This study investigated the relationship of players' pre-event state anxiety and flow experience as well as the difference between pre-event state anxiety and flow experience by applying pre-event self-evaluation. The subjects of this study included 80 male and 52 female (average age=13.56±1.11) table tennis players who participated in 2004 Mandarin Daily News Cup. The results indicated that first, the pre-event self-evaluation showed that there were significant differences among confidence, somatic anxiety and the sense for transformation of time. Second, the somatic anxiety correlated negatively with the autotelic experience. However, confidence correlated positively with feedback, the autotelic experience, the loss of self-consciousness, and the flow experience. Third, according to canonical correlation, high confidence demonstrated a positive relationship with high concentration feedback and the moderate autotelic experience of flow experience. However, as players' somatic anxiety increased, they perceived lower flow experience in feedback and the autotelic experience.