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Olympic Table Tennis - Rio 2016 Summer Olympics
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Part of the Olympic Games since Seoul 1988, table tennis is the most popular racket sport in the world. Devilish spin and incredible reflexes make it a spellbinding spectacle. Men and women compete individually and in teams.
Spectator's Guide - Table Tennis
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Schedule & Results

Schedule & Results

Table Tennis

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Date Event Status
Sat 0609:00 Women's Singles Preliminary Round
MEX
SILVA Yadira
SYR
ALLEJJI Heba
Sat 0609:00 Women's Singles Preliminary Round
NGR
EDEM Offiong
FIJ
YEE Sally
Sat 0609:00 Women's Singles Preliminary Round
CGO
HAN Xing
PHI
LARIBA Ian
Sat 0609:00 Women's Singles Preliminary Round
BRA
KUMAHARA Caroline
AUS
TAPPER Melissa
Sat 0609:45 Women's Singles Preliminary Round
NGR
OSHONAIKE Olofunke
LIB
SAHAKIAN Mariana
Sat 0609:45 Women's Singles Preliminary Round
EGY
MESHREF Dina
TUN
SAIDANI Safa
Sat 0609:45 Men's Singles Preliminary Round
PUR
AFANADOR Brian
CGO
SAKA Suraju
Sat 0609:45 Men's Singles Preliminary Round
PAR
AGUIRRE Marcelo
AUS
POWELL David
Sat 0610:30 Men's Singles Preliminary Round
IRI
ALAMIAN Nima
USA
JHA Kanak
Sat 0610:30 Men's Singles Preliminary Round
MEX
MADRID Marcos
VAN
SHING Yoshua
Sat 0610:30 Men's Singles Preliminary Round
SRB
KARAKASEVIC Aleksandar
AUS
YAN Xin
Sat 0610:30 Men's Singles Preliminary Round
EGY
ASSAR Khalid
CGO
WANG Jianan
Sat 0611:15 Women's Singles Round 1
ESP
DVORAK Galia
BRA
GUI Lin
Sat 0611:15 Women's Singles Round 1
CZE
MATELOVA Hana
CAN
ZHANG Mo
Sat 0611:15 Women's Singles Round 1
ROU
MONTEIRO DODEAN Daniela
IND
DAS Mouma
Sat 0611:15 Women's Singles Round 1
USA
ZHANG Lily
VEN
ARVELO Gremlis
Sat 0612:00 Women's Singles Round 1
SVK
ODOROVA Eva
USA
WU Yue
Sat 0612:00 Women's Singles Round 1
RUS
DOLGIKH Maria
AUS
LAY Jian Fang
Sat 0612:00 Women's Singles Round 1
POL
GRZYBOWSKA-FRANC Katarzyna
IND
BATRA Manika
Sat 0612:00 Women's Singles Round 1
CZE
VACENOVSKA Iveta
COL
RUANO Lady
Sat 0614:30 Women's Singles Round 1
PUR
DIAZ Adriana
Sat 0614:30 Women's Singles Round 1
BLR
PRIVALOVA Alexandra
IRI
SHAHSAVARI Neda
Sat 0614:30 Women's Singles Round 1
HUN
LOVAS Petra
EGY
EL-DAWLATLY Nadeen
Sat 0614:30 Women's Singles Round 1
THA
SAWETTABUT Suthasini
Sat 0615:15 Women's Singles Round 1
THA
KOMWONG Nanthana
Sat 0615:15 Women's Singles Round 1
SVK
BALAZOVA Barbora
Sat 0615:15 Women's Singles Round 1
BLR
PAVLOVICH Viktoria
Sat 0615:15 Women's Singles Round 1
LUX
NI Xia Lian
Sat 0616:00 Men's Singles Round 1
FIN
OLAH Benedek
SIN
CHEN Feng
Sat 0616:00 Men's Singles Round 1
CZE
JANCARIK Lubomir
UZB
KENJAEV Zokhid
Sat 0616:00 Men's Singles Round 1
BRA
CALDERANO Hugo
CUB
PEREIRA Andy
Sat 0616:00 Men's Singles Round 1
IND
GHOSH Soumyajit
THA
TANVIRIYAVECHAKUL Padasak
Sat 0616:45 Men's Singles Round 1
HUN
PATTANTYUS Adam
KAZ
GERASSIMENKO Kirill
Sat 0616:45 Men's Singles Round 1
CAN
WANG Eugene
CUB
CAMPOS Jorge
Sat 0616:45 Men's Singles Round 1
CZE
PROKOPCOV Dmitrij
NGR
TORIOLA Segun
Sat 0616:45 Men's Singles Round 1
ESP
HE Zhiwen
USA
FENG Yijun
Sat 0619:00 Men's Singles Round 1
EGY
ASSAR Omar
Sat 0619:00 Men's Singles Round 1
POL
DYJAS Jakub
Sat 0619:00 Men's Singles Round 1
SLO
TOKIC Bojan
IRI
ALAMIYAN Noshad
Sat 0619:00 Men's Singles Round 1
IND
ACHANTA Sharath Kamal
ROU
CRISAN Adrian
Sat 0619:45 Men's Singles Round 1
ROU
IONESCU Ovidiu
Sat 0619:45 Men's Singles Round 1
SVK
WANG Yang
Sat 0619:45 Men's Singles Round 1
GBR
DRINKHALL Paul
Sat 0619:45 Men's Singles Round 1
BRA
TSUBOI Gustavo
Sat 0620:30 Women's Singles Round 2
ROU
SAMARA Elizabeta
Sat 0620:30 Women's Singles Round 2
PRK
KIM Song I
Sat 0620:30 Women's Singles Round 2
UKR
BILENKO Tetyana
Sat 0620:30 Women's Singles Round 2
POR
SHAO Jieni
Sat 0621:15 Women's Singles Round 2
HUN
POTA Georgina
Sat 0621:15 Women's Singles Round 2
SWE
EKHOLM Matilda
Sat 0621:15 Women's Singles Round 2
AUT
POLCANOVA Sofia
Sat 0621:15 Women's Singles Round 2
POL
LI Qian

