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The Field is Set for the Puerto Rico Open Teams

(by Steve Hopkins) Action starts tomorrow in San Juan at the 2024 Butterfly Puerto Rico Open Teams.  The champions will take home $7,000 and the runner-ups will receive $3,000.  There are over 300 athletes vying for those prizes – with players from Puerto Rico, the US, France, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, and Sweden. Among […]

Top Ten Things to Remember in Doubles

(by Larry Hodges) (Excerpt from Table Tennis Doubles for Champions by Larry Hodges. April is Doubles Month!) Signal serves. Let your partner know what’s coming! Sometimes the server’s partner signals the serves since he’s the one who has to follow them up. Typically, signal under the table by pointing a finger down for backspin, thumb up […]

WAB CLUB FEATURE: Central Florida Table Tennis Club

(by Steve Hopkins) With its location near the junction of 423 and 441 just a few miles Northwest of the city center, the Central Florida Table Tennis Club is easily accessible to the greater Orlando area.  The club’s facility is 27,000 square feet with 18 ITTF approved tables, Olympic standard vinyl flooring, 30-foot ceiling, air-conditioning, […]

Saarbrucken Repeats Atop Champions League

(by Steve Hopkins, photo ETTU) For the second year in a row, the top seed in the European Champions League was perennial powerhouse Borussia Dusseldorf and they deep team with Dang Qiu, Timo Boll, and Anton Kallberg.  And for the second year in a row, much of the hype in the Final Four went to […]

What Makes a Great Doubles Partnership?

(by Larry Hodges) (Excerpt from Table Tennis Doubles for Champions by Larry Hodges. April is Doubles Month!) Here are ten components, not necessarily in order of importance. On a scale of 1 to 10, where do you and your partner(s) come in on these ten? Willingness to play as a team. Some players are simply unwilling […]

WAB CLUB FEATURE: Carolina International Table Tennis Academy

(by Steve Hopkins) With their location in Apex, North Carolina, just to the Southwest of Raleigh, the Carolina International Table Tennis Academy is well positioned to serve the Research Triangle area of North Carolina.  Coaches/Owners Di Yu and JiangShan Guo are strong players and coaches and they lead a team of quality instructors. The club […]

Saarbrucken and Dusseldorf Make ETTU Final

(by Steve Hopkins) An exceptional regular season is almost expected with this deep Borussia Dusseldorf team.  They once again maneuvered through the Champions League as the top seed – and were ready to excel again in the Final Four.  They faced off against Solex Consult TTC Wiener Neustadt, Austria’s best team featuring Frane Kojic, Ivor […]

WTT Incheon: Calderano Tops Fan, Jingkun Over Ma Long

(by Steve Hopkins, photo WTT) Fan Zhendong has fallen ahead of schedule again – this time losing to Hugo Calderano in the Semifinal.  Calderano started off on fire, winning the first three games before Fan fought back to tighten the score.  But the early lead was too much to overcome, as Calderano advances to the […]

Top Seeds Advance in Incheon

(by Steve Hopkins, photo WTT) In a complete script flip from last week’s upset-filled Singapore Smash, 7 of the top 8 seeds advanced to the Quarterfinals at the WTT Champions Series Event in Incheon, Korea.  Newly crowned World No. 1 Wang Chuqin is out this week, but 8 of the World Top 10 are playing […]

Jenson Secures Three Medals in Pair of Euro Tour Events

(by Steve Hopkins) Jenson Van Emburgh, one of America’s top para athletes, visited Europe earlier this month to play in two para events.  He competed in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy in the 2024 ITTF Lignano Masters Para Open from March 6-9, and he competed in Platja d’Aro, Spain in the 2024 ITTF Costa Brava Spanish Para […]

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