# Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

An NOC may enter up to 3 men and 3 women athletes in singles events and up to 1 men's and 1 women's team in teams events.

## Summary

| Nation | Men | Men | Women | Women | Total |
| Nation | Individual | Team | Individual | Team | Total |
| Algeria | 1 | | | | 1 |
| Argentina | 2 | | | | 2 |
| Australia | 3 | X | 3 | X | 6 |
| Austria | 3 | X | 2 | X | 6 |
| Belarus | 1 | | 3 | | 4 |
| Belgium | 1 | | | | 1 |
| Brazil | 2 | X | 1 | | 4 |
| Cameroon | | | 1 | | 1 |
| Canada | 2 | X | 2 | | 5 |
| China | 3 | X | 3 | X | 6 |
| Chinese Taipei | 2 | X | 2 | | 5 |
| Colombia | | | 1 | | 1 |
| Republic of the Congo | 1 | | 1 | | 2 |
| Croatia | 2 | X | 3 | X | 6 |
| Czech Republic | 1 | | 1 | | 2 |
| Denmark | 1 | | | | 1 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | | 2 | X | 4 |
| Egypt | 3 | | 2 | | 5 |
| France | 3 | | 1 | | 4 |
| Germany | 3 | X | 2 | X | 6 |
| Greece | 2 | X | | | 3 |
| Hong Kong | 3 | X | 3 | X | 6 |
| Hungary | 1 | | 3 | | 4 |
| India | 1 | | 1 | | 2 |
| Iran | 1 | | | | 1 |
| Italy | 1 | | 2 | | 3 |
| Japan | 3 | X | 3 | X | 6 |
| Jordan | | | 1 | | 1 |
| Kazakhstan | | | 1 | | 1 |
| Kuwait | 1 | | | | 1 |
| Lithuania | | | 1 | | 1 |
| Luxembourg | | | 1 | | 1 |
| Mexico | | | 1 | | 1 |
| Netherlands | | | 2 | X | 3 |
| Nigeria | 2 | X | 2 | X | 6 |
| North Korea | 3 | | 2 | | 5 |
| Paraguay | 1 | | | | 1 |
| Poland | 1 | | 2 | X | 4 |
| Portugal | 3 | | | | 3 |
| Romania | 1 | | 2 | X | 4 |
| Russia | 2 | X | 3 | | 6 |
| Serbia | 1 | | | | 1 |
| Singapore | 2 | X | 3 | X | 6 |
| Slovakia | | | 1 | | 1 |
| Slovenia | 1 | | | | 1 |
| South Korea | 3 | X | 3 | X | 6 |
| Spain | 2 | | 2 | X | 5 |
| Sweden | 2 | X | | | 3 |
| Thailand | | | 1 | | 1 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | | | | 1 |
| Turkey | 1 | | 1 | | 2 |
| Ukraine | 1 | | 2 | | 3 |
| United States | 1 | | 3 | X | 4 |
| Vanuatu | | | 1 | | 1 |
| Venezuela | | | 1 | | 1 |
| Vietnam | 1 | | | | 1 |
| Total: 56 NOCs | 77 | 16 | 78 | 16 | 172 |

