Positive and motivated; a delegation from the Korea Table Tennis Association visited the offices of the International Table Tennis Federation in Singapore. A report on the progress regarding the staging of the 2024 ITTF World Team Championships Finals in Busan was the main subject on the agenda. Busan’s preparations have started since its election in November 2021 by the Member…

With only 200 days left, preparations for the 2023 World Veteran Championships are accelerating. A delegation from the organising committee is visiting the European Veterans Table Tennis Championships in Rimini, Italy, getting a “behind the scenes” look at the day-to-day operational demands of hosting a world-class event. They are also welcoming the future competitors, as highlighted by Sajad Baqir, Vice…

The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) published the results of the fourth governance review of its member federations. The ITTF significantly improved its performance since the last assessment, with strong scores among the five sections – from Transparency, Integrity and Democracy to Development and Control Mechanisms. ITTF President Petra Sörling, who made Good Governance one of the key…

Time flies, the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships Finals, to be staged in the South African city of Durban from Monday 22nd to Sunday 28th May, is ever closer on the horizon. Preparing for the tournament, only the second occasion the prestigious gathering has been staged in Africa, on Monday 27th June, an ITTF delegation arrived in Durban; the party…