Ma Long, Ding Ning top seeds at the Polish World Tour Table Tennis tournament at Warsaw

The GAC Group 2015 ITTF World Tour, Polish Open (Major), will be held from 21 Oct 2015 - 25 Oct 2015 at Warsaw, Poland.

The tournament assumes importance as it will be an important opportunity for players to qualify for the prestigious, season-ending Grand finals.

World Champion and World No. 1 is the top seed in the Men's section while Ding Ning is heading the seeding list on the Women's side.

Other stars who are participating are Xu Xin, Fan Zhendong, Zhang Jike, Mizutani, Ovtcharov, Liu Shiwen, Zhu Yuling, Li Xiaoxia, Ai Fukuhara and others.

Liebherr Men's World Cup Table Tennis, Halmstad, Sweden; participants list

Participants at a previous World Cup

The following is the list of participants for the World Cup Liebherr Men's World Cup

Table Tennis World Cup participants

HENZELL William   AUS	127
GARDOS Robert   AUT	26
TSUBOI Gustavo   BRA	65
FAN Zhendong   CHN	3
MA Long   CHN	1
ASSAR Omar   EGY	35
GAUZY Simon   FRA	28
OVTCHAROV Dimitrij   GER	5
GIONIS Panagiotis   GRE	25
TANG Peng   HKG	15
ACHANTA Sharath Kamal   IND	59
MIZUTANI Jun   JPN	6
NIWA Koki   JPN	14
FREITAS Marcos   POR	8
APOLONIA Tiago   POR	22
GAO Ning   SIN	20
KARLSSON Kristian   SWE	61
KALLBERG Anton   SWE	85
CHUANG Chih-Yuan   TPE	10
BUTLER Jimmy   USA	442

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

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.

Liang Jingkun, who beat Zhang Jike and Ma Long playing in Mumbai!

One of the players participating in the Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships at Mumbai. He has beaten World and Olympic Champion Zhang Jike and Ma Long in the Chinese trials!

Editor

Ma Long beats Fan Zhendong to win the Chinese National Games title

Ma Long won the prestigious Chinese National Games Table Tennis title, but not before he was taken all the way down to the wire by the young teenage beast, Fan Zhendong.

Fan beat World and Olympic Champion Zhang Jike and Xu Xin in the quarterfinals and semi finals!

India fights it out in the Asian Table Tennis Championships at Busan

India faced China in the Quarterfinals of the Men's team event at the Asian Table Tennis Championships at Busan, Korea. Amalraj gave a decent fight to Yan An in the third singles.

China fielded a new gen team with Ma Long as the backbone. Sharath lost to Fan Zhendong and Soumyajit to Ma Long.

It is good to see that Indian TT players are consistently meeting world class players. It surely means that progress is being made and they are only being stopped by the best.

Meanwhile, some stand-out performances by Indian women players at the Asian Table Tennis Championships:

Mouma Das put up a spirited fight against World No. 2 Liu Shiwen.
Neha Aggarwal played true to her strength throughout the team event matches.

Zhang Jike and Seo Hyun Deok win unique doubles tournament at the Korean Open 2013

Zhang Jike and Seo Hyun Deok won the Men's doubles title at the Korean open World Tour Table Tennis tournament. In the finals, they beat Ma Long and Lee Jung Woo.

The Korean Open was a pioneer tournament in a very important way since Chinese players combined with players from other countries. For example. Zhang Jike with Seo Hyun Deok, Ma Long with Lee Jung Woo, Xu Xin with Adrien Mattenet, and Wang Hao with Jung Youngsik. China is trying to encourage other countries to do well and this attempt one of the many that China will roll out in the near future. Olympic and World Champion, Zhang Jike and Chinese head coach, Liu Guoliang are trying to promote Table Tennis in a big way in general.

Results:

Semi finals

Zhang Jike and Seo Hyun Deok beat Adrien Mattenet and Xu Xin 14-12, 11-5, 7-11, 6-11, 11-7
Ma Long and Lee Jungwoo beat Yan An and Lee Sangsu 11-6, 12-10, 11-9

Finals
Zhang Jike and Seo Hyun Deok beat Ma Long and Lee Jungwoo 11-8, 7-11, 11-8, 7-11, 11-8

Chinese Table Tennis team trials for Paris World Championships

The final leg of the Chinese team trials are starting. The favorites to qualify are Zhang Jike, Ma Long, and Xu Xin. But Jike suffered an injury recently.

