Lagos International Table Tennis Classic in August

The Lagos International Table Tennis Classic will be held from August 26 to 31 at the Molade Okoya-Thomas of the Teslim Balogun Stadium. The tournament will have $ 40, 000 as prize money, the biggest in Africa. It is an ITTF sanctioned event.

The tournament is being organized jointly by the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF) and Main Organising Committee (MOC) of Lagos International Sports Classics.

 Wahid Oshodi and Khaled El-Salhy are encouraging the organization of the tournament.

Table Tennis opportunities in Sussex Table Tennis league

The North Mundham club is looking for promising players to represent them in this season's matches at the South West Sussex league. The club has recently bagged an additional match night for the coming season. Other clubs are also likely to have opportunities open to Table Tennis players.

The league is divided into three divisions based on the playing strength. 

(Photo courtesy www.sussextta.co.uk)

Reverend Richmond Quarcoo resigns as head of Ghana Table Tennis chairman

Reverend Richmond Quarcoo has resigned as the head of the Ghana Table Tennis association, citing reasons of interests elsewhere. Reverend Quarcoo had taken over from Ebo Bartels in May 2010.

During Reverend Quarcoo's tenure, the national team took part in different tournaments including the 5th West African Table Tennis championships where Ghana won nine medals.

(Photo of Ghana Table Tennis players courtesy of the ITTF)

Goa Table Tennis - Panjim Table Tennis club beats Regal Electrotech

Panaji TT club, sponsored by Hotel Manoshanti, won the Angley's Cup Table Tennis team title. The tournament was held in the Gymkhana Hall.

Goa top player, P Adarsh won both his singles matches but this did not help Regal Electrotech as Amit Naik came back from 1-2 down to win a thrilling decider.

Results:
Amit Naik lost to P Adarsh
Diljeet Velingkar beat Myron Pereira
Noel Noronha beat Noel Estibeiro
Diljeet Velingkar lost to P Adarsh
Amit Naik beat Myron Pereira

Table Tennis tournaments July 4th weekend at California, Illinois, North Carolina, Texas, New Jersey, Arizona, Michigan

Illinois

Schaumburg Summer Open     Schaumburg    IL    7/27/2013

California

LATTA Open     El Monte    CA    7/27/2013

North Carolina

9th Butterfly Cape Fear Open     Fayetteville    NC    7/27/2013

New Jersey

LYTTC July Open     Dunellen    NJ    7/27/2013 - 7/28/2013

Texas

Waco Table Tennis Annual Round Robin Tournament     Waco    TX    7/27/2013

Arizona

2013 Arizona Sizzler Open     Phoenix    AZ    7/27/2013 - 7/28/2013

 Michigan

2013 Northern Open on JOOLA North America Tour     Detroit    MI    7/27/2013 - 7/28/2013

For more details write to editor@tabletennisbug.com

Table Tennis tournaments this weekend in Pennsylvania, Kansas, Florida, Colorado, Illinois, New York

New York

Westchester 2013 July Open     Pleasantville    NY

Pennsylvania

SportsFest XVII CANCELLED     Allentown    PA    7/20/2013

Kansas

Sunflower State Games     Topeka    KS    7/20/2013

Florida

Pensacola's 13th Annual Summer Open     Pensacola    FL

Colorado


2013 Rocky Mountain State Games     Colorado Springs    CO

Illinois

Champaign Butterfly Open Summer Giant Round Robin     Champaign    IL

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.


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