1991 World Table Tennis Championships
The 41st World Table Tennis Championship took place from 24 April to 6 May 1991, Chiba (Japan) in the halls of the Nippon Convention Center instead.
General
Sweden dominated the men's competitions this World Cup. The men's team won in Dortmund can their title defense in Japan and is the third time world champion. Yugoslavia wins the silver medal. The numbers 1 to 5 are occupied by European teams, China is ranked only seventh Also, the women's team in China is not World Champion; after eight consecutive title she has to be content with silver this time.
In the men's singles Jörgen Persson retaliates against Jan -Ove Waldner for the final defeat of Dortmund in 1989 and is a world champion. In the men's doubles Jörgen Persson wins then another bronze medal - World Champion Peter Karlsson / Thomas von Scheele another Swedish double.
The German men's team has a good 5th place - the German women reach Rank 13
Game system of team competitions
The game system for the men's and women's team competitions has changed yet again.
The teams are based on the ranking on the last World Cup classified into " first place winner 16" and "rest".
The 16 winners of the last World Cup, playing in the first round in two groups of eight A and B FFA. The first six teams from Group A and B reach the knockout stages, ie provide 12 participants in the second round.
The rest of the team who did not come in 1989 under the first 16 form eight groups of eight, where it is played against each system after each. The eight winners nor deny after a game with each other, the four winners will qualify for the knockout stages. The four losers contest together with the teams that do not qualify from the group stage, fighting for positions 17 and worse.
There was criticism of this system is that the mating system in the second round is fixed in advance and as tactical considerations, such as deliberate defeats to meet in the second round on pleasant opponent - possible.
The individual team struggles of the men were carried out according to a modified system in which a player denies twin, his two teammates playing together double and one single each.
Cutting off the Germans
Men's team competition
The German team competed in the preliminary round Group B where they defeated the Netherlands, USSR, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and France. However, they lost to Poland and China. This was enough to place 2
The fight against China ended with a scandal: China aimed obviously overlooking the knockout stages of a tactical defeat in order not to be first in the group. Therefore, Germany broke - not even interested in the group victory - this match at 2-0 on their own and thus lost 3:2. Then the ITTF closed the German coach Zlatko Cordaš from the tournament. This was seen as a serious weakening of the German team, but the DTTB showed full understanding for Cordas ' approach.
In the second round, the German team defeated Italy 3-1, but then lost in the quarterfinals just against Yugoslavia. This one reached # 5 and was two places better than in the previous World Cup in 1989.
Women's team competition
The German women's team competed in the preliminary round in Group D. Here she finished unbeaten No. 1 by victories against Portugal and Switzerland respectively 3-0 and a 3-1 win against Malaysia. Then they qualified through a 3-2 win over Belgium, the first of the parallel-group, for the knockout stages. Here they failed with 1:3 at the Hungarian team.
In the following classification matches they lost 0-3 to Yugoslavia, but then defeated Denmark 3-1 Finland 3-0. This meant 13th place, an improvement on 19th place of the previous World Cup in 1989.
Men's Singles
Roßkopf reached after victories over Kim Guk Choi (Korea ), Chu Kyo Sung (Korea ) and Wei Qingguang (China) the second round, where he failed with 0:3 at eventual runners- Waldner ( Sweden).
Fetzner defeated Blaszczyk and Kreanga (Greece ) before losing to Kim Taek -soo (Korea ). Equally wide it brought Böhm after victories over Nabeel S. Ai- Magahwi (Saudi Arabia), Horatio Pintea (Canada) and losing to the eventual champion Persson (Sweden).
Torben Wosik was not used in the team fights. In individual competition, he retired in the first round against Skylet Andrew (England). After convincing performances in the team competition, Peter Franz could not prevail against Choi Gyong Sop (Korea ) in Round 1.
Men's doubles
The defending champion Roßkopf / Fetzner reached the quarter- finals. They won against Lars Hauth / Kim Høgsberg (Denmark ), Thierry Cabrera / Frederic Sonnet (Belgium) and Yu Shtentong / Zhang Lei ( China). Against the Russian brothers Andrei and Dmitry Masunow they then lost with 1:3.
