It's impressive how a chopper from North Korea is able to reach the semi-finals with way, way less international experience than all the other players.
It's called the expedite rule, and it's not new.. It's been there for a long while. I guess this page sums it up:
http://www.allabouttabletennis.com/basic-table-tennis-rule.html
(skip to 2010 and onwards)
Live coverage of table tennis for the Netherlands:
http://nos.nl/rio2016/
I think it'll block other countries, but you might find your way around that with proxies and stuff. :)
Zhang Jike probably versus Chen Chien-An in his first match.. Not the easiest start as their head-to-head is 4-2 and Zhang lost to him earlier this year.
ITTF had planned to live stream the draw on YouTube, but they resorted to Twitter today.. Anyway, should be coming up in about 15 minutes here:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/OlympicTTDraw?src=hash
There will be live streaming of all sports on NBCOlympics, see http://www.nbcolympics.com/live-stream-schedule?day=1. However, I remember from the 2012 Olympics that these live streams were not accessible in many countries.