Table Tennis
Mima Ito defends title but history not in her favour?
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Tuesday, 11 June 2019 09:17
Commencing in 1996 in Kitakushu, the inaugural year of the ITTF World Tour, the event has always appeared in the calendar of the International Table Tennis Federation. In what is now 23 completed editions of the tournament, prior to the success of Mima Ito last year, also in Kitakushu, the only Japanese player ever to have won the women’s singles…
Agadir, a major opportunity to make a mark
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Tuesday, 11 June 2019 09:28
In the junior girls’ singles event, Egypt’s Hend Fathy is the top seed followed by Slovakia’s Ema Labosova, India’s Maushree Patil. Next in line is Montenegro’s Manushree Patil pursued by Algeria’s Melissa Belache, the Czech Republic’s Martina Novakova and Lebanon’s Jennifer Khayat. The host nation’s Noha Arangay completes the top eight names. It is a tournament in which to some…
Seeking more titles: Sakura Yokoi, Kaho Akae and Chen Yi head Taicang entry
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Monday, 10 June 2019 14:21
Sakura Yokoi, successful in Poland, heads the seeding in the junior girls’ singles event, she is followed by Chen Yi, Wu Yangchen also from China and Kaho Akae. Notably earlier this year Chen Yi beat Wu Yangchen in the final in Italy, Kaho Akae won in Sweden. India’s Swastika Ghosh, semi-finalist earlier this year in Bahrain, followed by colleague Prapti…
Bangkok and Bratislava: Education the key
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Monday, 10 June 2019 07:51
University degree programme A university degree study programme in sports coaching, especially designed to suit the needs of table tennis players and coaches, has been successfully completed in Thailand after the third and final part ran from Tuesday 28th May to Tuesday 4th June. Launched for the first time three years ago and organised under the auspices of the Faculty…
Sapporo beckons, more milestones for Ma Long
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Monday, 10 June 2019 07:58
Ma Long is now just one short of the record set by colleague Zhang Yining who between 1998 in Italy and 2009 in Qatar won 29 ITTF World Tour women’s singles titles. Furthermore, she also won women’s doubles events on 21 occasions; so that makes her a member of the 50 club; Ma Long has 22 men’s doubles titles to…
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