Anolyn celebrates Yosh’s big day

Special days are always better with family and your close ones. For the Vanuatu star, Yosh Shing, it was the company of his close friend Anolyn Lulu and his family as the table tennis athlete tied the knot last week.

Everyone at the ITTF wishes the new couple a safe and healthy future!

Training for Pizzas, and defeating the pandemic like a Boss!

Sweden’s Kristian Karlsson knows what every athlete lives by : A pizza only tastes good after some rigorous exercise!

And following that example was fellow European Elizabeta Samara, who makes Mondays look oh-so-good after making a stunning comeback from being diagnosed with COVID-19. A true warrior, she is already back to training and looks in great shape.

We are so proud of you, Elizabeta!

Meanwhile, the Romanian Bernadette Szocs had an impressive weekend as she finally got to celebrate winning the first place at the Romanian national championships with her team, CSA Steaua.

Congrats, Bernie!

We also saw some proper team spirit coming through from India’s Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, who sent his best wishes to his team Sokołów S.A. Jarosław for their first match in Polish Superliga, after he was prevented from joining them due to COVID-19 travel restrictions:

The best of last week

Regular readers of Player Watch are certain to be expecting their favorite athletes all but getting ready for the ITTF RESTART, and here we have a selection of some of our favourite posts from the past week:

Cedric Nuytinck is making sure he is in shape – even over the weekend!

Meanwhile, Natalia Partyka is taking a well deserved break with the sun at the beach – all while staying Socially distant, of course!

And in Africa, we have Omar Assar, who was featured this week on the our website with a riveting interview continues his training with that classic smile!

Somewhere close by is Omar’s African colleague, Dina Meshref who also has no plans of slowing down in this hiatus, and is pushing on to get better everyday.

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Finally, Germany’s Patrick Franziska reminds us all the most important thing to train in table tennis is the service – even with a slight twist if possible!