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The English National Table Tennis Championships are run by the English Table Tennis Association. The first championships were held in 1960. [1] Desmond Douglas has won the most singles titles with 11, [2] whilst the leading woman is Jill Parker-Hammersley-Shirley with seven singles titles. [3]
Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals 4 N Mittelham (GER) 4 A Toliou (GRE) 0 4 N Mittelham (GER) 4 G Monfardini (ITA) 4 G Monfardini (ITA) 3 26 S De Nutte (LUX)
The organisation was known as the English Table Tennis Association between 1927 and 2014 and has been affiliated to the ITTF (International Table Tennis Federation) since 1927. [4] [5] Table Tennis England is based at Milton Keynes, having moved from Hastings in March 2014. [6] It rebranded as Table Tennis England in May 2014.
Table tennis competition has been in the Summer Olympic Games since 1988, with singles and doubles events for men and women. [1] [2] Athletes from China have dominated the sport, winning a total of 66 medals in 42 events, including 37 out of a possible 42 gold medals, and only failing to win at least one medal in one event, the inaugural men's singles event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
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.
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 women's team tournament of the 2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships was held from 16 to 24 February 2024. [ 1 ] China won the title for the 23rd time with a win over Japan.
European Champions League (ECL) is the seasonal table tennis competition for the highest ranked European club teams and is regarded as the most important international club competition in Europe. It is organised by the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU) and replaced the European Club Cup of Champions (ECCC), the previous prominent club ...