This article details the qualifying phase for table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics (postponed to 2021[1] due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
The competition at these Games will comprise a total of 172 table tennis players coming from their respective NOCs; each may enter up to six athletes, two male and two female athletes in singles events, up to one men's and one women's team in team events, and up to one pair in mixed doubles.
[2][3] As the host nation, Japan automatically qualified six athletes, a team of three men and women with one each competing in the singles as well as a mixed doubles team.
22 quota places will be awarded through continental championships to individuals who belong to an NOC without a qualified team.
The remainder of the total 172 quota places will be filled through a final world singles qualifying tournament (no less than two and no more than eight qualifiers) and then the ITTF world ranking.