Coronavirus: ITTF Suspends All Events Until June 30, Also Freezes Ranking Lists | Table Tennis News
The ITTF mentioned that new dates for International Staff Championships will probably be introduced within the coming week © AFP
The Global Desk Tennis Federation (ITTF) on Sunday suspended all deliberate occasions and actions involving global go back and forth till June 30 because of the feared COVID-19 pandemic. The ITTF Govt Committee met on Sunday to additional speak about the consequences of the coronavirus outbreak at the global desk tennis match time table.
“Because of the continuing uncertainty led to via COVID-19 pandemic and postponement of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Video games, the ITTF Govt Committee reached the next choices: Suspension of all these days deliberate ITTF occasions and actions that contain global go back and forth till 30 June 2020,” ITTF mentioned in a remark.
The global governing frame mentioned that “proposal of recent dates for the Hana Bank 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships will probably be introduced within the coming week”.
ITTF additionally determined to freeze score lists as of March 2020 and additional assessment “all implications associated with the postponement of occasions, go back and forth restrictions and different headaches, with scope for additional choices on doubtlessly important changes”.
The Tokyo Games have been on Tuesday postponed to subsequent 12 months because of the rapidly-spreading illness and ITTF mentioned as soon as the brand new dates of the Olympics are introduced it is going to regulate the qualification pathways.
The Govt Committee additionally determined to cut back their bills and senior personnel have presented to take a wage aid. The ITTF will grasp every other follow-up assembly on April 15 to additional assessment the location.