About

About

Aim of the game

Popularly known as ‘ping-pong’, the sport consists of two players either side of a waist-high table using small bats to hit a light, plastic ball over the net and onto the other side, winning a point if the opponent fails to return it

Why should you watch this?

The ninja-like reflexes of the players cannot fail but amaze those watching – just imagine trying to return a smash travelling at full pace towards you from the bat of an Olympic champion

International Federation

Olympic debut

Seul 1988

Rules
  • Topspin

    Topspin

    Attacking stroke that generates speed and spin on the ball

  • Block

    Block

    Shot used to counter a topspin stroke, turning the speed of the attacking shot back on the opponent

  • Chop

    Chop

    Striking sharply under the ball to slow it down and make it bounce low off the playing surface

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  • Table tennis was invented in England around 1880, as an improvised after-dinner game using a champagne-cork ball, cigar-box lids as bats and piles of books as a net

    Table tennis was invented in England around 1880, as an improvised after-dinner game using a champagne-cork ball, cigar-box lids as bats and piles of books as a net

  • Table tennis first appeared at the Rome 1960 Paralympic Games and took almost 30 years to finally become an Olympic sport, in Seoul 1988

    Table tennis first appeared at the Rome 1960 Paralympic Games and took almost 30 years to finally become an Olympic sport, in Seoul 1988

  • Sweden’s Jan-Ove Waldner won the men’s singles title at the Barcelona 1992 Games and remains the only non-Asian player to have won an Olympic gold medal in table tennis

    Sweden’s Jan-Ove Waldner won the men’s singles title at the Barcelona 1992 Games and remains the only non-Asian player to have won an Olympic gold medal in table tennis

  • Chinese athletes have dominated Olympic table tennis since day one, winning 24 of the 28 golds ever awarded, including a clean sweep at London 2012

    Chinese athletes have dominated Olympic table tennis since day one, winning 24 of the 28 golds ever awarded, including a clean sweep at London 2012

  • Table tennis is considered the most popular racquet sport in the world, with over 300 million players in five continents

    Table tennis is considered the most popular racquet sport in the world, with over 300 million players in five continents

  • The top players can spin the ball at up to 9,000 revolutions per minute

    The top players can spin the ball at up to 9,000 revolutions per minute

  • The name ping-pong was registered by a North American company who entered into a long-running battle with the table tennis association for control of the sport, hence the ongoing use of both names

    The name ping-pong was registered by a North American company who entered into a long-running battle with the table tennis association for control of the sport, hence the ongoing use of both names

Scoring

Matches are split up into games in which the first player(s) to score 11 points wins. If players or teams tie at 10-10, a two-point margin is needed to win. A singles match is the best of seven games and the team competition consists of four singles matches and one doubles, each one the best of five games.

A player wins a point when the opponent:

- misses the table with the ball as he attempts to return it

- plays the ball into the net

- misses the ball altogether after it has hit their side of the table

- touches the playing surface with their free hand

Service

A serve must bounce once on both sides of the table to be valid (in doubles games, players on the same side take turns returning the ball) and the server alternates every two points or after every point if the score reaches 10-10.

The ball is playable whenever it has touched the playing surface on the opponent’s side of the net, even if it hits the line or edge, or goes ‘around’ the side of the net.

Equipment

Ball: with 40mm in diameter and weighing 2.7g, the ball is made of plastic and can be white or orange.

Bat: is made of wood and covered with rubber (red on one side, black on the other) to help induce spin, with a total maximum thickness of 4mm.

Athletes

Athletes & Teams

Gender

Gender
Woman 50
Men 50
Women
Men

Age Range

Age Range
Under 15 2
16 - 20 8
21 - 25 32
26 - 30 28
31 - 40 27
Over 40 3
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