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The 2025 Fremont TTA Butterfly October Open took place this past Saturday, October 18 featuring close to 100 players. It will be the final singles tournament hosted by Fremont TTA of 2025 but there will be a 2-person team event, the 2025 Newark Butterfly West Coast Teams, on Thanksgiving weekend (Sat, Nov 29). Players battled all day for trophies, medals, rating points, and bragging rights! Players tor each multiple finals were Ruhaan Pukala (1st-U1600, 1st-U1300, 2nd-U1900), Dewei (Frank) Sun (1st-Seniors 50+, 2nd-Open Doubles), Arkaprabho Ghosh (2nd-U1600, 2nd-Open Doubles), and Ethan Alex (2nd-U50, 2nd-U25). Congrats to all champions, finalists, and medalists!….

Sweden’s Truls Moregard, World #7 and double 2024 Olympics Silver Medalist, was voted Sweden’s most popular athlete last year by 50,000 votes to the nearest athlete. He has created a table-tennis boom in Sweden where all clubs have large waiting lists and the clubs can not accommodate the demand. He faced off in the final of a major tournament, the Europe Smash this past weekend in his hometown of Malmo, Sweden against World #1 Lin Shidong, someone he had never beaten…

The third tournament of 2025 hosted by Fremont Table Tennis Academy took place at our usual nearby venue, the Siliman Center in Newark, located 10 minutes from our main Fremont academy location. It featured the usual slate of events from Open Singles, rating events for all levels, and age events for juniors and seniors. Players to reach multiple finals were Jasmeet Bagga (1st-U700, 1st-U400), his son Samar (1st-U50, 2nd-U25), Sacramento’s James Therriault (1st-U2200, 2nd-Open Singles), and Viraaj Gaikwad (1st-Juniors 8 Years & Under, 2nd-U50)….