(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, […]

(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 […]

(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 […]

(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 […]

(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 […]

(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 […]

(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 […]

(by Steve Hopkins, photo WTT) 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.  World No. 1 Wang Chuqin had a strong showing against Alexis Lebrun, winning 4-1 to be the first to reach the Semifinals.  Truls Moregard came […]

(by Steve Hopkins, photo ITTFWorld) The top players in the world converged on Hong Kong this week for the WTT Finals.  The 16 players in the draw mirrors the World Top 16 except that Darko Jorgic was unable to attend (replaced by World No. 17 Simon Gauzy).  World No. 1 Wang Chuqin trailed 0-2 in […]