African desk tennis powerhouses Egypt, Nigeria, Tunisia, and Algeria have formally booked their locations on the 2026 ITTF World Workforce Championships in London, United Kingdom.
This adopted the dominant performances of their respective teams on the ongoing 2025 ITTF Africa Championships in Tunis.
Egypt was the primary males’s workforce to seal qualification, cruising previous Togo and Côte d’Ivoire.
Nigeria adopted with emphatic 3-0 victories over Cameroon and South Africa in Group B.
Morocco additionally superior from the group after defeating each Cameroon and South Africa, organising a decisive conflict with Nigeria to find out the group chief.
Algeria and host nation Tunisia accomplished the record of qualifiers by topping Teams C and D, respectively.
Within the girls’s class, the sample mirrored the boys’s occasion, with Egypt, Nigeria, and Algeria securing their tickets to London.
Becoming a member of them is Uganda’s younger and promising squad, marking a big milestone for the East African nation.
London will host the ITTF World Desk Tennis Championships scheduled for April 28 to Could 10, 2026.
A historic version commemorating 100 years because the founding of each the World Championships and the Worldwide Desk Tennis Federation (ITTF) within the British capital.
This centenary celebration will carry collectively 64 groups per gender. Of those, 52 will qualify by continental championships, 11 by world rankings as of Nov. 2025) and one computerized spot might be reserved for host nation England.
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The World Championships stay the top of worldwide desk tennis a stage the place legends are born and historical past is written.
The countdown to London 2026 has begun, and the world’s greatest are making ready to converge for this once-in-a-century homecoming.
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