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World Team Championships: Chinese Teams Pushed in Saturday Matches

(by Steve Hopkins, photo WTT) The Chinese men reached the Final today, and with their team comprised of World No. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 there is very little surprise to report in that half of the draw.  Perhaps, the biggest news from the top half of the draw was, in fact, that China […]

The Laziness of Simple Serves

(by Larry Hodges) When coaching or rooting for a player, why does is sometimes seem like every opponent has nasty serves that your player struggles to return, while your player just serves to keep the ball in play? It’s even worse if you are the player with simple serves, while the opponent is throwing all […]

WAB CLUB FEATURE: Boston Table Tennis Club

(by Steve Hopkins) The Boston Table Tennis Club is in Medford, just North of Cambridge and Somerville and only four miles from  Boston’s city center.  The club is just off I-93 (Northern Expressway), and near the Orange and Blue Lines, providing easy access to the greater Boston metropolitan area. The BTTC is a 3000 square foot […]

World Team Championships: USA Men Top England

(by Steve Hopkins, photo USATT) Nikhil Kumar logged wins over England’s top two players (Liam Pitchford and Paul Drinkhall), and Jishan Liang added a win over Drinkhall to give TeamUSA their first win at the ITTF World Team Championships in Busan.   Kumar (World No. 379) took out World No. 25) Pitchford 3-1 to give the […]

World Team Championships: Early Action in Busan

(by Steve Hopkins) Action is underway at the ITTF World Team Championships in Busan.  In the Men’s Teams, top group seeds are all still undefeated: China (3-0), Germany (2-0), Korea (2-0), France (2-0), Japan (2-0), Sweden (2-0), Slovenia (2-0), and Portugal (2-0).  TeamUSA has played only one match (falling to Germany), though they are scheduled […]

Learn From Your Easy Wins and Bad Losses

(by Larry Hodges) Players often learn from close matches, knowing that with just a little more, a close loss becomes a win, and a close win becomes a somewhat easier win. And this is good. However, many players don’t learn from blowout matches – but they should. You can learn from either end of a […]

Getting Schools Involved: RI Table Tennis’ School Invitationals

(by Steve Hopkins) Rhode Island Table Tennis is running three school-focused events this Winter.  The organization sent out invitations to schools and school systems in our area, and tapped youth players that have participated in clinics and other club events over the last year.  In February, they scheduled two “Invitationals” bringing schools together from Rhode […]

World Team Championships Preview

(by Steve Hopkins) TeamUSA is seeded third in Group 2 when action starts later this week at the ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals in Busan, Korea.  At the top of USA’s group is Germany (second overall seed) and then England before USA, Kazakhstan and Saudi Arabia.  TeamUSA will feature Jishan Liang, Sid Naresh, […]

WAB CLUB FEATURE: Bob Chen Table Tennis

(by Steve Hopkins) Bob Chen Table Tennis was founded in 2017 by Bob Chen.  The goal of the center is to popularize the sport of table tennis by building a diverse table tennis community and helping to improve all players’ table tennis skills.  Bob Chen Table Tennis offers group and private lessons. With its location […]

Types of Topspin Contact

(by Larry Hodges) These five tips won’t generally help you win, at least not directly. They won’t score points for you. But they will make certain non-playing aspects more efficient and more fun – and indirectly, may subconsciously intimidate an opponent when faced with these displays of “professionalism”! Picking up ball with feet. If the […]

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