Table Tennis
The game, which debuted in the Olympic Games in 1988 at Seoul, began with cigar-box lids for rackets and a carved champagne cork for a ball. Today, players use specially developed rubber-coated wooden and carbon-fibre rackets and a lightweight, hollow celluloid ball. Various rubber compounds and glues are applied on the rackets to impart greater spin or speed. [Full story]
List of Events
- • singles Men
- • team Men
- • singles Women
- • team Women
Competition Venues
Hall of Fame
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Athlete numbers:
The target for table tennis is 172 athletes
- PRINCIPLES
- SYSTEM
- TIMELINE
- MEN
- WOMEN
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QUALIFICATION SYSTEM PRINCIPLES - MEN AND WOMEN |
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| Event | Qualification | Total |
| ITTF World Ranking | The top 20 players on the ITTF World Ranking will qualify, with a maximum of 2 players per NOC | 20 |
| Continental Qualification | 40 players for the singles and 22 additional players for Team will qualify as follow: Africa: 6 singles and 1 Team Asia: 11 singles and 1 Team Europe: 11 singles and 1 Team Latin America: 6 singles and 1 Team North America: 3 singles and 1Team Oceania: 3 singles and 1 Team |
62 |
| World Qualification Tournament |
2 singles places will be allocated to the top 2 players at the World Qualification Tournament | 2 |
| Host nation | If not otherwise qualified, the host nation automatically qualifies 1 place in each singles event and 1 place for each Team event | 1 |
| Tripartite Commission Invitation |
1 Invitation place for each singles event will be allocated by the Tripartite Commission | 1 |
| Total | Men Women |
86 86 |
QUALIFICATION SYSTEM
SINGLES
MAIN DRAW – 64 men and 64 women
Sixty-four (64) athletes for each of the men’s singles and women’s singles events will qualify for the
main draw as follows:
20 ITTF World Ranking, with a maximum of two (2) players per NOC
40 Continental qualification system
1 Tripartite Commission Invitation place
1 Host nation direct entry
2 Final World Qualification Event
64 Total - with a maximum of three (3) players from the same NOC
Preliminary rounds, in addition to the main draw of 64, may be necessary in Singles events to
accommodate the total number of qualified athletes if the Final World Qualification Tournament
qualifies more than two (2) players because the Team Quota (22 places) is not fully utilised.
TEAM EVENTS – 16 Men’s and 16 Women’s Teams
Sixteen (16) Teams for each of the Men’s Team and Women’s Team events will qualify as follows:
6 Top team from each Continent
1 Host nation direct entry
9 Remaining selected teams
An additional quota of 22 places for men and 22 places for women are made available to complement
(if necessary) the quota for teams that did not qualify three (3) players in the singles events through
World Ranking Qualification, Continental Qualification, host nation direct entry or Tripartite
Commission Invitation places.
Players who have been added to a team from the quota of 22 additional places may only play in the
Team Event and shall not be entered in the singles event.
QUALIFICATION TIMELINE
| 31 December 2006 | Continental Federations will determine the Continental Qualification Tournaments for Singles and advise all their National Associations of dates and location of their qualifying events and the system of qualification. |
| January 2007 | ITTF will announce the Continental Qualification tournaments |
1 Jul 07-15 Apr 08 |
Period for holding the Singles continental qualification events |
| 11-23 July 2007 | All Africa Games, Algiers (ALG) |
| 21-27 July 2007 | Pan-American Games, Rio de Janeiro (BRA) – Note: The winner of the Men’s Singles and the Women’s Singles will be an automatic qualifier. This place will be deducted from the Latin American or the North American quota. |
| 15 November 2007 | Deadline for the submission of requests for Tripartite Commission Invitation places by all NOCs. |
