2009 World Table Tennis Championships
world table tennis championship held yokohama japan april may chinese team dominated competition following sweep gold medal table tennis summer olympics tenth third consecutive world table tennis championship china five available title fourthranked timo boll germany challenger men single title forced withdraw tournament due back injury boll withdrawal player china held top four seedings men womens single competition event took place swine flu pandemic participant affected case strain found body seventeenyearold schoolboy yokohama championship taking place event organiser implemented new measure stop flu spreading thermographic exam camera installed player entrance yokohama arena intention sending anyone unusually high body temperature medical assistance player told scrub hand well hygiene reason avail face mask hand gel previously used outbreak severe acute respiratory syndrome avian influenza participant mexico severely affected country taking part championship placed quarantine given thermometer check temperature regularly china collected seventeen available twenty medal championship follow four gold summer olympics beijing championship ended country deputy sport minister cai zhenhua questioned whether china dominance sport would negative effect development said point view chinese association coach player great achievement personally anxious dangerous development sport worldwide truth failed chinese player grabbing title whatever tournament participate definitely detrimental advocated issuing invitation nonchinese national train country suggested chinese coach could sent country percent chinese knowledge tactic could shared others yokohama arena five final featured chinese player wang hao world number one wang hao beat wang liqin men single final china third consecutive men single title fifteenth world championship title section zhang yining olympic gold medallist zhang yining beat fellow countrywoman liu shiwen win one womens single semifinal whilst guo yue defending champion beat li xiaoxia semifinal zhang went beat guo final securing china eighteenth womens single title chen qi wang hao semifinal men double long xu xin beat jun mizutani seiya kishikawa japan play chen qi men single winner hao final match chen hao title guo yue li xiaoxia semifinal womens double guo li beat jiang huajun tie yana hong kong ding ning guo yan south korea kim kyungah park miyoung li ping cao zhen mixed double li ping cao zhen ittf website