JVPG 4 star District Ranking Table Tennis tournament starts on June 28th

The Juhu Vile Parle Gymkhana Club 4 star combined District Ranking Table Tennis tournament will be held from June 28th to July 2nd. Last date for entries 24th June. The tournament will be held under the auspices of MSDTTA.

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Soumyajit creates another landmark at the Japan Open Table Tennis Open tournament

Clearly, another landmark day in Soumyajit Ghosh's Table Tennis career!
He beat Japan's 2012 National Champion Maharu Yoshimura in a thrilling encounter in the Men's main draw at the Japan Open and then won another good match against the Swedes in the Men's doubles partnering Harmeet Desai. They are in the doubles quarterfinals now.

Here's the significance of Soumyajit's win. Yoshimura beat Mizutani (a World Top Ten player!) to win the Japanese National Championships last year. Past winners of the championships have been big names including Mizutani and now Koki Niwa in 2013.

Sharath Kamal also advanced to the Men's round of 32 with a good win. Both Soumyajit and Sharath play against Taipei players in the Singles. Sharath has a good chance against Lee Chia Sheng but Soumyajit has World no. 26 Chen Chein-An to tackle. We already know that our Bengal Tiger is fearless and will go all out against the very best.

Incidentally, in the doubles, Soumyajit and Harmeet will face the two players that Sharath and Soumyajit beat in the singles first round (Yoshimura/Jin).

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Japan Open World Tour Table Tennis - Three Indian men in main draw

Japan Open Table Tennis World Tour updates:

A Sharath Kamal is seeded directly into the main draw.
Soumyajit Ghosh and A Amalraj qualify from group matches.

All three of them have challenging 1st rounds, which will be played tomorrow. Do cheer for them. It is rare to find 3 Indian players in the main draw of a major World Tour (formerly called Pro Tour) event!

Ironically, Soumyajit Ghosh and Harmeet Desai could not advance in the Men's U 21 section. This is hardly surprising considering that the competition in every single match is cut throat. Both of them did fight it out. Soumyajit Ghosh beat the group topper and Harmeet Desai won two matches and only lost 2-3 to a top Japanese player.

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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!