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Catch the World’s Best Teams in Kuala Lumpur, Start Now

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Catch the World’s Best Teams in Kuala Lumpur, Start Now Perfect 2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships Courtesy of ITTF The Swaythling Cup and the Corbillon Cup; they are the trophies at stake at the forthcoming Perfect 2016 World Team Championships to be staged Kuala Lumpur from Sunday February 28th to Sunday March 6th. Still […]

Rio 2016 Paralympic Games Qualification Guide

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Rio 2016 Paralympic Games Qualification Guide USA Table Tennis has made available the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games Qualification Guide by the International Paralympic Committee. “This Guide describes in detail how athletes and teams can qualify for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in each of the 22 sports on the Games program. It provides to the […]

Receiving Hidden Serves

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Receiving Hidden Serves by Han Xiao Today’s topic comes courtesy of Larry Hodges, who is a coach at the Maryland Table Tennis Center. Larry has been talking to me a great deal lately about the huge problem of many high level players serving almost exclusively illegally in competition without umpires willing to fault them on […]

2015 European Championships: Dreams Comes True Elizabeta Samara Gives Coach Perfect Birthday Present

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2015 European Championships: Dreams Comes True Elizabeta Samara Gives Coach Perfect Birthday Present Courtesy of ITTF Crowned European Youth champion in Bratislava in 2007, Romania’s Elizabeta Samara completed her graduation in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg on Sunday October 4th. She won the Women’s Singles title at the Liebherr 2015 ITTF-European Championships. The no.3 seed, […]

2015 European Championships: Title Retained, Dimitrij Ovtcharov Wins in Ekaterinburg

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2015 European Championships: Title Retained, Dimitrij Ovtcharov Wins in Ekaterinburg Courtesy of ITTF The winner two years ago in Schwechat, Austria; Germany’s Dimitrij Ovtcharov retained his Men’s Singles title at the Liebherr 2015 ITTF-European Championships in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg on the evening of Sunday October 4th. Occupying the top seeded position, at the […]

Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin Maturing, Capture Men’s Doubles Title

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Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin Maturing, Capture Men’s Doubles Title 2015 ITTF Asian Championships Courtesy of ITTF Gold in every event to date at the Suzuki 2015 ITTF-Asian Championships in Pattaya, Thailand, the success continued on the evening of Friday October 2nd. Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin beat Korea’s Jung Youngsik and Lee Sangsu to […]

Final Ends in Great Concern, Chen Meng Rushed to Hospital

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Final Ends in Great Concern, Chen Meng Rushed to Hospital 2015 ITTF Asian Championships Courtesy of ITTF Concern not celebration concluded the penultimate day of play, Friday October 2nd, at the Suzuki 2015 ITTF-Asian Championships in Pattaya, Thailand; the name of the champion is that of China’s Zhu Yuling but there were no celebrations from […]

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