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Timo Boll Advice - Backhand TopSpin

The September issue of Butterfly-World's Newsletter first deals with the approaching European Championships in Ostrava. In the Czech Republic the German Butterfly Team with the second of the world ranking list, Timo Boll, has a good chance to win the title. Perhaps the competition will bring us another Butterfly duel between Timo and Michael Maze.

In “Table Tennis Basics,” the former German national coach Richard Prause will tell us how the planning of training looks like at top level. Jun Mizutani, number 9 of the current world ranking list, explains further varieties of a game opening: a spin topspin with following topspin varieties. Plus, an interview with the 16 year old Swede Hampus Soederlund. The Butterfly player has got great plans following his second place at the European Cadet Championships last year.

Courtesy of ITTF

After the semi-finals of the Boys’ Team event at the Volkswagen World Junior Championships in the northern Colombian city of Cartagena de Indias in December 2009, Georg Imhof was full of smiles, even though he had to watch the last throes of the contest from the sidelines.

He had incurred the wrath of the... Read More

Click here to view 2011 Pan Am Coaches Selection Procedure - Pending final approval by the USOC Board of Directors.

Featured YouTube Video:
Timo Boll Advice - Forehand TopSpin

Table Tennis: STEPS TO SUCCESS
by Richard McAfee

COUNTERSPIN STROKE
Executing a topspin stroke against your opponent’s topspin return is referred to as counterspinning. As you develop as a player, this stroke will take on more importance. At the professional level, this is the dominant stroke of the game.

The counterspin is a unique stroke in that it can be played both close to the table and away from the table to produce a wide range of returns with varying amounts of topspin and... Read More

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Quarter-finalist in the H.I.S. World Championships in Yokohama in 2009 and bronze medalist in Moscow one year later at the Liebherr World Team Championships; Japan’s Kasumi Ishikawa is the white hot favorite to win the Junior Girls’ Singles event at the Funchal Junior Open.

Predictably she made an impressive start to her program of matches in Madeira on Wednesday... Read More

Featured Video: ITTF World of Table Tennis - Episode 8. In this episode ITTF brings you all the action from China versus the World, and an interview with China´s Ma Long. Plus the ITTF Egypt Open from Cairo and Morocco Open from Rabat.

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There are no doubt many reasons why table tennis in China is so strong.

One of them is surely the fact that the norm is intense competition.

Consider the national teams which China can field, no-one is there by divine right, no-one is so far ahead of the field that they cannot be challenged. Read More

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2010 U.S. Open Table Tennis Championships
North American Championships (NAC)
International Veterans Championships (IVC)
Referee’s Report
Wendell Dillon, IR

1. The 2010 US Open was held at the De Vos Place Convention Center, Grand Rapids, MI, from June 29 – July 3, 2010. The official hotel was Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, a block from the venue. Most participants used a pleasant outdoor route. The venue was... Read More