PARIS: The 47th table tennis world championships begin in Paris on Monday with the very real prospect of a European player muscling in on what in recent years has become nothing short of a Chinese benefit.
China have completed a clean sweep of all seven gold medals at the last two championships in Osaka (2001) and Eindhoven (1999), and anyone with an ounce of grey matter would be foolhardy to rule out of hand a third rout by the table tennis super power.
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