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table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

events for 2016. * December 30, 2015 – December 18, 2016: 2016 ITTF Events Calendar

2016 Summer Olympics ( ITTF)

* August 6–17: 2016 Summer Olympics in

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Riocentro Riocentro is an exhibition and convention center located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Built in 1977, it is the largest exhibition center in Latin America. Notable events 1981 May Day attack On April 30, 1981, during a May Day music concert, Ri ...

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Ma Long Ma Long (; born 20 October 1988) is a Chinese table tennis player and the reigning Olympic singles champion. Widely regarded as the greatest table tennis player of all time, he is the first and only male player to complete a career Double Grand ...

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Zhang Jike Zhang Jike (; born 16 February 1988) is a retired Chinese table tennis player. Zhang became the fourth male player in the history of table tennis to achieve a career Grand Slam when he won gold in men's singles at the Olympic games in London 20 ...

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Jun Mizutani is a retired Japanese table tennis player. He became the youngest Japanese national champion at the age of 17. His consecutive singles titles at the national championships from 2007 to 2011 made him the first man to win the event five times in ...

** Women's singles:

Ding Ning Ding Ning (; born 20 June 1990) is a former Chinese table tennis player. She was the winner of women's singles in the 2011 World Table Tennis Championships. At the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships, Ding won her second world title in ...

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Li Xiaoxia Li Xiaoxia (; born 16 January 1988) is a Chinese table tennis Grand Slam champion. Career She trained in the Jiangsu Wuxi Shanhe Club in Wuxi, China. Her trainer is Li Sun, who is also the mentor of Olympic gold medal winner Zhang Yining. As o ...

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Table tennis World Cups & Championships

* February 28 – March 6: 2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships in

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** Men's team winners: ** Women's team winners: * October 1–3: 2016 Men's World Cup in Saarbrücken ** Winner:

Fan Zhendong Fan Zhendong (; born 22 January 1997) is a Chinese professional table tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 1 for men's singles by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). After joining the Chinese National Table Tennis Team i ...

* October 7–9: 2016 Women's World Cup in

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** Winner:

Miu Hirano (born 14 April 2000) is a Japanese table tennis player. She won Women's World Cup in 2016 as the youngest ever winner. She won the women's singles at the 2017 Asian Table Tennis Championships by sweeping away three top Chinese players. She comp ...

* October 21–29: 2016 ITTF World Cadet Challenge in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowin ...

** Cadet boys' singles winner: CHO Dae-seong ** Cadet girls' singles winner: Miyuu Kihara ** Cadet boys' doubles winners: Maciej Kolodziejczyk / Vladimir Sidorenko ** Cadet girls' doubles winners: HUANG Yingqi / RYU Han-na ** Cadet mixed doubles winners: CHO Dae-seong / Amy Wang * November 30 – December 7: 2016

World Junior Table Tennis Championships The ITTF World Youth Championships is an annual table tennis competition for juniors under 19 and under 15. From 2003 to 2019, the World Junior Table Tennis Championships was held for juniors under 18. The ITTF changed the U18 age group into U19 ...

Cape Town Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second largest ...

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Continental table tennis championships

* February 1–7: 2016 Latin American Table Tennis Championships in

San Juan, Puerto Rico San Juan (, , ; Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2020 census, it is the 57th-largest city under the juri ...

** Men's singles winner: Hugo Calderano ** Women's singles winner: Lin Gui ** Men's U21 singles winner:

Brian Afanador Brian O'Neill Afanador Pérez (born March 6, 1997) is a Puerto Rican table tennis player. On April 2, 2016, Afanador made history becoming the first Puerto Rican male table tennis player to qualify for the Olympic Games. On June 3, 2016, Afan ...

** Women's U21 singles winner: Adriana Díaz ** Men's doubles winners: Gaston Alto /

Pablo Tabachnik Pablo Ariel Tabachnik (born November 20, 1977, in San Juan, Argentina) is an Argentinian table tennis player. He competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), ...

** Women's doubles winners: Gremlis Arvelo / Neridee Nino ** Mixed doubles winners: Vitor Ishiy /

Caroline Kumahara Luca Aiko Kumahara (formerly Caroline Aiko Kumahara, born July 27, 1995, in São Paulo, São Paulo) is a table tennis player from Brazil. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Olympics The , off ...

