In addition to processing tournaments, TTCAN maintains a national rating and ranking system.
The Canadian Table Tennis Association was formed in 1929, with Québec as the founding provincial member and Ontario joining 5 years later.
The CTTA operates a computerized rating system that allows any competitive player to be ranked, both provincially and nationally Canada's table-tennis stars of the 1930s were Paul Chapdelaine and J.J. Desjardins of Montréal.
In the 1970s, Violette Nesukaitis, of Toronto, emerged as a strong international player.
2 world class players, Geng Lijuan and Wenguan Johnny Huang, dominated Canadian table tennis.