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Liu Guoliang, who is the coach for China’s men’s national team, earns at least …

BEIJING, Oct 13 (Reuters) - China’s national table tennis team will give Olympic medallist Wang Hao counselling after he reportedly got into a fight with a security guard for trying to stop him from urinating outside a karaoke club.
Local media reports last week quoted witnesses as saying that the twice Olympic singles silver medallist had emerged drunk from a karaoke club on Thursday and come to blows with the security guard when he tried to urinate outside the building.
“I am the famous Wang Hao! I am the world champion! Does it matter if I beat you?” shouted the 24-year-old, according to a witness quoted by the papers.

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Like Kong Linghui a few years ago.

BEIJING, June 17 (Xinhua) — China announced its Olympic table tennis squad in a news conference of the State General Administration of Sports here on Tuesday.

“Ma Lin, Wang Hao and Wang Liqin will play for the men’s team, while Guo Yue, Zhang Yining and Wang Nan will play for the women’s team,” Liu Fengyan, director of the National Table Tennis and Badminton Center of the State General Administration of Sports, said. Read the rest of this entry »

Ms. Rachel Ramos, the secretary-general of the Table Tennis Association of North District (TATAND) has just returned from her impressive umpire’s duty at the 49th Ever Grande World Table Tennis Team Championships held in Guangzhou, China, from 23rd February to 3rd March 2008. Ms. Ramos is indeed very much grateful for being given the opportunity to work in this ITTF’s major event and consequently gaining a lot of needed exposure and experience in international umpiring.

It was a stroke of luck for her as, on the last part of 2007, her name was selected to join the list of visiting foreign umpires to this WTTC 2008 from numerous nominations received by the ITTF Umpires and Referees Committee (URC) from different Associations worldwide. Undeniably, it was of big help that the ITTF URC has been very supportive of the female participation on the sport. Read the rest of this entry »

China claimed the men’s team title at the world team table tennis championships after storming over the ambitious South Korea on Sunday. It is the 16th Swaything Cup, or the fourth in a row, that the star-studded Chinese team has lifted. Read the rest of this entry »

Former three times World Singles Champion, Guo Yue Hua visits Green Paddle and FCAAF last February 23, 2008. He gave some instructions and important advice to all players who are present that time. He gave an emphasized about the importance of footwork with a good balance after hitting the ball and how to be an effective server by imparting a different kind of spins and variations. And also using power and speed while in attacking position by always using a forward motion. Read the rest of this entry »

Gym all set for the 2008 Olympic table tennis matches. Read the rest of the article and view some pix at…

TATAND team with former World Champion Ms. Minzhi Zheng of China. Picture taken at the 3rd Minzhi Cup International Table Tennis Invitational Championship held at Shanghai China on Oct. 23-26, 2007. (front L-R) Philip Uy, Minzhi Zheng, Charlie Lim. (back L-R) Ernesto Salvador, Marcos de Jesus, Richmond Ong.

The TATAND Mens Team finished 5th Place out of 9 teams.
Final result:
Champion: Shanghai Monday Club
1st Runner Up: Shanghai Bus Company
2nd Runner Up: Singapore Sunsports
3rd Runner Up: Australia Salem
5th Place: Philippine TATAND
6th Place: Shanghai Eyeone
7th Place: Chinese Petroleum
8th Place: China Jiang Yin City
9th Place: China Min Hang
 

As of Oct 17, 2007, teams from Australia, Japan, China, Hongkong, Taiwan, England, USA and Singapore have all submitted their entries totalling to 131 players. while teams from Vietnam and Macau are yet to confirm their participation by end of this week.

In this light, we remind all interested Filipino veterans players that the deadline of registration for local participants is on Monday, Oct 22, 2007, 5pm ( ).

For more information, please log on to www.tabletennis2007.ph or contact Mr Philip Uy at 0917-813-2702 or e mail tablenet07@yahoo.com.ph

Kickoff

Table tennis service isn’t that easy to execute or receive, look at this one from Ma Lin.

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Interview with the table tennis Olympic legend from China on CNN’s Talk Asia.

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