BEIJING -- No more than 48 hours after Chinese sensation Zhang Jike nailed down world No.1 Timo Boll to win the German Open, the duo will meet each other again at the March 1-2 Asia vs Europe table tennis All-Star tournament in Beijing.

"Zhang is a very strong opponent. I will try my best when facing him again, but there's nothing for sure," said Boll, who beat Olympic champion Ma Lin in the semifinals before losing the final to Zhang Sunday evening on his home soil in Dortmond as the hottest local favorite.

The German top-ranked player in the decade will lead a five-member squad to represent Europeag ainst Zhang's Asian team. Also playing for Europe are the fifth-ranked Vladimir Samsonov of Belarus, former world cup winner Werner Schlager of Austria, as well as Portugal's Apolonia and Romania's Adrian Crisan.

Zhang Jike, ranked the sixth in the world, will play the No. 1 seed role for Asia, alongside South Korea's forbidding chopper Joo Se-Hyuk, top Japanese paddler Jun Mizutani, Chinese Taipei's Chuan Chih-Yuan and Hong Kong's Tang Peng.

The 2011 All-Star challenge is the third edition of the Asia vs Europeevent co-hosted by the Asian and European federations of table tennis associations. The former two editions all concluded in Asia's favor.

The return leg in Europe will be in Minsk in the last week of October.