(by Steve Hopkins) North Texas Table Tennis is a premier table tennis club operating three locations in Plano, Texas.  The club promotes excellence and sportsmanship in a safe and friendly environment. NTTTC also provides a wonderful facility for private and corporate functions and regularly hosts community-based tournaments, leagues, birthday parties, corporate events and charity events. […]

(by Steve Hopkins) Butterfly America would like to announce the signing of elite American table tennis star, Amy Wang.  The Olympian won a pair of US National titles and a pair of US Open titles and has been a fixture on the US National Team.  In 2022, she won her first WTT series event, the […]

(by Steve Hopkins) The first WTT Champions series event of the year ended in a flurry Sunday in Doha, with four of the final six matches going to the lower rated player.  In Men’s Singles, the two upsets were both in the Semifinals.  World No. 2 Lin Shidong lost to Jan Woojin 4-2.  Woojin had […]

(by Steve Hopkins) The first WTT Champions series event of 2026 is down to its final day in Doha, with four men and four women left to battle on the final day.  The big upset on the first day was Dimitrij Ovtcharov over Hugo Calderano, but Lin Yun-Ju stepped into that void to defeat Ovtcharov […]

(by Steve Hopkins) The first WTT Champions series event of 2026 is underway in Doha, with first round matches concluding today.  The biggest upset thus far is Dimitrij Ovtcharov (World No. 29) toppling World No. 3 Hugo Calderano 3-2.  Ovtcharov was dialed in early, playing carefully to open with precise placement and control helping him […]

(by Steve Hopkins, photo WTT) Wang Chuqin began 2025 as the top ranked player, about 2500 points ahead of second place Lin Shidong.  At the start of 2026, those two players will be in the same position (with about the same point spread between them).  The next five players are the same as well, though […]

(by Steve Hopkins) The TTBL German Cup (Pokal Final) is a mid-year tournament that starts with 12 teams and ends with a single-day “final four” event where the Semifinals and Finals are played on the same day.  This year, the final four teams were FC Saarbrucken TT, TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen, TTC RhonSprudel Fulda-Maberzell, and TTC […]