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WAB CLUB FEATURE: Boston Table Tennis Center

(by Steve Hopkins) The Boston Table Tennis Center is in Medford, just North of Cambridge and Somerville and only four miles from  Boston’s city center.  The club is just off I-93 (Northern Expressway), and near the Orange and Blue Lines, providing easy access to the greater Boston metropolitan area. The BTTC is a 3000 square foot […]

Puerto Rico Open Teams: March 1 Entry Deadline

(by Steve Hopkins) The deadline for registration into the 2023 Butterfly Puerto Rico Open is March 1 – just two weeks away. $17,000 in prizes.  A 4-Star event.  International teams.  Some of the best players in the world from Puerto Rico, the US, Mexico, Canada, Peru, and Ukraine. There’s something really special about this event.  […]

TT Community Rallies Relief Support for Turkey and Syria

(by Steve Hopkins) As the world continues to understand the devastation following the Kahramanmaras earthquake along the Turkish and Syrian border, relief groups are now mobilizing to look forward towards caring for survivors and helping to rebuild. The ITTF Foundation’s Emergency Relief Fund (ERF) is one of those relief groups. In the past, the ITTF’s […]

Euro Champions League: Neu Ulm and Saarbrucken Win Opening Semifinal Matches

(by Steve Hopkins, photo ITTFWorld) Neu Ulm’s loaded team of Harimoto, Moregardh, and Ovtcharov narrowly escaped their home match against Borussia Dusseldorf today 3-2.  Harimoto gave Neu Ulm the early lead with a 3-1 win over Dang Qiu.  Anton Kallberg then toppled Ovtcharov 3-0 to even the match score.  Moregardh narrowly defeated Timo Boll 3-2, […]

Play Games When Practicing Serves

(by Larry Hodges) Developing good serves involves watching players with good serves, getting good coaching, and lots and lots of practice. But sometimes, after all that practice, it’s hard to execute the serves in a game as you do in practice. There’s a simple reason for that – pressure. There’s no pressure when practicing serves, […]

USATT Names Fort Worth as 2023 Nationals Host

(by Steve Hopkins) USATT announced this week that Fort Worth, Texas has been awarded the this year’s US Nationals.   The 2023 US National Championships will be held at the Fort Worth Convention Center. Texas has been host to a number of high-profile events in recent year.  In 2022 Fort Worth hosted this same event (2022 […]

WAB CLUB FEATURE: Broward Table Tennis Club

(by Steve Hopkins) The Broward Table Tennis Club offers regular tournaments, camps, and coaching opportunities.  They have been a host of an  ITTF World Veterans Tour event and just a few months ago hosted a WTT Feeder Event. There are regular clinics on Tuesdays and Saturdays, courses for kids on Friday and Sunday, and a […]

Blocking Spinny Loops

(by Larry Hodges) You push the ball long, and the opponent does a slow but spinny loop. And you block it off, over and over, and can only stare at your racket in frustration. This is often the bane of every beginning and intermediate player. They know they have to aim lower, and yet, the […]

Dusseldorf Stays One Up on Surging Saarbrucken in TTBL

(by Steve Hopkins) Borussia Dusseldorf is hanging on to the top spot in the German League.  Their league best record is 13-3, but with two losses in as many weeks they are losing ground to FC Saarbrucken (who are now 12-4).  Ochsenhausen has fallen a position and is now two wins off the pace at […]

Harimoto Clan: Interview with Parents of Miwa and Tomokazu

(by Steve Hopkins) A news item today in Germany noted that editorial teams of tischtennis and myTischtennis have been cooperating with Chinese magazine Table Tennis World (乒乓世界).  The interview with the parents of Japanese superstars Miwa and Tomokazu appears in the February issue of tischtennis as well as in the current issue of Table Tennis […]

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