| Competition: | 2022 World Team Table Tennis Championships |
| Venue: | High Technology Zone Sports Center Gymnasium |
| Location: | Chengdu, China |
| Dates: | 30 September – 9 October |
| Nations: | 36 (32 men's teams, 28 women's teams) |
| Previous: | 2018 |
| Next: | 2024 |
The 2022 World Team Table Tennis Championships were held in Chengdu, China from 30 September to 9 October 2022.[1] [2] The World Team Championships were originally scheduled in April and pushed back to September due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3]
The teams were drawn in groups of five teams in principle.[4] [5] After a round robin in each group, the top two teams in groups and the highest-ranked (world team ranking) third-placed teams qualified for a 16-team knockout stage. Two losing semi-finalists received bronze medals in the absence of a third-place match.
A team consisted of three members playing best of five singles. Each singles match was a best of five games. The order of play was:
A finished team match brought two points for a win, one point for a loss. No points were given for a loss in an unplayed or unfinished match. The ranking of teams in the group stage were determined as follows:[6]
Qualified teams were announced in June 2022.[7] Number of teams eligible to compete for the trophy in each team event is expanded to 40, compared to the previous 24 teams in 2018.[8] However, only 32 men's teams and 28 women's teams arrived in Chengdu with differences from the original list.[9]
| Qualification | Men's team | Women's team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host | |||
| Africa (5) 2021 African Championships | (absence) (absence) (absence) (absence) | (absence) (absence) (absence) (absence) addition: | |
| Americas (7) 2021 Pan American Table Tennis Championships | (absence) (absence) (absence) | (absence) (absence) (absence) | |
| Asia (11) 2021 Asian Championships | (absence) (absence) addition: | ||
| Europe (12) 2021 European Championships (8) and world team ranking (4) | (suspension)[10] (absence)[11] addition: | (absence) (absence) (suspension) (absence) addition: | |
| Oceania (3) world team ranking | (absence) (absence) | (absence) (absence) (absence) | |
| Intercontinental quota (1) world team ranking | (absence) |
The draw took place on 28 September.[12] Group phase commences on 30 September and knockout stage starts on 5 October, with the women's and men's finals taking place on 8 and 9 October respectively.[13] [14]
| Event↓/Date → | Fri 30 | Sat 1 | Sun 2 | Mon 3 | Tue 4 | Wed 5 | Thu 6 | Fri 7 | Sat 8 | Sun 9 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group | 1/8 F | QF | SF | F | |||||||
| Group | 1/8 F | QF | SF | F | |||||||
| Men's team | Fan Zhendong Ma Long Liang Jingkun Wang Chuqin Lin Gaoyuan | Dang Qiu Benedikt Duda Ricardo Walther Fanbo Meng Kay Stumper | Tomokazu Harimoto Shunsuke Togami Mizuki Oikawa Jo Yokotani |
Jang Woo-jin An Jae-hyun Cho Seung-min Cho Dae-seong Hwang Min-ha | |||
| Women's team | Sun Yingsha Chen Meng Wang Manyu Wang Yidi Chen Xingtong | Hina Hayata Mima Ito Miyuu Kihara Miyu Nagasaki Hitomi Sato | Chen Szu-yu Cheng I-ching Liu Hsing-yin Li Yu-jhun Huang Yi-hua |
Han Ying Nina Mittelham Shan Xiaona Sabine Winter Annett Kaufmann |