Eleven Olympic medal winners, including one champion, head of a stars-littered access list for the WTT-Star media London in the iconic copper box Arena next month.
Top-20 world ranked players from Japan, Chinese Taipei and Hong Kong set off, along with some of the strongest players in Europe, including people like Bernadette Szocs, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Darko Jorgic and Anders Lind.
The top players of England will also be in action, together with Anna Hursey van Wales – and there is still the chance to put yourself in the heart of the action, with tickets that are still available for the early days of the competition, which starts on October 21.
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Who are the mega stars on the way to London?
The Olympic gold medal winner on the way to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is the Japanese Mima Ito (WR 8), which won the mixed Doubles title alongside Jun Mizutani in her home country in the delayed Olympic Games in 2020.
ITO has no less than four Olympic medals, after he won women’s team silver in Paris last year, as well as ladies’ snonbles and bronze of women’s team in 2020.
She leads a worldwide leading contingent from Japan who are incoming for London, with brothers and sisters Tomokazu and Miwa Harimoto who are probably top seeds in the respective men’s singles and ladies singles events.
Both are also Olympic medal winners-Tomokazu (WR 4) who have been in the bronze medal-winning men’s team in Tokyo and Miwa (WR 6) in the team that Lady Team took silver in Paris.
Germany’s Dimitrij OVTCharov is one of the most decorated table tennis aids from the modern times, which has won six Olympic medals in general – Team Silvers in 2008 and 2020 and Bronzes in 2012 and 2016, as well as Singles Bronzes in both 2012 and 2020.
Also to London Singles Singles Singles bronze medal winner from Paris, Hina Hayata (WR 13) and two -time team silver -mere winner Miu Hirano (WR 32).
The bronze medal-winning mixed double-game of Tokyo 2020-Lin Yun-Ju (WR 11) and Cheng I-Ching (WR 15) of Chinese Taipei-Verst further at the Stardust of the event.
South Korea’s World No 17 Shin Yubin (Mixed Doubles Bronze and Women’s Team Bronze from Paris 2024), Hong Kong’s Doo Hi Kem (WR 39; Women’s Team Bronze 2020) and Shan Xiaona of Germany (WR 64; Women Team Silver 2016) are the other Olympic Medalists.
There is a pile of other high-ranking players with the London date circled in their diaries, including no 1 female European player Bernadette Szocs (WR 16) from Romania and several European top 16 champion Darko Jorgic (WR 10) from Slovenia.
World No. 12 Female Shi Xunyao from China and the World No. 28 Prithika Pavade of France are in the entries of the ladies singles.
On the men’s side, Top attractions Denmark’s Anders Lind (WR 14), Dang Qiu van Germany (WR 16) and the Japanese Trop Shunsuke Togami (WR 20), Sora Matsushima (WR 24) and Hiroto Shinozuka (WR 28).
Which home -grown talents play?
GB Rijzende Ster Anna Hursey and a link English athletes will test themselves against some of the best in the world of the WTT star London.
Hursey, still a teenager, has proven that she belongs to Stellar Company, after she recently had an impression on World No 1 Sun Yingsha by China on her WTT Champions debut in Macao.
She is sown in the main table-de only British player who is automatically included in that phase after Tom Jarvis has just missed the closure.
Jarvis is the highest ranked English male player in the field in the absence of the injured Liam Pitchford, and he is accompanied by Sam Walker and Connor Green, three of the quartet that will represent England at the European championships just before the starter.
Tin-Tin HO leads the English female contingent, which offers a number of exciting young talents who would like to grab a chance to shine in Exalted Company. Tianer Yu, Ella Pashley and Jasmin Wong will perform after they first represent England with the Europeans, and they will be accompanied in London by Sophie Earley, Mari Baldwin and Sienna Jetha.
More English players could still be added to the field, with whining signs that still have to be confirmed.
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