South Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships

Good luck to all the promising Indian Juniors at the South Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships at New Delhi. India is the top favorite to top the medals tally. 

Competitions will be held in the Team, Singles, and Doubles categories in the Cadet and Junior age groups. From India, top world ranked players such as Manika Batra (World No 27), Sutirtha Mukherjee (35), Sagarika Mukherjee (Cadet World No. 24), Anirban Ghosh (Cadet World No. 33), Birdie Boro (Cadet World no 65), Lalrin Puia (Cadet World No. 85), Sudhanshu Grover (90), and Abhishek Yadav (152) are participating.

Participants are as follows: 

Boys:

Sudhanshu Grover, Abhishek Yadav, Utkarsh Gupta, Birdie Boro, Anirban Tuks Ghosh, Lalrin Puia, K R Rohit

Girls:

Manika Batra, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Reeth Rishya, Ayhika Mukherjee, Sagarika Mukherjee, CALANGE RAVICHANDRAN Harsha V, Akula Sreeja.

TTFI moving up the ATTU and ITTF ladder

India's clout in the World of Table Tennis is increasing exponentially.

Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) Secretary General, Mr Dhanraj Choudhary, has been re-elected as the Honorary Treasurer of the Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU) at the General Council Meeting of the Asian body. Former Table Tennis great Cai Zhenhua of China and  Tony Yue of Hong Kong were elected President and secretary general.

It is worth noting that Dhanraj Choudhary was recently elected to the Board of Directors of ITTF at the Paris World Championships venue.

Other TTFI officials who earned terms on the ATTU were TTFI President Mr P C Chaturvedi (elected to General Council as member), TTFI Sr Vice President Mr Rajeev Bodas (nominated as Chairman of the Coaching and Junior Committee).

Ganeshan Neelakant Iyer, who has proven his mettle by conducting several international events as chief referee in India as well as abroad, was nominated to the Technical Committee as a full member.

These developments are very important for Table Tennis in India

56th European Youth Table Tennis Championships at Ostrava, Czech Republic

The premier championships for European youth players has started at Ostrava on 12th July and will run up to 21st July.

Live matches can be followed at the following location for day 10:

(Note: The URL changes for each day of the competition.)
http://www.laola1.tv/en/int/table-tennis/ettu/ettu-european-youth-championships-day-10/video/524-0-124861.html

Photo courtesy ettu.tv

Iulia Necula, Steve Rowe, Ryan Jenkins popularize Aerobic Table Tennis

Aerobic Table Tennis was started at Wigan in Greater Manchester by Steve Rowe. It is rapidly gaining popularity, especially with Olympian Iulia Necula and Ryan Jenkins making efforts to spreading it even more. Other backers include English No. 1 Liam Pitchford, Kelly Sibley, and Hannah Hicks.

Ryan Jenkins recently conducted a session where 600 girls participated! A web site dedicated to Aerobic Table Tennis has been launched recently.

If you are looking for other Table Tennis based fitness programs in your own area, do write to editor@tabletennisbug.com
Light, medium, and heavy training sessions are available in every region.


Watch a video here:


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Table Tennis reality show in China, Who is the King!

Table Tennis is so popular in China that it is not only the National sport, it is popular enough to deserve a reality show on prime time television!

Recently, the Table Tennis reality show completed it's first season. The show aims at giving a good chance to upcoming players in China.

Watch an episode here:



Video by MrTheportal

4th Lokmanya Karnataka State Ranking Table Tennis tournament

Hurry! Last date for 4th Karnataka State Ranking Table Tennis tournament, Belgaum is July 16 (today).

Tournament starts on 20th.

Chief referee - Henry S George 9880254195 and 9880254195.
email: gega37@rediffmail.com

Source: Sangam

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Table Tennis tournament at Mumbai MIG Cricket Club, Bandra

Mumbai Table Tennis tournament at MIG Cricket Club, Bandra.

Dates - 19 July to 22 July.

Last date for entries - 16 July.

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2013 Hong Kong Junior and Cadet Open

The ITTF premium tournament, Hong Kong Junior and Cadet Open Table Tennis tournament will be held from August 7th to August 11th.

Local players include Minnie Soo Wai Yam.

Andy Murray emulates Perry who was also a World Table Tennis Champion!

Murray ended the 77 year old Wimbledon title drought by emulating Fred Perry.

Did you know that Perry was a World Table Tennis Champion before he started winning Grand slam Lawn Tennis titles?

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Harmeet Desai to play Xu Xin tomorrow at the Asian Table Tennis Championships at Busan

Young Harmeet Desai will face World No. 1 Xu Xin in the third round of the Asian Championships at Busan. The match will be played tomorrow at 10:30 AM India time.

Ankita Das beat players from Vietnam and Korea to reach the pre-quarterfinals.

Sharath Kamal is in good nick but has a tough opponent in Zhou Yu of China. Zhou survived a tough 2nd round battle battle.
Amalraj will play against Jian Tianyi and Sanil Shetty will face off against Kenta Matsudaira.

Soumyajit Ghosh was unfortunate to run into a world beater in the 2nd round and lost to Cho Eon Rae (World top 50 player)

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