Indian Men reach finals of the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships

Great news for Indian Table Tennis!

India reached the finals after winning against England in a close encounter in the semi finals of the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships at Delhi 3-2. The Indian women, however, were unlucky against England and lost 2-3.

Soumyajit Ghosh, already taking on huge International responsibilities and delivering!

Soumyajit was the hero of the day for India at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships at Delhi. He beat experienced Andrew Baggaley and Sam Walker to give India two wins. India made it to the finals, where they play a strong Singapore team.

Soumyajit plays fearlessly and one hopes he does the same against the mighty Singapore team. He had beaten very high ranked players and helped India win a medal at the World Junior Championships in the recent years.

Indian Women advance to semi final stage at Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships

Neha Agarwal and Mouma Das played some outstanding Table Tennis for India in the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships at New Delhi. Neha beat Yihan Zhou, ranked 91, while Mouma Das gave a tremendous fight to World No. 4 and Star player of Singapore, Feng Tianwei (losing in the deciding game). India however, managed to beat the other teams, Scotland and Wales to advance to the semi finals where they meet England.

With the kind of form they have shown in the 1st and 2nd stage league matches, they have a realistic chance of making it to the finals.

Mikael Appelgren to star at the Bremen European Veterans Table Tennis Championships

Record number of participants in the European Veterans Table Tennis Championships breaking the old record with 2834 participants.

The matches will be fought from May 27th to June 1st at ÖVB Arena, Bremen, Germany.

Famous names are the following:
Germany’s formal national team players Olga NEMES, Jing Tian-Zörner, Edit WETZEL and Jutta TRAPP, the multiple medallist at World Championships in the 1940s and 1950s, Eliska KREJKOVA form Czech Republic, as well as the 1989 World Doubles Champion, Steffen FETZNER, the six-times German Singles Champions Georg BÖHM, Sweden’s four-times World Champion Mikael APPELGREN and the bronze medallist at World Championships in Doubles, Dmitrij MAZUNOV from Russia.

Alexandre Cassin shines at French National Table Tennis Championships

Alexandre Cassin created history in this year's French National Table Tennis championship by becoming the youngest player to play the advanced rounds of the Men's Singles competition.
Cassin is just 14 years old and the European Cadet Champion.

He even upset Robinot, a world class player. Incidentally, Robinot had defeated Ma Lin a couple of years back as a junior in the 2011 Swedish Open Table Tennis tournament. 

Alexandre's video profile:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_J-zpHfPew

Video of Robinot's win over Ma Lin in 2011 at the Swedish Open
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1AyQhVZ8tI 

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Morning Table Tennis

Good morning Table Tennis in a public park, some cooler weather.

Player portrait: Jessica Dawson

Jessica Dawson is known for her tenacious attacking play in the British Table Tennis circuit.
After doing stupendously well for Ormesby, she has moved to Draycott.

Photo courtesy tabletennis365.com

Table Tennis tournaments this week

2013 Indiana State Championship (closed)     Indianapolis    IN    4/20/2013 - 4/21/2013

PingTTC Open Tournament April 2013     Wappingers Falls    NY    4/20/2013

Vernon Hills Spring Open 1 Star     Vernon Hills    IL    4/20/2013

6th Butterfly Cape Fear Open     Fayetteville    NC    4/20/2013

OKCTT Spring 1 Star Giant RR Open     Oklahoma City    OK    4/20/2013

Grace Lin TTC Open     South El Monte    CA    4/20/2013 - 4/21/2013

Space Coast Spring Open TTC     Cocoa Beach    FL    4/20/2013

North American Cup     Pleasantville    NY    4/20/2013 - 4/21/2013

Potomac 2013 Spring Open     Potomac    MD    4/20/2013 - 4/21/2013

2013 Pennsylvania State Championships     Philadelphia    PA    4/20/2013 - 4/21/2013

GHTTC April 2013 Open     Hartford    CT    4/21/2013

Veterans National Table Tennis tournament underway at Srinagar

The Indian Veterans Nationals Table Tennis tournament has started at Srinagar. Team events are currently on. Most singles events will start tomorrow.

If any of you have more information, please come forward and submit it to editor@tabletennisbug.com

Photo: Inauguration of the tournament.

Editor

Sharath, Shamini to represent India at the Asian Cup Table Tennis championships

Sharath and Shamini are representing India at the Asian Cup Table Tennis Championships 2013 at Hong Kong. The tournament started today and there are early reports that K Shamini won her first group match.