| January 2008 | ITTF World Ranking list published following the 2007 Pro-tour Finals World qualifying first 20 players from this list. |
| 31 January 2008 | The Tripartite Commission will decide the provisional allocation of the invitation places. |
| 6-11 March 2008 | Asia Qualification Tournament, Hong Kong, China (HKG) |
| 30 March-6 April 2008 | Latin American Championships, Santo Domingo (DOM) |
| 2-6 April 2008 | Europe Qualification Tournament, Nantes (FRA) |
| 4-6 April 2008 | North America Qualification Tournament, Vancouver (CAN) |
| 5-8 April 2008 | Oceania Qualification Tournament, Nouméa (New Caledonia) |
| April-July 2008 | The Tripartite Commission will allocate the invitation places and confirm, in writing, to the NOCs concerned. |
| 30 April 2008 | Notification of qualified players by Continental Federations to the ITTF Headquarters |
| 1-18 May 2008 | Final World Qualification Tournament for singles |
| 30 May 2008 | ITTF to confirm to NFs/NOCs the names of all qualified singles players, Teams and players only qualified for Teams events |
| 15 June 2008 | NOCs to confirm to ITTF the entry of participating players and Teams |
| 30 June 2008 | ITTF to confirm the final allocation of all quota places |
| 23 July 2008 | Deadline for Beijing 2008 Organising Committee to receive entry forms submitted by NOCs |
| Qualification | Name | NOC Code |
| Direct qualified (20) | ||
| 1 | Wang Hao | CHN |
| 2 | Ma Lin | CHN |
| 3 | Timo Boll | GER |
| 4 | Vladimir Samsonov | BLR |
| 5 | Ryu Seung Min | KOR |
| 6 | Oh Sang Eun | KOR |
| 7 | Gao Ning | SIN |
| 8 | Li Ching | HKG |
| 9 | Chuan Chih-Yuan | TPE |
| 10 | Kalinikos Kreanga | GRE |
| 11 | Werner Schlager | AUT |
| 12 | Kan Yo | JPN |
| 13 | Dimitrij Ovtcharov | GER |
| 14 | Alexei Smirnov | RUS |
| 15 | Yang Zi | SIN |
| 16 | Ko Lai Chak | HKG |
| 17 | Zoran Primorac | CRO |
| 18 | Michael Maze | DEN |
| 19 | He Zhiwen | ESP |
| 20 | Jorgen Persson | SWE |
| Continental qualified | ||
| Africa (6) | ||
| 1 | Segun Toriola | NGR |
| 2 | Monday Merotohun | NGR |
| 3 | El-Sayed Lashin | EGY |
| 4 | Suraju Saka | CGO |
| 5 | Idir Khourta | ALG |
| 6 | Adel Massaad | EGY |
| Latin America (6) | ||
| 1 | Lin Ju | DOM |
| 2 | Liu Song | ARG |
| 3 | Gustavo Tsuboi | BRA |
| 4 | Thiago Monteiro | BRA |
| 5 | Dexter St Louis | TRI |
| 6 | Pablo Tabachnik | ARG |
| Asia (11) | ||
| 1 | Afshin Norouzi | IRI |
| 2 | Doan Kien Quoc | VIE |
| 3 | Ibrahim Al-Hasan | KUW |
| 4 | Wang Liqin | CHN |
| 5 | Kim Hyok Bong | PRK |
| 6 | Ri Chol Guk | PRK |
| 7 | Mizutani Jun | JPN |
| 8 | Yoon Jae Young | KOR |
| 9 | Kishikawa Seiya | JPN |
| 10 | Jang Song Man | PRK |
| 11 | Sharath Kamal Achanta | IND |
| Europe (11) | ||
| 1 | Tan Ruiwu | CRO |
| 2 | Jens Lundqvist | SWE |
| 3 | Bojan Tokic | SVN |
| 4 | Robert Gardos | AUT |
| 5 | Christian Suss | GER |
| 6 | Chen Weixing | AUT |
| 7 | Panagiotis Gionis | GRE |
| 8 | Joao Montetro | POR |
| 9 | Patrick Chila | FRA |
| 10 | Christophe Legout | FRA |
| 11 | Fedor Kuzmin | RUS |
| North America (3) | ||
| 1 | Zhang Peng | CAN |
| 2 | Pradeeban Peter-Paul | CAN |
| 3 | David Zhuang | USA |
| Oceania (3) | ||
| 1 | William Henzel | AUS |
| 2 | Kyle Davis | AUS |
| 3 | David Zalcberg | AUS |
| Tripartite Commission | ||
| 1 | *Marcelo Aguirre | PAR |
| Final World Qualification Event | ||
| 1 | *Cheung Yuk | HKG |
| 2 | Chiang Peng Lung | TPE |
| 3 | Jean-Michel Saive | BEL |
| Additional Singles Qualifiers | ||
| 1 | *Adrian Crisan | ROU |
| 2 | Ahmed Alt Saleh | EGY |
| 3 | Cem Zeng | TUR |
| 4 | *Damien Elot | FRA |
| 5 | *Trinko Keen | NED |
| 6 | *Marcos Freitas | POR |
| 7 | *Janos Jakab | HUN |
| 8 | Aleksandar Karakasevic | SRB |
| 9 | *Mihai Bobocica | ITA |
| 10 | *Kou Lei | UKR |
| 11 | *Petr Korbel | CZE |
| 12 | *Tiago Apolonia | POR |
| 13 | Alfredo Carneros | ESP |
Note: The players marked with a asterisk (*) is to be confirmed by their respective NOCs.
