World Table Tennis Championship 2014

The World Table Tennis Championship has just started in Tokyo. Since I've been playing table tennis for many years, and since my friend's daughter is taking part in the event, I'm really interested in this tournament. 

Japan used to win the world championship many times, but it hasn't received any gold medals for over 30 years. I also think it's hard to get a gold medal this time because the Chinese players are much stronger than the Japanese players. The European countries are very strong, too. 

I hope the Japanese players perform well and at least get silver medals.