On January 6th, Beijing time, the WTT Star Challenge Doha station opened, with no Chinese team players participating in the first day's qualifying matches, leaving the national table tennis team without any matches on the first day. What netizens and fans are most concerned about is still the self-examination of ITTF and WTT as well as the financial report of WTT. This article introduces the former chairman Thomas Weikert, current chairman Petra Sorling, ITTF Chief Executive Officer Steve Danton, and the current power structure of ITTF to interpret the power structure of the upper management of the International Table Tennis Federation. Firstly, it should be noted that almost all international organizations in the world are currently controlled by Europeans and Americans. As an international sports organization, the International Table Tennis Federation can be likened to "occupying a mountain as a king" in an inappropriate metaphor. Theoretically, the International Olympic Committee is the superior organization of the International Table Tennis Federation, but the IOC cannot carry out substantive supervision over the International Table Tennis Federation. Legally speaking, the Court of Arbitration for Sport is an institution that constrains almost all international sports organizations, but that is only symbolic. From the perspective of financial situation and organizational management, the International Table Tennis Federation has high autonomy. Who can become the president of the International Table Tennis Federation? There have been eight presidents of the International Table Tennis Federation so far, only Ichiyo Oikawa and Xu Yisheng were former world-class players, and Sharara had worked as a coach for the Canadian team early…

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