Table Tennis
Koki Niwa heads seeding at inaugural Paraguay Open
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Monday, 09 September 2019 05:58
Koki Niwa is one of three players on duty who have won ITTF World Tour men’s singles titles, the other names being Brazil’s Eric Jouti and Thiago Monteiro. In 2015 Koki Niwa won in Russia, the following year Eric Jouti succeeded in Argentina, Thiago Monteiro in Chile. In Asuncion, Eric Jouti is the no.6 seed, Thiago Monteiro, the no.8 seed.…
ITTF provides updates and discussion at ETTU Congress in Nantes
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Monday, 09 September 2019 04:22
Welcomed by the ETTU President Mr Ronald KRAMER, Petra SORLING thanked the Congress for the turnout and reflected that over the years since her election to the ITTF Executive Committee in 2009, she had attended every ETTU Congress finding them extremely useful to debate important topics, address issues, and share ideas for the future of table tennis. Having been at…
Clean sweep for Lily Zhang, player of the tournament
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Sunday, 08 September 2019 21:24
A four games result was the outcome in the mixed doubles final in opposition to colleagues Nikhil Kumar and Amy Wang (11-7, 15-13, 10-12, 14-12), before a straight games win against Chile’s Daniel Ortega and Paulina Vega (11-9, 11-7, 11-4) reserved the top step of the women’s doubles podium. Impressive performances, as the day concluded it was no different in…
Title retained, Romanian team the leading European force
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Sunday, 08 September 2019 21:44
Romania’s class was apparent throughout the lead up to the final, claiming 3-0 victories in all but one encounter in Nantes beating the Slovak Republic, Spain, France and Poland to return to the gold medal contest for the second European Championships in a row. Providing the opposition at the final hurdle, Portugal caused a major upset in the quarter-finals with…
Titles defended, Germany and Romania win in Nantes
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Sunday, 08 September 2019 14:32
The German men’s trio comprising Timo Boll, Patrick Franziska and Dimitrij Ovtcharov completed proceedings without the loss of a single individual match; one of the most comprehensive performances since the tournament was first staged in 1958 in Budapest. Likewise, in the women’s event it was a command performance from Bernadette Szocs, Daniela Monteiro-Dodean and Elizabeta Samara; they surrendered just one…
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