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table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
events taking place in 2018.


World table tennis events

;Senior * February 22 – 25:
2018 ITTF Team World Cup The 2018 ITTF Team World Cup was a table tennis competition held at the Copper Box Arena in London from 22 to 25 February 2018. It was the 11th edition of the ITTF-sanctioned event, and the first time that it had been held in the United Kingdom ...
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London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
** Men: ( Xu Xin, Ma Long, &
Fan Zhendong Fan Zhendong (; born 22 January 1997) is a Chinese professional table tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 1 for men's singles by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). After joining the Chinese National Table Tennis Team i ...
) ** Women: (
Liu Shiwen Liu Shiwen (; born 12 April 1991) is a Chinese table tennis player. She is a five-time World Cup champion, one-time World Champion, three-time ITTF World Tour Grand Finals champion and four-time Asian Cup champion. She is known to be one of the ...
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Ding Ning Ding Ning (; born 20 June 1990) is a former Chinese table tennis player. She was the winner of women's singles in the 2011 World Table Tennis Championships. At the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships, Ding won her second world title in ...
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Zhu Yuling Zhu Yuling (; born 10 January 1995) is a Chinese table tennis player. Career She was born in Mianyang in 1995 and played table tennis from the age of 5 as it occupied her when she was ill. At nine years old she and her mother moved so that she ...
) * April 29 – May 6:
2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships The 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships were held in Halmstad, Sweden from 29 April to 6 May 2018. The quarterfinal between North Korea and South Korea in the women's tournament did not take place, as the teams choose to continue as a uni ...
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** Men: (Fan Zhendong,
Lin Gaoyuan Lin Gaoyuan (simplified Chinese: 林高远; traditional Chinese: 林高遠; pinyin: ''Lín Gāoyuǎn''; born 19 March 1995) is a Chinese table tennis player. He was the Asian Cup champion in 2017, and was a member of the Chinese teams that took ...
, Ma Long, Wang Chuqin, & Xu Xin) ** Women: ( Chen Meng, Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen,
Wang Manyu Wang Manyu (, born 9 February 1999) is a Chinese table tennis player. She is the current world champion in women's singles and doubles. In the 2017 T2 Asia Pacific League, she replaced Ding Ning in round 2 for team Persson. 2018 began with Wang ...
, & Zhu Yuling) * September 28 – 30:
2018 ITTF Women's World Cup The 2018 ITTF Women's World Cup was a table tennis competition held in Chengdu, China, from 28 to 30 September 2018. It was the 22nd edition of the ITTF-sanctioned event, and the ninth time that it has been staged in China. In the final, China ...
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Chengdu Chengdu (, ; Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively Romanization of Chi ...
** Ding Ning defeated Zhu Yuling, 4–0, to win her third World Cup title. **
Cheng I-ching Cheng I-ching (; born 15 February 1992) is a Taiwanese table tennis player. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's singles event, in which she was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Li Xiaoxia, and as part of the Chinese Taipei ...
took third place. * October 19 – 21:
2018 ITTF Men's World Cup The 2018 ITTF Men's World Cup was a table tennis competition held in Paris, France, from 19 to 21 October 2018. It was the 39th edition of the ITTF-sanctioned event, and the third time that it had been staged in Paris. In the final, China's Fan ...
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Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
** Fan Zhendong defeated Timo Boll, 4–1, to win his second World Cup title. ** Lin Gaoyuan took third place. ;Junior and cadet * October 23 – 31: 2018 World Cadet Challenge in Tottori ** Cadet boys' singles: ZENG Beixun ** Cadet girls' singles: KUAI Man ** Cadet boys' doubles: (Sora Matsushima & Yuma Tanigaki) ** Cadet girls' doubles: (Honami Nakamori & Hikari Okubo) ** Cadet mixed doubles: Iulian Chirita & Yukari Sugasawa * December 2–9:
2018 World Junior Table Tennis Championships The 2018 ITTF World Youth Championships, World Junior Table Tennis Championships were held in Bendigo, Australia from 2 to 9 December, 2018. China completed a clean sweep of gold medals in all seven events, with Xu Haidong (table tennis), Xu Haid ...
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Bendigo Bendigo ( ) is a city in Victoria, Australia, located in the Bendigo Valley near the geographical centre of the state and approximately north-west of Melbourne, the state capital. As of 2019, Bendigo had an urban population of 100,991, makin ...
** Junior boys' singles: XU Haidong ** Junior girls' singles: QIAN Tianyi ** Junior boys' doubles: (XIANG Peng & XU Haidong) ** Junior girls' doubles: (HUANG Fanzhen & SHI Xunyao) ** Junior mixed doubles: (XU Yingbin & SHI Xunyao)


Continental table tennis championships


Africa (TT)

;Senior * March 1–3: 2018 ITTF African Cup in
Nairobi Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper ha ...
** Men: Omar Assar defeated
Quadri Aruna Quadri Akinade Aruna (born 9 August 1988, in Oyo, Nigeria) is a professional Nigeria table tennis player. He competed for Nigeria at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics, reaching the quarter-finals in the latter competition. He is ...
, to win his first ITTF African Cup title. ***
Ahmed Saleh Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar ( ar, أحمد علي عبد الله صالح الأحمر; born July 25, 1972) is the eldest son of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, and was a commander of approximately 80,000 troops of the Republi ...
took third place. ** Women: Dina Meshref defeated Sarah Hanffou, to win her second ITTF African Cup title. *** Offiong Edem took third place. * September 3–9: 2018 ITTF African Table Tennis Championships in
Port Louis Port Louis (french: Port-Louis; mfe, label= Mauritian Creole, Polwi or , ) is the capital city of Mauritius. It is mainly located in the Port Louis District, with a small western part in the Black River District. Port Louis is the country's ec ...
** Men's singles: Quadri Aruna ** Women's singles: Dina Meshref ** Men's doubles: (Youssef Abdel-Aziz &
Khalid Assar Khalid Assar (born 10 December 1992) is an Egyptian table tennis player. At the 2016 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's Singles where he lost to Wang Jianan of Congo in the preliminary round. He qualified to represent Egypt at the 2020 ...
) ** Women's doubles: (Farah Abdel-Aziz & Reem El-Eraky) ** Mixed doubles: (Ahmed Saleh & Dina Meshref) ;Junior and cadet * March 24–25: 2018 Road to Buenos Aires 2018 YOG series - Africa in
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** Four players to compete in Buenos Aires 2018 YOG: Yu Khinhang, Amin Ahmadian, Tatiana Kukulkova, & Sabina Šurjan * April 7–13: 2018 African Junior and Cadet Championships in
Abidjan Abidjan ( , ; N'Ko script, N’ko: ߊߓߌߖߊ߲߬) is the economic capital of the Ivory Coast. As of the Demographics of Ivory Coast, 2021 census, Abidjan's population was 6.3 million, which is 21.5 percent of overall population of the country, ...
* Junior boys' singles: Youssef Abdel-Aziz * Junior girls' singles: Marwa Al-Hodaby * Junior boys' doubles: (Youssef Abdel-Aziz & Marwan Abdelwahab) * Junior girls' doubles: (Farida Badawy & Sara El-Hakem) * Mixed doubles: (Youssef Abdel-Aziz & Marwa Al-Hodaby) * Cadet boys' singles: Mohamed Azzam * Cadet girls' singles: Hend Fathy


