Table Tennis
Building a lasting foundation: 2019 ITTF World Cadet Challenge sets higher targets
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Table Tennis
Tuesday, 29 October 2019 04:28
Over the weekend, the 2019 ITTF World Cadet Challenge kicked off in Wladyslawowo, Poland. In the competition, teams representing their respective continents compete against each other and in addition to these continental teams, the host team from Poland and a representation of the Hopes Team compete in the Challenge event. Before the teams began their campaigns on Saturday, the players…
Final day clean sweep, all six titles for Chinese Taipei
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Monday, 28 October 2019 14:37
Success for Tai Ming-Wei meant he collected his third career ITTF World Junior Circuit boys’ singles title and avenged a defeat of earlier in the year. In 2018 he won in El Salvador, earlier this year on home soil in Taipei City; however in May in Australia he had to settle for runners up spot. At the final hurdle he…
More titles for prominent names, more surprises, play concludes in Hangzhou
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Monday, 28 October 2019 06:11
In men’s team class 3, Feng Panfeng claimed gold alongside colleagues Zhai Xang and Zhao Ping, the latter the player he had beaten earlier in the proceedings in the final of the men’s singles event; a 2-0 win in the title decider, when facing the combination of Russia’s Vladimir Toporkov and Jenson Van Emburgh of the United States, sealed the…
Mission accomplished, Brazil Tokyo bound
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Sunday, 27 October 2019 21:23
Top seeds, the men’s outfit comprising Hugo Calderano, Vitor Ishiy and Gustavo Tsuboi brought the three day tournament to a close; they recorded a 3-2 win against most worthy opponents, the no.2 seeds, the Argentine trio comprising Gaston Alto, Horacio Cifuentes and Pablo Tabachnik. The player to shine for Argentina was Horacio Cifuentes. In the opening match of the fixture…
Despair now joy, delight for Bruna Takahashi, another milestone for Hugo Hoyama
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Sunday, 27 October 2019 18:15
At the Lima 2019 Pan American Games, in the women’s team final, Brazil had suffered an agonising 3-2 defeat at the hands of Puerto Rico; a contest in which in the vital deciding fifth match, Bruna Takahashi had held a two games to nil lead and match points in the third against Melanie Diaz before eventually losing. Approaching three months…
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