Table Tennis Tournaments - US September 2nd week

Upcoming Ping Pong tournaments:

Tournament              City and State     Date              Contact 

Labor Day Open     Chaumburg, IL     9/10/11         Spenser Lam

Atlanta Fall Open     Norcross, GA     9/10/11         Wendell Dillon

Maryland Circuit     Eldersburg, MD     9/10/11           Yvonne Kronlage

Contact editor@tabletennisbug.com if you need more information.

2nd AMDT San Francisco Open Table Tennis Tournament

The 2011 edition of the San Francisco Open Table Tennis tournament was scheduled for Sep 4-5.

The tournament was a 2 star event and sanctioned by the USATT.

We are yet to receive the results. If anyone has any leads or links, please let us know.

Editor.

Leader board of the German Table Tennis league

Jan Ove Waldner

Leading performers at the Bundesliga (German Table Tennis League) so far:

Kim Jung Hoon and Kenji Matsudaira have won two matches while the others listed have won one each. Sharath Kamal has one loss so far from his only appearance.
Note that the old war horse, Jan Ove Waldner won his match after being 0-2 and match points down!

Kim, Jung Hoon             TTC Ruhrstadt Herne    
Matsudaira, Kenji         TTC matec Frickenhausen
Waldner, Jan-Ove         TTC RS Fulda-Maberzell
Boll, Timo             Borussia Düsseldorf
Steger, Bastian         1. FC Saarbrücken TT
Wang, Xi             TTC RS Fulda-Maberzell
Jakab, János             Borussia Düsseldorf
Baum, Patrick             Borussia Düsseldorf
Lundquist, Jens         SV Werder Bremen
Svensson, Robert         TTC RS Fulda-Maberzell
Kosowski, Jacub         TTC matec Frickenhausen
Monteiro, Joao              1. FC Saarbrücken TT
Tokic, Bojan             1. FC Saarbrücken TT
Apolonia, Tiago         TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen

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