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A brainchild from ITTF President, professional table tennis will take the form of entertainment that can be of a more light hearted variety; one that is quite simply fun but of a nature that no-one want to miss.

Scheduled for Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th March 2010, the Volkswagen Cup, to be staged in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, will include this very special event. It is called "Spectacular Pairs", where five pairs, four male and one female will be invited to participate. Each pair will have two three minute sessions, a total of six minutes, to produce the most exciting table tennis possible.
Players will be judged on three criteria - elements of consistency, degree of difficulty and spectacular nature of the rally.

It is proposed to appoint three judges with a possible celebrity assessing “spectacular”, a coach advising on “difficulty” and a table tennis umpire officiating for “consistency”.

Each pair will perform twice, the points will be totalled and if pairs are tied then there will be a play off. The relevant pairs will each perform for a further two minutes and judged.

The winning pair will receive US$10,000, the runners up US$5,000 in addition to a US$5,000 appearance fee.

(Note : Sourced from ITTF News)