| Qualification | Name | NOC Code |
| Direct qualified (20) | ||
| 1 | Guo Yue | CHN |
| 2 | Zhang Yining | CHN |
| 3 | Wang Yuegu | SIN |
| 4 | Li Jiawei | SIN |
| 5 | Fukuhara Ai | JPN |
| 6 | Kim Kyung Ah | KOR |
| 7 | Wu Jiaduo | GER |
| 8 | Hirano Sayaka | JPN |
| 9 | Liu Jia | AUT |
| 10 | Li Jiao | NED |
| 11 | Gao Jun | USA |
| 12 | Park Mi Young | KOR |
| 13 | Tamara Boros | CRO |
| 14 | Li Qian | POL |
| 15 | Wang Chen | USA |
| 16 | Krisztina Toth | HUN |
| 17 | Lau Sui Fei | HKG |
| 18 | Daniela Dodean | ROU |
| 19 | Elke Wosik | GER |
| 20 | Ni Xialian | LUX |
| Continental qualified | ||
| Africa (6) | ||
| 1 | Yang Fen | CGO |
| 2 | Bose Kaffo | NGR |
| 3 | Cecilia Otu Offiong | NGR |
| 4 | Nesrine Ben Kahia | TUN |
| 5 | Safa Saidani | TUN |
| 6 | Noha Yossry | EGY |
| Latin America (6) | ||
| 1 | Wu Xue | DOM |
| 2 | Fabiola Ramos | VEN |
| 3 | Mariany Nonaka | BRA |
| 4 | Qin Lian | DOM |
| 5 | Paula Medina | COL |
| 6 | Yadira Silva | MEX |
| Asia (11) | ||
| 1 | Marina Shumakova | KAZ |
| 2 | Feng Tianwei | SIN |
| 3 | Zeina Shaban | JOR |
| 4 | Dang Ye Seo | KOR |
| 5 | Nanthana Komwong | THA |
| 6 | Wang Nan | CHN |
| 7 | Haruna Fukuoka | JPN |
| 8 | Kim Jong | PRK |
| 9 | Kim Mi Yong | PRK |
| 10 | Neha Aggarwal | IND |
| 11 | Huang I-Hwa | TPE |
| Europe (11) | ||
| 1 | Lie Jie | NED |
| 2 | Viktoria Pavlovich | BLR |
| 3 | Elizabeta Samara | ROU |
| 4 | Melek Hu | TUR |
| 5 | Xian Yifang | FRA |
| 6 | Svetlana Ganina | RUS |
| 7 | Sandra Paovic | CRO |
| 8 | Xu Jie | POL |
| 9 | Li Qiangbing | AUT |
| 10 | Zhu Fang | ESP |
| 11 | Wenling Tan Monfardint | ITA |
| North America (3) | ||
| 1 | Crystal Yao Xi Huang | USA |
| 2 | Zhang Mo | CAN |
| 3 | Judy (Zhu) Long | CAN |
| Oceania (3) | ||
| 1 | Jian Fang Lay | AUS |
| 2 | Stephanie Xu Sang | AUS |
| 3 | *Miao Miao | AUS |
| Tripartite Commission | ||
| 1 | Priscila Tommy | VAN |
| Final World Qualification Event | ||
| 1 | *Tie Yana | HKG |
| 2 | *Lin Ling | HKG |
| 3 | Shen Yanfei | ESP |
| Additional Singles Qualifiers | ||
| 1 | *Georgina Pota | HUN |
| 2 | *Irina Kotikhina | RUS |
| 3 | Pan Lichun | TPE |
| 4 | Tatyana Kostromina | BLR |
| 5 | *Nikoleta Stefanova | ITA |
| 6 | *Margaryta Pesotska | UKR |
| 7 | Andrea Bakula | CRO |
| 8 | *Oksana Fadeeva | RUS |
| 9 | *Petra Lovas | HUN |
| 10 | *Matilda Ekholm | SWE |
| 11 | Veronika Pavlovich | BLR |
| 12 | *Eva Odorova | SVK |
| 13 | *Dana Hadacova | CZE |
| 14 | Ruta Paskauskiene | LTU |
Note: The players marked with a asterisk (*) is to be confirmed by their respective NOCs.
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