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Pan America, Continents Unite

Pan America, Continents Unite for Major Tournaments Courtesy of ITTF Every four years the Pan American Games is staged; the various competitions are fought fiercely, the table tennis events are no exception; now following an agreement between the Latin American Table Tennis Union and the North American Table Tennis Union, the concept of the two […]

Fun for All at Arnold Table Tennis Challenge

Fun for All at the Upcoming 2016 Butterfly Arnold Table Tennis Challenge It’s fun for all at the 2016 Butterfly Arnold Table Tennis Challenge table tennis tournament. The three-day, 4-star USATT sanctioned tournament, features 36 events at different levels of play. Events include Open Singles, rated events, aged events, and recreational events such as Family […]

Shen Yanfei, Women’s Europe Top 16 Champion

Congratulations Shen Yanfei, Women’s Europe Top 16 Champion! First Appearance in Final, Shen Yanfei Secures Title in Style Courtesy of ITTF Winner on three occasions on the ITTF World Tour succeeding in Korea in 2010 and then two years later in both Japan and Germany; Spain’s Shen Yanfei won the Women’s event at the 2015 […]

Adriana Diaz & Brian Afanador Royal Subjects

Utuado Celebrates, Adriana Diaz and Brian Afanador Royal Subjects Courtesy of ITTF February 5, 2016 – The host nation celebrated on the evening of Friday February 5th at the 2016 ITTF-Latin American Championships in the Coliseo Municipal Pedrín Zorrilla in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Brian Afanador brought the day to a close by beating Paraguay’s […]

Meet Six U.S. Athletes Who Won Olympic Trials

Meet The Six U.S. Athletes Who Won Olympic Trials For Table Tennis Courtesy of USA Table Tennis The past and the future of table tennis in the United States was on full display at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Table Tennis this week in Greensboro, North Carolina, where a mixture of teenagers and experienced […]

USA Olympic Trials Format, Draw & Results

2016 USA Table Tennis Olympic Trials Format, Draw and Results Courtesy of USA Table Tennis Congratulations 2016 USA Olympic Table Tennis Trials Winners! Kanak Jha Crystal Wang Sharon Alguetti Lily Zhang Timothy Wang Wang Chen Men’s Trials 3; Women’s Trials 3; Men’s Trials 2; Men’s Qualifier 2; Women’s Trials 2; Men’s Trials 1; Men’s Qualifier 1; Women’s Trials 1; Women’s Competition: […]

MDTTC February 2016 Newsletter

MDTTC February 2016 Newsletter Maryland Table Tennis Center has released their February 2016 Newsletter. This month’s newsletter includes information on the Capital Area Team League, upcoming Butterfly MDTTC tournaments, on-going group classes and more. Visit MDTTC.com to learn more about this club located in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Tiago Apolonia Flies Flag for Portugal

Tiago Apolonia Flies Flag for Portugal, Defeats for Marcos Freitas and João Monteiro 2016 Europe Top 16: February 5th – 7th in Gondomar, Portugal Courtesy of ITTF Defeats for Marcos Freitas and João Monteiro; it was Tiago Apolonia who flew the flag for the host nation in the opening series of encounters in the Men’s event at […]

Experience Pays Off At Olympic Trials

Experience Pays Off At Olympic Table Tennis Trials Olympians Come Up Big With First-Day Wins At Table Tennis Olympic Trials Courtesy of USA Table Tennis / By Josh Walfish GREENSBORO, N.C. – Two Olympians took another step Thursday to returning to the Olympic Games as part of Team USA. 2008 Olympic quarterfinalist Chen Wang and 2012 Olympic […]

Delight and Despair, Finalists Decided

Extreme Emotions Delight and Despair, Finalists Decided Courtesy of ITTF Two days earlier it had been despair for Brian Afanador, losing the vital contest to Rodrigo Tapia, as the hosts experienced an agonizing Men’s Team quarter-final defeat at the 2016 ITTF-Latin American Championships in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They suffered at the hands of Ecuador; […]

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