Xu Xin beats Wang Hao to win the ITTF Grand Finals, drives home a GAC Trumpchi GS5 SUV

Xu Xin won a lucrative $ 104,000 and a handsome SUV as a reward for his victory at the Grand Finals at Guangzhou. Wang Hao had to be satisfied with $ 52,000 and a GAC Gonow GX5 SUV.

Xu Xin beat Wang Hao 11-8, 11-7, 11-6, and 11-7.

In the semi-finals, the top seed Xu had beaten Ma Lin 4-1 and Wang Hao had overcome Chuang-chih Yuan 4-2 in a close encounter.

Prize money for World Class Table Tennis players

What is the prize money for a top level World class Table Tennis Tournament today? Total over $ 1 Million (approx Rs. 5.5 Crore). Men's and Women's Singles $ 104,000 (approx Rs. 56 Lac)

Prize Money at the ITTF Table Tennis Grand Finals in Guangzhou

Total Prize Money: $1,016,000

Men's Singles Winner: $ 104,000 Runner up: $52,000
Women's Singles Winner: $ 104,000 Runner up: $52,000
Men's Doubles Winners: $ 50,000 Runner up: $25,000
Women's Doubles Winners: $ 50,000 Runner up: $25,000

Table Tennis Tournaments near Swansea

Swansea Open Table Tennis Tournament starts on 9th December 2012.

Dragon Tournament at Cardiff starts 13 January 2013.

Daniel O'Connell Welsh Junior No. 1, voted ASDA Welsh athlete of the year.

Marty Reisman the Table Tennis Legend dies

Marty Reisman Photo courtesy TableTennisNation.com

Table Tennis Nation, an organization founded by Marty Reisman two years ago, announced his death. Marty died of heart and lung complications. He was 82.

Popularly known as The Needle, Mr. Reisman evoked interest wherever he went. At his peak, Marty was a world class player and won two US Open titles and a British Open too. He created waves even as recently as 1997, when he won the National Hard Bat Championship. Marty was the son of a cab driver in Manhattan. He started to play Table Tennis when he was 12.

Sanil Shetty, Mamta Prabhu are State Champions of Maharashtra for 2012

International players Sanil Shetty and Mamta Prabhu subdued Aman Balgu and Divya Deshpande to win the Maharashtra Inter-district and State Championships at Aurangabad.

While Sanil prevailed over Aman in a straight-forward manner, the Mamta-Divya tussle went straight down to the wire.

Results:

Men's Singles:

Sanil Shetty bt Aman Balgu - 12/10,13/11,11/8,11/7

Women's Singles:

Mamta Prabhu bt Divya Deshpande -10/12,10/12,11/5,11/5,11/9,9/11,13/11

Tibhar Evolution Table Tennis Rubbers are here!

Tibhar Evolution rubbers are aiming to give a run for the money for Tenergy series of rubbers and are attractively priced.

Write to editor@tabletennisbug.com for the Best deals on this fantastic Rubber!

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Focus on Killerspin on Forbes

Here's an article on Killerspin by Monte Burke (Forbes staff).

Photo of Biba (Biljana Golic of Killerspin) courtesy Forbes.com

http://www.forbes.com/sites/monteburke/2012/12/07/table-tennis-company-killerspin-works-on-ping-pong-diplomacy-round-two/

Strong legs required for Table Tennis, not only hands!

The key to being a successful Table Tennis player is having a strong pair of legs and not only hands. Portuguese player, João Monteiro shows why!

Table Tennis (Tischtennis) documentary: The Chinese of Europe

A Ping Pong documentary (Die Chinesen Europas) featuring Timo Boll and the German team that won the silver medal at the Leibherr World Championship at Dortmund was premiered at Savoy in Dusseldorf.

The other main roles are played by Dmitrij Ovtcharov, Christian Suss, Bastian Steger and head coach Jorg Rosskopf.

The director of the documentary Milan Skrobanek has also produced other documentaries on Football and Handball. He spent months with the German National team understanding every aspect of their preparation and actual competition.

Justin Beiber thinks JP Morgan is alive

Photo courtesy weheartit.com

Justin Beiber was wondering why he had to make way for a JP Morgan private party. He was playing Ping Pong at Susan Sarandon's SPiN last week. He was heard saying "Why does he get the room and not us?"