Americas (TT)

;Senior * March 4–8: 2018 Latin American Senior Championships in
Havana Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.
** Men's singles: Eric Jouti ** Women's singles:
Bruna Takahashi Bruna Takahashi (born July 19, 2000) is a Brazilian table tennis player. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics as part of the Brazilian team in the women's team event. At the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, she was seeded #5, and is ...
** Men's doubles: ( Andy Pereira &
Jorge Campos Jorge Campos Navarrete (born 15 October 1966) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. A notable player of Mexico in the 1990s and early 2000s, Campos was an eccentric player, known for his constant play outside ...
) ** Women's doubles: (Paulina Vega & Judith Morales) ** Mixed doubles: (Eric Jouti &
Gui Lin Gui Lin (, born 1 October 1993 in Nanning, China) is a table tennis player from Brazil. She was naturalized as a Brazilian in 2012 and was selected to be part of the Brazilian National Team competing in table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics. ...
) * June 15–17:
2018 ITTF Pan-America Cup The 2018 ITTF Pan-America Cup was a table tennis competition that took place from 15–17 June in Asunción, Paraguay. The event was organised by the Paraguay Table Tennis Federation, under the authority of the International Table Tennis Federati ...
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Asunción Asunción (, , , Guarani: Paraguay) is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay. The city stands on the eastern bank of the Paraguay River, almost at the confluence of this river with the Pilcomayo River. The Paraguay River and the Bay of ...
** Men's singles:
Hugo Calderano Hugo Marinho Borges Calderano (born 22 June 1996, in Rio de Janeiro) is a table tennis player from Brazil. In January 2022, he peaked at number 3 in the world rankings, becoming the greatest Americas player of all time. He is the first-ever pl ...
** Women's singles: Zhang Mo * November 20–25: 2018 Pan American Table Tennis Championships in
Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...
** Men's singles: Kanak Jha ** Women's singles: Adriana Díaz ** Men's doubles: (Vitor Ishiy & Eric Jouti) ** Women's doubles: (Alicia Cote & Zhang Mo) ** Mixed doubles: ( Brian Afanador & Adriana Díaz) ;Junior and cadet * February 20–23: 2018 Central American U15/U18 in
San Salvador San Salvador (; ) is the capital and the largest city of El Salvador and its eponymous department. It is the country's political, cultural, educational and financial center. The Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, which comprises the capital i ...
* Junior boys' singles: Diego Vazquez * Junior girls' singles: Clio Barcenas * Junior boys' doubles: (Gary Castro & Genaro Roustan) * Junior girls' doubles: (Lucia Cordero & Hidalynn Zapata) * Junior Mixed doubles: (Oscar Villalta & Keren Bolanos Constanza) * Cadet boys' singles: Jacobo Vahnish * Cadet girls' singles: Marbella Aceves * Cadet boys' doubles: (Sergio Carrillo & Diego de la Cruz) * Cadet girls' doubles: (Marbella Aceves & Arantxa Cossio) * Cadet Mixed doubles: (Sergio Carrillo & Mariana Lopez) * March 21–25: 2018 South American U15/U18 in
Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...
* Junior boys' singles: Martin Bentancor * Junior girls' singles: Tamyres Fukase * Junior boys' doubles: (Nicolas Burgos & Andres Martinez) * Junior girls' doubles: (Tamyres Fukase & Livia Lima) * Junior mixed doubles: (Guilherme Teodoro & Livia Lima) * Youth boys' singles: Carlos Fernandez * Youth girls' singles: Giulia Takahashi * Youth boys' doubles: (Joel Cisneros & Carlos Fernandez) * Youth girls' doubles: (Giulia Takahashi & Laura Watanabe) * Youth mixed doubles: (Carlos Fernandez & Maria Maldonado) * April 14–15: 2018 Road to Buenos Aires 2018 YOG series - Latin America in
Asunción Asunción (, , , Guarani: Paraguay) is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay. The city stands on the eastern bank of the Paraguay River, almost at the confluence of this river with the Pilcomayo River. The Paraguay River and the Bay of ...
** Four players that have qualified to compete in Buenos Aires 2018 YOG: Matteo Mutti, Yanapong Panagitgun, Jamila Laurenti, & Goi Rui Xuan * June 1–2: 2018 Road to Buenos Aires 2018 YOG series - North America in
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** Four players that have qualified to compete in Buenos Aires 2018 YOG: Kim Song Gun, Cédric Meissner, Pyon Song Gyong, & Franziska Schreiner * July 10–15: 2018 Pan American Junior Table Tennis Championships in
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** Junior boys' singles: Kanak Jha ** Junior girls' singles: Adriana Diaz ** Junior boys' doubles: (Sharon Alguetti & Kanak Jha) ** Junior girls' doubles: (Rachel Sung & Rachel Yang) ** Junior mixed doubles: (Sharon Alguetti & Crystal Wang) ** Junior boys' Team: (Kanak Jha, Nikhil Kumar, Sharon Alguetti & Nikolas Tio) ** Junior girls' Team: (Amy Wang, Crystal Wang, Rachel Sung & Rachel Yang)


Asia (TT)

