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Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games Table Tennis Media Guide Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games Table Tennis Media Guide Table Tennis Events: 17 - 23 Aug 2014 Wutaishan Sports Gymnasium “Fan Zhendong is a genius for me; he doesn’t have a secret but he’s simply a genius; If his opponent hits six balls on the table, he finds a way to put the seventh back on; if his opponent hits seven balls on the table, he will hit the eighth!” - Xiao Zhan Personal coach of Olympic & World Champion Zhang Jike Fan Zhendong (CHN) Currently No. 3 in the world in the senior world rankings, Fan was part of the Chinese team that became senior World Champions earlier this year in Tokyo, Japan. He was also the youngest ever ITTF World Tour winner when he won the 2013 Polish Open at just 16 years and 292 days old. Fan Zhendong and Liu Gaoyang won the Mixed Doubles title at 2012 World Junior Championships in Hyderabad; they will join forces again in Nanjing. CONTENTS ITTF Overview 4 History of Table Tennis 4 YOG Table Tennis Event Schedule 5 YOG Table Tennis Event Location 6 YOG Playing System* 7 Qualification Process* 10 Table Tennis Key Facts* 12 YOG Athlete Role Model Profiles 14 Seeding 16 Mixed Teams Composition 17 Player Profile - Male 18 Player Profile - Female 34 YOG RAINBOW 50 Basic Table Tennis Rules 51 ITTF Global Junior Programme 52 2010 YOG Medallists 54 Current World Junior Champions 55 2014 Global Junior Circuit Event Winners 56 Upcoming ITTF Major Events 58 Media Tools 59 ITTF Media Contacts 59 * 内附中文版本 17 - 23 August 2014, Nanjing, China | 3 ITTF OVERVIEW The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) is the international governing body of Table Tennis and has 220 affiliated member associations; it is the equal first out of any International Sports Federation. The ITTF holds over 70 events a year, seen live in over 110 countries and currently has over 950,000 social media followers which makes it one of the most followed sports on the planet. The ITTF was initiated in Berlin, Germany and became formalized in London in 1926. Table tennis became an Olympic discipline at the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympic Games and a Paralympic Discipline in 1960 . President of the ITTF is Mr. Adham Sharara (CAN) who was elected in 1999 and has been serving ever since that date. HISTORY OF TABLE TENNIS Table tennis started as a parlour game in Victorian England; it was after dinner entertainment for the upper class society. Gradually, the sport grew from a parlour game to a highly competitive activity. Interest began to fade around 1904, and it was not until its revival in the early 1920s that competition resumed on an ever-growing scale. However, for the game to advance as a serious international sport, standards had to be developed, hence the formation of the ITTF in 1926, along with the first World Championships. The first Championships were organised, in London in 1926, originally as a European Championships was planned. There was one problem; a group of players from India wanted to compete; hastily just before play began, the name was changed to World Championships but the poster advertising the event remain as European Championships. The game of Table Tennis has since gone from strength to strength, first appearing in the Olympic Games and now is the second most played sport in the world, after football. For further history look at the table tennis historical timeline here: ITTF.com/media/History/Timeline_History.pdf 4 | Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games - Table Tennis YOG TABLE TENNIS EVENT SCHEDULE Day 1 - Sunday, 17 August 2014 10:00 - 14:00 Men’s & Women’s Singles - First Round 16:00 - 20:00 Men’s & Women’s Singles - Second Round Day 2 - Monday, 18 August 2014 10:00 - 14:00 Men’s & Women’s Singles - Third Round 16:00 - 21:00 Men’s & Women’s Singles - Second stage for Positions 17 - 25, and Round of 1/8 Day 3 - Tuesday, 19 August 2014 10:00 - 14:00 Men’s & Women’s Singles - Second stage for Positions 17 - 21, and Quarter-finals 15:00 - 20:00 Men’s & Women’s Singles - Second stage for Positions 17 - 19, and Semi-finals Day 4 - Wednesday, 20 August 2014 10:00 - 13:00 Men’s & Women’s Singles - Bronze medal matches, and Finals 13:00 - 13:30 Singles Events Victory Ceremony 15:30 - 21:30 Mixed Teams - First Round Day 5 - Thursday, 21 August 2014 10:00 - 16:00 Mixed Teams - Second Round 16:15 - 22:15 Mixed Teams - Third Round Day 6 - Friday, 22 August 2014 10:00 - 16:00 Mixed Teams - Position 17 - 25, and Round