ITTF World Tour Grand Finals
The ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, formerly named ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals, is an annual table tennis tournament sanctioned by International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) at the end of the year. The tournament includes six events: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, U21 men's and women's singles. Players who accumulated largest numbers of points in previous ITTF World Tour are qualified for the event, and competing for total prize money of US$500,000, the biggest total prize money event in the ITTF calendar.[1][2]
Qualification Criteria[3]
Men's and Women's Singles
- Attend at least 5 events at ITTF World Tour.[2]
- The top 15 accumulated the largest number of points on World Tour standing are invited.
- The ITTF will invite one player from to the host association.
- If a player from the host association is already among the 15 invited players or no player from the host association had attend at least 5 events at ITTF World Tour, then the 16th player in order will be invited.
Men's and Women's Doubles
- The same pair has to play at least 4 events at ITTF World Tour.[2]
- The top 7 doubles accumulated the largest number of points on World Tour standing are invited.
- If there's no host association's pairs in the top 7, the eighth spot goes to pairs affiliated to the host association. Otherwise, the vacancy belongs to the eighth doubles on the World Tour standing.
- If a player appears in two or more double pairs, only the highest double will be qualified.
U21 Men's and Women's Singles
- Attend 4 events in at least 2 continents at ITTF World Tour.[2]
- The top 8 on the World Tour standing are qualified.
If more than 2 players or pairs have the same ranking on the World Tour standing when they compete for the last spot, the spot belongs to the player or the pair with higher ITTF world ranking.
Playing Systems
All the matches in World Tour Grand Finals are played best of 7 games.[4]
Men's and Women's Singles, Doubles
16 players (or 8 pairs in doubles) advance towards next round under a knockout system. The top 8 players (or the top 4 pairs in doubles) on the World Tour standing will avoid to compete each other in the first rounds.
U21 Men's and Women's Singles
8 players are at first separated into two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top 2 players in each group advance towards a knockout.
Winners
- List of winners at ITTF World Tour Grand Finals:[5]
See also
References
- ↑ "I T T F prize_money". www.ittf.com. Retrieved 2016-06-26.
- 1 2 3 4 "GAC GROUP 2012 ITTF World Tour Sport Specific Information" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
- ↑ "2016 World Tour Grand Finals qualification criteria" (PDF).
- ↑ "2009 Pro Tour Grand Finals". http://www.ittf.com. Retrieved 2010-06-24. External link in
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