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September 8, 2025 (by Dr. Alan Ch, PhD CDC) Hugo Calderano’s journey from crushing Olympic disappointment to World Cup champion offers every table tennis player a blueprint for the recovery of a heavy competition. After missing the stage in Paris 2024, even though it was the highest ranked non-Asian/European player, Calderano faced his darkest competition. […]
September 8, 2025 (By means of Larry Hodges)) I had problems with his serve ”is probably the most common reason given for losing a competitive match. There is a good reason for this – receiving is the only time that the opponent can throw just about every turn to you, along with varied serving movements, […]
September 7, 2025 (By Steve Hopkins) The opening weekend of Major League -Tafel tennis contained six games on Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, California. The first two games were played on Friday – the Texas Smash versus the Bay Area Blasters and the Florida Crocs versus the Portland Peddlers. The Texas Smash won 15-6 over […]
September 7, 2025 (By Steve Hopkins) World No. 1 Lin Shidong will be confronted with KAO Cheng-jui, just one of the many exciting first round matchups at the WTT Champions Series event in Macao that starts on Tuesday. The second seed, Wang Chuqin will be confronted with Sora Matsushima. World No. 3 Tomokazu Harimoto will […]
September 7, 2025 (By Steve Hopkins) The old saying “Third Time’s A Charm” sounded today for Shunsuke Togami when his third trip to a WTT Final yielded his first career WTT event championship at the WTT -Contender series Event in Almatic, Kazakhstan. Togami caught fire today and took the first two games on the Chinese […]
A year ago today the curtain fell on what many considered as the largest paralympic Para table tennis competition in history. During two extraordinary days, South Paris Arena 4 witnessed breakthrough victories, redemption stories and historical scoops that have perfectly encapsulated the magic of Paralympic Sport. On September 6, Yunier Fernandez supplied one of the […]
September 6, 2025 (By Steve Hopkins, photo by WTT) All three victories were only 2 points, but the 21 -year -old Ryoichi Yoshiyama’s speed prevailed over Darko Jorgic while the top seeds were eliminated. Yoshiyama actually had one of the most difficult treks in the early rounds of the WTT Contender Series event in Almaty, […]
September 5, 2025 | Francesca Bullock A former paralympic and talented manager, he helped transform the landscape of a handicap sport by his tireless representation of interest and inclusion and his legacy as one of the founders of the British Table Tennis Association for Handicapped, now known as British Para Table Tennis. Chairman of the […]
One year ago today, South Paris Arena 4 Witnessed An Extraordinary Day of Paralympic Para Table Tennis That Rewrote History Books And Delivered Some of the Most Emotionally Charged Moments of Paris 2024. Gold Medal Matches Unfiled, And, And, And, And, And, Breakthrough Achievement. The Chinese Feng Panfeng achieved sporty immortality and claimed his tenth […]
