Table tennis is a fun, fast paced game played by people across the Commonwealth.
At the elite level Team England will be challenging for 9 medals across both table tennis and para-table tennis at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Team England will also include para-table tennis players in the T6-10 classifications who will compete in a group of four players with top two athletes advancing to the semi-final. These matched will be best of five games.
Singles matches are decided over the best of 7 games
Each game is won by the player who scores 11 points, a player must win a game by two clear points
Points are scored by bouncing the ball twice on the opponent’s side of the net or by the ball hitting the floor after having hit the table - shots which hit the floor having not first bounced on the table are “out” and the point is conceded
The singles tournament has a group draw of unseeded players with the winners of each group facing the top 16 seeds in the first of the knock-out rounds
Both the men’s and women’s doubles will be straight knockout competitions
The team tournament will consist of a mixture of singles and doubles matches similar to the Davis Cup and Fed Cup in tennis
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Simon joined Table Tennis England in March 2014 to build the performance pathway has coincided with a renaissance in the performance of English players on the world stage and saw two players qualify for the Olympic Games for the first time in 20 years, after the first medal winning performance at the 2016 World Team Championships since 1983.
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