The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Integrity Unit was invited for the first time to attend and participate in the 12th meeting of INTERPOL’s Match-Fixing Task Force (IMFTF) which was held over three-days last week in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The meeting brought together integrity and intelligence specialists from some 50 countries, representing law enforcement, public authorities, sports federations,…

Time flies, now a decade ago, the city of London hosted the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. More recently welcome visitors were Petra Sörling, ITTF President, alongside Steve Dainton, ITTF Chief Executive Officer and Raul Calin, ITTF Secretary-General. They met members of Table Tennis England and British Para Table Tennis as well as representatives from UK Sport. “It’s always a…

Five titles were decided on the opening day of action, Thursday 19th May, at the Al-Watani Para Championship in Amman, Jordan. In the women’s singles, competing in group organised events, Germany’s Jana Spegel (class 1), Iraq’s Najlah Al-Dayyeni (class 6) and Turkey’s Umran Ertis (class 10), alongside India’s Sonalben Patel (class 3) and Pruthi Barve (class 7-9) all struck gold.…

First staged in March 2008, after a three year break the Al-Watani Para Championships return to the international stage, the tournament being held in the Jordanian capital city of Amman from Thursday 19th to Saturday 21st May. Always the name Al-Watani has been used as the prefix, the meaning “patriotism”; no doubt that will be a major motivating factor for…