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.

Editor

Los Angeles Open Ping Pong tournament 2011

If anyone has any information on the LA Open Table Tennis tournament results, please let us know!

We are planning to call Masaru Hashimoto Phone:  +1(818) 384-7408 today evening. Any advance information is welcome.

Editor

Ping pong ball size to increase?

In an interview during the Harmony China Open Table Tennis tournament, the ITTF President, Adham Sharara made some interesting comments:

• The ball will now be celluloid free and will be seam-free.
• The ball size is likely to be increased. To 44mm?
• Sharara is keen to have the World Championships 2015 at Suzhou.

Editor

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.

British Premier League 2011 starts on September 10th

The British League Premier Division Round One kicks off on 10th Sep 2011 at St Neots TTC, Riversmead.

With Paul Drinkhall, Darius Knight, and Gavin Rumgay in the thick of their preparation for the London Olympics, Drumchapel Glasgow are the firm favourites.

Drumchapel Glasgow have the very successful Ryan Jenkins and Chris Doran in their ranks. Gareth Herbert, Terry Young, Craig Howieson and Stephen Jenkins make it to the team. Craig Hardie, Richard Main and Scott Barton are the reserves.

Jakov Krivic of Croatia is the main hope for defending champs, Barrow along with Bradley Evans, Jonathan Crawford, Paul Cicchelli and Scott Crawford.

Fusion, last year’s third place finishers have Sule Olaleye joined by Omkar Torgalkar (who moved from Sycamore) at no. 2,  Lorestas Trumpauskas (the Mens Over 40s  Doubles Champion at the 2011 European Veterans Championships) and Kazeem Adisa Adekeke. England no. 25 Mark Smith and England no. 48 Tommy Cutler will lend support.

10 times Champions London Progress, have Po Huang “Barry” Chen Jason Sugrue. Igor Morais, Daniel Basterfield, Ashley Willetts make up their team.

Results of Ajmer District Table Tennis Championships

Ajmer district

The Ajmer District Table Tennis Championships started at the Indore stadium, Ajmer on the National Sports Day. On this day, the birth anniversary of the legendary Dhyan Chand is also celebrated. 

Dhanraj Choudhary

Players from Ajmer, Nasirabad, Beawer, and Kishangarh are participating in this tournament. Mr. Dhanraj Choudhary, Secretary General TTFI, inaugurated the prestigious tournament.

The Ajmer district team will be selected based on the performance in this tournament.

Results

Semi finals

Cadet Boys

Sagar bt Kanishak

Kshitij bt Srajit

Sub Junior boys

HarshVardhan bt Vineet Bulaani

Kshitij bt Sagar Verma

Sub Junior girls

Quarter finals

Vanshika Kalsi beat Ranjana

Kashyapi beat Anushka

Vipasha beat Kritika

Shruti Joshi beat Radhika Sharma

Junior Boys

Quarter finals

Lokesh beat Gaurav Oswal

Bhavi Gehlot beat Bhavya

Vineet Bulaani beat Shaahed

Harshvardhan beat Dheeraj

Junior Girls

Quarterfinals

Ruchi Arora beat Nikita Madnawat

Vipasha beat Shruti Joshi

Surbhi Garg beat Palak

Vanshika Kalsi beat Mahima

Youth Boys

Quarterfinals

Lokesh beat Dheeraj

Ankit beat Bhavya

Harsh Vardhan beat Gaurav Soni

Quarter final between Sandeep and Md Shaheed will be played later

Youth Girls

Semi finals

Ruchi Arora beat Shubhangi

Surbhi Garg beat Palak

Mens Singles

Quarter finals

Abhinav beat Ajay Verma

Sanjay Mathur beat Arun

Sandeep beat Dinesh

Anil Bhatnagar beat Rajesh Rathore

Womens Singles

Semi finals (to be played)

Ruchi Arora vs Shruti

Anushka vs Surbhi Garg

2011 New York City Open on the JOOLA NA Tour

Table Tennis in New York's Bryant Park

The New York City Open Table Tennis tournament was cancelled due to the arrival of hurricane Irene.

Here is the official statement -"**Due to the upcoming arrival of Hurricane Irene, The NYC Open will be postponed to a future date.  We apologize and will provide more information as soon as we can!**"

Editor

East Zone final results

Anthony Amalraj and Poulami Ghatak won the Men's and Women's singles titles at the East Zone Nationals held at Bolpur.  
Amalraj seems to have hit a purple patch. He won back to back titles with a win at the East Zone National Ranking at Bolpur. In the finals, he easily beat back Subhajit Saha's challenge 4-0. He lost games only to Soumyadeep Roy in the semi finals.

Full results:

Men's singles: 
Amal Raj beat Subhajit Saha 4-0 (11-9, 11-3, 12-10, 11-5)


Women's singles:
Poulami Ghatak bt Ankita Das 4-1 (9-11, 11-8, 11-7, 11-8, 12-10)


Youth Boy's singles:
G Sathiyan bt Soumyajit Ghosh 4-2 (5-11, 11-6, 12-10, 10-12, 11-2, 11-7)


Youth Girls singles:
Ankita Das bt K K Narmadha 4-1 (5-11, 11-9, 11-3, 11-6,11-6)

Junior Boys singles:
Abhishek Yadav bt Sudhanshu Grover 4-3 (5-11, 8-11, 11-9, 9-11, 11-8, 11-6, 11-9)


Junior Girls singles:
Mallika Bhandarkar bt Manika Batra 4-0 (11-9, 11-8, 11-6, 11-8)

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

East Zone National Table Tennis Results updates

Tournament Results updates 

Sourav Chakraborty

It was a complete domination by the experienced over the new gen Table Tennis players.

East Zone semi-final line up:

Soumyadeep Roy vs Arputharaj Amalraj

Subhajit Saha vs Sourav Chakraborty

Quarter finals:

Amalraj bt Jubin Kumar, Soumyadeep Roy bt Harmeet Desai, Subhajit Saha bt Soumyajit Ghosh, Sourav Chakraborty bt G Sathiyan.

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Sourav Chakraborty upset second seed Sanil Shetty in the Men's singles pre quarter finals of the East Zone National Table Tennis tournament.
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