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Ma Long’s Luneng Team Wins China Super League

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(by Steve Hopkins) Ma Long won both of his singles matches on Tuesday as Shandong Luneng defeated Shandong Weiqiao 3-1 the Super League Finals.  The other Shandong victory was the doubles win by Fang Bo and Wang Chuqin. Like many other accolades, Ma Long is setting records – he has now won five China Super […]

Kurimay Video – My Stories of Mental Toughness

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(by Steve Hopkins) A few weeks ago, PINGPOD held a launch party celebration at their facility in Manhattan.  The event was to help promote Dora Kurimay’s new table tennis book and video series, My Stories of Mental Toughness On and Off the Table. Max Kogler (co-founder of PINGPOD) was the moderator.  The whole event was […]

WAB Club Feature: PingPod

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(by Steve Hopkins) PingPod was born as a pop up on Canal St. When the team saw the joy that a ping pong table in a garage brought to so many people, they knew they needed to find a way to make table tennis more accessible to many more people in NYC and beyond. Doors […]

BUTTERFLY FAVORITE: Timo Boll’s Champions League Bubble Part 2

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(by Steve Hopkins) This is a Video Blog post by Timo Boll on his YouTube Channel that was posted last week.  It is titled, ” Championsleague Bubble Part 2 – From zero to hero” Timo Boll’s behind the scenes view of the bubble and his team’s preparation as Borussia Dusseldorf defeated Saarbrucken in the tournament […]

THE YEAR IN REVIEW: All the Pong News that’s Fit to rePrint

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(by Steve Hopkins) In January, we reported that Fan Zhendong won the Marvellous 2020.  In February Xu Xin topped the German Open, Timo Boll won the Euro Top 16, and Harimoto won the Hungarian Open. In March, the US Olympic Trials resulted in Zhou and Kumar joining Jha on the Men’s Team, and Liu and […]

Diaz, Zhang Debut with New Team in China

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(by Steve Hopkins) The Chinese Super League has a new team, the ITTF World Professionals, which includes USA’s Lily Zhang, Puerto Rico’s Adriana Diaz, Jeon Jihee, Doo Hoi Kem, and Cheng I-Ching.  They are three matches into a condensed bubble season (to run from December 21 through December 29) and are currently 2-1 after their […]

Boll and Kallberg Leads Borussia Dusseldorf to Champions League Title

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(by Steve Hopkins, photo by ETTU) Borussia Düsseldorf won the Table Tennis Champions League (TTCL) Final last week.  The TTCL is an international competition of European teams.  This year, they played the Final in a bubble with the Final Four teams invited.  Borussia Düsseldorf and FC Saarbrücken (both German teams) faced off against Fakel Gazprom […]

PongNow: Truong Tu

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(by Steve Hopkins) The PongNow Interview Series talking table tennis with some of the best players and personalities in the sport. The guest this week is Truong Tu, a former top Vietnamese junior who immigrated to the US 20 years ago.  He is now coach at Silicon Valley Table Tennis Club in San Jose California, […]

Dignics 64 and Dignics 80: A Non-Pro Review

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(by Steve Hopkins, review was originally published 11/2019) I recently had opportunity to try Dignics 64 and Dignics 80.  I have now had the rubber on my paddle for three weeks and I’m ready to share my observations. I have been playing with Dignics 05 since early April, so this wasn’t my first experience with the […]

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