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The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) is the governing body for all national table tennis associations that use ITTF-approved sponge table tennis rackets. [1] The role of the ITTF includes overseeing rules and regulations and seeking technological improvement for the sport of table tennis. The ITTF is responsible for the organization ...
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.
Table tennis has been an Olympic sport since 1988, [3] with event categories in both men's and women's singles, and men's and women's teams since replacing doubles in 2008. Table tennis is governed by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), founded in 1926, and specifies the official rules in the ITTF handbook. [4]
Corbillon Cup for women's team, donated in 1933 by Marcel Corbillon, president of the French Table Tennis Association. The original Cup was won by German team in 1939, and disappeared during Berlin occupation after World War II; the current Corbillon Cup is a replica made in 1949.
Table tennis at the 1992 Summer Paralympics. Para table tennis is a parasports which follows the rules set by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The usual table tennis rules are in effect with slight modifications for wheelchair athletes. Athletes from disability groups can take part. Athletes receive classifications between 1 ...
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.
Based on the official ITTF data, all associations that have ever placed in top 10 in women’s and men’s singles ranking were taken into consideration. Each association is represented by a wave, determined by the number of players in top 10 proportionally weighted with their rank: the higher the wave, the better the players performed.
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