Here's the groupings for the World Team Championships 2026 .
Stage 1 A:
Link: https://www.worldtabletennis.com/teamseventInfo?selectedTab=Stage%201A(Groups)&eventId=3216
Stage 1B:
Here's the groupings for the World Team Championships 2026 .
Stage 1 A:
Something is more to this. The top teams are in the same group?
Here's the groupings for the World Team Championships 2026 .
Stage 1 A:
Something is more to this. The top teams are in the same group?
Stage 1A and Stage 1B are not the same their. The teams in Stage 1A are already guaranteed to proceed in the next round.
Here's what it says it the ITTF prospectus:
PLAYING SYSTEM
2.1 The playing system will be as follows:
Each group of 4 teams shall play a complete round robin competition (3 matches per team).
Stage 1a
The top 7 ranked teams plus the host (8 teams total) will be drawn into 2 groups (Group 1
and Group 2) using a modified snake system, 2 at a time. The purpose of this Stage is to
determine seedings for the Main Draw, and all teams from this Stage will progress to the
Main Draw.
Stage 1b
The remaining 56 teams will be drawn into 14 groups (Groups 3 – 16) using a modified
snake system, 3 or 4 at a time (see diagram below).
The order of play and the scheduling of the matches will be prepared in such a way as to
avoid, whenever possible, the possibility of predetermining results. All final round matches
must be significant for each competing team.
Stage 2
(see diagram below)
Following the completion of Stage 1a and Stage 1b, all teams from Stage 1a (8 teams) and
the top team in each group from Stage 1b (14 teams) will progress directly to the Main Draw.
Six (6) second-placed teams will also qualify directly to the Main Draw depending on their
results from Stage 1b, with selection based on the best ratio of wins to losses first in team
matches, then individual matches, then games and points, as far as is necessary to resolve
the order. The remaining eight (8) second-placed teams from Stage 1b will play a single
Preliminary Round knockout drawn at random (4 matches), with the 4 winners progressing
to the Main Draw.
The teams from Stage 1a (8 teams) will be drawn into seeded positions - winner of Group 1
seeded 1st (position 1), winner of Group 2 seeded 2nd (position 32), second-placed teams
drawn into positions 16 and 17, third-placed teams drawn into positions 9 and 24, fourthplaced teams drawn into positions 8 and 25.
The winners from Groups 3 - 10 will be drawn into remaining seeded positions 4, 5, 12, 13,
20, 21, 28 and 29. The winners of Groups 11-16 will then be drawn to positions 6, 11, 14, 19,
22 and 27. The second-placed teams who progressed to the Main Draw will be drawn into
positions 2, 3, 7, 10, 15, 18, 23, 26, 30 and 31. Teams having played against each other in
Stage 1b shall not meet again in the first round of the Main Draw.