The World Championship of Ping Pong, also known as WCPP, is an annual
ping pong
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 ...
tournament that has been held since 2011. The current champion is
Andrew Baggaley
Andrew Baggaley (born 26 February 1983) is a professional table tennis player from Milton Keynes. He is England's leading table tennis medal winner of all time in the Commonwealth Games, winning two gold medals in Manchester, England (2002) ...
, who beat Alexander Flemming in the 2020 final to beat
Maxim Shmyrev
Maxim Shmyrev (born 30 November 1971) is a male table tennis player from Moscow, Russia. He is a multiple Russian National Champion in table tennis, winning Men Singles title five times. He is also a three-times world champion of ping-pong (sandp ...
's record of winning three championships, and become the record-breaking four-time champion.
The tournament is promoted by the English sports impresario
Barry Hearn, and is distinguished by its use of old-fashioned wooden paddles covered with sandpaper, which are intended to encourage slower ball movement and longer rallies for the entertainment of the live audience.
Finals
The 2020 championship took place January 25–26, 2019, at
Alexandra Palace for the eighth time.
Broadcasters
United Kingdom and Ireland
The tournament is currently broadcast live on
Sky Sports
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.
International
The tournament is also broadcast live and free on
Facebook
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.
References
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Alexandra Palace
Ping Pong
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 ...
Recurring sporting events established in 2011
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