Content 1: The basic time-schedule has been determined recently at the World Championships-Preparing Meeting. The World Championship will start on Saturday (July, 31) at 11.00 am with the Opening ceremony. The Men-Singles and Women-Singles World Championships will start at the same day at 2.00 pm. The finals Men-Singles and Women-Singles are to be played at the night session of Sunday (August, 1) from 7 to 9 pm. The Team World Championship will take place at Thursday (August, 5) and Friday (August, 6). The Closing ceremony is going to be held on Friday (August, 6) from 7 to 9 pm.

Content 2: Exhibiton competitions (Women Doubles, Men-Doubles, Mixed, Men-Doubles Free Style, Women-Doubles Free-Style) will be held at Sunday (August, 1), Monday (August 2), Tuesday (August, 3) and Thursday Morning (August, 5). All exhibition competitions will be played in Round-Robin System. The exhibtion matches are no official World Championships but have the character of an inofficial World Championships (Men-Doubles, Women Doubles and Mixed) or an International German Masters (Men-Doubles Free-Style, Women-Doubles Free-Style). All exhibiton matches are played according to WTF Rules except the matches at the Men-Doubles Free-Style and Women-Doubles Free-Style, where players are not obliged to play alternating.

Content 3: Wednesday (August, 4) will be a leisure day and provides the chance to partitipate at a sightseeing programm around the wonderful area of Koblenz. This area is famous for wine, hilly vineyards, impressive castles and the famous Rhine and Mosel river.
Players night is held on Tuesday night (August, 3).

Content 4: The German Tenniquoits Devision and the Secretary General of the WTF will invite up to five additional German doubles for each discipline of the exhibition competitions by Wild Card. This action should strengthen a positive attitude of German clubs and players in order to support the World Championships in Germany with their helping hands to make this event unforgettable for all participants.

Content 5: The complete official invitation with all necessary addresses, accomodation times and entry lists will be submitted to you in January 2010 at the latest.

Content 6: Don’t forget to prepare necessary documents for your trip to Germany right in time. Those who need visas, should apply for it right in time.

Only 270 days left till we meet in Germany….

Kind regards,

Reinhard Plog
Secretary General
World Tenniquoits Federation