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Latest Table Tennis newsBelgium’s 39 year old Jean-Michel Saive, the living legend of
Belgian table tennis, has been elected to serve for a four year term of
office on the Belgian Olympic Committee Interfederal (COIB).
At
the General Assembly held on Friday 6th June 2009, Saive received 67
votes and will serve as one of the seven Francophone Directors on a
board which comprises 15 directors.
China’s Liu Shiwen upset the seeding to reach the final of the
Women’s Singles event at the Harmony China Open in Suzhou on Sunday 7th
June 2009 by overcoming second seed, compatriot Li Xiaoxia, in their
penultimate round contest.
Hard fought seven games duels were the order of the day at the
semi-final stage of the Men’s Singles event at the Harmony China Open
in Suzhou on Sunday 7th June 2009 with China’s Ma Long and Wang Liqin
emerging successful.
No Cure from World Champion as Austrian Receives Taste of Own
Medicine. At the H.I.S World Championships, on the last day of April,
Austria’s 20 year Stefen Fegerl caused arguably the biggest upset in
the opening round of the Men’s Singles event.
The Chinese Women’s Team, whatever players are chosen, is a step
ahead of the field; it was a point that was underlined at the recent
H.I.S. World Championships in Yokohama.
Simply they were
magnificent and a bookmaker will only give odds on that female players
from China will make a clean sweep of medals at the London 2012 Olympic
Games.
It could hardly have been closer; that was the situation in the
Men’s Singles qualification group at the Harmony China Open in Suzhou
that involved Chinese Taipei’s Chen Chien-An, Japan’s Koki Niwa and
Korea’s Kim Gang Woong.
The leading names in the qualification stage of the Men’s Singles
event at the Harmony China Open all booked their places in the main
draw following the conclusion of first phase matches in Suzhou non
Thursday 4th June 2009.
Korea’s 28 year old Dang Ye Seo won the first Women’s Singles title
of her career on the ITTF Pro Tour, when she succeeded at the Belarus
Open in Minsk on Sunday 31st May 2009; in four straight games she beat
Li Xue of France to capture the top prize.
Twenty-one year old Zolt Pete clinched gold the Stag Belarus Open in
Minsk on Sunday 31st May 2009 and in so doing became the first Serbian
to win a Men’s Singles crown in the 13 year old history of the ITTF Pro
Tour.
At the H.I.S. 2009 World Table Tennis Championships in Japan, 101 of ITTF’s 205 (new 207) member associations were represented with at least one player. 313 men and 215 women were entered by the associations.
The European continent with 42 countries had the biggest number of associations in Yokohama, while Latin America equalised its record participation from 2003 with 16 ITTF member associations.
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