USA Table Tennis has confirmed the dates and opened registration for its 2026 flagship: the US Open Table Tennis Championships, December 16-21 at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. The 118-event card again positions the tournament as North America's largest single-week table tennis gathering, with an unusually broad slice of competition formats sitting under one roof.
USATT described the event as "the nation's largest annual table tennis tournament," with registration handled through the OmniPong platform that has run the federation's online entries for two seasons running.
The scoring of the entry window is staged to push players to commit early. - Early Bird closes July 15, 2026. - Regular entries are accepted from July 16 through November 15. - A late "last call" window runs from November 16 to December 1. - No entries are accepted after December 1.
Mandalay Bay returns as host for a third consecutive year, with the directly connected Luxor Hotel & Casino again confirmed as the secondary official accommodation block. The two hotels share the convention floor entrances and a covered walkway, which has been a practical favourite of competing families and clubs in past years.
The 118 championship events span what USATT bills as the full North American range. Singles and doubles. Men's and women's. Open and rating-restricted. Junior and senior. Para and able-bodied. The tournament historically draws three core constituencies: serious senior players chasing US Open titles, the rapidly growing rated-event chase for amateurs targeting their year-end rankings, and international players using the Las Vegas trip as an open-entry, easy-format competitive event before the European and Asian winter season.
USATT also confirmed that the convention floor will again include a vendor expo and demonstration courts. Spectator passes will be made available again in 2026, with live-streamed coverage of featured matches on the federation's YouTube channel as in 2025.
The event sits in a busier calendar than the same date in 2025. December 2026 includes the WTT Star Contender Doha event ten days later and the start of the Singapore Smash qualifying season immediately after the new year. For top US senior players, the Open week is also the formal qualification path for the 2027 US national team selection cycle — the senior selection points window opens with the US Open as its first ranking-eligible national event.
In terms of who plays, the federation expects a similar international turnout to recent years. Past editions have drawn entries from China, Chinese Taipei, India, Japan, Korea, Egypt, Iran, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Germany and France. Many international players come to compete in the open singles and the rated bracket rather than chase the US Open title itself, but the marquee men's and women's brackets traditionally feature visiting world top-50 players willing to slot one final event into the December calendar.
The 2026 edition will also again include the para events, which have been integrated into the main schedule since 2023. The merging has historically been one of USATT's most-praised programming moves and continues to keep the US Open a primary destination for North American para-table tennis competitors.
For players, the practical message from the federation is simple: register early to lock the Early Bird fee. Entry processing has typically closed before the December 1 deadline in past years simply because the event size approaches its physical cap.
The US Open Table Tennis Championships will run December 16-21 at Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Players, families and supporting fans can now book and register through the federation's portal.
