2018 ETTU Hopes Selection Camp Luxembourg In cooperation with ETTU and Development Manager CTTC / FLTT organised ETTU Hopes Selection Camp 2018 for the ETTU players born 2006 / 2007 in Luxembourg from April 2nd – 9th 2018. The total of 30 players (15 girls 15 boys) from 14 NA’s and 8 practice partners (18 coaches in total) participated during the eight days of work. “In recent years ITTF ETTU CTTA and CTTC are committed to cadet and junior table tennis development in the European and even the world and invested a great deal of strength to that purpose. Many training camps activities gave a significant effect. Due to the fact that most participants are 10-12 years old and at the beginning of their playing careers their basics and fundamentals are relatively weak this training camp was very important for them. Therefore on requests of the ETTU the objectives of the camp were to: help young players learn fundamental knowledge of the sport of table tennis grasp the proper strokes of individual skills acquire and establish training methods of fundamentals and core skills experience the competition system enhance tournament capabilities raise coaching skills through discussions with trainers ” stated in the report signed by Head Coach (CTTC / FLTT) Martin OSTERMANN. Evaluation Team selected (6 criteria) 3 boys and 3 girls representing Europe to take part in the ITTF HOPES WEEK & CHALLENGE Camp in Alicante July 30th – August 5th. Girls: 1. Earley Sophie (IRL) 148 5 points 2. Baiasu Ioana (ROU) 144 0 points Bianca Mei Rosu (ROU). 140 0 points 3. Nora Tanacs (HUN) 137 0 points ——————————————- 4. Katerina Pisarova (CZE) 133 5 points 5. Sarah Radak (SRB) 131 5 points 6. Sofia Couce (ESP) 130 0 points 7. Enisa Sadikovic (LUX) 123 5 points Boys: 1. Julian Chirita (ROU) 152 0 points Dragos Bujur (ROU) 146 5 points 2. Stepan Brehel (CZE) 143 0 points 3. Dursun Ugurcan (TUR) 140 5 points ——————————————– 4. Tom Closset (BEL) 137 5 points 5. Xavier Wats (BEL) 127 5 points 6.Martin Sip (CZE) 127 0 points 7. Conner Green (ENG) 126 0 points EVALUATION TEAM LI Xiaodong (China CTTC) ZHANG Yining (China CTTC) Martin OSTERMANN (Luxembourg Organizer) CHENG Xia (Luxembourg Organizer) Neven CEGNAR (ETTU)
Slovak’s title for DAUBNER family
SST Euromilk Dunajska Streda secured fourth title in the Slovak Women’s National League in Bratislava. In the final they overcame KST Viktoria Trnava. SKST Ruzomberok beat STO Valaliky to reach the position no. three. It is fourth title for SST Euromilk Dunajska Streda wich is famous for special line up. Marta DAUBNEROVA bronze medal winner in Women’s Singles 50 to 59 years at the 2017 European Veteran Championship in Helsingborg lined up alongside daughters Simona VERESKA and Andrea DAUBNEROVA. It was the second team national title for the Marta DAUBNEROVA. In 1988 the same year as her daughter Simona was born representing Lokomotiva Bratislava she had emerged successful. Notably it was the first such title for Simona Vereska; for Andrea DAUBNEROVA Cadet Mixed Doubles silver medallist in partnership with Mattias ÖVERSJÖ at the 2006 European Youth Championship 2006 it was her fourth in the colours of SST Euromilk Dunajska Streda.
