Swedish Open Championships (or SOC) is a biannual 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...

 in Sweden held in the end of November.

The first Swedish Open Championships was held in Stockholm in 1954. The tournament

Tournament

A tournament is a competition involving a relatively large number of competitors, all participating in a sport or game. More specifically, the term may be used in either of two overlapping senses:...

 features men's singles, men's doubles, women's singles and women's doubles tournament.

History

Swedish Open Championships was first held in 1954.

Wang Liqin

Wang Liqin

Wang Liqin is a Chinese table tennis player. As of October, 2011, he is ranked 8th in the International Table Tennis Federation . He began playing at the age of 6 and was picked for the Chinese men's national squad in 1993 when he was only 15 years old. Wang is the last man since Jiang Jialiang to...

 has won the tournament three times, in 1999, 2001 and 2003. Kjell Johansson, Dragutin Šurbek

Dragutin Šurbek

Dragutin Šurbek is a legendary former table tennis player from Croatia. He is one of the most successful Croatian table tennis players ever....

, Stellan Bengtsson

Stellan Bengtsson

Stellan Bengtsson is a former Swedish table tennis player. He won, as first Swede, the singles at the World Table Tennis Championships 1971...

, Hans Alsér

Hans Alsér

Hans Alsér was a Swedish table tennis player and national coach.He was an international top level player. He was the European champion 1962 and 1970, World champion 1967 and 1969, and European champion 1966.He died in a plane crash at Kälvesta near Stockholm 1977.-References:...

 and Vladimir Samsonov

Vladimir Samsonov

Vladimir Samsonov is a Belarusian professional table tennis player, ranked ninth in the world as of October 2011...

 has all won it twice.

Champions

See: List of Swedish Open Championships champions