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The Table Tennis World Cup has been held annually since 1980. There had only been men's singles until the start of women's singles in 1996 and team competitions in 1990. The team competitions were canceled until the relaunch in 2007, and now held in odd-numbered years.
The 40 teams were drawn into eight groups of five teams. After a round robin in each group, the top team advanced to the round of 16, while the second and third-placed teams played in the round of 24, in the knockout stage. A team match consisted of five singles matches, where each singles match was decided in best-of-5 games. [3]
The mixed doubles competition of the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships was held from 23 to 28 November 2021. [1] Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen were the defending champions, but neither competed this year. Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha won the title after defeating Tomokazu Harimoto and Hina Hayata 11–2, 11–5, 11–8.
The first international tournament was held in January 1926 in Berlin, and the first World Table Tennis Championships was held in December 1926 in London. [5] It was the only event for over 50 years that was run and managed commercially by the ITTF. In 1980, the ITTF World Cups was introduced, followed by the ITTF World Tour in 1996. Until 2003 ...
The 2020 ITTF Men's World Cup was a table tennis competition held in Weihai, China, from 13 to 15 November 2020.It was the 41st edition of the ITTF-sanctioned event.After series of cancellation of tournaments due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports this year, the ITTF World Cup is one of the three year-end tournaments that conclude the table tennis calendar in 2020.
The 2022 FIFA World Cup — the 22nd edition of the international soccer tournament — will be held in Qatar. This is the first time that the World Cup will be held in the Middle East.. The group ...
Widely regarded as the greatest table tennis player of all time, [9] [10] [11] he is the only male player to complete a career Double Grand Slam as the Olympic gold medalist in men's singles in 2016 and 2020. [12] He is also the only table tennis athlete to win 6 gold medals in summer Olympics — no other table tennis player has more than four ...
at the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships; Venue: Messe Düsseldorf: Location: Düsseldorf, Germany: Dates: 29 May – 5 June: Final score: 7–11, 11–6, 11–3 ...