Liebherr Men's World Cup Table Tennis, Halmstad, Sweden; participants list

Participants at a previous World Cup

The following is the list of participants for the World Cup Liebherr Men's World Cup

Table Tennis World Cup participants

HENZELL William   AUS	127
GARDOS Robert   AUT	26
TSUBOI Gustavo   BRA	65
FAN Zhendong   CHN	3
MA Long   CHN	1
ASSAR Omar   EGY	35
GAUZY Simon   FRA	28
OVTCHAROV Dimitrij   GER	5
GIONIS Panagiotis   GRE	25
TANG Peng   HKG	15
ACHANTA Sharath Kamal   IND	59
MIZUTANI Jun   JPN	6
NIWA Koki   JPN	14
FREITAS Marcos   POR	8
APOLONIA Tiago   POR	22
GAO Ning   SIN	20
KARLSSON Kristian   SWE	61
KALLBERG Anton   SWE	85
CHUANG Chih-Yuan   TPE	10
BUTLER Jimmy   USA	442

Sharath Kamal off to a good start at World Cup Table Tennis 2013

Sharath Kamal is in elite company at the World Cup in Belgium. His competitors include the likes of Xu Xin, Timo Boll, Ovtcharov, Samsonov, among a host of others.

In a Stage 1 match, Sharath snatched victory from the jaws of defeat against Australian legend William Henzell 12-14, 10-12, 9-11, 11-6, 11-8, 11-3, 12-10. Henzell was the youngest inductee into Australia's Hall of Fame at age 26, at that time, 20 years younger than any other inductee.

Sharath now plays Hong Kong's Tang Peng in a crucial match that will most likely decides who advances to the Stage 2, that has the World's top players waiting. It is worth noting that Sharath Kamal is the first Indian to qualify for this elite championships whose past winners include Waldner, Persson, Kong Linghui, Liu Guoliang, Vladimir Samsonov, Ma Lin, Wang Hao (王皓), Timo Boll and Zhang Jike.

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Liu Shiwen hopes to maintain winning record at World Cup Table Tennis tournament

Just 22 years old, but already with two World cup Table Tennis tournament titles to her credit, in addition to being the World's No. 1 Woman Table Tennis player.

The World Cup tournament starts on 23 September at Kobe, Japan.

Ma Long crashes to defeat against Chuang Chih-Yuan

World No. 2, Ma Long faced a stunning 0-4 loss to Chuang Chih-Yuan in the World Cup Table Tennis group stages. The tournament is being held at Liverpool, England.
In other significant results, Michael Maze took revenge over Ovtcharov (who won the bronze medal there).

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)