Vasily Lakeev and Sara Ramirez win Egypt Open Table Tennis 2012

Vasily upset the top two players in the semi finals and finals to win the title at Cairo. Sara dominated the Women's singles and beat India's surprise finalist, Divya Deshpande in the finals.

He beat Russian compatriot, Mikhail Paykov, the no.2 seed, at the semi-final stage (11-4, 12-10, 11-9, 11-3), before accounting for top seed, the host nation’s Ahmed Saleh in the final (3-11, 12-10, 6-11, 11-9, 11-7, 4-11, 11-5)

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Ping Pong in The Amazing Race

The game of Ping Pong features prominently in the new season of The Amazing Race.

The competitors will line up at Yuanchen Sports Center in Shanghai and each member takes on a Chinese kid at Ping Pong. If they lose the point, they must wait until the kid finishes all the tables and comes back. The kid proceeds to trade the Ping Pong paddle for a clipboard, a frying pan, and a tambourine in successive rounds!

Indian Paddlers for Egypt Open - TTFI news

Soumyajit, Poulomi lead Indian challenge at Cairo

Olympian Soumyajit Ghosh, fresh from his double-crown winning performance at the recdently-concluded National Ranking (Central Zone) Table Tennis Championships at Jodhpur, will spearhead the Indian challenge at the Egypt Open, beginning in Cairo from tomorrow.

He will have for company in the men’s section, Soumyadeep Roy, Jubin Kumar, Sanil Shetty, Harmeet Desai and G.Sathiyan while it will be Poulomi Ghatak who will lead the women’s team at Cairo along with K. Shamini, Olympian Ankita Das, Divya Deshpande, Mousumi Paul and Mamata Prabhu.

They were picked to represent the country after their consistent performances at the Inter-Institutional TT championships in Kolkata in August, the season opener, and the two zonals—the South Zone meet at Bangalore early last month and Central Zone event at Jodhpur last week.

The national selectors, who were at Jodhpur to pick the squad for the December World Junior Championships to be held in Hyderabad, decided that before the Junior Worlds the Egypt Open, which is a Euro-Africa circuit event, which is between October 4 and 7, will serve as a good exposure to the Indians.

“This is one event where paddlers from both Europe and African and Asian nations will compete and will be a good experience for our paddlers,” said TTFI secretary-general Dhanraj Choudhary.  

The team is accompanied by coaches S. Raman and Vijayasarathi Seshadri, who is attached with the Sports Authority of India.

On the eve of the departure, the team members exuded confidence of a good performance. And coach Raman said the “Egypt Open has proved to be lucky hunting ground our paddles in the past and I hope they do put their best foot forward in the event.”   

The team: Men: Soumyajit Ghosh, Soumyadeep Roy, Jubin Kumar, Sanil Shetty, Harmeet Desai and G. Sathiyan.

Women: Poulomi Ghatak, K. Shamini, Ankita Das, Divya Deshpande, Mousmi Paul and Mamata Prabhu.

Coaches: S. Raman and Vijayasarathi Seshadri.

Regan Alberqueque and S Ashwin win Zonal National Table Tennis Titles

Regan Alberqueque and S Ashwin created sensations at the South Zone and the Central Zone Table Tennis National Championships by winning the Cadet Boys titles at Jodhpur and Bengaluru respectively. It is a great achievement and one that makes the Maharashtra Table Tennis community proud.

Ma Long wins World Cup Table Tennis title

Ma Long service

Ma Long won the World Cup Table Tennis tournament at Liverpool by beating Timo Boll convincingly with a score of 11-4, 11-3, 11-8, 11-9.

In the semi finals, Ma Long beat Xu Xin and Timo Boll beat veteran Vladimir Samsonov. 

Incidentally, Ma Long had faced a straight games defeat in his first group match against Chuang Chih-Yuan. Ma was lucky not to face Chuang in the main draw as Samsonov beat Chuang in a thrilling match. Ma Long beat Michael Maze, Xu Xin, and Timo Boll all in straight games in the main draw.

Ma Long crashes to defeat against Chuang Chih-Yuan

World No. 2, Ma Long faced a stunning 0-4 loss to Chuang Chih-Yuan in the World Cup Table Tennis group stages. The tournament is being held at Liverpool, England.
In other significant results, Michael Maze took revenge over Ovtcharov (who won the bronze medal there).

Soumyajit wins a Table Tennis double at Jodhpur

Soumyajit won a creditable double crown at the Central Zone National Table Tennis Championship at Jodhpur. In the Men's final, he beat Sanil Shetty in a closely fought encounter. In the youth final, it was a smoother ride, where he beat Harmeet Desai. Another London Olympian, Ankita Das won the Youth girls finals. K Shamini bagged the women's singles title beating giant killer Manika Batra.

Men: Final: Soumyajit Ghosh (PSPB) bt Sanil Shetty (PSPB) 9-11, 13-11, 8-11, 11-4, 9-11, 11-6, 11-6; Semifinals: Soumyajit Ghosh (PSPB) bt Harmeet Desai (PSPB) 10-12, 11-7, 11-9, 4-11, 11-6, 11-7, Sanil Shetty (PSPB) bt Sourav Saha (PSPB) 11-8, 11-7, 14-12, 9-11, 4-11, 11-5.


Women: Final: K. Shamini (PSPB) bt Manika Batra (Del) 6-11, 11-5, 11-8, 11-6, 11-4; Semifinals: Manika Batra Del) bt Soumi Mandal (PSPB) 10-12, 12-10, 11-7, 11-6, 11-6; K. Shamini (PSPB) bt Ankita Das (PSPB) 6-11, 11-6, 11-3, 9-11, 12-10, 11-9.

Youth Boys: Final: Soumyajit Ghosh (PSPB) bt Harmeet Desai (PSPB) 11-9, 11-9, 9-11, 11-5, 11-6; Semifinals: Harmeet Desai (PSPB) bt G.Sathiyan (PSPB) 8-11, 11-9, 11-5, 11-5, 16-14, Soumyajit Ghosh (PSPB) bt T. Nitin (AAI) 11-9, 1107, 11-4, 11-9.

Youth Girls: Final: Ankita Das (PSPB) bt Krittiwika Sinha Roy (AAI) 7-11, 11-5, 11-5, 11-2, 11-7; Semifinals: Krittwika Sinha Roy (AAI) Yukti Roshini (TN) 11-9, 80-11, 11-5, 11-3, 11-7, Ankita Das (PSPB) bt Ayhika Mukherjee (WB) 11-8, 11-6, 11-6, 11-4.

World Cup Table Tennis participants

The Final List of players invited to the World Table Tennis Cup from tomorrow at Liverpool:

7 BOLL Timo (GER1)

91 HENZELL William (AUS)

127 MONTEIRO Thiago (BRA)

159 SALEH Ahmed Ali (EGY)

430 THERIAULT Pierre-Luc (CAN)

83 DRINKHALL Paul (ENG1)

21 MAZE Michael (DEN)

145 PITCHFORD Liam (ENG2)

2 MA Long (CHN2)

8 CHUANG Chih-Yuan (TPE)

9 OVTCHAROV Dmitrij (GER2)

11 JOO Saehyuk (KOR1)

12 OH Sangeun (KOR2)

15 SAMSONOV Vladimir (BLR)

17 JIANG Tianyi (HKG)

22 CRISAN Adrian (ROU)

24 FREITAS Marcos (POR)

29 MATTENET Adrien (FRA)

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