Ma Long, a Chinese ping-pong player, waves to the crowd after winning the men's singles gold medal at the Rio Olympics on Aug 11, 2016. [Photo by Lin Yiguang/Xinhua.com]

World pingpong champions ZhangJike, Malong, DiNing?and LiuShiwen will visit Wuxi next month to compete in the 23rd Asian Table Tennis Championships.

Recently, the list of the sixteen Chinese ping-pong players who will participate in the big event was released. They will play seven games against athletes from across Asia at Wuxi Sports Center in Wuxi's Binhu district on April 9-16.

The Asian Table Tennis Championships is a biennial ping-pong tournament regarded as the premier continental championship by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). It is also the most important tournament organized by the Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU).