Table Tennis Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[bmo 194]

I thought  would have 3 quotas each for the men’s & women’s individual.  Why do they only have two?

[hckošice 15,131]

  On 6/30/2019 at 12:25 AM, bmo said:

I thought  would have 3 quotas each for the men’s & women’s individual.  Why do they only have two?

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There Max. 2 athletes per NOC in singles

[NearPup 3,255]

  On 6/30/2019 at 12:25 AM, bmo said:

I thought  would have 3 quotas each for the men’s & women’s individual.  Why do they only have two?

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It’s the only way the ITTF figured out to prevent China from sweeping the podium.

[AlFHg 330]

Now that Germany qualified as a team, what about singles and mixed doubles quota? I think single quotas should be reallocated to the fourth placed athletes, but for mixed quota?

[Shravan Kumar 109]

  On 6/30/2019 at 10:52 AM, AlFHg said:

Now that Germany qualified as a team, what about singles and mixed doubles quota? I think single quotas should be reallocated to the fourth placed athletes, but for mixed quota?

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Mixed doubles quotas are not dependent on the team qualification. 16 teams must qualify individually. No mixed doubles quotas for teams which have men's and women's team.

[AlFHg 330]

  On 6/30/2019 at 11:01 AM, Shravan Kumar said:

Mixed doubles quotas are not dependent on the team qualification. 16 teams must qualify individually. No mixed doubles quotas for teams which have men's and women's team.

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I really wonder why federations tend to generate such complicated qualification systems. World archery remains a virtuous but isolated example

Edited June 30, 2019 by AlFHg

[Shravan Kumar 109]

  On 6/30/2019 at 11:02 AM, AlFHg said:

I really wonder why federations tend to generate such complicated qualification systems. World archery remains a virtuous but isolated example

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It might be because they needed 16 pairs. If they give mixed doubles quotas to teams which have qualified both the men's and women's team,.it might be less than 16

 Some country might only qualify in men's team .

[Wumo 3,016]

  On 6/30/2019 at 10:52 AM, AlFHg said:

Now that Germany qualified as a team, what about singles and mixed doubles quota? I think single quotas should be reallocated to the fourth placed athletes, but for mixed quota?

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As Vojtas has said/described many times, singles quotas will be redistributed to the European Qualification Tournament, which will be held in April 2020 in Moscow.

 

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[Cmon Mary 27]

Because Germany won a quota place in the Mixed Doubles at the European Games (and their entrants need to come from their successful Teams, also qualified, then this adds one extra space into the Singles Qualification for each of Men and Women. 

 

"Any qualified athletes in Mixed Doubles must be part of the team composition if their NOC has qualified a team of that gender"

 

Does this extra place get filled at the Singles Qualification Tournament, or via the World Ranking?  I think it is the Qualification Tournament, up to a maximum of 8 (when you allow for other situations like Germany's, from a minimum of 2 places at the Tournament), and then after that the World Ranking, but my head hurts now.  I agree that Table Tennis has made this the most complicated process possible.  

[Vojthas 949]

  On 7/11/2019 at 4:31 PM, Cmon Mary said:

Because Germany won a quota place in the Mixed Doubles at the European Games (and their entrants need to come from their successful Teams, also qualified, then this adds one extra space into the Singles Qualification for each of Men and Women. 

 

"Any qualified athletes in Mixed Doubles must be part of the team composition if their NOC has qualified a team of that gender"

 

Does this extra place get filled at the Singles Qualification Tournament, or via the World Ranking?  I think it is the Qualification Tournament, up to a maximum of 8 (when you allow for other situations like Germany's, from a minimum of 2 places at the Tournament), and then after that the World Ranking, but my head hurts now.  I agree that Table Tennis has made this the most complicated process possible.  

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I said it once in our first podcast from Minsk Games, then I said it second time in a podcast after Germany won both team events, and I wrote it twice on this forum (probably in European Games thread), but I'll do it once more   - the Singles quotas from European Games which can't be used by Germany, as they qualified teams, will be redistributed at the other European Qualification Tournament, which will be held in April 2020 in Moscow.