ITTF Para Table Tennis

News (Last update on Thursday, December 17 2009)

Minutes of PTT division meeting in Genoa in June 2009.

I fixed some errors in the preview of the January 2010 ranking list.

Information, 1^st entry form and 2^nd entry form of the 2^nd International Rivas Vaciamadrid Open Table Tennis Championship.

General information, 1^st entry form and 2^nd entry form of the 4^th Romanian Open.

Added ranking points, ratings and results of the African Championships.
Update of preview of the January 2010 ranking list.

Added ranking points, ratings and results of the Brazilian Open.
Update of preview of the January 2010 ranking list.

Added ranking points, ratings and results of the South Africa Open.
Update of preview of the January 2010 ranking list.

Major update of the 2010 calendar: 3 cancellations, 2 new tournaments and contact data for most tournaments.

General information, 1^st entry form of 7^th Slovenia Open.

Invitation and 1^st entry form of Lignano Master Open 2010.

Invitation, 1^st entry form and 2^nd entry form of 3^rd Open Al Watani championships.

Updated documents for tournament organizers (factor 20 and 40).

Official web site of Brazil Open whree results will be published.

Added ranking points, ratings and results of the Tango Cup VII.
Update of preview of the January 2010 ranking list

TD report of the 2009 Para Panamerican Championships.

Partial results of the Tango Cup.

Added ranking points, ratings and results of the Gwangju championships.
Update of preview of the January 2010 ranking list

Margita Homolova

TD reports of German Open, Lignano Open for standing players and Lignano Open for wheelchair players.

Update of preview of the January 2010 ranking list: I forgot to remove the points of 2007 regional championships for Africa, Asia & Oceania and Americas.

Preview of the January 2010 ranking list that will be used for selection for the 2010 World Championships. This is a preview, it should not be used for seeding at any tournament. It is intended for players so that they report potential errors. There may be some classifications updates missing that I will complete soon. It will be updated after each new tournament.

Added ranking points, ratings and results of the Lignano Master Open for standing players. Note that I fixed an error where matches of the open event were counted twice.

Added ranking points, ratings and results of the Lignano Master Open for wheelchair players.

Players list of Brazil Open.

Results and ranking points of the 2009 Asia & Oceania Championships. Ratings will be delayed by few days until Rating Central processing comes back.

TD report of 1^st Rivas Vaciamadrid international open.

Players lists of Tango Cup VII and 1^st Gwangju-Korea International Championships.

Tournament Officer Gorazd Vecko presents 2010 calendar and also the new tournament secretary Mateja Pintar

Results and ranking points of the 1er Open de Rivas Vaciamadrid.

Correct results and ranking points of the 2009 Para Panamerican Championships: the results of team events played in round robin were not included.

Two weeks after the ITTF PTT Parapan American Table Tennis Championships held in Islas Margaritas, now is the time of junior athletes get in action in Bogota, read more...

Little reminder that there will be testing of the new proposal for change of service rule at the 2009 Copa Tango.

Final entry forms of African Championships and South African Open Tournament.

Thanks to Bill Greenblatt for a picture of Daryl Sterling.

Here is the October ranking list.

Portuguese version of the classification manual made by Monique Lima and overviewed by Edimilson Matias Pinheiro.

Added ranking points, ratings and results of the 2009 German Open.

Updated contact data for few members.

France has completely renewed their web site.

Calendar updated with documents of South Africa TT Open and African Championships.

Added ranking points, ratings, results and TD report of the 2009 Polish Open.

Reply to TD report for Slovakia Open 2009, from the Players’ Committee.

British paralympic performance team appointed for table tennis.

Added 2^nd entry forms of Lignano tournaments for standing players and wheelchair players.

Tournament Officer Gorazd Vecko presents 2010 preliminary calendar. The calendar will be updated when some small changes and/or additions will be fixed !

2^nd entry form of Asia and Oceania TT championships. Please note the new hotel:
Jerusalem International Hotel
4 Amman Jordan University Street
Tel : 0096265151121
Web : www.Jerusalem.com.jo

Two new tournaments added to the calendar: African Championships (factor 50) and S.A. TT Championships (factor 20).
Both championships are open only to the African players; this decision was taken during our meeting in Genova to give the African players a possibility to join the WC 2010.

Selection officer Nico Verspeelt has updated the general informations about the 2010 World Championships and the selection process. The changes are highlighted in yellow; the most important ones are the date change and 2 additional slots for women.

Added ranking points, ratings and results of the 2009 European Championships.

2^nd entry form of the Tango Cup VII.

Added French Championships results to players' profiles.

As some people were unable to open the entry forms for Lignano Masters, new versions of the forms have been uploaded to the calendar and the tangodeadline for first entry has been extended to July 30^th.

TD report of the 2009 Arafura Games.

TD report of the 2009 Romania Open.

TD report of the 2009 Slovakia Open.

Added Information, 1^st entry form, 2^nd entry form for Brazil Open. Please note the location change : it is now in Brasilia (no longer in Rio).

