(by Steve Hopkins) Central Ohio is home to Spin & Smash.  Its a table tennis club that is part ping pong social club and part table tennis training center. The club is located on the West side of Columbus just off of I-270, the Jack Nicklaus Freeway.  The club features eleven Butterfly tables and there are […]

(by Steve Hopkins) This video is of the 2019 All-Japan Championship.  It was a dominant performance by Jun Mizutani.  This was not the first time that he raised his game in front of the home fans as this marked his 13th year in the event, never finishing lower than the semifinals.  After the 2019 win, […]

  ENTER YOUR PHOTO FOR OUR FACEBOOK CONTEST AND TRY TO WIN AN AUTOGRAPHED BLADE! The Photo with the Most LIKES Wins.  The Prize? A Butterfly Harimoto Innerforce ALC Autographed Blade! HOW TO ENTER Take photo of your Butterfly racket or rackets (with or without rubber) OUTDOORS. (Please don’t submit photo of the racket indoors) Send photos to […]

(By Steve Hopkins) The Folsom Table Tennis Club has two locations in Folsom, California to the Northeast of Sacramento.  The Folsom Sports Complex location has ten tables and there are twelve more at the Rusch Park Gym location in Citrus Heights. Between the two locations, the Folsom Table Tennis Club serves about a hundred players each […]

(by Steve Hopkins) The 10th and final men’s Masters event concluded over the weekend.  The winner, Germany’s Dan Qiu, his second series title. This week, the four seeded players were Franziska, Duda, Assar, and Qiu.  Unlike many of the past events, play did not proceed as expected.  The top three seeds were all eliminated in […]

(by Steve Hopkins) USA Table Tennis conducted its fourth Challenge Series event on Thursday.   This week, “America’s First Virtual Table Tennis Challenge” matched Jennifer Wu (2473) for Team Nittaku against Tahl Leibovitz  (2457) for Team Butterfly.  Table tennis is one of the few sports where men and women compete against each other in major tournaments […]

Hikosuke Tamasu was born exactly one hundred years ago on August 20, 1920, in Yanai, Japan, as the eldest son of the Tamasu family. Hikosuke began to devote himself to table tennis, a sport for which there were few competitors at the time. Later, as he further honed his skills, he won prizes in all […]