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January 22, 2026 | Paul Stimpson England will find out which of the world’s leading nations they will face when the draw for the ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals takes place on Monday. The host nation will feature alongside the top seven seeds in Stage 1a at the OVO Arena Wembley, meaning the […]
January 21, 2026 | Paul Stimpson Of Marty Supreme in theaters and its star, Timothee Chalamet, hotly tipped to get an Oscar nomination later this week, we look at the World Championships medalist who inspired the character Marty Mauser. World Championships results courtesy of Matt Solt. Keep an eye on our website and social media […]
January 21, 2026 | Paul Stimpson Soraya Rahmani-Walentynska will aim to ‘upgrade’ her Under-15 title from last season to Under-19 gold this time around as the National Series reaches a climax this weekend. The London Academy player (pictured above) is the best player in Division 1 of the Junior section, where she faces a challenge […]
January 21, 2026 | Karen Tonge OBE Liverpool’s Neil Pickard was the winner of the Halton Senior Open 2* tournament held on Sunday 18 January, while Aneta Kula won the women’s competition. Liverpool’s Neil Pickard was runner-up and put in a thrilling performance to become the winner of the tournament. He defeated Cheshire’s Joe Killoran […]
Posted on January 19, 2026 (By Larry Hodges, US Table Tennis Hall of Fame Member, www.tabletenniscoaching.com/blog) The short answer is. . . whenever you want. But that ignores a problem players face when competing and trying to improve. Suppose you’ve spent a lot of time working on new techniques, but you […]
January 19, 2026 | Alan Ransome OBE Jakob Kurowski of Cambridgeshire’s Match Point Club was the winner of the Ormesby Senior Open 2 Star tournament held on Sunday 18 January 2026, one of a number of competitions to take advantage of the second day of the third British Club League weekend, which only had matches […]
January 19, 2026 | Paul Stimpson, courtesy of Diane Webb Gavin Evans and Paul Drinkhall have paid tribute to ‘genius’ coach Jia-Yi Liu, who has died aged 76. Jia-Yi oversaw an era of unprecedented success for young English athletes, including Evans and Paul Drinkhall, during a twenty-year spell in the performance and coaching department of […]
January 19, 2026 | Tony Oswick Of all eight groups in the Handicap Cup competition organized by the Clacton & District League, Group A appears to be the closest, with all four teams – Division One sides Nomads Panthers and Walton B, Division Two’s Brotherhood F and Third Division Windsor Falcons – still having a […]
January 19, 2026 | Paul Stimpson It’s like being at the top of the Senior British Clubs League, Championship division, after the top two teams both took three points from a possible four during the ‘pivot’ weekend. In the third of the five weekends there is only one day of action. Round 9 concludes the […]