;Senior * April 6–8: 2018 ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup in
Yokohama is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of To ...
** Winners:
Fan Zhendong Fan Zhendong (; born 22 January 1997) is a Chinese professional table tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 1 for men's singles by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). After joining the Chinese National Table Tennis Team i ...
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Zhu Yuling Zhu Yuling (; born 10 January 1995) is a Chinese table tennis player. Career She was born in Mianyang in 1995 and played table tennis from the age of 5 as it occupied her when she was ill. At nine years old she and her mother moved so that she ...
(f) ;Junior and cadet * May 7–8: 2018 Road to Buenos Aires 2018 YOG series - Asia in
Bangkok Bangkok, officially known in Thai language, Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estima ...
** Four players qualified to compete at Buenos Aires 2018: Javen Choong, Manav Vikash Thakkar, Choi Hae-eun, & Andrea Pavlovic


Europe (TT)

;Senior * February 3–4:
2018 Europe Top 16 Cup The 2018 Europe Top 16 Cup (also referred to as the China Construction Bank 2018 Europe Top 16 Cup for sponsorship reasons) was a table tennis competition held from 3–4 February in Montreux, Switzerland, organised under the authority of the Eur ...
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** Men: Timo Boll defeated
Dimitrij Ovtcharov Dimitrij Ovtcharov (russian: Дмитрий Овчаров) or Dmytro Ovtcharov ( uk, Дмитро Овчаров; born 2 September 1988) is a Ukrainian-born German table tennis player. His father Mikhail (or Mikhaylo), a Soviet table tennis cha ...
, 4–0 (13–11, 11–6, 11–3, 11–6), to win his sixth Europe Top 16 Cup title. *** Jonathan Groth took third place. ** Women: Bernadette Szőcs defeated Li Jie, 4–1 (12–10, 8–11, 11–6, 11–5, 11–7), to win her first Europe Top 16 Cup title. ***
Elizabeta Samara Elizabeta Samara (born 15 April 1989 in Constanța) is a professional Romanian table tennis and a three-time European champion. She is currently the player of CSA Steaua București. Samara previously represented Fenerbahçe SK. She has repres ...
took third place. * September 18–23:
2018 European Table Tennis Championships The 2018 European Table Tennis Championships were held in Alicante, Spain from 18 to 23 September 2018. The competition was held at Centro de Tecnificacion Deportiva. Medal summary Medal table References {{European championships in 2018 ...
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** singles winners: Timo Boll (m) / Li Qian (f) ** doubles winners: ( Daniel Habesohn &
Robert Gardos Robert Gardos ( hu, Gárdos Róbert, ; born 16 January 1979 in Budapest) is a Hungarian-born Austrian table tennis player, European Champion and Olympic participant. He plays for the French club Chartres ASTT. Since the opening in 2011, Robert ...
) (m) / (Nina Mittelham & Kristin Lang) (f) ** Mixed doubles winners: (Ruwen Filus &
Han Ying Han Ying (born 29 April 1983 as ) is a female table tennis player representing Germany since 2010. A specialist in defensive chopping, a style in decline ever since the mid-1990s, she is one of a few surviving defensive players active at the ITTF ...
) ;U-21, Junior and cadet * February 12–13: 2018 Road to Buenos Aires 2018 YOG series - Europe in Hodonín ** Boys that qualified to compete in Buenos Aires 2018 YOG: Bastian Rembert and Cristian Pletea ** Girls that qualified to compete in Buenos Aires 2018 YOG: Andreea Dragoman and Lee Ka Yee * March 8–11: 2018
European Under-21 Table Tennis Championships The European Under-21 Championships is an annual table tennis tournament organised under the authority of the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU). The introduction of the event to the table tennis calendar was approved at the European Table Tennis ...
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Minsk Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi ...
** Men's singles: Tomas Polansky ** Women's singles: Mariia Tailakova ** Men's doubles: (Ibrahim Gündüz & Abdullah Yigenler) ** Women's doubles: Solomiya Brateyko & Natalia Bajor * July 15–24: 2018
Table Tennis European Youth Championships The European Youth Table Tennis Championships are held among cadets (under 15) and juniors (under 18). The first edition of the tournament was held in 1955 in Stuttgart and since then is held yearly in most cases. Currently, the championships inc ...
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** boys' singles: Ioannis Sgouropoulos ** girls' singles: Ning Jing ** boys' doubles: (Lev Katsman & Maksim Grebnev) ** girls' doubles: Anastasia Kolish & Lucie Gauthier


Oceania (TT)

;Senior * March 15–19: 2018 Oceania Championships in
Gold Coast, Queensland The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the state of Queensland, Australia, approximately south-southeast of the centre of the state capital Brisbane. With a population over 600,000, the Gold Coast is the sixth-largest city in Australia, the nati ...
** Men's singles:
Chris Yan Chris Yan (born 9 December 1988 in Xi’an, China) is an Australian table tennis player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's singles event, in which he was eliminated in the preliminary round by Aleksandar Karakašević, and as ...
** Women's singles: Jian Fang Lay ** Men's doubles: (
Hu Heming Hu Heming (born 21 March 1994) is an Australian table tennis player who has competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Olympics. Early life Hu started playing table tennis in his garage when he was six years old. He moved to China a ...
& Chris Yan) ** Women's doubles: (Michelle Bromley &
Melissa Tapper Melissa Tapper (born 1 March 1990) is an Australian table tennis player. After competing at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, she represented Australia at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in elite non-Paralympic competition. In March 2016, she became the ...
) ** Mixed doubles: (Chris Yan & Jian Fang Lay) * May 18–19:
2018 ITTF-Oceania Cup The 2018 ITTF-Oceania Cup was a table tennis event that took place from 18–19 May in Port Vila, Vanuatu. The event was organised by ITTF-Oceania, under the authority of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). It was the 10th edition ...
in Port Vila ** Men's singles: Hu Heming ** Women's singles: Jian Fang Lay ;Junior and cadet * June 1–2: 2018 ITTF-Oceania Junior Championships in
Rarotonga Rarotonga is the largest and most populous of the Cook Islands. The island is volcanic, with an area of , and is home to almost 75% of the country's population, with 13,007 of a total population of 17,434. The Cook Islands' Parliament buildings a ...
** Junior boys' singles: Benjamin Gould ** Junior girls' singles: VONG Hui-Ling ** Cadet boys' singles: Nathan Xu ** Cadet girls' singles: ZHOU Jiayi * June 8–9: 2018 Road to Buenos Aires 2018 YOG series - Oceania in Rarotonga ** Qualified to compete in Buenos Aires 2018 YOG: Pang Yew En Koen & Archana Girish Kamath


