Table Tennis News and Reviews

Rong Guotuan, men’s table tennis player. He was born in Hong Kong on August 10, 1937, and the native place of his family is Nanping Village, Zhongshan County (now the Nanping Town, Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province).

If you want to be cool, then there is only one sport to play; of course it’s table tennis!

What else?

Who is going to complete the line up in the Chinese Men’s Team? Who is going to be left out?

It would seem that the nominated list may be well be changed by Liu Guoliang, the Chinese Men’s National Team Head Coach.

Poland’s Leszek Kucharski was the expert on duty for a well attended ITTF Training Camp, staged in Tunis from Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th April, prior to the Tunisia Junior Open; a tournament which attracted 34 teams with players travelling from Asia and Europe as well as from the host continent Africa.

Japan with Masahiro Otsuka and Yuto Higashi on duty captured the Boys’ Team title at the Tunisia Junior Open on Friday 30th April 2010, to once again underline the excellence of the coaching systems employed in Asia.

Seeded no.2, they overcame top seeds, Egypt `A’ at the final hurdle with Yuto Higashi the backbone of success.

I was scanning the sports section of a newspaper the other day and chanced upon the results of the European table tennis championship.

It seemed that the major winning teams have a number of players with Chinese-sounding names. It is certainly not the case of Europeans adopting Chinese names now that the economic power is shifting eastwards, compared to Asians using Caucasian names for social reasons.

Chile’s 18 year old Felipe Olivares and Paraguay’s 17 year old Sandy Gavilan won the respective Boys’ and Girls’ Singles titles at the South American Junior Championships which concluded in the Peruvian city of Chiclayo on Tuesday 4th May 2010.

At the Volkswagen World Junior Championships in December 2009, as part of the Colombianitos programme, members of the International Table Tennis Federation visited areas of Cartagena de Indias where table tennis has a vital humanitarian role to play.