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ITTF Para Table Tennis
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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, 1st entry form and 2nd entry form of the 2nd International Rivas Vaciamadrid Open Table Tennis Championship.
General information, 1st entry form and 2nd entry form of the 4th Romanian Open.
Added ranking points,
ratings and
results of the African Championships.
Added ranking points,
ratings and
results of the Brazilian Open.
Added ranking points,
ratings and
results of the South Africa Open. Major update of the 2010 calendar: 3 cancellations, 2 new tournaments and contact data for most tournaments.
General information, 1st entry form of 7th Slovenia Open.
Invitation and 1st entry form of Lignano Master Open 2010.
Invitation, 1st entry form and 2nd entry form of 3rd 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. TD report of the 2009 Para Panamerican Championships. Partial results of the Tango Cup.
Added ranking points,
ratings and
results of the Gwangju championships.
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.
Players lists of Tango Cup VII and 1st 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.
Added 2nd 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 !
2nd entry form of
Asia and Oceania TT championships. Please note the new hotel:
Two new tournaments added to the calendar: African
Championships (factor 50) and S.A. TT Championships (factor 20). 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. 2nd 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 30th. TD report of the 2009 Arafura Games. TD report of the 2009 Romania Open. TD report of the 2009 Slovakia Open. Added Information, 1st entry form, 2nd 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, 1st entry form and 2nd entry form of the 1st 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 2nd 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.
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 30th, 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 15th. During the Championships in Genova, Italy an informal meeting with the European nations will be organized June 10th, 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 2nd 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).
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 30th, 2009.
An important precision from chairman Øivind
Eriksen: Alison Burchell presents the minutes of a PTT meeting in Lausanne in February 2009.
Two imporant notes (Chinese
translation) from selection officer Nico
Verspeelt:
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. |
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