2018 ITTF World Tour

;World Tour Platinum events * March 8 – 11: 2018 Qatar Open in
Doha Doha ( ar, الدوحة, ad-Dawḥa or ''ad-Dōḥa'') is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf coast in the east of the country, north of Al Wakrah and south of Al Khor, it is home to most of the coun ...
** Men's Singles:
Fan Zhendong Fan Zhendong (; born 22 January 1997) is a Chinese professional table tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 1 for men's singles by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). After joining the Chinese National Table Tennis Team i ...
** Women's Singles:
Liu Shiwen Liu Shiwen (; born 12 April 1991) is a Chinese table tennis player. She is a five-time World Cup champion, one-time World Champion, three-time ITTF World Tour Grand Finals champion and four-time Asian Cup champion. She is known to be one of the ...
** Men's Doubles: (Fan Zhendong & Xu Xin) ** Women's Doubles: (CHEN Ke &
Wang Manyu Wang Manyu (, born 9 February 1999) is a Chinese table tennis player. She is the current world champion in women's singles and doubles. In the 2017 T2 Asia Pacific League, she replaced Ding Ning in round 2 for team Persson. 2018 began with Wang ...
) * March 23 – 25:
2018 German Open The 2018 German Open (also known as the 2018 German Tennis Championships) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the 112th edition of the German Open Tennis Championships and part of the ATP World Tour 500 series ...
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Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...
** Men's Singles: Ma Long ** Women's Singles:
Kasumi Ishikawa (born 23 February 1993) is a Japanese table tennis player. A regular member of the Japanese national team, she won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, a bronze at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics, ...
** Men's Doubles: (Ma Long & Xu Xin) ** Women's Doubles: (
Hina Hayata is a Japanese international table tennis player. She is the most successful player on the ITTF Challenge Series since its inception in 2017. Owing to her stature, she is able to generate powerful spins on both wings more so than most female pla ...
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Mima Ito is a Japanese table tennis player. She won a bronze medal in the Women's Team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics when she was 15 years old. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal with her partner Jun Mizutani in the Mixed Doubles ev ...
) * May 31 – June 3: 2018 China Open in
Shenzhen Shenzhen (; ; ; ), also historically known as Sham Chun, is a major sub-provincial city and one of the special economic zones of China. The city is located on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern province ...
** Men's Singles: Ma Long ** Women's Singles: Wang Manyu ** Men's Doubles: (Fan Zhendong &
Lin Gaoyuan Lin Gaoyuan (simplified Chinese: 林高远; traditional Chinese: 林高遠; pinyin: ''Lín Gāoyuǎn''; born 19 March 1995) is a Chinese table tennis player. He was the Asian Cup champion in 2017, and was a member of the Chinese teams that took ...
) ** Women's Doubles: (
Ding Ning Ding Ning (; born 20 June 1990) is a former Chinese table tennis player. She was the winner of women's singles in the 2011 World Table Tennis Championships. At the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships, Ding won her second world title in ...
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Zhu Yuling Zhu Yuling (; born 10 January 1995) is a Chinese table tennis player. Career She was born in Mianyang in 1995 and played table tennis from the age of 5 as it occupied her when she was ill. At nine years old she and her mother moved so that she ...
) * July 19 – 22: 2018 Korea Open in Daejeon ** Men's Singles: JANG Woo-jin ** Women's Singles: Zhu Yuling ** Men's Doubles: (JANG Woo-jin & LIM Jong-hoon) ** Women's Doubles: ( Chen Meng & Ding Ning) * July 26 – 29:
2018 Australian Open The 2018 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played at Melbourne Park between 15 and 28 January 2018, and was the first Grand Slam tournament of the 2018 season. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles ...
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Geelong Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, ...
** Men's Singles: Xu Xin ** Women's Singles: Liu Shiwen ** Men's Doubles: (
Jung Young-sik Jeoung Young-sik (also Jeong or Jung, ko, 정영식, born 20 January 1992) is a South Korean table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as ...
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Lee Sang-su Lee Sang-su (born 13 August 1990) is a South Korean table tennis player. He won two singles titles at the ITTF Pro Tour, the first one was in 2010. He reached semifinals in singles event at the 2017 World Championships. Lee Sangsu represented ...
) ** Women's Doubles: (Hina Hayata & Mima Ito) * November 8 – 11: Austrian Open (final) in
Linz Linz ( , ; cs, Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846. In 2009, it was a European Capital of ...
** Men's Singles:
Liang Jingkun Liang Jingkun (born 20 October 1996) is a Chinese table tennis player who is currently world rank number 5 in ITTF. Two-time medalist in men's singles at the World Table Tennis Championships. Career A top junior player with huge potential, Lian ...
** Women's Singles: Chen Meng ** Men's Doubles: (
Masataka Morizono is a Japanese table tennis player. With doubles partner Yuya Oshima, he won the gold medal in the men's doubles event at both the 2015 and 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, as well as winning a silver medal in men's doubles at the 2017 World C ...
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Yuya Oshima is a Japanese table tennis player. With doubles partner Masataka Morizono, he won the gold medal in the men's doubles event at both the 2015 and 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, as well as winning a silver medal in men's doubles at the 2017 W ...
) ** Women's Doubles: (Hina Hayata & Mima Ito) ;World Tour events * January 18 – 21: 2018 Hungarian Open in
Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...
** Men's Singles: Fan Zhendong ** Women's Singles: Wang Manyu ** Men's Doubles: (Fan Zhendong & YU Ziyang) ** Women's Doubles: (CHEN Xingtong & SUN Yingsha) * May 24 – 27: 2018 Hong Kong Open in ** Men's Singles: Kazuhiro Yoshimura ** Women's Singles: Wang Manyu ** Men's Doubles: (
Ho Kwan Kit Ho Kwan-kit (; born 20 April 1997) is a Hong Kong table tennis player. He qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the sa ...
& Wong Chun Ting) ** Women's Doubles: (CHEN Xingtong & SUN Yingsha) * June 8 – 10: 2018 Japan Open in
Kitakyushu is a Cities of Japan, city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of June 1, 2019, Kitakyushu has an estimated population of 940,978, making it the second-largest city in both Fukuoka Prefecture and the island of Kyushu after the city of Fuku ...
** Men's Singles:
Tomokazu Harimoto is a Japanese table tennis player. In 2016, he won the world junior singles and team title at the 2016 World Junior Table Tennis Championships for Japan. In August 2017, he became the youngest ever winner of an ITTF World Tour men's singles ti ...
** Women's Singles: Mima Ito ** Men's Doubles: (Jung Young-sik & Lee Sang-su) ** Women's Doubles: (
Gu Yuting Gu Yuting (; born January 14, 1995) is a Chinese table tennis player. She won a gold medal in the women's singles event at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. In addition, Gu holds the distinction of having competed at the World Junior Table Tennis ...
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Mu Zi Mu Zi (; born 9 January 1989) is a Chinese female table tennis player. She is a two-time finalist in mixed doubles event at the World Championships. In 2015, she reached the semifinal of her first women's singles event at the World Championships ...
) * August 16 – 19: 2018 Bulgaria Open in Panagyurishte ** Men's Singles: Xu Xin ** Women's Singles: Ding Ning ** Men's Doubles: (Ma Long & Xu Xin) ** Women's Doubles: (Kasumi Ishikawa & Mima Ito) * August 23 – 26: 2018 Czech Open in Olomouc ** Men's Singles: ZHENG Peifeng ** Women's Singles: Kasumi Ishikawa ** Men's Doubles: Patrick Franziska & Jonathan Groth ** Women's Doubles: (
Liu Gaoyang Liu Gaoyang ( zh, 刘高阳) is a Chinese table tennis player. Liu represented China at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, winning Gold in the Women's Singles and Mixed Team events. References Chinese female table tennis pla ...
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) * November 1 – 4:
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** Men's Singles: Fan Zhendong ** Women's Singles: Mima Ito ** Men's Doubles: (LIAO Cheng-Ting & LIN Yun-Ju) ** Women's Doubles: (CHEN Xingtong & SUN Yingsha) ;Grand Finals * December 13 – 16:
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** Men's Singles: Tomokazu Harimoto ** Women's Singles: Chen Meng ** Men's Doubles: (JANG Woo-jin & LIM Jong-hoon) ** Women's Doubles: (Hina Hayata & Mima Ito) ** Mixed Doubles: (Wong Chun Ting & Doo Hoi Kem