## Singles
### Men

A total of 64 athletes will qualify for each singles event as follows:
| Event | Date | Location | Qualifiers |
| ITTF World Ranking | January 3, 2008 | - | Wang Hao Ma Lin Timo Boll Vladimir Samsonov Ryu Seung-Min Oh Sang-Eun Gao Ning Li Ching Chuang Chih-Yuan Kalinikos Kreanga Werner Schlager Kan Yo Dimitrij Ovtcharov Alexei Smirnov Yang Zi Ko Lai Chak Zoran Primorac Michael Maze He Zhi Wen Jörgen Persson |
| All Africa Games | July 11–23, 2007 | Algiers | Segun Toriola Monday Merotohun El-Sayed Lashin Suraju Saka Idir Khourta Adel Massaad |
| Middle Asia Qualification Tournament | October 15–18, 2007 | Tehran | Afshin Norouzi |
| South East Asia Qualification Tournament | February 2–3, 2008 | Singapore | Doan Kien Quoc |
| West Asia Qualification Tournament | February 6–8, 2008 | Amman | Ibrahem Al-Hasan |
| South Central Asia Qualification Tournament | March 6–9, 2008 | Hong Kong | Sharath Kamal |
| Asian Qualification Tournament | March 6–9, 2008 | Hong Kong | Wang Liqin Kim Hyok Bong Ri Chol Guk Jun Mizutani Yoon Jae-Young Seiya Kishikawa Jang Song Man |
| Pan-American Games | July 21–27, 2007 | Rio de Janeiro | Lin Ju |
| Latin American Qualification Tournament * | Mar 30 - Apr 6, 2008 | Santo Domingo | Liu Song Gustavo Tsuboi Thiago Monteiro Dexter St Louis Pablo Tabachnik |
| North American Qualification Tournament | April 4–6, 2008 | Vancouver | Zhang Peng Pradeeban Peter-Paul David Zhuang |
| European Qualification Tournament | April 2–6, 2008 | Nantes | Tan Ruiwu Jens Lundqvist Bojan Tokič Robert Gardos Christian Süß Chen Weixing Panagiotis Gionis João Monteiro Patrick Chila Christophe Legout Fedor Kuzmin |
| Oceania Qualification Tournament | April 5–8, 2008 | Noumea | William Henzell Kyle Davis David Zalcberg |
| Final World Qualification Tournament | May 8–11, 2008 | Budapest | Cheung Yuk Chiang Peng-Lung Jean-Michel Saive |
| Tripartite Commission Invitation | May 11, 2008 | - | Marcelo Aguirre |
| Additional** | May 8–11, 2008 | Budapest | Adrian Crisan Ahmed Ali Saleh Cem Zeng Damien Eloi Marcos Freitas Janos Jakab Aleksandar Karakašević Mihai Bobocica Kou Lei Petr Korbel Tiago Apolonia Alfredo Carneros Lucjan Błaszczyk |
| TOTAL | | | 77 |

### Women

| Event | Date | Location | Qualifiers |
| ITTF World Ranking | January 3, 2008 | - | Guo Yue Zhang Yining Wang Yuegu Li Jiawei Ai Fukuhara Kim Kyung-Ah Wu Jiaduo Sayaka Hirano Liu Jia Li Jiao Gao Jun Park Mi-Young Tamara Boroš Li Qian Wang Chen Krisztina Tóth Lau Sui Fei Daniela Dodean Elke Schall Ni Xia Lian |
| All Africa Games | July 11–23, 2007 | Algiers | Yang Fen Bose Kaffo Cecilia Offiong Shaimaa Abdul-Aziz Noha Yossry Victorine Agum Fomum |
| Middle Asia Qualification Tournament | October 15–18, 2007 | Tehran | Marina Shumakova |
| South East Asia Qualification Tournament | February 2–3, 2008 | Singapore | Feng Tian Wei |
| West Asia Qualification Tournament | February 6–8, 2008 | Amman | Zeina Shaban |
| South Central Asia Qualification Tournament | March 6–9, 2008 | Hong Kong | Neha Aggarwal |
| Asian Qualification Tournament | March 6–9, 2008 | Hong Kong | Dang Ye-Seo Nanthana Komwong Wang Nan Haruna Fukuoka Kim Jong Kim Mi Yong Huang I-hua |
| Latin American Qualification Tournament | Mar 30 - Apr 6, 2008 | Santo Domingo | Wu Xue Fabiola Ramos Mariany Nonaka Lian Qian Paula Medina Yadira Silva |
| North American Qualification Tournament | April 4–6, 2008 | Vancouver | Crystal Huang Zhang Mo Judy Long |
| European Qualification Tournament | April 2–6, 2008 | Nantes | Li Jie Viktoria Pavlovich Elizabeta Samara Melek Hu Xian Yi Fang Svetlana Ganina Sandra Paović Xu Jie Li Qiangbing Zhu Fang Tan Wenling Monfardini |
| Oceania Qualification Tournament | April 5–8, 2008 | Noumea | Lay Jian Fang Stéphanie Sang Xu Miao Miao |
| Final World Qualification Tournament | May 8–11, 2008 | Budapest | Tie Yana Lin Ling Shen Yanfei |
| Tripartite Commission Invitation | May 11, 2008 | - | Priscila Tommy |
| Additional** | May 8–11, 2008 | Budapest | Georgina Pota Irina Kotikhina Pan Li-chun Tatyana Kostromina Nikoleta Stefanova Margaryta Pesotska Andrea Bakula Oksana Fadeeva Petra Lovas Veronika Pavlovich Eva Odorova Dana Hadacova Ruta Paskauskiene Tetyana Sorochinskaya |
| TOTAL | | | 78 |
* 1 spot taken at the 2007 Pan-Americans Games.
** Unused quotas for team event.

