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In the news at WTT Contender Istanbul 2026, Mixed Team World Cup 2026, WTT Champions Frankfurt 2026, WTT Champions Montpellier 2026
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- International
Anna Hursey to meet top seed Hashimoto at WTT Contender Istanbul as Yokotani questions fault calls
The Welsh 12th seed reached the women's last 16, while the Japanese qualifier lost to China's 19-year-old defender after two service faults at 9-9.
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Bats and gold medal from unified Korea's 1991 world title named as South Korean heritage
Five items from the joint North and South Korean team that beat China to win the women's team title at the 1991 World Championships in Chiba have been named preliminary cultural heritage in South Korea.
- Update
World Para Championships: Will Bayley has a bye to the class 7 quarter-finals as the draws are made in Pattaya
The defending class 7 champion will play China's Yan Shuo or the Netherlands' Yannick Paredis in his first match, with every event in Thailand played as a straight knockout.
- Update
WTT Contender Istanbul: Ao Hualei wins 16-14 in the decider as Tianer Yu comes through her first qualifying match
China's Ao Hualei lost the first game 11-1 and needed a 16-14 decider to beat Iran's Amin Ahmadian on the opening day of qualifying, and now meets England's Connor Green.
- International
Mixed Team World Cup: Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha lead China squad as Chen Yi and Zhou Qihao earn places
Four players go on singles ranking, two on doubles ranking and two on recent results for the home event in Chengdu, with Wen Ruibo, Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong left out.
- Update
Liang Jingkun pulls out of WTT Contender Istanbul days after his comeback in Frankfurt
Liang Jingkun has been taken out of the men's singles and men's doubles at WTT Contender Istanbul, leaving a young Chinese squad to play the event.
- International
Wang Chuqin says his slump has let him take a hard look at himself after WTT Champions Frankfurt exit
The world No 4 thanked China's coaches and teammates and promised to find a better version of himself after an autumn of injury and defeat.
- Update
Lin Gaoyuan plans table tennis return for Guangdong at China's National Championships after drift racing season
Lin Gaoyuan, the former China international and world champion, plans to return to table tennis at the National Championships for Guangdong after a season of drift racing.
- International
Japan take half of the 2026 WTT Champions singles titles as China's men end the series without one
Miwa Harimoto beat a Chinese player in all three of her finals, and no Chinese man has reached a semi-final since Wen Ruibo's run in Chongqing in March.
- Day 5 review
WTT Champions Frankfurt day five review: Franziska knocks out Matsushima as Winter beats Chen Yi
Two Germans are in the semi-finals after Franziska beat the world No 1 12-10 in the sixth game, while Japan have five of the last eight and China none.
- International
China's coaches say Youth Olympic Games exposed weakness under pressure after Dakar ends without a medal
Wu Hao said both of Li Hechen's defeats were decided after 10-10, and Zheng Changgong said Chen Min-hsin was more decisive than Yao Ruixuan in the seventh game.
- Day 5 preview
WTT Champions Frankfurt day five preview: Winter meets Chen Yi as Matsushima plays Franziska
Four Germans play in the quarter-finals, Miwa Harimoto and Chen Xingtong meet again after the Yokohama final, and Wen Ruibo carries China's hopes against Lin Yun-Ju.
- Analysis
How much do the top players play? Eleven counted every WTT match since June
Five of the 20 players in the two world top 10s are missing from WTT Champions Frankfurt. Eleven counted every WTT match the top 20 have played since June, and the busiest players on the tour are mostly not the ones who have been injured.
- International
Youth Olympic Games: China leave without a table tennis medal for the first time as Otálvaro beats Li Hechen
The 16-year-old Colombian won a fifth game that he had led 9-5 and then trailed, as Miku Matsushima reached the girls' semi-finals without dropping a game.
- International
Fake live streams of Sun Yingsha's WTT Champions Montpellier semi-final used to sell goods in China
Hosts spliced old match audio with invented scores five hours before the real match began, then sold pain-relief patches and eye drops at the tense moments.
- International
Youth Olympic Games: Ryusei Kawakami and Miku Matsushima win mixed doubles gold for Japan
The Japanese pair, who knocked out China in the quarter-finals, beat Hong Kong in the Dakar final, while Taiwan came from behind against Thailand to take bronze.
- Analysis
Why no two table tennis tables play alike
China's players called the tables at the first US Smash too slippery, and a month later Wang Chuqin found Yokohama's too slow. The laws allow more variety than most fans realise, and they always have.
- Analysis
WTT's money, part two: where it comes from, and what the 2025 accounts show
WTT made its first profit in 2024, and the wider ITTF group recorded a $14.4m loss in 2025 as it took on more of the cost of running events. The published accounts show where income and costs have grown and how the revenue mix has changed.
- Analysis
WTT's money, part one: China's money, and where it goes
China supplies the crowds, sponsors and television audiences that make the professional circuit a major sport. Tournament income there is shared between local organisers and WTT, and the published accounts do not break WTT's revenue down by country.
- Day 6 preview
WTT Champions Montpellier finals day preview: Sun Yingsha meets Wang Yidi, Moregard plays Franziska
China are certain of the women's title, and Moregard is the last of the top four men's seeds left, with both finals in the late afternoon.
- Day 5 review
WTT Champions Montpellier day five review: Kuai Man ends Miwa Harimoto's run as Moregard survives
Four of the eight quarter-finals went the full seven games, and all four women's semi-finalists are Chinese.
- Day 5 preview
WTT Champions Montpellier day five preview: Miwa Harimoto faces Kuai Man as Moregard meets Lin Shidong
Five Chinese women are in the last eight, and Truls Moregard is the only one of the top four men's seeds still in the draw.
- Analysis
Japan's choppers keep an old art alive as defence disappears from the men's game
Honoka Hashimoto won both her matches against China in this month's Asian team final by chopping. The style once produced world champions, and it has all but gone from the men's ranking.
- Analysis
Exported talent: why a quarter of the women's world top 100 learned the game in China
Han Ying's exit in Montpellier was a reminder of how many of the world's best women grew up in Chinese table tennis. Among the men, almost all of those who did still play for China.
- International
WTT Champions Montpellier 2026 preview: Wang Chuqin out as Lebrun brothers and Sun Yingsha learn their openers
Félix Lebrun opens against Anders Lind, Sun Yingsha returns against Camille Lutz, and Lin Shidong leads China's men after the world champion's withdrawal.
- International
Asian Championships 2026: Harimoto and Chen Yi win singles titles as China and Japan share the honours
Harimoto came from two games down to beat Li Tianyang, Chen Yi swept Miwa Harimoto, and Japan's women came from 2-1 down to beat China in the team final.