Sharada Sports Centre District Ranking Table Tennis Tournament

Sharada Sports Centre is organizing the Pune District Ranking Table Tennis Tournament 2012 from 5th June to 10th June. The tournament will be organized in two halls and will have 11 events in which titles will be up for grabs.

Timo Boll is the favorite for the Japan Open Table Tennis 2012 title

The Japan Open ITTF World Tour is starting today. Timo Boll is the top seed in the Men's section. Timo is currently ranked no. 6 in the World. 

He is followed in the seedings list by Jun Mizutani, Joo Se Hyuk, Chuang Chih-Yuan and Gao Ning who are No. 7, 8, 10 and 14 respectively in the World rankings.

For those of you wondering why he is ranked so low, part of the reason for the low ranking is his lower participation level in the World Tour (Pro tour) tournaments.

1st Karnataka State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament 2012

Results of Ultratech Karnataka State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament:

Results (all finals): 

Men’s singles: Anirban Roy Choudhary (SWR) bt Vaibhav Dahibhate (BNM) 12-10, 11-7, 8-11, 14-16, 11-7, 14-12. 

(Semifinals): Anirban bt Jaideep Das (SWR) 9-11, 11-7, 11-9, 8-11, 11-2, 11-6; Vaibhav bt Sagayaraj (SWR) 3-11, 11-4, 10-12, 11-3, 7-11, 11-6, 11-8.

Women’s singles: Maitreyee Bailoor (BTTA) bt Haripriya KS (SAI) 11-7, 11-8, 11-6, 11-7.

Youth boys: Shreyal Telang (BNM) bt Navneet AR (BNM) 11-8, 12-10, 8-11, 11-8, 12-10.

Veteran singles: Shivakumar (Gulbarga) bt Siddaramana Gowd (BHEL EDN) 11-8, 11-8, 12-10.

Results of All Assam Open Ranking Table Tennis Championship

From Arpit Agarwal:
 

Results for 12th All Assam Open Ranking Table Tennis Championship held at Nihal Singh Thakur Table Tennis Indoor Stadium, Don Bosco School from 2nd June-4th June 2012
 

Veteran Men's Singles: W: Bijit Chakraborty (DUL) RU: Hiranmoy Singh (MON)
Men's Singles: W: Pankaj Pritam Chutia (SIB) RU: Saidul Alam Ahmed (NFR)
Women's Singles: W: Sanjana Sarma (SIB) RU: Mahasweta Batsallya (GHY)
Youth Boys: W: Elsayeed Hussain (GHY) RU: Shankab Boruah (GOL)
Youth Girls: W: Kritika Upadhaya (GHY) RU: Mahasweta Batsayllya (GHY)
Junior Boys: W: Salim Zaved (GHY) RU: Subhajit Bhattacharjee (GHY)
Junior Girls: W: Sanjana Raj (GHY) RU: Mahasweta Batsayllya (GHY)
Sub-Junior Boys: W: @Bastav Bikas Baruah (GOL) RU: Vivek Bora (GOL)
Sub-Junior Girls: W: Ajupi Phukan (DUL) RU: Adrija Sarma (GHY)
Cadet Boys: Ortive Ranjan Das (GOL) RU: Samudra Krishna Gogoi (JOR)
Cadet Girls: Krishangini Phukan (GOL) RU: Prashee Baruah (DIB)

Chinmay bags a triple crown.. again!

Photo from DNA - Jignesh Mistrey

Lightning kid Chinmay Datar again bagged a triple crown at the Le Meridien Pune District Ranking tournament at Deccan Gymkhana, Pune conducted under the aegis of PDTTA. The tournament concluded this weekend.

Chinmay beat Aniket Gulwani, Neel Joshi and Shubhankar Ranade in the Men's, Youth, and Junior groups.

Incidentally, Chinmay Datar had bagged 16 titles last year including 3 triple crowns last year. He also participated in two National junior tournaments and upset an International Junior player.

Sharath Kamal is rising in the Rankings again

Photo by courtesy of the ITTF

Good news for Indian Table Tennis fans! The June Table Tennis Rankings are out.

Sharath Kamal, with a string of good wins over players such as Gorak, Daniel (POL) Such, Bartosz (POL) Platonov, Pavel (BLR) Baggaley, Andrew (GBR), rises 20 places in the World ranking and is now World No. 63 and climbing steadily. Amalraj also edged up ahead. In the women's section, Poulomi Ghatak joined Mouma Das in the top 200.

Zhang Jike is now the World No. 1 and displaces Ma Long at the top of the table. Xu Xin is now ranked 3rd after his stellar show last month, where he beat the entire Chinese Olympic Table Tennis team (Zhang Jike, Wang Hao, and Ma Long).

Timo Boll Spirit with Platin and Genius Plus Optimum

Letters from readers:

Reader: Dear Editor, I want to buy a Table Tennis assembly (Blade+Rubbers). I play state level and my style is offensive. My main weapon is backhand, from where I mainly open and also play with spin. On forehand, I tend to loop. I would like a racket that can help me do good services. Pushes have to be stable.

Editor: You can go for either Timo Boll Spirit, Tibhar Force Pro (if price is a factor which Samsonov himself uses). As for rubbers, since your backhand is your main strength, our recommendation is Rakza 7 Soft or Xiom Omega. For forehand, you can simply go for Donic Platin or Tibhar Genius + Optimum

Regards
Editor, www.TableTennisBug.com

US Open 2012 at Grand Rapids Michigan (MI), USA June end

The prestigious US Open Table Tennis tournament is at Grand Rapids, MI this month end! The prize money is around $100 000.

The tournament runs from June 30-July 4, 2012 at DeVos Place and many events run simultaneously. Last year, at Milwaukee, 700 players from 22 countries participated.



Tickets are available at the Van Andel Arena and DeVos Place box offices, Ticketmaster outlets, including D&W stores and select Family Fare and Walmart locations; to charge by phone call 1.800.745.3000 or order online at www.ticketmaster.com

Tenergy Alternatives? Substitutes?

Many players are actively looking to replace Tenergy rubbers with new generation rubbers that claim to perform like Tenergy, so which are they? We will soon cover them one by one.

Tenergy series: 
Tenergy 05, 05 Fx
Tenergy 64, 64 Fx
Tenergy 25

Alternatives?
Rakza 7, Rakza 7 Soft (Our Top Choice @ just $ 49!)
Tibhar Genius + Optimum (plus Optimum) (Available with us at 20% discount)
Andro Hexer HD (Available with us at 20% discount)
Andro Rasant
Donic Bluefire series (Available with us at 25% discount)
Stiga Calibra (Available with us at 25% discount)
XIOM Omega (Available with us at 30% discount)
Donic Acuda S1 (Available with us at 25% discount)
DHS Tinz Arc?

All these are available at prices much lower than Tenergy and hence the attraction to Tenergy seekers.

State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament Dates

We wrote to about 20 State Table Tennis Associations for information on State Ranking tournaments. Response received - zero.
The good news? Andhra Pradesh has already professionally published the full dates. Gujarat for the first 2 tourneys and I have a volunteer offering to report.
Only Gujarat, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Assam Facebook readers (forgive me if I forgot anyone) have sent some info.
I always hear complaints about how Table Tennis is not popular. Who is responsible? Let's try to make Table Tennis better!
Share, like, push your officials, do the best possible. Eager to see how many support. Fight!

Editor
www.TableTennisBug.com