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See how many you can spot . Here are the ones I saw:

Players not allowed to touch table
Umpire wipes fluids off table with a tissue
Towels not allowed to be used on table
Player is allowed to towel while umpire is wiping off table
Umpire uses glove to touch the ball
Umpire needs gloves to re-assemble barriers
No changing ends
Bat handle not allowed to touch table (when laying bat on table - might only apply to choppers though)
Shake bats instead of hands
Bow at umpires

What probably happens afterwards, off camera:

Ball gets disinfected
Players' hands (in particular the ball projecting hand) get disinfected
Players get disinfected
Umpires get disinfected
Table, floor, net, umpire stations etc. get disinfected
Towels get disinfected
Bats get disinfected

Wonder what effect sanitizer has on Tenergy..


Iskandar

Doubles and mixed doubles excluded from all ITTF events to come this year.

LIQUID sanitaizer is mostly a potable ethylalcohol, no fear at all.

Wow!!!

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I must say... that match was a real humdinger. Went right to the wire, too. Miuchi is every bit as spectacular as Joo, and Harimoto is.. Harimoto.

Iskandar

Another match.



In this case, I haven't seen any "tissue breaks" yet. And they DID switch sides for the second game. The first few minutes of the video are horrible, they switch to a better camera later. There seem to be numerous versions of this match on YouTube, they all seem to be feeding off the same footage. If you're looking for "COVID rules" you'd obviously want the unedited footage.

Iskandar

This one's in Germany. Either people there don't sweat, or they don't care too much about it - no tissue breaks, nor do you see the players doing anything about it. I saw Shang Kun touch the table one time (to dry his hand, near the net) but that was it. Boll had his usual headband and wristband. Note that they had a bunch of balls in use - maybe one ball per point. Balls collected on the floor near the barriers, someone would collect them in a net (no touching) in between games - they are then brought to the umpire's station and put on a tray (no one touches them except the players I guess). The umpire throws the balls to the players (I can't tell if he's got gloves on, or whether they disinfected the balls in between games, or if they're constantly using new balls - the umpire is reaching below the table to get them). Boll and Shang Kun never switch sides (ARAG is always on Boll's right side on the floor, Bosco is always on his left, so I know they're not changing cameras - what ARE ARAG and Bosco, other than being obvious sponsors??). At the very end of the video you see the umpire moving a bunch of balls (there are a lot of them) into a large plastic container, and they're being carted off, probably for disinfection. He's definitely wearing gloves at this point.

Iskandar