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Enhance sports development and social service
SET Star Junior Table Tennis
The SET Foundation has teamed up with Table Tennis Association of Thailand to kick off the SET Star Junior
Table Tennis since 2013 by recruiting youngsters with talents in table tennis from the provinces in every
region nationwide and train them for international competitions. In 2014, a total of 2,000 young people
joined the program. The project focuses on four main areas namely:
• Expand the sports’ base by organizing competitions in every region to create the interest in table tennis.
Moreover, the foundation also looks for “White Elephants” or rising star athletes.
• Recruit athletes with talents to be trained under special projects such as overseas training, endorsing
their application for scholarship from International Table Tennis Federation or sending young table tennis
players to table tennis academies abroad, among others
• Organize international competitions to open an opportunity for young Thais to compete with the
international athletes to practice and upgrade their skills
• Send Thai athletes to international competitions so that Thais will make it to the world’s top-ten ranking
in four years
GAC Group 2014 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals
The foundation gave THB 2 million to Table Tennis Association of Thailand to organize GAC Group 2014
ITTF World Tour Grand Finals which is a world-class table tennis competition. Thailand has been selected
by the International Table Tennis Federation to host of the competition.
Sports development
The foundation promotes and encourages young people to play sports to promote healthy body and mind,
while spending their pastime constructively. SET has also nurtured young people with sport aptitude
to excel internationally.