Carlos Ishida and Jeremy Hazin, surprise semi-finalists (by Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor) Carlos Ishida and Jeremy Hazin, surprise semi-finalists Winner at the Paraguay Junior and Cadet Open earlier in the year, Brazil’s Carlos Ishida, alongside Canada’s Jeremy Hazin emerged as the surprise semi-finalists in the Boys’ Singles event at the 2017 ITTF Pan American […]
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Success for Kanak Jha, double celebration
(by Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor) The top seed, Kanak Jha from the United States duly endorsed his exalted position, to win the Boys’ Singles title at the 2017 Argentina Junior Open in Buenos Aires on Monday 18th June. A cause for celebration, it was a cause for a double celebration; not only was it […]
USA Take Top Spots as Kanak Jha and Amy Wang Triumph in Argentina
(BY MATT HETHERINGTON) Success for team USA as the Junior Pan American Championships team claim success at the 2017 ITTF Argentina Junior Open ahead of the start of the Pan Am Junior Championships in Buenos Aires. With an impressive 6 of the 8 total semifinal spots occupied by American players, the event could have been […]
Kanak Jha Achieves Career Win in Dusseldorf
(BY MATT HETHERINGTON ) Kanak Jha was the player to upset the order today with a career win over Romania’s Adrian Crisan. Jha had qualified through to the main draw, winning all his preliminary matches (read more). His opponent a quarterfinalist in both the 2012 London and 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, formerly top […]
Enterprising joint venture, Butterfly supports Ping Pong Power
(by Ian Marshall) Increasingly the health benefits of table tennis are being realised; in addition to being an excellent form of exercise, it´s acknowledged by many as an effective treatment against Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases. Destination Halmstad, host for the World Team Championships (WTTC 2018) to be staged in the Swedish city of Halmstad from […]
Kanak Jha: My Quest for Olympic Games 2020
Kanak Jha: My Quest for Olympic Games 2020 Kanak Jha: My Quest for Olympic Games 2020 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 […]
World Table Tennis Day: celebrations in full swing
World Table Tennis Day: celebrations in full swing World Table Tennis Day: celebrations in full swing By Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor Today is the day, Thursday 6th April 2017; it is World Table Tennis Day. New York very much lit the torch on Tuesday 28th March when Thomas Weikert, ITTF President and Leandro Olvech, […]
Recognised even before official date, a special status for World Table Tennis Day
(by Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor) World Table Tennis Day ever closer, Thursday 6th April, the third edition of the initiative; now, even before the official date, the efforts have been recognised! Surely that is something special and is high praise to all concerned; the International Table Tennis Federation has been shortlisted for the Sports […]
2017 USATT Hopes Trials at ICC
(By Bruce Liu) This is the last of the five Trials in the US. Top three girls and boys will join the other US kids to compete with their Canadian peers. If one of the top 3 can’t go, the fourth finisher will be the alternate. 12 girls and 12 boys have qualified through the […]
Nick Tio and Crystal Wang Round off 2017 US National Teams
Nick Tio and Crystal Wang Round off 2017 US National Teams Nick Tio and Crystal Wang Round off 2017 US National Teams By Matt Heatherington At the end of a very long three days for two players the ordeal was not yet over. A 7 set duel had just come to a close and Kanak […]
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