Table Tennis
Can Mattias Falck rediscover World Championships spark in Busan?
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Table Tennis
Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:36
Leading the European charge in Busan is Sweden’s Mattias Falck, a player who has been in the international headlines for the right reasons in recent months. Men’s singles semi-finalist at the ITTF World Tour Qatar Open in March and runner-up at the World Table Tennis Championships in April, since then however Falck hasn’t quite been able to rediscover the form…
Get ready for the 2019 ITTF World Tour Australian Open!
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Table Tennis
Sunday, 30 June 2019 11:19
Where and when is it? The action will take place at the Geelong Arena located in North Geelong. South-west of Melbourne, the port city of Geelong is the second-largest city in the state of Victoria and played host to last year’s event. Tuesday 9th to Wednesday 10th of July sees the unseeded entries take to the tables for the two-day…
Korea Open: 5 things to know
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Sunday, 30 June 2019 11:30
Xu-perman returns Xu Xin is having a moment: the 29-year-old achieved the triple crown of table tennis in Sapporo, becoming only the second player ever to capture men’s singles, men’s doubles and mixed doubles titles at the same ITTF World Tour stop. Xu joining a club so exclusive that only one other player – Korea’s Jang Woojin, who achieved the…
Laying down the law, Faiza Mahmoud
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Sunday, 30 June 2019 12:16
Faiza Mahmoud started playing para table tennis in 2001. She became African champion in 2007, later she competed at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games; then also in 2012 in London and 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. “I was encouraged by one of the national coaches in Egypt, Nasr Ahmed, to embrace table tennis fully. I was taken through the basics.…
Top seeds fall, tension mounts in Alexandria
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Sunday, 30 June 2019 12:42
In group organised events, in class 1 Eslam Raslan beat colleague and top seed, Walid El-Sayed (6-11, 12-10, 11-7, 11-6) to end the day unbeaten; similarly in class 5 Ayman Zenaty accounted fellow Egyptian Hassan Tolba (11-6, 11-8, 7-11, 11-7). Surprises, in class 6, Ibrahim Hamadtou was beaten by compatriots Mahmoud Abdelmagid Bashir 11-7, 11-4, 11-3) and Faraq Hassan Ali…
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