October 7, Beijing time.
Table Tennis Asian Championships Team Competition
It's about to kick off. The team competition takes place first on the first four days, and the signings for the main round have been announced. Men's team, China, Japan and South Korea, the three strongest teams are divided in the upper half of the zone, the national team to face Iran in the first round, Japan and South Korea will meet in the first game, the competition is fierce. Women's side, Japan and South Korea were divided in the lower half of the zone, the national team in the upper half, the first round opponent is not yet determined, may be from the qualifying round of the breakthrough team, may meet the "mysterious division" North Korea team.
This Asian Championships team competition has two phases: qualifying and main round. In the first stage of the qualifying round, the lower ranked teams will first play a round robin tournament, and then the first place in each group will play a knockout tournament to determine the two groups to advance to the main round and fill the two vacant seats. The first round of the main round is the eight-team tournament, there have been men and women each six teams directly into the final, the two teams of the national ping world ranking, naturally get the quota, Japan and South Korea and other stronger teams are no exception.
The currently determined groupings of the eight men's teams are:
China vs Iran and Japan vs Korea in the top half; India vs TBA teams and Chinese Taipei vs TBA teams in the bottom half.
The women's main round signings are: in the top half of the bracket China vs. teams to be determined and Hong Kong, China vs. Thailand; in the bottom half of the bracket Japan vs. teams to be determined and South Korea vs. India.
From the signing, the first half of the men's team is more competitive than the women's team, because China, Japan and South Korea men's team are very strong, Japan and South Korea will play each other in the first game, and the winners may touch the Chinese team in the second round. Women's team probability is that China and Japan will meet in the final, the two teams in different halves, the other team signing position has little impact on the final result.
October 7, twelve eight teams rest day, North Korea men's and women's team, Hong Kong, China men's team, Chinese Taipei women's team, Singapore men's and women's teams to participate in the qualifying rounds, let's wait and see the first day of the battle report.