of 1/8 17:00 - 21:30 Mixed Teams - Position 17 - 21, and Quarter-finals Day 7 - Saturday, 23 August 2014 10:00 - 13:00 Mixed Teams - Semi-finals 17:00 - 20:00 Mixed Teams - Bronze medal matches, and Finals 20:00 - 20:30 Team Event Victory Ceremony 17 - 23 August 2014, Nanjing, China | 5 YOG TABLE TENNIS EVENT LOCATION Table Tennis Venue - Wutaishan Sports Gymnasium Capacity: 5,000 spectators Location: Wutaishan Sports Centre is situated in downtown Nanjing and about 11 kilometres and 25-minutes’ drive away from the Youth Olympic Village. It is about 49 kilometres and 70-minutes’ drive away from Nanjing Lukou International Airport. Access: Metro: Lines 2 and 10 Bus: No. 7, 85, 92, 161, 126, 160, Puxin, D7 About the venue: Wutaishan Sports Complex, where the Wutaishan Sports Gymnasium is located, occupies an area of 220mu (146,740 square metres) and was built in 1953. Since then it has become the largest public sport and fitness centre in Nanjing after six decades of development and has hosted over 100 groups of people for sporting activities. The Wutaishan Sports Complex will also host the Football and 3 x 3 basketball events at Nanjing 2014. 6 | Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games - Table Tennis YOG PLAYING SYSTEM The Table Tennis Competition of Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games will consist of three events: Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, and Mixed Teams. In all events there will be a maximum of 32 entries. The maximum number of athletes per NOC shall be one male and one female. Men’s and Women’s Singles Events In the first stage each match is best of five games; the first player to reach 11 points wins the game, however a game must be won by at least a 2-point margin. In the second stage, each match is best of seven 11-point games for the Main Draw, and best of five 11-point games for the Consolation Draw. Each singles event consists of stages as follows: The First Stage consists of eight groups of four players in a round robin system. The top two of each group (16 players) will advance to the Second Stage for positions 1-9 and the bottom two players will go into Second Stage B for positions 17-25. The losers of the quarter-final matches in the Second Stage will be ranked equal 5th and the losers of the round of 16 will be ranked 9th. Final position matches are played only for the top 4 places (Bronze and Gold Medal Matches). The Second Stage B consists of a knock-out Consolation Draw for positions 17-25. The winner of the Second Stage B knock out is placed 17th, and the runner-up is placed 18th. The losers of the semi-finals are ranked 19th, the losers from the quarter-finals are placed 21st and the losers of the round of 16 are placed 25th. Mixed Teams A team consists of two players, one male and one female, who have already qualified for the respective singles event. If a NOC has qualified one male and one female, the team will be formed by these two players and will carry the name of the NOC. If a NOC has qualified only one male or only one female, the team will be formed by two players from the same continent, carrying the name of the Continent. When they are no more players from the same continent, the player will be paired with a player from a different continent, forming an “Intercontinental team“. 17 - 23 August 2014, Nanjing, China | 7 A ‘match-up’ in a team event at the Youth Olympic Games is called a team match. Each team match consists of three matches (Singles match – Women, Singles match – Men, Mixed Doubles match). Each match consists of the best of five games to 11 points. In the first stage, the two singles matches and the mixed doubles match are to be played regardless of the results. In the other stages a team match finishes when a team wins two matches. The team event consists of stages as follows: The First Stage consists of eight groups of four teams in a round robin system. The top two of each group will advance to the Second Stage for positions 1-9 and the bottom two teams will go into Second Stage B for positions 17-25. The losers of the quarter-final matches in the Second Stage will be ranked equal 5th and the losers of the round of 16 will be ranked 9th. Final position matches are played only for the top 4 positions in the Bronze and Gold Medal Matches. The Second Stage B consists of a knock-out Consolation Draw for positions 17-25. The 3rd & 4th of each group on the first stage will play 2 rounds of knock-out matches to define equal positions 17 (4 teams), 21 (4 teams), and 25 (8 teams).
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