Nigeria’s men’s and women’s table tennis team draws is out today at the ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships finals in Busan, South Korea the tournament, which will be held from February 16 – 25. Nigeria Team Men in group 5 Japan, Chinese Taipei , Nigeria, Czechia, Madagascar.
Nigeria Team Woman are in group Germany, Slovak Republic, Poland, Nigeria,Mexico ,Following the completion of the round robin in each group, a single knockout will be played with the top 3 teams in each group progressing to the knockout phase (24 teams).
The winners of each group (8 teams) will be drawn into seeded positions – winner of Group 1 seeded 1st (position 1), winner of Group 2 seeded 2nd (position 32), winners of Groups 3 and 4 drawn into positions 16 and 17, winners of groups 5, 6, 7 and 8 drawn into position 8, 9, 24, 25. Each team will receive a bye. The teams placing 2nd in the group shall be drawn into the opposite half of the re- spective group winners, and face a 3rd placed team in the round of 32 with the re- striction that teams having played against each other in the group stage, shall not meet again in the first round of the knock-out competition.