(by Steve Hopkins) The end of October is a great time to visit the Nation’s Capitol.  The leaves are changing (peak foliage in the DC area is from October 11-25), weekends are filled with festivals  and events (Fall Harvest Festival is Oct 23-24 at Mount Vernon, and the Smithsonian Craft Show  starts on the 23rd […]

(by Steve Hopkins) The Silicon Valley Table Tennis Club was founded in 2011.  The club features professional flooring, butterfly tables, good lighting and high ceilings.  It is a great environment for elite training.  There is also a Butterfly Pro shop for equipment needs. SVTTC is located in Milpitas, just North of San Jose on the […]

(by Steve Hopkins) Through much of the young German League (Tischtennis Bundesliga or “TTBL) season, second place Ochsenhausen has hung tight in tough 3-2 wins.  Before this weekend, Ochsenhausen had clinched each of those tight matches with a Doubles win, their secret weapon using the two young Polish players who play so well as a […]

(by Steve Hopkins) With many of the highest ranked players taking a break in this window between the Olympics (this Summer in Tokyo) and the World Team Championships (next month in Houston), the Asian Championships was missing a few big names.  Like the European Championships a week ago, there is some opportunity for younger players […]

(by Steve Hopkins) We are only two months away from the 2021 ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals – and the biggest table tennis event is coming to the biggest city in the USA’s biggest State (November 23-29). The venue is the George R. Brown Convention Center in the center of downtown Houston, Texas.  The […]

(by Steve Hopkins) The Song Jeho Table Tennis Club (“SJHTTC”) is centrally located in Los Angeles.  The club is located in Korea Town near the intersection of S Grand View St. and W 11th St. with easy access to the Santa Monica Freeway and the 110. The club’s namesake is “Jay” Song Jeho, a strong player […]

(by Steve Hopkins) Europe’s top teams battled this week in Cluj, Romania.  The German team featured Patrick Franziska, Benedikt Duda, and Dang Qiu – that is, two of their top players elected to sit out this Championships after taking some time off after the Olympics and even without Timo Boll and Dimitrij Ovtcharov, the German […]

(by Steve Hopkins) Europe’s top teams are battling this week in Romania.  The top seeds have been impressive with Germany and Sweden looking strong in the Men’s event and Germany and Romania leading the way in the Women’s event.  The biggest surprise thus far was a win by Russia over Austria, sending Russia into the […]

(by Steve Hopkins) No surprises at the top of the ITTF Rankings as the recent China National Games Champion Fan Zhendong stayed No. 1 while Olympic Champion Ma Long maintained the second spot.  The two are separated by under 300 points with 12,494 and 12,212 points respectively.  The third and fourth spots are also unchanged […]