(by Steve Hopkins, photo by ITTFWorld) Chen Meng is currently at the top of the ITTF rankings, and it isn’t close. China’s top player has 11850 points and the next closest player, Japan’s Mima Ito, is nearly 1400 points behind. Chen will be the top seed at the Olympics and she’ll be a solid favorite. […]
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A Look at the ITTF Rankings as the Olympics Approach
Posted on(by Steve Hopkins) The ITTF Rankings take on more meaning as we are now 23 away from Preliminary Singles rounds at the Olympics (and one month away from the first Team matches). In the most recent ITTF Weekly Rankings there was some shuffling near the bottom of the Top 10. Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Timo Boll […]
Eleven Years and Counting
Posted on(By Joanna Sung) From the age of six, I spent my days picking up table tennis balls at local clubs, watching the best players compete through a television screen, and playing table tennis with my dad in the basement. Now, I am seventeen. Through eleven years of involvement in the table tennis world, the sport […]
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