## Teams
### Qualification process

A total of 16 teams will qualify for each teams event as follows:
* 6 - top team from each continent
* 1 - Host Nation (CHN) direct entry (if not qualified as top team from Asia)
* 9 - remaining selected teams (or 10 if CHN qualifies as top team from Asia)
Each team will consist of 3 players and they don't have to participate in singles events (there are 22 additional athletes quota places for such players). Teams will be selected after all singles qualification events, and according to a special May 2008 team ranking list. Qualification will be awarded first to the highest ranked teams with three players qualified for the singles event. If the quota hasn't been filled, selection will proceed to teams with two players qualified for the singles event, then to teams with only one singles qualifier.
If the field of 16 teams is filled without using all of the 22 athletes quota places, any unused places will be added to the Final World Qualification Tournament to select additional singles players. In order to select the Teams only the 64 qualified players will be taken into consideration to establish the Special Olympic Computer Team Ranking (SOCTR). The SOCTR will be calculated in the same way as we calculate the current ITTF Computer Team Ranking now. The difference is that: Only the 64 players qualified will be considered to establish the SOCTR for the purpose of selecting the Teams.
* General notes:
** Teams will appear on the board when they qualified two or more athletes. If it becomes apparent that some countries with only one single entry will qualify for the team event, then the appropriate nations will be added to the board.
** Nations highlighted in green qualify for the team event. The letter under "qualify as" represent how the team qualified: H means as the host nation, C means as the best team of the continent (China can qualify as HC if they become the best Asian team), and W meaning one of the ten highest ranked team that has not qualified as the best team of its respective continent. R means the team has been selected as a reserve.

### Men

| Country | Qualified Athletes | Points | Qualified as |
| China (CHN) | 3 | 38406.75 | HC |
| South Korea (KOR) | 3 | 36516.25 | W |
| Germany (GER) | 3 | 36385.75 | C |
| Hong Kong (HKG) | 3 | 36049.25 | W |
| Austria (AUT) | 3 | 35804.00 | W |
| Japan (JPN) | 3 | 35689.25 | W |
| North Korea (PRK) | 3 | 34599.25 | - |
| Australia (AUS) | 3 | 33004.25 | C |
| Singapore (SIN) | 2 | 24132.00 | W |
| Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 2 | 24081.75 | W |
| Croatia (CRO) | 2 | 23788.75 | W |
| Greece (GRE) | 2 | 23769.25 | W |
| Sweden (SWE) | 2 | 23721.00 | W |
| Russia (RUS) | 2 | 23612.00 | W |
| France (FRA) | 2 | 23539.50 | - |
| Brazil (BRA) | 2 | 23031.50 | C |
| Argentina (ARG) | 2 | 22784.50 | - |
| Nigeria (NGR) | 2 | 22615.75 | C |
| Canada (CAN) | 2 | 22542.00 | C |
| Egypt (EGY) | 2 | 22154.50 | - |

### Women

| Country | Qualified Athletes | Points | Qualified as |
| China (CHN) | 3 | 38270.25 | HC |
| Singapore (SIN) | 3 | 37103.50 | W |
| Hong Kong (HKG) | 3 | 36212.00 | W |
| South Korea (KOR) | 3 | 36194.75 | W |
| Japan (JPN) | 3 | 36172.00 | W |
| United States (USA) | 3 | 35146.25 | C |
| Australia (AUS) | 3 | 34140.75 | C |
| Netherlands (NED) | 2 | 23974.50 | C |
| Germany (GER) | 2 | 23924.25 | W |
| Austria (AUT) | 2 | 23865.50 | W |
| Croatia (CRO) | 2 | 23778.00 | W |
| Poland (POL) | 2 | 23630.75 | W |
| Spain (ESP) | 2 | 23591.75 | W |
| Romania (ROU) | 2 | 23589.50 | W |
| North Korea (PRK) | 2 | 23383.75 | - |
| Dominican Republic (DOM) | 2 | 23149.75 | C |
| Canada (CAN) | 2 | 22521.00 | - |
| Nigeria (NGR) | 2 | 21879.75 | C |