Table Tennis
Xu Xin back on top of the world!
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Tuesday, 02 July 2019 01:32
THE RETURN OF XU-PERMAN You have to wind the clock back to February 2015 for when Xu Xin last topped the charts in the men’s singles global ranking. Fast forward 53 months and the Chinese star is back on top of the world order (14,945 points) after a string of impressive results since April’s World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest.…
100 days: Raul Calin at the ITTF’s Singapore Office
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Tuesday, 02 July 2019 02:39
A few months after moving to a new professional office building, the ITTF was delighted to welcome Secretary General, Raul Calin to its Singapore Office. Calin, who had been based at the ITTF Headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland over the last four years, linked up with many of the organisation’s core staff members in Singapore, providing a timely boost for the…
Busan highlights: visitors make presence known
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Tuesday, 02 July 2019 06:33
There was plenty to attract the connoisseur. Men’s Singles: Preliminary Round One …………Reigning Asian junior boys’ singles champion, Xiang Peng underlined his quality; he beat Hungary’s Bence Majoros (11-2, 8-11, 11-6, 11-6, 11-6). …………China’s aspiring young players proved inspired against their Swedish counterparts; Xu Yingbin beat Truls Möregard (11-8, 11-9, 11-7, 11-3); Sun Wen accounted for Anton Källberg (11-8, 6-11,…
Qualification Day One: Seamaster 2019 ITTF World Tour SHINHAN Korea Open
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Monday, 01 July 2019 18:55
Korean dreams It was the best of 30 minutes for the hosts as all three Koreans in the Men’s Singles snatched comprehensive wins in Busan. Runners-up in Thailand Open of this year’s ITTF World Tour, Seo Hyundeok took no time in racing to a victory over Saudi Arabia’s Ali Alkhadrawi (11-6, 11-7, 11-7, 11-5). His compatriots, Kim Donghyun and Park…
Promoting the Algerian cause, Karim Boumedouha and Madani Zerigui
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Monday, 01 July 2019 11:50
Madani Zerigui, 37 years old, lives in Algiers; Karim Boumedouha resides in France. They are both members of the eight man Algerian team competing in Alexandria. Notably, Madani Zerigui is a former Algerian national junior champion but an accident in 2003 changed his life. Unlike Madani Zerigui, 42 years old France based Karim Boumedouha has lived all his life in…
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