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12/29
USATT National Athlete Representative Election
Whitney Ping

Courtesy of USATT
The Nominating/Elections committee has completed the National Athlete Representative election for the USATT Board of Directors. The term for these two positions begins January 1, 2007 and lasts for two years. Thirteen ballots were cast by email between December 3rd and the December 24th deadline, which represents just less than 50% of the eligible voters. Read More


12/28
New Year, New Coach and New Results
Marcus Jackson

By: Marcus Jackson
For the past several months, I have been learning to play table tennis under the guidance and instruction of Boris Shafir, former coach of the Russian 1988 Olympic Men’s Team. I am still learning to play in the manner which he requires. This is not an easy task. He demands that I use excellent table tennis techniques and that I bring passion, concentration ...Read More


12/27
Another Big Year for the ITTF Development Program
Surendra Suwal giving advice in Vanuatu

Courtesy of ITTF
As Kaka Lawson is completing the final course for the year in Algeria, concluding on December 26, 2006, it is time to reflect on 2006.

Once again, over 100 courses were conducted worldwide in 2006. When you consider ...Read More


12/27
Gao Jun - 2006 USATT Sportswoman of the Year
Gao Jun - 2006 USATT Sportswoman of the Year
Congratulations to the 2006 USATT Athletes and Team of the Year:

Gao Jun - the Sportswoman of the Year

Tahl Leibovitz - the Sportsman and Paralympian of the Year

US Women's Team - the Team of the Year

12/21
Zhang Yining Wins "ITTF Tournament of Champions"
Zhang Yining
Courtesy of ITTF
Zhang Yining, the number one seed in the Women’s Singles event at the "ITTF Tournament of Champions" in Changsha, China, was in no mood for charity on Wednesday, December 20, 2006.

In the final, she beat her doubles partner and Chinese national team colleague, Wang Nan, in four ...Read More



