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Ochsenhausen Continues to Roll
Posted onOchsenhausen Continues to Roll in Germany’s TTBL Professional Table Tennis League
Butterfly Favorites: Dang Qiu’s Forehand – Ovtcharov as Trainer
Posted on(by Steve Hopkins) Butterfly player, Dang Qiu gained reputation during the lockdown competing in the weekly Dusseldorf Masters events and accumulating more points than all of the other competitors. Qiu is currently No. 53 in the World – the sixth ranked German, but quickly moving up in the rankings. In fact, at the start of […]
TTCAN National Team Newsletter Feb 2021
Posted on(Courtesy of TTCAN) First international Events in 2021 Four Canadian players will participate in the very first international event since March 2020. Mo Zhang (WS, XD), Eugene Wang (XD) and Jeremy Hazin (MS) will try to better their World Ranking at the World Table Tennis Middle East Hub. Mo Zhang is one of seeded players at the Contender […]
Fakel Gazprom Orenburg – Europe’s Other Top Team
Posted on(by Steve Hopkins) Most table tennis fans are familiar with Timo Boll’s team, Borussia Dusseldorf, and its long history of success in the German Budesliga. And in the US, many have been following another German team, Liebherr Ochsenhausen, as they have USA’s Kanak Jha and the other great player from this hemisphere, Brazil’s Hugo Calderano. But […]
Sally’s U19 Taiwan Team Qualifications
Posted on(By Sally Moyland) Under nineteen is a whole new category in the table tennis world. The main change was splitting the under eighteen qualifications into under seventeen and under nineteen tournaments. The new rule was implemented this year, and we just had the first run of this tournament in Taiwan. The level of competition in […]
Coaching Tip of the Week: Locking Up Your Opponents
Posted on(By Larry Hodges) The easiest and simplest way of beating a player is to “lock him up.” This basically means forcing him to do what he doesn’t want to do. A classic case would be to force an opponent with a weaker backhand to go backhand to backhand with you. Another example would be take […]
WAB CLUB FEATURE: North Texas Table Tennis Club
Posted on(by Steve Hopkins) North Texas Table Tennis is a premier table tennis club operating two locations in Plano, Texas. Their Independence location, which used to be called the Xtreme Table Tennis School, operates out of HuaYi Education on Independence Parkway in Plano. HuaYi Education provides after school programs and camps designed for social and academic […]
German League Title Chase
Posted on(by Steve Hopkins) Entering the final few weeks, the Butterfly-sponsored Borussia Dusseldorf squad is securely installed as the top seed. They need one more win to officially clinch the top position – they are 8 points ahead of second place in the standings, having lost only one match since December. Dusseldorf stumbled against Ochsenhausen in […]
PongNow: Tom Wintrich
Posted on(by Steve Hopkins) The PongNow Interview Series – talking table tennis with some of the best players and personalities in the sport. Thomas Wintrich didn’t take table tennis seriously until he was 29 years old – but over the next five years he played and practiced and loved the game so much that he was […]
Butterfly Players Hold Both World No. 1 Spots
November 7, 2026
(by Steve Hopkins) Butterfly has signed Wang Manyu of China, and the timing couldn't be better. Butterfly players… Read More
WAB CLUB FEATURE: Central Florida Table Tennis Club
November 6, 2026
(by Steve Hopkins) Located on South Orange Blossom Trail, just south of downtown Orlando, Central Florida Table Tennis… Read More
3 Germans and 3 Japanese reach Quarters in Frankfurt
November 6, 2026
(by Steve Hopkins, photo ITTFWorld) The top two seeds avoided early upsets as both Matsushima and Harimoto reach… Read More
Yu Di – Forehand Loop Timing
November 5, 2026
(by: Bowmar Sports) In this Butterfly Training Tips, Yu Di is demonstrating exact dynamics of the timing of… Read More
Shashin Shodhan Amicus Training Series – Forehand Flip
November 3, 2026
(by: Bowmar Sports) In this Amicus Training Series, Shashin Shodhan In this Amicus Training Series, Shashin Shodhan is… Read More
Sunny Zhang Pan American Senior Table Tennis Championships
November 2, 2026
(by Coach Raymond (Zhaowei) Zhang) Seventeen-year-old Sunny Zhang of Three10 TTC represented Canada at the Pan American Senior… Read More
Jerky Strokes and Jerkyitis: World’s Most Rampant Table Tennis Disease
November 2, 2026
(By Larry Hodges, Member of US Table Tennis Hall of Fame) Many players have jerky strokes that make… Read More
Rachid El Bou Bou – Wide Angle Push
November 2, 2026
(by: Bowmar Sports) In this Butterfly Training Tips, Rachid El Bou Bou is executing the Wide Angle Push… Read More
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