ITTF’s Social Media Ranked Second Best Out of All Olympic Sports
The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has been ranked second on the 2018 #SportOnSocial Ranking chart by REDTORCH which analyzes the presence and performance of 35 IOC recognized International Sport Federations on Facebook Instagram Twitter and Youtube between 1 March 2017 to 28 February 2018. The ITTF who has now over 2.6 million social media fans around the world has climbed eight places from 2017 to settle at second place in the 2018 ranking finishing second on both Facebook and Youtube after World Rugby. ITTF President Thomas WEIKERT stated “It was one of my promises to continue developing ITTF’s media and promotional efforts and I am thrilled to see that my team’s hard work and dedication is rewarded in being shown second in this social index. We will continue to focus on media and promotion and I look forward to seeing even more growth over the next 12 months.” Jonny MURCH CEO of REDTORCH said “The ITTF had a strong year on social media climbing 8 places in the Rankings Table from 2017 partly due to the impact of their 2017 World Championships in Düsseldorf. ITTF were also the best performing Summer Olympic International Federation by Engagement Rate on Facebook and Instagram.” The ITTF Facebook page was ranked fourth in engagement rate after International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation International Luge Federation and World Curling Federation who competed at the Winter Olympic Games in Pyongchang. Whereas the ITTF Instagram account came in third on the engagement rate chart with several hot shots from the Seamaster 2017 ITTF World Tour and Champion selfies getting more likes and comments from table tennis fans while the ITTF Twitter account finishing at fifth on engagement rate. The ITTF Youtube Channel also generated one of the highest engagement rates with the match highlights of the World Championships final between Ma Long and Fan Zhendong garnering most engagement from fans. ITTF Head of Media Matt POUND also added “This news is another big achievement by the ITTF since new leadership came into place 12 months ago. This amazing result is a credit to our small but young and motivated team whose hard work and innovative ideas has catapulted us up the social rankings. The ITTF has already increased our social offerings in 2018 starting a Japanese twitter page to service our Japanese fans and we plan to break our all our engagement records at the upcoming World Table Tennis Championships in Sweden and crack the three million fan barrier and bring table tennis to the world.” The Liebherr 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships will be held in Halmstad Sweden later this month from 29 April to 6 May 2018 and will aim to break records on all of ITTF’s social media platforms. ITTF Social Media Following: Facebook: 464 000 followers Instagram: 133 400 followers Twitter: 44 700 followers Weibo: 1 560 000 followers Wechat: 27 700 subscribers Youtube: 224 500 subscribers tv.ITTF.com: 81 000 subscribers zhibo.tv: 105 260 subscribers
Two bronze for England at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
England clinched bronze medals at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games in both Men’s and Women’s Team Events. In the match for bronze Paul DRINKHALL Liam PITCHFORD and David MCBEATH recorded a three matches to nil win in opposition to the Singapore’s trio formed by GAO Ning Ethan Poh Saho FENG and PANG Xue Jie In the semis both Singapore and England had lost in contests that had gone the full five match distance; England was defeated by Nigeria. “Certainly it was not easy to play so soon after the disappointment of losing to Nigeria but they are a good team we knew before the tournament started that they were dangerous; the main thing is that we responded we came back that’s important.” Said Paul DRINKHALL In the final India’s Sharath Kamal ACHANTA Sathiyan GNANASEKARAN and Harmeet DESAI beat Nigerian trio formed by Bode ABIODUN Segun TORIOLA and Olajide OMOTAYO by three matches to nil. In Women’s Teams Event England beat Australia to secure bronze. The trio of Tin-Tin HO Kelly SIBLEY and Maria TSAPTSINOS recorded a three matches to one victory over the outfit formed by JIAN Fang Lay MIAO Miao and Melissa TAPPER. It is the first time ever in the history of the Women’s Events at the the Commonwealth Games.
Chartres ASTT and GIRBAU-VIC TT in ultimate stage of the ETTU Cup
In the final of the Men’s ETTU Cup Chartres ASTT will play against K.S. Dekorglass Dzialdowo whilst in Women’s ETTU Cup GIRBAU-VIC TT will meet Metz TT. In all-French clash Chartres ASTT beat Istres Tennis de Table in five matches. They secured the victory much harder than in opening leg since three weeks ago Chartes succeeded in three matches. Konstantinos PAPAGEORGIO beat Par GERELL in the opening match and Paul GAUZY succeeded against Robert GARDOS. However Alexandre ROBINOT and Romain LORENTZ showed good performance the secure the victory. At home soil ETIVAL CLAIREFONTAINE ASRTT failed to halt the progress of GIRBAU-VIC TT to the final of the Women’s ETTU Cup. In both legs Spanish club won; in opening leg it was 3:1 today 3:2.
