table tennis (ping pong)

Willy Leparulo is the tournament director. "The ping pong that we're used to is lounging recreationally. These guys are hitting the ball 90 to 100 miles an hour," he said. Two, that table tennis is more than just a game. Twenty-year-old Chelsea Edghill is from Missouri. "That it's a sport, just like any other and ...

Table tennis enthusiasts are invited to join the "I Love Ping Pong" competition at 10 a.m., April 28, at the Ruidoso Community Center. No entry fee is charged and refreshments will be available. Prizes will be awarded for first and second place in the Round Robin tournament. The community center is at 501 ...

Pearl Hyde pupils deliver smashing performance at table tennis tournament. Youngsters ranked 12th best school team in the .... Youngsters at a Walsgrave primary school are celebrating another fantastic performance at a national table tennis championship. For the second year running, the pupils at Pearl ...

More than 250 of the best table tennis players from colleges throughout North America will be competing for national titles at the iSET College Table Tennis National Championships Friday through Sunday at the Round Rock Sports Center. This is the second year the center is hosting the championships where players battle ...

Over the weekend, the funk-jammers of Pigeons Playing Ping Pong were in the Northeast, finishing out a four-night run that took the Baltimore-based band to Providence, Rhode Island, and Burlington, Vermont, ahead of a two-night stand at Portland, Maine's Port City Music Hall. After a standout and ...

Kyrgyzstan's not so behind-the-scenes power struggle is fast descending into farce. Six months have elapsed since a toughly contested, scandal-ridden presidential election brought Sooronbai Jeenbekov, a close ally and purported friend of ex-leader Almazbek Atambayev, to power. If any firm conclusion ...

GOLD COAST: Singapore's Yu Mengyu took silver in the women's singles table tennis final at the Commonwealth Games on Saturday (Apr 14). She lost 4-0 to India's Manika Batra who won the match in about 35 minutes. Yu, 28, was also a silver medallist at the 2014 Games in Glasgow. Last week, she ...

If the Lakers win the lottery, the Sixers win the lottery. The chances are not good, but it is better to have some chance than no chance at all. As a result of the draft day deal last June between Philadelphia and Boston, the Sixers own the rights to the Lakers' first-round pick. But there are several conditions.

Years earlier, local entrepreneur Rodney Pierre had already created Volley and Vibes, and successfully launched his branded, ping-pong pop-up events with a singular goal in mind. “I want a place where table tennis players can come and compete at a high level. I also wanted to create a place where you ...

India's Manika Batra defeated Mengyu Yu of Singapore 11-7, 11-6, 11-2, 11-7 to win the table tennis women's singles gold on Saturday. This is India's first table tennis women's singles gold at the Commonwealth Games. Manika, architect of India's women's team gold thanks to her upset win over three-time ...

Burundi police have released 21 members of a table tennis club, who had been arrested over suspicious meetings several times a week, a close friend of the team said on Tuesday. "It is a great relief, the SNR (National Intelligence Services) finally realised it was really a table tennis club ... and that they ...

YUCCA VALLEY — Eleven pingpong players faced off in the town of Yucca Valley's Teen Paddle Battle tournament Saturday in the community center. First prize was a $100 Visa gift card, and second-place was a $50 card. Play started about 1 p.m. and continued at a fast pace until the final match between ...

The final day of the campaign is possibly the biggest of the season and the Hawks aren't even playing. It is Minnesota vs. Denver on Wednesday to decide who makes the playoffs and if the Hawks have three or two first round picks this season. Thursday will bring the finale of the ping-pong chronicles daily ...

GOLD COAST, Australia -- The venues for the Commonwealth Games run right along the Gold Coast. From Coolangatta to Currumbin, out to the Hinterland and up to Brisbane. But just 15 minutes from the heart of the City lies Australia's Movie World theme park where the tagline reads: Hollywood on the Gold Coast. For the ...

Spin, the party-throwing ping pong bar originally founded by actress Susan Sarandon, is scheduled to arrive in D.C. before the end of the year. The budding chain, which has sprinkled locations from New York City to Seattle and everywhere in between, is opening its next outpost on Friday, May 18 in Austin.

India won the gold medal in the table tennis women's team event at the Commonwealth Games by beating defending champions Singapore 3-1 on Sunday. With this win, the team bettered their previous-best performance at the Commonwealth Games. They had earlier won silver at New Delhi in 2010, ...

At the Stony Brook Campus Recreation Center, the usual sounds of weights clanking on the ground and basketballs thumping and swishing on the courts heard all over the building. No one ever really hears the sound of a ping-pong ball bouncing back and forth on a plastic table, but it's there almost every ...

(PRESS RELEASE VIA SNO) – Saturday 10th March marked the first ever Taiwan- Saint Lucia Table Tennis Friendship Cup, sponsored by the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the Taiwan International Cooperation Development Fund (ICDF) . This tournament took place at the Beausejour ...

The Hawks have finally officially been eliminated from the NBA Playoffs for the first time since 2007. So, with no Tragic Number to track anymore, this section of the ping-pong chronicles will be dedicated to the Hawks constantly changing position in the lottery. As of right now, Atlanta sits at a tie for the third ...

Committee members of the Maine Table Tennis League are planning the March Madness Round Robin Tournament to be held March 31 at the Armory location. This event is sponsored by the Maine Table Tennis League, by Stiga and by Paddle Palace. The tournament will be round robin groups of 6 to 10 ...

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong concluded their three-night Colorado run this weekend in Denver, CO at the Ogden Theatre. The Baltimore natives are currently amidst a nationwide tour in support of their latest LP, Pizzazz, and have been consistently selling out venues, night after night, across the nation.

The "The Push" ping pong league meets every Monday inside the Greenwood Park Beer Garden bar. They also bounce around to different nightclubs depending on the month. League organizer Jarad Sochinsky says he hopes to open a permanent home for table tennis league. He says the point of the ...

Since the Clippers won the Timberwolves also fall closer and closer to being pushed out of the Playoff picture. With elimination being a possibility today, make sure to keep an eye on the Philadelphia/Brooklyn game. As always stay tuned for tomorrow's update to the Hawks Ping-Pong Chronicles!

After getting interest from students in Ping-Pong, also known as table tennis, Prak called various teachers and word of the tournament grew. At the first event, only Pittman and San Joaquin elementaries took part. On Saturday, students represented five schools, including Health Careers Academy and ...