Yorkshire Table Tennis Association

Chairman Bevan Walker
Telephone ********* (Contact Editor, www.TableTennisBug.com)

General Secretary Richard Hudson

Note: This information was retrieved in January 2013. There are no dates on the Web site. Please contact editor@tabletennisbug.com for latest information.

Leagues:

Dewsbury Table Tennis Centre
Heckmondwike Table Tennis Centre, Cemetery Road, Heckmondwike. WF16 9ED

Tel: 01924 403701

Huddersfield

Hudawi Table Tennis Centre
Great Northern Street, Huddersfield

West Somerset Table Tennis league fixtures

Roys Boys v Gnomads A    Bampton Village Hall  
Mon 28/01/2013
    
Mikes Muppets v Stogumber A    Alcombe Village Hall  
Tue 29/01/2013    

Swifts v Basement Dwellers    The Lawns  
Tue 29/01/2013    

Mishits v Wiveliscombe    West Quantoxhead Village  
Wed 30/01/2013    

Ping Pong tournaments in January Week 4 2013

Here are the main Table Tennis tournaments this weekend:

January Open
Davison   
MI   
1/26/2013

Minnesota State Championships    
Eden Prarie   
MN   
1/26/2013 - 1/27/2013

Maryland Giant Round Robin    
Eldersburg   
MD   
1/26/2013

Westchester 2013 January Open    
Pleasantville   
NY   
1/26/2013 - 1/27/2013

Winter 2012/2013 Sooner State Games    
Oklahoma City   
OK   
1/26/2013

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.

Editor