Tag: table tennis
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LIU Breaks Ning’s 22-Month Streak as World #1
Lausanne, Sept 6, 2013: LIU Shiwen (CHN) is table tennis’s new women’s world number one, knocking her team mate DING Ning (CHN) off top spot, which she had held for a record 22 months. The 22 year old, who last held the number one spot back in October 2010 as a fresh-faced 19 year old,…
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Hsing Claims Golden Hat Trick at ITTF-North American
Vancouver – Canada, August 28, 2013: Ariel HSING of USA has blown the away the field to capture three gold medals at the 2013 ITTF-North American Championships, which concluded on 27 August 2013 in Vancouver, Canada. The 17 year old prodigy, who is close friends with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, referring to them as…
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Japanese Siblings stop Chinese Clean Sweep
Lausanne, August 18, 2013: The GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour, Harmony Open, successfully concluded after 5 days of exciting competition in Suzhou, China on 18 August 2013. The top Chinese players did not disappoint the very supportive local crowd at the event in Suzhou, which drew more than 23,000 spectators in total, as they…
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World’s Best Arrive in Suzhou for Harmony Open
Lausanne, Aug 14, 2013: The latest stop on the lucrative GAC Group ITTF World Tour is the $231,000 Harmony Open, which starts today in Suzhou, China and runs to Sunday 18 August. The Harmony Open always attracts the world’s best table tennis players, and 2013 is no different with 6 out of the top 10…
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Players for STARTS ITTF Women’s World Cup
Lausanne, Aug 13, 2013: The 20 players invited to compete in the STARTS 2013 ITTF Women’s World Cup, to be held in Kobe, Japan on 21-23 September 2013, has been revealed by the International Table Tennis Federation. The world’s best female Table Tennis players have battled through qualifications for the past 4 months to gain…
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12 Year Old Secures Double Gold at ITTF
Chinese Taipei, July 28, 2013: 12-year-old table tennis sensation Mima ITO (JPN) has again showed the world why she is being touted as a future Olympic Champion, by winning the Cadet (under 15) and Junior (under 18) events at the 2013 ITTF Chinese Taipei Junior & Cadet Open. ITO successfully defended the titles that she…
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ITTF Online Version of Successful Magazine
Lausanne, July 28, 2013: The 2013 ITTF Development and Education magazine, which was released during the recent World Table Tennis Championships, is now available online: http://issuu.com/ittfdevelopment/docs/ittf_development_and_education_report_magazine_200 The 4th edition of the magazine, which is produced on a biennial basis covers the developments efforts made by the International Table Tennis to advance the promotion of table…
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ITTF-North America Open Event Bids & Launches Website
ITTF-North America is excited to announce the launch of its new website: ITTFNorthAmerica.com and the opening of bids for the 2014-2016 ITTF-North American Events. ITTF-North America President, Bruce Burton, who is excited about the latest development to North American Table Tennis stated: “The launch of the ITTF-North American website, along with the opening of bids…
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Slovenia Wins Bid to Host 2013 ITTF World Cadet
Lausanne, July 19, 2013: The International Table Tennis Federation is excited to announce that Otocec, Slovenia has been awarded the 2013 ITTF World Cadet Challenge to be held on 26th October to 3rd November 2013. “I am very happy that the Slovenia Table Tennis Association will host the 2013 Cadet Challenge at such late notice…
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China, Chinese Taipei and Japan Share Golds
Kazan – Russia, July 17, 2013: China, Chinese Taipei and Japan shared the 7 table tennis gold medals on offer at the 27th Universiade, which saw 10,400 university athletes from 162 countries descend onto the Russian city of Kazan. China’s LIU Yi and CHE Xiaoxi made China proud by winning the respective Men’s and Women’s…