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Top Seeds Push Forward At US Nationals

(by Steve Hopkins, photo by Butterfly) The top four seeded men reached the Quarters in Men’s Singles, and the top four seeded women reached the Quarters in Women’s Singles, as action is down to the final two days at the 2024 U.S. National Table Tennis Championships in Huntsville, Alabama. Kanak Jha dropped only one game […]

Doubles Takes Center Stage at US National Championships

(by Steve Hopkins, photo USATT) Nandan Naresh and Daniel Tran are the 2024 US Nationals Men’s Doubles Champions after logging a 3-1 win over Darryl Tsao and Victor Xie.  Amy Wang won a pair of doubles titles today, teaming up with Rachel Sung to win Women’s Doubles and teaming with Andrew Cao to win Mixed […]

WAB CLUB FEATURE: Helen Tao Table Tennis

(by Steve Hopkins) Helen Tao Table Tennis (formerly Massachusetts Table Tennis and Badminton Club (MATTBC)) is located in Waltham, about 12 miles to the West of downtown Boston.  The club is just off of I-95 and with easy access via public transportation is centrally located for the greater Boston area. The club is one of the […]

Dusseldorf Wins 34th TTBL Championship

(by Steve Hopkins) Borussia Dusseldorf and rival Saarbrucken were again matched in the Final of this year’s Liebherr TTBL Final.  The result was a 3-1 win for Dusseldorf as their secured their 34th German League Championship. For most of their matchups in recent years, the Dusseldorf squad has had the advantage on paper – with […]

Japan Sweeps WTT Events in Tunis

(by Steve Hopkins) Japan came to Tunisia in force, with Tomokazu Harimoto (World No. 11) the top seed in Men’s Singles, and little sister Miwa Harimoto (World No. 7) the top seed in Women’s Singles.  Japan was not the top seed in all of the events, but that did not keep them from sweeping all […]

WTT Youth Contender Series Visits Westchester, New York

(by Steve Hopkins) Westchester Table Tennis Center was the host of last week’s WTT Youth Contender Series event.  Players from all over the world competed, and American, Canadians, Puerto Ricans, and others were able to compete closer to home – as most of these events are centered in Europe and Asia. In the U19 Boys […]

Hodges’ Newest SciFi Book Introduces Aliens to Our Sport

(by Steve Hopkins) Earlier this month, Larry Hodges’ 10,000 word science fiction table tennis novelette was published by New Myths Magazine.  The story, “First Galactic Table Tennis Championships,” is online (and free to read). A hundred years into the future, aliens are playing table tennis, and following a new round of Ping-Pong Diplomacy, the best […]

US Nationals Preview: Action Starts in 10 Days

(by Steve Hopkins) Action starts in Huntsville on July 3.  Kanak Jha, USA’s only male Olympian, will be the top seed in Men’s Singles.  Jinxin Wang, Xiang Jing Zhang, Nandan Naresh, Sid Naresh, Dan Liu, Darryl Tsao, Andrew Cao, Mohammadreza Akhlaghpasand, and Ved Shesh are the rest of the Top 10 seeds in order.  On […]

Ovtcharov Back On Top in Lagos

(by Steve Hopkins, photo WTT) Dimitrij Ovtcharov entered the event as the top seed, and he dominated from start to finish.  Ovtcharov’s game scores were 3-0, 3-0, 3-0, 3-1, 4-1 (topping Kim, Kang, Ning, Poret, and Walther).  In fact, the only time that Ovtcharov was behind in a match was in the Semifinal, when he […]

WAB CLUB FEATURE: Gold Coast Table Tennis Club

(by Steve Hopkins) With their location on Main Street in Port Washington, the Gold Coast Table Tennis Club is easily accessible to Long Island, Queens, and the Bronx in New York.  The club is just a block from the Port Washington LIRR rail station, and easily accessible by other public transportation.   The club is 3500 […]

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