Damascus-Sana
The Republic Cup Table Tennis Championship kicked off today in the Al-Galaa Sports City in Damascus, with the participation of male and female players representing most of the governorates.
The opening ceremony witnessed artistic performances by the Glennar band and table tennis performances by a number of participating players, during which they demonstrated their skills in the game in an atmosphere of high encouragement and enthusiasm.
During the ceremony, President of the Table Tennis Federation, Bassam Khalil, referred to the distinguished level of the game and the skills that our players possess and the remarkable achievements that they have achieved, especially the achievement of the player Hind Zaza by qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics directly, indicating that the tournament is an opportunity to develop the level of the players and players.
Khalil indicated that the Game Federation is working within a strategy to raise the level of the game in cooperation with all its cadres and experiences to bring its players to the distinguished level that they aspire to and will spare no effort in order to achieve this goal, especially that the game receives attention and support, which is an incentive to provide good performance and achieve positive results In external benefits.
The tournament will last for three days, as the players are distributed into groups to play among themselves in the league manner, so 32 players qualify by the end of the first round and play the knockout method from once to the final match, the result of which will be decided by the winner of the championship.