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The 2017 World Championships begin on May 29 in Dusseldorf, Germany. This year’s worlds consist of singles and doubles and worlds in even-numbered years consist of teams.
Dusseldorf is a hotbed of table-tennis in Europe as many top world-ranked players like Belarus’ Vladimir Samsonov and Germany’s Timo Boll and Dimitrij Ovtcharov, arguably the 3 biggest threats to the Chinese in recent times, have all played for the Dusseldorf club in the German Bundesliga. The Chinese men have the top 4 seeded men led by World and Olympic Champion Ma Long with Dimitrij Ovtcharov being the highest seeded non-Chinese player at #5. The Chinese women occupy 4 of the top 5 seeds led by World and Olympic Champion Ding Ning with Singapore’s Feng Tianwei the highest seeded non-Chinese player at #4. There are a mix of Asians and Europeans behind the top 5 seeds.
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