The World Table Tennis Championships (WTT) is among the most prestigious and important events in the sport, having created legends a ...

Paris--Japan's world number two table tennis mixed doubles team, Hina Hayata and Tomokazu Harimoto, were eliminated by North Korea's Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong 4-1 in the first round at the ...

DBS's Kelvin Lau brings some fancy footwork to the world of table tennis Wang had won against Japan’s Kasumi Ishikawa and 16-year-old Mima Ito en route to the semifinals, while Chen, who beat ...

PARIS--A tearful Hina Hayata overcame injury to her left wrist to secure the women’s singles table tennis bronze medal at the Paris Olympics. It was only Japan’s second medal in the event ...

The Chinese team of Chen Meng, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha defeated Japan's Ishikawa Kasumi, Hirano Miu and Ito Mima 3-0 on Thursday in the women's team gold medal match. Chen and Wang, who paired for ...

SWEDEN fought back from a two-match deficit to beat fourth-seeded Japan in a men’s team table tennis semi-final at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday, securing a medal. Japan opened with a 3-1 ...

Or, accept an offer to travel to the other side of the world and teach table tennis. For Ito, a 66-year-old former junior high school teacher from northern Japan, it was an easy decision.

Ayhika and Sutirtha have become the first-ever all-India women's doubles pair from India to win a medal at the competition.

The era of Ping-Pong diplomacy had begun 12 months earlier when the American team—in Nagoya, Japan, for the World Table Tennis Championship—got a surprise invitation from their Chinese ...