World Top 20 Ranking
World Top 20 January
Han Xiao & David Zhuang 12/18
Finals
Latest World Rankings for January can be viewed here.
Congratulations David Zhuang, Han Xiao, Marcus ...(more)
U.S. National Championships 12/06
U.S. National Champs
Mo Zhang 12/07
Mo Zhang Wins
Senior Play - Cheng and Chen dominated ...(more)
In the Singles event, the Canadians were determined ...(more)
Lee Jung Woo and Lee Eun Hee in Top Gear 12/06
Asian Games
2006 North American Teams Championships 12/04
2006 N.A. Teams
The brightest smile in Doha on Tuesday, December ...(more)
"…Although victorious, the California women were not too ...(more)
Timo Boll 11/09
Consecutive Titles
Thomas Theissmann 11/09
Day 1 German Open
Timo Boll, the winner of the Men’s Singles title one ...(more)
Matters went very much according to plan in the qualification ...(more)
Zoran Primorac, St. Petersburg Open Men's Singles Runner-up 11/06
St. Petersburg Open
Mo Zhang 11/06
Canada Cup
Zoran Primorac had displayed at the Eurosib ...(more)
Zhang had the better start and it looked as if he was going ...(more)
Atha Fong 11/03
Atha in China
Han Xiao 11/02
MDTTC October
Last summer, from August 15 to September 4 ...(more)
The Open Final of Butterfly MDTTC Oct Open, we saw ...(more)
Chiang Hung-Chieh 10/30
Chiang's Record
Ma Lin 10/27
Ma Lin
Chinese Taipei’s Chiang Hung-Chieh won the Junior Boys’ ...(more)
Ma Lin won the Liebherr Men’s World Cup in Paris on Sunday ...(more)
Kalinikos Kreanga 10/27
Kreanga
Ariel Hsing 10/27
Hsing in Tune
Kalinikos Kreanga, one of the world’s most exciting players ...(more)
Playing Lee Ho Ching is a tough proposition for anyone ...(more)
Whitney Ping 10/27
ACUI Regional
Ariel Hsing 10/26
Ariel’s Vacation
2007 ACUI Collegiate Regional College ...(more)
My dad was very excited when we arrived at Beijing ...(more)
Timo Boll 10/25
Boll Prepared
Sara Fu 10/25
N.A. Tour Finals
One year ago in the Belgian city of Liège, Germany’s ...(more)
The full results of the 2006 North American Tour Finals ...(more)
Kaii Yoshida, the winner of the Men's Singles title at the Serbian Open 10/23
Kaii Yoshida Wins
Mo Zhang smiling as always 10/20
All Smiles
The Men’s Singles final at the Serbian Open in Belgrade ...(more)
Zhang Mo hasn’t an angry bone in her body; she plays ...(more)
Schaumburg Open 10/16
Schaumburg
World Champion Kong Linghui 10/13
Kong Retires
The Schaumburg Open table tennis tournament ...(more)
Table tennis world champion Kong Linghui formally ...(more)
Da Tang 10/6
Changsha, China
Elizabeta Samara will be defending her Junior Girls' Single title in Vrsac 10/5
All Present
This year I trained in Changsha, China again. I ...(more)
Every player who has qualified for the ITTF World Junior ...(more)
2006 Indiana Open Singles Champion Don Hamilton & Finalist Jian Tan 9/29
2006 Indiana
Liu Jia 9/29
1st Upset
From Minnesota to Arkansas and from Illinois to ...(more)
Twenty-four year old Liu Jia of Austria was the player to ...(more)
Karl Augestad and Maggie Mitchell 9/28
FITT Fall Classic
Amaresh Sahu 9/26
Amaresh Sahu
The Farthest North USATT Club, Fairbanks Interior Table ...(more)
Over the summer, the USATT funded national cadet and ...(more)
Wilson Zhang (Zhang Peng) 9/22
Zhang Defeats Maze
Timo Boll 9/22
Time for Timo
A match to remember at the Volkswagen 48th World ...(more)
In late October 2005, Germany’s Timo Boll won the ...(more)
Yahao Zhang 9/20
Yahao in China
Werner Schlager 9/19
Race to Finals
I went back to China last summer for the first time ...(more)
The race for a place in the Volkswagen Pro Tour Finals ...(more)
Shen Yanfei & Gao Jun 9/18
Gao in China
Timo Boll 9/18
Boll at China Open
Place an advertisement for a Women’s Doubles partner ...(more)
Germany’s Timo Boll won the Men’s Singles title at ...(more)
Zhang Yining 9/18
Yining in China
Da Tang 9/14
Da Tang
Zhang Yining, the World’s number one ranked female ...(more)
I played in the 2006 New Jersey Open and it was very exciting. (more)
The Opening Ceremony in Kuala Lumpur 9/8
Promising Start
Chen Qi and Timo Boll in Kuala Lumpur, the two players who will open proceedings 9/12
Boll Faces China
The Volkswagen 2006 China versus World All Stars played in ...(more)
A long journey from the German city of Frankfurt into ...(more)
Zhang Yining 9/11
Zhang Yining Wins
Gao Jun 9/8
Gao Jun
China’s Zhang Yining set a new ITTF Pro Tour record ...(more)
Gao Jun (USA) is competing at the ITTF Pro Tour ...(more)
Werner Schlager 9/8
Promising Start
Cheng I-Ching emerged victorious in the Cadet Girls' Singles event in Taiyuan 9/7
Taiyuan Junior
Austria’s Werner Schlager, the winner of the Men’s ...(more)
Chinese Taipei’s Cheng I-Ching added to her collection ...(more)
Alaska International Senior Games 8/28
Alaska Senior
Mo Zhang 8/25
Mo Champion Again
