Table tennis at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
# Table tennis at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Table tennis is one of the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England. This was the sixth staging of table tennis at the Commonwealth Games since its inclusion in 2002, and the second staging within England specifically.

The competition took place between 29 July and 8 August 2022, spread across eleven events (including four parasport events).

## Schedule

The competition schedule is as follows:

| G | Preliminary matches (group) | P | Preliminary matches (knockout) | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| DateEvent | Fri 29 | Fri 29 | Sat 30 | Sat 30 | Sun 31 | Sun 31 | Mon 1 | Mon 1 | Mon 1 | Tue 2 | Tue 2 | Wed 3 | Wed 3 | Thu 4 | Thu 4 | Fri 5 | Fri 5 | Sat 6 | Sat 6 | Sat 6 | Sun 7 | Sun 7 | Sun 7 | Sun 7 | Mon 8 | Mon 8 |
| Session → | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | M | E | A | A | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | E | M | M | E | E | M | M |
| Men's singles | | | | | | | | | | | | G | G | | | P | P | ¼ | | | | | ½ | ½ | B | F |
| Men's doubles | | | | | | | | | | | | | | P | P | P | ¼ | ½ | | | B | F | | | | |
| Men's team | G | G | G | | ¼ | | | | ½ | B | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Women's singles | | | | | | | | | | | | G | G | | P | P | ¼ | ½ | | | B | F | | | | |
| Women's doubles | | | | | | | | | | | | | | P | | P | P | P | ¼ | ¼ | | | ½ | ½ | B | F |
| Women's team | G | G | G | ¼ | | ½ | B | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Mixed doubles | | | | | | | | | | | | | | P | P | P | ¼ | ½ | | | | | B | F | | |
| Parasport |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Men's singles C3–5 | | | | | | | | | | | | G | G | G | | ½ | | | B | F | | | | | | |
| Men's singles C8–10 | | | | | | | | | | | | G | G | G | | ½ | | | | | B | F | | | | |
| Women's singles C3–5 | | | | | | | | | | | | G | G | G | | ½ | | | B | F | | | | | | |
| Women's singles C6–10 | | | | | | | | | | | | G | G | G | | ½ | | | B | F | | | | | | |

## Venue

The table tennis competitions are being held at the National Exhibition Centre in Solihull. Five other sports - badminton, boxing, netball, para powerlifting, and weightlifting - will also take place there.

## Medal summary

### Medal table

* Host nation (England)

| Rank | CGA | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | India | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | Singapore | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | England* | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | Australia | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | Wales | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Nigeria | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Malaysia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 11 | 11 | 11 | 33 |

### Medallists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Men's singles details | Sharath Kamal India | Liam Pitchford England | Sathiyan Gnanasekaran India |
| Women's singles details | Feng Tianwei Singapore | Zeng Jian Singapore | Liu Yangzi Australia |
| Men's doubles details | England Paul Drinkhall Liam Pitchford | India Sharath Kamal Sathiyan Gnanasekaran | Singapore Poh Shao Feng Ethan Clarence Chew |
| Women's doubles details | Singapore Feng Tianwei Zeng Jian | Australia Jee Minhyung Jian Fang Lay | Wales Charlotte Carey Anna Hursey |
| Mixed doubles details | India Sharath Kamal Sreeja Akula | Malaysia Choong Javen Karen Lyne | Singapore Clarence Chew Zeng Jian |
| Men's team details | India Harmeet Desai Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Sharath Kamal Sanil Shetty | Singapore Clarence Chew Poh Shao Feng Ethan Pang Yew En Koen Izaac Quek | England Paul Drinkhall Tom Jarvis Liam Pitchford Sam Walker |
| Women's team details | Singapore Zeng Jian Zhou Jing Yi Feng Tianwei Wong Xin Ru | Malaysia Tee Ai Xin Alice Chang Karen Lyne Ho Ying | Australia Feng Chunyi Jian Fang Lay Jee Minhyung Liu Yangzi |

**Para**

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Men's C3–5 details | Jack Hunter-Spivey England | Nasiru Sule Nigeria | Isau Ogunkunle Nigeria |
| Men's C8–10 details | Joshua Stacey Wales | Ma Lin Australia | Ross Wilson England |
| Women's C3–5 details | Bhavina Patel India | Ifechukwude Ikpeoyi Nigeria | Sonalben Patel India |
| Women's C6–10 details | Yang Qian Australia | Lei Lina Australia | Faith Obazuaye Nigeria |

## Qualification

### Table tennis

A total of 160 players (80 per gender) qualified to compete at the Games. The majority achieved team qualification as follows:

* The host nation.
* Nations on the ITTF World Team Rankings as of 2 January 2020.
* Recipients of CGF/ITTF Bipartite Invitations (one nation per CGF region).
* The highest-ranked nation not yet qualified.

In addition, players not in qualified teams were individually picked as follows:

* Region-specific invitations (2 per region).
* Players on the ITTF World Singles Rankings as of 2 January 2020.
* General invitations.

### Para table tennis

A total of 32 players (16 per gender) will qualify to compete at the Games. They will qualify for each competition as follows:

* Players on the ITTF Para Table Tennis Rankings as of 1 May 2022 (one per CGF region).
* A player on the aforementioned ranking not already qualified.
* Recipients of CGF/ITTF Bipartite Invitations.

## Participating nations

There were 34 participating Commonwealth Games Associations (CGA's) in table tennis and para-table tennis with a total of 190 (94 men and 96 women) athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.

* Australia (14)
* Bangladesh (6)
* Barbados (4)
* Cameroon (1)
* Canada (10)
* Cyprus (6)
* England (13)
* Falkland Islands (1)
* Fiji (7)
* Ghana (6)
* Guyana (8)
* India (12)
* Jersey (2)
* Kenya (2)
* Malaysia (10)
* Maldives (5)
* Mauritius (8)
* Nigeria (15)
* Northern Ireland (5)
* Pakistan (1)
* Papua New Guinea (2)
* Saint Lucia (1)
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (4)
* Scotland (4)
* Seychelles (4)
* Sierra Leone (1)
* Singapore (8)
* Solomon Islands (3)
* South Africa (8)
* Trinidad and Tobago (3)
* Uganda (4)
* Vanuatu (3)
* Wales (7)
