Table Tennis Blog

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 [...]

The US take on the Netherlands in the Men’s Teams event and play England in the Women’s team event at the 50th World Table Tennis Championships tonight. US Men v The Netherlands The US have started with Peter Li. Although he is able to make some of the play the Netherlands number 3, Casper Ter [...]

Spain pushed Japan to the wall tonight. It was some amazing table tennis by the left handed penhold player, Cantero that got the Spanish off to a fly. He downed the heavily fancied Matsudaira in the first match to set things going. Then it was Machado who really said to the Japanese team we are [...]

The Men this morning played South Africa. The opposition now lead by former Australian Head Coach, Marcus Gustaffson. Marcus brings t the match a lot of knowledge about the Australian players especially the young David Powell, who he worked with extensively during his time as National coach and also owhen David travelled to Sweden to [...]

Both Australian teams got off to a reasonable start yesterday. The men had a win against Sri Lanka 3 – 1. William Henzell was solid as usual and performed well. The only downside was the injury to Robbie Frank. He went over on his ankle late in his match at 7 – 9 in the [...]

The World Teams Championships has commenced with 111 men’s teams and 83 women’s teams. A total of 194 teams each with 4 players. So just under 800 of the worlds finest players assembled in the one competition. It makes you start to appreciate how big our game really is. So with all those teams and [...]

Congratulations to Tejas Walke for winning the PingSkills April Survey competition. Thanks to Tejas for filling out the survey. The DVD that he selected, ‘Returning Serve’ was the winner of the most popular Feature DVD with 44%. Thanks to his feedback and the feedback from all of our other readers, this is the DVD that [...]

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The competition has ended and the winner is one of our most loyal readers, Ji-Soo Woo from Canberra, Australia. Congratulations to Ji-Soo for providing an insightful and entertaining blog… not to mention enlightening… Thanks also to all the other entrants who provided some interesting entries. You will find Ji-Soo’s Blog below. It has prompted me [...]

By Ji-Soo Woo Ji-Soo WooBlog Competition Winner I came upon a wise man sitting under a fig tree. Eyes closed…he was in evident deep reverie. Balanced on his exposed leathery scalp was a table tennis racquet, and the tips of his slender fingers tapered around a three star table tennis ball. He looked like someone [...]