Alaska International Senior Games Table Tennis ...(more)
Zhang Mo justified her billing as the number one seed at the ...(more)
Mo Zhang 8/21
Mo Qualifies
Schaumburg Summer Open 8/16
Schaumburg Results
Victory in the Girls’ Singles event at the El Salvador Junior ...(more)
Open Singles. 1st: Jason Miller. 2nd: Lukasz Fita. Semi: Ivan ...(more)
Mo Zhang the El Salvador Junior Open Girls Singles & Doubles Champion 8/17
Double Revenge
Cheng I-Ching and Hsiung Nai-I, Winners of the Girls’ Team title in El Salvador 8/16
WJC El Salvador
Chinese Taipei’s Chiang Hung-Chieh maintained his ...(more)
Chiang Hung-Chieh and Chen I-Ching stamped their ...(more)
Hema Chaltri, a member of the Bhutan national team who benefited from Richard McAfee's visit 8/14
Visit to Bhutan
Olena Sowers 8/16
Romania
Bhutan, situated between India and Tibet, is one of ...(more)
This summer I went to Romania for training with some of ...(more)
Mo Zhang 8/14
Mo Zhang, the top seed
Melissa Nuñez 8/9
Central American
Chinese Taipei’s Chiang Hung-Chieh and Canada’s ...(more)
The Central American and Mexico Junior Championships ...(more)
Daniela Dodean 7/31
European Youth
Tanyo Sakuraba 7/28
Jr. Olympic Games
Portugal’s Marcos Freitas and Romania’s Daniela Dodean ...(more)
The AAU 40th Junior Olympic Games results can be viewed here.
US National College Team 7/26
World University
Andreea Mamaliga 7/24
Romanians
Congratulations to the US National College Team for their ...(more)
Daniela Dodean and Elizabeta Samara have been the ...(more)
Richard McAfee 7/21
Richard McAfee
Masaaki Tajima 7/18
Japan: Part II
Richard McAfee's first USTTA-sanctioned tournament was ...(more)
Here's some details on how it works: the head coach with his ...(more)
Taiwan Players visit West Covina Table Tennis Club 7/19
West Covina TTC
Masaaki Tajima 7/18
Japan: Part I
On Monday, July 10, 2006, The Butterfly sponsored West ...(more)
Most of you know I'm in Japan now to play in the senior team ...(more)
Wilson Zhang 7/17
CAN Champions
Andre Ho 7/13
Andre Ho Wins
Ontario's Wilson Zhang and Mo Zhang won the ...(more)
At the Canadian Junior Championships Butterfly's Andre Ho ...(more)
Sanja Paukovic 7/11
Paukovic Wins
Mo Zhang - U.S. Open Women's Singles Champion 7/10
Mo Zhang Wins
Despite suffering from an arm injury, top seed in the Girls' ...(more)
The 2006 U.S. Open Table Tennis Championships ...(more)
Don James Alto U.S. Open Cadet Boys Singles Champion 7/7
Day 2: U.S. Open
Atha Fong & Kyna Fong the U.S. Open Under 4200 Doubles Champions 7/6
U.S. Open: Day 1
Congratulations to Don James Alto for winning the ...(more)
Yesterday, in the Charlotte Convention Center with ...(more)
Chen Weixing and Robert Gardos 7/3
Weixing & Gardos
An enthusiastic group with Andrew Hubbard in Kiribati 6/29
Kiribati Program
Austria's Chen Weixing and Robert Gardos won ...(more)
New Zealand's, Andrew Hubbard, who has been playing ...(more)
Kalinikos Kreanga 6/28
Kreanga's Backhand
Wilson Zhang 6/27
Brazilian Open
Kalinikos Kreanga, a backhand specialist 'par excellence' ...(more)
At the ITTF Pro Tour Brazilian Open in São Paulo ...(more)
Mark Artman & Mark Hazinski 6/23
Indy Giant RR
Timo Boll 6/22
Fair Play Nominee
Hosted by the Table Tennis Club of Indianapolis ...(more)
The International -Committee for Fair Play ...(more)
Brian Pace 6/19
"Smashing the ball"
David Zhuang 6/16
Meiklejohn
A lot of simple errors are made when a player doesn’t ...(more)
You don’t expect those so essential to running a 242-entry ...(more)
Liu Miao, the runner up in the Boys' Singles event at the Canadian Junior Open 6/13
WJC in Edmonton
Oh Sang Eun 6/12
Oh Sang Eun Wins
All six junior titles went to the same country and all six ...(more)
Match Report: TMS Chinese Taipei Open 2006 Men's ...(more)
Sara Fu & Ariel Hsing 6/9
Sara Fu & Ariel Hsing
Mark Nordby 6/8
Your Game
An interview with the TMS Northern California Table ...(more)
Your perception of your own skills (strokes, footwork...(more)
John Wetzler & Raghu Nadmichettu 6/7
MDTTC June Open
Joo Se Hyuk 6/5
Joo Se Hyuk Wins
The Butterfly MDTTC June Open saw Players from MD ...(more)
The fast attacking play of Damien Eloi against the defensive ...(more)
Daniela Dodean 6/2
Singles at WJC
Daniela Dodean and Elizabeta Samara 6/2
Doubles at WJC
On Sunday, May 14, 2006, in Platja d’Aro, there was ...(more)
In Cetniewo on Thursday, June 1, 2006, it was ...(more)
Nicole Struse 6/1
Nicole Struse
Wang Yin 5/31
Golden State
In 2005, Nicole Struse set a new record at the ...(more)
An unknown player from China, Wang Yin, leaves the ...(more)
Wang Zhen 5/30
TMS Canada Cup #2
Olena Sowers 5/26
An Opportune Move
The two finals pairings in Canada Cup #2 in Ottawa ...(more)
Moving to Asia or Europe to improve your table ...(more)
