Table Tennis
Anything to do with Table Tennis
Giovanni
@Giovanni -
over 2 years ago
2022 BUTTERFLY TEAMS ROUND ROBIN TOURNAMENT
January 14, 2022 Saturday, January 29th & Sunday, January 30th, 2022Tournament Sanctioned by USATT with over $6,000 in Total Cash and PrizesSponsored by Triangle Badminton & Table Tennis/Butterfly/Bowmar SportsTournament Director & Tournament Referee: A...continued
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Elian
@Elian -
almost 2 years ago
Euro Summer Series (II): All BUTTERFLY Men's Semifinals
July 21, 2022 (by Steve Hopkins)The second event in the Euro Summer Series, The WTT Champions European Summer Series 2022, has progressed to the Semifinals in Hungary. In an interesting turn, two of the top seeded Butterfly-sponsored players have reached the Semif...continued
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Alexie
@Alexie -
almost 2 years ago
NATIONAL TEAM TRIALS UPDATE: U15 BOYS AND GIRL EVENTS CONCLUDE, TRAN AND MOYLAND CONFIRM TOP SEED...
June 28, 2022 (By: Vlad Farcas)Saturday June 25th, the National Team Trials started in Fort Worth, TX at the Texas Wesleyan University. First events being played were Boys U15 and Girls U15 both having a significant number of entries including the best players for ...continued
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Casper
@Casper -
almost 2 years ago
PingPod Featured in Men's Health Article
May 25, 2022 (by Steve Hopkins)Last week, Men’s Health posted an article (and video) featuring PingPod and Adam Bobrow. The article was by Jeff Tomko – and featured a video with MH fitness director Ebenezer Samuel at Manhattan’s PingPod. Ebenezer and Adam openly ...continued
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Dayton
@Dayton -
almost 2 years ago
German League Rematch: Dusseldorf and Saarbrucken Advance to Final
May 15, 2022 by Steve Hopkins)Top seeded Borussia Dusseldorf dominated TTC Fulda 3-0 to advance to the Finals. Saarbrucken mirrored the result, dominating Muhlhausen 3-0 to advance.For Fulda, a solid season with Quadri Aruna (Africa’s top ranked player) playing co...continued
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Ryleigh
@Ryleigh -
over 3 years ago
WAB CLUB FEATURE: Allen & Sons - Butterfly Table Tennis
January 17, 2021(by Steve Hopkins)Located in the San Fernando Valley, North of Santa Monica and Malibu in the greater Los Angeles area is Allen & Sons Table Tennis Club. The club began as the passion of a successful, retiring businessman. Initially, the club provide...continued
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Gregoria
@Gregoria -
almost 2 years ago
Coaching Tip Of The Week - Five Ways To Force An Opponent Out Of Position
July 11, 2022 (by Larry Hodges)One of the best ways of winning a point is to force an opponent out of position. There are many ways of doing this. (Many start with serve.) Here are some of the best! (Note that “middle” means the transition point between forehand an...continued
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Izaiah
@Izaiah -
about 4 years ago
WAB CLUB FEATURE: Princeton Pong
February 3, 2020 (by Steve Hopkins) Princeton Pong’s 10,000 square foot table tennis facility is in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. They are located between Philadelphia and New York City – centered in one of the largest population centers in the United States...continued
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Elliott
@Elliott -
almost 3 years ago
Ask The Experts: Jun Gao No. 393
June 17, 2021 Butterfly Table Tennis Question and AnswerQuestion:Hello, I play a close to the table flipping game.Forehand: With the inverted rubber I like to slow and medium loop and the drive the ball. I place an inside out game. Control is a must. I also love to...continued
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Elliott
@Elliott -
almost 2 years ago
WTT Feeder Otocec: Woojin and Hirano Finish on Top
June 26, 2022 (by Steve Hopkins)When Xiang Peng, a highly ranked 19 year old Chinese player, defeated China’s 17 year old phenom Lin Shidong, it looked like he might ride his momentum all the way to the title. But the highest ranked player remaining, had a differe...continued
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Devin
@Devin -
over 1 year ago
Puerto Rico Dominates In Youth Panamericans Table Tennis Championships
August 7, 2022 (By: Edgardo Vazquez)Our National Puertoricans Youth Men’s team won the gold medal in the Team event of the U19 Pan American Championship held in Rosario, Argentina after beating Brazil 3-2 in the maximum number of matches.In addition to the gold med...continued
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Dayton
@Dayton -
almost 4 years ago
Seemiller - The American: Grand Rapids - Butterfly Table Tennis
May 15, 2020 Seemiller: The American (by Steve Hopkins) One of the most storied players in American table tennis history, Dan Seemiller. He first qualified for the US Team in 1972, was the top ranked player in the country by 1974, won five US National Championship...continued
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Alexandro
@Alexandro -
about 4 years ago
Pong, Flicks, and Chill. Below you’ll find a selection of movies
March 21, 2020 (by Steve Hopkins) Over the years there have been a lot of movies with table tennis included as a part of the plot. As much of the American public finds itself trapped at home scrolling through their streaming services looking for entertainment opti...continued
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Ezequiel
@Ezequiel -
over 4 years ago
Coaching Tip of the Week: Confidence, Then Consistency!
