(by Steve Hopkins) Europe’s top teams battled this week in Cluj, Romania. The German team featured Patrick Franziska, Benedikt Duda, and Dang Qiu – that is, two of their top players elected to sit out this Championships after taking some time off after the Olympics and even without Timo Boll and Dimitrij Ovtcharov, the German […]
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Euro Teams: Final Four
Posted on(by Steve Hopkins) Europe’s top teams are battling this week in Romania. The top seeds have been impressive with Germany and Sweden looking strong in the Men’s event and Germany and Romania leading the way in the Women’s event. The biggest surprise thus far was a win by Russia over Austria, sending Russia into the […]
ITTF Rankings Update: Fan and Ma Long Secure at Top
Posted on(by Steve Hopkins) No surprises at the top of the ITTF Rankings as the recent China National Games Champion Fan Zhendong stayed No. 1 while Olympic Champion Ma Long maintained the second spot. The two are separated by under 300 points with 12,494 and 12,212 points respectively. The third and fourth spots are also unchanged […]
Fakel Gazprom’s Big 3: Calderano, Lin Yun-Ju, Ovtcharov
Posted on(by Steve Hopkins) Dimitrij Ovtcharov has been the dominant player on the Russian team Fakel Gazprom Orenburg. Gazprom has been one of the best teams in Europe for years, not just winning the Russian League but also finishing in the top four in the European Champions League (and winning their sixth league title in 2019). […]
Coaching Tip of the Week – Forehand Push for Playing Choppers
Posted on(By Larry Hodges) On the forehand side, when someone pushes long, it’s almost always a good idea to loop. Because of this, many players are not comfortable forehand pushing except against a short ball. Against a deep ball, they almost always loop, and that’s usually a good thing. The problem is when they play a […]
China National Games: Fan Wins, Liu’s Upsets Headline
Posted on(by Steve Hopkins) While much of the world is focused on the WTT Contender event with some of the world’s best competing in Doha, the China National Games is running in Shaanxi with the top three players in the world competing. Despite having so many big names, it was a virtual unknown who was the […]
WTT Star Contender Doha: Hugo Tops Field
Posted on(by Steve Hopkins) The World Table Tennis series is active again with a WTT Star Contender event in Doha this week. The top two seeds in Men’s Singles were Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Hugo Calderano – and other seeded players included USA’s Kanak Jha, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Darko Jorgic, Woojin Jang, Sangsu Lee, Kristian Karlsson, Liam Pitchford, […]
China National Games: Liu Who?
Posted on(by Steve Hopkins) While much of the world is focused on the WTT Contender event with some of the world’s best competing in Doha, the China National Games is running in Shaanxi with the top three players in the world competing. In China, Fan Zhendong has advanced to the Singles Semifinal as expected – logging […]
WTT Star Contender Doha: Final Four is Set
Posted on(by Steve Hopkins) The World Table Tennis series is active again with a WTT Star Contender event in Doha this week. The top two seeds in Men’s Singles were Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Hugo Calderano – and other seeded players included USA’s Kanak Jha, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Darko Jorgic, Woojin Jang, Sangsu Lee, Kristian Karlsson, Liam Pitchford, […]
Coaching Tip of the Week – A Good Warm-up
Posted on(By Larry Hodges) A warm-up is different than practice. Practice is to improve, maintain, or fine-tune a technique. Few players improve unless they do lots of this. However, the focus of this tip is on warming up. Warm-up is to groove your shots before playing matches. (You also warm up before a practice session, but […]
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