Table Tennis "T Premier League" to open in October! Participating men and women each 4 teams & logo released 【press conference Vol.1】
2018年10月に開幕する卓球のプロリーグ「Tプレミアリーグ（以下、Tリーグ）」が2月7日に記者会見を行い、参加する男女各4チームとロゴマークを発表した。ゲストには、1月に行われた卓球全日本選手権の女子ダブルスで優勝した早田ひな選手と、昨年のアジア卓球選手権にて男子シングルス3位の丹羽孝希選手が登場。Tリーグ開幕へ向けた思いや期待を語るとともに、2020年東京五輪に対する意気込みも口にした。
Principal Sato
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2018/02/08
Until now, Ai Fukuhara at the girls, Hidena Mizutani at the boys, Japan table tennis circle that has been driven by players now called veterans.
In recent years, Tomokazu Tsumamoto familiar with "Chorei!" Who screams after scoring a score, Miki Ito who achieved three crowns at the table tennis all-time championships, defeated the kingdom / Chinese forces last year at the Asian table tennis championship The young generation, such as Mike Hirano who got to the Asian champion, has intensified competition remarkably.
T-League, which table tennis fans are hoping for great expectation, is starting to finally start as the competition's popularity as a result of the success of these competitors year after year.
2017年9月から参加チームの募集を開始したTリーグは、初年度に参加する男女それぞれ4チーム、合計8チームを集めることに成功し、この日、記者会見が開かれた。
First of all, Mr. Keisuke Fujio, Chairman of the Table Tennis Association of Japan and Mr. Keisuke Fujiga who is the Chairman of the T-League Board of Directors, attended. He raised three ideals of the T League ahead of the opening schedule in October.
T-League philosophy is as follows.
◆T League Philosophy
① Realize the world's No. 1 table tennis league
· Realization of league enjoying the world's highest level of play
· Realization of a system to nurture top athletes active in the world
· Anyone in any area can "participate" "involved" Realization of the world's most open community-based league system
② Increase sports business value of table tennis
· Increase value through "Experiencing table tennis with excitement," "Science of table tennis" and "Globalizing table tennis"
· Expand table tennis fans and table tennis related business by increasing value
· Increase value, increase competitiveness and appeal of table tennis
③ Enriching life through table tennis
· Table tennis players and staff (directors, coaches, referees, etc.) will be able to enjoy life together with table tennis for their entire life
· Increase the number of people who want to try "I want to do", "I want to go to see", "I want to engage", "I want to talk" by making table tennis familiar sports
· Contributing to the revitalization of the area and extension of the health life span of the citizen by spread of table tennis
Though the T-League cited the three principles above, Mr. Fujishige was preaching the importance of "players and fans are united" throughout.
For example, visualize table tennis matches at high speed with ultra slow motion and deliver pictures through the venue, television, or the net. By doing so, you can enjoy the feeling that fans are doing the competition together with the players. It is an idea to build a watching style unique to such T League.
Also announced the future plan of the T-League as a whole. Ultimately, as shown in the above figure, we plan to make 5 leagues, but at the time of the opening in October it is only the top "T Premier League".
As a step to realize this concept, "T1, T2 League" was established in 2021. And in 2025 I will start all the leagues under "T3" and complete the pyramid shape.
Photo: T League / Afro Sports
And also announced the logo mark embodying the idea of the T League. It symbolizes table tennis with a blade of a racket, motif as a handle, expresses the strength of weapons (tools). In addition, I expressed the color in gold with the intention to aim for the world's No. 1 league.
This mark will be familiar to players and fans as a symbol of the T League, will be proud, will release the glow.
Next, Mr. Koji Matsushita who is Managing Director of the T League entered and explained the outline of the league.
The league summary is as follows.
◆ T League Overview
· The total number of teams is 4 boys and 4 girls, 8 teams in total
· At least 6 players each team
· The team must belong to one or more athletes within the top 10 world rankings (during the past 2 years)
· There are no restrictions on the number of registered foreign national players
· One or more Japanese players must participate in the game
· The season of the first year of the T-League will be from October 2018 until February 2019
· The regular season is a round-robin 7th round, playing 21 games per team
· In March, playoffs by the top two men's teams will be played and the winning team will be decided
· The regular season adopts the home & away method (※ In the first year, games are planned to be held outside the team's home so that a wide range of people can watch T-league matches)
Mr. Matsushita outlines the league and says, "I expect the world's top players to show a great match at the venue where T-League matches will be held, For those of you, I'd like to visit the site and watch it and have fun. "
And they announced 4 teams of men and women participating in the T - League 2018 - 2019 season.
The participating teams are as follows.
◆ Participating team · boys
· Kinoshita Group (Tokyo)
· Team Okayama (Okayama Prefecture)
· Team Saitama (Saitama)
· Ryukyu AS Tida (Okinawa Prefecture)
◆ Participating team · Girls
· Kinoshita Group (Kanagawa)
· Top Nagoya (Nagoya City, Aichi)
· Nippon Life Insurance (Osaka)
· Nippon Paint Holdings (Osaka-shi, Osaka-shi)
After the T - League interview, Takanori Niwa (left) and Hina Hayada (right) appeared as guests.
Niwa players said "Looking back on the 2017 season, when I got a good record at the international convention, the world ranking ranked sixth and I was able to update my self-record a lot," he told the T League " I am looking forward to being able to compete with the world's top players because I have not had opportunity so far, "he said.
Following that, Hayao enthusiastically said, "I would like to watch a lot of people watching the T-League, and I would like to convey the fun of table tennis throughout the game."
