(by Steve Hopkins) From the classic VISCARIA and PRIMORAC blades, to the ALC and ZLC blades made popular by players on the ITTF Tour, to the Cellulose NanoFiber (CNF) blades, here are are the TOP 10 blades of 2021 – from the top table tennis company in North America. A quick overview of Butterfly blade […]

(by Steve Hopkins) Last week, China Daily, the largest English media portal in China, ran a recap article about the World Championships focused on Kanak Jha and his thoughts about his pairing with Wang Manyu.  The original article was posted on January 3 and can be read in its entirety on their site. Below, we […]

(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. There are regular clinics on Tuesdays and Saturdays, courses for kids on Friday and Sunday, and a handicap event every Friday. BTTC is at 3371 N. University Drive […]

(by Steve Hopkins) Borussia Dusseldorf maneuvered through the first half of the season undefeated.  Their talented squad of Timo Boll, Anton Kallberg, Kristian Karlsson, and Dang Qiu had beaten most of the other German League teams 3-0 or 3-1. At this halfway point, the top four teams in the German League compete in the German Cup.  […]

(by Steve Hopkins) Triangle Badminton and Table Tennis has emerged from a transition as a multi-sports facility with a focus on both Badminton and Table Tennis. When full focused on table tennis, the facility is one of the largest in the country able to hold large events with nearly perfect conditions – as the facility was […]

(by Steve Hopkins) There are a lot of different ways to play our game – and it is played at many different levels. This isn’t an article about our US Team members striving to hone professional skills to become relevant on the World stage, and it isn’t an article about young players honing their skills […]

by Steve Hopkins In 2021, Butterfly worked hard to provide entertainment and information through videos, articles, reviews, and interviews.  Below is a list of 10 of our favorite Bowmar Sports videos of 2021. Our most viewed video was a March edition of ASK THE EXPERTS featuring David Zhuang discussing the Timo Boll ALC blade and […]

(by Steve Hopkins) As 2021 draws to a close, ButterflyOnline.com is taking a look back at the top stories, headlines and highlights from the year in table tennis. Here’s our  list of BUTTERFLY TOP MOMENTS of 2021:   Boll Perfect as Dusseldorf takes German Cup Boll and Dusseldorf Perfect:  As January 2021 started, the German […]

(by Steve Hopkins) The 2021 calendar year ended with the US Open.  Usually, this event is the premier event in the country, but with the World Championships held in Houston just a few weeks earlier, this was not a typical year.  It seems we’ve had a lot of atypical events (and atypical years) of late – […]

(by Steve Hopkins) While the Open Singles events, the premiere events of the US Open Table Tennis Championships are just getting to the Quarterfinals, other events have concluded. Canada’s Simeon Martin won the U-21 Men’s Singles event.  Martin took advantage of a lucky draw (top seed, Vlialta Garcia fell in the group stage to Taran […]