The draw ceremony for this year’s World Table Tennis (WTT) Champions Macao took place on Saturday, resulting in a match schedule that kicks off today, according to a Sports Bureau announcement.
Sixty-four players, including top talent fresh from the Paris Olympics, will be battling it out at the Macao East Asian Games Dome this week in the men’s and women’s singles. The WTT quarter and semi finals have been scheduled for 13 and 14 September, while the winners will emerge on Sunday.
The first round of the men’s singles will see Olympic gold medalist and world no.1 Wang Chuqin, from mainland China, face Hong Kong’s Wong Chun Ting. In the women’s singles, Olympic gold medalist and world no.1 Sun Yingsha, also from China, plays against South Korea’s Jeon Jihee in the first round.
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Other Olympians in the tournament include China’s Wang Manyu (first up against Bernadette Szocs from Romania in the women’s event) and Sweden’s Truls Moregard (facing Japan’s Shunsuke Togami in the men’s event). See the full draw of 32 matches here.
The WTT Champions Macao is jointly organised by WTT, the Sports Bureau, Galaxy Entertainment Group and the Macau Table Tennis General Association. The total prize pool is worth US$800,000, with the winners taking home US$35,000 in prize money each – as well as 1,000 ranking points.
Tickets are priced between 300 and 1,200 patacas. They’re available via the Damai application and mini programme, while pre-sale tickets can be purchased on the MacauTicket.com website and app, and at Kong Seng outlets. Walk-in tickets will be sold at the ticket office on the ground floor of the East Asian Games Dome.