School pupils in St Vincent with donated equipment, the delight is clear to see 5/24
St. Vincent
AJ Brewer 5/23
2006 Indiana State
Richard McAfee of the United States was the coach ...(more)
Hosted by the Table Tennis Club of Indianapolis ...(more)
Yong Ren 5/22
Millcreek Giant RR
North American Championships - Bence Csaba 5/14
N.A. Championships
A strong international flavor added variety and ...(more)
Bence Csaba wins Men's Singles, Zhang Mo wins ....(more)
Spring TMS League 5/5
Spring TMS Report
Wang Hao 5/1
Men's Team Title
We are happy to say the first season of the TMS Northern ...(more)
Wang Hao gave China a superb start to proceedings ...(more)
Zhang Yining 5/1
China World Champs
Michael Maze 4/25
Michael Maze
China retained the Corbillon Cup at the 2006 LIEBHERR ...(more)
I woke up at 6:50am and then went with the whole team ...(more)
Victoria Pavlovich 4/27
Pavlovich
Werner Schlager 4/25
Werner Schlager
I woke up just after seven o'clock and then had breakfast ...(more)
First day of the Championships, I wanted to be ...(more)
Dayton Open - Dan Seemiller 4/24
Dayton Open
Matthew J. Murad Memorial Open 4/20
Murad Memorial
The Dayton Butterfly RR Open, "The Battle for the ...(more)
Cheng Yinghua adds his name to the annual Matthew ...(more)
Timo Boll 4/18
China's Equal
Wilson Zhang & Zhang Mo 4/12
TMS Canada Cup
In the autumn of 2005, Germany's Timo Boll proved ... (more)
Wilson Zhang faced his biggest challenge in the Men's ...(more)
Daniela Dodean &  Elizabeta Samara 4/14
UAE Jr Open
Werner Schlager 4/12
Preparations
The number one seeds in all six individual events at United ...(more)
The date and venue for the contest between Austria and ...(more)
TMS Semester Smash League 4/11
Spring TMS
2006 NCTTA Championships 4/11
NCTTA Results
Butterfly sponsored players have excelled in the ...(more)
One by one, they waltzed out of Texas Wesleyan’s ...(more)
Masaaki Tajima, USATT Certified National Level Coach 4/10
Serve & Receive
2006 AAU Junior Olympic Games 4/7
Jr Olympic Games
In this article, I will go over the importance of serves and (more)
Butterfly is proud to be the official equipment sponsor of ...(more)
Opening of Butterfly Technical Center 4/4
Butterfly Tech
Han Xiao & Peter Li 4/3
MDTTC April
On Friday, March 31, 2006, in the midst of snow showers ...(more)
The April Open at the Maryland Table Tennis Center saw ...(more)
2006 NCTTA Championships 3/31
NCTTA
Mo Zhang 3/30
Edmonton - WJC
On April 7-10, 2006, Texas Wesleyan University will ...(more)
After a two year break, Edmonton will again be host for ...(more)
Hank McCoullum 3/29
PA Open Team
2006 Commonwealth Games 3/27
Commonwealth
This was a classic 3-on-3 type team tournament ...(more)
Singapore dominates women's table tennis in ...(more)
Marcus Jackson 3/23
Playing in NC
Mo Zhang 3/22
TMS Canada Cup
After the U.S. Nationals in Las Vegas, my father informed ...(more)
The 2006 TMS Canada Cup will see the highest caliber ...(more)
Wilson Zhang 3/14
Wilson Wins
Wilson Zhang 3/6
U.S. Open Teams
Wilson Zhang defeated Atanda Musa during the 2006 ...(more)
The U.S. Open Teams started out as the Inter-cities ...(more)
Richard McAfee - Dominica Table Tennis 3/9
In Nature Island
Team Canada 2008 3/6
Canada 2008
Richard McAfee from the United States was the ITTF ...(more)
The U.S. Open Teams Championships concluded in ...(more)
David Zhuang 3/5
Turning Up
Gao Jun 3/4
Working the table
Competition for the first prize of $7,000 at the U.S. ...(more)
Table tennis specialists return to Reno after an eight-year ....(more)
Zhang Yining 2/20
Leads Pro Tour
Wang Nan & Zhang Yining 2/17
Yining Wins Qatar
China's Wang Liqin and Zhang Yining, the reigning World ...(more)
Wang Nan and Zhang Yining are the reigning Olympic and ...(more)
Han Xiao & Peter Li 2/14
MDTTC Winter
Timo Boll 2/6
Europe Top 12
2006 Butterfly MDTTC Winter Open took place at Maryland ...(more)
Timo Boll and Tamara Boros won the Men's and Women's ...(more)
Cheng Yinghua & Jack Huang 2/2
Wizard's
2006 U.S. Open 2/1
2006 US Open
Through the help of Alan Pemberton, Larry Hodges ...(more)

The 2006 US Open will held in Charlotte NC, July 5-8, 2006.

Zhang Yining 1/30
Croatian Finals
Gao Jun 1/27
Croatian Open
Zhang Yining and Li Nan win the Women’s Doubles title. Read more

One week ago twenty-two year old CHEN Qing of China had ...(more)

Canada Table Tennis Team 1/26
Canada's Team
Adam Brown 1/10
Alabama State
Ottawa, ON - National Team Coach Wang Enlong has ...(more)

Adam Brown, 24, said Huntsville's David Landry is young ...(more)

Gao Jun 1/09
Generations
Olena Sowers 1/03
Scholarships
Africa, Latin America and Oceania are all continents that have made ...(more)

Tamasu Butterfly provides scholarships each year for ...(more)




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