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Making table tennis a smashing success
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From left: WTT directors Matt Pound, Khalil Al-Mohannadi and Steve Dainton, who is also the ITTF's chief executive. They were at the WTT Qatar hub where two WTT events were held in March.
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With 226 member associations within the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), hundreds of millions of people playing the sport worldwide, and five continents represented in the top 50 of both the men and women's world rankings, table tennis can be considered a truly global sport.
This is why ITTF chief executive Steve Dainton estimates the table tennis industry is worth "billions of dollars".
