WAB CLUB FEATURE: Denver Table Tennis Alliance (by Steve Hopkins) With its location on Curtis Street, just North of Denver’s city center, Denver Table Tennis Alliance has easy access to the greater metropolitan area. The club features 8 butterfly tables, barriers, great lighting, and rubber Gerflor-Taraflex flooring (wood color). At DTTA, a quality facility is […]
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2019 Hungarian Open Recap
2019 Hungarian Open Recap (by Steve Hopkins) Budapest was host of the Seamaster 2019 ITTF World Tour, Hungarian Open. The top four seeds in the men’s event were Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin, Lin Gaoyuan, and Hugo Calderano. The women’s event also included a strong contingent of Chinese players with all of the top four tournament seeds […]
The Grinding Mentality – How to Play It and Against It
The Grinding Mentality – How to Play It and Against It (By Larry Hodges) The Grinder is a style of play, or really a mentality, where your single-minded focus is on not making any mistakes, and not giving the opponent any easy shots. This often means trying to stretch out rallies as long as possible, […]
Getting to Know Brian Afanador
(original article at elVocero.com, shown here in Spanish. Loosely translated and edited by Steve Hopkins with assistance from Google Translate.) With the 2019 Pan American Cup coming to Puerto Rico in a few weeks, Brian Afanador is feeling some additional pressure. His training regimen now includes two innovations that are aimed at efficiency: working fully with French coach […]
Where Are They Now? Wilson Club Series #3
Where Are They Now? Wilson Club Series #3 (by Steve Hopkins) Article 3: Bowie, Ty, and Building the Wilson Program For a period from 1985-1992, Wilson, North Carolina became a model for developmental, grass-roots table tennis. With Butterfly’s North American distributor (Martin Kilpatrick – now Bowmar Sports) located in Wilson, there is a long history […]
Butterfly 2019 February BTTC Open Tournament
(Courtesy of Broward Table Tennis Club) Butterfly 2019 February BTTC Open Tournament WHEN: SINGLES Friday & Saturday Feb 15,16 / TEAMS Sunday Feb 17, 2019 WHERE: 3371 N. University Drive, Davie FL 33024 SANCTIONED BY: U.S. Table Tennis Organization TOURNAMENT RATING: Four Star TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR: Carlos Zeller TOURNAMENT COMMITTEE: Carlos Zeller, Terese Terranova REFEREE: Terese […]
2019 CUSTTA TEAM OPEN
2019 CUSTTA TEAM OPEN Date: Saturday & Sunday, January 26th & 27th, 2019 Address: Calgary United Sports Table Tennis Association Bay #5, 401-33rd Street NE, Calgary, AB T2A 7R3 Sanctioned by: Alberta Table Tennis Association & Table Tennis Canada Entry Deadline: 9:30 pm Monday, January 21st, 2019 Equipment: White 3-star Butterfly G40+ balls (sponsored by […]
WAB Featured Club: Rhode Island Table Tennis Association
WAB Featured Club: Rhode Island Table Tennis Association (by Steve Hopkins) On January 21st, the Rhode Island Table Tennis Association will host its first sanctioned event of 2019, the RITTA WINTER OPEN. Our Fall tournament was won by Charles Deng, former US Team member now a local Brown University student. January 21st should be an exciting day […]
Raising the Bar to Reign Supreme
Raising the Bar to Reign Supreme (by Johnathan Humbles / Table Tennis Canada) From the start of the day it was obvious that there was a mixed doubles team there to ball. They showed no fear as they tore through the competition. Amassing a combined 66-23 point differential in just the two round-robin stages, Eugene […]
Picture This: Willy Leparulo’s View at the US Open
Picture This: Willy Leparulo’s View at the US Open (by Willy Leparulo) Picture this. The home of Walt Disney World, Sea World, Epcot and more, but the main event for me was the 2018 US Open of Table Tennis in Orlando, Florida at the Orange County Convention Center. People think of Orlando as having a […]
Product Validation – Timo Boll Post Career Set up
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(by Steve Hopkins, photo TTCanada) The Canadian Nationals are split into two events with the senior event first… Read More
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Incorporating the Wait Function
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Play 60% of Your Maximum Power
July 23, 2025
Robot will play RANDOM top spin balls anywhere on the table, either Forehand topspin or Backhand topspin to… Read More
Don’t Hang Out
July 21, 2025
Robot will play RANDOM top spin balls to 2/3 of the table (Forehand), only Forehand topspin to Backhand… Read More
#4 Heavy Pushes that don’t let the opponent take the initiative (final episode)
July 21, 2025
Feature] [Special feature] America’s star! Jha’s strong points #4 Short Pushes that don’t let the opponent take the… Read More
Three Things You Want To Do In The First Game
July 21, 2025
(By Larry Hodges) Establish your game. For example, if you have a strong third-ball attack, such as short… Read More
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