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Coaching Tip of the Week: On Short Serves to the Forehand, Challenge the Forehand, Often Go to the Backhand
(By Larry Hodges) Assuming two right-handers play, a common rally might start with a short serve to the forehand. Many receivers don’t understand the tactics in receiving this shot. The two main things to think about are this: First, if the receiver goes crosscourt, he has the long diagonal to go after (10.3 feet, instead […]
WAB CLUB FEATURED: Folsom Table Tennis Club
(By Steve Hopkins) The Folsom Table Tennis Club has two locations in Folsom, California to the Northeast of Sacramento. The Folsom Sports Complex location has ten tables and there are twelve more at the Rusch Park Gym location in Citrus Heights. Between the two locations, the Folsom Table Tennis Club serves about a hundred players each […]
The Final Dusseldorf Series Event: Qiu Wins Today and Takes the Series Title
(by Steve Hopkins) The 10th and final men’s Masters event concluded over the weekend. The winner, Germany’s Dan Qiu, his second series title. This week, the four seeded players were Franziska, Duda, Assar, and Qiu. Unlike many of the past events, play did not proceed as expected. The top three seeds were all eliminated in […]
PongNow: Tim Wang
(by Steve Hopkins) The PongNow interview series discusses table tennis with some of the best players and personalities in the sport. This edition features Tim Wang, 3-time U.S. National Champion and 2-time U.S. Olympian. Tim shares stories of his early years, his first National Championship, his Olympic run, and a trip to China. __________________________ […]
China “2020 Olympic Warm-Up” Finals
(by Steve Hopkins) As much of the table tennis world is beginning to emerge from their various lock-down circumstances, we are beginning to see club and regional events as well as some larger challenge events. The U.S. has been running Thursday night live, carefully playing one challenge match a week to help build enthusiasm here. […]
USATT’s Thursday Night Live Series: Jennifer Wu puts Nittaku on the Board
(by Steve Hopkins) USA Table Tennis conducted its fourth Challenge Series event on Thursday. This week, “America’s First Virtual Table Tennis Challenge” matched Jennifer Wu (2473) for Team Nittaku against Tahl Leibovitz (2457) for Team Butterfly. Table tennis is one of the few sports where men and women compete against each other in major tournaments […]
100th Anniversary of the Birth of Hikosuke Tamasu – The founder of Butterfly
Hikosuke Tamasu was born exactly one hundred years ago on August 20, 1920, in Yanai, Japan, as the eldest son of the Tamasu family. Hikosuke began to devote himself to table tennis, a sport for which there were few competitors at the time. Later, as he further honed his skills, he won prizes in all […]
Dusseldorf Masters X Video Highlights: Featuring Duda and Assar
(by Steve Hopkins) After the Dusseldorf Masters X event concluded last weekend, Benedikt Duda was the last man standing. It was his second win, the only repeat winner except for Dima Ovtcharov. The highlights video below was posted by BorussiaDuesseldorf (the host of the event). This includes some of the best points across the whole […]
Practice to Master One Skill
(By Truong Tu) People watch video of high level matches with many amazing rallies and think that they have to practice fancy drill combinations. We need to admit that unless we have already reached the National or International level, our rallies usually end within 5 shots or less. Therefore, mastery of the basic skills and […]
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Forehand topspin and Backhand topspin against heavy backspin and no spin): Robot plays heavy long backspin to Forehand,… Read More
Coaching Yourself, Part 2 of 5: In Practice
December 8, 2025
(By Larry Hodges, Member of US Table Tennis Hall of Fame, www.tabletenniscoaching.com/blog) Before any practice session, you… Read More
Anav Gupta – Backhand Looping from Topspin
December 8, 2025
(by: Bowmar Sports) In this Butterfly Training Tips, Anav Gupta is demonstrating the Backhand Loop from Topspin https://youtu.be/nPA5AayWjgo… Read More
WAB CLUB FEATURE: MK Georgia Table Tennis
December 7, 2025
(by Steve Hopkins) MK Georgia Table Tennis is a fully air-conditioned facility that features 8 professional tables, professional quality… Read More
Mixed Team World Cup: China Tops Japan in Chengdu
December 7, 2025
(by Steve Hopkins, photo ITTF) Tomokazu Harimoto won the first game against Lin Shidong, but with Japan already… Read More
Anagha Kasichainula – Forehand Looping the Flip
December 7, 2025
(by: Bowmar Sports) In this Butterfly Training Tips, Anagha Kasichainula is working on Forehand Looping the Flip from… Read More
China, Japan, Germany, and Korea Republic Battle at Mixed Team World Cup
December 6, 2025
(by Steve Hopkins, photo ITTF) The ITTF Mixed Team World Cup Chengdu 2025 has delivered a new twist… Read More
Kou Lei – Chop Sequence Training
December 6, 2025
(by: Bowmar Sports) In this Butterfly Training Tips, Kou Lei is working with a student on chopping sequencing… Read More
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