Vietnam Journalists Association Cup Table Tennis Championship 2025 - the highlight closing the year of celebrating 100 years of Revolutionary Journalism

On the afternoon of December 9, the Vietnam Journalists Association coordinated with the Hanoi People's Committee to hold a press meeting to announce the 18th Vietnam Journalists Association Cup Table Tennis Championship in 2025.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Loi, Head of the Organizing Committee at the press conference. (Photo: VU PHONG)

From December 19 to 21, at Hanoi Gymnasium (No. 12 Trinh Hoai Duc, Hanoi), the 18th Vietnam Journalists Association Cup Table Tennis Championship 2025 will officially take place. This is an annual sports activity organized by the Vietnam Journalists Association in coordination with the Hanoi People's Committee, gathering nearly 200 athletes who are journalists and members from many press agencies and associations across the country.

This year's tournament has a special significance, being the last major event in a series of activities to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day (June 21). Held in the last month of 2025, a year rich in the imprint of the press, the tournament is an opportunity to affirm the spirit of solidarity, courage and responsibility of the revolutionary press force.

Over the years, the Vietnam Journalists Association Cup Table Tennis Championship has become a sports playground with widespread influence in the press community nationwide. Not only is it an opportunity to practice health, the tournament also acts as a bridge to enhance exchange, understanding and cooperation between press agencies from the central to local levels.

Through each season, the sports movement in general and table tennis in particular in the press community continues to be promoted, contributing to the movement "All people exercise following the example of great Uncle Ho" and arousing the spirit of loving the profession and the awareness of completing political and social tasks well.

The opening ceremony of the 18th Vietnam Journalists Association Cup Table Tennis Championship will be held on the morning of December 19, promising to bring an exciting atmosphere with attractive competitions right from the first matches.

The closing ceremony took place on the afternoon of December 21 with the award ceremony and summary of three days of competition.

Scene of the ceremony. (Photo: VU PHONG)

This year's tournament includes 14 competitions, covering teams, singles and doubles, divided by age group and specific target audience. Specifically: men's team, women's team (regardless of age); men's singles under 45 years old, men's singles 45 years old and older; women's singles under 45 years old, women's singles 45 years old and older; men's doubles, women's doubles (regardless of age); mixed doubles under 45 years old, mixed doubles 45 years old and older; men's doubles with leaders, women's singles with leaders; men's doubles with leaders and women's doubles with leaders.

To ensure fairness, the tournament organizers stipulate that table tennis players at the national level, level I from 2019 and earlier are allowed to participate in team and doubles events but are not allowed to compete in singles. Players at the national level, level I from 2019 and later will not be allowed to participate in the tournament.

The competition format is applied according to national professional standards. In the team event, the teams compete in the Swaythling format of 5 singles matches (A–X, B–Y, C–Z, A–Y, B–X). The singles and doubles events are played in the 5-game best-of-3 format. Depending on the number of athletes registered in each event, the organizing committee will decide on the format of the competition: knockout or round-robin.

Mr. Nguyen Duc Loi - Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Head of the Organizing Committee, said: "This year's Vietnam Journalists Association Table Tennis Championship brings together journalists from many press agencies across the country who have a passion for table tennis. The Vietnam Journalists Association Table Tennis Championship is the largest sports playground for the journalism industry. I hope that the athletes will participate in the tournament with a noble sportsmanship spirit, absolutely complying with the rules and regulations set forth by the organizing committee."

Prizes including Cups, flags, medals and cash prizes will be awarded to the teams, pairs and individuals who win first, second and third place in all competitions.

With the scale, tradition and special significance of the event, the 18th Vietnam Journalists Association Cup Table Tennis Championship in 2025 promises to continue to be an inspiring sports festival for journalists across the country. Not only creating a playground for physical training, the tournament also ignites the spirit of solidarity, spreading the beautiful image of the journalism industry in the year of the century-long anniversary of the formation and development of the Vietnamese Revolutionary Press.

VU DINH PHONG

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