Tennis Court Oath Tennis Court Oath On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath (), vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established". It was a pivotal event in the French Revolution. The Estates-General had been called to address the country's fiscal and agricultural crisis, but immediately after convening in May 1789, they had become bogged down in issues of representation—particularly, whether they would vote by head (which would increase the power of the Third Estate,
Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics singles qualifying tournament (no less than two and no more than eight qualifiers) and then the ITTF world ranking. Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will feature 172 table tennis players (equally distributed between men and women) competing in both the singles and team events, as well as a new mixed doubles event. Table tennis had appeared at the Summer Olympics on eight previous occasions beginning with the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. As the host nation, Japan had automatically qualified six athletes; a team of three men and women