Why are there no doubles in Olympic table tennis?

There is no doubles in table tennis at the Olympic Games because the ITTF cancelled the doubles in table tennis and changed to a team competition system. The team competition can play up to five games, including singles and doubles.

In order to prevent the mainland table tennis players from arranging the Olympic doubles gold medal and silver medal from happening again, the ITTF recently decided to amend the rules of doubles competition in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games at its executive committee meeting. In the future Olympic Games, two groups of doubles players from the same country will be drawn into the same half-zone, so as to avoid the situation that men's and women's doubles champions encounter players from the same country.

The ITTF said that the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games will replace the doubles competition with team events, and the 2004 Athens Olympic Games will further revise the rules of men's and women's doubles. The revision of doubles rules will help China men's doubles pair Jiang Penglong and Zhang win medals in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Men's and women's doubles events in the Olympic Games have long been a situation in which mainland players arrange gold and silver medals.

In the men's and women's doubles competition of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, each country can only sign up for two teams at most. In order to prevent the mainland team from winning the gold medal and silver medal in men's and women's doubles again, the International Table Federation decided to amend the Olympic doubles rules at the executive Committee meeting held a few days ago, so that two teams belonging to the same country will be classified into the same half area.

In this way, before entering the championship, it is bound to bite each other and eliminate the first team. In other words, mainland players who used to play gold and silver medals in men's and women's doubles will only win gold and bronze medals at the Athens Olympic Games, and the silver medals must be handed in.

Serving rules in table tennis match;

1. The right to choose the service, receiving service and venue should be decided by choosing the front and back of the coin. The right player can choose to serve or receive the service first, or he can choose to be on the side first.

2. When a player chooses to serve first or receive first or choose a court, another player should have another choice.

3. After serving twice, the receiver becomes the server, and so on, until the end of the game, or until the scores of both sides reach 10, the order of serving and receiving remains unchanged, and each person only serves one point in turn.

4. The one who plays one position in one match will change to another position in the next match, and the one who reaches 5 points in the singles deciding game will change positions.

5. Once the referee finds that the order of serving and receiving is wrong, he should immediately suspend the game and serve or receive the service according to the order established at the beginning of the game and the score on the field; In doubles, when mistakes are found, the game will continue in the order determined by the party who has the right to serve first.