Furthermore, there were wins for the host nation’s most prominent players; semi-final places being secured. In the men’s singles events, Mohamed Saleh (Class 4), Sayed Youssef (Class 7) and Abdelrahman Abdelwahab (Class 10) all emerged unbeaten in their opening phase group contests to reserve penultimate round places. Likewise, for top seeded names, there was notable success for France. In the…

The ITTF and the Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU) signed a Master Continental Agreement (MCA) on 29 March 2022 in Doha, Qatar. The Presidents of the two organisations, Petra Sörling and Khalil Al-Mohannadi, expressed their satisfaction and their determination to enhance the cooperation in various areas of the development, commercialisation, and promotion of table tennis on the Continent. The main…

Familiar faces on the international scene and in light of the current situation, most welcomed faces; thanks to the support of the ITTF Foundation, the Ukraine quartet comprising Margaryta Pesotska, Tetyana Bilenko, Ganna Gaponova and Yaroslav Zhmudenko competed in the current WTT Star Contender Doha. Furthermore, on Monday 28th March they met high ranking ITTF officials who comprise the recently…

A major step forward in February 2018 with the staging of an ITTF World Junior Circuit tournament, now four years later a WTT Contender Series event; those achievements alone underline the progress made in recent years by the Oman Table Tennis Federation. In October 2021 a WTT Youth Contender tournament was staged; more significantly table tennis has been introduced in…