On the evening of April 13, Beijing time, the ITTF announced that the 202 10/0 World Table Tennis Championships would be held in Houston, USA from October 23rd to 29th. On October 5, 20021June/KLOC-0, ITTF released and revised the qualifying system of 20021World Table Tennis Championships in Houston. On 2002 111October 21,ITTF announced that Chinese and American players would team up to participate in the 20021World Table Tennis Championships in Houston.
rules of a contest/competition
On June 5th, 65438, ITTF issued a revision to the qualification system of Houston 202 1 World Table Tennis Championships. In order to cope with the global challenge brought by the COVID-19 epidemic,1The 20021121265438 World Table Tennis Championships held in Houston from 23 to 29 October adopted a new pre-selection system, and the contestants were selected through ITTF world rankings.
Affected by the epidemic, many global qualifiers were forced to cancel, including regional qualifiers for singles and intercontinental qualifiers for team events.
After the revision of the rules, the new "3+ 1+ 1" rule was adopted for the singles quota of this World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, that is, each member association sent up to 3 players to participate. If the players in the member association rank in the top of the world 100, they can get extra places.
If the players rank in the top 20 in the world, they can get extra places. Houston gathered 128 singles players, 64 pairs of men's doubles, 64 pairs of women's doubles and 64 pairs of mixed doubles.
At the same time, ITTF also stipulates that if a member association needs to replace a player who has been shortlisted for the World Table Tennis Championships, it can be replaced by another player from the same association. The only prerequisite is that the substitute players must be the top 256 players in ITTF world.