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ITTF. The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's double and mixed doubles, are currently ...
History Parker Brothers Ping-Pong game The sport originated in Victorian England, where it was played among the upper-class as an after-dinner parlour game. It has been suggested that makeshift versions of the game were developed by British military officers in India around the 1860s or 1870s, who brought it back with them. A row of books stood up along the center of the table as a net, two ...
List of current and past men's and women's tennis tournaments.. Criteria for inclusion: The tournament is notable enough to have its own article on Wikipedia; Historic tournaments are included if notability can be established by reliable third-party sources (references needed)
The Table Tennis World Cup has been held annually since 1980. There had been only men's singles until the inauguration of women's singles in 1996 and team competitions in 1990. The team competitions, the Team World Cup were canceled until the relaunch in 2007, and now held in odd-numbered years.
Contents. Table tennis at the Summer Olympics. 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 60 medals in 37 events, including 32 out of a possible 37 gold medals, and only failing to win at ...
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.
Portugal national table tennis team. The team is composed by Marcos Freitas, Tiago Apolónia and João Pedro Monteiro .Portugal reached the quarter-finals at 2012 Olympic Games in London, beating in the first round Great Britain and losing the quarter-finals against South Korea 2-3.
ettu.org. The European Table Tennis Championships is an international table tennis competition for the national teams of the member associations of the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU). First held in 1958, the ETTU organised the European Championships every two years in even-numbered years until 2002, when they changed to odd-numbered years.