BEIJING, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) — World Table Tennis (WTT) introduced on Tuesday that six women and men from the world prime 20 paddlers, together with world No. 1s Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha of China, will contend within the WTT Star Contender Goa 2023 that will get underway later this month.
The WTT Star Contender Goa will happen from February 27 to March 5, marking the primary time that the WTT Series competitors is held in India.
Fan, who stays on prime of the lads’s singles world rankings for 52 consecutive weeks and received the maiden Grand Smash title final 12 months in Singapore, will look to maintain his momentum in his first WTT competitors in 2023.
Sun closed out her 12 months of 2022 in worldwide competitions by triumphing on the WTT Cup Finals, and can be out for back-to-back WTT Series success in Goa.
Headlined by Fan and Sun, the line-up headed to India additionally included reigning Olympic singles gold medalists Ma Long and Chen Meng of China, rising stars Tomokazu Harimoto of Japan and Truls Moregard of Sweden, Japan’s Kasumi Ishikawa and German veteran Han Ying.
According to the WTT Series Top 20 Play Down Restriction (PDR), primary draw of the lads’s and girls’s singles at Star Contender occasions is restricted to a most of six gamers from inside the prime 20 of the ITTF Table Tennis world rankings on the time of the entry deadline.
The WTT stated the match’s wildcards can be introduced within the coming days.