03/05/2011 – As the time grows short before the beginning of the GAC GROUP 2011 World Table Tennis Championships in Rotterdam (8-15 May) around the world the athletes’ preparation for the event begins to taper off. After all rest and recover https://www.ettu.org 03/05/2011 – As the time grows short before the beginning of the GAC GROUP 2011 World Table Tennis Championships in Rotterdam (8-15 May) around the world the athletes’ preparation for the event begins to taper off. After all rest and recovery are part of the equation as well as the travel particulars and ensuring all is right at home before the extended time away. So too is this period of time influencing the Chinese National Team training at the Werner SCHLAGER Academy in Schwechat Austria. The intensity remains but the sessions are shorter now and the nature of play has changed. More points are being played more drills and training points are started with a competitive serve more service practice is seen and doubles matches are popping up more frequently. This gives us time for broader reflections considerations beyond the exquisite skill and coaching brilliance shining before us these last few days. Here is one thought that provides a perspective: It would challenge the finest table tennis historian to tabulate the Olympic and World Championship medals represented in this house. To have a sense of this athletic richness let’s look around at this day’s engagement. Before every session starts the coaches are at a table reviewing their plans matching up the partners finalizing the sequence of activities. There is YAN Sen at a far table ever the enforcer of standards with the women’s team. We find WANG Liqin in the fitness center pushing weights much heavier than his team mates would consider. It does not go unnoticed for his comrades will watch perhaps shake their heads or make a small joke then just walk away. The physiotherapists seem ever busy; nothing serious just a soreness here a tightening there ensuring all the preventative measures are engaged. A bit away from the action LIU Guoliang CHEN Weixing and Werner SCHLAGER are chatting. The wealth of experience accomplishment and great understanding in this one spot gives us pause. KONG Linghui is sparring with GUO Yue in complete control of the table as he always seems to be. For GUO Yue it is often more of a sense of great dynamic left and right then more right then into the table. And then she asks for more. She has a special place in our sentiments for those of us who observed she is the only player in the group to periodically wear leg weights during multi-ball training. At an end table is Richard PRAUSE former Timo Boll and German men’s national team coach now head coach at the Werner SCHLAGER Academy. There he is with XU Xin lefty to lefty exchanging forehand counterloops holding his own. You can take the player out of the competitive arena but you can not take the player out of the soul. Coach LI Sun is doing some multi-ball with LI Xiaoxia a stern yet curiously kind look on his face. He is firm with her as he has his corrective comments. He also will on occasion smile. DING Ning is in a point-playing engagement with LIU Shiwen. Ms. LIU is holding the table Ms. DING a step back now two now three faster and faster they play. And those DING Ning serves! They are bothersome for Ms. LIU? Actually no. [On a prior day at the end of a session LIU Guoliang spent 20 minutes serving to LIU Shiwen still with his now very-illegal forehand serves. Likely these famously notorious offerings are nightmarish for this young player? Again remarkably not.] Off at another table two coaches are checking the rubber sheet thickness of various rackets. No detail too small. And the last person to leave the hall alone there is GUO Yan performing giant forward frog leaps over and over until she can not do another. 20 seconds of light running then more. Has any of the readership taken up the challenge of counting the accumulated World Championship and Olympic medals from all in the hall? Very likely not for the precise number is of no importance; it is the greatest that they represent that is. In what will seem like a blink of an eye the action will begin in Rotterdam. All this toil all this sacrifice and now it is time. But just before that we acknowledge the present. It has been said that competition is the essence of sport and perhaps it is however for those many dedicated to the development that leads to the performance it is the preparation that holds the heart. No one better represents the true greatness of preparation than the Chinese National Team. To be blessed to be a witness words cannot express. Only perhaps a lyrical expression can best grasp the sentiment of what the very select few have seen here this week. The late great song writer Dan Fogelberg in the refrain of the song Run for the Roses seems to have understood what we have just experienced. He said it like this: “It’s the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance.” (by Donn OLSEN courtesy WSA) Photo: intense training days for Chinese team at WSA (courtesy WSA)

