The 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha is in full swing, and it is regrettable that Ovtcharov, the German star who won the World Cup men’s singles gold medal, has officially announced his withdrawal from the tournament on 18th May due to a series of neurological problems triggered by pains in his neck that appeared a short while ago, thus becoming the first World Champion to bid farewell to this tournament, and has no chance to fight with the Chinese team again.
Ovtcharov, born in 1988, is a very familiar table tennis player, he has risen as early as the Beijing Olympic cycle, and then participated in a number of international competitions and achieved good results, including in the men’s singles programme has taken two Olympic bronze medals, in addition to the World Cup in 2017 topped, and thus reap the title of world champion.
Ovtcharov started to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships in 2007, and has taken 4 times the runner-up in the men’s team and 1 time the third place in the men’s doubles, but the men’s singles and mixed doubles have never been on the podium, which has also become the regret of his career.
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Concerned about the ping world friends know, last year, Ma Long, Fan Zhendong withdrew from the world ranking, the ping world only two men’s singles world champion is still active in the international arena, one of them is Germany’s Ovtcharov, and the second is only in April in Macao World Cup on the top of the Brazilian Hugo Calderano, and both of them are registered in this year’s World Table Tennis Championships in Doha.
According to the arrangement, Ovtcharov made his debut on 18 May, but he did not play well in the first men’s doubles match, losing 0-3 to the Australian duo of Bae Hwan/Sarin with his partner Franziska, and the news of his withdrawal from the men’s singles came out soon after.
According to Ovtcharov’s response, he suffered neck pain nine days ago, which has since subsided but is still pressing on the nerves and has extended to his wrists, leading directly to a loss of control. Ovtcharov had to make the decision to withdraw from the tournament despite a series of treatments before the tournament, but the results were still poor.
With Ovtcharov’s departure, there is only one men’s singles world champion left to participate in this tournament, and that is Brazil’s Hugo, who won Harimoto Tomokazu, Wang Chuqin, and Lin Shidong to reach the top of the World Cup in Macau not long ago: will a new king be born in Doha next?
Let’s wait and see!
