SUZHOU, China, April 27 -- The first round of mixed doubles action begins at the Qoros 2015 World Table Tennis Championships on Monday evening, giving the crowd its first glimpse of the world's top players on the tables in Suzhou.

Most of the less highly rated pairings had nearly two days of matches already played in the Suzhou International Exhibition Center, as many have been involved in qualification and group matches in other doubles and singles events, so they should be well adapted to the conditions and ready to put up a good challenge.

No.1 seeds Kim Hyok Bong and Kim Jong of South Korea begin their world championships title defence against Miguel Lara and Monica Serrano from Mexico.

Chinese pair Yan An and Wu Yang will take the crowd's focus as they go up against the mixed NOC pairing of Aleksandar Karakasevic of Serbia and Ruta Paskauskiene of Lithuania.

The other interesting teams playing in the mixed doubles are third seeds Lee Sangsu and Park Youngsook of South Korea and ninth seeds Chuang Chih-Yuan and Cheng I-Ching of Chinese Taipei playing against teams from Malaysia and Greece respectively.

Elsewhere, No.2 seeds Jiang Tianyi and Lee Ho Ching of Hongkong of China lead the bill in their match against Panagiotis Gionis and Aikaterini Toliou from Greece.

Chinese Xu Xin and Yang Haeun of South Korea will play Slovenian pair Bojan Tokic and Manca Fajmut and Japan's great hopes in this event Koki Niwa and Sayaka Hirano take on Chew Zhe Yu Clarence and Li Isabelle Siyun from Singapore.