Thiago Monteiro and Jeon Jihee bag Chile Open Table Tennis titles

Brazilian Thiago Monteiro beat Hampus Soderlund 4-2 (6-11, 11-7, 11-4, 11-7, 10-12, 11-9) to win the Men's singles title at the Chile Open tournament at Santiago. He was the top seed in the Challenge ITTF World tour event.

The Women's final was an all-Korean affair in which Jeon Jihee beat Yoon Sunae 12-10,12-10,11-6,11-7.

Photo courtesy of the ITTF

Brazil are favorites at the Latin American Table Tennis Championships at San Salvador

Brazil tops the seedings list in both the men's and women's team events at the Latin American championships.

In the Men's section, their team boasts of the famous trio of Thiago Monteiro, Cazuo Matsumoto, and Gustavo Tsuboi. Argentina represented by Rodrigo Gilabert, Diego Temperley, Pablo Tabachnik, and Gaston Alto, who finished runner up last time, will aim at upsetting the more established Brazlians.

In the Women's events, Caroline Kumahara, Ligia Silva, and Jessica Yamada will work at retaining the title.

World Cup Table Tennis participants

The Final List of players invited to the World Table Tennis Cup from tomorrow at Liverpool:

7 BOLL Timo (GER1)

91 HENZELL William (AUS)

127 MONTEIRO Thiago (BRA)

159 SALEH Ahmed Ali (EGY)

430 THERIAULT Pierre-Luc (CAN)

83 DRINKHALL Paul (ENG1)

21 MAZE Michael (DEN)

145 PITCHFORD Liam (ENG2)

2 MA Long (CHN2)

8 CHUANG Chih-Yuan (TPE)

9 OVTCHAROV Dmitrij (GER2)

11 JOO Saehyuk (KOR1)

12 OH Sangeun (KOR2)

15 SAMSONOV Vladimir (BLR)

17 JIANG Tianyi (HKG)

22 CRISAN Adrian (ROU)

24 FREITAS Marcos (POR)

29 MATTENET Adrien (FRA)