Africa’s table tennis heavyweights, Nigeria and Egypt, will headline the battle for qualification to the 2026 ITTF World Crew Championships in London because the continent’s finest converge on Tunis for the 2025 ITTF African Championships from October 12 to 19.
The Tunis showdown doubles because the African qualifier for London 2026, which marks the centenary of the World Championships, returning to town the place all of it started in 1926.
Solely the highest males’s and girls’s groups from the event will guide their tickets to the worldwide stage.
Nigeria, the dominant pressure in West Africa, and Egypt, North Africa’s perennial powerhouse, are anticipated to resume their fierce rivalry.
Within the males’s division, which additionally options Tunisia, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Uganda, Ethiopia, South Africa, Angola, Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, Benin Republic, DR Congo, and Morocco.
Within the ladies’s draw, Egypt and Nigeria once more stand out as favourites, alongside host nation Tunisia, with challengers from throughout the continent, together with Ghana, Botswana, Cameroon, and South Africa, aiming to trigger upsets.
London 2026 would be the largest World Crew Championships but, increasing to 64 males’s and 64 ladies’s groups throughout two iconic venues.
