30/06/2010 – Last month Carlos LEON was elected to the position of the President of the Portuguese Table Tennis Federation. After very busy first month in office President LEON gave an interview for the ETTU web site. Speaking about the main points

26/06/2010 – After Serbia returned to the Championships division at the World Teams Championships in Moscow team’s head coach Slobodan GRUJIC resigned. Former Timo BOLL’s teammate in Gonnern is not able to fulfill his duties as nationa

22/06/2010 – The table tennis has been classified as a Sport with National Interest in Greece. “In our first meeting – Sport’s General Secretary of Greece BITSAKSIS explained with a press release – we announced the general ke 22/06/2010 – The table tennis has been classified as a Sport with National Interest in Greece. “In our first meeting – Sport’s General Secretary of Greece BITSAKSIS explained with a press release – we announced the general keystones that the ministry of culture will use in the national sports substructure. This was the beginning point to move from structure and practice to the implementation of the national sports substructure. Today is our second movement toward this direction. We are moving from the financing of federation and clubs from a way of anarchy and without rules to their financing with specific political criteria. These politics will give a “breath” to real sports in a critical tough economical conjunction and will simultaneously provide a “push” to both the development of sports and mass sports”. The criteria used for the classifications of sports are the following:1. The sports tradition2. The harmony of the sport with the Greek mentality3. The popularity of the sport4. The relationship among the sport and the Greek climatic conditions and the general geographical constitution5. The quality of the sport’s organization6. The degree of development and the discretion of the sport’s future development7. The success and the perspective success of each sport8. The transparency of the sport’s action9. The promotion of sports without violence10. The systematic development of “pure” sports and the value of participation11. The development of mass sports12. The development of exercise for everybody especially of the citizens with disabilities. The above mentioned criteria along with the fact that sports must belong to Greeks impose to the need of implementing specific priorities. We are already studying the financial system of objective criteria used by other countries so that we can implement a similar one by 2011. So for the time being sports are being categorized as follows: A. Sports with National Priority: 1. Volleyball 2. Gymnastics 3. Special Sports 4. Football (amateur) 5. Sailing 6. Rowing 7. Basketball 8. Tracking 9. Swimming 10. Handball This categorization means that the government is obliged according to its capabilities to develop promote spread and support these sports. The federations of these sports should be organized in such a way so that they will be the loyal advisors of the government so as to achieve their goals. These federations would be asked to submit and discuss with the Ministry of Sports a five-year program planning. Moreover each semester they will issue a financial statement of their actions from which their further governmental finance will depend on. Sports with National Interest: 1. Weightlifting 2. Canoe-Kayak 3. Wrestling 4. Table Tennis 5. Cycling 6. Boxing 7. Tae-Kwon-Do 8. Judo This categorization means that the government is obliged to observe them and moreover keep the level of development at this point. The further promotion of these sports as far as the governmental finance is concerneddepends in the organizations of these sports. The federations of the above mentioned sports will be obliged towork and discuss with the Ministry of Sports a three years sports planning. Moreover each semester they willissue a financial statement of their actions C. Sports with governmental assistance: 1. Equestrian 2. Fencing 3. Chess 4. Shooting 5. Tennis 6. Archery These sports are popular enough so as to interest the social mass. But primarily they should count upon private initiatives. The government will not preserve them but it will support them financially according to its capabilities with a specific emphasis in their substructure. D. Sports of Private Initiatives with a governmental contribution: 1. Golf 2. Sea Skiing 3. Modern Pentathlon 4. Climbing 5. Skiing These sports should exclusively count upon private initiatives. The governmental support will be limited in selected actions and substructures. The government will finance them occasionally. E. Sports with Private Initiatives and having sports recognition: 1. Air Sports 2. Underwater actions and fishing 3. Ziou Zichou 4. Karate 5. Curling 6. Kick boxing 7. Kung Fou 8. Military Arts 9. Baseball 10. Bowling 11. Brits 12. Pagratio 13. Ice skating 14. Rugby 15. Softball 16. Physique 17. Tae Kwon Do (AOTE) 18. Triathlon 19. Hockey. These sports should exclusively count upon private initiatives and the government will not finance them at all. Their future survival does not depend on the governmental finance. The government will provide them only with venues to organize their tournaments. F. Sports with Local Interest: 1. Cricket (Corfu) 2. Badminton (Sidirokastro) The sports that have a local interest they will be financed with an emphasis in sports substructures. Finally the following new general rules should be implemented. In the beginning of the accounting year the maximum annual financing towards the federations and the clubs will be set. The progress of the financing will be based upon regular briefings of the actions essence and at least two annual audits. Finally the progress of the financing will be based upon parameters relative to sports violence doping and transparency in the federation’s management. 22/06/2010 – The table tennis has been classified as a Sport with National Interest in Greece. “In our first meeting – Sport’s General Secretary of Greece BITSAKSIS explained with a press release – we announced the general keystones that the ministry of culture will use in the national sports substructure. This was the beginning point to move from structure and practice to the implementation of the national sports substructure. Today is our second movement toward this direction. We are moving from the financing of federation and clubs from a way of anarchy and without rules to their financing with specific political criteria. These politics will give a “breath” to real sports in a critical tough economical conjunction and will simultaneously provide a “push” to both the development of sports and mass sports”. The criteria used for the classifications of sports are the following:1. The sports tradition2. The

