My original plan is to publish a comprehensive guide about the 2017 CTTSL. However, with limited and confusing information, I have to push back the date of posting this article. The 2017 CTTSL will be held from 31 October, 2017 to 11 February, 2018 but there are still no official rosters and schedule for the league. (I really cannot describe CTTA without being rude here, so I won't try!!!)
The following tables are comprised of the information announced by different clubs which are mostly reliable but information are subjected to change. I intend to provide the most updated information on my blog but quality also matters as well. I hope you can understand my concerns and forgive me for posting this belated articles. Hopefully ,this article will end up to be the "All You Need To Know" article that have all the links that guide you to follow the CTTSL (This means I will keep on updating this post from time to time, stay tuned!).
Articles For Each Round
Featuring preview, schedule, live stream links and full results of each match.
Round 1: 31 Oct & 1 Nov
Round 2: 21 & 22 Nov
Round 3: 5 & 6 Dec
Round 4: 9 &10 Dec & Round 1: Dec 12
Round 5: 19 & 20 Dec
Round 6: 23 &24 Dec
Round 7: 26 & 27 Dec
Round 8: 30 & 31 Dec
Round 9: 2 & 3 Jan
Round 10: 6 & 7 Jan
Round 11: 9 & 10 Jan
Round 12: 13 &14 Jan
Round 13: 23 & 24 Jan
Round 14: 27 & 28 Jan
Round 15: 30 & 31 Jan
Round 16: 3 & 4 Feb
Round 17: 6 & 7 Feb
Round 18: 10 & 11 Feb (LAST Round!!!)
Related Articles:
Recap: 2017/2018 CTTSL & Final Standings
Get To Know Each Men's Team At 2017 CTTSL
Get To Know Each Women's Team At 2017 CTTSL
Format
The 2017 CTTSL is organized in a double round-robin basis, in which every team plays all others in its league once at home and once away, a total of 18 rounds. There will be no stage 2. The final rankings will go the number of matches won, with any variety of tiebreaker criteria after 18 rounds of matches and no teams will be relegated in this season.
The league adopted the best of 5 matches as follow
Match 1: A -- X
Match 2: B -- Y
Match 3: Doubles
Match 4: A -- Y
Match 5: C -- Z
Anyone on the team, except player A and Y, can play the doubles. All matches of a team match are the best of 5 games, except for the doubles and the decider match which will be played in the best of 3 games. All decider games will play a 7-point game.
For more information about 2017 CTTSL visit the official site of CTTSL here.
Line-up Of The Teams
Schedule
History
China has its first nationwide table tennis league in late-1995 when Kong Linghui led Heilongjiang Yafeng Club to win the first Chinese table tennis league champion out of 12 clubs. The league changed its name to Chinese Table Tennis A-League in 1998 and renamed as Chinese Table tennis Super League (CTTSL) in 1999. 2017 CTTSL is the 17th CTTSL. There will be 10 clubs on each men's and women's side to compete for the title.
Past Champions
Ma Lin is the most celebrated male athlete at CTTSL as he has won 7 CTTSL champion in his career and the record is yet to be broken. While for the women's side, Li Xiaoxia led Shandong Luneng to win 5 CTTSL champion and has won the most CTTSL title among the female athletes.
Sources:
历届中国乒乓球俱乐部超级联赛成绩(总)
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Hi Table Tennis Fan
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for the update on the upcoming CTTSL season. I'm really looking forward to see how it goes :-)
Will you post updates/results after each round?
And do you know anything about live streaming from the first round on tuesday and wednesday?
Kind regards
Stef
Hi Stef,
DeleteI plan to do updates of results after each round but given there are no official sites ready for the League, I am not sure whether I can make it for the first round. I will make a new article for every round that includes the schedule, live streaming links and results (update it after posting). The article contain live stream links is available now. Check it! The updates will usually be made in the evening (GMT+8).
Regards
Table Tennis Fan
Hi Table Tennis Fan
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot :-)
Will you also be writing articles about the upcoming German and Swedish Opens - seeing as the CNT is sending (unprecedentedly?) many players to these two World Tour tournaments?
Kind regards
Stef
Hi Stef,
DeleteI know the German and Swedish Open will be some exciting tournaments to watch. However I have only planned on writing the major tournaments like WTTC, World Cup, WJTTC.. but not World Tour because I am not sure whether I have the spare time to follow every World Tour and do throwbacks, previews and recap for the competitions in the future. Moreover, it is quite time-consuming to write those articles while they are the least popular articles. What are your thoughts on my World Cup articles? If they are great and people want more those article, I might spend more time writing them.
Thank you for your support and I love to hear more from you.
Regards,
Table Tennis Fan