Germany’s 19 year old Amelie Solja, not included in the national team for the recent Liebherr World Team Championships, endorsed the fact on Thursday 17th June 2010, that should one of the Moscow bronze medal winning quartet, suffer a loss of form, then she is ready to step into their shoes.
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17Jun
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01Jun
Ma Lin saluted the massed ranks of Chinese supporters, in the tiered seating in the Olimpijsky Sports Complex, after winning the final point against Timo Boll in the men’s final at the Liebherr World Team Championships in Moscow on the evening of Sunday 3oth May 2010.
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01Jun
Beaten by China in the final of the women’s event at the Evergrande Real Estate World Team Championships in Guangzhou in 2008 and in the same year in the final at the Beijing Olympic Games; Singapore caused one of the greatest upsets in the history of table tennis, when on Sunday 30th May 2010 in the Olimpijsky Sports Complex, they beat China by three matches to two.
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25May
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).
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21May
If you want to be cool, then there is only one sport to play; of course it’s table tennis!
What else?
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21May
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.
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14May
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.
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14May
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.
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10May
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.
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06May
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.
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