* February 5–7: 2016 Europe TOP 16 Cup in

Gondomar, Portugal Gondomar () is a municipality located in the east of Portugal's Porto Metropolitan Area and 7 km from central Porto. The population in 2011 was 168,027, in an area of 131.86 km². Gondomar's mayor is Marco Martins. Gondomar is well kno ...

** Men's singles winner:

Dimitrij Ovtcharov Dimitrij Ovtcharov (russian: Дмитрий Овчаров) or Dmytro Ovtcharov ( uk, Дмитро Овчаров; born 2 September 1988) is a Ukrainian-born German table tennis player. His father Mikhail (or Mikhaylo), a Soviet table tennis cha ...

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Shen Yanfei Shen Yanfei (; born December 24, 1979, in Hebei, China) is a female Chinese-born table tennis player who now represents Spain and resides in Cartagena, Murcia. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, reaching the third round of the single ...

* February 14–15: 2016 Africa TOP 16 Cup in

Khartoum Khartoum or Khartum ( ; ar, الخرطوم, Al-Khurṭūm, din, Kaartuɔ̈m) is the capital of Sudan. With a population of 5,274,321, its metropolitan area is the largest in Sudan. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile, flowing n ...

** Men's singles winner: Quadri Aruna ** Women's singles winner:

Dina Meshref Dina Alaa Meshref ( Egyptian: دينا علاء مشرف; born 10 March 1994 in Quebec City) is an Egyptian table tennis player who is currently world rank number 28 in ITTF, she is African number 1 table tennis player. She represented Egypt in ...

* March 20–24: 2016 Oceania Table Tennis Championships in Bendigo ** Men's singles winner: Chris Yan ** Women's singles winner:

Jian Fang Lay Jian Fang Lay-Hong (; born 6 March 1973), is a right-handed Chinese-born Australian ladies table tennis player. She plays penhold, with a long pimple rubber at one side for use of attacking, blocking as well as chopping. She is currently number ...

** Men's doubles winners: Choy Freddy /

Yoshua Shing Yoshua Shing (born 20 June 1993 in Port Vila) is a Vanuatuan table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and fort ...

** Women's doubles winners: (Natalie Paterson, RAO Ruofei) ** Mixed doubles winners: (LIN Yi-Sien, RAO Ruofei) * April 6–12: 2016 African Junior & Cadet Table Tennis Championships in Algiers ** Junior boys' singles winner: Youssef Abdel-Aziz ** Junior girls' singles winner: Amira Yousry ** Cadet boys' singles winner: Marwan Abdelwahab ** Cadet girls' singles winner: Rinad Fathy ** Junior boys' doubles winners: Youssef Abdel-Aziz / Karim Elhakem ** Junior girls' doubles winners: Mariam Alhodaby / Amira Yousry ** Junior mixed doubles winners: Youssef Abdel-Aziz / Mariam Alhodaby * April 9–10: 2016 Oceania Junior Table Tennis Championships in

Tweed Heads, New South Wales Tweed Heads is a town in New South Wales. It is located on the Tweed River in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in Tweed Shire, next to the border with Queensland and adjacent to its "twin town" of Coolangatta, which is a suburb of the ...

** Boys' junior singles winner: Benjamin Gould ** Girls' junior singles winner: Holly Nicholas ** Boys' cadet singles winner: Zhao Yanglun ** Girls' cadet singles winner: Vong Hui Ling ** Boys' junior team winners: ** Girls' junior team winners: ** Boys' cadet team winners: ** Girls' cadet team winners: * April 28–30: 2016

Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament The ITTF–ATTU Asian Cup is an annual table tennis competition held by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) and the Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU). The first edition was held in 1983. The competition features men's and women's single ...

Dubai Dubai (, ; ar, دبي, translit=Dubayy, , ) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates.The Government and Politics of ...

** Men's singles winner: Xu Xin ** Women's singles winner:

Liu Shiwen Liu Shiwen (; born 12 April 1991) is a Chinese table tennis player. She is a five-time World Cup champion, one-time World Champion, three-time ITTF World Tour Grand Finals champion and four-time Asian Cup champion. She is known to be one of the ...

* June 3–5: 2016 Latin American Cup Table Tennis Tournament in

Guatemala City Guatemala City ( es, Ciudad de Guatemala), known locally as Guatemala or Guate, is the capital and largest city of Guatemala, and the most populous urban area in Central America. The city is located in the south-central part of the country, ne ...