Seamaster ECLW: Dr. Casl edges Tarnobrzeg to set up final clash with Bursa
Semi-finals second leg: KTS Enea Siarka Tarnobrzeg – Dr. Casl 1:3 (1st leg 3:2) Croatian champion Dr. Casl reaches its very first Seamaster ECLW final as they beat no.1 seed and last year`s runner-up Tarnobrzeg 3:1 playing away second semi-final leg (1st game won Polish club 3:2). The 2017/18 champion will be decided in the clash between two clubs have never played ECLW final. Actual World no. 20 LI Jie lost all three her matches in two semi-final legs against Tarnobrzeg but China`s ZHOU Xintong has provided four points having crucial role in the historic achievement of Croatian side. Current World no. 28 FU Yu lost to no. 31 HAN Ying three weeks ago in Zagreb but tonight beat her after full five games of the opener. Portugal`s player reversed the score from 0:2 to 3:2 to provide an early lead to the guest team. ZHOU again prevailed against Elizabeta SAMARA to secure second win for Dr. CASL while LI Qian overcame LI Jie to keep Tarnobrzeg in the game. Each of these two encounters has been decided in straight games. HAN and ZHOU met in the fourth match. Guest led 2:1 (4:1) but host tied the score at 2:2. Fifth set also started by several points in a row of Chinese player (4:0) what was decisive for the Dr. Casl victory. Seamaster ECLW semi-finals second leg KTS Enea Siarka Tarnobrzeg – Dr. Casl 1:3 (1st leg 3:2) HAN Ying – FU Yu 2:3 (11:9 11:6 9:11 7:11 7:11) Elizabeta SAMARA – ZHOU Xintong 0:3 (5:11 4:11 10:12) LI Qian – LI Jie 3:0 (13:11 11:3 11:5) HAN Ying – ZHOU Xintong 2:3 (6:11 11:9 5:11 11:9 5:11)
K.S. Dekorglass Dzialdowo secured Men’s ETTU CUP final
Polish club K.S. Dekorglass Dzialdowo beat French Vaillante Sports Angers in the second leg of the Men’s ETTU Cup semifinal. After narrow defeat 2:3 in France three weeks ago it was sufficient for their passage to the final stage. WANG Yang beat both Swedish players Jon PERSSON and Jens LUNDQVIST whilst Pawel FERTIKOWSKI added third point to the score line after victory over LUNDQVIST. Jiri VRABLIK suffered by the hands of Andréa LANDRIEU.
Table Tennis Canada extended the invitation to 2018 Canadian Junior and Cadet Open
Table Tennis Canada extended the invitation to 2018 Canadian Junior and Cadet Open and the Road to Buenos Aires 2018 YOG Series to be held between 28th May and 2nd June 2018. Further information is available from Iris MA Event Director Table Tennis Canada (irisma@ttcanada.ca). This event will be held in Pan Am Center Markham which is located in the downtown of Markham Ontario. The the Road to Buenos Aires 2018 YOG Series will be held on 1st and 2nd June in Pan am Center Markham. There will be 2 direct Knock‐out Rounds organized on two consecutive days. The winners of each gender of the direct knock out Rounds will qualify for the YOG. Each NOC can enter a maximum of one boy and one girl for the Road to Buenos Aires North America Series to be played in Markham if not having already a player qualified from the same gender or in the process of confirmation by their NOC for the 2018 YOG. Entries are to be received through ITTF affiliated Associations. Continental Tournaments – Qualifiers Men Africa: Youssef Abdel Aziz (Egypt) Nathael Hamdoun (Tunisia) Asia: Tomokazu Harimoto (Japan) Lin Yun-Ju (Chinese Taipei) Wang Chuqin (China) Cho Daeseong (Korea) Europe: Ioannis Sgouropoulos (Greece) Vladimir Sidorenko (Russia) Medardas Stankievicius (Lithuania) Vladislav Urdu (Moldova) Latin America: Nicolas Burgos (Chile) Guillerme