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BUTTERFLY FAVORITES: Jun Mizutani (World No. 17)

(by Steve Hopkins) This video is of the 2019 All-Japan Championship.  It was a dominant performance by Jun Mizutani.  This was not the first time that he raised his game in front of the home fans as this marked his 13th year in the event, never finishing lower than the semifinals.  After the 2019 win, […]

2020 Butterfly Primerica Sandhills Open Highlights and Results

(By Amy Karpinski) On August 14-16, 2020, Cape Fear Table Tennis Club (CFTTC) in Fayetteville, NC, held its first ever 2 star tournament.  Known for running highly successful 0 star tournaments, it was decided that we would step up and run our first two star tournament when our February 0 star tournament sold out in […]

PHOTO CONTEST: Win An Autographed Blade

  ENTER YOUR PHOTO FOR OUR FACEBOOK CONTEST AND TRY TO WIN AN AUTOGRAPHED BLADE! The Photo with the Most LIKES Wins.  The Prize? A Butterfly Harimoto Innerforce ALC Autographed Blade! HOW TO ENTER Take photo of your Butterfly racket or rackets (with or without rubber) OUTDOORS. (Please don’t submit photo of the racket indoors) Send photos to […]

WAB CLUB FEATURED: Folsom Table Tennis Club

(By Steve Hopkins) The Folsom Table Tennis Club has two locations in Folsom, California to the Northeast of Sacramento.  The Folsom Sports Complex location has ten tables and there are twelve more at the Rusch Park Gym location in Citrus Heights. Between the two locations, the Folsom Table Tennis Club serves about a hundred players each […]

The Final Dusseldorf Series Event: Qiu Wins Today and Takes the Series Title

(by Steve Hopkins) The 10th and final men’s Masters event concluded over the weekend.  The winner, Germany’s Dan Qiu, his second series title. This week, the four seeded players were Franziska, Duda, Assar, and Qiu.  Unlike many of the past events, play did not proceed as expected.  The top three seeds were all eliminated in […]

USATT’s Thursday Night Live Series: Jennifer Wu puts Nittaku on the Board

(by Steve Hopkins) USA Table Tennis conducted its fourth Challenge Series event on Thursday.   This week, “America’s First Virtual Table Tennis Challenge” matched Jennifer Wu (2473) for Team Nittaku against Tahl Leibovitz  (2457) for Team Butterfly.  Table tennis is one of the few sports where men and women compete against each other in major tournaments […]

100th Anniversary of the Birth of Hikosuke Tamasu – The founder of Butterfly

Hikosuke Tamasu was born exactly one hundred years ago on August 20, 1920, in Yanai, Japan, as the eldest son of the Tamasu family. Hikosuke began to devote himself to table tennis, a sport for which there were few competitors at the time. Later, as he further honed his skills, he won prizes in all […]

PINGPOD featured on Balitang America

(Courtesy of Balitang America) PINGPOD: FIL-AM ENTREPRENEUR’S INNOVATIVE WAY TO MAKE TABLE TENNIS SAFE TO ENJOY AMID PANDEMIC NEW YORK — With social distancing in mind, PingPod is also the future of table tennis. PingPod co-founder and chief product officer, Ernesto Ebuen, said PingPod is the world’s first network of autonomous table tennis pods. Each “pod” is fully run […]

Take Table Tennis Photos Like a Pro

(by Steve Hopkins) In this week’s PongNow interview, USATT’s Photo Historian Mal Anderson shared some tips on how to take the perfect table tennis photo.  A two minute segment of that interview is posted below (click here for the full PongNow interview ).  This article collects tips and tricks from Mal Anderson, Truong Tu, and […]

More NBA (table tennis) Updates

(by Steve Hopkins) The NBA restart is underway, and table tennis side games continue. Most recently, fans were treated to photos of  Dallas Mavericks Luka Doncic and Boban Marjanovic (photo above) making a full size table look really, really small.   Not to be outdone, the Utah Jazz posted photos of their team table tennis […]

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