22/06/2010 – Russian championship is finished with two interesting finals between UMMC and Orenburg who will compete for ECL crown in new season. Last season ECL quarterfinalist UMMC won both times 4:3 in their “Dvorec sporta” (Castle o

15/06/2010 – In the premiere season in top Croatian League DR CASL won the title in Men’s category whilst girls from HASTK Mladost Zagreb defended their title. In the final of the play-off DR CASL beat GSTK Zagreb the team that failed to win t

14/06/2010 – After this season we could say that Borussia is the most successful European table tennis club having in mind the nine European titles (three in ECL era) but also its clear that this club is one of the best in German sport. Last week B 14/06/2010 – After this season we could say that Borussia is the most successful European table tennis club having in mind the nine European titles (three in ECL era) but also its clear that this club is one of the best in German sport. Last week Borussia finished their winning journey through Europe and Germany beating Ochsenhausen in final rematch of national championship – 3:1 (first match 3:2). That is Borussia`s 23rd title in German league and historical first triple crown counting German cup reached in first days of this year. Only club who managed that before was Grenzau 23 years ago. Borussia reached small “triple crown” in 1995 taking ETTU cup instead ECL. Borussia`s success inspired many German media to compare this club with the best German club in all sport Bayern Munich one of the best clubs ever in European and world history. One of these articles you can see on Borussia`s website thanks to Dr. Stephan ROSCHER (German table tennis federation) Holger TROMP (Bild) Joachim BREITBACH (der Western) and website www.express.de.Both clubs Borussia and Bayern had very successful seasons with six finals together and only one loss: Bayern from Inter Milan in football Champions League. Both sports institution now have 54 trophies each but Dusseldorf has one more German league (23:22) and five European crowns more (9:4). Asked can this triple is comparable with Bayern`s success Christian SUSS (in football fan of Schalke) explains that his club “has small advantage” and his team mate Trinko KEEN answered: “Borussia is powerful but we can compare with them”.But as Holger TROM said Bayern has 150.000 members – Borussia 300 Bayern plays in front of 69.000 spectators in Allianz Arena – Borussia usually had support from 1.000 in Staufenplatz Bayern best paid player Franck RIBERY earns 10 million euros – Borussia`s best one Timo BOLL 300.000. Last game of the season German final rematch: Timo BOLL – Adrian CRISAN 3:1 (9:11 11:6 11:8 11:4) Christian SUSS – CHUANG Chih-Yuan 3:1 (11:8 11:9 6:11 11:8) Seiya KISHIKAWA – Tiago APOLONIA 2:3 (5:11 7:11 11:9 11:9 8:11) Timo BOLL – CHUANG Chin-Yuan 3:2 (8:11 11:5 9:11 11:6 11:5)

13/06/2010 – The Italian Championships in Ponte di Legno finished with few surprises. New champions are Stefano TOMASI and Nicoletta STEFANOVA. TOMASI beat the top favorite last year champion Mihai BOBOCICA 4:2 in the final of the Men’s singl