Table Tennis
Meet the Women’s Grand Finalists: Can anyone upset the Chinese domination?
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Friday, 06 December 2019 00:13
The Favourites Currently, teenagers are very much at the forefront; both 19 years old, China’s Sun Yingsha and Japan’s Mima Ito commence play the top seeds. Sun won on the ITTF World Tour in Japan, Australia and Germany; Ito secured gold most recently in Austria after being the silver medallist in Germany, Sweden and Hong Kong. Scintillating, whatever the experience…
Can Lin Yun-Ju round off mesmerising year in style?
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Friday, 06 December 2019 00:13
One last opportunity to steal the show in 2019 Lin’s awe-inspiring progress has been clear for all to see and the Chinese Taipei player’s efforts have been further recognised after receiving nominations for the Male Table Tennis Star and Breakthrough Star awards at the 2019 ITTF Star Awards ceremony in Zhengzhou, China on Wednesday 11th December. Zhengzhou is also where…
Final bids submitted to host 2023 ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals
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Friday, 06 December 2019 02:35
Melbourne (Australia), Düsseldorf (Germany) and Durban (South Africa) have all made final bids for the chance to host the 2023 ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals. While Kuwait had expressed an interest to stage this historic event, they have not submitted a final bid. The candidates were to submit their bids by 30th November 2019. Now the deadline has passed,…
Marko Medjugorac and Chen Hongtao delight home supporters, progress to main draw
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Thursday, 05 December 2019 18:17
Victories against most worthy adversaries were the order of proceedings; Marko Medjugorac accounted for Korea Republic’s Yoo Changjae (11-8, 11-1, 9-11, 11-6, 11-2), Chen Hongtao beat Belgium’s Valentin Pieraert (10-12, 6-11, 11-5, 11-4, 7-11, 11-8, 11-3). Notable performance but the most notable of all came from China, ten of their 12 players required to compete in the qualification round reserved…
Tokyo the destination, Australia favourites on home soil
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Thursday, 05 December 2019 08:54
Play on an all-play-all group basis, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea form the men’s competition; Australia confronts Fiji for the right to compete in the women’s event in Tokyo. In both, Australia start as clear favourites; Xavier Dixon, Heming Hu, Kane Townsend, David Powell and Yan Xin form the men’s team, for the women it is Jian…
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Thursday, 05 December 2019 03:04
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Tuesday, 03 December 2019 02:16
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Tuesday, 03 December 2019 02:19
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Monday, 02 December 2019 17:52
New destination, names nothing new
Monday, 02 December 2019 14:28
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Sunday, 01 December 2019 23:13
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The new golden hand: Lin Yun-Ju
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