(by Steve Hopkins) Americans dominated at the US Open this year with Jinbao Ma (Sunnyvale, CA) winning the Men’s Singles event and Amy Wang (Turnersville, NJ) winning the Women’s Singles event. Jinbao fought his way through the Men’s draw from the sixth position.  His first two matches were 3-0 wins (over Aditya Godhwani and Lingxiao […]

(by Steve Hopkins) The Song Jeho Table Tennis Club (“SJHTTC”) is centrally located in Los Angeles.  The club is located in Korea Town near the intersection of S Grand View St. and W 11th St. with easy access to the Santa Monica Freeway and the 110. The club’s namesake is “Jay” Song Jeho, a strong player […]

(by Steve Hopkins, photo by WTT) The WTT Finals Women Nagoya concluded today with World No. 1 Sun Yingsha defeating World No. 4 Wang Yidi 4-2 in the Final.  Its sometimes hard to decipher the seeding between the top Chinese women, as China has 6 of the top 7 ranked players in the World.  As […]

(by Steve Hopkins) USA’s Lily Zhang entered the Women’s Singles draw at the WTT Feeder Biella as the third seed.  The top two seeds fell early – with top seed Egypt’s Hana Goda falling to Ukraine’s Margaryta Pesotska in the Round of 32, and Manika Batra of India losing to Katarzyna Wegrzyn of Poland in […]

(by Steve Hopkins) Jonathan Groth, Sora Matsushima, and Chuang Chih-Yuan were the top seeds at the WTT Feeder Biella, but it was the fourth seed, Benedikt Duda, who claimed top honors at the last WTT Series Event of 2023. Top seed Groth fell to France’s Adrien Rassenfosse in the Round of 16.  In the tumultuous […]

(by Steve Hopkins) Earlier this week, we took a few moments to catch up with Jenson Van Emburgh.  If you don’t know, in the world of Paralympic table tennis, Jenson is one of the best known players.  He’s an exceptional American talent consistently winning medals at major events on the international stage. (Q1) Focusing on […]

(by Steve Hopkins) The ITTF Mixed Team World Cup finished today in Chengdu, China.  There is no surprise that China won the event in dominating fashion with 56 games won and 10 games lost.  The scoring in this event is unique, with five matches played in a particular order with each match three games only.  […]

(by Steve Hopkins) The 2023 US Open Table Tennis Championships will begin next weekend in Ontario, California.  This signature American event will include 1012 players taking part in 118 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 […]

(by Steve Hopkins) With three league nights each week, open play, tournaments, camps for kids and adults and coaching opportunities, Washington DC Table Tennis Center something for everyone.  The 5,000 square foot dedicated table tennis facility has 10 professional Butterfly tables and 2 robots on wood flooring.  In addition, there is a lounge with chairs, […]

(by Steve Hopkins, photo USATT) TeamUSA had solid showings in their losses to Romania and France.  Both teams were seeded higher, and the scores were 8-5 (with TeamUSA reaching fifth match).  TeamUSA also topped Australia 8-0, so after the first day, the Americans are 1-2 with Japan left to play. Puerto Rico had a big […]