With an ambitious goal to eventually become the best table tennis league in the world, the T-League Premier League will kick off in Japan in the fall of 2018. On Friday, the league held a meeting in Tokyo for companies and groups that are interested ...
Fourteen-year-old Tomokazu Harimoto improved his world ranking from 20th to his career-best 13th as the International Table Tennis Federation released the latest list Tuesday. Harimoto, who became the youngest men's singles winner on the World Tour at the Czech Open in August, closed the gap ...
Although the Japan Open showcased Chinese table tennis supremacy rather than Japan's rise, China's stars have a wary eye on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic hosts — if their words are taken at face value. Kasumi Ishikawa, Mima Ito and Asian champ Miu Hirano all crashed ...
China's 16-year-old Sun Yingsha marked a stunning ITTF World Tour debut by winning the Japan Open women's singles on Sunday, while world No. 1 Ma Long claimed his first title. Sun, who won the women's doubles title a day earlier at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, was ...
It was a cruel reality check for Miu Hirano as her surging run of form came to a shuddering end in the Japan Open quarterfinals, but the 17-year-old vowed to rebuild her game to again challenge China's top players. Her straight-games defeat (7-11, 8-11, 5-11, ...
Maharu Yoshimura and Kasumi Ishikawa won Japan's first mixed-doubles gold in 48 years on Saturday at the World Table Tennis Championships, while Tomokazu Harimoto became the youngest player to reach quarterfinals. Yoshimura and Ishikawa, the runners-up last year, overcame a 3-1 deficit to beat Taiwan's ...
A 13-year-old Japanese table tennis prodigy has set his sights on the Tokyo Olympics after he narrowly failed to become the youngest champion in World Tour history in New Delhi. Fourteenth seed Tomokazu Harimoto lost to top seed Dimitrij Ovtcharov of Germany 11-6, 11-8, 11-4, ...
Double Olympic medalist Ai Fukuhara on Wednesday announced her marriage to fellow table tennis Olympian Chiang Hung-chieh, who is Taiwanese. "He's always there to listen and gives me his undivided attention no matter what state I'm in," said Fukuhara, 27, who appeared at a news ...
Japan managed to take a match off China but the two-time defending Olympic champions prevailed 3-1 in the end to win another gold medal in the men's team event at the Rio Games on Wednesday. Jun Mizutani saved three match points to score his first ...
Jun Mizutani made Japanese table tennis history Thursday, winning the country's first Olympic singles medal, a bronze, when he beat Vladimir Samsonov of Belarus 4-1 in Rio. The gold medal match was a display of table tennis mastery when defending gold medalist Zhang Jike was ...
Japan's women were defeated 3-0 by China in the final of the World Team Table Tennis Championships on Sunday, missing out on the title they last won in 1971. Captain Ai Fukuhara, ranked world No.4, was beaten by No. 1 Liu Shiwen 11-5, 11-6, 11-8 ...
Hugo Hoyama, a third-generation Japanese-Brazilian table tennis coach, is working to impart to Brazil's Olympic hopefuls the skills and spirit he learned in Japan. Hoyama, 46, was born in Sao Bernando do Campo, Sao Paulo, and began playing table tennis at the age of 7 ...
