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This page lists the table tennis events for 2016.

  • December 30, 2015 – December 18, 2016: 2016 ITTF Events Calendar[1]

2016 Summer Olympics (ITTF)

Table tennis World Cups & Championships

Continental table tennis championships

  • February 1–7: 2016 Latin American Table Tennis Championships in Puerto Rico San Juan, Puerto Rico[7]
    • Men's singles winner: Brazil Hugo Calderano
    • Women's singles winner: Brazil Lin Gui
    • Men's U21 singles winner: Puerto Rico Brian Afanador
    • Women's U21 singles winner: Puerto Rico Adriana Díaz
    • Men's doubles winners: Argentina Gaston Alto / Pablo Tabachnik
    • Women's doubles winners: Venezuela Gremlis Arvelo / Neridee Nino
    • Mixed doubles winners: Brazil Vitor Ishiy / Caroline Kumahara
  • February 5–7: 2016 Europe TOP 16 Cup in Portugal Gondomar, Portugal[8]
  • February 14–15: 2016 Africa TOP 16 Cup in Sudan Khartoum[9]
  • March 20–24: 2016 Oceania Table Tennis Championships in Australia Bendigo[10]
    • Men's singles winner: Australia Chris Yan
    • Women's singles winner: Australia Jian Fang Lay
    • Men's doubles winners: Kiribati Choy Freddy / Vanuatu Yoshua Shing
    • Women's doubles winners:  New Zealand (Natalie Paterson, RAO Ruofei)
    • Mixed doubles winners:  New Zealand (LIN Yi-Sien, RAO Ruofei)
  • April 6–12: 2016 African Junior & Cadet Table Tennis Championships in Algeria Algiers[11]
    • Junior boys' singles winner: Egypt Youssef Abdel-Aziz
    • Junior girls' singles winner: Egypt Amira Yousry
    • Cadet boys' singles winner: Egypt Marwan Abdelwahab
    • Cadet girls' singles winner: Egypt Rinad Fathy
    • Junior boys' doubles winners: Egypt Youssef Abdel-Aziz / Karim Elhakem
    • Junior girls' doubles winners: Egypt Mariam Alhodaby / Amira Yousry
    • Junior mixed doubles winners: Egypt Youssef Abdel-Aziz / Mariam Alhodaby
  • April 9–10: 2016 Oceania Junior Table Tennis Championships in Australia Tweed Heads, New South Wales[12]
    • Boys' junior singles winner: Australia Benjamin Gould
    • Girls' junior singles winner: Australia Holly Nicholas
    • Boys' cadet singles winner: New Zealand Zhao Yanglun
    • Girls' cadet singles winner: New Zealand Vong Hui Ling
    • Boys' junior team winners:  Australia
    • Girls' junior team winners:  Australia
    • Boys' cadet team winners:  New Zealand
    • Girls' cadet team winners:  Australia
  • April 28–30: 2016 Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament in United Arab Emirates Dubai[13]
    • Men's singles winner: China Xu Xin
    • Women's singles winner: China Liu Shiwen
  • June 3–5: 2016 Latin American Cup Table Tennis Tournament in Guatemala Guatemala City[14]
    • Men's singles winner: Brazil Hugo Calderano
    • Women's singles winner: Colombia Lady Ruano
  • June 13–14: 2016 ITTF-Oceania Cup in Australia Melbourne[15]
    • Men's singles winner: Australia David Powell
    • Women's singles winner: Australia Zhenhua Dederko
  • June 24: 2016 North America Cup Table Tennis Tournament in Canada Burnaby[16]
    • Men's singles winner: United States FENG Yijun
    • Women's singles winner: United States WU Yue
  • June 25–30: 2016 Pan American Junior Table Tennis Championships in Canada Burnaby[17]
    • Boys' junior singles winner: United States Kanak Jha
    • Girls' junior singles winner: Puerto Rico Adriana Diaz
    • Boys' junior doubles winners: Argentina Horacio Cifuentes / Francisco Sanchi
    • Girls' junior doubles winners: Brazil Leticia Nakada / Bruna Takahashi
    • Junior mixed doubles winners: Puerto Rico Yomar Gonzalez / Adriana Diaz
    • Boys' junior team winners:  United States
    • Girls' junior team winners:  United States
  • July 8–17: 2016 Table Tennis European Youth Championships in Croatia Zagreb[18]
    • Junior boys' singles winner: France Alexandre Cassin
    • Junior boys' doubles winners: Germany Tobias Hippler / Nils Hohmeier
    • Junior girls' singles winner: Romania Adina Diaconu
    • Junior girls' doubles winners: Belgium Lisa Lung / Eline Loyen
    • Cadet boys' singles winner: Russia Vladimir Sidorenko
    • Cadet boys' team winners: Austria Maciej Kolodziejczyk / Moldova Vladislav Ursu
    • Cadet girls' singles winner: Russia Maria Tailakova
    • Cadet girls' team winners: Romania Tania Plaian / Russia Ekaterina Zironova
  • September 10: 2016 North America Table Tennis Team Championships in United States Milpitas, California[19]
    • Note: The only teams that competed here are Canada and the United States.
    • Men's team: The  United States defeated  Canada, 3–1, in matches played.
    • Women's team: The  United States defeated  Canada, 3–2, in matches played.
  • September 16–21: 2016 Asian Junior & Cadet Table Tennis Championships in Thailand Bangkok[20]
    • Junior boys' singles winner: China XU Haidong
    • Junior boys' doubles winners: North Korea KIM Song Gun / HAM Yu Song
    • Junior girls' singles winner: China QIAN Tianyi
    • Junior girls' doubles winners: Hong Kong Minnie Wai-Yam Soo / MAK Tze Wing
    • Junior mixed doubles winners: China CAO Wei / SHI Xunyao
    • Cadet boys' singles winner: China NIU Guankai
    • Cadet girls' singles winner: China SHI Xunyao
  • October 7–9: 2016 Europe Youth Top 10 in Czech Republic Prague[21]
    • Junior boys' singles winner: Czech Republic Tomáš Polansky
    • Junior girls' singles winner: France Audrey Zarif
    • Cadet boys' singles winner: Sweden Truls Moregard
    • Cadet girls' singles winner: Russia Anastasia Kolish
  • October 18–23: 2016 European Table Tennis Championships in Hungary Budapest[22]
  • October 24–30: 2016 African Table Tennis Championships in Morocco Agadir[23]

