World champs Ma Long, Liu Shiwen to lead Chinese team at Busan table tennis worlds

China has announced a 10-member roster for the table tennis world championships in Busan, South Korea.

BEIJING - The all-time leading Chinese table tennis team has announced a 10-member squad for the 2020 world team championships here on Monday, with singles' reigning world champions and world No. 1s all named in the list.

Grand Slam winners Ma Long and Ding Ning, as well as the 2019 world championships women's singles title holder Liu Shiwen and the current world No. 1s Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng, are all included in the roster.

The 30-year-old Xu Xin, the highest ranked pen-hold paddler in the world, and two teenage players Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha, both 19, were also named in the squad.