ITTF has selected Liu Guoliang as the new chairman for WTT. Praises for Liu Guoliang were wrote on social media by table tennis celebrities such as Harimoto Tomokazu, Chen Meng, Ai Fukuhara , Adam Bobrow, Al-Mohannadi(ITTF Deputy President), Kasumi Ishikawa

PlayforIndia Table Tennis initiative is championed by CWG gold medalists Ajantha Sharath Kamal and G. Sathiyan and Olympian Neha Aggarwal. These champions have inspired the next generation of Table Tennis in India and have been instrumental in keeping the Indian flag flying high in the world of Table Tennis. They are teaming up with the GoSports Foundation, an independent non-governmental not-for-profit organization, to champion this cause. The campaign, in partnership with GoSports Foundation , aims to raise Rs 10 lakh and each of the 100 identified people will receive Rs 10000 each.

ITTF(International Table Tennis Federation) has announced Chinese Table Tennis Association President Liu Guoliang as the Chairman of World Table Tennis(WTT). ITTF announced about WTT on 3rd March 2020 WTT and they have an Official Website for WTT]

TT Crunch is back after a short break, coronavirus(https://ttcrunch.com/news/coronavirus-impact-on-table-tennis/) has affected everything around the world and the sports of table tennis has also got affected. Daily lives of people who are in the field of table tennis have also got affected. To support the table tennis family, ITTF has started a fundraiser to help the daily lives of people working in the field of table tennis. Here is a video about the #tabletennisunited campaign

India’s Highest Ranked Table Tennis Star Sathiyan Gnanasekaran having broken into the top 25 of the ITTF rankings in 2019, making him the first Indian table tennis player to do so, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran was in good form coming into the year. The 27-year-old can customize the machine to his liking and its ability to spew out more than 100 balls each minute at varying speeds and spin ties in well with his fluid movement behind the table. Sathiyan shared a video on his official Instagram -

China’s Zhang Jike is major player in the history of table tennis to achieve a career Grand Slam when he won gold in men’s singles at the Olympic games in London 2012. But Zhang Jike has been missing in action since 2018. Recently Zhang Jike was spotted in spectators in China marvelous 12 2020 but he has been missing in action.

Coronavirus cases has affected lives of more than 7.5 lakh people around the world. The number of cases are rising in India have increased to over one thousand cases. Prime Minister of India has appealed all Indians to donate to PM-CARES fund to help fight this pandemic. India is currently under 21 day lockdown that started on Wednesday last week.

ITTF Challenger Plus Oman Open 2020 finals, India’s Achanta Sharath Kamal won Gold in Men’s Singles category defating Portugal’s Marcos Freitas respectively. 37-year-old Indian outclassed top seeded Marcos Freitas after being down for first set. In Women’s Category Japan’s Hitomi Sato grabbed Gold medal defeating Kato from Japan.