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 Event 2010 Host City | Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, located in the southeast of the country.
It was founded in 1243, although the area had been settled since the 5th century. As of August 2009 the population is 404,887. Brno is the capital of the South Moravian Region as well as the seat of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, the Supreme Court, the Supreme Administrative Court, the Supreme Prosecutor's Office and the Ombudsman.
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| | Event 2010 Host Country | The Czech Republic, a member state of the European Union (since May 1, 2004), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country has borders with Poland to the north, Germany to the northwest and west, Austria to the south, and Slovakia to the east. The historic city of Prague a major tourist attraction is its capital and largest city. Other major cities include Brno, Ostrava, Zlín, Plzeň, Pardubice, Hradec Králové, České Budějovice, Liberec, Olomouc, and Ústí nad Labem.
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| | The Sport | Table tennis, also known as Ping-Pong (a trademarked name), is one of the most popular games in the world in terms of player numbers, as well as being one of the newest of the major sports.
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Table Tennis Quiz Question 1
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<td><font size="-2"><i>Put on your thinking cap...<br />© 2007 Greg Letts, licensed to About.com, Inc.</i></font></td>
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You might recall that last week I posed a rules question regarding what the umpire should do when he is not sure that the server has thrown the ball up the required 16cm. I wasn't really sure what type of response there would be - I thought the question might be too simple and everybody would pick the same answer.
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Having looked at the results with 90 responses in, all I can say is wow - no wonder there are so many arguments during table tennis matches!
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Here's the current standings:<br />
Answer 1: 19 votes<br />
Answer 2: 22 votes<br />
Answer 3: 10 votes<br />
Answer 4: 31 votes<br />
Answer 5: 8 votes<p>
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<b>The Scenario</b>
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Player A serves the ball to Player B. The umpire is not sure whether the ball toss reached the required 16cm in height. What must the umpire do?
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<b> The Answer</b><p>
In order to not spoil the quiz for new readers (and due to some boring technical reasons), <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://tabletennis.about.com/od/questionsanswers/a/Table-Tennis-Rules-Quiz-Question-1-Answer.htm">I've put my answer on a separate page</a>.
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Women in Table Tennis
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Why are there so few female table tennis players? I'm not sure how things stand world wide, but I can certainly attest that over here in Australia, male ping-pong players heavily outnumber the females. Which is kind of strange really, since table tennis is an excellent example of a sport where technique and tactics can often overcome the difference in muscle power between men and women.
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So I was intrigued to see the creation of a new table tennis website, called <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://www.womenintt.com/">Women in Table Tennis</a>. It's got an international focus, although there is a certain amount of Australian content since the creators appear to be Aussies. With a range of interviews, videos, news and results, they are really making an effort to showcase female table tennis players. There is even a section for grants available to female athletes, which is an excellent idea that should be adopted for both sexes by all ITTF members official table tennis websites.
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With the very heavy bias towards male table tennis players on the Internet, it's actually kind of surprising that there aren't more websites out there promoting table tennis as a sport for women. Kudos to the creators for leading the way in getting some equality in the sport's Internet profile.
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Test Your Table Tennis I.Q.
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In any sport or game, it's important to know the rules, and follow them. After all, you wouldn't expect to be allowed move your knight along the diagonals in chess, would you? Or use flippers in the 50m freestyle? It would be ridiculous.
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But while these examples are a bit extreme, there are a number of situations in table tennis where it is obvious that players (and sometimes officials) haven't read the rules, or perhaps have failed to understand them. It can happen to us all - I know that <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://tabletennis.about.com/od/questionsanswers/f/Injury-Break-For-Cramp.htm">just recently I discovered that you aren't allowed an injury break for cramp!</a> These situations don't happen all that often, but when they do, they frequently leave everyone involved scratching their heads and saying "Hmmm. What's the rules on that?"
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So I thought in the weeks to come I would highlight a few of these tricky occurrences, and ask your opinion on the correct answer before giving my reasoning a few days later, after we have time to get a few responses to see what most people think.
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So let's start with a fairly common situation, that still causes plenty of friction between players.
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<b>The Scenario</b>
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Player A serves the ball to Player B. The umpire is not sure whether the ball toss reached the required 16cm in height. What must the umpire do?
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Is a Ping-Pong Player Allowed an Injury Break for Cramp?
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I'm still slowly catching up on my email backlog, but it's going to take some time if I keep getting questions like the one below, which had me scratching my head for a while.
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<i>Can players take an injury break for cramp? And if so, for how long?</i>
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Think you know the answer? Write it down and then head to my explanation of <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://tabletennis.about.com/od/questionsanswers/f/Injury-Break-For-Cramp.htm">what the ITTF rules actually have to say about taking an injury break for cramp</a>.
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Game Strategies from the Forum
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<td><font size="-2"><i>More good advice from our forum members<br />© 2006 Greg Letts, licensed to About.com, Inc.</i></font></td>
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<td>Our <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=messages&webtag=ab-tabletennis&tid=31576">table tennis forum</a> is always a good place to go to chat to other enthusiasts and ask for help. And every now and then we get a real gold nugget of advice from a top level player, in this case US National Men's Team member Samson Dubina, who has kindly posted a link to <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://samsondubina.com/downloads/game_strategies.htm">a number of suggested game strategies against nine different types of opponents</a>.
