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In 2007, the governance for para table tennis was transferred from the International Paralympic Committee to the ITTF. [6] In February 2008, the ITTF announced several rules changes after an ITTF Executive Meeting in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China with regards to a player's eligibility to play for a new association. The new ruling was to encourage ...
Beaches is a 1988 American musical comedy drama film based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Iris Rainer Dart. It was directed by Garry Marshall from a screenplay by Mary Agnes Donoghue , and stars Bette Midler , Barbara Hershey , Mayim Bialik , John Heard , James Read , Spalding Gray , and Lainie Kazan .
World Table Tennis, stylized as WTT, is an organization created by the ITTF in 2019 that runs commercialized table tennis tournaments. [1] Its inaugural tournament was held in November 2020 in Macao. It is distinguished from the predecessor ITTF World Tour by various rules changes and big prize money for commercialized purposes.
Although both a "Table Tennis Association" and a "Ping Pong Association" existed by 1910, [12] a new Table Tennis Association was founded in 1921, and renamed the English Table Tennis Association in 1926. [13] The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) followed in 1926. [1] [14] London hosted the first official World Championships in 1926.
Geist Prize for women's singles, donated in 1931 by Dr. Gaspar Geist, president of the Hungarian Table Tennis Association; Doubles competition: Iran Cup for men's doubles; first presented at the 1947 World Championships by the Shah of Iran; W.J. Pope Trophy for women's doubles; donated in 1948 by the ITTF honorary general secretary W.J. Pope
The team competitions were canceled until the relaunch in 2007, and now held in odd-numbered years. The competitions are sanctioned by International Table Tennis Federation and classified as R1 in rating weightings, B2 in bonus weightings in the ITTF world ranking. [1] In the years 2021-2023, the event has been suspended.
The ITTF Challenge Series was an annual series of table tennis tournaments organised by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). Initially created in 2013 as the third tier of the ITTF World Tour (below the Super Series and Major Series), the Challenge Series became a separate tour in 2017. It was the ITTF's secondary tour, below the ...
The list of ITTF World Tour (known as the ITTF Pro Tour from its inception in 1996 until 2011) is in alphabetical order by names of tournaments. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Continent