"Withdrawal penalties exist to ensure that tournaments are attractive to fans and commercial partners," added the WTT. The regulations also include the automatic entry of the highest-ranked ...

National team selectors omit the trio for ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup in Shenzhen, after their withdrawal from world rankings.

Of the top 20 players in the men's and women's singles rankings, 19 will take part in the first table tennis major of 2025.

Fan Zhendong admitted on his personal Weibo account on Sunday that he had never been officially informed about the fines for withdrawing from WTT tournaments until last week. "I have just ...

His comments contradicted a WTT statement the day before that the rules on tournament play had long been in place. Fan, who won both the men's singles and men's team gold medals at the Paris ...

Fan Zhendong and World Table Tennis have clashed over the issue that led the player, and his fellow Chinese Olympic champion Chen Meng, to withdraw from the International Table Tennis Federation ...

Addressing the announcement that Chinese Olympic champions Fan and Chen had withdrawn from the world rankings due to fines for skipping tournaments, WTT said on Saturday night that they deeply ...

BEIJING, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- China's Kuai Man emerged as the winner in the women's singles event, while top seed Tomokazu Harimoto of Japan lived up to his billing by clinching the men's singles title ...

Surat's Syndrela Das, 15, balances table tennis and studies for Class 10 exams, competing at the Senior Nationals and aiming ...

It’s also a wake-up call.” The crux of the issue stems from the mandatory tournaments that top players are required to play (10 on the WTT tour), and the fines imposed if they don’t.