China News Service, July 8th ITTF released an announcement on the 8th that it confirmed with the Japan Table Tennis Association that the 2020 ITTF World Tour Lion King Japan Open will be cancelled due to the impact of the new crown virus.
Previously, because the New Coronavirus was raging in Japan and around the world, ITTF will temporarily postpone the 2020 ITTF World Tour Lion King Japan Open scheduled for April 21-26 in Kitakyushu, Japan.
The ITTF and the Japan Table Tennis Association have been working closely on finding a new date recently. Due to the current restrictions on travel to Japan, it is impossible to reschedule the event in 2020.
If the new crown epidemic affects the subsequent failure to host international public events as scheduled, ITTF will consider the possibility of hosting other events in 2020.
Prior to this, the Busan World Table Tennis Team Championship had been postponed several times, from March 22-29 to June 21-28, and then postponed to September 27-October 4. At the beginning of last month, the season was postponed for the third time, and ITTF announced that the event was "as much as possible to be held in the months before 2021." In addition, a large number of series of events under the ITTF Championship have been cancelled or postponed. The cancellation of the Japanese Open was also affected by the epidemic situation and the decision was forced. (Finish)