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Last weekend saw one of the longest tennis matches in history between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. Novak won the Australian Open 2012 championships defeating Rafael Nadal in the final! Djokovic defeated Nadal in the longest ever grand slam final by five hours and 53 minutes! Djokovic won the...

At the recent CCTV Sports Personality Awards 2011. The Chinese National team dressed in suits and hit the red carpet in fine fashion! Dressed like movie stars, Ma Long, Xu Xin and Zhang Jike looked liked movie stars from the James Bond films! Below is a collection of amazing photos from the...

The Chinese National Table Tennis team including Ma Long, Zhang Jike, Wang Hao, Ma Lin, Yan An, Fang Bo, Wang Ligin, Chen Qi and many more are resting from Winter Training in Xiamen! This has given the Chinese National team head coach Liu Guoliang some time to spend with his family. However...

As you are all well aware, Liu Guoliang celebrated his 36th birthday yesterday which can be found here. In Liu Guoliang's birthday message on Weibo he included that he wished all his players representing China in London 2012 Olympics to have an amazing experience filled with happiness and joy...

Our beloved Timo Boll finished third at the German athlete of the year 2011 awards! The hard working nice guy from Erbach im Odenwald, Hesse, Germany has took table tennis to the extreme and is the player of recent history to conquer the Chinese. Boll has achieved yet another award in his...

Today on the 10th January 2012, China's head coach Liu Guoliang celebrates his 36th birthday with his team mates. Role model Liu Guoliang has incredible dedication to the sport table tennis and to his team, its quite remarkable. This was seen in his latest message on Weibo where Liu announced...

This was at the Butterfly Celebration party (in Moscow) right before the 2010 World Championships, includes Zhang Jike, Ma Long, Ma Lin, Chen Qi, Wang Hao, Liu Guoliang and Xu Xin eating dinner watching Michael Maze backhand!! A huge thanks to the amazing youtuber CrawSpecificated The...

I think we can all learn a lot here. This video deserves it's own thread. Video taken from the Chinese National Training at the Stiga Table Tennis training centre! Check the video of Ma Long practicing his backhand topspin against backspin with Liu Guoliang's multi ball! Liu demonstrates how...

Okay this is once in a life time! Stiga Table Tennis Team have teamed up with the Chinese National Team at the Stiga Table Tennis centre training and practising! This thread will deliver all the photos and videos from this awesome training camp! Please, please, please follow Stiga Table Tennis...

At the Harmony China Open 2011, the ITTF president Adham Sharara was present. Therefore Adham could present the Chinese players their ITTF Hall of Fame award that they earned. From left to right: Zhang Diying, Guo Yue, Chen Qi, Cai Zhenhua, Adham Sharara, Xu Yinsheng, Ma Lin, Wang Hao, Kong...

Over the last 10 years the famous German table tennis star Timo Boll has really put table tennis on the map in terms of competing with the powerful Chinese. The Chinese magazine ‘Ping Pong World’ published a recent interview with the Chinese head coach Liu Guoliang. Liu expressed that he was...

The shakehand vs Penhold tournament was an amazing tournament that took place in China 2 days ago. Liu Guoliang considers Timo Boll as the biggest threat to them and he is considered the “enemy of the 1.3 billion people.” After the charity match in China, Boll had an interview which tackled...

The Chinese National Team have released the list of whom will represent China at the London 2012 Olympics. The men's team picked is Zhang Jike and Wang Hao and the women's team picked is Gao Yan and Li Xiaoxia. The coaches have made their decision however it's not certain that these players...

Last weekend Kong Linghui was in a drinking and beating incident which led to the police being called, with China's Table Tennis Head Coach Liu Guoliang being rushed to the police station. The incident which happened at 4.30 am on the 27th May 2011 has gained huge attention to the media and the...

On May 27th, Olympic Champion (2000) Kong Linghui appeared to be drunk and was involved in a violent scene. Police came to the scene and took the two men to the Hujialou Police station. The security man involved with the incident with Kong Linghui claimed his wounds were caused by Kong. The...

Since the World Table Tennis Championships 2011, the removal of Hao Shuai from the Mens Singles first team selection has shown a lot of sympathy from his fans. The slapping incident back in 2007 is believed to show speculation that Liu Guoliang's relationship with Hao Shuai isn't the strongest...

Since the recent World Table Tennis Championships in Rotterdam there has been a lot of controversy regarding the Chinese Team and its domination to table tennis. Two major concerns are the development to the sport and the new insight to remove table tennis from the Olympic games. Photo...

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...