With an ambitious goal to eventually become the best table tennis league in the world, the T.League Premier League will kick off in Japan in the fall of 2018.
On Friday, the league held a meeting in Tokyo for companies and groups that are interested in competing in the brand-new circuit. League managing director and former professional player Koji Matsushita revealed at a news conference following the meeting that a total of 12 companies came to the meeting and about 20, including those 12, are considering applying to become league members.
The T.League plans to start with the top-flight Premier League first, and then expand as it forms lower tiers a few years after that.