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.
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05Jun
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05Jun
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
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05Jun
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
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05Jun
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. -
02Jun
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. -
02Jun
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
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01Jun
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.
Tags: ITTF
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01Jun
The pan-European sport channel Eurosport was ten hours and five minutes live on air from the H.I.S. 2009 World Table Tennis Championships.
During the last four days of competition, more than 8.2 million different European users showed interest in the programme.
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01Jun
The World Championships in Yokohama are now over and the winners have returned to their homelands with their well-earned medals but the record books will not show that there was another winner of the Championship medals, the ITTF Museum. After a highly successful exhibition with a record-breaking attendance, the ITTF Museum was presented with a set of the official Gold, Silver and Bronze medals by the Yokohama Organizing Committee.
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31May
Ukraine’s 17 year old Margaryta Pesotska was the player to cause the
major upset in the second round of the Women’s Singles event at the
Stag Belarus Open in Minsk on Saturday 30th May 2009 and, in so doing,
broke the hearts of the host nation’s supporters.
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