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- England
Connor Green and Anna Hursey reach WTT Contender Istanbul mixed doubles final
The British pair lost a fourth game 17-15 and still won the decider 11-5, and play Russia's Evgeny Tikhonov and Maria Panfilova for the title on Saturday.
- England
Will Bayley and Bly Twomey save match points to reach World Para Championships mixed quarter-finals
Twomey needed a medical timeout in the second game, but the European champions came from 10-8 down in the decider to beat Maksym Nikolenko and Maryna Lytovchenko.
- England
Connor Green and Anna Hursey reach WTT Contender Istanbul mixed semi-finals as Poret and Nagasaki fall
The British pair won 33 of the last 47 points against Brazil, hours before Hursey's singles run ended against the top seed, Honoka Hashimoto.
- Analysis
Hungary is scrapping TAO, the sport subsidy table tennis was never allowed to share
Hungary once won every title going. As the new government replaces the tax scheme that built football's stadiums, the sport it never covered is counting its forints.
- International
Anna Hursey to meet top seed Hashimoto at WTT Contender Istanbul as Yokotani questions fault calls
The Welsh 12th seed reached the women's last 16, while the Japanese qualifier lost to China's 19-year-old defender after two service faults at 9-9.
- International
Quadri Aruna misses WTT Contender Istanbul main draw as Aditya Sareen and Wei Jingming come through qualifying
The former world No 10 lost in straight games to Borgar Haug, while Anders Lind and Honoka Hashimoto head a main draw that starts on Thursday.
- International
Mixed Team World Cup: Sweden leave out Truls Moregard to keep him fresh for WTT Finals Hong Kong
Anton Källberg and Elias Ranefur lead the men in Chengdu, Linda Bergström misses out because she is pregnant, and Sweden's new coaches treat the event as an Olympic qualifier.
- Analysis
English table tennis still runs on leagues built in the 1930s, and it shows
England hosted the centenary World Championships this spring. Beneath the arena, the club game that made the sport here is older than ever, and the people who play it are too.
- Clubs
Etival beat holders Tarnobrzeg by one game as ETTU Champions League Women Stage 2 opens
Yangzi Liu won the decisive game in the last match as the French club edged the defending champions under the new 15-game format.
- International
Hina Hayata says she nearly gave up before retaining her WTT Champions Frankfurt title
The world No 6 wrote that she felt herself getting stronger with every match in Germany, and explained the notebook she fills in between games.
- Analysis
Boosting: how table tennis's open secret outlived the speed glue ban
Players have complained for more than a decade that rivals treat their rubbers with banned oils. The story runs from a Japanese sponge bat in 1952 to officials taking rackets apart after matches.
- International
Tomokazu Harimoto climbs to world No 2 behind Sora Matsushima as Satsuki Odo breaks into the women's top 10
The first ranking after WTT Champions Frankfurt puts two Japanese men at the top, lifts Lin Yun-Ju back to fifth and Patrick Franziska to 11th, and leaves Wang Manyu's lead among the women untouched.
- International
Mixed Team World Cup: Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha lead China squad as Chen Yi and Zhou Qihao earn places
Four players go on singles ranking, two on doubles ranking and two on recent results for the home event in Chengdu, with Wen Ruibo, Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong left out.
- International
Wang Chuqin says his slump has let him take a hard look at himself after WTT Champions Frankfurt exit
The world No 4 thanked China's coaches and teammates and promised to find a better version of himself after an autumn of injury and defeat.
- International
French Table Tennis Federation confirms a second cyberattack and the theft of players' personal data
The federation says a compromised account was used again, and that identity documents and details from medical certificates were among the files taken.
- England
Liam Pitchford wins WTT Feeder Vila Nova de Gaia from qualifying as Fu Yu takes the women's title at home
The Englishman came from 7-3 down in a deciding game in the first round and beat Deni Kozul in the final, while Fu Yu dropped two games all week.
- Clubs
Tarnobrzeg start ETTU Champions League Women title defence as Stage 2 opens with Berlin v Metz
Eight clubs play each other once between now and January, with the top two going straight to the Final Four and the bottom two going home.
- International
Leaf blower keeps Patrick Franziska's lucky shirt dry on run to two WTT Champions finals
The world No 15 would not change out of the blue shirt he was winning in, and says his battery is empty after back-to-back finals.
- Analysis
Where table tennis prize money goes, from Bergmann's Wembley to WTT
A first-round loser at a WTT event earns a far larger share of the champion's cheque than at Wimbledon. The catch is in where the money is placed on the calendar.
- International
Japan take half of the 2026 WTT Champions singles titles as China's men end the series without one
Miwa Harimoto beat a Chinese player in all three of her finals, and no Chinese man has reached a semi-final since Wen Ruibo's run in Chongqing in March.