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The first international tournament was held in January 1926 in Berlin, and the first World Table Tennis Championships was held in December 1926 in London. [5] It was the only event for over 50 years that was run and managed commercially by the ITTF. In 1980, the ITTF World Cups was introduced, followed by the ITTF World Tour in 1996. Until 2003 ...
The ITTF also approved unified Korean team to compete at the World Table Tennis Championships in 1991 and 2018. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] In reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , the ITTF banned Russian and Belarusian players and officials from its competitions. [ 25 ]
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]
The ITTF World Tour, known as the ITTF Pro Tour until 2011, was an annual series of table tennis tournaments introduced by International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) in 1996. The tour includes events in seven categories: Men's and Women's Singles, Men's, Women's, and Mixed Doubles, and Under-21 Men's and Women's Singles.
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.
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
The ITTF-Oceania Cup is an annual table tennis event held by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The event features men's and women's singles tournaments, with the winners qualifying for the table tennis World Cup.
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.