Table Tennis World Championships provisionally scheduled for September-October in South Korea

The World Championships, originally scheduled for March 2020, will now he held from September 27 to October 4, the International Table Tennis Federation announced on Tuesday.

The most significant annual table tennis event, the 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships were among the many ITTF events to be postponed this year in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

Originally due to take place between March 22-29 in Busan, an emergency ITTF Executive Committee meeting had proposed provisional dates of June 21-28 while maintaining that further back-up plans may be required if the pandemic persisted.