Table Tennis
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Jerrold
@Jerrold -
almost 3 years ago
Aditya Sareen and Ojo Onaolapo dominate at Princeton Pong 2022 January Open
January 13, 2022 Congratulations coach Ojo Onaolapo on winning Open Singles and especially to Aditya Sareen as he is now ranked number 1 in Under 15 boys and second in Under 18 Boys with the USATT Rating 2577.Aditya started playing in Jan of 2017 and achieved this ...continued
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Josiah
@Josiah -
about 3 years ago
Coaching Tip of the Week - A Good Warm-up
September 20, 2021 (By Larry Hodges)A warm-up is different than practice. Practice is to improve, maintain, or fine-tune a technique. Few players improve unless they do lots of this. However, the focus of this tip is on warming up.Warm-up is to groove your shots be...continued
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Sandrine
@Sandrine -
almost 2 years ago
Neu-Ulm Dream Team Wins Midyear Title
January 8, 2023 (by Steve Hopkins)Neu-Ulm has won the Pokal-Finale – the midyear Final Four championship of the German Table Tennis League.A year ago, it was all that TTC Neu Ulm could do just to stay in the middle of the pack in the German Table Tennis League. Th...continued
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Ericka
@Ericka -
over 2 years ago
TTBL Update: With Backs Against the Wall, Ochsenhausen over Neu-Ulm
February 24, 2022 (by Steve Hopkins)Ochsenhausen had a big win yesterday to keep their playoff hopes alive. At this point, the shorthanded squad that is missing two of its top three players, needs to win all of their remaining matches to have a chance. Muhlhausen...continued
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Elian
@Elian -
about 4 years ago
USATT'S Thursday Night Live: The Rachel Yang Show - Butterfly Table Tennis
October 15, 2020 (by Steve Hopkins) USA Table Tennis continued its T2 Challenge Series this week. The team format from previous versions has ended (Team Butterfly overcame Team Nittaku 6-3 in that Series). This week, the event matches two top juniors against each...continued
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Zetta
@Zetta -
almost 3 years ago
TTBL Update: Ochsenhausen Back in the Top Four with Six Weeks Left
February 5, 2022 (by Steve Hopkins)TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen topped ASV Grunwettersbach in a match with standing implications for both squads.For ASV, the loss caused them to move down to 11th in the TTBL Standings, a precarious position because the 11th and 12th f...continued
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Grayce
@Grayce -
over 2 years ago
Euro Summer Series (II): Harimoto Takes Title in Budapest
July 24, 2022 (by Steve Hopkins)The second event in the Euro Summer Series, The WTT Champions European Summer Series 2022, has come to a close in Hungary. Before this Final, Tomokazu Harimoto and Lin Gaoyuan were 2-2 in head to head match-ups. Had you looked at ...continued
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Muriel
@Muriel -
about 2 years ago
Butterfly Spin & Smash October Open - Saturday 1, Sunday 2, 2022
September 21, 2022 (By: Bowmar Sports Team)USATT Sanctioned 2-Star Table Tennis Tournament with $2,525 in Cash Prizes!Saturday, October 1 – Sunday, October 2, 2022Venue – Spin & Smash Table Tennis & Ping Pong Club, 2192 N. Wilson Rd. Columbus, OH 43228Staff...continued
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Grayce
@Grayce -
over 5 years ago
Ask The Experts: Tawny Banh, No. 250
July 6, 2019 Ask The Experts: Tawny Banh, No. 250Butterfly Table Tennis Question and Answer Question: Hi Can you elaborate on the differences between the butterfly viscaria , Jun mizutani zlc and Timo boll spirit. Both Timo boll spirit and viscaria se...continued
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Cynthia
@Cynthia -
almost 3 years ago
Dusseldorf and Saarbrucken Win - Ochsenhausen Struggles Again
January 30, 2022 (by Steve Hopkins)A few different stories of interest this week in the TTBL (Tischtennis Budesliga – Germany’s very competitive professional league).The top storyline is that both Borussia Dusseldorf and Saarbrucken won again – continuing to domina...continued
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Marjory
@Marjory -
almost 2 years ago
Play Games When Practicing Serves
February 13, 2023 (by Larry Hodges)Developing good serves involves watching players with good serves, getting good coaching, and lots and lots of practice. But sometimes, after all that practice, it’s hard to execute the serves in a game as you do in practice. Ther...continued
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Ismael
@Ismael -
about 5 years ago
Swedish Open Review: Swedes Out Early, Young Chinese Excel
October 6, 2019 Swedish Open Review: Swedes Out Early, Young Chinese Excel (by Steve Hopkins/Photo by ITTF) The 2019 ITTF World Tour Swedish Open was held this week in Stockholm. The first tour event of October brought out some of the world’s best, including four ...continued
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Allene
@Allene -
over 4 years ago
Coaching Tip Of The Week: Do You Have a Quadruple Threat Receive?
