History of this site for 2006

Date	Change
31 December 2006	January ranking list has been updated. 2^nd entry form for 9^th Trofeo del Mediterraneo 2007.
29 December 2006	January ranking list is available. Thanks to Haza for a picture of Hasan Boumajdad . Thanks to Saso Suligoj for a picture of Mateja Pintar .
28 December 2006	TD report of US Open.
25 December 2006	Added ranking points, ratings and results of US Open . Added ranking points, ratings and results of FESPIC Games .
23 December 2006	Added classifiers for all tournaments in calendar. Entries for 1^st Open Hit Kranjska Gora are now closed: 150 wheelchair players and 82 standing players.
21 December 2006	Added Irish Open documents to calendar.
19 December 2006	Full results of US Open.
14 December 2006	2^nd entry form of Czech Open. New pictures for Stéphanie Mariage, Alain Pichon, Olivier Chateigner .
13 December 2006	New address for the organizing committee of Serbia Open, see entry forms in calendar . New pictures for Jean-François Ducay, Erwan Fouillen, Fabien Lamirault , Philippe Olivier, Yann Guilhem, Gregory Rosec , Jean-Philippe Robin , Bruno Benedetti, Nicolas Savant Aira, Florian Merrien , Emeric Martin.
9 December 2006	TD report of Copa Tango IV.
3 December 2006	New pictures for Alexandre Ank, Francisco Eugenio Sales, Antonio Carlos Melo, Antonio Poli .
1 December 2006	Full results of FESPIC Games . Invitation and entry forms of 3^rd German Open.
29 November 2006	Updated calendar with second entry forms for Romania and Jordan Opens.
21 November 2006	Added Liguria Cup and Polish Open documents to calendar.
19 November 2006	US Open players list.
19 November 2006	Added ranking points, ratings and results of Copa Tango IV . This includes also the detailed results generated by Dr. Wu's program.
16 November 2006	Added Copa Tango V to calendar. Calendar updated with documents from Slovakia Open. Classification seminar form for US Open
15 November 2006	New general information for European Championships, previous one contained errors especially in planned events.
10 November 2006	Added several reports about Montreux 2006 World Championships to communication area.
8 November 2006	Calendar updated with documents from European Championships.
7 November 2006	Calendar updated with many tournament apporvals and documents from Romanian Open.
2 November 2006	Calendar updated with documents from Serbia Open. Thanks to Ivo Drinovec for a picture of Patrizia Sacca
20 October 2006	Thanks to Joachim Voigt for a picture of David Weatherill. Thanks to El Juli for a picture of David Alonso . Thanks to Touchline Photo for a picture of Johan Du Plooy As Raul Calin resigned, Karol Ziduliak has been appointed as acting technical officer.
19 October 2006	List of players for Tango Cup. October ranking list updated for players who were re-classified since beginning of year 2006 and blocked until end of World Championships.
16 October 2006	Added personal web site to Stéphane Molliens 's profile page.
12 October 2006	Added pictures for Chih Jung Chang,Chih-Shan Hsu, Eun Chang Jung , Wen Hsin Lin, Shu Chin Hsiao, Yen Hung Lin , Khetam Kamal Abuawad , Rolf Erik Paulsen, Gai Gu, Bian Zhang , Mei Li Liu, Wendy Schrijver, Lei Lina , Natalia Partyka.
10 October 2006	IPTTC expresses its gratefulness to chairman Christian Lillieroos and technical officer Raúl Calín who resigned in Montreux. Oeivind Eriksen will be the interim chairman.
9 October 2006	Thanks to Carsten Mortensen for a picture of Lars Burgwald . Thanks to Ivo Drinovec for taking a picture of Magan Tahir and to Barabas Balazs for decorating it. New address and telephone number of Belgian Paralympic Committee. Added pictures for Kelly Van Zon, Yan Zhang and Sara Head .
8 October 2006	October ranking list is available. Added ranking points, ratings and results of Montreux 2006 World Championships . Added pictures for Liu Jing, Li Qian , Giuseppe Vella, Marco Pizzurro, Isabelle Lafaye , Guo Xing Yuan, Tommy Urhaug, Patrizia Sacca , Lynne Riding, Gui Xiang Ren, Nadezda Pushpasheva , Geneviève Clot , Fatemah Al-Azzam, Jitka Pivarciova.
4 October 2006	2^nd entry form of US Open 2006.
3 October 2006	With deep sadness we announce to family, friends and athletes, that our friend Maria Pillárova unexpectedly died on October 3, 2006. She wiill be missed.
21 September 2006	Calendar update: date switching between Liguria and Lignano.
19 September 2006	Added ranking points, ratings and results of 19^th T.T. International Master Italian´s Open . Thanks to Debra Davies for a picture of Paul Davies .
