The 2015 World Championships has begun in Suzhou, China. Today players competed in the group phase and in the qualification rounds for the doubles events. Top seeds are training and waiting for their rivals in the main draw.
The 2015 World Championships has kicked off! Today the group phase and qualification rounds for the doubles events began. In the men's singles most of top seeds made a successful debut and have to play their second match tomorrow.
Some of the top seeds who won their first match are: [[Marcos Madrid]] of Mexico, [[Segun Toriola]] of Nigeria, [[Marc Duran]] of Spain, [[Thiago Monteiro]] of Brazil, [[Andrei Filimon]] of Romania, [[Pak Sin Hyok]] of North Korea, [[Tomas Tregler]] of Czech Republic, [[Pawel Fertikowski]] of Poland, [[Robin Devos]] of Belgium, [[Andy Pereira]] of Cuba, [[Mohamed El-Beiali]] of Egypt, [[Diogo Chen]] of Portugal, [[Alvaro Robles]] of Spain, [[Tamas Lakatos]] of Hungary, [[Marcelo Aguirre]] of Paraguay, [[Gaston Alto]] of Argentina and [[Tomislav Pucar]] of Croatia.
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In the women competition some seeds won but other stumbled. [[Anqi Lou]] of Canada, [[Nicole Trosman]] of Israel, [[Olufunke Oshonaike]] of Nigeria, [[Debora Vivarelli]] of Italy, [[Paulina Vega]] of Chile and [[Petra Petek]] of Croatia and Mu Zi of China won their firts matches and have to win their last match tomorrow to get the first place in their groups.
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On the contrary, other seeds such as Charlotte Carey of Wales, Rahel Aschwanden of Switzerland, [[Neda Shahsavari]] of Iran, [[Katherine Low]] of Chile and [[Daniely Rios]] of Puerto Rico faced defeat and their fate will be decided tomorrow.
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Shot of the Day Video kindly shared by Official ITTF Channel
Rahel Aschwanden vs Mu Zi Video kindly shared by Official ITTF Channel
Rohan Sirisena vs Steve Herra Video kindly shared by Official ITTF Channel
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