Isaac Newton primary school won Grantham Primary Schools Table Tennis Team Competition and as a result will now represent there county Lancashire. Continue reading →

School kids from a secondary school located in Wembley formed a table tennis team and have won the Jack Petchey Foundation Contest.

The girls from Wembley High Technology College in East Lane all aged 15 were crowned champions of the under 16 London West regional final of the Jack Petchey Foundation.

The girls will now represent school in the London-wide finals on January 19.

One of the girls Janeal, said: “I have been playing table tennis for six years and I play at school. It’s fun and it always challenges you because every match is never the same.

“You can learn to umpire and also make friends. It’s inspiring. I would like to continue to play and also improve and get further in this sport.”

Alex Waring who is an official at Bolton Sports club saved his team mates life after Barrie Fleet collapsed after winning a table tennis match, the hospital later revealed that he suffered from a heart attack.

Alex Waring who had been trained in first aid gave Mr. Fleet who is 67 mouth to mouth resuscitation whilst another staff member called 999.

He was then rushed immediately to North Manchester General Hospital, where doctors feared the worst for the 67 year old as he stayed in a coma for 5 days.

Fortunately he has now returned home where he is resting when we caught up with him he had this to say “I feel so relieved to be past the worst of it and I really owe Alex a pint or two for saving my life.”

For Alex we understand this would have been a moment of panic so we asked him about this horrible ordeal and he had this to say “At the moment, I’ve got a lot of short-term memory loss and I’ve been told to rest for three or four weeks until I can have a test to assess the impact on my heart.”

Most people in Portugal do know that their table tennis is the top 3 best in Europe but they might not know now as they do not have enough money to keep itself up and running.

The table tennis federation in portugal was given 9.00 Euros to hire a coach but that’s not enough to hire one for a year. Overall portugal table tennis team gets 500,000 a figure with 5% cut this is pretty low compared to volleyball team that gets 2.6 million and judo 1.3 million.

The money goes quick as well paying for the hall around 286,000 on fixed costs and to fly the team to international countries for events. The four top Olympic players are not even training in Portugal they have moved to Germany Italy and Austria.

There are around 3,200 table tennis players in Portugal and they need some hope that the government cares about their sport

A club has raised £700 for new bats, balls and hall hire after doing 24 hour sponsored table tennis games. There was a reeager in the team that recently made headlines after returning from cancer.

Two people that have pushed them self were Rhianna and Spencer Hurd who did 12 hours each, the player were only permitted for a 30 minutes rest that is after 3 hours. There was also a face to achieve the most successive shots in a rally, which was won by Andy Bray and Adam McKay with 1,732.

The 29 year old tennis player has been put in the three man Great Britain team from London 2012, he has a good history behind him with two years in French league and no having a one year contract with a Ger Continue reading →

Ariel Hsing was eight when she wrote down her Olympic dream on a piece of paper. She rolled it up, wrapped it with a string and tucked it into a small box.

“I said something along the lines of I wish to become an Olympian one day,” the 16-year-old Californian recalled. “Then for eight years, I persuaded myself that if I opened the piece of paper and read it, my wish could not come true.”

Well now Hsing will stand for the US in table tennis at the London Olympics and she’ll be leaving with two other Californians who are even younger — 16-year old Lily Zhang and 15-year-old Erica Wu. The lone men’s representative will be Tim Wang of Houston, Texas.

Hsing has abruptly become a celebrity in a sport that gets scant notice in the US.

For starters, she is buddies with billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, close enough to call them “Uncle Warren” and “Uncle Bill.”

A table tennis buff, Buffett met Hsing when she was only nine and already a top youth player. Two years later, he invited her to play against shareholders at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual gathering. She has returned several times, including last month after winning a spot on the US team.

The closing World Olympic condition competition in Doha, held in Qatar, ended in distress for the Great British Olympic hopefuls as none of the six-strong crew managed to seal a position at London 2012.

Britain’s major hopes rested with the men’s triumvirate of Paul Drinkhall, Liam Pitchford and Andrew Baggaley who went in hunt of securing one of the two places obtainable in Doha.

However, defeats for Pitchford – against Italian Mihai Bobocica – Baggaley, who lost out to Dane Allan Bentsen and Drinkhall – toppled by Spaniard Carlos Machado – seemed to have ruined their campaigns in the Middle East.

The effect means that the 10 shortlisted players for the Olympic will have to remain for the host allocation announcement, due to be complete by the British Table Tennis Federation and the British Olympic Authority on May 22.

Luckily, for British table tennis, they had by now been owed a men’s and women’s singles and team spot at London 2012 so there will be a host attendance at the 30th Olympiad come the institute of the event in July.

China are the top dogs when u talk about table tennis they have won 20 of 24 goal medals in table tennis since the sport entered the Olympics in 1998.

The player for this year London 2012 table tennis Olympic are Wang Hao and Zhang jike in the singles and Ma long in the men’s team.

The new rules this year is that two players from any country can play singles. So there is no surprise that china has put Wang and Zhang based on performance in last year.

Table is the national sport in china which means that the players have a lot of pressure on their hand the top player to look out for this year is may be Ding who is the favorite to win gold medals in the Olympic.

Young Charles sketchley who is in sixth form at de ferrers academy has come second in the international school sport federation competition. The 17 year old has been chosen to represent UK.

He was playing got the English table tennis association in the early 2010 and had played in many different competition across the UK.

Charles’ coach, Duncan Stewart, said: “We’re all really pleased that Charles got through the ISF competition as he’s a good player with a lot to offer.”

Steve Allen, principal of de Ferrers Academy, said: “Charles is an exceptional young man and we at the academy are very proud of his achievements.”