Olympic Table Tennis News

History makers: Taiwan's Chen Chien-an and Chuang Chih-yuan with their trophy after defeating China's Ma Lin-Hao Shuai in the men's double final at the World Championships in Paris on Sunday.

Pictured are: Terry Rizzuti, Kristi Schultz, Martha, Siggy Goetz, Billie DeRuiter, Jim DeRuiter, Molly Kemper, Ann Weitel, Yvonne Bickford, Chris Schultz, Kristin Rauch, Tom Weitel, Robert Burnham, Scot Ritchie, Leo Weber, Jerry Torson-Boudreaux, Charley Dickey, Ernie Petrocine and Lynn Sadler.

Kim Hyok Bong and Kim Jong of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea celebrate with the trophy during the awarding ceremony for mixed doubles at the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships in Paris, France on May 18, 2013.

Paris, May 18 : Top seed and defending champion Ding Ning led five Chinese to the quarterfinals of the women's singles event at the World Table Tennis Championships here.

PARIS: Reigning champion Zhang Jike of China eased through to the last 16 of the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris on Friday after seeing off compatriot Fan Zhendong.

Reigning champion Ning Ding of China cruised into the quarter-finals of the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris on Friday with a whitewash of South Korea's Park Seonghye.

According to the Canadian Olympic Committee press release , Adham Sharara of Ottawa has been re-elected as the president of the International Table Tennis Federation.

China's table tennis team showed dominance again in the world championships as all of their players advanced to the next round here on Wednesday.

Paris, May 15 : Japan's Ai Fukuhara was upset 2-4 by little-known Park Seonghye of South Korea in the first round of the World Table Tennis Championships here Wednesday.

Paralympic table tennis star Aaron McKibbin put up a great performance to win gold in the men's class eight team event at the Slovenian Open last weekend.

BASED Paralympic table tennis players Rob Davies and Paul Davies, who are both members of the GB Paralympic Table Tennis Team's performance squad, combined to win a gold medal in the men's class 1 team event at the Slovenia Open.

Channel Islands No. 1 Garry Dodd is one of six players representing Guernsey at the World Championships in Paris this week.

Olympic fencing bronze medal winners Kelley and Courtney Hurley, provide a fencing demonstration during the grand opening celebration for the University of the Incarnate Word's rain power Center for Fencing and International Sports on Monday May 13, 2013.

Paris, May 13 : The 52nd edition of the world's premier table tennis event will be held in Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy May 13-20 with a record 463 men and 360 women participating.

Ten years after she shocked table tennis world by reaching the last eight at the 2003 Paris world championships at the age of 14, Japan's Ai Fukuhara finds that she will face the same situation again at the Bercy Arena.

AN OLYMPIC star joined dignitaries and excited members of the public yesterday for the grand unveiling of Buckinghamshire's newest and largest sporting legacy project.

Again. After help-ing Scotland's women's team finish seventh at the Commonwealth Championships in New Delhi, she is "in transit" for the World Championships which begin in Paris tomorrow.

Trinidad and Tobago's top young table tennis players, Arun Roopnarine and Aaron Wilson are living a dream at the Werner Schlager Academy, in Austria.

Defending champion Zhang Jike of China said here on Saturday that he is confident of retaining the title at the Paris world table tennis championships to be held from April 13-20. The 25-year-old, a grand slam winner of world championships, World Cup and Olympic Games, said: "I am feeling no pressure now and I have been well prepared.

High on confidence following their best showing in the 19th Commonwealth Championships here, a nine-member Indian table tennis team left Saturday for the World Championships beginning Monday in Paris.