** Men's singles winner: Hugo Calderano ** Women's singles winner: Lady Ruano * June 13–14: 2016 ITTF-Oceania Cup in

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

** Men's singles winner: David Powell ** Women's singles winner: Zhenhua Dederko * June 24: 2016 North America Cup Table Tennis Tournament in

Burnaby Burnaby is a city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada. Located in the centre of the Burrard Peninsula, it neighbours the City of Vancouver to the west, the District of North Vancouver across the confluence of the Burrard I ...

** Men's singles winner: FENG Yijun ** Women's singles winner: WU Yue * June 25–30: 2016 Pan American Junior Table Tennis Championships in Burnaby ** Boys' junior singles winner: Kanak Jha ** Girls' junior singles winner: Adriana Diaz ** Boys' junior doubles winners: Horacio Cifuentes / Francisco Sanchi ** Girls' junior doubles winners: Leticia Nakada / Bruna Takahashi ** Junior mixed doubles winners: Yomar Gonzalez / Adriana Diaz ** Boys' junior team winners: ** Girls' junior team winners: * July 8–17: 2016

Table Tennis European Youth Championships The European Youth Table Tennis Championships are held among cadets (under 15) and juniors (under 18). The first edition of the tournament was held in 1955 in Stuttgart and since then is held yearly in most cases. Currently, the championships inc ...

Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slov ...

** Junior boys' singles winner: Alexandre Cassin ** Junior boys' doubles winners: Tobias Hippler / Nils Hohmeier ** Junior girls' singles winner: Adina Diaconu ** Junior girls' doubles winners: Lisa Lung / Eline Loyen ** Cadet boys' singles winner: Vladimir Sidorenko ** Cadet boys' team winners: Maciej Kolodziejczyk / Vladislav Ursu ** Cadet girls' singles winner: Maria Tailakova ** Cadet girls' team winners: Tania Plaian / Ekaterina Zironova * September 10: 2016 North America Table Tennis Team Championships in

Milpitas, California Milpitas ( Spanish for "little milpas") is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in Silicon Valley. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 80,273. The city's origins lie in Rancho Milpitas, granted to Californio ranchero José Mar� ...

** Note: ''The only teams that competed here are Canada and the United States.'' ** Men's team: The defeated , 3–1, in matches played. ** Women's team: The defeated , 3–2, in matches played. * September 16–21: 2016 Asian Junior & Cadet Table Tennis Championships in

Bangkok Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated populati ...

** Junior boys' singles winner: XU Haidong ** Junior boys' doubles winners: KIM Song Gun / HAM Yu Song ** Junior girls' singles winner: QIAN Tianyi ** Junior girls' doubles winners: Minnie Wai-Yam Soo / MAK Tze Wing ** Junior mixed doubles winners: CAO Wei / SHI Xunyao ** Cadet boys' singles winner: NIU Guankai ** Cadet girls' singles winner: SHI Xunyao * October 7–9: 2016 Europe Youth Top 10 in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and List of cities in the Czech Republic, largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 milli ...

** Junior boys' singles winner: Tomáš Polansky ** Junior girls' singles winner: Audrey Zarif ** Cadet boys' singles winner: Truls Moregard ** Cadet girls' singles winner: Anastasia Kolish * October 18–23: 2016

European Table Tennis Championships The European Table Tennis Championships is an international table tennis competition for the national teams of the member associations of the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU). First held in 1958, the ETTU organised the European Championships ever ...

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

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Emmanuel Lebesson Emmanuel Lebesson (born 24 April 1988) is a French table tennis player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's singles event, in which he was eliminated by Adrian Crișan, and as part of the French team in the men's team event. In ...

** Women's singles winner: Melek Hu ** Men's doubles winners: Patrick Franziska /

Jonathan Groth Jonathan Groth (born 9 November 1992) is a Danish table tennis player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 Au ...

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Kristin Silbereisen Kristin Silbereisen (born March 14, 1985) is a German table tennis player. She currently plays for TTC Berlin Eastside. Career Silbereisen began playing table tennis when she was seven years old and started competing for DJK Ochtendung. As a ...