02/05/2011 – Six players will represent Estonia at the World Individual Championships in Rotterdam in May. The leading player and coach is Vallot VAINULA. Coach VAINULA introduced us with the goals for Estonian team. “At individual Championshi https://www.ettu.org 02/05/2011 – Six players will represent Estonia at the World Individual Championships in Rotterdam in May. The leading player and coach is Vallot VAINULA. Coach VAINULA introduced us with the goals for Estonian team. “At individual Championships many things depend on the draw. Our minimum objective is to win qualification group. Main draw will be great challenge. From last four World Championships I managed to reach the top in the qualification groups for 3 times. Two times I also won group of winners group. First time that was enough to be listed in the main table. Second time that was not enough due larger number of qualification groups and one loss later. So main objective and success will be to repeat my own best result ” said Vallot VAINULA Second Estonian player is Aleksandr SMIRNOV . His objectives are as high as Vallot’s explained us coach:” Aleksandr never won a qualification group. To achieve the objective he needs to fight 2-3 steps further. But winning the qualification group will be big achievement already.” Toomas LIBENE is still junior. He will play at Championships for a first time and it is important for him gain experience. If he wins at least one match it will be good result. In Women’s Event will play leading Estonian player Tatjana TSISTJAKOVA who has the same objectives like Vallot VAINULA. Karin LINDMAE hopes she will negotiate the qualifications successfully whilst for Diana ROGUSHINA this will be premiere. Her goal is to try to win some match. (by Marko MANNIK courtesy ETTA) Photo: Vallot VAINULA

public/Image/appel aux candidats – poste entraineur eng_(1).pdf public/Image/appel aux candidats – poste entraineur eng_(1).pdf

28/04/2011 – After Michael MAZE another big star of European table tennis Austria’s Werner SCHLAGER withdrew from the GAC GROUP 2011 World Table Tennis Championships in Rotterdam scheduled for 8th – 15th May. World Champion from 2003 i

26/04/2011 – Two table tennis legends Jean Michel SAIVE (Belgium) and Jacques SECRETIN (France) participated in special event “Table tennis against discrimination” on April 22nd) in Mouscron (Belgium). The idea of two Olympics and Par

26/04/2011 – In Europe Super Liga Austria’s SVS STROCK won the title in Women’s category. In all-Austrian ultimate stage of the play off STROCK overcame Linz-Froschberg AG in both legs 6:1 6:2. Daniela DODEAN topping the list in singles

26/04/2011 – Belarus Open Table Tennis Championships 2011 will be held at the “Palace of Tennis” in Minsk from 2nd until 5th of June 2011. The organizers Table Tennis Federation of Belarus announced that the final entries deadline for

25/04/2011 – European Champion from 2008 Ruta PASKAUSKIENE is the leading name in Lithuanian team for the World Championships in Rotterdam in May. Beside the European singles doubles and mixed doubles champion and national title winner at the list

24/04/2011 – This week European champion from 2009 Michael MAZE (29) of Denmark withdrew from the World Championships in Rotterdam. The former European champion and World Cup bronze medalist played very few matches after January 2010. “I sti https://www.ettu.org 24/04/2011 – This week European champion from 2009 Michael MAZE (29) of Denmark withdrew from the World Championships in Rotterdam. The former European champion and World Cup bronze medalist played very few matches after January 2010. “I still have pain and can not go down at the knees. It takes maybe a month or two before I can train ” he said to sporten.dk The Danish European champion still has pain and has only played three matches this year. During the last World Championships in May in Moscow he played only one match and in early autumn he also played only one match for Russian UMMC in the Champions League before he underwent a double cartilage surgery in his right knee at 12th September at Gildh??linic When in late March he played at tournament in China against WANG Hao he was in fact on one leg and he did it only to preserve his place as No. 18 in world rankings. “I was forced to play. Otherwise I will fell out of the world rankings and had lost my direct qualification for the Olympics in London” MAZE explains the China trip. Danish sports director Peter SARTZ selected Kasper STERNBERG Jonathan GROTH Allan BENTSEN Mikkel HINDERSSON Mie SKOV and Wendy AGERHOLM to play in Rotterdam. (by Fred Peter BERG courtesy Sporten.dk) Photo: Michael MAZE (Photo Roscher)