Table Tennis
Italy and France join forces, emerge surprise winners
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Saturday, 04 May 2019 17:51
At the final hurdle they recorded a most impressive 3-0 win against the no.4 seeds, Hungary’s Csaba Andras, Oliver Both and Akos Kishegyi, having previously in the day gained equally impressive results. Earlier a 3-1 quarter-final verdict had been the outcome against the no.3 seeds, the Portuguese combination of Tiago Li, Samuel da Silva and Goncalo Gomez, as it was…
Lagos to host African Cup and Club Championships
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Saturday, 04 May 2019 09:07
Following agreement reached by the African Table Tennis Federation with the support of the International Table Tennis Federation, the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium will in addition be the host for the 2019 ITTF African Cup and the African Club Championships. The date on the calendar for the African Club Championships is Wednesday 31st July to Friday 2nd…
Day Two: Seamaster 2019 ITTF Challenge Serbia Open
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Saturday, 04 May 2019 04:00
Anna Bikbaeva maintains form Required to qualify Russia’s Anna Bikbaeva continued her outstanding run of form; she beat Hungary’s Dora Madarasz, the no.9 seed (11-5, 11-7, 11-9, 11-5) to reserve her quarter-final place. Alas for India’s Krittwika Roy, also a qualifier, it was the end of the road; despite a spirited recovery, she was beaten by Szandra Pergel, the no.7…
Destination Darwin, new classifiers named
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Saturday, 04 May 2019 04:12
A total of 13 hours, the venue for the whole proceedings and the ensuing tournament was the Marrara Indoor Stadium; the premises proving more than adequate for both the seminar and classification. Notably, seven new para players received their initial classification; two existing players had their classification reviewed. Furthermore, two trainee classifiers in the guise of Carli Harris and David…
Cancun awaits, idyllic destination
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Saturday, 04 May 2019 05:47
The allocation of the tournament to the region completes the full circle; basically qualification for the event is through four distinct regions of the continent, those being North America, South America, the Caribbean and Central America. In 2016, the inaugural edition was staged in the west coast Canadian city of Burnaby, the following year, Buenos Aires was the destination, before…
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