Qualification explainer at AQT: With allocation from ITTF, six men and six women will be selected to participate in the Summer Games. One ...
Qualification explainer at AQT:
With allocation from ITTF, six men and six women will be selected to participate in the Summer Games. One player from each regional zone (Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, South East Asia and West Asia) will be selected from the respective regional zone.
Apart from the West Asia Region, who have already qualified players, players from other regions will compete among themselves in this tournament to determine a total of four regional quota places per gender, with one from each region. This is where Sathiyan and Mukherjee earned their assured qualification spots for topping the South Asia section.
The remaining one Asian Continental quota place shall be allocated to the highest ranked player among the respective first reserve players in each regional qualification, based on the April 2021 ITTF Olympic Qualification Ranking Lists. Sharath and Batra are the highest-ranked reserve players and when the ranking list is made official in April, the duo will earn their singles spots.
One Mixed Doubles pair will be selected from Asia by the qualification tournament. This is the challenge now facing Sharath and Batra, who are the second seeds in the knockout event.
Very happy to have qualified for my 4th Olympic Games, in men’s singles....
