UTT Senior National & Inter-State Table Tennis Championships-2024 (86th)
(Indian National Championship) is an annual national championship of India, which will be held in early 2025 Table Tennis Federation of India & Gujarat State Table Tennis Association for the 86th time. Each state association can send a maximum of 5 entries in men's and women's singles, PSPB and RSPB are considered on an equal basis with state associations and can send 5 entries each in men's and women's singles. The championship will be held from 18 to 25 April 2022 in Surat, Gujarat, India.
Medals will be awarded in men's and women's singles and teams, as well as mixed doubles.
Playing system
(a) Team Events
The Regulations for the competitions for Men’s & Women’s Team event will be as follows. The team events will be best of 5 singles. All individual matches in the team events will be determined by the best of 5 Games.
Order of play shall be
A Vs X
B Vs Y
C Vs Z
A Vs Y
B Vs X
The competition shall be conducted in two stages
Stage I All the Teams shall be drawn into Eight Groups as per the last National Position & play one another in a Round Robin League System to determine the position in each group.
Stage II In the second stage, the No. 1 & No. 2 Teams of these Eight Groups shall play by progressive knock out system, to determine the 1 to 16 positions.
(b) Individual Events
All the singles events shall be played in two stages
Stage I In the first stage, all the players except 1- 16 classified players in Men and 1 – 8 classified Players in Women, shall be divided into groups, with 3 or 4 players in each group. They shall play one another in a Round Robin League System to determine an order of position in each group. All the Group league matches will be best of five games. One player from each group qualify to the Main Draw
Stage II In the second stage, the winners from each groups & Ranked Players 1- 16 for Men and 1-8 for Women, shall play according to single knock out system. All matches in stage II shall be best of seven games from the Round of 64
( C) All Doubles events will be best of five games.
All Doubles events will also carry prize money in the Senior National Championships. However the entries are restricted as per the normal quota of 2 pairs each for Men’s and Women’s Doubles and four pairs for mixed doubles applicable for State Associations. For Institutions,
