With less than six months to go for the 2023 ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals, Durban welcomed officials from International Table Tennis Federation on Thursday 12 January. The ITTF officials comprised of ITTF President, Petra Sörling, ITTF Executive Vice Presidents, Khalil Al-Mohannadi and Wahid Oshodi, and ITTF Group Chief Executive Officer, Steve Dainton. “2023 is here and all eyes…

2023! We at the ITTF Group are genuinely thrilled about this new year! We believe a very exciting period is upon us and that it will be the busiest year we have ever seen. In 2020 – it seems like a lifetime ago – I wrote about the need for us to prepare for when the pandemic would be over,…

Today, the ITTF announced a collaboration with Blackpanda, Asia’s premier digital forensics and incident response firm, to further reinforce data security throughout the organisation. Blackpanda’s team will also boost the investigative capability of the ITTF, employing global gold standard digital forensics best practices. Steve Dainton, ITTF Group CEO, commented, “We are taking the recent incident extremely seriously, and we apologise…

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has released the 2023 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods, which is now in effect. The list outlines substances and methods that are prohibited in sports and is used as a reference for athletes, their support personnel, and anti-doping organisations worldwide to ensure awareness of banned substances and methods. This year’s list includes several changes,…