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Veröffentlicht: 09. Mai 2008

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National Teams Competition

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A regular national team is made up of 8 players (6 men / 2 women). And each team can have only 2 reserve players, (1 man and 1 woman) who will be able to rotate with regular team members. But please note that no changes of players will be allowed within 2 hours before each game. So you can not write more than 8 names on the score sheet.

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The minimum number of players allowed in a team is 5

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Is there no women in team, so the 2 points are lost, is 1 woman in team, so she can play the women's singles

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Competition format

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The competition is played with a direct elemination (Single K.O.). They play 4 matches in Singles followed by 4 matches in Doubles. A match consists of 1 game to 7 points, the match must be won by two clear points (8:6, 9:7).

If both teams have won 4 matches (4:4), an extra match played in Doubles, to be played by the two players of each team who have not yet taken part in Singles.

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For the draw, 8 nations will be designated as "Seeds":

top seeds: The host country (Germany) and the best 3 nations in the ITSF rankings 

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seccond seeds: The next 4 highest ranked nations in the ITSF rankings
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Attention!

Deadline for registration:  July, 11th 2008

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