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The World Team Championships are going on right now in Halmstad, Sweden and Sweden has reached the Worlds Men’s Team semifinals by defeating England today 3-0 and will face mighty China tomorrow in the men’s team semifinals. Read More

Here’s an article focusing on whether Roger Federer would have dominated in table-tennis like he has done in tennis. The people asked include former Newgy robot expert Larry Thoman (who I have dealt with) and he doubts that Federer would have been the GOAT in table-tennis.
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The 2018 Fremont April Open took place this past weekend (April 20-22) at the Fremont Table Tennis Academy. 87 players took part in the event including one player from Utah! There were events from Under 50 all the way up to Under 2500. Read More

12-year old Arnav Khinvasara took part in the Hopes competition this past weekend which is a selection for the best kids in the US and world for their age. It was a good chance for me to see him play in competition which I haven’t been able to do since he won 3 singles golds at the US Open. Read More

The 2018 Qatar Open was played this past weekend and it was the breakthrough tournament for Brazil’s Hugo Calderano. He was won many competitions in Pan America, had a great run to the final 16 in front of his raucous home crowd at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and has challenged many of the world’s best players. Read More

I recently went last weekend to the Arnold Classic tournament and national ranking tournament in Ohio. It was located in Columbus, Ohio where Arnold Schwarzenegger hosts his annual event which consists of many sports including table-tennis. Read More

World #1 Dimitrij Ovtcharov and German teammate and former World #1 Timo Boll met yet again in a major world final, the Europe Top 16 this past weekend. Ovtcharov had been winning most of their meetings in the major 2017 finals starting with the China Open and then also the World Cup and German Open. Read More

I did weight training seriously when I was in college but never this type of weight training before!

Here’s Brazil #1 Hugo Calderano showing us a new type of weight training!!

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates and tennis legend Roger Federer are coming to San Jose for a charity tennis event to raise money for Roger Federer’s foundation. Bill Gates has been mainly into philanthropy in recent times and has his own foundation as well.
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The Australian Open in tennis is going on right now so we need some tennis-table-tennis connection. Here is former top African player and Olympian, Atanda Musa, who is Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon’s personal table-tennis coach, playing ping-pong at the 2017 US Open last year in New York. Read More

Here is a Washington Post article about how ping-pong affects the NFL playoffs. Some teams have used ping-pong for team bonding including the San Francisco 49ers, last year’s Super Bowl team Atlanta Falcons, previous Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks, and defending Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots.

Here’s video of former college and NBA star Christian Laettner challenging FanDuel employees in ping-pong! He was an original member of the 1992 Dream Team where he would always beat Michael Jordan in ping-pong. Laettner said ping-pong is the thing he has done most in his life outside basketball. Here’s an earlier blog post about him.

I decided to play a tournament in Westchester, New York and won 2nd place in Under 2500. I beat the former Chinese professional player who I lost to in the final in the group stage of the Under 2500 (top 2 advance from the group stage). Read More

Here are the top 10 points of 2017. Note how a number of these points happened at critical moments of the match as is often the case with highlight points. If you’ve seen the previous years’ highlights points between Par Gerell and Adrian Mattenet (90+ hits of lob and smash)
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Fremont Table Tennis Academy’s 5 players ended up with 5 medals at the 2017 US Open, thanks in large part to 11-year old Arnav Khinvasara’s triple-gold performance as he won first place in Under 1500, Under 1200, and Under 1000!!! Read More

2017 US Open: Final Points of Arnav winning gold in U-1500 today! 

Posted by Shashin Shodhan on Tuesday, December 19, 2017
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Fremont Table Tennis Academy’s 4 students have 2 medals after 2 days of play! Rishi Gopalan narrowly lost his semifinal in the Under 2000 Division A to get the bronze. Arnav Khinvasara is in the semifinals of Under 1500 to be played tomorrow so he is assured of a medal as well but the color is to be determined. Read More

Fremont Table Tennis Academy students have arrived in Las Vegas for the 2017 US Open featuring about 850 players from around the world. Four FTTA students are taking part, Read More

Fremont Table Tennis Academy is headed to the 2017 US Open this weekend in Las Vegas. Four students will be playing, Pranav Tantravahi, Rishikumar Gopalan, Arnav Khinvasara, and Bhavesh Kumar and I will be doing coaching and playing both. Read More