Wosik / Franz defeated Trinko Keen / Casper Mol ( Netherlands) and then lost against Wei Qingguang / Chaoje Xie (China). Böhm played with the Yugoslavs Zoran Kalinic. They sat down in the 1st round against the Cubans Francisco De Armas Arado / Santiago Roque Panton through, but not in round 2 against Károly Németh / Sándor Varga (Hungary).
Women's Singles
Sound reached the second round as the only German lady. In the qualifying matches, she defeated Aremdariz M. Cabrera (Ecuador), Naseem Nazli (Pakistan ) and Petra Fichtinger ( Austria ). Then she sat down in round 1 against Mantu Ghosh (India) through to finally to Hong Cha -ok (Korea ) to fail.
In the first round Praedel eliminated ( against Lisa Lomas, England), Struse ( against Galina Melnik, USSR) and Nemes ( against Alessia Arisi, Italy) from. Faltermaier failed already in the qualification where they won against Diana Wiworo (INA ) and Benedicte Meyer ( Luxembourg ), but lost to Oksana Kush (USSR).
Women Doubles
Faltermaier / Nemes won twice against Madeleine Armas Nunez / Yolanda Rodriguez Rey (Cuba) and Maxine Joan Goldie / Li Chunli (New Zealand), and thus reached the last sixteen. Here they dropped out against Xiaoxin Hu / Liu Wei ( China).
The other double failed already in the qualification: Sound / Struse defeated Masayo Kawai / Akiyo Muroshige (Japan), Steffi Fries / Ilona Knecht ( Switzerland ) and lost to Mulatsih / Diana Wiworo ( INA). Praedel won with the Austrian Vera Kottek against Stephanie Evans / Benedicte Meyer ( Wales / Luxembourg ) and lost to Li Bai Huei-Yin/Tsui (Taiwan).
Mixed
The most successful German Mixed was Roßkopf / Struse which, after victories over Tsuneyasu Yamamoto / Yumi Aoike (Japan ), David Buck / Natasha Williams ( Wales), Atanda Musa / Bose Olateju Kaffo (Nigeria ) and Zhang Lei / Qio Yungping ( China) quarterfinals showed up where it was stopped by Xie Chaojie / Zihe Chen (China).
Until the third round managed Franz / Faltermaier by Issamu Carlos Kawai / Martha Massuda (Brazil) and Frederic Sonnet / Sophie Thirion (Belgium ) scientists turned off, but then failed to Lo Chuen Tsung / Chai Wa Po ( Hong Kong).
Wosik / sound eliminated in Round 2 against Kim Song Hui / Li Bun Hui (Korea ); previously they had Allan Bentsen / Pernilla Pettersson (Denmark / Sweden) defeated. Just as far as it brought Fetzner / Nemes: The 2-0 Gideon Joe Ng / Mariann Domonkos ( Canada ) was followed by a 0-2 defeat against Damien Eloi / Sandrine Derrien (France). Böhm / Praedel failed in round 1 to the eventual world champions Wang Tao / Liu Wei ( China).
Coach
Head coach was Eva Jeler, Zlatko Cordaš cared - up to his suspension - along with Klaus Schmittinger the gentlemen, Dirk Schimmelpfennig the ladies.
Find out more
- For the first time since the division of the country is Korea a common women's and men's team.
- Norway announced as a substitute the former German champion and current Secretary General of the Table Tennis Association Norway Jochen Leiss. However, it was not used.
- It was played with yellow balls on blue table.
- Chen Xinhua, the 1985 China became team world champion, went to England.
- The Scot Janet Smith receives from the SCI Richard Bergmann Fair Play Award.
- The Yugoslav Zoran Kalinic and the Chinese woman Deng Yaping received the Victor Barna Price from SCI.
- From Germany the referee Erwin Preiss ( Karlsruhe) and Willi Dietrich ( Wetzlar ) were represented.
Results
The following German took part only in the individual competitions:
- Ladies: Christiane Praedel