2018 ITTF Challenge Series

* March 13 – 17: Polish Open in
Spała Spała is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Inowłódz, within Tomaszów Mazowiecki County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies on the Pilica River, approximately west of Inowłódz, east of Tomaszów Mazowiecki, and ...
** Men's Singles: LIM Jong-hoon ** Women's Singles:
Yang Ha-eun Yang Ha-eun (born 25 February 1994) is a South Korean female table tennis player. She won two medals at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics The 2010 Summer Youth Olympics ( ta, 2010 கோடைக்கால இளையோர் ஒலிம ...
** Men's Doubles: (
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Lee Sang-su Lee Sang-su (born 13 August 1990) is a South Korean table tennis player. He won two singles titles at the ITTF Pro Tour, the first one was in 2010. He reached semifinals in singles event at the 2017 World Championships. Lee Sangsu represented ...
) ** Women's Doubles: (
Jeon Ji-hee Jeon Ji-hee (, born 28 October 1992), born Tian Minwei (), is a Chinese-born South Korean table tennis player. Career She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's singles event, in which she was eliminated in the fourth round by Yu ...
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Yang Ha-eun Yang Ha-eun (born 25 February 1994) is a South Korean female table tennis player. She won two medals at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics The 2010 Summer Youth Olympics ( ta, 2010 கோடைக்கால இளையோர் ஒலிம ...
) * March 28 – April 1: Spanish Open in
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** Men's Singles: KIM Min-hyeok ** Women's Singles: Saki Shibata ** Men's Doubles: (AN Jae-hyun & CHO Seung-min) ** Women's Doubles: (Honoka Hashimoto & Hitomi Satō) * April 2 – 6: Slovenia Open in
Otočec Otočec (, german: Sankt Peter) is a settlement on the left bank of the Krka River in the City Municipality of Novo Mesto in southeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast ...
** Men's Singles: Mizuki Oikawa ** Women's Singles: Miyu Kato ** Men's Doubles: (Marek Badowski & Patryk Zatowka) ** Women's Doubles: (NG Wing Nam & Minnie Wai-Yam SOO) * April 10 – 14: Croatia Open in
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** Men's Singles:
Panagiotis Gionis Panagiotis Gionis (born 7 January 1980) is a Greek table tennis player and a dentist. He is a member in the Greece National Team and has competed in 4 Olympics and many World and European Championships. He has been playing professionally in Germa ...
** Women's Singles: Saki Shibata ** Men's Doubles: (Adam Szudi & Nandor Ecseki) ** Women's Doubles: (Honoka Hashimoto & Hitomi Satō) * May 16 – 20: Thailand Open in
Bangkok Bangkok, officially known in Thai language, Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estima ...
** Men's Singles: XU Ruifeng ** Women's Singles:
Liu Shiwen Liu Shiwen (; born 12 April 1991) is a Chinese table tennis player. She is a five-time World Cup champion, one-time World Champion, three-time ITTF World Tour Grand Finals champion and four-time Asian Cup champion. She is known to be one of the ...
** Men's Doubles: (Tobias Hippler & Kilian Ort) ** Women's Doubles: (Orawan Paranang &
Suthasini Sawettabut Suthasini Sawettabut ( th, สุธาสินี เสวตรบุตร, born 9 December 1994) is a Thai table tennis player. Suthasini started playing table tennis at the age of 6. Suthasini got fourth place for the Women's singles i ...
) * June 13 – 17: DPR Korea Open in
Pyongyang Pyongyang (, , ) is the capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is known as the "Capital of the Revolution". Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. According to the 2008 populatio ...
** Men's Singles: PAK Sin-hyok ** Women's Singles:
Kim Song-i Kim Song-i (; born 10 August 1994) is a North Korean table tennis player. As of November 2017, she is ranked 23rd in the world based on ITTF rankings. Kim plays a highly defensive style with plenty of slice, occasionally injecting pace with top ...
** Men's Doubles: (JI Jiale & LIU Yebo) ** Women's Doubles: (CHA Hyo-sim & KIM Nam-hae) * August 8 – 12: Nigeria Open in
Lagos Lagos (Nigerian English: ; ) is the largest city in Nigeria and the List of cities in Africa by population, second most populous city in Africa, with a population of 15.4 million as of 2015 within the city proper. Lagos was the national ca ...
** Men's Singles:
Quadri Aruna Quadri Akinade Aruna (born 9 August 1988, in Oyo, Nigeria) is a professional Nigeria table tennis player. He competed for Nigeria at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics, reaching the quarter-finals in the latter competition. He is ...
** Women's Singles:
Guo Yan Guo Yan (, born June 24, 1982 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese table tennis player. Two-time winner of World Cup in 2006 and 2010. In February 2011, she ranked 2nd in the ITTF world ranking. Career records Singles (as of February 3, 2011) *World ...
** Men's Doubles: (Alexandre Robinot & Joe Seyfried) ** Women's Doubles: (QI Fenjie & SUN Chen) * October 23 – 27: Belgium Open in De Haan ** Men's Singles: PARK Gang-hyeon ** Women's Singles: Saki Shibata ** Men's Doubles: (AN Jae-hyun & CHO Seung-min) ** Women's Doubles: (Satsuki Odo & Saki Shibata) * November 13 – 18: Belarus Open (final) in
Minsk Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi ...
** Men's Singles: ZHAO Zihao ** Women's Singles: Saki Shibata ** Men's Doubles: (Kakeru Sone & Yuta Tanaka) ** Women's Doubles: (Satsuki Odo & Saki Shibata)


