Table Tennis has been in the Olympics since 1988 with equal men’s and women’s events throughout its history. In Rio it’ll be contested in the Riocentro, an exhibition center from the 70’s in the Barra zone. The US qualified their two men and two women through regional competitions while the teams qualified as the highest ranked country in North America.

The Team:

This year’s team is made up of six athletes, three men and three women. Two of the athletes are returning Olympic veterans from London. The team is fairly young with 28-year-old Jiaqi Zheng the oldest and 16-year-old Kanak Jha the youngest.

Links are to twitter accounts for the athletes.

USA Table Tennis
Men:
Kanak Jha – Singles and team
Timothy Wang* – Team
Feng Yijun – Singles and team

Women:
Jennifer Wu – Singles and team
Lily Zhang* – Singles and team
Jiaqi Zheng – Team
* – Was on team in 2012 – London

Format:

Singles events are best-of-seven with the first to 11 winning while team events are best-of-five matchups with each matchup a best-of-five as well. If all four matchups are held it would be four singles matches and a doubles match.

Schedule:

All Times ET
Saturday, August 6th
9:30 AM – Men’s Singles – Preliminary Round – Kanak Jha vs. Nima Alamian
10:15 AM – Women’s Singles – 1st Round – Lily Zhang vs. Gremlis Arvelo
11 AM – Women’s Singles – 1st Round – Jennifer Wu vs. Eva Odorova
3 PM – Men’s Singles – 1st Round
3:45 PM – Men’s Singles – 1st Round – Yijun Feng vs. Zhiwen He

Sunday, August 7th
8 AM – Women’s Singles – 2nd Round
9 AM – Men’s Singles – 2nd Round
5 PM – Women’s Singles – 3rd Round
7 PM – Men’s Singles – 3rd Round

Monday, August 8th
9 AM – Women’s Singles – 3rd Round
11 AM – Men’s Singles – 3rd Round
3 PM – Women’s Singles – 4th Round
4 PM – Men’s Singles – 4th Round

Tuesday, August 9th
9 AM – Women’s Singles – Quarterfinals
3 PM – Men’s Singles – Quarterfinals

Wednesday, August 10th
9 AM – Women’s Singles – Semifinals
7:30 PM – Women’s Singles – Final

Thursday, August 11th
9 AM – Men’s Singles – Semifinals
7:30 PM – Men’s Singles – Final

Friday, August 12th
2 PM – Women’s Team – 1st Round – USA vs. Germany
6:30 PM – Men’s Team – 1st Round – USA vs. Sweden

Saturday, August 13th
9 AM – Women’s Team – Quarterfinals

Sunday, August 14th
9 AM – Men’s Team – Quarterfinals
6:30 PM – Women’s Team – Semifinals

Monday, August 15th
9 AM – Women’s Team – Semifinals
2 PM – Men’s Team – Semifinals

Tuesday, August 16th
10 AM – Women’s Team – Finals

Wednesday, August 17th
10 AM – Men’s Team – Finals

Past Results:

The US has never won a medal in table tennis.