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Saturday, May 16, 2015

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Monday, May 11, 2015

Timo stars for Borussia in the first leg of the European Champions League

Sharath Kamal is nursing an injury but his team, Borussia Dusseldorf won the first leg of the European Champions League 3-1. The hero was Timo Boll who beat Ovtcharov and Samsonov.

Borussia Dusseldorf – Fakel Gazproma Orenburg 3:1

Timo BOLL – Vladimir SAMSONOV 3:0 (11:3, 11:7, 14:12)
Patrick FRANZISKA – Dimitrij OVTCHAROV 1:3 (2:11, 11:6, 8:11, 7:11)
Panagiotis GIONIS – Alexey SMIRNOV 3:1 (11:3, 11:5, 8:11, 11:4)
Timo BOLL – Dimitrij OVTCHAROV 3:2 (7:11, 11:7, 8:11, 11:7, 12:10)

Photo courtesy Borussia

Friday, May 8, 2015

Table Tennis Rally of the Century

Have you missed the rally of the Century?

Take a look at this fantastic point between Ma Long and Fang Bo at the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships.

Although Fang Bo, won this point, Ma Long went on to win the title and become World Champion.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HSNbOUyBy4

TTFI will not hire Foreign coach

India's official Table Tennis Federation, TTFI will not hire a foreign head coach for the Rio Olympics of 2016. Instead, top officials have decided to appoint two Asian coaches for the Junior TT teams.

This decision is expected to have adverse consequences on the Women's team and does not affected the Men's team (whose members train in Europe).

Photo: TheHindu.com

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

ITTF announces a $100,000 Table Tennis development package for Nepal

In a good show of solidarity, the ITTF and its continental members pledged one hundred thousand dollars to develop Table Tennis in the earthquake affected country of Nepal.

In addition to this, gifts were exchanged between the coach and players of Nepal and some of Table Tennis' leading legends like Wang Liqin and Jean Michel Saive. The ex-vice world champion Saive also showed interest in holding a coaching camp for Nepalese players.

(Photo courtesy of the ITTF)

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Sharath Kamal climbs to No. 32 in the Table Tennis world rankings

Another historic moment for Indian Table Tennis!

Sharath Kamal climbs to No. 32 in the world.
In addition to this, we also have two Indians in the top 100 World Mens Table Tennis rankings list.

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Ma Long beats Fang Bo to win the World Table Tennis Championship title

Ma Long is the World Champion. Incidentally, he is also the World No. 1.

After three failed attempts in 2009, 2011, 2013, Ma Long finally made it.
He beat the surprise finalist Fang Bo 4-2 (who had upset Grand Slam champion Zhang Jike).

Earlier in the Championship, Ding Ning won the Women's final.

Photos courtesy of the ITTF and Rajeev Sharma.