ITTF Senior Staff Management Meeting held in Qatar The ITTF senior staff management team meeting was held in Doha, Qatar on 4-5 July 2018. The meeting held in Qatar was hosted to the highest level by Mr Khalil AL-MOHANNADI, the ITTF Deputy President and President of the Qatar Table Tennis Association. The agenda of the meeting was to develop and conceptualize plans for 2018 and beyond, with a particular focus on developing the strategy for the 2021 commercial rights cycle. Th

Doha World champion and Rio Olympics gold medalist Ma Long has only one hurdle left for him to complete a dominant year as he advanced in style into the final of the men’s singles event of the Seamaster 2016 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in Doha on Saturday. The 28-year-old Chinese was in ‘killer form’ in his match against South Korea’s Jeoung Youngsik as he left no room for any mistakes, taking the game in straight sets ( 11-9, 11-8, 11-8, 14-12) in under an hour to set up a

Doha The $60,000 winner’s cash prize of the Seamaster Qatar 2016 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals women’s singles event is definitely going to end up in the hands of a China-born player, irrespective of the current country of representation, as the final berths were decided on Saturday. After three days of exhilarating matches at the impressive Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya Arena in Al Sadd, China’s Zhu Yuling and Han Ying, a former Chinese but now German table tennis player, emerged t

Youngsik and Sangsu to clash with Morizano, Oshima Doha The partnership of South Korea’s Jeoung Youngsik and Lee Sangsu has so far been rewarding at the Seamaster Qatar 2016 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in Doha as the duo marched into the final of the four-day competition after overcoming the challenges of Alexey Liventsov and Mikhail Paikov of Russia on Saturday. In what was one of the most exciting games of the competition, the match ended up being decided in seventh set a

Ovtcharov flying European flag at ITTF World Tour Grand Finals Doha World number one Ma Long of China and South Korea’s Jeoung Youngsik secured semi-final berths at the ongoing Seamaster Qatar 2016 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in Doha on Friday. While Long returned to his dominant form at the impressive Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiyah Hall in Doha, scripting a convincing 4-0 (11-4, 11-3, 11-6, 11-5) victory over Wong Chun Ting of Hong Kong, Youngik, on the other hand, staged a comeb

16-year-old Hirano on the verge of another history making Doha China’s defeated Cheng I-Ching of Chinese Taipei 4-2 (8-11, 10-12, 12-10, 11-8, 11-8, 11-7) to emerge the first semi-finalists in the women’s event of the Seamaster Qatar 2016 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in Doha on Friday. With the withdrawal of world number one Ding Ning, the Chinese hopes at $500,000 total prize money event had rested on the shoulders of 21-year-old Yuling, the number three seed, and she did no

Doha The much anticipated quarter-final clash between defending champion of China and Germany’s Han Ying on Friday suffered a setback as the Chinese withdrew from the match due to illness. Ning, the world number one, had developed a high temperature which necessitated the cancellation of the match as she was not fit to proceed. The 26-year-old Rio Olympics gold medalist entered the tournament as the player to be and she did not disappoint in her round of 16 match where she to

World No.1 Long defeats Qatar’s Ping Doha A major upset was recorded on the opening day of the men’s event of the Seamaster Qatar 2016 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in Doha asworld number eight Vladimir Samsonovof Belarus suffered a shocking 3-4 (5-11, 7-11,11-5, 11-6, 11-1,9-11,6-11) defeat in the hands of Japanese youngster Yuto Muramatsu in the round of 16. Age difference counted for nothing at the massive hall of the Ali Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah Arena in Al Sadd on Thursday

Day one at the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals concluded with some thrilling round of 16 matches in the men's and women's section during the day. The highlight of the day was the ITTF Star Awards where the most accomplished table tennis stars were honored. The day kicked off with some electrifying matches in the round of 16 in both men’s and women’s singles. The number 2 seed, Kasumi Ishikawa survived a scare from Suh Hyowon (KOR), the number 15th seed in match contested in full

A home win or a player from the host nation reaching the latter stages, causing an upset, igniting the crowd, hitting the headlines; it is the wish of every tournament organising committee in promoting their event. If that is to happen at the forthcoming Seamaster Qatar 2016 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals which commence in Doha on Thursday 8th December; in the first round of the Men’s Singles event, the host association’s Li Ping will have to produce the very best form of