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Draw Made For ITTF World Group Championships Finals In Busan

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Beijing, Jan 16 (IANS) The draw for the ITTF World Group Desk Tennis Championships Finals was made on the Busan e-Sports activities Area on Tuesday, with South Korea set to host the occasion for the primary time.

As defending champions, China occupy the top-seeded positions in each males’s and girls’s staff occasions on the match, which can be held in Busan from February 16 to 25.

Within the ladies’s staff draw, China are positioned in Group 1 with Hungary, India, Spain and Uzbekistan. Led by world No. 1 Solar Yingsha, China are chasing their twenty third title within the occasion, Xinhua experiences.

Within the males’s staff class, the world’s prime two gamers Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin will spearhead China’s marketing campaign. Their title protection will begin with group matches in opposition to Croatia, Hungary, Belgium and Cuba.

Each males’s and girls’s staff occasions will see eight teams of 5 groups trying to advance to the knockout rounds. Every match is determined by best-of-five singles matches, with particular person matches being best-of-five video games. Every group will play a spherical robin, with every staff dealing with off in opposition to the opposite 4 groups of their group.

After the spherical robin is accomplished, the highest three groups from every group advance to the knockout section, that means 24 groups advance in whole. Group winners will obtain seeded positions, with the remainder drawn into the knockout rounds in a method that ensures groups from the identical group gained’t meet once more within the first spherical.

–IANS

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