GKI Euro V is one of the medium range rackets of the GKI premade rackets series. In India, you will find lots of GKI rackets at most common at clubs, colleges and school. The reason is the price range and easily available online. In this article, we will discuss about how good is GKI Euro V for a decent level Table Tennis player.

WTT events calender for first quarter of 2022 is out and this year would be action packed as usual. ITTF website recently shared about this announcement on ITTF website.

Ping Pong(Table Tennis) is a sport easy to get into but difficult to master. In tennis, you have to spend so much time into fitness, learning techniques till you start enjoying the start but at amateur levels in table tennis, anyone can get started without much training. Though at higher level, both techniques and fitness are important in table tennis as well.

Table Tennis has been played since the beginning of 19th century, yet it was introduced in Olympics 1988. Ever since the introduction in Olympics, table tennis has gained more popularity around the globe. Easy to learn but difficult to master. But there are professional paddlers who are masters and there are few more that have achieved everything in table tennis, notably the Grand Slam.

Table Tennis is enjoyable and anyone who starts playing gets literally glued to the game. When you have a playing partner you enjoy the most. However it is not possible to have a training partner/opponent every time you want to play. What would you do in such cases when you don’t have a playing partner ? Your objective is to just play alone or even improve.

Table Tennis is such a technical sports that you can learn something new everyday at any age. There are multiple youtube channels related to Table Tennis but some are pure GOLD. The best knowledge can be gained from youtube as nowadays you can get information from past or current ping pong players. Most of the top players such as Timo Boll, Dima are quite active with high level tutorials ranging from techniques to mental aspects.

Young Indian paddler “Vikash Manav Thakkar” recently announced that he will be joining FC Saarbrücken TT in German TTBL(TischTennis Bundesliga).

Recently I was wondering how does a table tennis ball differ based on the weight and size of balls from other racket sports. This is interesting because the size and shape of ball affect the physics of any game and how that particular sports racket is created. Table tennis racket is made of rubber(sometimes composite) but most other rackets mostly use different type of strings or paddles. Let’s take a look at size comparison of other racket sports such as tennis, ping pong, squash, pickleball, cricket etc.