September India tournaments - Will be updated

Tournaments coming up. Please write to editor@tabletennisbug.com if you a tournament near you.You can also write to us if you want more details.

Maharashtra
Fifth State Ranking
19th to 23rd September 2011
University Pavilion
Marine Lines
Mumbai City


Tamil Nadu
The seventh State-ranking Table Tennis tournament will be organised by the Coimbatore District TTA, at G.R. Damodaran College, Coimbatore, on Sep. 17th and 18th.

GUJARAT STATE TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS-2011
DATE : 10th to 13th September, 2011
SPONSORED BY : Sports and recreation club, GNFC
ORGANISED BY : BHARUCH DISTRICT TABLE TENNIS ASSOCIATION (BDTTA)
& SPORTS & RECREATION CLUB, GNFC
AFFILIATED TO : GUJARAT STATE TABLE TENNIS ASSOCIATION (GSTTA)
VENUE : GNFC SPORTS COMPLEX, GNFC TOWNSHIP, NARMADANAGAR,
BHARUCH-392015

West Bengal
September 13th - 17th
Baisakhi Sangha TT Championships
Baisakhi Sangha

Aman Balgu beat Noel Pinto in the Amit Rathi Memorial All Mumbai tournament

Aman Balgu

Third seed but favourite, Aman Balgu, beat top seed Noel Pinto in the Amit Rathi Memorial tournament at Mumbai. Aman prevailed 11-3, 14-12, 11-8, 11-4.

This is an impressive performance considering that Noel has been in sterling form this season winning multiple titles at the State level and has performed at a very high level even at the National level.

Results:

Women's singles: Charvi Kawle bt Joanne D'Souza
Youth Boys: Noel Pinto bt Rhys Albuquerque
Youth Girls: Charvi Kawle bt Joanne D'Souza
Junior Boys: Ravindra Kotian bt Jay Shroff
Junior Girls: Dyuti Patki bt Ashlesha Trehan
Sub Jr Boys: Anay Dave bt Shubham Ambre
Sub Jr Girls: Ashlesha Trehan bt Dyuti Patki

Shahid Kapur plays Table Tennis with Pankaj Kapur

Shahid and Pankaj Kapur playing Table Tennis

Shahid Kapur and Pankaj Kapur are finding some relief from controversies in the form of Table Tennis.

They were recently found bonding over a game of Ping Pong. From the photograph, Shahid seems to be confident and has good serve technique.

Delhi State Table Tennis Ranking tournament

Delhi top players from top left: Utkarsh Gupta, Manika Batra, and Neha Aggarwal

The Delhi State TT tournament will be held from September 10-13 at Hansraj Model School, Punjabi Bagh.

Please write to editor@tabletennisbug.com for any details that you require.

Editor

More tournaments in the East Zone of the USA

New England Open (3 star)     Shelton, CT     9/10-11/11         Roman Tinyszin

2011 Butterfly MDTTC September Open     Gaithersburg, MD     9/10-11/11         Lixin Lang

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