2016 ITTF World Tour

  • January 20–24: Hungary Hungarian Open in Budapest[24]
  • January 27–31: Germany German Open in Berlin[25]
  • February 10–14:  Philippines Open in Manila
    • Event cancelled.
  • March 16–20: Kuwait Kuwait Open in Kuwait City[26]
  • March 23–27: Qatar Qatar Open in Doha[27]
    • Men's singles: China Ma Long
    • Women's singles: China Liu Shiwen
    • Men's doubles: China Fan Zhendong / Zhang Jike
    • Women's doubles: China Ding Ning / Liu Shiwen
  • April 5–9:  Chile Open in Santiago[28]
    • Men's singles: France Antoine Hachard
    • Women's singles: Switzerland Rachel Moret
    • Men's doubles: France Antoine Hachard / Romain Ruiz
    • Women's doubles: Uruguay Maria Lorenzotti / Argentina Candela Molero (default)
  • April 20–24: Poland Polish Open in Warsaw[29]
  • May 18–22:  Nigeria Open in Lagos[30]
    • Men's singles: Finland Benedek Olah
    • Women's singles: Portugal Jieni Shao
    • Men's doubles: Russia Andrey Bukin / Vasilij Filatov
    • Women's doubles: Russia Irina Ermakova / Olga Kulikova
  • May 24–28:  Croatia Open in Zagreb[31]
  • June 1–5:  Slovenia Open in Otočec[32]
    • Men's singles: Japan Jun Mizutani
    • Women's singles: Singapore Feng Tianwei
    • Men's doubles: Hong Kong HO Kwan Kit / Wong Chun Ting
    • Women's doubles: Russia Maria Dolgikh / Polina Mikhailova
  • June 8–12: Australia Australian Open in Melbourne[33]
    • Men's singles: Japan Jun Mizutani
    • Women's singles: Japan Hina Hayata
    • Men's doubles: Japan Takuya Jin / Yuki Morita
    • Women's doubles: Japan Honoka Hashimoto / Hitomi Satō
  • June 15–19: Japan Japan Open in Tokyo[34]
    • Men's singles: China Fan Zhendong
    • Women's singles: China Liu Shiwen
    • Men's doubles: China Ma Long / Xu Xin
    • Women's doubles: China Ding Ning / Li Xiaoxia
  • June 22–26: South Korea Korea Open in Incheon[35]
    • Men's singles: China Xu Xin
    • Women's singles: China Ding Ning
    • Men's doubles: China Xu Xin / Zhang Jike
    • Women's doubles: China Ding Ning / Liu Shiwen
  • June 29 – July 3:  North Korea Open in Pyongyang[36]
    • Men's singles: North Korea KANG Wi Hun
    • Women's singles: North Korea KIM Song I
    • Men's doubles: China Cao Wei / XU Yingbin
    • Women's doubles: North Korea KIM Song I / Ri Myong-sun
  • August 24–28:  Bulgaria Open in Panagyurishte[37]
    • Men's singles: Czech Republic Tomáš Konečný
    • Women's singles: Japan Yuka Ishigaki
    • Men's doubles: Russia Alexey Liventsov / Mikhail Paikov
    • Women's doubles: Japan Miyu Kato / Misaki Morizono
  • August 31 – September 4: Czech Republic Czech Open in Olomouc[38]
    • Men's singles: Japan Yuto Muramatsu
    • Women's singles: Monaco YANG Xiaoxin
    • Men's doubles: South Korea CHO Eon-rae / PARK Jeong-woo
    • Women's doubles: Sweden Matilda Ekholm / Hungary Georgina Póta
  • September 7–11:  Belarus Open in Minsk[39]
    • Men's singles: South Korea JANG Woo-jin
    • Women's singles: Japan Saki Shibata
    • Men's doubles: South Korea JANG Woo-jin / LIM Jong-hoon
    • Women's doubles: Japan Honoka Hashimoto / Hitomi Satō
  • September 14–18: China China Open in Chengdu[40]
    • Men's singles: China Fan Zhendong
    • Women's singles: China Ding Ning
    • Men's doubles: China Ma Long / Zhang Jike
    • Women's doubles: China Chen Meng / Zhu Yuling
  • September 20–24:  Belgium Open in De Haan[41]
    • Men's singles: India Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
    • Women's singles: Hungary Georgina Póta
    • Men's doubles: Russia Alexey Liventsov / Mikhail Paikov
    • Women's doubles: Hungary Georgina Póta / Russia Yulia Prokhorova
  • November 9–13: Austria Austrian Open in Linz[42]
    • Men's singles: Japan Kenta Matsudaira
    • Women's singles: Japan Mima Ito
    • Men's doubles: Germany Patrick Franziska / Denmark Jonathan Groth
    • Women's doubles: Japan Honoka Hashimoto / Hitomi Satō
  • November 15–20: Sweden Swedish Open in Stockholm[43]
  • December 8–11: 2016 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in Qatar Doha[44]

