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Latest Table Tennis newsStaged in Jakarta, Indonesia from Tuesday 21st to Friday 24th October 2008; Thailand’s Nanthana Komwong emerged as the most successful player at the South East Asian Championships.
On duty at the Olympic Games in Sydney, Athens and Beijing, the fast attacking skills of the right handed 28 year old saw her clinch gold in both the Women’s Team and Women’s Singles events.
Just month after Timo BOLL grabbed the third European title in single, made it double in doubles and in team events, German star will be back in Russia. This time, showdown of European stars is scheduled for November 11th and 12th in Moscow. BOLL is coming back to regain his crown from Super Cup’s premiere in Kazan last year.
The Kazan’s finale brought exciting clash between top Europeans players BOLL and Vladimir SAMSONOV of Belarus, which German took in furious style, celebrated 4:0 at the end.
The offical list of players who
confirmed their participation in the next 2008 Liebherr European Table
Tennis Super Cup to be held in Moscow 11th -12th of November and
organized by the Russian Table Tennis Association is:
At the ERKE Austrian Open in Salzburg starting on 29th October thebest table tennis players from the old continent will meet once againafter the European Championships played earlier in the month.
There is a new world ranking; for the Under 15 age group there are 218 boys and 184 girls appearing in this first ever ITTF World Cadet Ranking.
In the doldrums since winning the Men’s Singles event at the Croatian Open in January 2007, China’s 25 year old Hao Shuai is the player to make the most noticeable progress in the higher echelons on the Men’s World Rankings, published by the International Table Tennis Federation on Tuesday 14th October 2008.
Ruta Paskauskiene is the successor of Holland’s Li Jiao. The 31 year old Lithuanian beat Liu Jia from Austria in six games to be crowned European champion at the Liebherr European Championships on Sunday 12th October.
Timo BOLL vs. Vladimir SAMSONOV is the 2008 Liebherr European Championships’ final in men’s singles: the most exciting, the most expected one between the two continetal top-players. It is the same final than last year in Belgrade, where the German clinched the title for the second time in his career (previous was in Zagreb, 2002).
Joao Monteiro reached the quarter-finals at the Liebherr European Championships in St. Petersburg. The 25 year old Portuguese beat Germany’s Dimitrij Ovtcharov, bronze medallist one year ago.
Monteiro will now face Austria’s Robert Gardos. Gardos only played three games against Belgium’s Jean-Michel Saive before the latter had to give up due to an injury.
The Liebherr European Championships in the Russian city of St.
Petersburg is most likely Trinko Keen’s last international tournament.
The 37 year old Dutch star will retire and focus on other things.
Keen
has formed a successful doubles partnership with Austria’s Werner
Schlager; after beating the Serbs Karakasevic/Grujic in the quarters;
Keen/Schlager will win at least a bronze medal.
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