2010 World Team
Table Tennis Championships

The draw was made for the 2010 World Team Table Tennis Championships on 29 April in Moscow, Russia. See who played who here ...

The 2010 World Team Table Tennis Championships took place in Moscow, Russia from 23-30 May 2010.

The draw was made on 29 April 2010 in Moscow in the plush surroundings of the Petrovsky Palace.

And China were the clear favourite to retain their men's and women's titles which they won in 2008 in the city of Guangzhou, China.

Men's Team Event Results here

Women's Team Event Results here

The playing system

Teams are ranked and seeded into 3 divisions of 24 teams each, based on their performance at the previous World Championship Team Event in 2008 and their current World Ranking.

After the ranking list has been determined, the top 24 teams are allocated to the Championship Division, whilst the teams ranked 25-48 are allocated to the second division and teams ranked 49-72 are allocated to the third division.

All other teams are allocated to the fourth division.

Only the 24 teams in the Championship Division can compete for the World title.

Play then takes place in two stages.

The first stage comprises of the 24 teams in each division being seeded and drawn into four groups of six teams. Each group of six teams plays a complete round robin competition (five matches per team).

The second stage involves the top three teams from each group progressing into a knockout competition for their division, to play for places 1-12. The teams finishing fourth, fifth and sixth in their groups will play in a knockout competition for their division to play for places 13-24.

The winners of each group (4 teams) will move directly into the Quarter Finals of the knockout competition.

Team matches are the best of five singles.

Singles matches are the best of five games.

Medals

The overall winning team in the Championship Division will be the World Champions and will receive gold medals.

The runner-up team will receive silver medals and the two losing semi-finalists will receive bronze medals.

In the second and third divisions, the winning teams will be given medals or awards.

Top Seedings - Men

The seedings for the top 24 men's teams, and the only teams eligible to compete for the title of World Champions, were ...

1 CHINA

2 KOREA REPUBLIC

3 GERMANY

4 HONG KONG

5 JAPAN

6 AUSTRIA

7 RUSSIA

8 SWEDEN

9 CHINESE TAIPEI

10 GREECE

11 CROATIA

12 PORTUGAL

13 DENMARK

14 SINGAPORE

15 CZECH

16 FRANCE

17 POLAND

18 ROMANIA

19 SPAIN

20 KOREA DPR

21 BELARUS

22 HUNGARY

23 ITALY

24 UKRAINE

Groups - Men

The draw for the men's team event of the 2010 World Team Table Tennis Championships took place on 29 April in Moscow, Russia and the teams were drawn into the following groups ...

	Championship Division - Men
Group A	China, Russia, Greece, France, Poland, Italy
Group B	Korea Republic, Sweden, Chinese Taipei, Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine
Group C	Germany, Japan, Croatia, Denmark, Spain, Hungary
Group D	Hong Kong, Austria, Portugal, DPR Korea, Singapore, Belarus

	Division Two - Men
Group E	Slovak Republic, England, Slovenia, Thailand, Iran, Luxembourg
Group F	Serbia, Nigeria, Turkey, Netherlands, U.S.A., Scotland
Group G	Brazil, Egypt, Norway, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Latvia
Group H	Belgium, India, Canada, Argentina, Israel, Bosnia-Herzegovina

	Division Three - Men
Group I	Indonesia, Algeria, Dominican Republic, Ireland, Ecuador, Moldova
Group J	Australia, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Lithuania
Group K	Congo Brazzaville, Mexico, Switzerland, Colombia, Malaysia, Uzbekistan
Group L	Estonia, Finland, Philippines, Kuwait, Cyprus, Qatar

Men's Team Event Results here

Top Seedings - Women

The seedings for the top 24 women's teams, and the only teams eligible to compete for the title of World Champions, were ...

1 CHINA

2 SINGAPORE

3 KOREA REPUBLIC

3 JAPAN

5 HONG KONG

6 ROMANIA

7 AUSTRIA

8 GERMANY

9 POLAND

10 NETHERLANDS

11 HUNGARY

12 CHINESE TAIPEI

13 BELARUS

14 FRANCE

15 SPAIN

16 ITALY

17 CZECH

18 CROATIA

19 UKRAINE

20 RUSSIA

21 KOREA DPR

22 SLOVAK REPUBLIC

23 USA

24 ENGLAND

Groups - Women

The draw for the women's team event of the 2010 World Team Table Tennis Championships took place on 29 April in Moscow, Russia and the teams were drawn into the following groups ...

	Championship Division - Women
Group A	China, Austria, Poland, Italy, Croatia, England
Group B	Singapore, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Czech Republic, U.S.A.
Group C	Korea, Hong Kong, Hungary, France, Ukraine, DPR Korea
Group D	Japan, Romania, Chinese Taipei, Belarus, Russia, Slovak Republic

	Division Two - Women
Group E	Turkey, Malaysia, India, Israel, Denmark, Portugal
Group F	Serbia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Egypt, Venezuela, Indonesia
Group G	Thailand, Sweden, Canada, Bulgaria, Colombia, Moldova
Group H	Australia, Greece, Slovenia, Brazil, New Zealand, Estonia

	Division Three - Women
Group I	Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Macao, Montenegro, Latvia, Pakistan
Group J	Switzerland, Argentina, Congo Brazzaville, Armenia, Scotland, Iran
Group K	Mexico, Peru, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Dominican R., Norway, Sri Lanka
Group L	Puerto Rico, Uzbekistan, Guernsey, Macedonia, Azerbaijan, South Africa