Teodoro (Brazil) North America: Kanak Jha (United States) Oceania: Nathan Xu (New Zealand) Women Africa: Esther Oribamise (Nigeria) Marwa Alhodaby (Egypt) Asia: Miu Hirano (Japan) Sun Yingsha (China) Jinnipa Sawettabut (Thailand) Su Pei-Ling (Chinese Taipei) Europe: Lucie Gauthier (France) Mariia Tailakova (Russia) Ning Jing (Azerbaijan) Nadezhda Bogdanova (Belarus) Latin America: Adriana Diaz (Puerto Rico) Bruna Takahashi (Brazil) North America: Amy Wang (United States) Oceania: Vong Hui Ling (New Zealand) Road to Buenos Series Men Europe: Bastian Rembert (France) Cristian Pletea (Romania) Europe: Yu Khinhang (Azerbaijan) Amin Ahmadian (Iran) Women Europe: Andreea Dragoman (Romania) Lee Ka Yee (Hong Kong) Africa: Tatiana Kukulkova (Slovakia) Sabina Surjan (Serbia)
Borussia reaches TTCLM final thanks to better point-ratio
Second semi-final match in front of 1 100 spectators: Borussia – Ochsenhausen 3:2 (1st leg 2:3) Stefan FEGERL became an unexpected Borussia`s hero in the second leg of the TTCLM semi-finals against TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen in front of sold out ARAG CenterCourt (1 100 spectators). Dusseldorf`s side reached final thanks to better point-ratio (23 points) as both matches ended by 3:2 win of home team (22:22 in sets). Two Top 10 players at the ITTF World Ranking list Timo BOLL and Simon GAUZY have provided one more thrilling clash in the opener extended to full distance. German this time prevented young Frenchman to continue his winning streak against him controlling the decisive fifth set. TTCLM rising star Hugo CALDERANO leveled the score by beating Stefan FEGERL in four games. Turning point emerged on 10:9 when Austrian missed to lead 2:0. Guest responded by three points in a row and won next two sets in a style. Kristian KARLSSON was stretched to full distance by Jakub DYJAS three weeks ago but tonight beat Poland`s player in straight games. That secured 2:1 lead for Borussia. CALDERANO upset BOLL in the fourth match and Ochsenhausen was closer to the victory bearing in mind that Simon GAUZY was a favorite against Stefan FEGERL. But Austrian player showed strong character and beat world no. 10 in spite of losing opening set. Borussia faces reigning champion Orenburg in the final. These two teams met last year and Russian team won. It will be their fourth fight for the TTCLM crown and Orenburg leads 2:1. TTCLM semi-finals second leg Borussia Dusseldorf – TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen 3:2 (1st leg 2:3) Timo BOLL – Simon GAUZY 3:2 (5:11 11:7 11:7 8:11 11:7) Stefan FEGERL – Hugo CALDERANO 1:3 (11:9 10:12 8:11 3:11) Kristian KARLSSON – Jakub DYJAS 3:0 (11:2 11:7 11:5) Timo BOLL – Hugo CALDERANO 1:3 (9:11 11:3 11:13 6:11) Stefan FEGERL – – Simon GAUZY 3:1 (7:11 11:9 11:4 11:8)
Metz TT booked their place in the final of the ETTU Cup
Team of Metz TT secured their place in the final of the Women’s ETTU Cup. French club repeated their success from the opening round and recorded another straight matches victory. In the return leg in France Metz TT beat TMK-TAGMET TAGANROG. Xin LIU gave her club dream start with the victory over Valeria BELOVOL Pauline CHASSELIN and Carole GRUNDISCH followed her path with the wins over Elena TROSHNEVA and Valentina SABITOVA. On Sunday ETIVAL CLAIREFONTAINE ASRTT will meet GIRBAU-VIC TT. In Men’s ETTU Cup K.S. Dekorglass Dzialdowo will play against Vaillante Sports Angers TT whilst Chartres ASTT will meet Istres Tennis de Table. Matches are on Saturday and Sunday.
