ITTF World Tour Grand Finals ITTF Challenge Series
The ITTF World Tour, known as the ITTF Pro Tour until 2011, was an annual series of table tennis tournaments introduced by International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) in 1996. The tour includes events in seven categories: Men's and Women's Singles, Men's, Women's, and Mixed Doubles, and Under-21 Men's and Women's Singles. The tour has its own points system, with players accumulating points based on their performances in the tournaments they enter.[1]
Since 2017, the ITTF also announced that the World Tour would be split into two tiers, with six World Tour Platinum, the new top tier of World Tour, and six regular World Tour events. The players who gain the most points in each of the seven different categories will be invited to participate in the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals at the end of the year.
Since 2021, the ITTF World Tour has been effectively replaced by the newly created World Table Tennis.
Overview
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Tournaments
−'15
2013−'16
2017−
Tiers
0
ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals/ITTF World Tour Grand Finals
I
Super Series
World Tour Platinum
II
Major Series
World Tour
III
Challenge Series
ITTF Pro Tour (1996–2011)
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Number of tournaments in each year (Grand Finals not counted):
Year
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Number of tournaments
10
14
11
12
9
12
13
10
16
14
16
17
14
14
13
16
Location of Grand Finals
ITTF World Tour (2012–2019)
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Number of tournaments in each year (Grand Finals not counted):
Year
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
Number of tournaments
21
19
20
22
20
12
12
12
Location of Grand Finals
Winners of the tournaments
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Main article: List of ITTF World Tour winners
Grand Finals
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Main article: ITTF World Tour Grand Finals
Tournaments by year
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This is a list of tournaments that have featured in the ITTF Pro Tour and ITTF World Tour since 1996, with "•" indicating the years in which each tournament featured.[2]
From 2004 to 2009, and again from 2011 to 2013, there were two China Open tournaments in each calendar year.
Since 2017, the ITTF Challenge Series has been run as a separate tour, reducing the number of tournaments on the main ITTF World Tour.[3]
Tournament
96
97
98
99
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
Total
Argentina Open
•
•
2
Australian Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
10
Austrian Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
14
Belarus Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Part of Challenge Series
7
Belgium Open
•
•
•
•
Part of Challenge Series
4
Brazil Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
17
Bulgarian Open
•
•
•
•
•
5
Chile Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
10
China Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
33
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Chinese Taipei Open
•
•
•
3
Croatia Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Part of Challenge Series
14
Czech Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
9
Danish Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
6
DPR Korea Open
•
•
Part of Challenge Series
2
Dutch Open
•
•
2
Egypt Open
•
•
•
•
•
5
English Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
6
French Open
•
•
•
•
•
5
German Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
20
Greek Open
•
1
Hong Kong Open
•
•
2
Hungarian Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
8
India Open
•
•
•
•
4
Italian Open
•
•
•
3
Japan Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
24
Korea Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
19
Kuwait Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
10
Lebanon Open
•
•
2
Malaysia Open
•
•
•
3
Morocco Open
•
•
•
•
•
5
Nigeria Open
•
•
•
Part of Challenge Series
3
Philippines Open
•
•
2
Polish Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Part of Challenge Series
13
Qatar Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
21
Russian Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
7
Serbian Open
•
1
Singapore Open
•
•
•
3
Slovenia Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Part of Challenge Series
9
Spanish Open
•
•
•
•
•
Part of Challenge Series
5
Swedish Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
18
UAE Open
•
•
2
U.S. Open
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
9
Yugoslavia Open
•
•
•
3
Tournament
96
97
98
99
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
Total
Business
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On 12 January 2017, it was announced that Chinese shipping company Seamaster had agreed a four-year sponsorship and strategic partnership deal with the ITTF World Tour.[4]