References

  1. ^ "ITTF's General Calendar of Events". Archived from the original on 2015-10-08. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  2. ^ "ITTF's 2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships Page". Archived from the original on 2016-02-23. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  3. ^ ITTF's 2016 Men's World Cup Page
  4. ^ ITTF's 2016 Women's World Cup Page
  5. ^ ITTF's 2016 World Cadet Challenge Page
  6. ^ "ITTF's 2016 World Junior Table Tennis Championships Page". Archived from the original on 2016-12-04. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  7. ^ "ITTF's 2016 Latin American Table Tennis Championships Page". Archived from the original on 2016-06-04. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  8. ^ "ITTF's 2016 Europe TOP 16 Cup Page". Archived from the original on 2015-12-18. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  9. ^ ITTF's 2016 Africa TOP 16 Cup Page
  10. ^ ITTF's 2016 Oceania Table Tennis Championships Page
  11. ^ ITTF's 2016 African Junior & Cadet Table Tennis Championships Page
  12. ^ ITTF's 2016 Oceania Junior Table Tennis Championships Page
  13. ^ "ITTF's 2016 Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament Page". Archived from the original on 2016-04-14. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  14. ^ ITTF's 2016 Latin American Cup Table Tennis Tournament Page
  15. ^ ITTF's 2016 Oceania Cup Table Tennis Tournament Page
  16. ^ ITTF's 2016 North America Cup Table Tennis Tournament Page
  17. ^ ITTF's 2016 Pan American Junior Table Tennis Championships Page
  18. ^ ITTF's 2016 Table Tennis European Youth Championships Page
  19. ^ ITTF's 2016 North America Table Tennis Team Championships Page
  20. ^ "ITTF's 2016 Asian Junior & Cadet Table Tennis Championships Page". Archived from the original on 2016-09-22. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
  21. ^ ETTU's 2016 Europe Youth Top 10 Page
  22. ^ ITTF's 2016 European Table Tennis Championships Page
  23. ^ ITTF's 2016 African Table Tennis Championships Page
  24. ^ ITTF's 2016 Hungarian Open Page
  25. ^ "ITTF's 2016 German Open Page". Archived from the original on 2016-06-03. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  26. ^ "ITTF's 2016 Kuwait Open Page". Archived from the original on 2016-08-30. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  27. ^ "ITTF's 2016 Qatar Open Page". Archived from the original on 2016-08-25. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  28. ^ ITTF's 2016 Chile Open Page
  29. ^ ITTF's 2016 Polish Open Page
  30. ^ "ITTF's 2016 Nigerian Open Page". Archived from the original on 2016-07-05. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  31. ^ ITTF's 2016 Croatian Open Page
  32. ^ ITTF's 2016 Slovenia Open Page
  33. ^ "ITTF's 2016 Australia Open Page". Archived from the original on 2016-09-08. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  34. ^ "ITTF's 2016 Japan Open Page". Archived from the original on 2016-08-31. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  35. ^ "ITTF's 2016 Korea Open Page". Archived from the original on 2016-08-31. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  36. ^ "ITTF's 2016 Pyongyang Open Page". Archived from the original on 2016-08-27. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  37. ^ ITTF's 2016 Bulgaria Open Page
  38. ^ ITTF's 2016 Czech Open Page
  39. ^ ITTF's 2016 Belarus Open Page
  40. ^ "ITTF's 2016 China Open Page". Archived from the original on 2016-09-15. Retrieved 2016-09-02.
  41. ^ ITTF's 2016 Belgium Open Page
  42. ^ ITTF's 2016 Austrian Open Page
  43. ^ ITTF's 2016 Swedish Open Page
  44. ^ "ITTF's 2016 World Tour Grand Finals Page". Archived from the original on 2016-12-13. Retrieved 2016-12-12.