Mission accomplished, on Sunday 9th October, China, the top seeds, beat Germany, the no.2 seeds, to win the men’s team title at the 2022 ITTF World Team Championships Finals Chengdu Presented by China Telecom. A 3-0 margin of victory; Fan Zhendong beat Benedikt Duda (11-8, 11-8, 11-9), Ma Long overcame Dang Qiu (11-9, 11-6, 9-11, 11-1), […]
Hosts China have sealed the men's title for the 10th consecutive time
at the World Team Table Tennis Championships after defeating Germany
in Chengdu, following on from the women's triumph from yesterday.
Four simultaneous visits to four different countries; this kind of globe-trotting had not happened since the beginning of 2020 – a different era. But as the world is reopening after two years marked by the pandemic, the ITTF leadership has been striving to reconnect with its membership. ITTF President Petra Sörling is currently in Rimini, […]
A fourth round men’s singles exit at the 2021 ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals in Houston for Kristian Karlsson, even earlier for colleague Mattias Falck, he departed in round two; both may well have hoped for better outcomes. Disappointment but then elation; they combined to win the men’s doubles and thus became the only […]