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Puerto Rico Open Teams: 888 is the Winning Combination

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(by Steve Hopkins) Action started on Friday in San Juan at the 2024 Butterfly Puerto Rico Open Teams with nearly 100 teams, but by this morning the Pro Division was down to the top 8 teams.  Team 888 TTC topped Mile High TT Academy 3-0.  Sweden Team and Universal battled to the last match as Sweden […]

WAB CLUB FEATURE: Crush Table Tennis

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(by Steve Hopkins) CRUSH Table Tennis is in Greenwich, Connecticut.  They are located in a 6,000 square foot facility in downtown Greenwich.  The club is easily accessible by public transportation.  The club offers a great environment for recreational and competitive play.  Visit the two floor table tennis space seven days a week for fun, for […]

Puerto Rico Open Teams into the Final Four

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(by Steve Hopkins) Action started on Friday in San Juan at the 2024 Butterfly Puerto Rico Open Teams.  This morning, the top 8 teams faced off in the Quarterfinals.  Team 888 TTC topped Mile High TT Academy 3-0.  Yubeen Han defeated Chance Friend, Nandan Naresh defeated Vinay Chandra, and Tyrese Knight defeated Pablo Figueroa as […]

Kanak Wins in Dusseldorf

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(by Steve Hopkins) Kanak Jha has won the WTT Feeder Series event in Dusseldorf .  Jha continues to log matches in his comeback as he eyes a May event that provides one of the few remaining opportunities to qualify for the Olympics. Without a current World Ranking, Jha entered unseeded, but defeated Rassenfosse, Sareen, Shinozuka, […]

The Field is Set for the Puerto Rico Open Teams

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(by Steve Hopkins) Action starts tomorrow in San Juan at the 2024 Butterfly Puerto Rico Open Teams.  The champions will take home $7,000 and the runner-ups will receive $3,000.  There are over 300 athletes vying for those prizes – with players from Puerto Rico, the US, France, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, and Sweden. Among […]

Chuqin and Zhendong Lead Men’s Rankings

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(by Steve Hopkins) Wang Chuqin has built a commanding lead in the latest rankings with 7600 points.  Fan Zhendong trails about 1700 behind at 5963.  Liang Jingkun is third with 4850 and Ma Long is in fourth with 3885. The top non-Chinese player is Felix Lebrun at No. 5.  Lin Yun-Ju, Hugo Calderano, Lin Gaoyuan, […]

WAB CLUB FEATURE: Central Florida Table Tennis Club

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(by Steve Hopkins) With its location near the junction of 423 and 441 just a few miles Northwest of the city center, the Central Florida Table Tennis Club is easily accessible to the greater Orlando area.  The club’s facility is 27,000 square feet with 18 ITTF approved tables, Olympic standard vinyl flooring, 30-foot ceiling, air-conditioning, […]

Saarbrucken Repeats Atop Champions League

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(by Steve Hopkins, photo ETTU) For the second year in a row, the top seed in the European Champions League was perennial powerhouse Borussia Dusseldorf and they deep team with Dang Qiu, Timo Boll, and Anton Kallberg.  And for the second year in a row, much of the hype in the Final Four went to […]

Pan Am Masters Games – See You in Cleveland this July

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(by Steve Hopkins) The 2024 Pan Am Masters Games will be hosted in Cleveland this year, and Butterfly will be there.  Butterfly and Bowmar Sports will be the sponsors for this huge, Olympic-style event that will include twelve age categories (starting at age 30 and increasing up to 80+) across a range of singles, doubles, […]

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