Table Tennis Blog

One of the spectators from the first PingSkills Classic recorded Percy’s amazing backhand from a different view. If you haven’t seen this before you can watch our original posting of the best shot in PingSkills’ History. If you have then sit back and enjoy it once more from a different angle.

The number one seed Simon Gerada progressed comfortably to the final. Miao Miao had a slightly harder path with a tough semi final match against Brian Berry. However her experience and skill got her through that match 4-2. The final promises to be a very exciting match. Simon Gerada has plenty of power on both [...]

Craig Carter takes on Christopher Kek in the 1st match of the PingSkills Classic. Carter’s biggest strength is his awesome backhand. When he can set up the point by playing a third ball attack using his backhand, he will win most of the points. After Carter’s first backhand he has a powerful forehand which he [...]

The PingSkills Classic was a huge success with Simon Gerada taking out the title. In this PingPod we discuss some of the highlights from the tournament. The upset of the tournament was Brian Berry taking out Shibaji Datta in the quarter finals. The shot of the tournament goes to Percy Lu for his around the [...]

The PingSkills Classic was a huge success and we saw some great matches and some amazing points. None were better than this one between Percy Lu and Simon Gerada. Percy Lu was enjoying the home crowd support and although he ended up losing to Simon Gerada 4-1, we have this shot recorded for everyone to [...]

The 2011 PingSkills Classic final will go down as one of the best matches of the year. Simon Gerada played against Miao Miao and it went down to the wire. With the scores locked at 9 all in the final 7th set, no one was sure what was going to happen. Earlier in the match [...]

The PingSkills Classic qualifying tournament was a huge success played in front of a crowd of over 50 people at the Coburg Table Tennis club. There were 10 athletes competing in the tournament which were split into 3 groups. The winner of each group would play another round robin with the top 2 progressing to [...]

In this PingPod we discuss the strengths of Christopher Kek and talk about how far he can go in the PingSkills Classic? Christopher has a great forehand and great footwork. He’ll need both of these to be working extremely well if he’s going to press for a semi-final birth or better. If you like cool [...]

In this PingPod we’re talking about Eric Tan who is the only penholder in the PingSkills Classic. He uses the reverse penhold backhand which is very rare to see in Australia. To get past the quarter finals Eric will need to be fired up and play very aggressively by serving well and making a lot [...]

Percy Lu is going to get a lot of support in the PingSkills Classic and will have a home ground advantage since he is from the Coburg Table Tennis club. He’s going to need to make use of his deadly serves if he has any chances of getting past the quarter finals and into the [...]