The World Table Tennis (WTT) tournament will be held for the first time in Korea in March next year.The WTT Secretariat and the Korea Table Tennis Association announced on the 19th that the ‘WTT Champions Incheon’ tournament will be held at Inspire Arena, a 15,000-seat multipurpose stadium at Inspire Entertainment Resort in Incheon from March 27 to 31 next year.The WTT Series is a top-level table tennis international competition held over the course of a season.The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) created the WTT series by establishing a separate secretariat in 2020 to increase the commercial value of table tennis. WTT inherited the status and importance that the World Tour had enjoyed until then.This is the first time a WTT competition is held in Korea.The WTT Youth Contender was held in Cheongyang, South Chungcheong Province in July this year, but it was a youth competition.Among WTT competitions, Champions is a competition that awards the third most ranking points (1,000 points, or more winning ranking points) following the Grand Smash (2,000 points), which is a major tournament, and the Finals (1,500 points), which is a year-end king of kings. .
The top 32 men’s and women’s singles players will battle for ranking points and prize money of $300,000 (about 390 million won).As the ‘level’ of the competition is high, it is expected that the world’s best players will participate.Representative Korean stars such as Shin Yu-bin (Korean Air), Jeon Ji-hee (Mirae Asset Securities), Jang Woo-jin, Lim Jong-hoon (Korea Exchange), Lee Sang-soo (Samsung Life Insurance), Pan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Sun Yingsha (China), Tomokazu Harimoto, You can ‘intuitively’ see yourself competing against world-class players such as Hina Hayata (Japan) and Lin Yun-ru (Taiwan).Previously, the Team World Table Tennis Championships were scheduled to be held in Busan from February 16 to 25 next year, so domestic fans will be able to enjoy two major international table tennis competitions in succession in the first half of the year.Holding a series of high-level competitions in Korea is expected to have a positive effect on the Korean national team’s preparations for the 2024 Paris Olympics.Seungmin Yoo, Chairman of the Korea Table Tennis Association, said, “The Busan World Championships and WTT Champions Incheon will provide amazing 온라인카지노 opportunities for fans at home and abroad to watch top stars