On 110 days before the first match, the organizing committee of the 2011 World Table Tennis Championships has announced their competition schedule. The Championships will be held from 8 to 15 May 2011 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Eight days of top-level table tennis will be concluded with a spectacular final weekend with the men's single semi finals and final on Sunday.

Championships director Ton van Happen is pleased: "Together with the ITTF we put a lot of effort to present a proper competition schedule. It was our wish to have a balanced schedule where table tennis fans from all over the world can watch interesting matches each day. The men's single semis and final on Sunday is just the icing on the cake."

For the athletes it's even more special. The World Championships will be an important qualifying event to the Olympic Games in London 2012. It is for this reason that the balanced competition schedule has the highest priority for the Local Organizing Committee as well for the ITTF. "With this competition schedule we succeed in this mission." concludes Van Happen.

Preliminary competition schedule

QF: Quarter final
SF: Semi final
Q: Qualification tournament
MS: Men's single
WS: Women's single
MD: Men's double
WD: Women's double
XD: Mixed Double


Sunday 8th of May
Qualification matches

Monday 9th of May
Qualification matches

XD 1st round

Tuesday 10th of May
MS 1st round
WS 1st round
MD 1st and 2nd round
WD 1st and 2nd round
XD 2nd and 3rd round

Wednesday 11th of May
MS 2nd round and 3rd round part 1
WS 2nd and 3th round
MD 3rd round
XD 4th round

Thursday 12th of May
MS 3rd round part 2 and 4th round part 1
WS 4th round
MD QF
WD 3rd round
XD QF and SF

Friday 13th of May
MS 4th round part 2
WS QF and SF
WD QF
XD Finale

Saturday 14th of May
MS QF
WS Finale
MD SF and Final
WD SF

Sunday 15th of May
MS SF and Final
WD Final

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Россию представляют:
мужчины :
1. Смирнов Алексей
2. Кузьмин Федор
3. Скачков Кирилл
4. Шибаев Александр
5. Рубцов Игорь
женщины:
1.Тихомирова Анна
2.Фадеева Оксана
3.Носкова Яна
4.Прохорова Юлия
5.Воронова Анастасия
пары:
Кузьмин - Рубцов
Скачков - Смирнов
Буров - Шибаев

Фадеева - Тихомирова
Михайлова - Воронова
Носкова - Прохорова

Кузьмин - Фадеева
Шибаев - Михайлова
Рубцов - Тихомирова

Буров-Шибаев - неплохая пара, кстати.