Only one month after the Chinese delegation showed an impressive
performance at the 2009 H.I.S. World Table Tennis Championships
sweeping 17 medals from the possible 20, there is yet another chance
again for the rest of the world to challenge the champions.
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22May
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22May
China dominated matters at the quarter-final stage of both the Men’s
and Women’s Singles events at the Cheng Shin Tire 22nd Asian Cup in the
Chinese city of Hangzhou on Tuesday 19th May 2009;Three players in each event, three winners in each event.
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22May
A railway enthusiast will tell it is no. 4472; in the Scotstoun
Leisure Centre in Glasgow on the evening of Wednesday 20th May 2009, it
was no.79; that was the number of the engine that brought the train to
a successful journey’s end and secured a place for Scotland in the
second stage of the Men’s Team event at the Commonwealth Table Tennis
Championships. -
19May
Somewhat against the odds, Borussia Düsseldorf clinched the European
Champions League Men’s title on Sunday 17th May 2009 to win the
prestigious crown for the second time in the 16 year history of the
club competition; the previous success being in 2000.They beat TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen by three matches to nil.
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18May
Nothing catches the attention like the tradition duels between arch rivals.
Contests
such as golf’s Ryder Cup, which sees the Europeans face the Americans,
the Ashes cricket Test Matches as England plays Australia or the Old
Firm football match in Scotland, when the city of Glasgow forms into
two distinctive camps to support either Celtic or Rangers. -
15May
The H.I.S, World Championships are over, the table tennis family
gathered, the table tennis family has now departed, returning home to
the four corners of the world to retell memories of eight days in Japan.Even
though the physical gathering of the global family may only take place
annually; that family remains strong wherever the members reside. -
13May
5/12/2009
Prior to the H.I.S. 2009 World Table Tennis Championships, the 11th ITTF Sports Science Congress was held in the Yokohama Sports Medical Center. The congress was initiated by former ITTF President Ichiro Ogimura and has been staged since 1989.
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13May
Nigeria’s George Segun and Belgium’s André Damman have both been endorsed by the Executive Committee of the International Table Tennis Federation as members of the President’s Advisory Council.
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07May
China’s Zhang Yining regained her Women’s Singles title on Tuesday
5th May 2009 by beating national team colleague, Guo Yue, in a contest
where she recovered from a two games to nil deficit to secure victory.Guo
Yue started in the fast lane, her speed proving the telling factor but
from the third game onwards, Zhang Yining gradually assumed control. -
07May
In September 2004 at the Volkswagen Open China, in the northern
Chinese city of Changchun, the banner read "Wang Hao, we are proud of
you"; the reference was to the fact that one month earlier he had
suffered agonies, losing to Korea’s Ryu Seung Min in the Men’s Singles
final at the Athens Olympic Games.
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