Table tennis at the 2017 SEA Games – Women's team explained

Event:	Table tennis – Women's team
Games:	2017
Venue:	MiTEC Hall 7
Dates:	24–26 August 2017
Competitors:	33
Nations:	7
Prev:	2015
Next:	2021

See main article: article and Table tennis at the 2017 SEA Games. The women's team competition of the table tennis event at the 2017 SEA Games will be held from 24 to 26 August at the MiTEC Hall 7 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^{[1] [2]}

Format^[3]

Team Events

(i) Team events shall be played based on the best-of-five games (four Singles and one doubles) with the following order of play:

	Team ABC		Team XYZ
Singles	Athlete A		Athlete X
	Athlete B		Athlete Y
Doubles	Athlete C + A or B	vs	Athlete Z + X or Y
Singles	Athlete A or B (non-playing Doubles)		Athlete Z
	Athlete C		Athlete X or Y (non-playing Doubles)

(ii) The competition shall be conducted in two stages: Stage 1 Group Single Round Robin and Stage 2 Elimination competition comprising Semi-finals and Finals.

(iii) In Stage 1, teams shall be divided into two groups, Groups A and B. Teams in each Group shall play each other in a single round robin competition within each Group. Each match in a game shall be decided by a best-of-five sets format. Each team shall be awarded the following points:

• Two points for a win.
• One point for a loss.

(iv) The top two ranked teams from each Group shall advance to the Stage 2 cross-over Semi-finals Elimination competition as follows:

• The top ranked team in Group A shall play against the second ranked team from Group B in Semi-finals 1.
• The top ranked team in Group B shall play against the second ranked team from Group A in Semi-finals 2.
• The winners of the Semi-finals 1 and 2 will qualify to play in the Finals for the gold medal.
• There will be no playoff match for 3rd and 4th positions. Both losing Semi-Finalists will receive a joint bronze medal.

Schedule^[4]

All times are Malaysian Time .

Date	Time	Round
Thursday, 24 August 2017	11:00	Preliminaries
Friday, 25 August 2017	9:00
Saturday, 26 August 2017	10:00	Semifinals
	15:00	Finals

Results

Preliminary round

Group A^[5]

width=220	Team	width=25		width=25		width=25		width=25		width=25		width=25		width=25		width=25		width=25
	2	2	0	6	0	18	2	214:123	4
	2	1	1	3	5	10	16	232:276	3
	2	0	2	2	6	9	19	246:293	2

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Group Y^[6]

width=220	Team	width=25		width=25		width=25		width=25		width=25		width=25		width=25		width=25		width=25
	3	3	0	9	0	27	2	324:192	6
	3	2	1	6	4	20	13	340:272	5
	3	1	2	4	6	15	22	318:346	4
	3	0	3	0	9	3	18	143:315	3

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Knockout round^[7]

Semifinals

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Gold medal match

Notes and References

1. Web site: Table tennis at the 29th Southeast Asian Games 2017 . kualalumpur2017.com.my. 9 August 2022 .
2. Web site: SEA Games: Singapore women's team retain table tennis gold after beating Thailand 3-0 . 3 June 2022 . straitstimes.com.
3. Web site: Technical Handbook – Competition Procedures, Rules and Regulations . 3 June 2022 . ttam.com.my.
4. Web site: Women's Teams Qualifying Group Stage 1 & 2 . 3 June 2022 . ttam.com.my.
5. Web site: Women's Teams Qualifying Group X . 3 June 2022 . ttam.com.my.
6. Web site: Women's Teams Qualifying Group B . 3 June 2022 . ttam.com.my.
7. Web site: Women's Team - Stage 2 . 3 June 2022 . ttam.com.my.