June 1, 2020 (By Larry Hodges) Many players get used to receiving any given serve the same way, because it’s safer that way. This is especially true against short serves, where many players predictably push everything back long. Others reach in and predictably flip...continued
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George
@George -
almost 3 years ago
2022 January Butterfly Teams Robin Round Tournament
February 3, 2022 On Saturday, January 29, 90 players gathered to compete in the 2022 January Butterfly Teams Robin Round Tournament.The Tournament was hosted at a local “We Are Butterfly Club”, Triangle Badminton and Table Tennis. The club welcomed local players fr...continued
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Patrick
@Patrick -
over 4 years ago
Coaching Tip of the Week: Three Types of Anticipation
May 25, 2020 (By Larry Hodges) There are three main types of anticipation in table tennis. You develop all three by practice and observation. Often the key to all of these is to learn when your opponent has committed to what he’s doing, especially his direction, so...continued
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Garnet
@Garnet -
almost 4 years ago
PongNow / 乒乓进行时: Liu Juan - Butterfly Table Tennis
December 12, 2020 (by Stephanie (西子) Sun (孫) 乒乓进行时 Chinese Language Interview – with English Subtitles. The PongNow interview series discusses table tennis with some of the best players and personalities in the sport. The guest this week is Liu Juan, a top U.S. ...continued
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Dayton
@Dayton -
almost 2 years ago
Coaching Tips of the Week: Should You Use a Super-Fast Racket?
December 19, 2022 (By Larry Hodges)Many beginning and intermediate players want a blazing fast racket, not realizing how much this is hurting their games. There are three problems with using a super-fast racket. First, it is simply too fast for most players to cont...continued
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Maureen
@Maureen -
about 2 years ago
WTT Contender: Top Americans Have Impact in Muscat
September 9, 2022 (by Steve Hopkins)USA’s Kanak Jha entered the WTT Contender Muscat as the 10th seed and had a solid run to the Semifinals. Lily Zhang entered as the 8th seed and advanced to the Final 8. The Contender Series is designed to bring players outside ...continued
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Ismael
@Ismael -
about 2 years ago
Coaching Tips of the Week: Increase Forearm Snap to Increase Smashing Speed
November 5, 2022 (By Larry Hodges)Many players have difficulty generating great speed on their smashes. Against lobbers and fishers, they often have to smash over and over and still they can’t win the point. Often the problem is lack of forearm snap. To generate gr...continued
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Rex
@Rex -
about 2 years ago
Butterfly San Antonio Fall Open Results And Tournament Report
September 27, 2022 (By: Vlad Farcas)On September 10th the 2022 BUTTERFLY San Antonio Fall Open, a 2-star USATT Sanctioned took place at the San Antonio Table Tennis Club in San Antonio, Texas. There were 63 players registered who competed in 8 events including 2 di...continued
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Zetta
@Zetta -
over 5 years ago
Ask The Experts: Truong Tu, No. 247
June 29, 2019 Ask The Experts: Truong Tu, No. 247 Butterfly Table Tennis Question and Answer Question: Hello Dear coach Truong, I am Wenyan and I did ask you some questions about two months ago. I really appreciate it. Right now, I have more questions w...continued
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Mariano
@Mariano -
about 3 years ago
WESTCHESTER OCTOBER 2021 OPEN
November 4, 2021 Congratulations to JISHAN LIANG for winning WESTCHESTER OCTOBER 2021 OPEN!Jishan is now the first player to win the Westchester Open four times in a row.OpenF: Jishan Liang def. Zongqi Zhong (12,10,9)SF: Jishan Liang def. Felix Lartey (9,4,6); Zong...continued
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Allene
@Allene -
about 3 years ago
World Championships Houston: The Draw
November 21, 2021 (by Steve Hopkins)In a ceremony today in Houston, officials pulled names to set up the draw for the World Championships. Fan Zhendong is the top seed in Men’s Singles, and he should have smooth sailing to the Round of 16. However, from that poin...continued
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Hulda
@Hulda -
over 2 years ago
Singapore Smash: Fan over Ma
March 20, 2022 (by Steve Hopkins)Since 2019, Fan Zhendong and Ma Long have faced off in 5 major tournament Finals. In those meetings, Fan Zhendong had won three of the four previous meetings. That is why even in an event like the Singapore Smash that finished tod...continued
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Teagan
@Teagan -
over 4 years ago
WAB CLUB FEATURE: Spartans Table Tennis Club
April 10, 2020 (by Steve Hopkins) With their location in Santa Clara, Spartans Table Tennis Club is just North of San Jose at the South tip of the San Francisco Bay with easy access to the major metropolitan centers of Northern California. The facility is over 165...continued
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