Finally, when asked about the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020, both players staged a strong goal "I want to participate in the T League and put my strength and I want to take a gold medal with individuals and organizations at the Tokyo Olympics."
It will come October 2018. In the stage called the T - League, the leading players in Japan and the world 's best - known players crash. How will the Japanese table tennis world change and what kind of excitement will it start with the beginning of a new history? For the opening ceremony, the expectation of the new league is only growing.
<記者会見Vol.2はこちら>
▼ General Foundation T-League
http://tleague.jp/index2.html
In recent years, Tomokazu Tsumamoto familiar with "Chorei!" Who screams after scoring a score, Miki Ito who achieved three crowns at the table tennis all-time championships, defeated the kingdom / Chinese forces last year at the Asian table tennis championship The young generation, such as Mike Hirano who got to the Asian champion, has intensified competition remarkably.
T-League, which table tennis fans are hoping for great expectation, is starting to finally start as the competition's popularity as a result of the success of these competitors year after year.
2017年9月から参加チームの募集を開始したTリーグは、初年度に参加する男女それぞれ4チーム、合計8チームを集めることに成功し、この日、記者会見が開かれた。
First of all, Mr. Keisuke Fujio, Chairman of the Table Tennis Association of Japan and Mr. Keisuke Fujiga who is the Chairman of the T-League Board of Directors, attended. He raised three ideals of the T League ahead of the opening schedule in October.
T-League philosophy is as follows.
◆T League Philosophy
① Realize the world's No. 1 table tennis league
· Realization of league enjoying the world's highest level of play
· Realization of a system to nurture top athletes active in the world
· Anyone in any area can "participate" "involved" Realization of the world's most open community-based league system
② Increase sports business value of table tennis
· Increase value through "Experiencing table tennis with excitement," "Science of table tennis" and "Globalizing table tennis"
· Expand table tennis fans and table tennis related business by increasing value
· Increase value, increase competitiveness and appeal of table tennis
③ Enriching life through table tennis
· Table tennis players and staff (directors, coaches, referees, etc.) will be able to enjoy life together with table tennis for their entire life
· Increase the number of people who want to try "I want to do", "I want to go to see", "I want to engage", "I want to talk" by making table tennis familiar sports
· Contributing to the revitalization of the area and extension of the health life span of the citizen by spread of table tennis
Though the T-League cited the three principles above, Mr. Fujishige was preaching the importance of "players and fans are united" throughout.
For example, visualize table tennis matches at high speed with ultra slow motion and deliver pictures through the venue, television, or the net. By doing so, you can enjoy the feeling that fans are doing the competition together with the players. It is an idea to build a watching style unique to such T League.
Also announced the future plan of the T-League as a whole. Ultimately, as shown in the above figure, we plan to make 5 leagues, but at the time of the opening in October it is only the top "T Premier League".
As a step to realize this concept, "T1, T2 League" was established in 2021. And in 2025 I will start all the leagues under "T3" and complete the pyramid shape.
Photo: T League / Afro Sports
And also announced the logo mark embodying the idea of the T League. It symbolizes table tennis with a blade of a racket, motif as a handle, expresses the strength of weapons (tools). In addition, I expressed the color in gold with the intention to aim for the world's No. 1 league.
This mark will be familiar to players and fans as a symbol of the T League, will be proud, will release the glow.
Next, Mr. Koji Matsushita who is Managing Director of the T League entered and explained the outline of the league.
The league summary is as follows.
◆ T League Overview
· The total number of teams is 4 boys and 4 girls, 8 teams in total
· At least 6 players each team
· The team must belong to one or more athletes within the top 10 world rankings (during the past 2 years)
· There are no restrictions on the number of registered foreign national players
· One or more Japanese players must participate in the game
· The season of the first year of the T-League will be from October 2018 until February 2019
· The regular season is a round-robin 7th round, playing 21 games per team
· In March, playoffs by the top two men's teams will be played and the winning team will be decided
· The regular season adopts the home & away method (※ In the first year, games are planned to be held outside the team's home so that a wide range of people can watch T-league matches)
Mr. Matsushita outlines the league and says, "I expect the world's top players to show a great match at the venue where T-League matches will be held, For those of you, I'd like to visit the site and watch it and have fun. "
The participating teams are as follows.
◆ Participating team · boys
· Kinoshita Group (Tokyo)
· Team Okayama (Okayama Prefecture)
· Team Saitama (Saitama)
· Ryukyu AS Tida (Okinawa Prefecture)
◆ Participating team · Girls
· Kinoshita Group (Kanagawa)
· Top Nagoya (Nagoya City, Aichi)
· Nippon Life Insurance (Osaka)
· Nippon Paint Holdings (Osaka-shi, Osaka-shi)
After the T - League interview, Takanori Niwa (left) and Hina Hayada (right) appeared as guests.
Niwa players said "Looking back on the 2017 season, when I got a good record at the international convention, the world ranking ranked sixth and I was able to update my self-record a lot," he told the T League " I am looking forward to being able to compete with the world's top players because I have not had opportunity so far, "he said.
Following that, Hayao enthusiastically said, "I would like to watch a lot of people watching the T-League, and I would like to convey the fun of table tennis throughout the game."
Finally, when asked about the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020, both players staged a strong goal "I want to participate in the T League and put my strength and I want to take a gold medal with individuals and organizations at the Tokyo Olympics."
It will come October 2018. In the stage called the T - League, the leading players in Japan and the world 's best - known players crash. How will the Japanese table tennis world change and what kind of excitement will it start with the beginning of a new history? For the opening ceremony, the expectation of the new league is only growing.
<記者会見Vol.2はこちら>
▼ General Foundation T-League
http://tleague.jp/index2.html
