Rio Ferdinand vs Van Persie Table Tennis match.

Rio Ferdinand vs Van Persie at Table Tennis. Impressive!

The commentator says towards the end "the winner is Ping Pong"! 

Tamil Nadu State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Jawaharlal Nehru stadium

The first Tamil Nadu State Ranking Table Tennis tournament is being held at SDAT Hall of Table Tennis, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium from June 14 to 16. A total of over 950 players will fight for top honours and ranking points in the tournament. The total prize money is 51,000.

Nithin Thiruvengadam and T Reeth Rishya in the Men's and Women's categories. Other top players are G Sathiyan, Sivananda Seshadri, R Abhishek, Sushmit Sriram, L Satishwaran, E Prabhakaran. In the women's section, N Arul Selvi, S Narasimha Priya, V Sneha, N Vidya are taking part.

Karnataka State Ranking Table Tennis in July

The 3rd Karnataka State Ranking Table Tennis tournament will be held from 4th to 7th July 2013 at Canara Union, Bangalore.

News courtesy Milind Patankar.

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Timo Boll and Ma Long playing doubles finals together at the China open

Photo courtesy the ITTF

Timo Boll and Ma Long on the same side of the table? Yes! ITTF and the Chinese TT officials, players and coaches are promoting Table Tennis in unique ways. One such recent development has been that players of two different countries have been allowed to form doubles combinations.

In the China Open, they will be playing the finals today at 4 PM local time at Changchun, China.

Incidentally, Sanil Shetty and Sharath Kamal lost 1-3 to top seeds Gao Ning and Li Hu in the same tournament at the pre-quarterfinal stage.

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Wall Street Journal on Ping Pong!

A Table Tennis article on Wall Street journal which talks about US Ping Pong legend, Marty Reisman's efforts to popularize sand paper bat play.

The Fight to Save Ping Pong - Some Players Are Trying to Add to the Game's Excitement by Going With Paddles Designed for Power Rather Than Spin

Read this article on Wall Street Journal

 

Harmeet, Sanil, Soumyajit shine at the China Open Table Tennis tournament

India's young players are not respecting World Ranked players anymore! Now, Harmeet Desai has given a great fight to Kenta Matsudaira (who was the star find of this year's World Championships), and Sanil Shetty beat much higher ranked Wu Zhikang. Soumyajit Ghosh narrowly missed winning both his group matches, losing to the World Class Alexey Smirnov in a close match. All this action is going on at the China Open.

It's just a matter of time that they will go all out and start beating the top players and break into the top 100 hopefully soon!

North Bengal Ranking Table Tennis tournament

North Bengal Table Tennis tournaments:

June 13 to 16 - North Bengal Table Tennis Academy (NBTTA) tournament (Stage I)

June 21 to 23 - Sarajani Sangha Table Tennis tournament (Stage I)

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2nd Karnataka State Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Kushalnagar

2nd Karnataka State Ranking Table Tennis tournament from 20 to 23 June at Nalanda Gurukula International Public School, Kushalnagar, Mysore dist.

Info by Vikramadithya Shivaram.
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Joola Fever, Joola Carbon, Joola Express One, Joola Express Two

Joola Fever blade, Joola Carbon blade, Joola Express One and Joola Express Two now available. More coming. Shoot an email to editor@tabletennisbug.com for best offers! SMS 09822091862

Gujarat State, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan State Ranking Table Tennis tournaments

Gujarat State Ranking Table Tennis - at Anand, Gujarat from 20-23 June. 1st Major Ranking tournament.

Andhra Pradesh State Ranking Table Tennis - Darga Pentappa Memorial tournament from 21 to 23 June.

The 1st Rajasthan State Ranking Table Tennis tournament will be held at Indoor Stadium, Patel Maidan, Ajmer on 22nd and 23 June.

Last date for entries: 18 June 2013.

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