(BY MATT HETHERINGTON) The second day of the 2017 ITTF North American Hopes Qualification Tournament would decide the two players, one boy and one girl, who will represent North America at the 2017 ITTF World Hopes Trial in Luxembourg. The top 10 boys and top 8 girls had been decided on day 1 by round […]
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Youth Excel at NJTTC Hopes Regional Camp and Trial
(BY DEV DASSARMA/NJTTC) The New Jersey Regional Hopes Training Camp and Trial were held on weekend of March 25-26th at the NJTTC with twenty young players participating in the different events. They came from all over the Northeast with players from six states present namely New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts and Maryland. The key observation was […]
2016 ITTF World Hopes Week and Challenge
2016 ITTF World Hopes Week and Challenge Courtesy of USA Table Tennis USATT would like to congratulate Len Yang who was successfully selected as a member of the World Hopes Team (11/12 year old) after his results at the Trial which was held in Doha, Qatar. Len follows in the footsteps of other Hopes players […]
2015-16 ITTF North America Hopes Challenge
2015-16 ITTF North America Hopes Challenge Courtesy of ITTF North America Table Tennis Canada and ITTF North America will be the organizers for this event. The tournament will feature the best North American Hopes Players in America to grasp a spot on the ITTF World Hopes Team. A maximum of four players per gender from Bermuda, […]
Belize Hosts Successful Hopes Week
Belize Hosts Successful Hopes Week at Recently Open Training Center Courtesy of ITTF Situated in Central America, the one country in the region where English is the first language, recently Belize hosted a National Hopes Week which included a Challenge Tournament. Proceedings commenced on Monday November 23rd and concluded on Monday November 30th; head coach […]
Destination Sharm El-Sheik, Hopes Team Announced for World Cadet Challenge
Seven days in Shanghai concluded on Sunday July 5th, the nominations for the Hopes Team to compete in the ITTF World Cadet Challenge, to be staged in the historic Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheik from Friday October 23rd to Saturday October 31st, are announced. Nikhil Kumar of the United States alongside Nigeria’s Abayomi Animasahun, Singapore’s […]
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