DOHA: The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has decided to extend the suspension of all its activities until end of July.
At its Executive Committee meeting on Friday, the ITTF Executive Committee held a meeting to discuss on the latest situation regarding COVID-19.
Upon receiving a comprehensive update report from the COVID-19 Task Force, which was set up to monitor the global situation closely, the ITTF took the following decisions:
• The current period of suspension of all ITTF events and activities has been extended up until the end of July 2020; the situation is being monitored closely for an eventual restart of ITTF events in August 2020.
• All World Veterans Tour (WVT) and Table Tennis X (TTX) events have been cancelled for the remainder of 2020.
• A decision about the status of the Hana Bank 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships will be made in June 2020.
• ITTF management have been asked to find ways to reduce operation costs overall, including the need for there to be some HR restructure in order to manage 2020 financial realities.
The ITTF Executive Committee will meet again on 2nd June 2020 and the ITTF will continue to provide further updates on all upcoming decisions in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the spread of COVID-19 across different parts of the world, the ITTF is monitoring closely the overall situation across the globe and is in frequent contact with hosts of ITTF events in an effort to keep the international calendar as updated as possible.
The ITTF is looking at a number of different scenarios and possibilities of rescheduling, but it is currently still too early to make any decisions until there is greater certainty about when activities can resume. Nevertheless, the ITTF is trying to keep its calendar as updated as possible, with information that comes to hand. (Source: ITTF)