/ Sabine Winter ** Mixed doubles winners:

João Monteiro João Monteiro may refer to: * João Monteiro (editor), Brazilian editor of ''Nature Medicine'' * João Monteiro (table tennis) (born 1983), Portuguese table tennis player * João Monteiro (footballer) (born 2001), Portuguese footballer {{h ...

Daniela Dodean Daniela Monteiro, née Dodean (born January 13, 1988 in Arad), is a Romanian professional table tennis player and European champion. She competed for Romania in the women's singles and team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the women's singles at t ...

* October 24–30: 2016 African Table Tennis Championships in

Agadir Agadir ( ar, أݣادير, ʾagādīr; shi, ⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵔ) is a major city in Morocco, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Souss River flows into the ocean, and south ...

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Omar Assar Omar Assar (born 22 July 1991 in Desouk) is an Egyptian table tennis player. He won silver in singles and gold in team play at the 2011 Arab Games in Doha. He also competed at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics in the Men's singles, but was def ...

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Olufunke Oshonaike Olufunke Oshonaike, also known as Funke Oshonaike (born 28 April 1974) is a professional Nigeria table tennis player based in Hamburg, Germany. She competed for Nigeria at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Oshonaike started her playing career on a str ...

** Men's doubles winners: Quadri Aruna /

Segun Toriola Segun Moses Toriola (born 18 September 1974 in Ilorin, Kwara, Nigeria) is a retired Nigeria professional table tennis player. He is the youngest of nine brothers. Since 1995 he has been ranked as the best Nigerian player. He has been amongst t ...

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Yousra Abdel Razek Yousra Abdel Razek (born 3 December 1995, in Cairo), also known as Yousra Helmy, is an Egyptian table tennis player. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics as part of the Egyptian team in the women's team event. The team lost to Singapore in ...

** Mixed doubles winners: Omar Assar / Dina Meshref

2016 ITTF World Tour The 2016 ITTF World Tour was the 21st season of the International Table Tennis Federation's professional table tennis world tour. 2016 also marked the tour's 20th anniversary. The events of the 2016 tour were split into three tiers: Super Series, ...

* January 20–24: Hungarian Open in

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Chuang Chih-yuan Chuang Chih-yuan (; born 2 April 1981) is a Taiwanese table tennis player. He won the ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals in 2002 and doubles title at the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships. He participated in the Summer Olympics five times, making ...

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Tie Ya Na Tie Ya Na or Tie Yana (; born 13 May 1979) is a table tennis player from Hong Kong, China who won two silver medals at the 2006 Asian Games in the singles and doubles competitions. Tie played for China in the Universiade before emigrating to ...

** Men's doubles: Chuang Chih-yuan / HUANG Sheng-Sheng ** Women's doubles: JEON Ji-hee /

Yang Ha-eun Yang Ha-eun (born 25 February 1994) is a South Korean female table tennis player. She won two medals at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics The 2010 Summer Youth Olympics ( ta, 2010 கோடைக்கால இளையோர் ஒலிம� ...

* January 27–31: German Open in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

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Wu Yang Wu Yang (; born January 5, 1992) is a Chinese table tennis player. She won the gold medal in the team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships in 2009. She won the singles title at the 2009 World Junior Table Tennis Championships The IT ...

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Masataka Morizono is a Japanese table tennis player. With doubles partner Yuya Oshima, he won the gold medal in the men's doubles event at both the 2015 and 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, as well as winning a silver medal in men's doubles at the 2017 World C ...

Yuya Oshima is a Japanese table tennis player. With doubles partner Masataka Morizono, he won the gold medal in the men's doubles event at both the 2015 and 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, as well as winning a silver medal in men's doubles at the 2017 ...

** Women's doubles: JEON Ji-hee / Yang Ha-eun * February 10–14: Open in

Manila Manila ( , ; fil, Maynila, ), officially the City of Manila ( fil, Lungsod ng Maynila, ), is the capital of the Philippines, and its second-most populous city. It is highly urbanized and, as of 2019, was the world's most densely populate ...

** ''Event cancelled.'' * March 16–20: Kuwait Open in Kuwait City ** Men's singles:

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** Men's doubles: Xu Xin / Zhang Jike ** Women's doubles:

* March 23–27: Qatar Open in

Doha Doha ( ar, الدوحة, ad-Dawḥa or ''ad-Dōḥa'') is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf coast in the east of the country, north of Al Wakrah and south of Al Khor, it is home to most of the count ...

