ITTF World Tour Austrian Open Major Series at Wels, Austria

The ITTF World Tour Austrian Open Major Series starts at Wels, Austria and will run from Jan 23 to Jan 27. The top seed is World and Olympic Champion Zhang Jike. Chuang Chih Yuan is the second after many Table Tennis stars withdrew.

Serena and Venus playing Ping Pong

The Williams sisters are increasingly in the spot light playing not Lawn Tennis, but Table Tennis!

Photo courtesy Getty images.

You can also watch them playing in an IPhone ad. Quite awesome!

Ping Pong playing cat

Watch this amazing video of a cat playing Table Tennis on Youtube by sugarvirals.

Anirban Ghosh and Sagarika Mukherjee win National titles

Anirban Ghosh and Sagarika Mukherjee won the Sub junior boys and girls titles at the Cadet and Sub Junior National Championships at Gandhidham.

Anirban beat Arjun Ghosh 4-0 while Sagarika beat Harsha Vardhini 4-1 in the finals. Earlier, Ashwin Subramanian and Prapti Sen won the Cadet Boys and Girls titles.

It is worth noting that Anirban Ghosh upset many senior players and actually reached the semi-finals of a Zonal national level Table Tennis tournament.

Table Tennis donations - Welling School and Rushcroft College receive Table Tennis equipment

Photo courtesy etta.co.uk

Welling School, Elsa Road, Greater London, UK and Rushcroft Sports College have received quality Table Tennis tables from Jack Petchey Foundation and the England Table Tennis Association. The school and College students have taken to the game in a big way as a result of this.

The London Olympics has already created excitement and Table Tennis was one of the most popular sports at the games. Students compete among themselves and with other clubs and do not shy away from even challenging their teachers!

Oakley B beat Aldworth in Basingstoke and District Table Tennis match

Oakley B beat Aldworth D 9-1 in the Basingstoke District Table Tennis league division three as Dave Smith won all his three matches while dropping only a single game. Simon Parker won the only match for Aldworth. He beat Ron Draper 3-1.

Oakley now lead KG C by eight points and have a game to play.

KG C beat Queens I 8-2 and AWE B beat Queens H.

Jun Mizutani protests against boosters

World No. 10 Table Tennis player, Jun Mizutani from Japan has raised a protest against modern rubber boosters and is refusing to play World Tour (formerly Pro Tour) tournaments. He said he will continue to avoid such tournaments until the World Table Tennis body, ITTF introduces stricter controls against boosters.

Speed glue was banned a few years ago, but boosters are increasingly being employed by top players.

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West of Scotland Open Table Tennis tournament this weekend

West of Scotland Open Table Tennis tournament from Saturday, 26 January 2013 to Sunday, 27 January 2013.

Venue:
Gorbals Leisure Centre,
275 Ballater Street,
Glasgow,
G5 0PQ

Photo of Gavin Rumgay courtesy wosttl.org.uk

Cazuo Matsumoto wins Spanish ITTF World Tour tournament

Cazuo Matsumoto of Brazil beat Christophe Legout of France 11-7, 11-6, 11-9, 8-11, 11-5 to win the Spanish Leg of the World Tour Table Tennis tournaments. The top seed of the tournament was 50 year old He Zhi Wen. The tournament was held at Almeria, Spain.

Table Tennis tournament in Lagos, Nigeria

The Toyin Okenla-Ojeaga Junior Table Tennis Championship started last weekend. Six education districts are participating. The Lagos State Ministry of Youth, Sports and Social Development is supporting the event and Wahid Oshodi is the frontman for them. John Peters is the Technical Director of the tournament.