SYDNEY: International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) chief Steve Dainton has suggested the sport's annual individual world championships be ...
SYDNEY: International Table Tennis Federation chief Steve Dainton has suggested the sport's annual individual world championships be scrapped, with champions instead decided by the winners of the new"Grand Smash" mega tournaments.
"These events will be equal to or larger than a world individual championships we would be overstretching and confusing the calendar and market if we also have a world individual championships. Dainton said the pause to sport caused by the coronavirus crisis was an opportunity to"reflect and work on all the areas that we know have been underperforming, needed to change and adapt but were not tackled because priorities lay elsewhere".
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