Table Tennis
Zagreb highlights: Ivor Ban stars on opening day
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Table Tennis
Tuesday, 14 May 2019 16:16
The teenager was the star of the show. Men’s Singles …………Ivor Ban, no current men’s world rankings, beat both Belgium’s Laurens Devos (11-5, 11-8, 7-11, 11-7) and Italy’s Marco Rech Daldosso (11-7, 11-9, 2-11, 12-10) to emerge the only player guaranteed a group first place. …………Japan’s Yuki Hirano and Chinese Taipei’s Peng Wang-Wei, the top two names on qualification duty,…
Dear friends, For one more year the ITTF has been present at the SportAccord Convention – the world sport and business summit, focused on driving positive change internationally and dedicated to engaging and connecting international federations, rights holders, organising committees, cities, press and media, businesses and other organisations involved in the development of sport. This time, the ITTF had three…
Top names head China’s bid for honours
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Monday, 13 May 2019 13:14
Winner last year on home soil in China, as well as in Hong Kong and Poland, Shi Xunyao lines up alongside Yuan Yuan and Zang Xiaotong, the outfit occupying the top seeded position. Notably last year Yuan Yuan reached the third round of the women’s singles event at the 2018 ITTF Challenge SET Thailand Open; earlier this year Zang Xiaotong…
Impressive standards in Bangkok
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Table Tennis
Monday, 13 May 2019 09:04
by Ian Marshall, Editor Overall, in addition to four practice partners from the local association, a total of 10 boys and 10 girls, born in 2007 and 2008 attended; the premises proving ideal for a high level training camp. Notably 14 national associations were represented. In addition to Thailand players and coaches from India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan,…
Contrasting form, can Croatians make impact on home soil?
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Table Tennis
Monday, 13 May 2019 09:18
Gone are the days of Tan Ruiwu and Roko Tosic at international level, their performance seven years ago being the only occasion when two Croatians have faced each other in a men’s singles final at an open international tournament since the ITTF World Tour began in Kettering on Wednesday 3rd April 1996. Now very much the mantle rests on the…
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