06/03/2010 – At the Slovakia’s National Championships top seeds showed no mercy in both Singles Event. Most successful player so far is Barbora BALAZOVA who reached semi finals in Singles Doubles and Mixed Doubles Event. In the semi final of

06/03/2010 – Louvain-La-Neuve on Sunday will host the 78th Individual National Championships in Belgium. The A listers of Belgium’s table tennis will compete in Men’s and Women’s Events. Titleholders Jean-Michel SAIVE and Laurence https://www.ettu.org 06/03/2010 – Louvain-La-Neuve on Sunday will host the 78th Individual National Championships in Belgium. The A listers of Belgium’s table tennis will compete in Men’s and Women’s Events. Titleholders Jean-Michel SAIVE and Laurence JUNKER are main favorites once again. If SAVE defends the title it will be his 22nd from 1985.There are 32 entries in men’s Event including 15 Series A (of a possible 27) and 23 in Women’s with 9 A (of 18 possible). Directly in the main draw (in the Round of 16 in men’s Event and in the quarterfinals in Women’s Event ) entered Jean-Michel SAIVE Yannick VOSTES Benjamin ROGIERS Marc CLOSSET Damien DELOBBE C?ric MERCHEZ Kilomo VITTA Lauric JEAN in Men’s and Karen OPDENCAMP Laurence JUNKER Daria MITYUKOVA and Elena SHMIGELSKAIA in Women’s Event. In Louvain-La-Neuve will also play Martine HUBERT champion for the last time in 2001 and Natalya SMIRNOVA wife of the Villette ex-player Alexei SMIRNOV. Group stages are scheduled for Sunday from 9:30. The Round of 16 from 1 PM and the finals are scheduled at 5PM. (by Christian RASPILLER) Photo: Jean-Michel SAIVE (Photo Roscher)

06/0372010 – In Poland all four events reached final. Tomorrow in ultimate stage of Men’s Singles Event Jaroslaw TOMICKI will meet Daniel GORAK. In women’s Singles XU Jie will play against Agata PASTOR. XU beat Natalia PARTYKA in the se

06/03/2010 – Daan SLIEPEN and Linda CREEMERS are new Mixed Doubles champions in Netherlands. They clinched gold at National Championships in Eindhoven after they overcame Barry WIJERS en Carla NOUWEN 3:2 (9:11 9:11 11:8 11:9 13:11). SLIEPEN and CREE

06/03/2010 -Timo BOLL is just two matches away from historical moment and ninth title at the German National Championships which will equalize his record to Eberhard SCH??’s and Conrad FREUNDORFER’s great achievement at the same Event. In the

06/03/2010 – In Denmark we will see the re-run of the last year’s semi final in Men’s Singles Event. In Ringe pa Fyn same four players reached the penultimate stage. Finn TUGWELL beat Kasper SJELLE 4:3 (4 7 7 -9 -7 -8 9) and he wi https://www.ettu.org 06/03/2010 – In Denmark we will see the re-run of the last year’s semi final in Men’s Singles Event. In Ringe pa Fyn same four players reached the penultimate stage. Finn TUGWELL beat Kasper SJELLE 4:3 (4 7 7 -9 -7 -8 9) and he will meet Martin MONRAD. Martin overcame Morten KNUDSEN 4:0 (9 11 5 11). In other semi final Christian KONGSGAARD will play against Allan BENTSEN. KONGSGAARD overcame Morten RASMUSSEN 4:2 (8 -5 4 -8 10 10) whilst BENTSEN beat Mikkel HINDERSSON 4:0 (3 1 4 5). Quarterfinals were not without drama. Finn TUGWELL-reigning champion led 3-0 and 8-5 in the fourth set against Kasper STERNBERG but Sternberg leveled to 3-3. In the decisive seventh game TUGWELL led 5-0 but Sternberg recovered and leveled to 6-6. TUGWELL were deprived of points because he was not satisfied with the judges. At 9-9 STERNBERG missed two serves and TUGWELL in final once again. Christian KONGSGAARD won a very close match against Morten RASMUSSEN 4-2. In quarterfinal of The Women’s’ Singles Event Mie SKOV overcame Stefanie CHRISTENSEN 4:0 (2 8 7 7) Sabine LARSEN succeeded against Mie JACOBSEN 4:1 (8 10 -8 6 8) Izabell N??M beat Pernille SONDERGAARD 4:3 (7 8 -7 7 -10 -9 5) Pernille AGERHOLM overcame Susanne PEDERSEN 4:1 (7 -14 6 9 6) In men’s doubles we saw a minor surprise when Kim HOGSBERG and Morten KNUDSEN suffered defeat by the hands of young Tobias LAU and Morten RASMUSSEN. (by Arne MADSEN courtesy of DBTU) Photo: Christian KONGSGAARD (by courtesy of ITTF):

