Table Tennis Blog

There is an interesting Table Tennis tournament being played very shortly in Las Vegas. There is $100,000 in prize money on offer for what is basically a hard bat competition! Here are the details from the project manager The World Championship of Ping Pong will take place on February 7th and 8th, 2011, in Las [...]

Congratulations to Jesus… he is the winner of our latest Blog competition. Here is his winning entry. He will win a DVD of his choice. I am the best, I am number one, I always win… I was very good in Table Tennis even though I only started a few years ago. I fell in [...]

Start writing your Blog PingSkills is pleased to announce our new Blog Competition. You can submit Blogs by emailing them to pingskillsblog@gmail.com. Closing date for entries is Sunday 22nd August. The winner will have their blog published and will win a DVD of their choice. We are looking for interesting content about Table Tennis. The [...]

Could lightning possibly stroke twice on the one day, court one Olympic stadium Moscow? The match started with Timo Boll the hero from yesterday playing Ma Long. Boll must win for Germany to have a chance you would think. The first two games are a battle but Ma Long is too good. The serves that [...]

Feng Tian Wei v Ding Ying As the players prepare for this World Championships teams final and the crowd is going crazy for China I can’t help but look at the Singapore bench and wonder what they are thinking. All of them formerly of China would surely have some feeling for their motherland. Even coach [...]

Germany overcame Korea last night to set up a World Teams final appearance against China. In a masterful display that saw Boll return to some of his vintage form, Germany won 3 matches to 1. The only match for Korea was Joo Se Hyuk beating Christian Suss in the number 3 position. But the hero [...]

The German team come out onto the court after the match and take a bow waving jubilantly to the crowd and thanking their supporters. They leave the arena all smiles receiving congratulations from their supporters. The Singapore team file away texting messages, not a smile to be seen. You may think that an upset had [...]

The Medallists at the 50th World Table Tennis Championships have been decided. The colours of their prospective medals have not. The Men’s and women’s competition look decidedly alike. The top half of the draw for both sees China pitted against Japan. The bottom half of both has Germany. Their opponents in the Men’s competition, Korea [...]

In what turned out to be an epic battle last night the Japanese Women’s team progressed to the semi finals of the Word Teams championships by defeating Korea 3 – 2. It is a teams match that lasted some 5 hours with all but the last match going to 5 sets. With two defenders in [...]

Australia men take on Venezuela this afternoon in a rematch of their group match that Australia won 3 – 1. A slight line up change with Robbie Frank playing at number 2 instead of David Powell. The first match saw Henzell against their number 2. Henzell looked out of sorts early to go down 2 [...]