The first platinum World Tour of 2019 begins this week, the Qatar Open! A huge line up this week with Ma Long entering his first major ITTF event in 6 months! This is massive! The line up consists of Harimoto, Xu Xin, Timo Boll, Dimitrij Ovtcharov and many more world class players! Ding Ninig...
2 players per gender qualified by WR from 2/2019, and the rest by trials that took place from 2/27-3/1.
Trial format:
M: 3 rounds of championship, where the winner qualifies automatically.
W: Top 3 players in huge round-robin qualify automatically.
MS: Lee Sangsu(WR 7), Jang Woojin(WR 11)...
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Its already March and we still do not have a topic where we can share the most crazy shots and rallies of this year!
So I open it..
First rally (or shot) I like to present to you was taken Y-day in the 2nd league of our region, double bounce backhand save around the net ;-)
At...
Ma Long is due to make his long awaited return to international table tennis at next month’s World Championships in Budapest. He has been away from international competition for over 6 months.
Ma Long with his 2017 World Championships trophy!
The Chinese National Table Tennis Association has...
At the recent Dutch nationals young player Gabrielius Camara made quite a splash, by nearly eliminating former champion and later finalist Ewout Oostwouder.
I've known of him since he trained (when extremely young) at my younger brother's club. Before his tenth birthday he was already solidly...
Liu Guoliang has thrown down the gauntlet to his coaching team at the Chinese
Table Tennis Association by unveiling a new results-based evaluation system to determine their earnings. Piling on the pressure, two time Olympic champion and former Grand Slam winner Liu Guoliang stated that he has...
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All the 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 and Finals are gonna be added here.
1st day of competition will see 8 contestants duke it out to determine the winner who will get the final spot for singles at the WTTC 2019.
The winner will join the other 4 players who have been selected for WTTC singles in Stage 2 and the winner will be the Champion of Japan Top 12 2019.
Of...
With the recent news that Ma Long will not be competing in the upcoming Marvellous 12 competition and with his injury woes continuing, the question of whether Ma Long will be able to defend his Olympic crown in Tokyo 2020 is cropping up.
Will Ma Long play at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games? Will...
First Stage: 26 to 27 Mar 2019 | Main Event: 28 to 31 Mar 2019, Doha, Qatar
Men's Singles Seeding List
1) Xu Xin
2) Lin Gaoyuan
3) Harimoto Tomokazu
4) Timo Boll
5) Hugo Calderano
6) Lee Sangsu
7) Wong Chun Ting
8) Niwa Koki
9) Mizutani Jun
10) Jang Woojin
11) Ma Long
12) Mattias Falck
13)...