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World Table Tennis (ITTF)...
World Table Tennis (ITTF)
Commercial table tennis tournament organizer
For the Japanese sports magazine, see World Table Tennis (magazine).
Abbreviation | WTT |
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Formation | 2019; 6 years ago (2019) |
Website | worldtabletennis.com |
World Table Tennis, stylized as WTT, is an organization created by the ITTF in 2019 that runs commercialized table tennis tournaments.[1] Its inaugural tournament was held in November 2020 in Macao.
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It is distinguished from the predecessor ITTF World Tour by various rules changes and big prize money for commercialized purposes.[2][3][4] The head of its council is Liu Guoliang, a former Olympic gold medalist and former head coach of China.[2]
Background
In 1926, The ITTF was founded by William Henry Lawes of Wymondham, England.
The nine founding members were Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, Germany, Hungary, India, Sweden and Wales. The first international tourn