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WAB CLUB FEATURE: New York Indoor Sports Club

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(by Steve Hopkins) With their large facility that features 17 tables, a pro shop, high ceilings, great lighting, and professional flooring, the New York Indoor Sports Club is an idea location for table tennis.  The NYISC has monthly 2-star sanctioned tournaments.  The facility also includes a 5,000 indoor soccer training space – providing a combined 15,000 […]

The Final ITTF Rankings of 2025

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(by Steve Hopkins) China’s Wang Chuqin and Lin Shidong will finish 2025 at the top of the World Rankings.  There’s no surprise that the two most accomplished players of 2025 finish in these two top slots, or that both are Chinese.  The bigger surprise for China may be that only three Chinese players are in […]

Marty Supreme: Chalamet Stars in Table Tennis Movie

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(by Steve Hopkins) The movie review site RottenTomatoes.com describes the recently released “Marty Supreme” as the story of Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, who goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.  Mauser is loosely based on American Great Marty Reisman, an accomplished table tennis star player, self-promoter, […]

2025 US Open: By The Numbers

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(by Steve Hopkins) The 2025 US Open Table Tennis Championships included nearly thirteen hundred players taking part in 115 events with the US Open Title Events (Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles), age events from from U11 up to 85 and Over, rating events (both Adult and Junior versions from U1000 […]

WAB CLUB FEATURE: Naples Pong

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(by Steve Hopkins) Naples Pong is located in Naples, Florida, South of Fort Myers along the West Coast of Southern Florida.  Naples Pong is owned by Flint Lane, who also owns Princeton Pong, a full time club in Princeton NJ, which has become one of the best known  table tennis clubs in the USA. In […]

Saarbrucken, Dusseldorf, Bremen at Top of German League

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(by Steve Hopkins) SV Werder Bremen remains one of the surprises of the German League.  They are currently in first place (though they are in action this evening and need a win to stay solely in first).  Mattias Falck, Kirill Gerassimenko, Marcelo Aguirre, and Irvin Bertrand are all having consistently good seasons – giving them […]

Minseo Oh and Yan Guo Claim US Open Titles

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(by Steve Hopkins) This year’s US Open Table Tennis Singles Champions are Minseo Oh and Yan Guo. Korean Minseo Oh didn’t drop a game until the Round of 16 where he topped Canadian Edward Ly 3-1.  Oh then defeated Nandan Naresh 4-1, and Seungjun Lee 4-3 in a tight Semifinal.  The other Men’s Semifinal was […]

2025 U.S. Open Championships Enters Final Weekend

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(by Steve Hopkins) This year’s rendition of the US Open Table Tennis Championships included nearly thirteen hundred players taking part in 115 events with the truly open title events at the top (Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles), age events from from U11 up to 85 and Over, rating events (both […]

WAB CLUB FEATURE: My Table Tennis Club Markham

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(by Steve Hopkins) If you are looking for a quality table tennis environment in the Toronto area, My Table Tennis Club (MyTTC) has you covered.  They have campus locations in is Markham (just North of the City), in Mississauga (to the Southwest), and in Kitchener (a Suburb to the West).  The Markham headquarters is 9,000 […]

Harimoto Wins WTT Finals

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(by Steve Hopkins) The top players in the world converged on Hong Kong this week with four emerging to play on the final day of the WTT Finals.  By that point, Wang Chuqin, Lin Shidong, Tomokazu Harimoto, and Truls Moregard had emerged to reach the Semifinals and it looked as though the surprises of the […]

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