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The decision was announced by ITTF in May 2011, after several sporting events including the 2011 World Figure Skating Championships were shifted from Japan due to the Tōhoku earthquake and the following Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
In women's singles (part of the ITTF World Tour), she beat Zhang Mo to advance to the semifinal, where she lost to world #19 Elizabeta Samara in 5 games.
Alamian made a breakthrough at 2008 ITTF World Junior Championships held in Madrid, Spain by beating junior world no. 1 Kenta Matsudaira; despite being coachless he finished 5th overall.
One invitational place per gender was allocated by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).