On the 24th April 2011 the Chinese Men's warm up games for the upcoming World Table Tennis Championships had just finished. The winner was Ma Long beating Yan An 4 games to 1. A Chinese reporter interviewed Ma Long after the match. Ma Long quoted, “I tried to take control over the game and...
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In Japan was a warm up match for the WTTC 2011
I really like the point at 6:37
Besides they have a new jersey for the WTTC
The Team
1 MIZUTANI Jun
2 KISHIKAWA Seiya
3 MATSUDAIRA Kenta
4 NIWA Koki
5 CHAN Kazuhiro
6 MATSUDAIRA Kenji
7 FUKUHARA Ai
8...
Checking http://tibhar.de/en/ just now
Download Link : http://tibhar.de/download.php?downloadid=198
Yep, the next rubber generation from Tibhar is Aurus, previously Genius !
Some modified rubber, some new blades..
I think Tibhar is known for it's rubber quality, hope Aurus will be a new trend...
The last few days Stiga Table Tennis has been doing lots of promotional videos with Stiga player's Jean Michel Saive and Par Gerell. At the end of the events both players did Interviews on there road to the World Table Tennis Championships 2011.
Jean Michel Saive Interview
- Jean's...
The Chinese National Table Tennis Team before the announcement of the WTTC 2011 selection were under going specialised training with head coach Liu Guoliang. The training is in response for preparation at the World Table Tennis Championships in May 2011 and the Olympics in 2012. The training is...
Later on this year guys Butterfly will be releasing some new blades. What do you think of them? Will you be buying one?
Timo Boll W5 - 5-ply wood - Interesting looking blade which looks nice.
The blade is characterized by five plywood racket with a soft feel at impact. At the same time...
Hi, I will be there almost for sure all the days as a crew member lol.
Do you have a question for a player? Tell me and I will see what I can do!
I'm gonna do my best to meet Ai, Joo Se and Werner,
that are my favorites from last years.
Here is the link for the player entries...
On April 14th the day before the CTTA realised the participants list for the World Championships, a reporter phoned Hao Shuai. Hao new straight away what the decisions were and he told the reporter there was no chance he was going to be picked for the singles. Hao said his only chance ould be...
The two team finalists are Levallois and Chartres both French International Clubs!
Levallois Team
Photo by LEVALLOIS SPORTING CLUB T.T
Players
Hou Yingchao (n°4), Zhang Jike (n°5), Igor Rubtsov (n°11), Emmanuel Lebesson (n°11), Patrick Chila (n°16), Rodolphe Després (n°47)
From left to...
The giants of Table Tennis met again in the 2nd leg of the Champions League Semi Final tie between Borussia Dusseldorf and Neiderosterreich. Dusseldorf booked themselves a place in the final by beating Neiderosterreich overall by 3-1 in matches.
Photo Source: ITTF Asia Pacific Office
Match...
At last the squads of each country have been announced guys and the wait is over on who will be going from the China Squad.
Men's Singles
- Wang Hao
- Ma Long
- Ma Lin
- Wang Liqin
- Zhang Jike
- Xu Xin
- Chen Qi
Men's Double:
- Wang Hao / Zhang Jike
- Ma Lin / Chen Qi
- Ma Long / Xu...
German superstar Timo Boll is on go ahead to play in the Chinese Super League 2011 this year. Boll will be joining the Hangzhou Nirui Table Tennis Club. Along side him will be Ma Lin and Hao Shuai of China. It is said Timo Boll will be playing 6 league game matches however some reports have said...
Oh Sang Eun was the star of the show at the Spanish Open on Sunday 10th April 2011 taking out number 1 seed Vladimir Samsonov in the final! Eun beat Samsonov 11-9, 17-15, 5-11, 11-6, 12-10.
Photo credit: Xinhua
This career title for Korea's Oh Sang Eun has made him seven times ITTF Pro Tour...
Here are some of my videos of a USATT Sanctioned tournament in Austin, TX:
Point of the tournament, from Open Singles Semi-Final:
Open Singles Quarter-Final - Chance Friend vs Jingwen Hui:
Open Singles Semi-Final - Chance Friend vs Tuan Tran:
Open Singles Final - Timothy Wang vs...
Good news for Wang Hao fans. The world rankings for April have just come out from the ITTF and here are the listings below.
Mens
Photo by: Roscher
1) Wang Hao
2) Timo Boll
3) Zhang Jike
4) Ma Lin
5) Ma Long
6) Xu Xin
7) Jun Mizutani
8) Vladimir Samsonov
9) Wang Liqin
10) Joo Se Hyuk
Wang...
The next Pro Tour series from the ITTF begins tomorrow guys the Wednesday 6th April 2011. After a few weeks of rest the players are back in action!
This is going to be an exciting event. The top eight seeds of the mens event, five of them are from Korea and four in the Women's singles event...
Ai Fukuhara reached the semi final of the Volkswagon Cup 2011 last week and said she will donate all her prize money of $12,500 equipvelent to 1,000,000 yen.
Ai the star of Japan who was born in Sendai the city where the recent catastrophe of the tsunami struck due to the earthquakes had hit...
Yes its true! A staggering 70 million people tuned into the Chinese channel CCTV5 to watch Wang Hao defeat Timo Boll in the epic Volkswagon Cup 2011 Final!
These figures are very promising for the sport, and who knows how high they are going to be for the Olympics 2012! Train hard guys! :)...
Wang Hao takes the Volkswagon Cup 2011 in a thriller against Germany's Timo Boll! The scores were:
11-9, 5-11, 5-11, 11-4, 11-6, 11-7.
Photo by: Schillings
Incredible performances from both players really got the crowd going. Amazing display of topspin to topspin rallys was displayed...