Romanian National Championships   The 2018 Men’s Singles European Championships runner-up Ovidiu IONESCU and 2018 Women’s Europe Top 16 winner Bernadette SZOCS won two medals each in the opening day of the 2020 Romanian National Championships. Post SV Muhlhausen’s player took two gold in Men’s Doubles with Cristian CHIRITA and in Mixed Doubles with SZOCS while TTC Berlin Eastside’s member added one silver on her account playing Women’s Doubles event alongside Andrea DRAGOMAN.   Ovidiu IONESCU and Cristian CHIRIȚA overcame Rareș ȘIPOȘ and Cristian PLETEA in the Men’s Doubles finals. Adina DIACONU and Irina CIOBANU prevailed against Andreea DRAGOMAN and Bernadette SZOCS to secure Women’s Doubles gold while Mixed Doubles event was concluded by Ovidiu IONESCU/Bernadette SZOCS victory Rareș ȘIPOȘ/Andreea DRAGOMAN.   Women’s Doubles   1 Adina DIACONU/Irina CIOBANU 2 Andreea DRAGOMAN/Bernadette SZOCS 3 Eliza SAMARA/Elena ZAHARIA 3 Ana Cristina BARBU/Andreea FISTYULOF   Men’s Doubles   1 Ovidiu IONESCU/Cristian CHIRIȚA 2 Rareș ȘIPOȘ/Cristian PLETEA 3 Hunor SZOCS/Alin SPELBUȘ 3 Florin SPELBUȘ/Alexandru MANOLE   Mixed Doubles   1 Ovidiu IONESCU/Bernadette SZOCS 2 Rareș ȘIPOȘ/Andreea DRAGOMAN 3 Hunor SZOCS/Eliza SAMARA 3 Cristian PLETEA/Roxana ISTRATE     RTTF President  Cristinel Romanescu with 2 stars 2 women  legends  of table tennis: Maria Alexandru(3 times WC) & Ella Constantinescu Zeller (5 times  WC)

Estonian Championships 2020 will be held from 29. February  to 1. March in Tallinn in the venue TalTech Sports hall.   Mane favorites this year will be Vallot VAINULA Aleksandr SIMIRNOV Stanislav STROGOV Aleksandr LUŠIN and Airi AVAMERI Kätlin LATT Vitalia REINOL Reelica HANSON.   This year’s schedule will be here .

  The Butterfly Welsh Table Tennis Championships start tomorrow and players from all parts of Wales will come to Sport Wales National Centre to battle it out.   Callum EVANS and Charlotte CAREY head the men and women seeding lists as Welsh number 1’s and defending champions.   CALLUM is aiming to add another title to the three he won in 2017 2018 and 2019. Second seed is his brother Louie EVANS. Whilst others to watch out for will be Jacob YOUNG Marc CASTRO Chris GRIFFITHS Ryan OWEN and Josh STACEY.   Charlotte has won the women’s singles five times already and is trying to add a 6th on Sunday. Charlotte is just one title behind both Bethan DAUNTON & Natasha HURD (6 wins) and 3 behind Naomi OWEN (9) who has the record. Players trying to take their first title include Anna HURSEY Lara WHITTON Beth RICHARDS & Danielle KELLY. Chloe THOMAS is also a top seed and a former champion winning in 2015.   Other events to keep an eye on will be the Junior Singles where Louie EVANS and Anna HURSEY are favorites. In the cadet singles Rhys HETHERTON & Anna HURSEY head the list. Louie EVANS & Anna HURSEY will try to add more titles in the U21 singles but in that category as in the Junior & cadet singles there will be loads of opponents trying their best to upset the seedings. They include Sasha LEWIS Ruby ELLIOTT Evan O’CONNOR Jacob YOUNG Lara WHITTON Beth RICHARDS Grace CLEMENT Danielle KELLY Lauren STACEY Harri DOCHERTY Oscar MARRIOTT and Toby HARWOOD to name a few.   Other categories happening are the U11 U13 Vets 40 Vets 50 Vets 60 & Vets 70s. There is junior doubles senior doubles and mixed doubles to keep the spectators happy all weekend.

