TABLE TENNIS AT THE 2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES

Table tennis
at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Table tennis ; at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Venue	National Exhibition Centre
Dates	29 July – 8 August 2022
Competitors	190 from 34 nations
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Table tennis is one of the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England. This was the sixth staging of table tennis at the Commonwealth Games since its inclusion in 2002, and the second staging within England specifically.

The competition took place between 29 July and 8 August 2022, spread across eleven events (including four parasport events).^[1]^[2]

Schedule

The competition schedule is as follows:^[1]^[2]

G	Preliminary matches (group)	P	Preliminary matches (knockout)	¼	Quarter-finals	½	Semi-finals	B	Bronze medal match	F	Gold medal match

Date Event	Fri 29		Sat 30		Sun 31		Mon 1			Tue 2		Wed 3		Thu 4		Fri 5		Sat 6			Sun 7				Mon 8
Session →	M	E	M	E	M	E	M		E	A		M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E		M		E		M
Men's singles												G				P		¼					½		B	F
Men's doubles														P		P	¼	½			B	F
Men's team	G		G		¼				½	B	F
Women's singles												G			P	P	¼	½			B	F
Women's doubles														P		P		P	¼				½		B	F
Women's team	G		G	¼		½	B	F
Mixed doubles														P		P	¼	½					B	F
Parasport
Men's singles C3–5												G		G		½			B	F
Men's singles C8–10												G		G		½					B	F
Women's singles C3–5												G		G		½			B	F
Women's singles C6–10												G		G		½			B	F

Venue

The table tennis competitions are being held at the National Exhibition Centre in Solihull.^[3] Five other sports - badminton, boxing, netball, para powerlifting, and weightlifting - will also take place there.^[4]

Medal summary

Medal table

* Host nation ( England)


Rank	CGA	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India	4	1	2	7
2	Singapore	3	2	2	7
3	England*	2	1	2	5
4	Australia	1	3	2	6
5	Wales	1	0	1	2
6	Nigeria	0	2	2	4
7	Malaysia	0	2	0	2
Totals (7 entries)		11	11	11	33

Medallists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Sharath Kamal India	Liam Pitchford England	Sathiyan Gnanasekaran India
Women's singles details	Feng Tianwei Singapore	Zeng Jian Singapore	Liu Yangzi Australia

Men's doubles details	England Paul Drinkhall Liam Pitchford	India Sharath Kamal Sathiyan Gnanasekaran	Singapore Poh Shao Feng Ethan Clarence Chew
Women's doubles details	Singapore Feng Tianwei Zeng Jian	Australia Jee Minhyung Jian Fang Lay	Wales Charlotte Carey Anna Hursey
Mixed doubles details	India Sharath Kamal Sreeja Akula	Malaysia Choong Javen Karen Lyne	Singapore Clarence Chew Zeng Jian

Men's team details	India Harmeet Desai Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Sharath Kamal Sanil Shetty	Singapore Clarence Chew Poh Shao Feng Ethan Pang Yew En Koen Izaac Quek	England Paul Drinkhall Tom Jarvis Liam Pitchford Sam Walker
Women's team details	Singapore Zeng Jian Zhou Jing Yi Feng Tianwei Wong Xin Ru	Malaysia Tee Ai Xin Alice Chang Karen Lyne Ho Ying	Australia Feng Chunyi Jian Fang Lay Jee Minhyung Liu Yangzi

Para

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C3–5 details	Jack Hunter-Spivey England	Nasiru Sule Nigeria	Isau Ogunkunle Nigeria
Men's C8–10 details	Joshua Stacey Wales	Ma Lin Australia	Ross Wilson England
Women's C3–5 details	Bhavina Patel India	Ifechukwude Ikpeoyi Nigeria	Sonalben Patel India
Women's C6–10 details	Yang Qian Australia	Lei Lina Australia	Faith Obazuaye Nigeria

Qualification

Table tennis

A total of 160 players (80 per gender) qualified to compete at the Games.^[5] The majority achieved team qualification as follows:

The host nation.
Nations on the ITTF World Team Rankings as of 2 January 2020.
Recipients of CGF/ITTF Bipartite Invitations (one nation per CGF region).
The highest-ranked nation not yet qualified.

In addition, players not in qualified teams were individually picked as follows:

Region-specific invitations (2 per region).
Players on the ITTF World Singles Rankings as of 2 January 2020.
General invitations.

Para table tennis

A total of 32 players (16 per gender) will qualify to compete at the Games.^[6] They will qualify for each competition as follows:

Players on the ITTF Para Table Tennis Rankings as of 1 May 2022 (one per CGF region).
A player on the aforementioned ranking not already qualified.
Recipients of CGF/ITTF Bipartite Invitations.

Participating nations

There were 34 participating Commonwealth Games Associations (CGA's) in table tennis and para-table tennis with a total of 190 (94 men and 96 women) athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b "Competition Schedule". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b Competition Schedule | Table Tennis and Para Table Tennis (PDF). BOCCG. pp. 33, 34. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
^ "NEC WILL HOST SIX SPORTS AT THE 2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES". The NEC. 19 October 2022. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
^ "Venues | THE NEC". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
^ "Athlete Allocation System | Table Tennis" (PDF). Commonwealth Sport / ITTF. 10 December 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 March 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
^ "Athlete Allocation System | Para Table Tennis" (PDF). Commonwealth Sport / ITTF. 10 December 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 April 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
^ "Table Tennis and Para Table Tennis Number of Entries by CGA" (PDF). www.results.birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organizing Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. 31 July 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.

External links

[ttschedule-1] "Competition Schedule". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.

[schedulepdf-2] Competition Schedule | Table Tennis and Para Table Tennis (PDF). BOCCG. pp. 33, 34. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.

[3] "NEC WILL HOST SIX SPORTS AT THE 2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES". The NEC. 19 October 2022. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2022.

[4] "Venues | THE NEC". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2022.

[5] "Athlete Allocation System | Table Tennis" (PDF). Commonwealth Sport / ITTF. 10 December 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 March 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.

[6] "Athlete Allocation System | Para Table Tennis" (PDF). Commonwealth Sport / ITTF. 10 December 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 April 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.

[7] "Table Tennis and Para Table Tennis Number of Entries by CGA" (PDF). www.results.birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organizing Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. 31 July 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.

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