Soo Yeon Lee - Super Model and Top Table Tennis Player

Soo Yeon Lee is a Super Model, who has done several fashion assignments including Nike. For Soo, it's not Ping Pong for posing, it's serious Table Tennis. She is a serious Table Tennis player with a USATT rating of 2468 and is associated with Killerspin. It is interesting to see various personalities of different cultures and approaches associated with Table Tennis. Do you Like the glamour that Soo brings to Table Tennis?

Leszek Kucharski starts his coaching stint in India

Leszek Kucharski will start his stint as India's Table Tennis coach. He will train his new wards at Patiala.

Kucharski is a former world class player from Poland and takes over as India's coach after a decent gap. Massimo Constantini's term ended after the Guangzhou Asian Games last year. Anders Johansson had shown interest but backed out at the last minute.

It is rumoured that TTFI is paying a handsome salary to Kucharski.

Justin Bieber plays Ping Pong to ease his mind

Justin is relaxing by playing Ping Pong with his friends and finding support from his girlfriend, which is helping him get his mind off recent controversies.

2011 Maharashtra State Championship Table Tennis at Buldhana

Picture of a resort near at Shegaon near Buldhana

The State Championship TT tournament starts at Buldhana tomorrow. Many stars are participating this time. They include international players such as Sanil Shetty, Aman Balgu, Madhurika Patkar, Divya Deshpande, Pooja Sahasrabuddhe, and many others.

The tournament is expected to provide a lot of excitement to the players and fans in the state and even outside.

Even the junior sections evoke a lot of interested as some talented players prepare to face each other.

Swedish Legend Kjell Johansson passes away

Kjell Johansson, who laid the foundation for the successes that Sweden enjoyed for decades, passed away recently in his native Sweden. 

He was a world champion of Table Tennis, who ended the Chinese monopoly in the early 70s and arguably was one of the main reasons for the birth of a new generation of stars such as Appelgren, Erik Lindh, Jan Ove Waldner, Jorgen Persson and many others.

Johansson was called Hammaren, which means the hammer in Swedish, because of his hard forehand.

Neiman Marcus Table Tennis limited edition table designed by Tom Burr

Neiman Marcus is selling a luxury, limited edition Table Tennis Table for $ 45 000 (Approx Indian Rupees 22 LAKH)

Neiman Marcus, formerly Neiman-Marcus, is a luxury specialty retail department store operated by the Neiman Marcus Group in the United States. The Table is designed by noted artist Tom Burr.

Did someone say how many Adidas, Donic, Joola, tables can be bought instead? Well, what can we say about taste!

India's promising Junior Table Tennis Player Ankita Das

Ankita Das in action - Photo by Prasad Naik

Table Tennis News bits - European Championships, Chinese Nationals and more

Germany, led by Timo Boll won the fifth European Championship in a row. Germany beat Sweden for the first time in an European final.
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Ma Long won the Chinese national Championship. This was his fourth title in a row. Ma Lin was his victim in the finals.
The Beijing team won the team event.
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Liam Pitchford beat legend Vladimir Samsonov in the team events and then Alexei Smirnov in the European Championships.
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World Table Tennis and Ping Pong Calendar of Tournament and Events

2011

UK

Stiga 2* Junior Open
Oct-15
Halton TTC
Lowerhouse Lane, Cheshire, WA8 7DZ

Milton Keynes Under 13, 15, 17 'Triple Group' 2*
Oct-15

Suffolk Senior 1*
Oct-23
Britannia TTC
193 Defoe Road, Suffolk, IP1 6SG

Suffolk top 32 Senior GP
Oct-23
Britannia TTC
193 Defoe Road, Suffolk, IP1 6SG

Stiga Blackpool Junior 2*
Blackpool TTC
St Anne's Rd, Lancs, FY4 2AP

Stockton-on-Tees Junior 4*
Oct-29

Greenhouse Bevin Junior 2*
Oct-30

USA

Maryland Giant RR     Eldersburg, MD     10/15/11           Yvonne Kronlage
410-489-7291
LilY Yip Table Tennis Center October Open     Dunellen, NJ     10/15-16/11         Lily Yip
732-200-5820
2011 Butterfly MDTTC October Open     Gaithersburg, MD     10/15-16/11         Lixin Lang
301-963-1009
2011 DSP Cup/NYTTF Open Series     New York, NY     10/16/11         Robert Chen
646-772-2922
2011 Millcreek Open     Erie, PA     10/22-23/11         Sam Steiner
814-833-8704
NJTTC 2011 October Open     Westfield, NJ     10/22-23/11         NJTTC
908-654-9009
Trolley Car TT Club Philly Open October 2011     Philadelphia, PA     10/29-30/11         Ken Weinstein
267-335-2743
11th Everbright Cup Open Table Tennis Championship     Edison, NJ     10/29/11         Jean Sze
732-329-3245
2011 New Hampshire RR Open     Manchester, NH     10/30/11           Robert Neidorff
603-714-1396

India


Commonwealth Championships

[ October 19th, 2011 - October 23rd, 2011 ]

National Ranking Table Tennis Championships-2011 (Central Zone)

[ November 22nd, 2011 - November 27th, 2011 ]

Gandhidham, Kachchh

Cadet & Sub Junior National,

[ December 05th, 2011 - December 11th, 2011 ]

Cochi, Kerala

World Junior Championships,

[ December 10th, 2011 - December 17th, 2011 ]

Manama

73rd Youth and Junior Nationals,

[ December 19th, 2011 - December 25th, 2011 ]

North Bengal, Siliguri

Olympic Qualification Event

[ December 20th, 2011 - December 26th, 2011 ]

73rd Senior Nationals,

[ January 23rd, 2012 - January 29th, 2012 ]

Lucknow


Australia

Bennelong Cup Test Match 14th and 15th of October.


Oct 15-23 Adelaide, Australia Paul Pinkewich
Australian Open Veterans
Championships
paul@tabletennisworld.com.au

Others

Oct 3-7 St. George (Utah), USA www.seniorgames.net
*) Huntsman World Senior Games

Oct 7-11 Istanbul, Turkey savas.fener@yahoo.com
12th Veterans Table Tennis www.fbvtt.org
Tournament

Oct 8 Jaromer, Czech Republic Zdenek Lhotka
Open Veterans Tournament zdenek.lhotka@atlas.cz

Oct 8-9 Wolverhampton, England Roy Norton
Vetts Midlands Masters roywnorton@aol.com

Oct 15-23 Adelaide, Australia Paul Pinkewich
Australian Open Veterans paul@tabletennisworld.com.au
Championships

Nov 4-6 Gothenburg, Sweden westling.hans@telia.com
32nd Ifo Veteran Open www.if-ifo.se/ivo

Nov 17-27 Marawila, Sri Lanka Kai Globig
Masters Games Table Tennis kaiglobig@yahoo.de
www.mastersgames-srilanka.com

Humanoid Robots play Table Tennis for the first time

The first Table Tennis playing robots that resemble human beings made their debut in China. They have been fitted with cameras and can sense motion.

Plan for the first world championships for robots are already in the works.

Editor
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