Ma Long crashes to defeat against Chuang Chih-Yuan

World No. 2, Ma Long faced a stunning 0-4 loss to Chuang Chih-Yuan in the World Cup Table Tennis group stages. The tournament is being held at Liverpool, England.
In other significant results, Michael Maze took revenge over Ovtcharov (who won the bronze medal there).

Soumyajit wins a Table Tennis double at Jodhpur

Soumyajit won a creditable double crown at the Central Zone National Table Tennis Championship at Jodhpur. In the Men's final, he beat Sanil Shetty in a closely fought encounter. In the youth final, it was a smoother ride, where he beat Harmeet Desai. Another London Olympian, Ankita Das won the Youth girls finals. K Shamini bagged the women's singles title beating giant killer Manika Batra.

Men: Final: Soumyajit Ghosh (PSPB) bt Sanil Shetty (PSPB) 9-11, 13-11, 8-11, 11-4, 9-11, 11-6, 11-6; Semifinals: Soumyajit Ghosh (PSPB) bt Harmeet Desai (PSPB) 10-12, 11-7, 11-9, 4-11, 11-6, 11-7, Sanil Shetty (PSPB) bt Sourav Saha (PSPB) 11-8, 11-7, 14-12, 9-11, 4-11, 11-5.


Women: Final: K. Shamini (PSPB) bt Manika Batra (Del) 6-11, 11-5, 11-8, 11-6, 11-4; Semifinals: Manika Batra Del) bt Soumi Mandal (PSPB) 10-12, 12-10, 11-7, 11-6, 11-6; K. Shamini (PSPB) bt Ankita Das (PSPB) 6-11, 11-6, 11-3, 9-11, 12-10, 11-9.

Youth Boys: Final: Soumyajit Ghosh (PSPB) bt Harmeet Desai (PSPB) 11-9, 11-9, 9-11, 11-5, 11-6; Semifinals: Harmeet Desai (PSPB) bt G.Sathiyan (PSPB) 8-11, 11-9, 11-5, 11-5, 16-14, Soumyajit Ghosh (PSPB) bt T. Nitin (AAI) 11-9, 1107, 11-4, 11-9.

Youth Girls: Final: Ankita Das (PSPB) bt Krittiwika Sinha Roy (AAI) 7-11, 11-5, 11-5, 11-2, 11-7; Semifinals: Krittwika Sinha Roy (AAI) Yukti Roshini (TN) 11-9, 80-11, 11-5, 11-3, 11-7, Ankita Das (PSPB) bt Ayhika Mukherjee (WB) 11-8, 11-6, 11-6, 11-4.

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)

Country share for tabletennisbug.com

Here's the country wise share of www.TableTennisBug.com visitors. We thank all the national and international readers for their continued patronage.

Note that there are visitors from approximately 30 countries in the Unknown segment.

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Champions league Table Tennis - Werder Bremen and Borussia Dusseldorf win

Werder Bremen and Borussia Dusseldorf both won their second group matches in the Champions League Table Tennis (Tischtennis) Championships. Both the teams that compete in the Bundesliga are on course to move to the quarterfinals.

Chuang Chih Yuan of Taiwan, who has just recently joined Bremen was the hero against UMMC Verkhnyaya Pyshma (formerly UMMC Ekaterinburg). Dusseldorf squeaked past SVS Lower Austria. European Table Tennis star Timo Boll won both his matches, while Patrick Baum won the other singles.

Ochsenhausen, however, faced their first defeat against ASTT Chartres of France 1-3. Former Olympic Champion and new recruit Ryu Seung Min of South Korea lost both his matches.

FC Saarbrücken TT plays Fakel Orenburg. German star Ovtcharov, who won an unprecedented two medals at the Olympics, will turn out for Fakel Orenburg.

Pune District Ranking Table Tennis Tournament at Solaris 2012

The following is the schedule for the Pune District Ranking Table Tennis Tournament at Solaris starting from September 21, 2012.

Bristol Academy Table Tennis Club Coaching Camp

A Junior Coaching camp is being organized by the Bristol Academy Table Tennis Club in September-October. The coaching will be run by qualified UKCC coaches and academy members. Entry fee is three Pounds.

Venue:

WISE Campus

New Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, BS34 8LP

Lee Bee Wah elected as Singapore Table Tennis Association President again

Lee Bee Wah was re-elected at the Biennial General Meeting as the President of the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA). This particular term lasts until 2014.

Ms. Lee has held the office from 2008.

During her stint as the STTA president, Singapore has won medals at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, defeated China to win the 2010 World Team Championships.

Low Yen Ling will be the deputy president.