The 2019 ITTF-ATTU Asian Championships

Every national association within the jurisdiction of the Asian Union is eligible to enter the Asian Championships.

All individual events – men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles, mixed doubles – are played from the start on a knock-out basis.

In every event, all matches are best of five games.

Team Events 1. The teams which finished in the top six places in each of the men’s team and women’s team events at the 2017 Asian Championships in Wuxi, , gain direct entries to the quarter-finals.

2. All the other teams compete for the two remaining places in a two day qualification tournament.

3. In the men’s team event there are eight groups in the qualification stage; in the women’s team event there are six groups.

4. Following the conclusion of the groups, the teams finishing in first place in each group advance to the preliminary rounds, play on a knock-out basis.

5. The two teams which emerge successful in the second preliminary round gain quarter-final places.

6. The men’s teams that qualified direct to the quarter-finals (in seeded order): 1. China 2.Korea Republic 3. 4. 5. 6.

7. The women’s team that qualified direct to the quarter-finals (in seeded order): 1. China 2.Japan 3. Hong Kong 4. Korea Republic 5. DPR Korea 6. Chinese Taipei

8. Men’s Team: quarter finals China v Singapore (played on Sunday 15th September: China won 3-0) Qualifier v Japan (to be played on the evening of Monday 16th September) Chinese Taipei v Qualifier (to be played on the evening of Monday 16th September) Hong Kong v Korea Republic (played on Sunday 15th September: Korea Republic won 3-2)

9. Women’s Team: quarter finals China v DPR Korea (played on Sunday 15th September: China won 3-0) Qualifier v Korea Republic (to be played on the evening of Monday 16th September) Hong Kong v Chinese Taipei (played on Sunday 15th September: Chinese Taipei won 3-2) Qualifier v Japan (to be played on the evening of Monday 16th September)

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10. Following the quarter-finals, in each of the men’s team and women’s team events, the winners (semi-finalists) gain a direct entry to the quarter-finals for the 2021 Asian Championships.

11. The quarter-final losers in each of the men’s team and women’s team events play for positons five to eight; the teams finishing in fifth and sixth positions gain direct entry to the quarter-finals for the 2021 Asian Championships, the teams finishing in seventh and eight places must compete in the qualification tournament.

12. The policy is because there is such a vast gap in playing standard in Asia; thus meaningful matches are played from the start.

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