WAB CLUB FEATURE: Calgary United Sports Table Tennis Association

March 11, 2023

by Steve Hopkins) Calgary United Sports Table Tennis Association (CUSTTA) is Alberta’s largest Table Tennis club. It is open every day of the year for all ages and all skill levels. With its location between Memorial Drive and Route the Trans-Canada Highway (1), it is conveniently located for players on the East side of Calgary. […]

Boston Bruins’ 4th Annual Pucks and Paddles Raises $150,000

March 8, 2023

(by Steve Hopkins) The Boston Bruins annual Pucks and Paddles event was held Tuesday at the House of Blues in Boston. The Pucks and Paddles event began with autograph sessions and exhibition matches. The main event was a doubles tournament that matched Bruins team members with fans who had been the highest bidder in an […]

Don’t Practice Missing

March 7, 2023

(by Larry Hodges) Often I see players do drills where they try smacking the ball back and forth as if they were pros. (If you are a pro, then this doesn’t apply to you.) They rally at a pace they can’t control, and so their balls fly all over the court or miss. If they […]

WAB CLUB FEATURE: Central Florida Table Tennis

March 6, 2023

(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, […]

TTBL: Surging Ochsenhausen Takes Second Position

March 6, 2023

(by Steve Hopkins) There’s a lot going on in European Table Tennis at the moment. The Euro Champions League has pressed forward to the Finals and that has forced extra matches (and in some case extra rest) in the TTBL, the Euro 16 singles event pulled many of the top players from the TTBL, and […]

American Juniors Shine at Junior National Team Trials

March 5, 2023

(by Steve Hopkins) Part 1 of the 2023 Junior US National Team Trials took place last week in Charlotte, North Carolina. There were 10 events – U19 Boys & Girls, U17 Boys & Girls, U15 Boys & Girls, U13 Boys & Girls, and U11 Boys & Girls. In Part 1, for most of these events […]

WTT Series: Jingkun tops Shidong in Goa

March 5, 2023

(by Steve Hopkins) In an event full of upsets, it was World No. 7 Liang Jingkun that came out on top. When festivities kicked off at the WTT Contender event in Goa, there were 10 players in the current ITTF Top 20, and that included World No. 1 Fan Zhendong, World No. 4 Harimoto, World […]

WTT Series: Surprise Finalists in Goa

March 5, 2023

(by Steve Hopkins) Harimoto fell in the Semifinals, Moregard fell in the Round of 16, and Fan Zhendong lost his opening match – as three of the top players in the World were victims of upsets in the WTT Contender event in Goa this week. Fan was given a bye in the opening round, but […]

Who’s Ready for Some Sun? Puerto Rico Open Teams Registration Deadline March 1

February 28, 2023

(by Steve Hopkins) Seriously, New England (and the upper Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest, and all of freeeeezing Canada) – Its 85 degrees in Puerto Rico right now. The deadline for registration into the 2023 Butterfly Puerto Rico Open is Wednesday, March 1. Visit the registration site and get your team signed up. $17,000 in […]

Start with Your Trickiest Serve

February 27, 2023

(by Larry Hodges) Players often hold back on their trickiest serve (often long ones) until it’s close. And that’s sometimes a good idea. But there are three problems with that. First, you won’t know until you use it if the serve will be effective against this player. Second, if you use it early in each […]