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	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
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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

External links

• ITTF Pro Tour website
• ITTF Statistics