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Thinking Big: 2021 WTTC in Houston

(by Steve Hopkins, photo credit:  Jujutacular ) Things are bigger in Texas.  Big spaces, big cities, big stories, and big dreams.  What better place to host the biggest event in our sport, the World Table Tennis Championships is coming to Houston in 2021. The award followed a presentation to the ITTF today by the U.S. Delegation including Dragomir Cioroslan […]

Zhang To Compete in Her 8th World Championships Appearance

Zhang To Compete in Her 8th World Championships Appearance Zhang To Compete in Her 8th World Championships Appearance (By Matt Hetherington) Lily Zhang will represent the USA at her 8th World Table Tennis Championships after solidifying her number 1 seeding position by taking proceedings on Day 1 of the 2017 US National Team Trial. She […]

Zhang Eyes 8th World Championship Opportunity

BY MATT HETHERINGTON Two time Olympian Lily Zhang will head to Triangle Table Tennis Center, NC at the end of this month to compete in the US National Team Trials, 23-26 March. Four women and four men will qualify for the 2017 ITTF Leibherr World Table Tennis Championships to be held in Dusseldorf, Germany. If […]

Two Current Stars Withdraw, Two Stars of Yesteryear

Two Current Stars Withdraw, Two Stars of Yesteryear Venerable Replacements Courtesy of ITTF Injury has forced both Germany’s Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Chinese Taipei’s Chuang Chih-Yuan out of the forthcoming Perfect 2016 World Team Championships, which commence in the Malaysian capital city of Kuala Lumpur on Sunday February 28th. Conversely two stars return to the scene, […]

2016 World Championships Draw

2016 World Championships Draw: European Champions Face World Champions, Draw Completed in Kuala Lumpur Courtesy of ITTF   Crowned European champions in late September; at the forthcoming Perfect 2016 World Team Championships, which commence in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday February 28th; in the initial stage of proceedings, Austria faces a prodigious familiar adversary in their […]

The Youngest Ever, Now or Never for Miu Hirano, Mima Ito and Fan Zhendong

Courtesy of ITTF Winner of the Women’s Singles title, earlier this year at the GAC Group 2015 ITTF World Tour German Open, when only 14 years and 152 days old; Japan’s Mima Ito set a new record in the youngest ever stakes. Earlier, in December in partnership with Miu Hirano, the duo had won the […]

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