Table Tennis Blog

In one of the most dramatic finals Table Tennis has seen, Germany’s Timo Boll, Sponsor of Butterfly’s Timo Boll range kept his concentration and went on to win the Men’s Singles event at the Quatar Open. Which was quite possibly the best match out of all 5 days.

Recently Table Tennis Sales have been down drastically because people aren’t worried about what there child may want for Christmas they are more worried about how am I going to keep my home if I lose my job. The key is that we need to think positive because if we don’t we are only going to get deeper.
Recently Woolworths, a huge high street retailer announced that they are going to go bust and thousands of there employees are going to lose there jobs unless someone buys out the company. Now is this really what we want to be hearing on the news and in the media, it is not going to help the situation we are in.

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has, as of September 1, 2008, banished a wide variety of solvents used to apply table tennis equipment rubber to rackets. The following is text verbatim from the Chairman of the ITTF Equipment Committee, Odd Gustavsen.

We would like to draw your attention to the decision made in Guangzhou, valid from September 1, 2008 (The Law 2.4.7.):

The covering material should be used as it has been authorised by the ITTF without any physical, chemical or other treatment, changing or modifying playing properties, friction, outlook, colour, structure, surface, etc.

This means an absolute ban for the use of boosters (tuners, enhancers, improvers, etc.). The purpose of a booster is to change something – if not, what would be the intention. You may find such products claiming to be harmless, to be allowed by ITTF, or to be without VC (volatile compounds), etc. There is little reason to believe this is true. Please be very sceptical since these are generally bad for your health, even containing poison in some cases.

According to our tests there is no way that a sponge can be treated separate from the covering; refer the usual way a booster is applied, i.e. on the sponge.

Boosters represent a messy, time consuming, costly, unhealthy, and now illegal way of achieving spin and speed, and you may be detected in a tournament. Other and better ways exist for the same purpose.

11 Categories:
Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, Veteran Men’s Singles, Veteran Women’s Singles, U21 Men’s Singles, U21 Women’s Singles, Men’s doubles, Women’s Doubles, Veteran Men’s Doubles, Veteran Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles

The Venue Ponds Forge International Sports Centre:

Sheaf Street
Sheffield
S1 2BP

Winners:

Mens Singles Paul Drinkhall (Cv) Womens Singles Helen Lower (St) Mens Doubles Paul Drnkhall (Cv) Darius Knight (Sy) Womens Doubles Helen Lower (St) Natalie Bawden (E) Mixed Doubles Darius Knight (Sy) Kelly Sibley (Wa) Under 21 Mens Singles Darius Knight (Sy) Under 21 Womens Singles Kelly Sibley (Wa) Veteran Mens Singles Joe Kennedy (E) Veteran Womens Singles Shu HUANG (E) Veteran Mens Doubles Clive Carthy (E) Joe Kennedy (E)

I noticed that I Haven’t wrote a Brand vs. Brand section in a long time now as I have been busy lately, I am still going to stick to the 3 makes Kettler, Cornilleau and Butterfly but I think this time the rankings have changed.

Although Butterfly have just released a new range of blades rubbers etc I prefer Cornilleau and Kettler as there unique quality is unlike most Table Tennis Brands. Cornilleau Promote the family values of Table Tennis as you will be able to see in most of there advertising as well as being the Sponsors and Official table tennis supplier of the World Team Cup 2007 - 2009 - 2011. Kettler has however started to drop of the edge of the modern Table Tennis Brands but it is still fighting strong as most of the old fashioned Table Tennis Players prefers them on top of any Table Tennis make around because of there excellent value and amazing quality.

Recently I noticed that Table Tennis Table Shop has hit high on googles front page although it isnt number 1 its only position 8 it is still an achievement and a breath of fresh air as I thought the website was dropping down googles rankings however I have been proved wrong. this will mean more visits to our website and it will make this blog popular in the table tennis group circles.

Olympic table tennis champion and world Number 1 table tennis star has been ordered to explain to team mates about his confrontation with a parking attendant who reportedly caught him urinating outside a karaoke hall.

25 year old Wang Hao was taken to a police station after allegedly kicking the attendant; however he denied the charges of abuse and was later released. Cleared, the young ping pong star went on to apologise to the attendant for verbally abusing him and supposedly paid him $290 to settle the matter.

“He needs to examine himself in front of the team, talk about his feelings and the lessons he’s learned and sound a warning for his other teammates,” men’s coach Liu Guanglie was quoted as saying in Wednesday’s edition of Xiandai Jinbao, a newspaper published by the official Xinhua News Agency.

“In addition to the sanitary repercussions, this story will forever be remembered for this quote. According to a witness, Wang said, “I am the famous Wang Hao! I am the world champion! Does it matter if I beat you?”

Wang Hao is Disciplined

Fresh onto our website are some nice modern 3D models. Good old Cornilleau has sent us over a CD with 3d rotating models of everyone of there tables if you go onto www.tabletennistableshop.co.uk you should be able to see them.

Soon to hit TableTennisTableShop’s Market is a range of Blades, Glues, Balls, Bat Cases, Bags, Rubbers, Shoes and Socks these will be released soon and the shop will be going pro. We have been looking around at our competitors and now exactly what we need to keep up with the ever growing sport of Table Tennis.

If you have any suggestions on products or brands please leave a comment to this article and we will get back to you.

PTTF names team for CW Youth Games KARACHI, Sept 25: PTTF (The Pakistan Table Tennis Federation) on Thursday announced a new two-member team for the upcoming third Commonwealth Youth Games being held in Pune, India, from Oct 12-18. The team comprising Salman Ahmed Tahir Virk and Ayesha Khan was picked after trials held at the PSB Coaching Centre here under the supervision of two visiting North Korean coaches. The foreign experts were assisted by veteran international Arif Nakhuda and secretary Sindh Table Tennis Association, Saleem Ahmed. The ITTF course conductor Arif Khan will accompany the team as official. Both Salman and Ayesha who are currently undergoing training in the camp, have recently featured in the ITTF Indian Open world junior circuit at the same venue. Besides table tennis, Pakistan has decided to field sportspersons in four other disciplines — athletics, swimming, weightlifting and wrestling. Meanwhile, Pakistan’s 21-member squad including three women and five officials will fly to Mumbai from Karachi on Oct 9 by PK 274 on way to Pune. The size of the contingent would be athletics (two men, one official), swimming (two men, two women, and one official), table tennis (one man, one woman, and one official), weightlifting (four men and one official), and wrestling (four men and one official).