2018 ITTF World Junior Circuit

;Golden Series events * May 9 – 13: Thailand Junior & Cadet Open in
Bangkok Bangkok, officially known in Thai language, Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estima ...
* Junior Boys' Singles: KUANG Li * Junior Girls' Singles: HUANG Fanzhen * Cadet Boys' Singles: XIANG Peng * Cadet Girls' Singles: CHEN Yi * July 4 – 8: China Junior & Cadet Open in
Taicang Taicang is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China. The city located in the south of the Yangtze River estuary opposite Nantong, being bordered by Shanghai proper to the south, while the river also delineates ...
* Junior Boys' Singles: Kakeru Sone * Junior Girls' Singles: SHI Xunyao * Cadet Boys' Singles: Hiroto Shinozuka * Cadet Girls' Singles: KUAI Man * August 1 – 5: Hong Kong Junior & Cadet Open in * Junior Boys' Singles: XU Haidong * Junior Girls' Singles: SHI Xunyao * Junior Boys' Doubles: (Kazuki Hamada & Hiroto Shinozuka) * Junior Girls' Doubles: (QIAN Tianyi & SHI Xunyao) * Cadet Boys' Singles: XIANG Peng * Cadet Girls' Singles: CHEN Yi * Cadet Boys' Doubles: (XIANG Peng & ZENG Beixun) * Cadet Girls' Doubles: (CHEN Yi & LI Yuqi) * August 22 – 26: Chinese Taipei Junior & Cadet Open (final) in
Taipei Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the n ...
* Junior Boys' Singles: LI Hsin-Yang * Junior Girls' Singles: BYUN Seo-young * Junior Boys' Doubles: (FENG Yi-Hsin & LI Hsin-Yang) * Junior Girls' Doubles: (CHIEN Tung-Chuan & YU Hsiu-Ting) * Cadet Boys' Singles: Radin Khayyam * Cadet Girls' Singles: BYUN Seo-young * Cadet Boys' Doubles: (HUANG Yan-Cheng & LI Hsin-Yu) * Cadet Girls' Doubles: (SER Lin Qian & ZHOU Jingyi) ;Premium events * February 7 – 11: Oman Junior & Cadet Open in Muscat * Junior Boys' Singles: YUAN Licen * Junior Girls' Singles: ZHANG Binyue * Cadet Boys' Singles: XIANG Peng * Cadet Girls' Singles: LI Yuqi * February 14 – 18: Czech Junior & Cadet Open in Hodonín * Junior Boys' Singles: YU Heyi * Junior Girls' Singles: SHI Xunyao * Junior Boys' Doubles: (XU Yingbin & YU Heyi) * Junior Girls' Doubles: (SHI Xunyao & SUN Yizhen) * Cadet Boys' Singles: KUANG Li * Cadet Girls' Singles: CHEN Yi * Cadet Boys' Doubles: (KUANG Li & ZENG Beixun) * Cadet Girls' Doubles: (Honami Nakamori & Sakura Yokoi) * March 21 – 25: Italy Junior & Cadet Open in Lignano * Junior Boys' Singles: XU Haidong * Junior Girls' Singles: QIAN Tianyi * Junior Boys' Doubles: (YU Heyi & YUAN Licen) * Junior Girls' Doubles: (HUANG Fanzhen & QIAN Tianyi) * Cadet Boys' Singles: XIANG Peng * Cadet Girls' Singles: CHEN Yi * Cadet Boys' Doubles: (KUANG Li & XIANG Peng) * Cadet Girls' Doubles: Elizabet Abraamian & Elena Zaharia * April 25 – 29: French Junior & Cadet Open in
Metz Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand E ...
* Junior Boys' Singles: YU Heyi * Junior Girls' Singles: ZHANG Binyue * Junior Boys' Doubles: (XU Yingbin & YU Heyi) * Junior Girls' Doubles: (SHI Xunyao & SUN Yizhen) * Cadet Boys' Singles: XIANG Peng * Cadet Girls' Singles: YANG Yiyun * Cadet Boys' Doubles: (KUANG Li & XIANG Peng) * Cadet Girls' Doubles: (Kaho Akae & Yukari Sugasawa) * May 23 – 27: Polish Junior & Cadet Open in
Władysławowo Władysławowo ( Kashubian/ Pomeranian: ''Wiôlgô Wies'', german: Großendorf) is a city on the south coast of the Baltic Sea in Kashubia in the Pomerelia region, northern Poland, with 15,015 (2009) inhabitants. History In 1634 engineer Fryde ...
* Junior Boys' Singles: XIANG Peng * Junior Girls' Singles: SHI Xunyao * Junior Boys' Doubles: (Cristian Pletea & Rares Sipos) * Junior Girls' Doubles: (QIAN Tianyi & SHI Xunyao) * Cadet Boys' Singles: XIANG Peng * Cadet Girls' Singles: Yukari Sugasawa * Cadet Boys' Doubles: (KUANG Li & XIANG Peng) * Cadet Girls' Doubles: (Kaho Akae & Yukari Sugasawa) * September 12 – 16: Croatia Junior & Cadet Open in
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* Junior Boys' Singles: GENG Linyu * Junior Girls' Singles: ZUO Yue * Junior Boys' Doubles: (GENG Linyu & SONG Zhuoheng) * Junior Girls' Doubles: (LI Ruonan & ZUO Yue) * Cadet Boys' Singles: CHEN Yuanyu * Cadet Girls' Singles: KUAI Man * Cadet Boys' Doubles: (LI Hsin-Yu & WANG Guan-Ru) * Cadet Girls' Doubles: (HUANG Yu-Jie & TSAI Yun-En) * November 7 – 11: Hungarian Junior & Cadet Open (final) in Szombathely * Junior Boys' Singles: LIU Yebo * Junior Girls' Singles: WU Yangchen * Junior Boys' Doubles: (Maksim Grebnev & Lev Katsman) * Junior Girls' Doubles: (WU Yangchen & ZANG Xiaotong) * Cadet Boys' Singles: HUANG Youzheng * Cadet Girls' Singles: CHEN Yi * Cadet Boys' Doubles: (HUANG Yan-Cheng & LI Yan Jun) * Cadet Girls' Doubles: (CHEN Yi & LI Yuqi) ;Regular events * February 21 – 25: Swedish Junior & Cadet Open in
