Table Tennis in London Olympic

Table Tennis 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 in a hard table divided by a net. It is the national game of China and commonly named as ping-pong.

Table tennis at London Olympics is scheduled to take place from 28^th July, Saturday to 8^th August, Wednesday. To watch 2012 Olympics table tennis competition, you can move to Excel Exhibition Center at London. In the competition, altogether 172 athletes are taking part in a competition. They will compete in four events. Table tennis has appeared at the Summer Olympics on six previous occasions beginning with the 1988 Games in Seoul. Since table tennis joined the Olympics, China has won 20 of the 24 available gold medals, and will be hoping to be among the leading nations once more at London Olympics 2012.

Both the Singles and Team events are run in a knockout format. Players and teams progress through the draw until the finals, which decide the winners of the gold medals.
Each team consists of three players and matches end when a team has won three individual games. Players’ seedings dicate the round in which they enter the competition. In Singles, the 16 highest ranked players qualify for the third round, players ranked from 17 to 32 qualify for the second round, and all other players qualify for the preliminary or first round. In Doubles, a special team rankings list is used to establish the seedings. You can watch Olympics live stream as the competition will be competitative more and more or you can direct watch Olympics online.