This Asian Cup will be held in Yokohama, Japan from April 6th to 8th. The group stage competition will start at 9:00 am on the 6th, and the women's singles and men's singles champions will be announced on the afternoon of April 8th.

On April 4, Beijing time, the ITTF announced the schedule for the 31st Table Tennis Asia Cup. This Asian Cup will be held in Yokohama, Japan from April 6th to 8th. The group stage competition will start at 9:00 am on the 6th, and the women's singles and men's singles champions will be announced on the afternoon of April 8th. The players participating in the Chinese team are last year's Asian Championship men's singles champion Fan Zhendong, last year's Asian Cup men's singles champion Lin Gaoyuan, last year's Asian Cup women's singles champion Zhu Yuling, as well as the world's number one player Chen Meng .

The Asian Cup is one of the important events authorized by the Asian Table Tennis Federation. It is held once a year. This year's event is organized and hosted by the Japan Table Tennis Association. The event is divided into men's singles and women's singles. Participants are invited to participate. The 2017 Asian Cup champion, the 2017 Asian Championship singles champion, the top ten Asian players in the world in January this year, and four regional player representatives (South Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia and Central Asia) are invited to participate. . A maximum of two players per association can participate, unless the third player holds a "wild card". The

competition is divided into two stages. The first stage is a group round robin. The top two players from groups A, B, and C will directly enter the second stage. Four regional representative players will form group D to compete. The third place in the top three groups will compete with the top player in group D to enter. The final two seats in the second phase. The group stage adopts a best-of-five-game system. Entering the knockout stage, eight players will take best-of-seven games until the final winner is determined.

Asian Cup men's singles entry list

Men's singles Lin Gaoyuan and Fan Zhendong are the top two seeds in the tournament. The Japanese team's players are Niwa Takaki and 14-year-old teenagers Zhang Benzhi and . The Korean team's players are Lee Sang-soo and Ding Xiangen . In women's singles, Zhu Yuling is the top seed in the tournament, last year's Asian Championship champion Hirano Miu is the tournament's No. 2 seed, and Chen Meng is the tournament's No. 3 seed. Japanese women's table tennis team and Ishikawa Kasumi , who are currently in good shape, are the No. 4 seeds in the tournament.

The Asian Cup women's singles group draw will be held on the afternoon of April 5 at 16:00 local time and 15:00 Beijing time. The group stage competition starts at 9:00 am Beijing time on April 6. The quarter-finals knockout rounds will begin at 10:30 am on April 7, Beijing time, and the semi-finals will be held later that afternoon. On the afternoon of April 8, the women's singles final will be held at 14:00 Beijing time, and the men's singles final will be held at 15:00. Judging from CCTV's preview, CCTV5+ will start live broadcasting from the quarter-finals on April 7, and CCTV5 will start live broadcasting from the semi-finals.

It is worth mentioning that the total prize money of this Asian Cup is US$100,000, with the male and female singles champion receiving US$14,000 and the runner-up receiving US$7,000 respectively. The total prize money of the 2010 Asian Cup was US$50,000. The 2011-2015 Table Tennis Asia Cup attracted the sponsorship of a Chinese company, and the total amount of a single competition was increased to US$100,000. In those years, the bonuses for the men's and women's singles champions were 14,000 US dollars (approximately 88,000 RMB). The 2016 Table Tennis Asia Cup was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The total prize money for that tournament reached a new high of 120,000 euros, and the championship prize was 16,800 euros (approximately 130,000 yuan). The men's and women's champions at that time were Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen. . Last year's Asian Cup was held in Ahmedabad, India, in September, and the total prize money was only US$50,000, a new low in recent years.

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