September 30, 2019 Coaching Tip of the Week: Confidence, Then Consistency! (By Larry Hodges) Many players practice hard to develop consistency, and from this consistency they develop confidence. This is backwards! Be confident first, and then, with practice, consis...continued
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Ezequiel
@Ezequiel -
over 2 years ago
WTT Star Contender Doha: Hugo Tops Field
September 26, 2021 (by Steve Hopkins)The World Table Tennis series is active again with a WTT Star Contender event in Doha this week. The top two seeds in Men’s Singles were Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Hugo Calderano – and other seeded players included USA’s Kanak Jha,...continued
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Hank
@Hank -
over 4 years ago
And the Champion Receives a Medal, a Check, and…a Stuffed Animal?
September 23, 2019 And the Champion Receives a Medal, a Check, and…a Stuffed Animal? (by Steve Hopkins) Have you ever wondered why top athletes are seen celebrating with a stuffed animal in one hand? This phenomenon appears to have begun at the Olympics where athl...continued
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Madalyn
@Madalyn -
about 4 years ago
Ask The Experts: Junya Chen No. 332. in Mississauga.
April 14, 2020 Butterfly Table Tennis Question and Answer Question: Should I close the racket angle after doing the forehand topspin shot. Is it different after a shot above and close to the table and under the table(close or far from it). My couch tells me ...continued
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Colin
@Colin -
about 3 years ago
Coaching Tip of the Week: Do You Really Play the Middle?
March 15, 2021 ( By Larry Hodges)Except at the advanced levels, few players really attack the middle effectively. What is the middle? It is roughly the opponent’s playing elbow, midway between forehand and backhand, where the opponent has to make a quick decision o...continued
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Kraig
@Kraig -
about 4 years ago
WAB Club Feature: Seattle Pacific Table Tennis Club
February 23, 2020 WAB Club Feature: Seattle Pacific Table Tennis Club (by Steve Hopkins) Seattle Pacific Table Tennis Club (SPTTC) is located in Bellevue, Washington, off of highway SR-520 just over Lake Washington from North side of Seattle. The club is 9600 squa...continued
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Alexzander
@Alexzander -
over 2 years ago
Franziska's Saarbrucken Squad Wins German Cup
January 8, 2022 (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...continued
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Marlon
@Marlon -
over 4 years ago
Ask The Experts: Jishan Liang, No. 271
September 6, 2019 Ask The Experts: Jishan Liang, No. 271 Butterfly Table Tennis Question and Answer Question: Hi, I am an intermediate player and I need a new blade-rubber combination. I want to buy an OFF- blade up to 100$. I can’t decide between these two:...continued
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Jaydon
@Jaydon -
over 1 year ago
Butterfly Open @ Club SJISC - Aug 20, 2022
August 4, 2022 South Jersey Indoor Sports Center545 RTE-73, West Berlin, NJ-08091 609-760-5396All matches are played for 11 points and 3 out of 5 games. Top 2 from each group will move to next round, if the group is split. Tournament director reserves right to chan...continued
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Eleanora
@Eleanora -
about 2 years ago
Big Team Changes for Ovtcharov: Major Upgrade for Neu-Ulm
April 15, 2022 (by Steve Hopkins)For several years, Dimitrij Ovtcharov has been the anchor on a Russian League team called Fakel Gazprom Orenburg. That Fakel team has been one of the strongest in the European Champions League and has been the dominant team in the R...continued
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Juliet
@Juliet -
over 3 years ago
100th Anniversary of the Birth of Hikosuke Tamasu The founder of Butterfly
August 20, 2020 Hikosuke Tamasu was born exactly one hundred years ago on August 20, 1920, in Yanai, Japan, as the eldest son of the Tamasu family. Hikosuke began to devote himself to table tennis, a sport for which there were few competitors at the time. Later, a...continued
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Izaiah
@Izaiah -
over 1 year ago
Is the Future of Penhold in Europe???
October 10, 2022 (by Steve Hopkins, photo ITTF World)Is the future of penhold in Germany and France? For those who have been watching the World Team Championships, you were treated to two penhold-versus-penhold matchups (both France versus Germany matches between F...continued
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