The time has come for the biggest event in Greek table tennis. The National championship for men and women takes place this weekend in Chania. Just like last year the beautiful city of Crete and the municipal indoor gym of Kladissos host it and this is a special feature because it hosts the institution for the second time in a row. The event is therefore also a festive tone after all. Chania is a club with a huge tradition in table tennis and really embraces such events.   About 70 athletes and athletes from 32 clubs in the country will take part. As every year there will be some very important absences but other top names are ready to rewrite history and have great moments. This year’s championship is also dedicated to the memory of Pera Athens and a member of the administration of HTTF for many years Damon DAMIANIDIS.   In the singles event Konstantinos KONSTANTINOPOULOS and Katerina TOLIOU will try to defend their titles from 2018 and 2019. In men’s singles the current champion will compete with Tasos RINIOTIS Konstantinos AGGELAKIS and of course his brother George KONSTANTINOPOULOS. George STAMATOUTOS Dimitris PAPADIMITRIOU and Nikos ANTONIADIS can create surprises. From this year’s event the three times European Champion in youth ages Ioannis SGOUROPOULOS and the great Kostas LAGOGIANNIS will be missing. Unfortunately there are the permanent absences of Kallinikos KREANGA and Panagiotis GIONIS.   The women’s singles event is also predicted strong and competitive. TOLIOU has the first word but can be competitive against her players like Konstantina PARIDI Christina FILI and Maria CHRISTOFORAKI. They can also have a dynamic presence Georgia ZAVITSANOU Dimitra TSEKOURA Olga GEORGOPOULOU Alice KIOUFI or the younger Elisavet TERPOU Malamatenia PAPADIMITRIOU and Ioanna GERASIMATOU.   GREEK CHAMPIONS IN PAST 10 YEARS   IN MEN’S SINGLES:   2009-2010 Kostas PAPAGEORGIOU 2010-2011 Kostas PAPAGEORGIOU 2011-2012 Kostas PAPAGEORGIOU 2012-2013 Kostas PAPAGEORGIOU 2013-2014 Kostas PAPAGEORGIOU 2014-2015 Kostas PAPAGEORGIOU 2015-2016 Kostas PAPAGEORGIOU 2016-2017 Tasos RINIOTIS 2017-2018 Konstantinos KONSTANTINOPOULOS 2018-2019 Konstantinos KONSTANTINOPOULOS   IN WOMEN’S SINGLES:   2009-2010 Christina FILI 2010-2011 Katerina DOULAKI 2011-2012 Filaretti EXARCHOU 2012-2013 Christina FILI 2013-2014 Maria CHRISTOFORIKI 2014-2015 Katerina TOLIOU 2015-2016 Georgia ZAVITSANOU 2016-2017 Christina FILI 2017-2018 Katerina TOLIOU 2018-2019 Katerina TOLIOU  

Russian National championships team’s events concluded   Teams of Saint Petersburg and the Nizhny Novgorod region won the gold medal at the championship of Russia 2020. The men’s team of the northern capital led by junior Vladimir SIDORENKO regained the title of the country’s strongest team defeating the team of the Nizhny Novgorod in the final.   Note that Saint Petersburg players managed to recover after being down 0: 2. Points were won by Nikita ARTYOMENKO Vyacheslav BUROV and SIDORENKO who confidently won the decisive meeting. Republic of Tatarstan and Moscow clinched bronze medals.   The women’s team of the Nizhny Novgorod won the gold medals of the Russian Championships on the sixth attempt having outplayed rivals from the Samara Region in the decisive match.   The key player of the match was Maria DOLGIKH who brought her team two points including one decisive against Valeria SHCHERBATYKH. Moreover DOLGIKH was down in decider  0:2 but she managed not only to level the score but also to take the decisive set. We also note the difficult and beautiful victory of 16-year-old Elizabeth ABRAAMYAN over her teammate of the youth national team of Russia Ekaterina ZIRONOVA.  

