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Fremont Table Tennis Academy sights and sounds are viewed here. Here are the pictures and videos of Fremont Table Tennis Academy Founder Shashin Shodhan and his students’ table-tennis highlights.
Fremont Table Tennis Academy sights and sounds are viewed here. Here are the pictures and videos of Fremont Table Tennis Academy Founder Shashin Shodhan and his students’ table-tennis highlights.
Scenes of Fremont Table Tennis Academy Classes, Events, and Programs During Summer 2019.
Shashin Shodhan (middle) at the 2000 North American Olympic Trials with the US team where he was one of the top performers in both singles and doubles.
Shashin gives recent World #1, World Cup Champion, and 4-time Olympic medalist Dimitrij Ovtcharov his toughest match at the 2013 LA Open losing 3-1.
Shashin plays even in the second half of the match (17-16 in points) with Africa #1 and Rio Olympic Quarterfinalist Quadri Aruna at the 2017 LA Open:
Video of Fremont TTA dedicated students who are in the Champions in Training Program (3-6 hours/week of lessons).
Students from the Fremont TTA advanced class have gone on to win many tournament titles locally and medals nationally.
Pictured with Sweden’s Jan-Ove Waldner who has Olympic gold and silver and 6 World Championship golds and is arguably the GOAT. Shashin has been to his home club, Angby, in Stockholm, Sweden many times and been in the same training group and has played with his World Champion teammates. Shashin was roughly 50-50 in practice games with Waldner’s Angby elite league teammates and practice partners in Stockholm, Sweden when he was training full-time.
PAST AND PRESENT
Pictured with Korea’s Joo Se Hyuk with the past picture being when Shashin was on the US junior national team and Joo on the Korean junior national team at an international junior tournament in Taiwan which Joo won. Joo would go on to become a World Championship Men’s Singles and Olympic silver medalist.
Pictured with Africa #1 Quadri Aruna who became the first African to be an Olympic men’s singles quarterfinalist in 2016. Shashin played against him at the 2017 LA Open where he played even with him (17-16 in points) in the second half of the match.
Pictured with Sweden’s Mikael Appelgren who is a 3-time World Team Champion and 3-time European Men’s Singles Champion during Shashin’s first ever trip abroad for training at age 14. During later trips, Shashin has practiced with him and was a regular in his training group in Stockhom, Sweden.
Jiang Jialiang of China was 1985 and 1987 World Men’s Singles Champion. Shashin did an exhibition with him when he came to Northern California. Shashin has been to China 5 times for practice where Jiang was one of the most famous people in the 1980s. One of Shashin’s table-tennis highlights in China was being able to watch the closed Chinese National Team practice with World and Olympic Champions Wang Liqin, Kong Linghui, Liu Guoliang, Ma Lin, Wang Tao, and Yan Sen all present. One of his playing highlights in China includes beating nearly all the top players in one of the biggest city teams in Chengdu, including players being considered for the Chinese 2nd National Team.
PAST AND PRESENT
Pictured with Belarus’ Vladimir Samsonov who is a 3-time World Cup Champion and 3-time European Men’s Singles Champion. The past picture was after a Bundesliga match where the team Shashin was practicing with played against Samsonov’s legendary Dusseldorf team.
Pictured with Poland’s Andrzej Grubba in Grenzau, Germany where the Bundesliga team Shashin was practicing with played against Grubba’s Grenzau team. Grubba was a World Cup Champion and 3-time World Championship Medalist.
PAST AND PRESENT
Pictured with Sweden’s Jorgen Persson who is a 5-time World Champion. Shashin has been to one of his home clubs in Sweden many times and had the same coaches as him.
Pictured with Jean-Michel Saive at a tournament in Chicago where Shashin hit with Saive. Saive has been a household name in Belgium for a long time as he has been World #1, European Men’s Singles Champion, and World Championship Men’s Singles and Team Silver Medalist, and Belgium’s Olympic flagbearer twice.
PAST AND PRESENT
Shashin took this past picture of Jorg Rosskopf moments after winning his second Olympic medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics where Shashin was doing stats and scorekeeping. Rosskopf is now the German National Team Coach of former World #1s Timo Boll and Dimitrij Ovtcharov, two of the best players ever from Europe.