(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, […]

(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 […]

(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, […]

(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 […]

(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. […]

(by Steve Hopkins, photo WTT) Wang Chuqin and Felix Lebrun had narrow wins, but the top storylines in Day 4 of China Smash action were the lower ranked players surprising the field.  France’s Flavien Coton won 3-2 over Feng Yi-Hsin, sending 17 year old World No. 52 into the Final 16.  Another player coming of […]

(by Steve Hopkins, photo WTT) Zhou Qihao and Yukiya Uda had wins over higher seeds, but most of the Day 3 China Smash action favored the higher seeds in Beijing.   The top two seeds in action today each won 3-1, with Lin Shidong topping Shunsuke Togami and Hugo Calderano defeating Simon Gauzy.  Zhou Qihao had […]

(by Steve Hopkins) Like top-seeded Chuqin yesterday, second-seeded Lin Shidong had no trouble logging a 3-0 win to move into the Round of 32.  He will face Shunsuke Togami, who eliminated USA’s Kanak Jha earlier today.  With Jha in the Men’s Draw and Lily Zhang and Amy Wang in the Women’s Draw, TeamUSA was represented […]

(by Steve Hopkins) Fullerton Table Tennis Academy is located off Imperial Highway in Fullerton, California.  The facility is near Bonita Pl and S Harbor Blvd/E Imperial Hwy in the neighborhoods of La Habra.  This positions the club just North of Anaheim with easy access to all of the greater Los Angeles area. Fullerton Table Tennis Academy […]

(by Steve Hopkins, photo TTBL) Four weeks in to the new season of the German Professional League (TTBL), and there are no undefeated teams – and 8 of the 12 teams are within one match of the lead. Preseason favorite Saarbrucken (who added Fan Zhendong to an already incredibly talented roster) lost their first match […]