Örebro Örebro ( , ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, sixth-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Örebro Municipality, and capital of the Örebro County. It is situated by the Närke Plain, near the lake Hjälmaren, a few kilometers in ...
* Junior Boys' Singles: Truls Moregard * Junior Girls' Singles: Yumento Soma * Junior Boys' Doubles: (Aoto Sazu & Takeru Kashiwa) * Junior Girls' Doubles: Camille Lutz & Celia Silva * Cadet Boys' Singles: Theo Abrahamsson * Cadet Girls' Singles: Prithika Pavade * March 19 – 23: Tunisia Junior & Cadet Open in
Soliman Soliman an alternative to Suleiman may refer to: People Given name * Soliman Kenawy, Egyptian journalist Surname * Soliman (surname) Places * Soliman, Tunisia, located in the Nabeul Governorate See also * Sulaiman Mountains * Sulaiman ...
* Junior Boys' Singles: Amin Ahmadian * Junior Girls' Singles: Sabina Šurjan * Junior Boys' Doubles: Csaba Andras & Jeremy Hazin * Junior Girls' Doubles: (Lucie Gauthier & Leili Mostafavi) * Cadet Boys' Singles: LIU Menglong * Cadet Girls' Singles: Radmila Tominjak * Cadet Boys' Doubles: (Aadil Anand & Payas Jain) * Cadet Girls' Doubles: (Roa Amro & Farida Badawy) * April 1 – 5: Côte d'Ivoire Junior & Cadet Open in
Abidjan Abidjan ( , ; N'Ko script, N’ko: ߊߓߌߖߊ߲߬) is the economic capital of the Ivory Coast. As of the Demographics of Ivory Coast, 2021 census, Abidjan's population was 6.3 million, which is 21.5 percent of overall population of the country, ...
* Junior Boys' Singles: Youssef Abdel-Aziz * Junior Girls' Singles: CHEN Junjin * Junior Boys' Doubles: (Youssef Abdel-Aziz & Ahmed El-Borhamy) * Junior Girls' Doubles: (CHEN Junjin & LIN Lequan) * Cadet Boys' Singles: Ziad Elshawa * Cadet Girls' Singles: CHEN Junjin * Cadet Boys' Doubles: (Jean-Pierre Bayala & Ange Michel Seri) * Cadet Girls' Doubles: (CHEN Junjin & LIN Lequan) * April 9 – 13: Paraguay Junior & Cadet Open in
Asunción Asunción (, , , Guarani: Paraguay) is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay. The city stands on the eastern bank of the Paraguay River, almost at the confluence of this river with the Pilcomayo River. The Paraguay River and the Bay of ...
* Junior Boys' Singles: Guilherme Teodoro * Junior Girls' Singles: Valentina Rios * Cadet Boys' Singles: Carlos Fernandez * Cadet Girls' Singles: Natasha Ruiz * April 18 – 22: Belgium Junior & Cadet Open in
Spa A spa is a location where mineral-rich spring water (and sometimes seawater) is used to give medicinal baths. Spa towns or spa resorts (including hot springs resorts) typically offer various health treatments, which are also known as balneoth ...
* Junior Boys' Singles: Ioannis Sgouropoulos * Junior Girls' Singles: Yukari Sugasawa * Junior Boys' Doubles: (Aoto Asazu & Takeru Kashiwa) * Junior Girls' Doubles: (LEE Ka Yee & WONG Chin Yau) * Cadet Boys' Singles: Arnau Pons * Cadet Girls' Singles: Yukari Sugasawa * Cadet Boys' Doubles: ( Felix Lebrun & Fabio Rakotoarimanana) * Cadet Girls' Doubles: (Kaho Akae & Yukari Sugasawa) * May 9 – 13: Spanish Junior & Cadet Open in
Castell-Platja d'Aro Castell d'Aro, Platja d'Aro i S'Agaró is a municipality in the middle of the Costa Brava in Catalonia, Spain. It is formed from two parts: Castell d'Aro is an ancient village built around a medieval castle and a fortified church, 3 km (2 mil ...
* Junior Boys' Singles: Vladimir Sidorenko * Junior Girls' Singles: ZUO Yue * Junior Boys' Doubles: (Maksim Grebnev & Lev Katsman) * Junior Girls' Doubles: Zdena Blaskova & Jamila Laurenti * Cadet Boys' Singles: Myshaal Sabhi * Cadet Girls' Singles: YANG Shilu * Cadet Boys' Doubles: (Ethan Claude & Myshaal Sabhi) * Cadet Girls' Doubles: (XIE Jiatong & YANG Shilu) * May 17 – 20: Slovak Junior Open in Senec * Junior Boys' Singles: Samuel Kulczycki * Junior Girls' Singles: WANG Xiaotong * Junior Boys' Doubles: Maciej Kolodziejczyk & Cedric Meissner * Junior Girls' Doubles: (WANG Xiaotong & WEI Yuanhui) * May 28 – 31: Canada Junior & Cadet Open in
Markham, Ontario Markham () is a city in the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately northeast of Downtown Toronto. In the 2021 Census, Markham had a population of 338,503, which ranked it the largest in York Region, fourth largest ...
* Junior Boys' Singles: SUN Zheng * Junior Girls' Singles: Anna Wegrzyn * Cadet Boys' Singles: Edward Ly * Cadet Girls' Singles: Lavanya Maruthapandian * June 4 – 7: Cook Islands Junior & Cadet Open in
