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Ewell Zhao, general manager of Tencent Sports, one of China's premier online sports service providers, sat down with China Daily to discuss why the internet-service giant partnered with the Chinese Table Tennis Association and the national teams to showcase the week-long Marvelous12 table tennis Tournament, which is underway in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.
Why did Tencent Sports joins hands with the Chinese Table Tennis Association to organize The Marvelous12 and promote the sport online?
It was coincidental. National team head coach Liu Guoliang wanted to make this year's trials different from previous tournaments, which were contested out of the public eye. Among Chinese players, the World Championships and Olymic qualifiers are even more competitive and spectacular than international competition. But the trials failed to draw much attention in past years for various reasons.
