Recently, according to the "TABLE TENNIS" website, the 2022 "Liu Guoliang Laowa Cup" has confirmed some of the participation list, and Ball and Ocharov will represent the world team.
According to the report, the "Liu Guoliang Laowa Cup" brings together famous table tennis players from all over the world to challenge the best players in China. The team will be divided into two teams, China and the world, with Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, and Sweden's Waldner, as the captain.
Each team will consist of a captain and four players, and the team members will be selected by the captain, covering both male and female players, and will include disabled athletes, which makes the "Liu Guoliang Lao wa Cup" the first sporting event to integrate disabled athletes and professionals.
According to the rules of the tournament, each pair of captains chooses the players who will appear in each match. On the first day of the cup, each win will accumulate one point, and on the second day it will rise to two points, and the team that reaches 16 points first will win the cup title.
Pol tested positive for COVID-19 in mid-December, but after about half a month of treatment, he has now recovered and resumed physical training.
Ochalov accidentally sprained his ankle while training in mid-October and then decided to undergo ankle surgery, which led to his absence at the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships. However, while recovering from the injury, the Germans officially announced the good news of their second child in December. After New Year's Day, the official blog of the International Table Tennis Federation also posted photos of his rehabilitation training.
Norwegian women with disabilities Aida Dahlen previously competed in the Tokyo Paralympic Women's Table Tennis Team (Classes 6-8) and Women's Singles (Classes 8) and won two bronze medals.
The last player of the world team has not been announced, while the Chinese team has not yet announced the list of participants.
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