Kong Linghui' s partner

Good morning from former World and Olympic Table Tennis Champion, Kong Linghui's partner. Captured in a HD photo shoot.

Liaoning braves win Chinese National Women's Table Tennis Title

The World's toughest Table tennis tournament is on. The fearless rookies from Liaoning won the Chinese Women's Table tennis title beating mighty Beijing, that had Olympic and World Championship medallists. 

Chang Chen Chen was the heroine for Liaoning. Beijing had seasoned Ding Ning and Guo Yan on their team!
We bring you fresh news from China. The Men's team event finals has started. Individual events start from tomorrow.

Chinese National Championships 2012

China Table Tennis. Photo Courtesy Reuters.

The Chinese National Table Tennis Championships are currently on and the Team event finals is actually being played at this time between Shanghai and Beijing in the Men's section.

After the team events, the Singles, Doubles, and Mixed Doubles events will be played. There were a few surprising results in the team events. Zhang Jike's team lost. Zhang himself, just recently crowned Olympic Champion, lost to Wang Liqin quite tamely.

Seedings for the Individual (Men's and Women's Singles events)

Men's Singles

1, Zhang Jike (Shandong)

2, Wang Hao (PLA)

3, Ma Long (Beijing)

4, Xu Xin (Shanghai)

5, Ma Lin (Guangdong)

6, Wang Liqin (Shanghai)

7, Hao Shuai (Tianjin)

8, Chen Qi (PLA)

Women's Singles

1 Li Xiaoxia (Shandong)

2 Ding Ning (Beijing)

3 Liu Shiwen (Guangdong)

4 Guo Yan (Beijing)

5 Guo Yue (Liaoning)

6 Wu Yang (Shanxi Xingrui)

7. Meng (Shandong)

8 Feng Yalan (Hubei) 

Jignesh, Ashlesha, Regan, Manushree win Maharashtra State Table Tennis Titles

Jignesh Rahatwal, Ashlesha Trehan, Regan Alburquerque, and Manushree Patil won the Sub Jr Boys, Girls, Cadet Boys and Girls titles at the Khar Gymkhana State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament.

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G Sathiyan, Divya Deshpande win prizes at Egypt Open Table Tennis tournament

G Sathiyan won the Boys  Under 21 title and Divya Deshpande was the finalist at the Egypt Open Table Tennis tournament at Cairo.

Sathiyan beat Mohamed Shouman 4-2 while Divya lost to the seasoned Sara Ramirez of Spain in the finals.

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.