This the updated report of the Players' meetings in Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania. It is quite obvious that over recent months a large number of players have voiced their concern over a number of new regulations that have been implemented this year in 2009.
As a result Vincent Boury, the Athletes Representative has sent this letter to the ITTF-ParaTT Executive Committee with the aim of organizing a meeting with them in Genoa.

Added ranking points, ratings and results of the 2009 Romania Open.

Added ranking points, ratings and results of the 2009 Arafura Games Open.

Two notes about the applications to the 2011 Regional Championships:

Information, 1^st entry form and 2^nd entry form of the 1^st Gwangju-Korea International Para Table Tennis Championships.

During the four Regional Championships, the single events will be played in Round Robin (first stage) and KO (second stage). We will as we normally do play priority of groups of three players (meaning there could be four players in some groups). The two best players from each group will go through to 2^nd KO stage.

In the Slovakia Open, a group of players held a meeting and setup 2 petitions about new service rule and KO system in team event. Here is the report of the results of that meeting. Feel free to download the petitions if you have not signed them and return them to athlete's representative Vincent Boury. There was also a meeting in Slovenia and an updated report of the results there will follow. There will also be one in Romania.
For a complete information, please read also the information letter written by chairman on April, 16^th.

Little reminder that there will be testing of the new proposal for change of service rule at the 2009 Romanian Open.

Added results of class 1 and 2 French championships to players' profiles.

Added ranking points, ratings, results and TD report of the 2009 Slovenia Open.

In an article for USA table tennis magazine, U.S. coach Sean O'Neill gives serving tips for all players by observing wheelchair players.

ELECTIONS - NEW PARA TABLE TENNIS DIVISION

During the Annual General Meeting in Yokohama, Japan April 30^th, the new Para Table Tennis Division was elected. The Division is elected for the next 2 years, until the A.G.M. in Rotterdam, Netherlands May 2011. 8 "full members", 6 "corresponding members" and 1 "advisor" were elected. Here is the detailed list.

The "old Table Tennis Committee" and the "new Para Table Tennis Division" will meet in Genova, Italy during the European Championships June 2009. In this "Division meeting" very important items on the agenda will be to define working areas, responsibilities, meeting rights, voting rights etc for each elected person. Other items on the agenda will be decided until May 15^th.

During the Championships in Genova, Italy an informal meeting with the European nations will be organized June 10^th, the "free day" of the Championships.

Oivind Eriksen

Added ranking points, ratings and results of the 2009 Slovakia Open.

Alison Burchell presents the site inspection report for the 2010 world championships in Gwangju.

TD report of the 2^nd Al Watani TT Championships.

Edimilson Matias Pinheiro released the Portuguese translation of the rule book.

Added ranking points, ratings and results of the Czech Open 2009.

Information to the nations.

Leandro Olvech released PTT promotional campaign with posters in our facebook group in English, French and Spanish. Those who want to print them can download a high resolution version in English, French and Spanish.

An important announce from tournament officer Jiri Danek and chairman Øivind Eriksen:

Dear Organizers of our new Fa 20 tournaments in the first year of the New Structure. We hope it will be the tournaments of new quality for the participants.

During test year of the new structure, we have identified some points to improve and we hope, in 2010, we will have only smaller problems remaining that we will fix for year 2011.

Two substantial changes worth noting:

In the synoptic calendar for 2010, you will see the proposed dates of 10 rounds of Fa 20 tournaments: we will play Fa 20 and Fa 40 tournaments during all year round except two months (September and October 2010).

The World Ranking List for the seeding of World Championships 2010 is moved to October 1^st, 2010
In September and October 2010 we will play only World Championships 2010

In this Synoptic Calendar, there are only playing days of the tournaments Fa 20 in 2010. If you are interested in organizing a Fa 20 tournament in 2010, please choose some possible dates there, fill in the application form of Fa 20 for 2010 and send it to us before the deadline of the Applications – April 30^th, 2009.

An important precision from chairman Øivind Eriksen:
Since World Championships are going to have KO system for teams, as per 2.3.2.3.6.1.5 of the Rules and Regulations the upcoming Regional Championships must use the KO system for teams also.

Alison Burchell presents the minutes of a PTT meeting in Lausanne in February 2009.

Two imporant notes (Chinese translation) from selection officer Nico Verspeelt:

Only players who have been classified and have an International Classification Card by the date of the second entry deadline can enter a Fa 40 tournament in 2009. Thus there will only be classifiers observing at Fa 40 events this year.

In order to be considered for selection for the 2010 ITTF PTT World Championships, players must have an international classification, be on the ranking list and have achieved the tournament credit of 20 points. To achieve the tournament credit of 20 points, each player must have competed in a tournament of Fa 20 or Fa 40 between 1 October 2008 and 31 December 2009. Please note that no tournament credit points can be accumulated by participating to the regional championships.

Welcome to Edimilson Matias Pinheiro who replaces Leandro Olvech as Americas' representative.

Karol Ziduliak presents the updated seventh edition of ITTF PTT Rules and Regulations and a summary of changes.

Information about the proposed change of service rule in wheelchair and the 2 tournaments where it will tested.