Swansea University Table Tennis club presents:
Swansea Open 2025
February 15-16, 2025
Swansea Bay Sports Park (Singleton Campus)
Sketty Lane, Swansea, SA2 8QB
Tournament Organiser: Angelo Robles Tournament Referee: Angelo Robles
Organising Committee: A. Robles (President), N. Yeh (Head Coach) J. Leahy, (Secretary), M. Lowe (Teams Captain), J. Tham (Treasurer).
TOURNAMENT REGULATIONS (to be retained)
- Every entrant must be affiliated as a player member to Table Tennis Wales or be a member of another national association in membership of the ITTF.
- Table Tennis Wales Tournament Regulations apply to this tournament including Regulation R (Regulations banning use of certain adhesives and restricting “gluing-up”). ITTF Regulations for International Competition apply exceptthose relating to matters covered by items marked (x) in this entry form.
- Completion and submission of this entry form signifies agreement by the entrant to the conditions of the competition including the variations from the ITTF requirements.
- All competitors will be required to umpire at least one match per event entered
- All matches will be the best of 5 games. Play throughout will be on a knockout basis, except for the preliminaryrounds which will be in groups of four or three depending on entries. With the first two players qualifying to the mainevent and the remainder going into the plate event The final order in a group shall be determined as per ITTF regulation 3.7.5 for group competitions except that where a player concedes a match he/she shall receive -3 group points (x).
- Competitors in the age restricted events, Veterans must be born in 1985 or before, Under 21’s must be born in 2004 or later, Junior events must have been born in
2006 or later, the Cadets born 2010 or later, under 13’s born 2012 or later, Under 11’s event 2014 or later.
- Players must not wear shirts that are predominantly White.
- Competitors will be permitted to practice on tables not in use at the discretion of the Referee.
- No competitor or official shall engage in betting on players or matches.