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Steven Moreno Champion of 2022 WTT Youth Contender Ecuador

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(By: Bowmar Sports Team) Steven Moreno, achieves the Category-13 Championship in the WTT Youth Contender Cuenca in Ecuador.  Meanwhile, Enrique Ríos was runner-up in U-13. En route to the title, in the round robbin group stage, he also finished undefeated by disposing of his opponents, Gianluca Dongo of Peru, Carlos Sobarzo of Ecuador and Martin […]

TTA BUTTERFLY OCTOBER BAY AREA OPEN 22 & 23, 2022

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(By: Bowmar Sports Team) EQUIPMENT BALLS: Butterfly R40+ 3-Star Ball, White TABLES: Butterfly Centrrefold 25 NETS: Butterfly Europa Net FLOORING: Rubberized floor on all courts Player rackets are subject to random testing for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) Clothing must be mainly non-white ELIGIBILITY USATT membership is required and must be valid through the date of […]

My Experience At The U13 US Team Trials By Kef Noorani

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(By: Kef Noorani) At the June 2022 US National Team Trials in Texas, my goal was to make the top four for U13 as it would allow me to represent USA at the Pan Am Championship. I was quite nervous because I was only fourth-seeded and at eleven years old, younger and physically smaller than […]

Coaching Tips of the Week: The Simplicity of Tactics

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(By Larry Hodges) When you lose a match against someone around your playing level, you didn’t lose because your opponent calculated a series of seven shots of varying types, speeds, spins, depths, and placements, all presumably worked out on a blackboard in advance with lots of X’s and O’s, like they do in football. Nope, […]

WAB Club Feature: Bridgeport Sports Club

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(by Steve Hopkins) At over 14,000 square feet, the Bridgeport Sports Club one of the largest table tennis clubs in all of North America.  The club is located in Richmond, just South of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada.  They are located near Highway 99 and 9, with easy access to the greater Vancouver area. The […]

TTBL: Franziska and Saarbrucken Rebound

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(by Steve Hopkins, photo ITTF World) The Tischtennis Bundesliga – Germany’s professional league – has just begun its new season.  A year ago, Borussia Dusseldorf and FC Saarbrucken were entrenched for 2/3 of the season as No. 1 and No.2 and the two teams played the last match in the mid-season final, in the European […]

WTT Feeder Bulgaria: China Rolls with Numbers

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(by Steve Hopkins, photo ITTF World) The World Table Tennis event this week was the WTT Feeder Panagyurishte (Presented by Asarel) in Bulgaria.  Often in these WTT events, only a few players attend from each country – and most often the local country has the most players.  China seldom has more than 4 or 5 […]

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