Gold medallist at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, on Saturday 14th May, Ukraine’s Maryna Lytovchenko emerged the most successful player on duty at the ITTF Slovenia Para Open 2022 in Lasko. The 30-year-old from Kyiv completed a clean sweep and in doing so became the first player to secure all three available titles at the same tournament since the doubles…

On the penultimate day of play, Friday 13th May, at the ITTF Para Slovenia Open in Lasko, competing in group organised events, surprise winners appeared. Spain’s Eduardo Cuesta and Frenchman Timothe Ivaldi emerged the unexpected winners in men’s doubles class 22; the pairing of the Czech Republic’s Denisa Macurova and Ukraine’s Natalya Kosmina upset the order to claim women’s doubles…

The Research Training Camp was an additional opportunity for coaches as well as players to better their awareness of specific skills and actions on the ball. Spinsight’s new technology for digital table tennis training which delivers exact measurements on all ingredients of playing the ball – the spin, speed, placement, and height over the net and table. “This equipment reflects…

First staged in the Hungarian capital city of Budapest in 1989, the World Youth Festival returns to the international calendar; the fifth edition will be held in Győr from Tuesday 21st to Sunday 26th June. Ivan Herendi, founder of the World Festival, was delighted that the tournament will return to the international scene. What are your memories of the 1st…