18 September 2006	Added ranking points, ratings and results of 2^ndGerman Open 2006 . IPC documents about 2010 World Championships bid applications: call for bid applications and host expression of interest . First entry form of Jordan Open.
14 September 2006	1^st entry form of Czech Open 2007.
12 September 2006	It is with great sadness that IPTTC has learned the sudden death of Egyptian player Ashraf Eltabakh, he was A/M-E champion and selected for the World Championships. We present our condolences to his family and friends.
9 September 2006	1^st entry form of 9^th Trofeo del Mediterraneo 2007.
6 September 2006	Thanks to Ivo Drinovec for a picture of Andreas Nau . Thanks to Yekta Candas for a picture of Engin Avci . Added TOC 2007 to calendar. As it is now open to classes 1 to 5, I suppose that TOC now means "Tournament Of Cologne" rather than "Tetra Open of Cologne" TD report of 2^nd German Open in Wuppertal. Thanks to Petra Skafar for a picture of Nico Blok .
1 September 2006	Updated calendar with documents for 1^st Open Hit Kranjska Gora.
29 August 2006	Montreux World Championships: due to illness, Dollmann (AUT) will not be present during the WC. He will be replaced by Kramminger (AUT) - special alternate for Austria and alternate in best position. Updated selections in men class 3: singles and teams .
26 August 2006	Fixed link to bad document for Montreux World Championships schedule . Inverted dates in calendar between African Championships and Hong Kong Open.
25 August 2006	Montreux World Championships schedule : time table update and draws schedule. Added Hong Kong Open to calendar.
23 August 2006	Added random player section.
19 August 2006	Montreux World Championships: due to the withdrawal from Patrick HOEGSTEDT (illness) - SWE - M5 and to internal problems in FRA NPC, see modifications in singles M5 - M8 and in teams M8 .
15 August 2006	Invitation to 9^th Trofeo del Mediterraneo 2007. Montreux World Championships schedule .
1 August 2006	World Championships 2006 - Final selections with some changes due to withdrawals.
30 July 2006	Important note: After an appeal from the Americas Paralympic Committee and submission of further evidence by the organising committee for the 2005 IPC Table Tennis Americas Championships, the IPC with the support of IPC Table Tennis has agreed not to implement the penalty to reduce the ranking factor of the competition from 50 to 30. This decision has been taken in the best interests of the athletes and sport. However, the IPTTC would like to re-emphasise its commitment to the World Anti-Doping Code. All organisers will be reminded of this commitment and of the need to implement it in the best interests of the athletes and sport. The correct July 2006 ranking list has the date of July, 30^th at the bottom of every pages.
24 July 2006	Added Irish Open to calendar.
21 July 2006	Added Romanian Open to calendar.
15 July 2006	The modification of ASP championships at 100% was not working. It's fixed now, the correct July 2006 ranking list has the date of July, 15^th at the bottom of every pages.
14 July 2006	Important note: As in 2002 for Taipei world championships, IPTTC SAEC has decided to keep all ranking points of regional championships at 100% (except for Americas region who remains under IPC sanction).
10 July 2006	Note: July ranking list will not be corrected later than July, 15^th. After this date all corrections will be postponed to next update in October. Added entry forms of Copa Tango IV to calendar.
4 July 2006	Important note: Ranking factor of Parapanamerican Table Tennis Championships has been reduced from 50 to 30 as a penalty for invalid doping control as decided by IPTTC SAEC in item 13.9 g of the minutes of the meeting held in Bonn in January 2006. July ranking list has been updated accordingly, it should have been done in April 2006.
3 July 2006	Thanks to Joachim Voigt for a picture of Jóhann Kristjánsson.
1 July 2006	July 2006 ranking list is available. Added a lot of new 2007 tournaments to calendar.
30 June 2006	IPC has published the qualification guide for all sports in Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games and in particular the Table Tennis Qualification System .
29 June 2006	Thanks to Graham Bool for a picture of Farrel Anthony .
28 June 2006	New address of IPTTC chairperson Christian Lillieroos. Thanks to Joachim Voigt for pictures of Andreas Vevera, Hai Cohen and Thorsten Grünkemeyer . Added a picture for Kwong Foi Oh.
24 June 2006	TD report of Polish Open 2006.
23 June 2006	List of players of German Open.
21 June 2006	Added ranking points, ratings and results of Polish Open 2006 .
13 June 2006	TD report of Tetra Open of Cologne.
12 June 2006	Added ranking points, ratings and results of Slovakia Open of Piestany .
10 June 2006	TD report of 3^rd Open Terme Lasko. Added ranking points, ratings and results of Tetra Open of Cologne .
8 June 2006	Added general information and 1^st entry form of U.S. Paralympics Table Tennis Championships to calendar.
7 June 2006	TD report of Slovakia Open.
28 May 2006	New pictures for Lynne Riding and Iranildo Espindola Players list of Polish Open.
20 May 2006	Added ranking points, ratings and results of 3^rd Open Terme Lasko .
19 May 2006	Few words about Mike LoRusso who passed away recently.
14 May 2006	TD report of Commonwealth Games 2006. Added pictures of following players: Marco Pizzurro , Jorge Cardona, Berthold Scheuvens and Andre Weidemann.
