European Under-21 Table Tennis Championships-2025

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European Under-21 Table Tennis Championships-2025 - is an annual table tennis tournament held in 2025 Slovak Table Tennis Association under patronage of European Table Tennis Union (ETTU). It will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia from 7 to 11 May 2025. The championship will include youth competitions (under 21).
The championship includes doubles and singles for boys and girls, as well as mixed doubles.

Qualification

The European Under21 Table Tennis Championships shall be open for entry to all member Associations, whose subscriptions are not in arrears. All players must be eligible to represent their Associations in accordance with the provisions of article B.10.3 of the ETTU Handbook. All players must be under 21 years of age on the 31st December immediately before the calendar year in which the championships take place (players born on or after 1st January 2001).
The maximum number of entries for the U21 Championships is 56 men and 56 women players.
The ETTU Congress accepted on Wednesday 19th September 2018 in Alicante gave permission for 2019 to invite, the highest ranked 48 men and 48 women players derived from the December 2018 European Under 21 ranking lists will be invited with a maximum of 3 men and 3 women players from a member Association. In cooperation the ETTU Youth and Ranking Committees will grant up to 8 men and 8 women a wildcard. If less than 8 wildcards will be used, the next eligible player(s) from the December 2018 European Under 21 ranking lists will be invited.

Playing system

Doubles events will be played in a direct knockout competition.
The last available published U21 ranking will be used for the draw and the seeding.
In singles events 8 seeded players shall be directly placed in stage 2.

Stage 1: the remaining 48 players shall play in a qualification, played in 12 groups. The winner and the runner-up from each group will qualify for stage 2.
The players ranked 9 - 20 shall be placed in descending ranking order respectively at the top of the groups 1 to 12. The remaining players shall be drawn into the groups 4 by 4 according to the modified snake system. Players from the same Association shall be seeded in different groups.

Stage 2: the 24 qualifiers from stage 1 and the 8 seeded players shall be drawn into 8 groups. The winner and the runner-up from each group will qualify for stage 3.
The 8 seeded players shall be placed in descending ranking order respectively at the top of the groups 13 to 20. The winners of the groups 1 to 8 in Stage 1 shall be drawn on position 2 in these groups, the winners and runners-up of the groups 9 to 12 shall be drawn on position 3 and the runners-up of the groups 1 to 8 on position 4.
Players from the same group in Stage 1 shall not be drawn into the same group in Stage 2 and players of the same Association shall not be drawn into the same group.

Stage 3: the 16 qualifiers from stage 2 will play a direct knockout competition.
The winner of group 13 will be placed on position 1, the winner of group 14 will be placed on position 16. The winners of the groups 15 and 16 will be drawn among positions 8 and 9, the winners of the groups 17 to 20 will be drawn among positions 4, 5, 12 and 13 and the runners-up of each group will be drawn among the remaining positions. Players from the same group in Stage 2 shall be drawn as far as possible from each other and players from the same Association cannot meet each other in the first round.

Useful links

Link to the European Under 21 Championships tournament on the ETTU website: EUROPEAN UNDER 21 CHAMPIONSHIPS
Link to the European Under 21 Championships tournament on Wikipedia: European Under-21 Table Tennis Championships
Link to the European Under 21 Championships-2025 tournament on the tt-wiki.info website: U21-EM 2025 (Bratislava, Slowakei)
Photo gallery of the European Under 21 Championships-2025 will be posted on the ETTU page on the flickr website: ETTU_official
LIVE of the European Under 21 Championships-2025 on the ETTU website: ETTU Official Website
Confirmed players of the European Under 21 Championships-2025 on the ETTU website: Confirmed Players
Tournament Prospectus: Prospectus

 

[GAOdp]

Benko Leon - Faso Danilo | ETTU European U21 Championship Bratislava 2025​

 

[igorponger]

THE KINSFOLK

Amongst all the europian folks, it is Slovakia we have most liking for. Similarity of mentalities, similarity of language, similarity of alcohol drinks in particular.

Long live dear friends.

 

[GAOdp]

2025 European U21 Championships Day 5 | Table 1 - Semifinals - Finals​

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

U21 is actually so imported, and sad that ITTF had it removed
not every country can have kids (U18 or U19 today) taking on adults and the U21 back then was a very important age platform for those to continue to adjust and leverage sponsors to continue to aid them in they journey

you could notice a lot that was top 10 in U18 or U19 could actually disappear, due to out of world ranking (and with that sponsorship money) and wont' be able to catch top 100 in the world in senior (with that, maybe some other sponsorship money).

 

[AchyGeorge]

Well played Anna Hursey!

 

[backspacer]

Was this event not open to the public? I didn't see any viewers.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Was this event not open to the public? I didn't see any viewers.

huge hall, few dozen spectators at most

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Well played Anna Hursey!

Anna Hursey is legit! Not only because she won this tournament, but I've been watching her in the Bundesliga thanks to @backspacer 's thread. Her game is very solid. She will definitely challenge for European champion in the future.

 

[NextLevel]

Coton wins. Oh well, Gauzy is safe for LA 2028 according to the experts, nothing to see here...

 

[Dexarys]

Coton wins. Oh well, Gauzy is safe for LA 2028 according to the experts, nothing to see here...

Well, there is not anymore team competition in JO so

 

[Pe-ter]

Was this event not open to the public? I didn't see any viewers.

Been there on Thursday, was open to public, free entry. There were more people on Thursday (also more Slovak players played on that particular day and it was a bank holiday here too). Met Craig Bryant there. Top guy!

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Anna Hursey is legit! Not only because she won this tournament, but I've been watching her in the Bundesliga thanks to @backspacer 's thread. Her game is very solid. She will definitely challenge for European champion in the future.

no doubt

tons of sacrifice, with mom taking her back to her home town in Harbin, China (very very cold temperatures), and training with famous Chinese coaches (ie Ma Zhigang) for many years, and doing "online schooling" in between.
Mom had to be the tutor and what not.

I still remember back then, the mom showing me videos of a tiny Anna hitting the ball, and I just went to check the dates. She started the Harbin training in 2014, when Anna was around 9 years old.

 

[d3nium]

Flashback to the Pocket Rocket beating Hursey, not sure if he would do it now tho

 

[Tinykin]

no doubt

tons of sacrifice, with mom taking her back to her home town in Harbin, China (very very cold temperatures), and training with famous Chinese coaches (ie Ma Zhigang) for many years, and doing "online schooling" in between.
Mom had to be the tutor and what not.

I still remember back then, the mom showing me videos of a tiny Anna hitting the ball, and I just went to check the dates. She started the Harbin training in 2014, when Anna was around 9 years old.

Congratulations to Anna. She was playing the top adult tournaments when she was around 6/7yo. So her parents must have been training her before that Harbin. Lots of dedication.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Congratulations to Anna. She was playing the top adult tournaments when she was around 6/7yo. So her parents must have been training her before that Harbin. Lots of dedication.

yeah, I didn't ask how old she was when she started to train, but yeah, she was a decent level already before heading to China to train full time there.