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Kanak’s fundraising for Olympic Games 2020 updates

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(By Kanak Jha) Kanak’s fundraising for Olympic Games 2020 updates $15,718 of $100k goal My Story in Brief When I first started playing table tennis at 6 years old I had no idea where the journey would take me in the next 10 years, but here I am, now 16 and coming off from an […]

Sheer drama, top seed beaten, Kanak Jha wins sensational contest

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Sheer drama, top seed beaten, Kanak Jha wins sensational contest (by Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor) Sheer drama, top seed beaten, Kanak Jha wins sensational contest The match of the tournament and it will be some contest if there is to be better at the 2017 ITTF-Pan American Games in San José, Costa Rica. On […]

Kanak Jha, Lily Zhang each win second straight U.S. table tennis titles

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(By ESPN) LAS VEGAS — Kanak Jha and Lily Zhang each won their second straight U.S. national table tennis titles Friday night. The top-seeded Jha beat No. 9 seed Nikhil Kumar 11-9, 16-14, 11-3, 11-1 in 30 minutes to become the first men’s back-to-back champion since Timothy Wang in 2012-13. Zhang, the top women’s seed, […]

Kanak Jha Defends Title in Perfect Scores

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(By Matt Hetherington) Kanak Jha has successfully defended his US National Title at the 2017 SuperMicro US National Table Tennis Championships at the Silverton Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. Coming up against the young gun – 14 year old Nikhil Kumar, would have plenty of challenges. The young left handed player from California had […]

Jha and Zhang Prepare for Final Challenge

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(BY MATT HETHERINGTON) Well it’s fair to say there was a lot of hype built up over whether Kanak Jha and Lily Zhang could reach the finals and defend their titles from 2016, now they will have that chance. Last night the two booked their places in their respective finals after overcoming the challengers throughout […]

Jha Builds Momentum for National Title Defense

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(By Matt Hetherington) Kanak Jha will be the player to watch this coming week at the 2017 SuperMicro US National Table Tennis Championships in Las Vegas. Jha will be the top seed coming into the tournament, aiming to defend his title from 2016 where he staged an incredible comeback to overcome 2015 National Champion Yijun […]

US Olympians Kanak Jha and Lily Zhang Back to Defend Singles Crowns

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US Olympians Kanak Jha & Lily Zhang Back to Defend Singles Crowns (BY RICHARD FINN) The USA Table Tennis 2017 Supermicro National Championship “Final Table Celebration” has a new home in the “Entertainment Capital of the World,” when the Silverton Casino and Hotel plays host to the prestigious event on Friday, July 7th. The “Final […]

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