Gold medals secured the previous day in the men’s singles and women’s singles events; on Saturday 21st May at the Al-Watani Para Championships staged in Amman, the task was to maintain form, repeat the success. Overall, five players achieved the feat. Egypt’s Sayed Youssef, the men’s singles class 7 winner, partnered compatriot Hanna Hammad to the mixed doubles class 14…

Against the odds there was success for visitors from foreign shores on the second day of play, Friday 20th May, at the Al-Watani Para Championships 2022 in Amman. Egypt’s Muntadher Al-Sarraji, and Ehab Fetir emerged successful contrary to expectations as did India’s Mio Wagner and Bhavina Patel, but pride of place went to the host nation, the man of the…

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Integrity Unit was invited for the first time to attend and participate in the 12th meeting of INTERPOL’s Match-Fixing Task Force (IMFTF) which was held over three-days last week in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The meeting brought together integrity and intelligence specialists from some 50 countries, representing law enforcement, public authorities, sports federations,…

Time flies, now a decade ago, the city of London hosted the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. More recently welcome visitors were Petra Sörling, ITTF President, alongside Steve Dainton, ITTF Chief Executive Officer and Raul Calin, ITTF Secretary-General. They met members of Table Tennis England and British Para Table Tennis as well as representatives from UK Sport. “It’s always a…