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World Cup Macao: Perfect Start for Kanak Jha

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(by Steve Hopkins) A perfect start for Kanak Jha on the opening day of group play at the ITTF Men’s and Women’s World Cup in Macao.   Jha, who is second seed in Group 12 defeated the bottom player, Argentina’s Horacio Cifuentes 4-0.  The score is important as every point can potentially matter.  In this case, […]

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Three Modes of Match Play – Serious, Practice, Beginner

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(by Larry Hodges) Let me start by being absolutely clear – you should take all serious matches seriously. That may sound like circular reasoning, taking serious matches seriously, but they have slightly different meanings. “Serious matches” means, in this context, matches where the top priority is to win, i.e. tournament and league matches. (You should […]

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WAB CLUB FEATURE: Dynamic Table Tennis Academy

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(by Steve Hopkins) With their location East of Los Angeles in Chino Hills, the Dynamic Table Tennis Academy is easily accessible to one of the largest population centers in the United States (including Anaheim, Riverside, and Pomona). The club is tucked into a commercial shopping center with plenty of parking, food and other shops nearby.  […]

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ITTF World Cup Macao: Group Play Starts Monday

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(by Steve Hopkins) The ITTF Men’s and Women’s World Cup returns this month, bringing together the world’s best for an intense battle on the biggest of stages. From April 14 to 20, the Galaxy Arena in Macao, will play host to a lineup of elite talent vying for the Evans Cup (the name of the […]

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Sora Matsushima Wins in Taiyuan

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(by Steve Hopkins) This week’s WTT Contender Series event is in Taiyuan, China.  Contender events are a mix of top players (in this case, all outside of the World Top 20) and rising players.  As the event is in China, where many great players don’t have opportunity to play internationally, one would expect to see […]

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Masters of Ping Pong: Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau

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(by Steve Hopkins) Later today Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau will battle in the final pairing of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Course.  McIlroy had an amazing round on Saturday and will enter the final day with a 2 stroke lead.  However, he faces extra pressure as this is the only major tournament that […]

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Butterfly Training Tips with Anqi Luo – Backhand Loop & Forehand Pivot

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(by: Bowmar Sports) In this Butterfly Training Tips, Anqi Lou is feeding multi-balls to her student that is working on Backhand Loop, followed by the Forehand Pivot https://youtu.be/osYUcdBbNyM Stay “In The Loop” with Butterfly professional table tennis equipment, table tennis news, table tennis technology, tournament results, and We Are Butterfly players, coaches, clubs and more

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