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Pan Am Championships: Early Action

(by Steve Hopkins, photo USATT) Singles started on Sunday, with top seeds in action on Monday. at the ITTF Pan American Championships in Rock Hill, SC.  Top seed Hugo Calderano won his first two matches 4-0 and 4-1 to advance to face USA’s Sid Naresh in one Quarterfinal matchup.  In the second section of the […]

WAB CLUB FEATURE: Gold Coast Table Tennis Club

(by Steve Hopkins) With their location on Main Street in Port Washington, the Gold Coast Table Tennis Club is easily accessible to Long Island, Queens, and the Bronx in New York.  The club is just a block from the Port Washington LIRR rail station, and easily accessible by other public transportation.   The club is 3500 […]

ITTF Para Pan Am Championships: Van Emburgh, Seidenfeld, and Leibovitz Win Gold

(by Steve Hopkins, photo USATT) The 2025 ITTF Para Pan American Championships wrapped up this weekend in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  It delivered four days of fierce competition among the Hemisphere’s best para athletes with players from the US battling the top players from Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica and many others. Winners qualified directly […]

World Rankings: Chuqin Extends Lead, Lebrun Up 2 Spots

(by Steve Hopkins, photo WTT) The China Smash victory last year gives Wang Chuqin 10,900 ranking points, building a buffer of nearly 3,000 points ahead of No. 2 Lin Shidong.  Shidong has 8,075 points, a 2,025 buffer between his spot and Hugo Calderano in No. 3.  No other position in the Rankings is as safe, […]

MLTT Week 3 Recap: Portland Paddlers Shine at Home

(By Steve Hopkins, photo MLTT) Major League Table Tennis brought its high-octane  format to the Pacific Northwest this weekend, with Week 3 action at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. The hometown Portland Paddlers hosted three other teams – the Los Angeles Spinners, Chicago Wind, and defending champion Carolina Gold Rush.  The weekend was packed […]

Bremen Takes Over First in the German League

(by Steve Hopkins, photo TTBL) Five weeks in to the new season of the German Professional League (TTBL), and there are no undefeated teams.  That parity is not as surprising as the fact that the SV Werder Bremen squad is currently along in first place.  Bremen has a deep squad with Kirill Gerasimenko, Mattias Falck, […]

WAB CLUB FEATURE: Genesee Valley Table Tennis Club

(by Steve Hopkins) With their location just South of central Rochester along Hwy 390, the Genesee Valley Table Tennis Club is in a great location to serve the Greater Rochester Community of Northern New York.   The roots of table tennis in Rochester go back to the 1930’s as not one but TWO clubs were founded in […]

China Smash: Chuqin Triples Up

(by Steve Hopkins, photo WTT) The China Smash 2025 Presented by Beijing Shijingshan Culture & Tourism Group finished on Sunday.  For Men’s Singles, both the Semifinals and Finals were played on this final day, and fans were treated to a great finish of one of the largest events of the year. In the early Semifinal, […]

China Smash Semis: World No. 1, 2, 7, and 9

(by Steve Hopkins, photo WTT) Felix Lebrun has been as high as fourth in the rankings in the past, so its a subdued level of surprise to see him as World No. 7 reaching the Final Four of the China Smash this week in Beijing.  The more shocking surprise is World No. 9, Xiang Peng […]

China Smash Day 5: A Pair of Japanese Upset Wins

(by Steve Hopkins) Sora Matsushima and Yukiya Uda were both underdogs in the early (12:10 and 12:20) matches, but both came away with upset wins to start off an exciting Day 5 at the China Smash in Beijing.  The first men’s match of the day was between World No. 5 Truls Moregard and World No. […]

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