Rarotonga Rarotonga is the largest and most populous of the Cook Islands. The island is volcanic, with an area of , and is home to almost 75% of the country's population, with 13,007 of a total population of 17,434. The Cook Islands' Parliament buildings a ...
* Junior Boys' Singles: PANG Yew En Koen * Junior Girls' Singles: DAI Tian * Junior Boys' Doubles: Owen Cathcart & Laurens Devos * Junior Girls' Doubles: (DAI Tian & YANG Hangguo) * Cadet Boys' Singles: Jacobo Vahnish * Cadet Girls' Singles: Parleen Kaur * Cadet Boys' Doubles: (PARK Sang-Yong & Nathan Xu) * Cadet Girls' Doubles: (Filomena & Loata Duncan) * July 25 – 29: Jordan Junior & Cadet Open in
Amman Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...
* Junior Boys' Singles: LI Hsin-Yang * Junior Girls' Singles: CHEN Ting-Ting * Junior Boys' Doubles: (Amirreza Abbasi & Amin Ahmadian) * Junior Girls' Doubles: (CAI Fong-En & CHEN Ting-Ting) * Cadet Boys' Singles: LI Hsin-Yu * Cadet Girls' Singles: SUI Xiaoran * Cadet Boys' Doubles: (Deepit Patil & Dev Shroff) * Cadet Girls' Doubles: (SUI Xiaoran & ZHANG Yulei) * August 15 – 19: El Salvador Junior & Cadet Open in
San Salvador San Salvador (; ) is the capital and the largest city of El Salvador and its eponymous department. It is the country's political, cultural, educational and financial center. The Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, which comprises the capital i ...
* Junior Boys' Singles: TAI Ming-Wei * Junior Girls' Singles: FANG Sih-Han * Junior Boys' Doubles: (KAO Min-Chi & TAI Ming-Wei) * Junior Girls' Doubles: (FANG Sih-Han & TSAI Yu-Chin) * Cadet Boys' Singles: WANG Chen-You * Cadet Girls' Singles: CHEN Tsai-Ni * Cadet Boys' Doubles: (WANG Chen-You & YANG Tsan-Wei) * Cadet Girls' Doubles: (CHEN Tsai-Ni & LIU Ru-Yun) * September 19 – 23: Serbia Junior & Cadet Open in
Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...
* Junior Boys' Singles: ZENG Beixun * Junior Girls' Singles: Jinnipa Sawettabut * Junior Boys' Doubles: Yanapong Panagitgun & Gerald Zong Jun Yu * Junior Girls' Doubles: Eunice Lim & Jinnipa Sawettabut * Cadet Boys' Singles: Payas Jain * Cadet Girls' Singles: LI Zeyan * Cadet Boys' Doubles: (LIU Shuanghao & XU Haotian) * Cadet Girls' Doubles: (DING Zige & ZHANG Yunhan) * October 24 – 28: Egypt Junior & Cadet Open in Sharm El Sheikh * Junior Boys' Singles: DING Shixian * Junior Girls' Singles: Ekaterina Zironova * Junior Boys' Doubles: (Youssef Abdel-Aziz & Marwan Abdelwahab) * Junior Girls' Doubles: (WANG Yidan & ZHOU Bingru) * Cadet Boys' Singles: Radu Andrei Miron * Cadet Girls' Singles: Ilona Sztwiertnia * Cadet Boys' Doubles: (Dragos Alexandru Bujor & Radu Andrei Miron) * Cadet Girls' Doubles: Farida Badawy & Malamatenia Papadimitriou * November 2 – 4: Slovak Cadet Open in
Bratislava Bratislava (, also ; ; german: Preßburg/Pressburg ; hu, Pozsony) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Slovakia. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, it is estimated to be more than 660,000 — approxim ...
** Cadet Boys' Singles: CHEN Yifei ** Cadet Girls' Singles: XU Yi ** Cadet Boys' Doubles: (NIU Zeqian & ZHANG Jinghan) ** Cadet Girls' Doubles: (SUN Xiaomeng & XU Yi) * November 27 – 30: Portugal Junior & Cadet Open (final)
Guimarães Guimarães () is a city and municipality located in northern Portugal, in the district of Braga. Its historic town centre has been listed as a UNESCWorld Heritage Sitesince 2001, in recognition for being an "exceptionally well-preserved and a ...
* Junior Boys' Singles: Manav Vikash Thakkar * Junior Girls' Singles: LIU Yangzi * Junior Boys' Doubles: (Manush Utpalbhai Shah & Manav Vikash Thakkar) * Junior Girls' Doubles: (QIN Xiaoce & XIN Chenglin) * Cadet Boys' Singles: XIONG Mengyang * Cadet Girls' Singles: WANG Xinyu * Cadet Boys' Doubles: (Ivor Ban & Lovro Zovko) * Cadet Girls' Doubles: (Ines Matos & Patricia Santos)


See also

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International Table Tennis Federation The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) is the governing body for all national table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the p ...
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2018 in sports 2018 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. The main events for this year were the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia and the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang. Calendar by month ...


References

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External links


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