Table Tennis New Year Resolution?

Do you have any aims that will serve as Table Tennis aims for the coming year? Share with us!

First National Tournament of France on 5th January

The first National tournament of the season of France will be held at Chapelaine Table Tennis club, where many of the top 100 players of France are expected to participate. The tournament runs on January 5 and 6.

première édition du Tournoi national de tennis de table
la Chapelaine tennis de table organise
les 5 et 6 janvier

Happy New Year, Table Tennis party

Ping Pong is now a huge party occasion. The ambiance is awesome at many such theme clubs. Bounce London, SPiN New York, LA, Milwaukee and so on are some big locations where celebrities and other people will party.

Five possible ways Ping Pong more deadlier than guns

Ping Pong more dangerous than Guns says Texas State Representative (Kyle Kacal).

5 Possible reasons:

• The Ping Pong ball is bigger and travels at high speeds
• The ball is delivered at short distances, usually around 12-15 feet (9 ft is the length of the table)
• The trigger is a paddle, not just a small trigger found in guns
• The opponent is dumb, does not defend a shot fired from the paddle and the ball that is launched
• The Ping Pong ball very often hits vulnerable parts of the lower body area

Donic Bluefire, spin, speed, control and more

Donic seems to have introduced a winner in the Bluefire series (M1, M2, M3). The rubbers boast extraordinary amounts of spin, and have great control. Speed is very good, but that is not their forte. A very balanced series of rubbers, Bluefire can be very effectively used for middle to slightly far from the table play. The rubber is ideal for both backhand and forehand.

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Priced lesser than the Tenergy, Bluefire rubbers are definitely great value for money. An ambitious club level player (USATT rating 1600-2300) can easily adapt from Tenergy since Donic has spent valuable and careful time to research and bring out this rubber. Similarly, for a player above USATT rating of 2300, it is a simple move without major adapting required.

For someone who has money to spare but not a high playing strength, one can still go for this rubber, especially if one is used to the earlier Donic series (Coppa JO Gold, Coppa JO Platin, Sonex JP Gold)

Overall rating: 9.5/10

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Speed: 8/10

Spin: 9.5/10

Control: 9.5/10

Value for money rating: 10/10

Other properties: High throw, high arc, slightly heavy

Table Tennis Party at Bounce!

Take a look at this awesome picture of the new year's eve party setting at Bounce!

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Jan Ove Waldner wants to coach the Sweden team

All time Table Tennis great, Waldner, expressed his desire to coach the Swedish Table Tennis team. Not only that, Waldner even suggested a unique idea. That Jorgen Persson and Mikael Appelgren can join him and form a coaching team. Waldner felt that this strong team had a lot to share in terms of experience and expertise.

Waldner hinted at problems with the current Swedish National coaching system and coach. In addition to this, the Swedish Table Tennis Association is without a sponsor for over a decade.

 Here's a video of him demonstrating the forehand topspin stroke:

Table Tennis Robot: First teach it and then play with it

A Table Tennis robot developed by the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has amazing capabilities. First teach it to play and then play with it!



 

Wang Qi favorite at Fiji Table Tennis Open 2012

In the absence of Michael Brown of Australia, Wang Qi of New Zealand is the favorite to win this year's title. Others who are expected to give the favorite a run for his money are Lal, Peter Antonia, Zhang Bei Yan, and Lou Gou Gin. Yoshua Shing also is competing and will be in contention.

Michael Brown and Wang Qi facing off at the 2010 Fiji Open:


A total of about 70 participants are expected to play, said the tournament organizing committee member, Christopher Lal.

Another aspect of the tournament is the participation of players in training, where members from Nauru, New Caledonia, Australia, Ba, Lautoka, Nadi Suva, Nausori, and Lami will take part.

Freddy Choy and Joshua Shing playing a match:


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Li Jiawei retires from competitive Table Tennis

China-born Li Jiawei, who represents Singapore in International Table Tennis tournaments, announced her retirement from Table Tennis.

Li Jiawei is a medallist at the Olympic games in 2008 and 2012. She was also a key member of the women's team that beat mighty China in the World Team Championships at Moscow in 2010. Her other achievements are multiple medals (including gold medals) at the Commonwealth Table Tennis championships and games.

Li Jiawei became a Singapore citizen at the age of 18, a couple of years after being spotted by Singaporean talent scouts, who offered to train and later retain her under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme.

Li Jiawei was ranked as high as No. 3 in the world at one time and was 21st at the time of retirement. Sun Bei Bei, another star Singaporean Table Tennis player also announced her retirement. The Singapore Table Tennis Association made the announcement at Toa Payoh.