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.

Fan Zhendong wins a triple crown at the Asian Table Tennis Championships at Pattaya

Fan Zhendong, who had earlier captured the mixed doubles and Men's doubles titles, won all the titles at stake in the Asian Table Tennis Championships at Pattaya, Thailand. In addition to the open events, he had also a big part of the winning China team.

Zhendong survived a scare as his doubles partner Xu Xin came back from 0-3 to equalize at 3-3 before he prevailed 11-9 in the decider.

Zhang Jike redeems himself at the Asian Table Tennis Championships final; China wins

China became champions for the nth time at the Asian Table Tennis Championships at Pattaya, Thailand. In a one-sided battle, China beat Japan 3-0.
   
Xu Xin beat Maharu Yoshimura 11-7, 13-11, 11-5
Fan Zhendong beat Koki Niwa 6-11, 11-6, 11-6, 11-6
Zhang Jike beat Yuya Oshima 11-8, 1-11, 11-8, 11-9

India lose to China in the Asian Table Tennis Championships

China, playing without its top player, World Champion Ma Long, was still powerful enough to beat India by the expected 3-0 margin.

Xu Xin took China to 1-0 by beating Harmeet Desai 11-9, 11-9 and 11-3. Chinese great Zhang Jike enhanced the score by overcoming G Sathiyan 11-5, 11-3, and 11-4. Young Fan Zhendong completed the rout and put an end to India's challenge by beating National Champion Soumyajit Ghosh 11-6, 11-7, and 11-8.

Xu Xin wins the World Cup Table Tennis tournament at Belgium

Top seed Xu Xin won the World Cup Table Tennis tournament at Verviers, Belgium. In the finals, he beat veteran Vladimir Samsonov 11-6, 12-14, 11-8, 11-9,11-7.

In the semi finals, Xu Xin beat a fighting Ovtcharov 4-3, while Samsonov beat Timo Boll, who is trying to come back from injuries.





Ovtcharov beat Timo Boll to bag the third place.

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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!

Harmeet Desai to play Xu Xin tomorrow at the Asian Table Tennis Championships at Busan

Young Harmeet Desai will face World No. 1 Xu Xin in the third round of the Asian Championships at Busan. The match will be played tomorrow at 10:30 AM India time.

Ankita Das beat players from Vietnam and Korea to reach the pre-quarterfinals.

Sharath Kamal is in good nick but has a tough opponent in Zhou Yu of China. Zhou survived a tough 2nd round battle battle.
Amalraj will play against Jian Tianyi and Sanil Shetty will face off against Kenta Matsudaira.

Soumyajit Ghosh was unfortunate to run into a world beater in the 2nd round and lost to Cho Eon Rae (World top 50 player)

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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.

Xu Xin is the World No. 1 Table Tennis player

Charismatic left-handed Chinese Table Tennis player, Xu Xin is the new World No. 1 in Table Tennis. He has leaped places to occupy the pride of place in the January World Table Tennis Ranking list published by ITTF.

Xu won many points by taking the Grand Finals title and also earned handsome bonus points, without which it would not have been possible to overtake the World and Olympic Table Tennis Champion, Zhang Jike. It may be recalled that Xu Xin attended the London Olympics, but only as a P-card holder. His results seemed subdued just before and after the Olympics, probably partly due to the disappointment of not being chosen in the core team (eventually Zhang Jike, Wang Hao, and Ma Long). However, the spectacular event seemed to have done good to his motivation and he is now back in action. Critics attribute his recent success to playing more near the table. He beat veteran Wang Hao in the Grand Finals.

Xu Xin's best performances so far have been the World Tour (formerly called Pro Tour) events, where he has already amassed titles and is closing in on the round number 10. Other than this, he has Gold medals in the Team and Doubles at the World Championship level.

Xu Xin endorses the Stiga brand of Table Tennis equipment and has a couple of impressive videos produced by the company, which you can watch here:


Yes, stylish indeed! He reportedly uses a Stiga Rosewood as his blade and Stiga Calibra LT for his backhand and DHS Neo Skyline TG3 for his forehand.

Xu Xin (was born in Jiangsu, China on January 8, 1990. Although he is just 23 years old, he has spent considerable time in the Chinese squad.

His name in Chinese simplified is 许昕, and traditional 許昕

Here's a tribute by XuXin111 on Youtube:

Xu Xin is back in form!

Intense! That's Xu Xin. The man is back in form!
Table Tennis Photo courtesy ibtimes.com

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Xu Xin video by Stiga

Here's a very beautiful video on Xu Xin, the rising super star of Table Tennis.

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.

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?

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Ma Lin leads Zhejiang to victory

Ma Lin about to unleash his deadly serve

The toughest competition in Table Tennis on the planet is on.

Zhejiang, led by Olympic Champion, Ma Lin won against Bazhou in the first leg of the Chinese Table Tennis Super League Finals.

Ma Lin lost against the super talented Xu Xin, but Zhejiang scraped through 3-2 by winning the decider when Xu Hui beat Li Ping.

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Bookmark him, Yan An is going to be a star!

Yan An and Feng Yalan

Keep this name in your mind. This time, you can't blame that the name is a tongue-twister. Yan An, very simple.

We had already informed that this 18 year old kid is creating waves in the Chinese super league. There is more now.
In the Harmony Open China Pro Tour event, he first beat the World No. 1 Wang Hao and went on to beat Xu Xin (who had just recently beaten him in the Universiade games 4-0!)

Yan An is at this very moment playing Zhang Jike, the World Champ in the semi finals and is trailing 0-2.

Watch him play!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKzp-fQNW10

Table Tennis News Bites

China swept all the titles at the Universiade TT at Shenzen.Xu Xin and Rao Jingwen won the Men's and Women's titles.
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Aug 23 -Aug 27, 2011 Korean Junior & Cadet Open ITTF Premium Junior Circuit Cheongyang-Gun Korea
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Aug 24 -Aug 28 2011 Harmony China Open and Pro Tour event ITTF Pro Tour Suzhou, China
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Xu Xin bags Slovenian Pro Tour title

Xu Xin is all concentration while serving

Xu Xin of China beat countryman and the more famous Ma Lin to win Championship at Slovenia. Xu won 4-2. Ealier Ma Lin had beaten World Champ and top seed, Wang Hao in the semi-finals. Ma Lin blamed his new rubber for his loss in the finals. Xu won his semi-final match with another Chinese talent and second seed Zhang Jike.

India placed in the Second Division of the World Team Championships

The Indian team consisting of A Sharath Kamal, Soumyadeep Roy, Subhajit Saha, A Amalraj, and Sourav Chakraborty, has been placed in the second division of the World Team Table Tennis Championships to be held at Moscow, Russia from 23-30 May.

Among the ladies, India will be represented by Mouma Das, Poulomi Ghatak, K Shamini, Madhurika Patkar, and Divya Deshpande.

China, Korea Republic, and Germany top the seedings list in the men's section while China, Singapore, and Korea Republic head the women's list.

Meanwhile, China has two new faces in its squad - Zhang Jike and Xu Xin, who have done exceptionally well in the last couple of years and also proved their merit by qualifying from the very tough selection process. Interestingly, Ma Lin does not find a place in the squad.