** Men's singles: Ma Long ** Women's singles: Liu Shiwen ** Men's doubles:

/ Zhang Jike ** Women's doubles: Ding Ning / Liu Shiwen * April 5–9: Open in

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whos ...

** Men's singles: Antoine Hachard ** Women's singles: Rachel Moret ** Men's doubles: Antoine Hachard / Romain Ruiz ** Women's doubles: Maria Lorenzotti / Candela Molero (default) * April 20–24: Polish Open in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

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** Women's doubles: JEON Ji-hee / Yang Ha-eun * May 18–22: Open in

Lagos Lagos (Nigerian English: ; ) is the largest city in Nigeria and the second most populous city in Africa, with a population of 15.4 million as of 2015 within the city proper. Lagos was the national capital of Nigeria until December 1991 fo ...

** Men's singles: Benedek Olah ** Women's singles: Jieni Shao ** Men's doubles: Andrey Bukin / Vasilij Filatov ** Women's doubles: Irina Ermakova / Olga Kulikova * May 24–28: Open in

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Joo Sae-hyuk Joo Sae-hyuk (, ; born 20 January 1980) is a South Korean table tennis player. As a singles player, he was a silver medalist at the 2003 World Table Tennis Championships, a bronze medalist at the 2011 Table Tennis World Cup, and a bronze medali ...

** Women's singles: Hitomi Satō ** Men's doubles: Patrick Franziska /

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Doo Hoi Kem Doo Hoi Kem (; born 27 November 1996) is a Hong Kong table tennis player. She won two medals at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics and she was a member of Hong Kong women's team at the 2014 World Team Championships. In 2015, she won a bronze medal ...

/ LEE Ho Ching * June 1–5: Open in

Otočec Otočec (, german: Sankt Peter) is a settlement on the left bank of the Krka River in the City Municipality of Novo Mesto in southeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast ...

** Men's singles: Jun Mizutani ** Women's singles:

Feng Tianwei Feng Tianwei (, ) is a Singaporean table tennis player. Born in Harbin, China, she permanently moved to Singapore at the age of 20 under the former Foreign Sports Talent Scheme in March 2007 and commenced her international career in competi ...

** Men's doubles: HO Kwan Kit /

Wong Chun Ting Wong Chun-ting (; born 7 September 1991) is a Hong Kong table tennis player. He won his first doubles title on the ITTF World Tour in 2012 and won another three doubles titles in 2014. In 2015, he won a bronze medal in mixed doubles event with ...

** Women's doubles: Maria Dolgikh / Polina Mikhailova * June 8–12: Australian Open in

** Men's singles: Jun Mizutani ** Women's singles: Hina Hayata ** Men's doubles: Takuya Jin / Yuki Morita ** Women's doubles: Honoka Hashimoto / Hitomi Satō * June 15–19: Japan Open in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...

** Men's singles: Fan Zhendong ** Women's singles: Liu Shiwen ** Men's doubles: Ma Long / Xu Xin ** Women's doubles: Ding Ning / Li Xiaoxia * June 22–26: Korea Open in Incheon ** Men's singles: Xu Xin ** Women's singles: Ding Ning ** Men's doubles: Xu Xin / Zhang Jike ** Women's doubles: Ding Ning / Liu Shiwen * June 29 – July 3: Open in

Pyongyang Pyongyang (, , ) is the capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is known as the "Capital of the Revolution". Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. According to the 2008 populat ...

** Men's singles: KANG Wi Hun ** Women's singles: KIM Song I ** Men's doubles: Cao Wei / XU Yingbin ** Women's doubles: KIM Song I /

Ri Myong-sun Ri Myong-sun (; born 26 January 1992) is a North Korean table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth ac ...

* August 24–28: Open in

Panagyurishte Panagyurishte ( bg, Панагюрище, also transliterated ''Panagjurište'', ) is a town in Pazardzhik Province, Southern Bulgaria, situated in a small valley in the Sredna Gora mountains. It is 91 km east of Sofia, 43 km north of P ...