The other experienced players in the fray are Ma Lin, Chen Qi, and Wang Hao.

The youngsters who will challenge experience are Yan An and Fan Zhendong.

Ma Long beats Yan An to win Qatar Open World Tour Table Tennis tournament

Ma Long tops! He beat Yan An in a thrilling final. World and Olympic champ, Zhang Jike, retired hurt in an earlier round.

Ding Ning won the women's title beating Liu Shiwen.

(Photo courtesy xinhuanet.com

Editor

World Cup Table Tennis participants

The Final List of players invited to the World Table Tennis Cup from tomorrow at Liverpool:

7 BOLL Timo (GER1)

91 HENZELL William (AUS)

127 MONTEIRO Thiago (BRA)

159 SALEH Ahmed Ali (EGY)

430 THERIAULT Pierre-Luc (CAN)

83 DRINKHALL Paul (ENG1)

21 MAZE Michael (DEN)

145 PITCHFORD Liam (ENG2)

2 MA Long (CHN2)

8 CHUANG Chih-Yuan (TPE)

9 OVTCHAROV Dmitrij (GER2)

11 JOO Saehyuk (KOR1)

12 OH Sangeun (KOR2)

15 SAMSONOV Vladimir (BLR)

17 JIANG Tianyi (HKG)

22 CRISAN Adrian (ROU)

24 FREITAS Marcos (POR)

29 MATTENET Adrien (FRA)

Zhang Jike, Wang Hao, Ma Long or Xu Xin?

China is now in a very strange situation. They had to name 3 players for the London Olympics and after a HUGE selection process spanning more than a year, they chose World Champion Zhang Jike, Wang Hao for singles and Ma Long in addition to these two for the team events.

Now suddenly, Xu Xin, who is not even in the core team has burst into such terrific form, just losing the Korean Pro Tour by a hair's breadth (where he had a match point) and winning the China Open beating Zhang Jike and Ma Long comprehensively, thus leaving the Chinese TT management utterly confused. Remember, Table Tennis is high pressure there and their players are as famous in their country as our Cricket players. Ma Lin has fame that can rival Sachin. Any solutions?

Editor,
www.TableTennisBug.com

ITTF World Tour Table Tennis China Open 2012

Ma Long is the top seed again at the China Open Table Tennis 2012

The World Tour (formerly Pro Tour) China Open has started.  Most of the top ten in the World are participating.
Ma Long and Ding Ning head the Men's and Women's seedings list. Ma Long will try to make up for his failure at the recent Korean Open, where he lost to unheralded Lee Sang Su.

News bits - Timo Boll, Segun Toriola

Timo chooses to stay with Borussia Dusseldorf. He signed a contract to be with them until 2014. Sergei Ivanov, President of Orenburg, had offered him a contract after the end of ECL's last season.
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The September World rankings have been released for 2011 and the big mover is Ma Long from No. 5 to No. 2. Wang Hao continues to lead the rankings. Guo Yan moves up from No. 4 to No. 2 while Li Xiaoxia stays at the top in the Women's category.

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Segun Toriola is the favourite at the 2011 All African games. He will be trying to win the title for the 5th consecutive time.

Timo Boll is World No. 1 after a 8 year gap

Breaking News! Timo Boll of Germany ascended to the No. 1 spot in the Table Tennis World Rankings after a gap of 8 years. Ma Long slips to the 2nd spot.

India's shining star, Sharath Kamal is on the 40th spot in the list.
However, the biggest news for India from the lists are the huge jumps by Soumyajit Ghosh, Gnanasekharan Sathiyan, and Harmeet Desai, who occupy the 29th, 40th and 44th position in the Under 18 Boy's section.
Mallika Bhandarkar and Manika Batra have also moved up impressively in the Girl's U-18 section.

World Team Championships commence at Moscow

The World Team Table Tennis championships start today at Moscow.

As usual, China are by default the favorites. But the shocking news is that they do not have the formidable Wang Liqin in their line up for the first time since 1997. Liqin lost in a play off against Ma Lin in the selection trials. Earlier, Wang Hao had squeaked into the team by beating both Ma Lin and Liqin. The other members in the squad are the very young Ma Long, Xu Xin, and Zhang Jike.

India spearheaded by Sharath Kamal, play in the second division and will hope they can turn a good performance and move into the elite group for the next edition.