Liebherr Men's World Cup Table Tennis tournament at Halmstad, Sweden

The Invitational Men's World Cup Table Tennis tournament will be held from October 16-18 in Sweden.

Player list from official Web site, courtesy of the ITTF.

1	HENZELL William   AUS	103555	M			X				03/23/1982	09/10/2015 8:44:09 AM
2	GARDOS Robert   AUT	102968	M			X				01/16/1979	09/10/2015 8:46:11 AM
3	TSUBOI Gustavo   BRA	109581	M			X				05/31/1985	09/10/2015 8:43:37 AM
4	FAN Zhendong   CHN	121404	M			X				01/22/1997	09/10/2015 8:47:57 AM
5	MA Long   CHN	105649	M			X				10/20/1988	09/10/2015 8:35:00 AM
6	ASSAR Omar   EGY	100696	M			X				07/22/1991	09/10/2015 8:43:23 AM
7	GAUZY Simon   FRA	112062	M			X				10/25/1994	09/10/2015 8:45:34 AM
8	OVTCHAROV Dimitrij   GER	107028	M			X				09/02/1988	09/10/2015 8:44:21 AM
9	GIONIS Panagiotis   GRE	103107	M			X				01/07/1980	09/10/2015 8:45:03 AM
10	TANG Peng   HKG	109253	M			X				02/04/1981	09/10/2015 8:45:16 AM
11	ACHANTA Sharath Kamal   IND	104314	M			X				07/12/1982	09/10/2015 8:46:28 AM
12	NIWA Koki   JPN	110729	M			X				10/10/1994	09/10/2015 8:46:46 AM
13	MIZUTANI Jun   JPN	106195	M			X				06/09/1989	09/10/2015 8:44:35 AM
14	APOLONIA Tiago   POR	100621	M			X				07/28/1986	09/10/2015 8:45:52 AM
15	FREITAS Marcos   POR	102841	M			X				04/08/1988	09/10/2015 8:44:49 AM
16	GAO Ning   SIN	102943	M			X				10/11/1982	09/10/2015 8:47:03 AM
17	KARLSSON Kristian   SWE	104379	M			X				08/06/1991	09/10/2015 8:47:22 AM
18	KALLBERG Anton   SWE	116853	M			X				08/17/1997	09/10/2015 8:47:39 AM
19	CHUANG Chih-Yuan   TPE	101820	M			X				04/02/1981	09/10/2015 8:48:22 AM
20	BUTLER Jimmy   USA	101407	M			X				02/15/1971	09/10/2015 8:43:53 AM

Gao Ning, Feng Tianwei lead new faces at the Asian Table Tennis Championships at Pattaya

Gao Ning, Yang Zi, Pang Xue Jie and Clarence Chew, and Edric Lim will be representing Singapore at the Asian Table Tennis Championships at Pattaya.

Feng Tianwei, Yu Mengyu, and teenagers Yee Herng Hwee, Goi Rui Xuan and Eunice Lim have been chosen in the Women's team.

Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyu (29th) will lead the team, but teenagers Yee Herng Hwee (447th), Goi Rui Xuan (624th) and Eunice Lim (652nd) - See more at: http://www.tnp.sg/sports/team-singapore/three-new-faces-singapore-womens-table-tennis-team-asian-championships#sthash.JdmmTjYE.dpuf

Gao Ning, Yang Zi, Pang Xue Jie and Clarence Chew

Achanta Sharath Kamal and team reach European Champions League (ECL) finals

Sharath Kamal, Timo Boll and Patrick Franziska clicked as a team to reach the finals of the European Champions (Table Tennis) League.

Borussia Düsseldorf won 3-1 against Chartres ASTT. Timo won two points for the top German team while Sharath again showed his class by beating veteran Damien Eloi. Chartres was unlucky that Gao Ning was unable to play due to injury.

Borussia will now fight for the title against Dimitrij Ovtcharov and team.

Editor

Photo: teamusa.org

Timo Boll and Ma Long playing doubles finals together at the China open

Photo courtesy the ITTF

Timo Boll and Ma Long on the same side of the table? Yes! ITTF and the Chinese TT officials, players and coaches are promoting Table Tennis in unique ways. One such recent development has been that players of two different countries have been allowed to form doubles combinations.

In the China Open, they will be playing the finals today at 4 PM local time at Changchun, China.

Incidentally, Sanil Shetty and Sharath Kamal lost 1-3 to top seeds Gao Ning and Li Hu in the same tournament at the pre-quarterfinal stage.

Editor

Timo Boll is the favorite for the Japan Open Table Tennis 2012 title

The Japan Open ITTF World Tour is starting today. Timo Boll is the top seed in the Men's section. Timo is currently ranked no. 6 in the World. 

He is followed in the seedings list by Jun Mizutani, Joo Se Hyuk, Chuang Chih-Yuan and Gao Ning who are No. 7, 8, 10 and 14 respectively in the World rankings.

For those of you wondering why he is ranked so low, part of the reason for the low ranking is his lower participation level in the World Tour (Pro tour) tournaments.

Sharath and Subhajit beaten at the Pro Tour Grand finals

Commonwealth gold medalists Sharath Kamal and Subhajit Saha faced the wrath of the Commonwealth finalists. The lost 0-4 to GAO Ning and YANG Zi 8-11,1-11,3-11,7-11 in the first round of the Pro Tour Grand Finals.

Sharath's hopes are still alive in the tough Singles competition where he faces Lee Sang Su of Korea in the first round today.