Video: High Level Training #11 with Stefan Feth. In this video, Stefan demonstrates the "Ready Position for Forehand Serve."

Courtesy of CGAC

Table Tennis Canada announces the eight athletes selected for 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi

OTTAWA, September 1, 2010 – Table Tennis Canada and Commonwealth Games Canada today confirmed the athletes and coaches named to Team Canada for the XIXth Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India from October 3-14.

Olympians Pradeeban Peter-Paul and Mo Zhang will guide a young Canadian team. Read More

September 2010 World Top 20 Ranking
Click here to view the full ITTF Top 20 Ranking including U-18, U-15 and North American Notables.

Click here to view the ITTF Funchal Junior Open Full Results Book.

ITTF Articles
  • Boys Singles: "Niklas Matthias Clinches Career First ITTF Junior Circuit Boys’ Singles Crown"

  • Girls Singles: "A Different Way, Win on Pro Tour then Clinch First Junior Circuit Crown"

Featured YouTube Video:
Timo Boll Advice - Backhand TopSpin

The September issue of Butterfly-World's Newsletter first deals with the approaching European Championships in Ostrava. In the Czech Republic the German Butterfly Team with the second of the world ranking list, Timo Boll, has a good chance to win the title. Perhaps the competition will bring us another Butterfly duel between Timo and Michael Maze.

In “Table Tennis Basics,” the former German national coach Richard Prause will tell us how the planning of training looks like at top level. Jun Mizutani, number 9 of the current world ranking list, explains further varieties of a game opening: a spin topspin with following topspin varieties. Plus, an interview with the 16 year old Swede Hampus Soederlund. The Butterfly player has got great plans following his second place at the European Cadet Championships last year.

Courtesy of ITTF

After the semi-finals of the Boys’ Team event at the Volkswagen World Junior Championships in the northern Colombian city of Cartagena de Indias in December 2009, Georg Imhof was full of smiles, even though he had to watch the last throes of the contest from the sidelines.

He had incurred the wrath of the... Read More

Click here to view 2011 Pan Am Coaches Selection Procedure - Pending final approval by the USOC Board of Directors.

Featured YouTube Video:
Timo Boll Advice - Forehand TopSpin

Table Tennis: STEPS TO SUCCESS
by Richard McAfee

COUNTERSPIN STROKE
Executing a topspin stroke against your opponent’s topspin return is referred to as counterspinning. As you develop as a player, this stroke will take on more importance. At the professional level, this is the dominant stroke of the game.

The counterspin is a unique stroke in that it can be played both close to the table and away from the table to produce a wide range of returns with varying amounts of topspin and... Read More