The Swedish Open, also known as the Swedish Open Championships (SOC), is an annual

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tournament in

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, run by the

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(ITTF). It is currently part of the

ITTF World Tour The ITTF World Tour, known as the ITTF Pro Tour until 2011, is an annual series of table tennis tournaments introduced by International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) in 1996. The tour includes events in seven categories: Men's and Women's Single ...

History

The tournament was first held in 1954, and has featured on the ITTF World Tour's schedule frequently since the tour's inception in 1996, including every year since 2011. China's

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 ...

and

Wang Liqin Wang Liqin (; born June 18, 1978, Shanghai) is a retired Mainland Chinese table tennis player. As of January 2014, he is ranked 12th in the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). He began playing at the age of 6 and was picked for the Ch ...

jointly hold the record for most men's singles tournament wins, with three.

Agnes Simon Agnes Simon (''née'' Almási; 21 June 1935 – 19 August 2020) was an international table tennis player from Hungary. Personal life After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, she fled to Sweden to seek political asylum, together with her husband ...

holds the record for the most women's singles tournament wins, with four, representing the Netherlands for her first title and West Germany for the other three. In August 2016, it was announced by the ITTF that

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has been chosen as one of six cities to host a regular World Tour event in the revamped 2017 schedule. This is the equivalent of the Major Series status that the tournament currently holds, with "Platinum" events replacing the Super Series as the tour's top tier.

Champions

Individual Events

1954 - 1987

1989 - 2018

2019 - present

Team Events

References

External links

International Table Tennis FederationSwedish Table Tennis Association
(in Swedish)
Swedish Open Championships
{{ITTF World Tour ITTF World Tour Table tennis competitions Table tennis competitions in Sweden Annual sporting events in Sweden Recurring sporting events established in 1954

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 ...