Table Tennis
Para Table Tennis to feature at Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games!
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Tuesday, 13 August 2019 01:00
Para Table Tennis is set to shine at the Commonwealth Games after the sport was confirmed to feature at Birmingham 2022 alongside Women’s T20 Cricket and Beach Volleyball. This will be the biggest ever Para sport programme at a Commonwealth Games, with eight Para disciplines now confirmed for the multi-sport competition, helping to further the diversity of the Games, while…
Day One Qualification: 2019 ITTF World Tour Asarel Bulgaria Open
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Monday, 12 August 2019 22:59
Tanaka follows suit Japan’s Yuta Tanaka quickly followed his Asian compatriots into Round Two as he saw off Serbia’s Dimitrije Levajac in swift 4-0 win (11-6, 11-8, 11-7, 11-9). Levajac had no time to settle during the match, as his Asian opponent kept up the pressure throughout. His Serbian compatriot Marko Jevtovic however, came through a test versus Ukraine’s Anton…
Staking claim, a major opportunity in Bulgaria
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Sunday, 11 August 2019 16:25
Sensationally the winner at the Grand Finals last December in Incheon, Japan’s Tomokazu Harimoto heads the men’s singles seeding in Panagyurishte. Presently on the standings, he is named at no.5 (506 points); he not may quite be mathematically certain of a place in the Grand Finals but a good performance, justify his status and he will be virtually home and…
Quadri Aruna retains title; Polina Mikhailova at the double
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Sunday, 11 August 2019 10:16
Delight for the host nation but there was also disappointment, Olajide Omotayo and Segun Toriola had to settle for silver in the men’s doubles event. However, at the end of the day there was plenty of reason for the local fans to stand and cheer; smiling faces prevailed. Men’s Singles …………Quadri Aruna, the top seed, beat Austria’s Robert Gardos, the…
Surprise names reach semi-finals, unexpected outweighs expected
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Saturday, 10 August 2019 13:05
Notably in the junior girls’ singles event only one of the top four reserved a penultimate round place; that being Chinese Taipei’s Yu Hsiu-Ting, the no.3 seed; she recorded a quarter-final success in opposition to Germany’s Anastasia Bondareva (11-3, 8-11, 11-6, 11-8, 11-4). Somewhat differently, for Japan’s Sakura Yokoi, the top seed, it was a second round defeat at the…
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