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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, China. It is distinguished from the predecessor ITTF World Tour by various rules changes and big prize money for commercialized purposes.
Year Host City Gold Silver Bronze 1926: London: Roland Jacobi: Zoltán Mechlovits: Munio Pillinger: S.R.G. Suppiah: 1928: Stockholm: Zoltán Mechlovits: Laszlo Bellak
The World Team Table Tennis Championships, which include men's team and women's team events, were first their own competition in 2000. The Team Championships are held in even numbered years. In the earlier days of the tournament, Hungary's men's team was a dominant force, winning the championships 12 times.
The table tennis point system was reduced from a 21 to an 11-point scoring system in 2001. [3] A game shall be won by the player or pair first scoring 11 points unless both players or pairs score 10 points, when the game shall be won by the first player or pair subsequently gaining a lead of 2 points.
The table tennis tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ran from 27 July to 10 August at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. [1] [2] A total of 175 table tennis players, with an equal distribution between men and women, competed across five medal events (two per gender and a mixed) at these Games, the exact same amount as those in the previous editions.
Matches of 1st stage shall be 4 games (result 4-0, 3-1 or 2-2). Final ranking will be determined in terms of Regulation 3.7.5, excluding match points, and based solely on the ratios of wins to losses first in games and then points, as far as is necessary to resolve the order. The 2nd Stage- Knockout: The draw for players will be as follows:
Para Table Tennis came into the spotlight in 1960 when the sport was incorporated into the 1960 Rome Paralympics. [10] Para Table Tennis was also first included in the Olympic Games in Seoul 1988. Para Table Tennis was treated just as equally as the regular table tennis tournaments in which there are both men's and women's events.
The ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, formerly named ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals, was an annual table tennis tournament sanctioned by International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) at the end of the year. The tournament included seven events: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, mixed doubles (new in 2018), U21 men's and women's singles.