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Hi everyone, I was going through the ITTF website and found an article on Australia's Heming Hu which had this attached video of the player doing some vocal impressions. Just thought I would share:

Han Ying has defeated Mima Ito having been 0-3 down (3-11, 4-11, 4-11, 12-10, 11-7, 11-9, 11-9), thoughts?

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Hi guys, I just wanted to ask why the ITTF never seems to produce HD quality videos? The 2016 US National Championships took place recently and if you look at the video you can see how good it looks visually: Any thoughts?

Yeah I came across it the other day as a suggested video so I thought I would check it out.

Oh I didn't know that existed. Just watched an episode but I think they feel a bit long maybe? Also comparing it to some of the previous SD Sport news videos, the Pongcast seems to focus on the ITTF World Tour while the SD videos include news on league table tennis and transfers as well...

Hi guys, I was browsing the web the other day and found out that SD Sport do table tennis news videos on YouTube. Couldn't find anyone else doing them so I thought I would paste the newest one here for you to see:

I agree, Canada deserves to host the Olympic Games or something anyway.

Hey guys, saw this article on Sky Sports and thought it was an interesting read. Does anyone here think that maybe the Games shouldn't go ahead in Rio? http://www.skysports.com/more-sports/other-sports/news/14935/10277584/olympic-games-must-be-delayed-or-moved-due-to-zika-says-professor

I think Ovtcharov is Europe's best chance of beating the Chinese players at Rio 2016, wouldn't mind if he didn't make so much noise between shots ;)

Hey all, I found this article on BT's website and thought I would share considering it features table tennis. Enjoy :) http://home.bt.com/news/showbiz-news/orlando-bloom-chats-and-plays-table-tennis-with-schoolchildren-as-he-visits-war-hit-ukraine-as-unicef-ambassador-11364058056112

I'm not sure how to feel about this. Ma Long is an absolute must I think there is no doubt about that, Fan Zhendong not going I can understand due to how young he is (although I believe he deserves to go) so it's between Zhang Jike and Xu Xin. Zhang Jike may be the current Olympic champion, but...

I really believe that in order to rectify this problem they need to either stick with the rule or just scrap it. If they are going for the former point then they need to try and stamp it out at a younger age (U15s) and bring in another two officials to be able to determine whether a foul serve...

Great vid, maybe the umpires and players should be shown this before every tournament.

Yeah, I suppose you're right. Doubling up the number of umpires could be the solution, in terms of not affording it I believe I saw something stating that ITTF umpires only get paid £3.50 an hour or something like that, which is disgraceful for an international organisation. My personal...