KARACHI, Dec 9: The Pakistan Table Tennis Federation (PTTF) has invited the country’s top 16 men and as many women players to feature in three-day trials for the upcoming World Table Tennis championships starting in Guongzhou, China, from Feb 24.

A six-member team, including three women, will represent the country at the world meet, PTTF president S.M. Sibtain said on Sunday.

The trials will be held on league basis at the PSB Coaching Centre in the city where the national camp is already in progress under the supervision of two North Korean ping pong coaches and is being attended by 10 men and eight women.

Sibtain said that according to the criteria, invitees for the trials are the pre quarter-finalists of the last national championship.

He said the camp trainees will disperse for the Eid holidays on Dec 19 to re-assemble on Jan 1.

Players invited for trials:

Men: Bilal Yasin, Kashif Razzak, Saleem Abbas, Asim Qureshi, Asim Aziz, Khwaja Kashif Hussain, Ahmed Hussain, Hasan Haider, Arshad Taskeen, Owais Mukhtar, Abdul Raheem, Yasir Iqbal, Mohammad Muzammil, Adnan Mushtaq, Asim Munir, Jahangir Khan.

Women: Ghalia Khursheed, Shabnam Bilal, Shama Hasan, Sadia Falaksher, Shabnam Yasmeen, Louiza Irshad, Sadia Yaseen, Ayesha Khan, Maleeha Khursheed, Yasmeen Akhtar, Seemab Alam, Asia Ikram, Shazia Tariq, Rizwana Saleem, Kanwal Iqbal, Ayesha Iqbal.