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Samson cuts through the usual amount of waffle that many strategy guides have, and distills his advice down to the essentials - what your opponent wants to do, what you need to do, and a checklist of six key points to remember against each style.
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Tried and tested tactics from a US Team member - all for free!
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Table Tennis in the News(papers)
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I stumbled on the <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/tabletennis/">table tennis section of the English Telegraph newspaper site</a> today, led there from a link on the <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://www.facebook.com/#!/BARRY.MEISEL.ITTF">Barry Meisel Table Tennis</a> Facebook page.
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It's always nice to see table tennis being treated seriously by the media, and the Telegraph does a fine job of bringing together a number of articles, videos and interviews with current English stars such as Darius Knight, and past legends such as Desmond Douglas.
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Mind you, there is still room for a little bit of humor, as shown by their <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/picturegalleries/7772717/Keeping-an-eye-on-the-ball-the-World-Team-Table-Tennis-Championships-in-Moscow.html">gallery of photos from the 2010 World Team Table Tennis Championships</a>.
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The Table Tennis Tee
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Dirty little secrets - every sport has them. Whether it's blood doping in cycling, anabolic steroids in athletics, or human growth hormone in bodybuilding, every sport has its own pile of dirty laundry - and table tennis is no exception. Look back to the the introduction of sponge rackets, combination bats with the same color on both sides, speed glue, boosters and tuners, and frictionless long pips, and you'll see that table tennis has a closet full of skeletons.
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One particular issue that refuses to go away is the problem of enforcing the serving rules fairly. Given that the ITTF have been tinkering with the service laws for over a decade, and still can't come up with a simple and easily enforceable rule, I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring and suggest my own solution - <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://tabletennis.about.com/od/rules/a/The-Table-Tennis-Tee.htm">the table tennis tee</a>.
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One Bat or Two?
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I have started clearing my backlog of emails (of which there are many, sorry if you haven't had a reply yet!), and one particular question from a reader seemed to have a straightforward answer, but on closer investigation things weren't as simple as they seemed. And in the end I was hard pressed to find anything concrete in the rules regarding his question at all.
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<strong>The Question:</strong> <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://tabletennis.about.com/od/beginnersfaqs/f/Can-I-Use-A-Racket-In-Each-Hand.htm">Is it legal to use a bat in each hand?</a>
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<strong>The Challenge:</strong> Can you find an ITTF law or rule banning the use of a paddle in each hand?
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New USATT Website - Latest or Late News?
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In the recent CEO Corner on the USATT website, Peter Scudner (Chairman of the Board) and Michael D. Cavanaugh (CEO) mentioned that USATT would soon be moving to a new website at <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://tabletennis.teamusa.org/">http://tabletennis.teamusa.org/</a>, becoming a part of the Olympic Team USA family. While the old website will still be maintained, the new website is intended to become the primary home page for USATT.
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After having a browse around for a while, I must admit I quite like the layout of the new website. It's a welcome update to the look and feel, and the addition of videos and photo galleries are a nice touch too. So it looks like USATT will have a good Internet home for the foreseeable future.
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One minor gripe is that the amount of news is a little sparse. This is not necessarily the fault of the website team, since they would probably just publish what they are sent from USATT and its members, but the the latest update appears to be a piece from July 27, almost three weeks ago. That said, the original USATT website was never exactly overflowing with the latest news either.
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Interestingly enough, this appears to be a not unusual situation, where a lot of time and effort is put into developing a website for a table tennis association, and then everybody sits back and goes "Phew!", and forgets to put up new content on a regular basis. The <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://www.tabletennis.org.au/">Table Tennis Australia</a> website was guilty of this in the past, but in recent months they have made a real effort to keep publishing a steady stream of new articles and latest news, making them worthy of a regular visit. Not to mention the newish <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://etta.tv/">ETTA website</a>, which was redesigned a few months back and has been faithfully kept up to date since. Although some English players would point out that the ETTA had better do so, since they have apparently decided to <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://www.tabletennisuk.info/FreeTableTennis/FTT47.doc">cease publication of Table Tennis News, their print magazine</a> (note that this is a link to a Word document).
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Hopefully the USATT can do something similar and fill their attractive new website with a host of new content and the latest USA happenings.
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Which Grip is Best for Basement Ping-Pong Players?
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There are a number of ways to hold a ping-pong paddle, but which grip is the best for basement ping-pong players?
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Seems like a simple enough question, doesn't it? But as for many things in table tennis, the answer is not so simple, and basically boils down to:
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<i>It depends.</i>
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Not very helpful, you might think. So let's see if we can explain a little more about what you need to consider when <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://tabletennis.about.com/od/basementfamilypingpong/a/Which-Grip-for-Basement-Ping-Pong.htm">choosing a grip to play basement ping-pong</a>.
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