Boll has officially announced his retirement. 
 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7emmgHt-7A/?igsh=Y3VnaWR2YTdydWFi

 

Paris 2024 will be his final tournament. I’ll post a bit about him “Athletes Retirements” thread when the time comes.

Edited May 29 by Josh

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WTT Champions Macau

 

Men

1.  Lin Shidong

2.  Dang Qiu

3.  Wang Chuqin

3.  Kao Cheng-Jui

 

Women

1.  Sun Yingsha 

2.  Wang Yidi

3.  Miwa Harimoto

3.  Wang Manyu

 

Shidong and Harimoto are only 19 and 16 respectively! Qiu creates a little bit of history becomes the first European to reach the final. 
 

Full Results

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WTT China Smash

 

Men’s Singles

1.  Lin Shidong

2.  Ma Long

3.  Xiang Peng

3.  Liang Jingkun

 

Women’s Singles

1.  Sun Yingsha 

2.  Wang Manyu

3.  Chen Xingtong

3.  Fan Siqi

 

Men’s Doubles

1.  Liang Jingkun/Wang Chuqin

2.  Lin Gaoyuan/Lin Shidong

3.  Yuan Licen/Xiang Peng

3.  Alexis Lebrun/Felix Lebrun

 

Women’s Doubles

1.  Qian Tianyi/Chen Xingtong

2.  Wang Yidi/Sun Yingsha

3.  Chen Yi/Xu Yi

3.  Chen I-Ching/Li Yu-Jhun

 

Mixed Doubles

1.  Lin Shidong/Kuai Man

2.  Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Yidi

3.  Xue Fei/Qian Tianyi

3.  Kristian Karlsson/Christina Kallberg
 

Full Results

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I assume this is one of the biggest surprises ever in this sport 

 

World #1  Wang Chuqin lost to 14 years old  Benyamin Faraji at the Asian Championships today.  China still survived the team match 3-1

(OK I know Wang is not playing well recently but still)

 

ps: it's unbelievable but Iran actually had a chance to do the impossible and beat China, Noshad was competitive in both of his matches against Lin Shidong and Wang Chuqin.