** Men's singles: Tomáš Konečný ** Women's singles: Yuka Ishigaki ** Men's doubles: Alexey Liventsov / Mikhail Paikov ** Women's doubles: Miyu Kato / Misaki Morizono * August 31 – September 4: Czech Open in

Olomouc Olomouc (, , ; german: Olmütz; pl, Ołomuniec ; la, Olomucium or ''Iuliomontium'') is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 99,000 inhabitants, and its larger urban zone has a population of about 384,000 inhabitants (2019). Located on t ...

** Men's singles: Yuto Muramatsu ** Women's singles: YANG Xiaoxin ** Men's doubles: CHO Eon-rae / PARK Jeong-woo ** Women's doubles:

Matilda Ekholm Matilda Ekholm (; born 15 June 1982 in Linköping) is a Swedish table tennis player. She has won four medals in European Table Tennis Championships The European Table Tennis Championships is an international table tennis competition for the na ...

Georgina Póta Georgina Póta (; born 13 January 1985 in Budapest) is a multiple European Champion table tennis player from Hungary. Career Póta was born in the Hungarian capital Budapest in 1985 and began practicing table tennis in 1990. Between 1994 and ...

* September 7–11: Open in

Minsk Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi ...

** Men's singles: JANG Woo-jin ** Women's singles: Saki Shibata ** Men's doubles: JANG Woo-jin / LIM Jong-hoon ** Women's doubles: Honoka Hashimoto / Hitomi Satō * September 14–18: China Open in

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), alternatively romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of the Chinese pro ...

** Men's singles: Fan Zhendong ** Women's singles: Ding Ning ** Men's doubles: Ma Long / Zhang Jike ** Women's doubles:

Chen Meng Chen Meng (; born 15 January 1994) is a Chinese table tennis player and the current World No. 2 in Women's Singles. She joined the provincial team when she was 9 and joined the national team when she was only 13 in 2007. She is the women's singl ...

Zhu Yuling Zhu Yuling (; born 10 January 1995) is a Chinese table tennis player. Career She was born in Mianyang in 1995 and played table tennis from the age of 5 as it occupied her when she was ill. At nine years old she and her mother moved so that she ...

* September 20–24: Open in De Haan ** Men's singles:

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (born 8 January 1993) is an Indian table tennis player, who is the highest ranked Indian, currently ranked at 39 in the world as of November 2022. He was a member of the Indian team that won back to back Gold medals in 201 ...

** Women's singles: Georgina Póta ** Men's doubles: Alexey Liventsov / Mikhail Paikov ** Women's doubles: Georgina Póta / Yulia Prokhorova * November 9–13: Austrian Open in

Linz Linz ( , ; cs, Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846. In 2009, it was a European Capital ...

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Kenta Matsudaira is a Japanese table tennis player. Winner of the 2006 World Junior Championships in singles, he was the world number one junior player in 2008. He is world-renowned for his tomahawk serve, which he has popularized throughout his career. The se ...

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Mima Ito is a Japanese table tennis player. She won a bronze medal in the Women's Team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics when she was 15 years old. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal with her partner Jun Mizutani in the Mixed Doubles ev ...

** Men's doubles: Patrick Franziska / Jonathan Groth ** Women's doubles: Honoka Hashimoto / Hitomi Satō * November 15–20:

Swedish Open Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

in Stockholm ** Men's singles: Yuya Oshima ** Women's singles:

Kasumi Ishikawa (born 23 February 1993) is a Japanese table tennis player. A regular member of the Japanese national team, she won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, a bronze at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics ...

** Men's doubles: Hugo Calderano / Gustavo Tsuboi ** Women's doubles:

Cheng I-ching Cheng I-ching (; born 15 February 1992) is a Taiwanese table tennis player. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's singles event, in which she was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Li Xiaoxia, and as part of the Chinese Taipei ...

/ Lee I-Chen * December 8–11:

2016 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals The 2016 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals was the final competition of the 2016 ITTF World Tour, the International Table Tennis Federation's professional table tennis world tour. It was the 21st edition of the competition, and was held from 8–11 De ...

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Jung Young-sik Jeoung Young-sik (also Jeong or Jung, ko, 정영식, born 20 January 1992) is a South Korean table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as ...

Lee Sang-su Lee Sang-su (born 13 August 1990) is a South Korean table tennis player. He won two singles titles at the ITTF Pro Tour, the first one was in 2010. He reached semifinals in singles event at the 2017 World Championships. Lee Sangsu represented ...

** Women's doubles: Yui Hamamoto / Hina Hayata

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