ITTF announced that the 2023 Chengdu ITTF Mixed Team World Cup will be held in Sichuan Provincial Gymnasium from February 4th, 65438 to February 4th, 65438. This year's competition will combine men's and women's singles, doubles and mixed doubles to create a brand-new mixed team competition system. In this mixed team World Cup in Chengdu, each team will be composed of 3-4 male players and 4 female players, and each game will adopt the 8-game system of 15, in which each game will adopt the 3-game system, and the team that accumulates 8 games first will win.
The order of the last two doubles matches was decided by the team captain who ranked lower before the game, which added strategy and suspense to the game. Petra Sorin, president of ITTF, said that through the combination of men's and women's team projects, we have opened up a road to advocate gender equality, diversity, collaboration and team spirit. Steve Denton, CEO of ITTF Group, said that we are very happy to introduce the new competition system of the World Cup to the world.
Brief introduction of ITTF mixed team World Cup
On August 26th, 2023, the signing ceremony of ITTF mixed team World Cup cooperation project agreement was held in Wuhou District, Chengdu. According to the cooperation agreement, Chengdu will host the ITTF mixed team World Cup in June 5438+February 2023, and plans to host the event for five consecutive years. ITTF World Cup is the top table tennis tournament in the world, and it is also called the world's three major table tennis events together with the Olympic Games and the World Table Tennis Championships.
Previously, the World Cup was divided into men's and women's singles and team events. The ITTF Mixed Team World Cup held in Chengdu is an innovation of the World Cup competition system, which combines men's and women's team competitions into one, and male and female players are combined in the same team.
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