Two in a row for Calderano

August 3, 2025 (By Steve Hopkins, photo WTT) The WTT Contender Series event in Foz Do Iguacu, Brazil ended today and Brazil Hugo Calderano won second victory in so many tournaments. The $ 17,000 for first place is a nice price, and the 600 ranking points have to bring it to around 6200 total points-solid […]

Play system Unveiled for extensive Centenary World Championships – International Table Tennis Federation

London 2026 will mark a centenary like no other, while the world championships return to where it all started. When the inaugural world table tennis championships took place in London in 1926, few could have imagined how the sport would grow to become the global phenomenon that it is today. That same year also saw […]

A year ago: Chen Meng became back-to-back Olympic champion in Paris-International Table Tennis Federation

A year ago Chen Meng today etched her name in Olympic immortality. In an exciting ladies singles final that had everything-momentum fluctuations, breathtaking rallies and championships-won the defending champion World No. 1 Sun Yingsha with 4-2 to only become the third player in Table History to win back-to-back Olympic Singles Gold Medals. With her 4-2 […]

UMPIRE invitation for the WTT youth candidate Perth Perth

Deadline: 12 August 2025 (Tuesday) @ 2 p.m. The organizer of the event invites international referees to officially agree with the upcoming WTT youth candidate Perth. The event starts at 8one and will end at 11one October It is an open invitation, which is why not all submissions can be accepted. Only online nominations submitted […]

Shae Thakker also takes silver in Astana as a page and pickard on stage – Tennis England table

August 1, 2025 | Francesca Bullock Shae Thakker took silver in the men’s class 10 singles on the ITTF World Para Challenger Astana Tournament in Kazakhstan and there were also bronze medals for Plymouth Teenager Bailey Page in Herenklasse 7 and Fliss Pickard in women’s class 6. Men’s class 10 RR In the opening match […]

A year ago: Hugo Calderano became the first non-Asian, non-European Olympic semi-final-international table tennis federation

A year ago, Hugo Calderano rewritten history today. The Brazilian sensation became the first non-Asian, non-European player to reach a semi-final of the Olympic singles and rewrote the history books of the sport with an impressive 4-0 win over Jang Woojin van Korea Republic. But while Calderano’s continental breakthrough of day 6, South Paris Arena […]

The emerging talents of Asia gather in Vientiane for ITTF Asia Hopes Week – International Table Tennis Federation

The program brings 15 boys and 14 girls who represent countries that extend from Japan and Kazakhstan to the Maldives and the Philippines, with the geographical width of Asian table tennis. Training takes place in 16 tables at the location that will soon organize the WTT youth candidate Vientiane, so that participants offer authentic international […]