Mizutani documentary

Table Tennis Player Jun Mizutani has just ascended to the 5th spot in the World Rankings, his best ever.

Here is a very interesting documentary full of comedy by a leading journalist.

Mizutani shoots into Top five in World Table Tennis Rankings

Jun Mizutani is the biggest gainer and is now No. 5 on the World Table Tennis Rankings list. Ma Lin dropped a place and so did Timo Boll, who is now No. 7.

Zhang Jike, Ma Long, Xu Xin, and Wang Hao continue to lead the rankings.

From India, Sharath Kamal is no 63 and Amalraj moved up to 155th. Poulomi Ghatak and Mouma Das are in the top 200 in the Women's section.

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.

Chuan Chih Yuan wins Spanish World Tour (Pro Tour) 2012

Chuan Chih Yuan took full advantage of the absence of leading names and won the title at Spain beating Lee Jung Woo in the finals. Earlier, Chuan beat favourite Jun Mizutani in a tight decider, where Mizutani showed his sportsman spirit by acknowledging an edge point when the umpire did not see it.

Chuan has been among the top players for a very long time and was once ranked No. 3 in the World.

Editor

Jun Mizutani documentary

Nice documentary on Japan's Table Tennis star, Jun Mizutani with a lot of focus on his magic serves.



Editor, www.TableTennisBug.com

Kishikawa bags Japan Open title

Seiya Kishikawa beat his more famed rival, Jun Mizutani to win the Kobe Pro tour title. Kishikawa won 4-1.

Feng Tianwei won the women's title by comprehensively beating Ai Fukahara 4-0.

The highlight of the tournament was a spate of upsets in the initial rounds with a record number of seeds being shown the door in the Men's singles 1st rounds.

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Sharath gives Olympic Champ a fright

Sharath Kamal gave 2004 Olympic champion, Ryu Seung Min by extending him to the full 7 game distance before losing out narrowly 3-11,9-11,11-1,11-7,9-11,12-10, and 8-11 at the annual Pro Tour Grand Table Tennis finals.


Meanwhile, seeds continued to tumble. Top seed Vladimir Samsonov of Belarus lost to Jun Mizutani of Japan 2-4 in the semi-finals. The second seed, Ovtcharov had already lost in the very first round to Bastian Steger. Steger, continued his spectacular run and is playing Jun Mizutani in the finals. At the moment of writing this article, Jun is leading 2-1 in games.
(Update: Jun won the Grand finals beating Steger of Germany in the finals.)

Player Profile: Sanil Shetty (Mumbai Maharashtra, India)

Sanil Shetty is making waves at the National level and is slowly but surely also shining on the international turf. Just last week, he won the first state ranking tournament at Dhule, Maharashtra.

Here's a brief profile of this energetic and young star.

Name: Sanil Shetty

Club: Andheri YMCA, Matunga Gymkhana

Table Tennis Achievements:
2004 - Sub Junior National Champion
2004 - Canada (Teams) Gold Medal
2006 - SAF Juniors Gold Medal
2006 - Junior National Champion, 3 times Nationals Champion in Doubles
2008 - Youth Nationals Team Gold Medal
2009 - Youth Nationals Team Gold Medal
2009 - Winner, Men's Singles, West Zone National level tournament
2009 - Winner, Youth Singles, West Zone National level tournament
2009 - Kuwait Open U-21 Quarterfinals (Beat World No. 13)
World No. 93 highest Ranking in Under-21.

Coaches: Deepak Mani, Kamlesh Mehta

Favourite Player: Timo Boll, Jun Mizutani

Weapon of Choice: Forehand Topspin

TT Ambition: To participate in the Olympics and win a medal for India.

Hobby: Playing Video Games