6 May 2006	Updated calendar with official documents for Montreux WC 2006 sent to all NPC's.
3 May 2006	Added templates for entry forms in organizers section. Added FESPIC Games to calendar. Final selection for 2006 World Championships of Montreux in singles and team event and the "Board of Protest" report .
25 April 2006	List of players of Open Terme Lasko and Slovak Open.
23 April 2006	Article about a Danish development project in Ghana and related pictures: 1 , 2, 3 , 4. TD report of 1^st Panazol Tetra tournament.
20 April 2006	Added ranking points , ratings and results of 1^st Panazol Tetra tournament .
18 April 2006	Added ranking points, ratings and results of Serbia Open . Added second entry form and program to Lignano in calendar.
12 April 2006	Added ranking points, ratings and results of Hungarian Open .
10 April 2006	Added ranking points, ratings and results of City of Liverpool Open .
6 April 2006	Portuguese translation of Montreux 2006 general information .
3 April 2006	Modification of selections for Montreux 2006 in women's singles class 3 and women's teams class 1-3. See details.
30 March 2006	April 2006 ranking list is available.
29 March 2006	Added pictures of following players: Mauro Rossi , Ashraf Abdelsalam Al Tabach , Ariel López, Barabas Balazs and Andreas Vevera . Added ranking points, ratings and results of Commonwealth Games .
28 March 2006	Added ranking points, ratings and results of Irish Open .
27 March 2006	Players list for Serbian Open.
26 March 2006	Added US Open 2006 and EC 2007 contact data to calendar. Added 2005 best player awards to players' profile pages.
22 March 2006	Added US Open 2006 and EC 2007 contact data to calendar.
14 March 2006	Due to the rejection of ONO Hatsuo, player from JPN, see correction on the selections in men class 6.
10 March 2006	Added selection documents for Montreux 2006 World Championships to communication section.
8 March 2006	Added Tango Cup IV to calendar.
4 March 2006	Web site of Tetra Open of Cologne. List of players for Commonwealth Games and Irish Open.
2 March 2006	Added 2007 regional championships to calendar.
1 March 2006	A note from Selection Officer Nico Verspeelt: all informations about the Wild Cards and Team Target Player allocations for World Championships 2006 will be published on the IPTTC web site and sent to all concerned NPCs on March 15, 2006. Not any comment can be given before this date ! Added general information and entry form by number for Montreux 2006 to calendar. List of players of Liverpool Open.
24 February 2006	Added web site of Panazol Tetra Open.
23 February 2006	Added 2^nd entry form of Panazol Tetra Open.
16 February 2006	Addresses page updated with new address for Canada.
15 February 2006	Addresses page updated with new email address for Belgium and new tel/fax number for Russia. Updated list of certified classifiers in organizers section. Minutes of the SAEC meeting in Bonn in 21-22 January 2006.
14 February 2006	Added Rudi Hajek's web site to his profile page.
12 February 2006	Added Commonwealth Games Women's Wheelchair Championships to calendar . Thanks to Domingo Arguello for a picture of himself. Thanks to Carsten Mortensen for a picture of Lars Juul Hansen .
8 February 2006	TD report of Africa/Middle-East Championships 2005 (Cairo).
6 February 2006	Added 2^nd entry form of Lasko.
3 February 2006	Note on classification changes and WC selections .
1 February 2006	Added classification seminar form for Slovak Open to calendar.
27 January 2006	Emmen tournament is cancelled by organizers.
23 January 2006	Thanks to Kurt Keil for a new picture of Jochen Wollmert .
19 January 2006	Added documents for XIX T.T. International Master Italian´s Open 2006 to calendar.
18 January 2006	Added documents for Polish Open to calendar.
17 January 2006	Corrections in team selections for WC 2006.
16 January 2006	Communication section updated with documents of Montreux 2006 World Championships.
11 January 2006	Added a picture of Delano Lai Fatt to members page.
10 January 2006	Added documents for Slovak Open to calendar
9 January 2006	The 5^th edition of the IPTTC rulebook is available. Official January 2006 ranking list updated because Alvaro Valera was re-classified from 8 to 7 in Agrigento in December 2005, see comments. Added 1^st entry form for Panazol to calendar.
8 January 2006	Official January 2006 ranking list, see comments .
7 January 2006	Calendar updated with documents for 3^rd Open Terme Lasko and 2^nd German Open. Results of postal vote held during November 2005 - January 2006.
6 January 2006	Thanks to Barry Butler for pictures of following Canadian players: Ian Kent , John Macpherson, Martin Pelletier, Masoud Mojtahed and Gerald Brule.