March 8 is International Women’s Day.  It’s a global celebration of women’s achievements – and an opportunity to highlight the various accomplishment of women.  Across the United States, ours is a sport with more gender parity than most.  In rating events, men and women routinely compete in many of the same events, and at the […]

(by Steve Hopkins) A few months ago, the International Table Tennis Federation announced an updated structure for the ITTF World Para Circuit to begin in 2025.  The World Para Circuit events are now divided into three distinct tiers: Future, Challenger, and Elite.  The first event under the new structure will begin next week in Lignano, […]

(by Steve Hopkins) The WTT Champions Chongqing is set to begin in one week.  Every one of the Men’s Top 20 will attend in what is sure to be one of the most competitive tournaments of 2025.  For American fans, great news today as Kanak Jha was named along with the wildcard entries today.  In […]

(by Steve Hopkins) Three10 Table Tennis Club is one of Canada’s National High Performance Training Centres. A club with a strong focus on coaching and development. As their mission statement says, their mission is to “Develop table tennis players to their highest potential in a positive environment while encouraging discipline, commitment, and integrity”. Three10 is […]

(by Steve Hopkins) Last Thursday, the top two teams in the German Bundesliga faced off with Borussia Dusseldorf taking on TTC Rhon Sprudel Fulda-Maberzell.  The winner would be first in the standings, and Dusseldorf was set to play without Timo Boll (who is not the powerful figure that he was for two decades, but he […]

(by Steve Hopkins, photo ITTFWorld) Like a year ago, Macao will once again host the ITTF World Cup next month (April 14 to 20).  Galaxy Arena is one of the world’s premier table tennis venues – add in the best players from each Region (the top four of each Continental Cup) to the best players […]

(by Steve Hopkins, photo ITTFWorld) This week’s WTT Series event was the WTT Feeder Cappadocia.  The event was held from February 17 to 21 in Cappadocia, Turkey.  The top seeds were Simon Gauzy (No. 37), Xue Fei (No. 38), and Yuta Tanaka (No. 49). Simon Gauzy was the last of the top seeds, losing in […]

(by Steve Hopkins) USA’s Kanak Jha was the biggest mover in the Men’s Top 50 this week, jumping up 19 slots all the way to World No. 26 off of the strength of his Pan Am Cup championship. Jha is about 100 points from the Top 25, and under 300 points from the Top 20 […]

(by Steve Hopkins) The Texas Table Tennis Training Center (“TTT”) has about 50-60 regular members, as well as a number of premium memberships for business people.  One emphasis of the club is on professional coaching for elite players and juniors in the greater Houston area.  In 2016, the Texas Table Tennis was awarded a Certificate of […]

(by Steve Hopkins, photo USATT) The knockout rounds of the 2025 Pan American Cup started on Friday, and by Saturday night, USA’s Lily Zhang had fought past Giulia Takahashi and Angelica Arellano to reach the Semifinals.  Lily then dominated Canada’s Mo Zhang to reach the Final.  In the other half of the draw, USA’s Amy […]