ITTF Pro Tour
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The ITTF Pro Tour is a series of table tennis
Table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

 tournaments introduced by International Table Tennis Federation
International Table Tennis Federation
The International Table Tennis Federation is the governing body for all national table tennis associations.-Founding history:The ITTF was founded in 1926, the nine founding members being Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, Germany, Hungary, India, Sweden and Wales...

 (ITTF) in 1996, in order to improve the quality of the sport. It includes 6 events: Men's and Women's Singles, Men's and Women's Doubles, and Men's and Women's Singles Under 21. The Tour has its own points system, players accumulate points based on their performance and points allocation in the tournaments they participated. The top players who gained most points might be invited to the ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals
ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals
The ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals is an annual table tennis tournament sanctioned by International Table Tennis Federation 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...

 at the end of the year. ITTF world ranking includes the singles events, which are classified as R2 in rating weightings and B3 in bonus weightings, making the tour major competitions to advance in the world ranking.

Overview

List of tournaments, "" indicates when and where the tournaments were held.
Year 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11
Number of Tournaments 10 14 11 12 9 12 13 10 16 14 16 17 14 14 13 16
Location of Grand Finals
ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals
The ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals is an annual table tennis tournament sanctioned by International Table Tennis Federation 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...

                               
Tournament \ Year 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11
  Australia Open
  Austrian Open
  Belarus Open
  Brazil Open
  Chile Open
  China Open
  Chinese Taipei Open
  Croatian Open
Czech Open
  Danish Open
  Dutch Open
  Egypt Open
  English Open
English Open (table tennis)
The English Open is now part of the ITTF Pro Tour and is hosted by the English Table Tennis Association-ITTF Pro Tour English Open 1996-Present:The ITTF Pro Tour has come to England 6 times since it began in 1996...

  French Open
  German Open
  Greek Open
  Hungarian Open
  Indian Open
  Italian Open
  Japan Open
  Korea Open
  Kuwait Open
  Lebanon Open
  Malaysia Open
  Morocco Open
  Polish Open
  Qatar Open
  Russian Open
  Serbian Open
  Singapore Open
  Slovenian Open
  Spanish Open
  Swedish Open
  UAE Open
  US Open
Tournament / Year 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11

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