Table Tennis》Mixed Team World Cup expanded to 20 teams, Lin Yunru and Zheng Yijing led the Taiwan team to compete

Taiwan's top brother Lin Yunru has led the Taiwan team to participate in the mixed team World Cup for two consecutive years. (Taken from WTT official website)

[Reporter Xu Mingli/Taipei Report] The 2026 International Table Table Mixed Team World Cup will be held in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China from November 29 to December 6. The Taiwanese team is led by first brother Lin Yunru and first sister Zheng Yijing. Together with the Nagoya Asian Games team, they will strive to break through the best result of the first team in the history of the seventh place.

The Mixed Team World Cup will be held in Chengdu for the first time in 2023, but Taiwan did not send its main players to participate in the previous two events. Last year, Lin Yunru and Zheng Yijing participated for the first time, but at that time Lin Yunru and another main player Gao Chengrui were injured. In the end, they lost to South Korea and Sweden in the group stage, ranking third in the group with 1 win and 2 losses, and missed the top 8 for two consecutive years. With the mixed team competition being included in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games for the first time, this year's Mixed Team World Cup has also become an Olympic outpost, with elites from all countries participating, and the number of participating teams has expanded from 16 to 20 teams.

Taiwan’s top sister Zheng Yijing is also on the mixed team World Cup Taiwan team roster. (Taken from WTT official website)

The Taiwan team is ranked according to the national player rankings. The male players include Lin Yunru, Feng Yixin, Guo Guanhong and Xu Xianjia. The female players include Zheng Yijing, Wu Yingxuan and Ye Yitian. Chen Siyu, who is ranked second in the national player, withdraws and is replaced by Peng Yuhan. The Japanese team sent Matsushima Terukong, Harimoto Tomokazu, Togami Hayabusa, Shinozuka Otobu, Harimoto Miwa, Hayada Hina, Oto Sayuki, Hashimoto Honoka. The Landlord China Team currently only has confirmed Wang Chuqin, Lin Shidong, Huang Youzheng, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha, and Kuai Man. There is one seat left for men and women to be determined.

The competition format of this year’s Mixed Team World Cup has also been changed. The 20 participating teams are divided into two groups for a round-robin competition, and the top two teams in the group advance to the top four to compete for gold and bronze medals; the 3rd and 4th place in the group compete in the 5th to 8th ranking match; the 5th and 6th place in the group compete in the 9th to 12th ranking match; and the 7th and 8th place in the group compete for 13th to 16th place.

In the mixed team competition, each team is composed of 3 to 4 male and female players. Each game sends 3 male and 3 female players to the field. Mixed doubles, men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, or mixed doubles, women's singles, men's singles, women's doubles, and men's doubles are played in order. Each point only plays 3 games, for a total of 15 games. The team that wins 8 games first wins.