Olympic table tennis: China wins men’s team gold
August 9th, 2012 - 12:53 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 8 (IANS) China took home the men's table tennis team gold medal here Wednesday, making a clean sweep for the second consecutive Olympics.It was the 24th gold medal ... Read more...
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Olympic table tennis: China forces into the men’s team final
August 7th, 2012 - 12:03 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 6 (IANS) China's men's table tennis team beat Germany 3-1 in a close game Monday to march into the final of the Olympic Games here.China's Ma Long defeated ... Read more...
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Olympic table tennis: China’s Zhang Jike wins gold
August 3rd, 2012 - 1:28 am ICT by IANS
London, August 2 (IANS/RIA Novosti) World No.1 Zhang Jike beat fellow Chinese player Wang Hao for gold in Thursday's Olympic table tennis singles final.Zhang, the 24-year-old World Champion, closed it ... Read more...
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Olympic table tennis: China secures another gold
August 2nd, 2012 - 8:37 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 2 (IANS) China locked in another table tennis gold when World No.1 Zhang Jike and teammate Wang Hao both reached the men's singles final at the Olympic Games ... Read more...
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Top seed Zhang Jike advances to table tennis final
August 2nd, 2012 - 5:35 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 2 (IANS) Europe's sole hope of winning a table tennis singles medal was dashed when Germany's Dimitrij Ovtcharov was beaten 1-4 by top seed Zhang Jike of China ... Read more...
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Olympics: Chinese paddler Zhang says first match crucial
July 27th, 2012 - 3:34 am ICT by IANS
London, July 27 (IANS) Olympic table tennis top seed Zhang Jike is fully focusing on preparations for his first match, which he said is "very crucial" to his quest for ... Read more...
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Olympics: Chinese won’t have it easy at London
July 26th, 2012 - 9:16 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 26 (IANS) The Chinese table tennis team will face strong resistance in its gold quest at the London Olympics.Wednesday's draws showed that Chinese paddlers may come up early ... Read more...
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China reign supreme at World TT
April 2nd, 2012 - 4:58 pm ICT by IANS
Dortmund (Germany), April 2 (IANS) The Chinese teams lived up to expectations by winning the men's and women's title at the World Team Table Tennis Championships here.The Chinese men defeated ... Read more...
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Asian TT: Sharath-Saha bow out in quarters
February 28th, 2012 - 10:02 pm ICT by IANS
Macau, Feb 28 (IANS) Achanta Sharath Kamal and Subhajit Saha were knocked out of the quarterfinals of the Asian Table Tennis Championships men's doubles, losing 0-3 to Chu Yan Leung ... Read more...
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Asian TT: Sharath-Saha stun China’s second seeds, enter pre-quarters
February 27th, 2012 - 11:32 pm ICT by IANS
Macau, Feb 27 (IANS) India's Sharath Kamal and Subhajit Saha caused one of the biggest upsets of the Asian Table Tennis Championships when they beat China's second seeds Ma ... Read more...
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China harvests in ‘backyard’ sports but challenges loom ahead of Olympics
December 27th, 2011 - 7:08 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Dec 27 (IANS) China enjoyed solid dominance in their preferred sports in 2011 but challenges loom ahead of the London Olympics.China is traditionally strong in sports like diving, table ... Read more...
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Zhang Jike wins TT World Cup crown
November 14th, 2011 - 4:38 pm ICT by IANS
Paris, Nov 14 (IANS) Newly crowned table tennis world champion Zhang Jike won the World Cup title for the first time, beating fellow Chinese Wang Hao 7-11, 7-11, 11-9, 11-4, ... Read more...
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Which is better shakehand or penhold? Star players battle it out
June 25th, 2011 - 11:52 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, June 25 (IANS) Olympic and world table tennis champions were grouped into shakehanders and penholders at a competition recently in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang to probe the ... Read more...
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Sharath crashes out of World TT Championship
May 11th, 2011 - 7:13 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) India's Sharath Kamal crashed out of the World Table Tennis Championships, losing in the first round to lower-ranked Chen Chien-An of Chinese Taipei 1-4 in ... Read more...
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