06/03/2010 – Sisters Veronika and Victoria PAVLOVICH reached the penultimate stage of the Belarus National Championships. Tomorrow top seeded Viktoria will meet Tatiana CHURABAEVA whilst Veronika will play against Alena

05/03/12010 – Azerbaijan National championship was held In February in sport complex of Azerbaijan Medical University in Baku. More then 20 teams of cities and regions of Republic Azerbaijan took part in this championship. “The competition sho https://www.ettu.org 05/03/12010 – Azerbaijan National championship was held In February in sport complex of Azerbaijan Medical University in Baku. More then 20 teams of cities and regions of Republic Azerbaijan took part in this championship. “The competition showed the growing mastery of young tennis players that gladden us much ” said general secretary of the Azerbaijan TTA Ibrahim EFENDIYEV. New championship of the Republic is young player Rustam ALIYEV (1995) whilst Sabina AKHMADOVA (1994) won the title in Woemn’s Event. Both succeeded after fierce duels against more eminent and experienced champions of last year. The medal rostroom of Men`s Singles Event 1. Rustam ALIYEV (1995)2. Farhad ISMAYILOV (1974)3. Ali BAYRAMOV (1989) The best three in Women`s Singles Event 1. Sabina AKHMEDOVA (1994)2. Bilura EMINOVA (1986)3. Roza MOISEYEVA (1970) (Courtesy of Azerbaijan TTA) Photo: winners Sabina AKHMEDOV and Rustam ALIYEV (Courtesy of Azerbaijan TTA)

05/03/2010 – The Bulgarian 61st National Championships will be staged in Varna this weekend. In Men’s Singles Event topping the list is Bulgaria’s highest ranked player at world rankings Stanislav GOLOVANOV. Seeded no. 2 is Teodor YORDAN

04/03/2010 – This weekend (6th and 7th March) the North of Portugal Penafiel will be the host for Portuguese National Championships. In the men’s singles event the top seeds are Jo?MONTEIRO and Tiago APOLONIA. Tiago APOLONIA is the reigning c https://www.ettu.org 04/03/2010 – This weekend (6th and 7th March) the North of Portugal Penafiel will be the host for Portuguese National Championships. In the men’s singles event the top seeds are Jo?MONTEIRO and Tiago APOLONIA. Tiago APOLONIA is the reigning champion and Jo?MONTEIRO is the most successful player in the last 20 years with 6 titles. That promises very exciting event for the gold medal. The others players among the top eight seeds are: Andr?SILVA ?io MENDES Ricardo OLIVEIRA Ivo SILVA Diogo SILVA Artur SILVA. In the girls event the reigning champion Huang LEI will not participate. Xie JUAN (3 titles) and Paula GON?VES (5 titles) are the most successful player who compete in the singles event. The Doubles Event will be very interesting because of the possible brothers duel – Jo?MONTEIRO and Jos?MONTEIRO against Tiago APOLONIA and Jo?APOLONIA. The result will be updated during the event in our site www.fptm.pt (by Jos?An?l BENTES courtesy of FPTM) Photo: Joao MONTEIRO (Photo Roscher)