The Belgian Championships will be held in Spa on 29th February and 1st March. The Finals in Mixed Doubles Women’s Doubles and Men’s Doubles will be on Saturday 29th February. The Finals for Women’s Singles and Men’s Singles will be Sunday afternoon.   There is a record of participation with 39 Men’s Singles players and 30 Women’s players. The title holders are Cédric NUYTINCK and Margo DEGRAEF.   In the same time a Wheelchairs Masters with 8 players also will be on schedule on Sunday 1st March. This is the first time that they will join the Belgian Championships.   The Live streaming during the 2 days of competition will be on the following links:   Facebook Fan Page Infos-Ping : https://www.facebook.com/infos.ping/ Facebook Fan Page AFTT : https://www.facebook.com/AFTTofficiel/ Youtube account AFTT : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJrphx8vAzpPL4_pMfG1GRA    

  Belarus National Table Tennis Championships will be held from February 28 to March 1st 2020 in Minsk in the venue of the Republican Center for Olympic Table Tennis Preparation . According to the national rating TOP 24 men and TOP 24 women will take part in the event.   The draw is schedulered for Thursday. Top seeds are reigning champions Aleksandr Khanin and Daria Trigolos. Next on the list in the Mens Singles event are Pavel Platonov Andrey Milovanov Vladislav Rukliatsou Gleb Shamruk. In Women’s Singles event Trigolos will be challenged by Nadezhda Bogdanova Ekaterina Baravok Anna Patseyeva Alina Nikitchanka.   The beginning of each competition day is at 10 am. Finals in mixed doubles are scheduled for 7 pm (Minsk) on Friday. Finals in MD and WD as well as Singles Events will finish on Sunday.   In 2019 doubles champions were Pavel Platonov and Ilya Barbolin in MD event and Daria Trigolos and Nadezhda Bogdanova in WD event. Among the mixed pairings Andrei Tsiarokhin and Anna Patseyeva were strongest one.

  Netherland’s National Championships will be held this weekend in the Landstede Sports Centre in Zwolle for the 9th time in a row. As we used to see in recent past it will be a battle between National Team members Laurens Tromer Ewout Oostwouder and Rajko Gommers who divided the championships among each other in the last 6 years. With Britt Eerland focussing on her Olympic qualification and Li Jie still not fully recovered from her injury from the Olympic Team Qualification event in Gondomar in Women’s Event the battle will be between last year’s winner Kim Vermaas and 2018 surprise young winner Shuohan Men. Men is eligible to play the championships and has applied for a Dutch passport so she can join the Dutch team later on. ScheduleSaturday 16:00 Mixed FinalSunday 14:00 Doubles Finals 15:00 Womens Final 16:00 Mens Final Livestream www.tafeltennis.tv Last years winners: 2019Rajko GommersKim Vermaas2018Ewout OostwouderShuohan Men2017Rajko GommersLi Jie2016Laurens TromerBritt Eerland2015Ewout OostwouderLi Jie2014Ewout OostwouderLi Jiao

Mercedes-Benz Basketball Academy in Kecskemét will be the venue of the Hungarian National Championships. On 28th February U11 U12 U13 National Championships and U21 National Championships will take place day later Senior National Championships  will be played whilst on the first day of March players will fight for titles in Para National Championships   Last year title holder is Ádám SZUDI; 2nd was Nándor ECSEKI; 3rd János Bence MAJOROS and Phuong Nam DO. In Men Doubles: 1st Peter FAZEKAS Laszló MAGYAR; 2nd Ádám SZUDI Nándor ECSEKI; 3rd Oliver BOTH Csaba ANDRÁS and Krisztian KATUS Dániel LUNG.   Women Single: 1st Szandra PERGEL; 2nd Dóra MADARÁSZ; 3rd Bernadett BÁLINT and Tímea  PETERMAN-VARGA. Women Doubles: 1st Bernadett BÁLINT Leila Erika IMRE; 2nd Leonie HARTBRICH Orsolya Ágota FEHÉR; 3rd Krisztina AMBRUS Tímea  PETERMAN-VARGA and Szandra PERGEL Dóra MADARÁSZ   Mix Doubles: 1st Peter FAZEKAS Tímea  PETERMAN-VARGA; 2nd Krisztián KATUS Kata TOTH; 3rd Dániel LUNG Leila Erika IMRE and Nándor ECSEKI Dóra MADARASZ   Excepted number of the participants this is about  407 people overall. There will be 118 seniors in the U21 will be 76 players the U11 U12 U13 will be 142 and the para people will be 71.