Table Tennis Bug: May 2015

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Mumbai Super League Table Tennis auction today

Player auction day of the MSL today!

Editor

Anurag Gote beats Shubhankar Ranade to bag the Men's title at Pune District Table Tennis Ranking tournament

Anurag Gote fought back from 0-2 to win 4-2 against the stylish Shubhankar Ranade in the Men's Singles Finals of the Pune District Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Deccan Gymkhana, Pune. The tournament was sponsored by Le Meridien.

In a thrilling match that was a treat to watch for the spectators, Anurag unleashed his steady heavy spin-oriented game, and prevailed in the end.

Editor

Friday, May 22, 2015

2015 State, National, District Ranking and other Table Tennis Tournaments in India

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We have received the following information.

**Pune District Inter Club at Pune from May 18 to 24. 2015
**9th All Assam Table Tennis Ranking Championships at Golaghat Indoor Stadium, Assam
**1st Pune District Ranking Table Tennis tournament (2015) at Pune from May 25, 2015
**1st Karnataka State Ranking Table Tennis tournament (2015) at Bengaluru (Cantonment) from May 28 to 31
**Mumbai Suburban District Inter club divisions II to IV at Mumbai from 29 May to 6 June 2015
**1st Mumbai 4 Star (MCD/MSD) PRO TT Tournament 10th To 15 June 2015 at
University Pavilion, Marine Lines, Mumbai
**1st Gujarat State Ranking Table Tennis tournament (2015) at Godhra from June 11-14, 2015
**Kerala State Ranking TT tournament at Kadavanthra, from June 12 to 14.
**2nd Gujarat State Ranking Table Tennis tournament (2015) at Porbandar

**Mumbai Super League Table Tennis from June 20-21, 2015

**7th All Assam Open Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Guwahati
**Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Juhu Vile Parle Gymkhana from July 15-19, 2015
**Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Sangli from July 21-25, 2015
**Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Yavatmal from Aug 5-9, 2015
**Kerala State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Alapuzha from July 3 to 5, 2015
**Telangana Ranking Table Tennis tournament July 1st week, 2015
**3rd Major Gujarat State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Anand from July 11to 14 2015
**Karnataka State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Belgaum from July 11 to 14 2015
**1st Andhra Pradesh State veterans’ table tennis tournament at Vijayawada Club in Guntur District on July 12
**2nd Open Ahmedabad Raning Table Tennis tournament from July 24 to 26 at
**1st Open Kutch Table Tennis Tournament on 26th July 2015 at Ekalavya Sports Academy

**Kerala State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Trivandrum from July 24 to 26, 2015
**4th Gujarat State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Vadodara from July 29 to August 1 2015

**All India Inter Institutional Championships from August 3 to 8, 2015 (Tentative)
**Kerala State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Ambalamedu from August 7 to 9, 2015
**Kerala State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Calicut from August 22 to 23, 2015
**5th Gujarat State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Bhavnagar from August 20 to 23 2015
**South Zone National Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Chennai from August 11 to 16 (Tentative)

**Kerala State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Wayanad from September 4 to 6 2015

**11Even Sports Indian Junior Open at Indore from September 9 to 13, 2015

**Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Mumbai from September 11-16, 2015
**Gujarat State and Inter District Table Tennis Championships at Gandhidham from September 12 to 15, 2015
**Kerala State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Ernakulam from September 18 to 20, 2015

**Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Dombivli from September 22-28, 2015

**Kerala State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Munnar from October 3 to 4, 2015
**Central Zone India National Ranking at Jamnagar from October 4 to 9, 2015 (Tentative)
**Kerala District Championships from October 3 to 4 2015
**West Zone National Ranking Table Tennis at Thane from October 14 to 19. 2015 (Tentative)
**Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships at Surat October 27 to November 1, 2015
**North Zone National Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Haryana from November 2 to 7, 2015 (Tentative)
**East Zone National Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Assam
**Indian Junior National Table Tennis tournament at Himachal Pradesh
**Sub Junior National Table Tennis tournament at West Bengal
**Senior National Table Tennis Championships at Hyderabad from January 5 to 10, 2015 (Tentative)
**Kerala State Championships at Trivandrum

Saturday, May 16, 2015

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Monday, May 11, 2015

Timo stars for Borussia in the first leg of the European Champions League

Sharath Kamal is nursing an injury but his team, Borussia Dusseldorf won the first leg of the European Champions League 3-1. The hero was Timo Boll who beat Ovtcharov and Samsonov.

Borussia Dusseldorf – Fakel Gazproma Orenburg 3:1

Timo BOLL – Vladimir SAMSONOV 3:0 (11:3, 11:7, 14:12)
Patrick FRANZISKA – Dimitrij OVTCHAROV 1:3 (2:11, 11:6, 8:11, 7:11)
Panagiotis GIONIS – Alexey SMIRNOV 3:1 (11:3, 11:5, 8:11, 11:4)
Timo BOLL – Dimitrij OVTCHAROV 3:2 (7:11, 11:7, 8:11, 11:7, 12:10)

Photo courtesy Borussia

Friday, May 8, 2015

Table Tennis Rally of the Century

Have you missed the rally of the Century?

Take a look at this fantastic point between Ma Long and Fang Bo at the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships.

Although Fang Bo, won this point, Ma Long went on to win the title and become World Champion.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HSNbOUyBy4

TTFI will not hire Foreign coach

India's official Table Tennis Federation, TTFI will not hire a foreign head coach for the Rio Olympics of 2016. Instead, top officials have decided to appoint two Asian coaches for the Junior TT teams.

This decision is expected to have adverse consequences on the Women's team and does not affected the Men's team (whose members train in Europe).

Photo: TheHindu.com

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

ITTF announces a $100,000 Table Tennis development package for Nepal

In a good show of solidarity, the ITTF and its continental members pledged one hundred thousand dollars to develop Table Tennis in the earthquake affected country of Nepal.

In addition to this, gifts were exchanged between the coach and players of Nepal and some of Table Tennis' leading legends like Wang Liqin and Jean Michel Saive. The ex-vice world champion Saive also showed interest in holding a coaching camp for Nepalese players.

(Photo courtesy of the ITTF)

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Sharath Kamal climbs to No. 32 in the Table Tennis world rankings

Another historic moment for Indian Table Tennis!

Sharath Kamal climbs to No. 32 in the world.
In addition to this, we also have two Indians in the top 100 World Mens Table Tennis rankings list.

Editor

Ma Long beats Fang Bo to win the World Table Tennis Championship title

Ma Long is the World Champion. Incidentally, he is also the World No. 1.

After three failed attempts in 2009, 2011, 2013, Ma Long finally made it.
He beat the surprise finalist Fang Bo 4-2 (who had upset Grand Slam champion Zhang Jike).

Earlier in the Championship, Ding Ning won the Women's final.

Photos courtesy of the ITTF and Rajeev Sharma.