05/21/2013      

The National Paralympic Committee of Thailand invites International Umpires to officiate at the Thailand Para Table Tennis Championships to be staged in Bangkok from Friday 2nd to Wednesday 7th August 2013.

Only nominations submitted by national table tennis association will be accepted.

Furthermore, it is an open invitation and therefore not all nominations may be accepted.

 05/12/2013      

All eleven classes were contested in both the Men’s Singles and Women’s Singles events at the Slovenia Para Table Tennis Championships, which concluded on Saturday 11th May 2013 but there were only three men who departed Lasko with a brace of gold medals.

Spain was the country to enjoy the greatest success by spawning doubles champions in the guise of Alvaro Valera and José Manuel Ruiz; the latter impressive earlier this year at the ITTF World Tour Spanish Open in Almeria.

Earlier in the proceedings, Alvaro Valera had won the Men’s Singles Class 6 title; whilst José Manuel Ruiz had mounted the top step of the medal podium in Men’s Singles Class 10.

 05/12/2013      

Serbia’s Borislava Peric Rankovic, Jordan’s Khetam Kamal Abuawad, Turkey’s Kubra Ocsoy and Norway’s Aida Dahlen emerged as the most successful players in the women’s events at the Slovenia Para Table Tennis Championships which concluded in Lasko on Saturday 11th May 2013.

On the concluding day of play, all four captured team gold medals in their respective classes, to add the title won earlier in the week in the singles events.

Certainly for the quartet it was a most beneficial visit to Lasko.

 05/09/2013      

Croatia’s Sandra Paovic was once again very much the centre of attraction on her third appearance at a Paralympic Tournament in 2013.

At the 10th Slovenia Open staged in Lasko; on Thursday 9th May, she won the Women’s Singles Class 6 title to complete a hat-trick of successes.

Early in the year March; she had won the Women’s Singles Class 6 title at the Hungarian Para Open in Eger and donned the Women’s Singles Class 6/7 crown at the Lignano Masters in Northern Italy.

 05/09/2013      

Silver medallists in the London 2012 Olympic Games, it was gold for Spain’s Alvaro Valera, Great Britain’s Will Bayley and Austria’s Stanislaw Fraczyk at the Slovenia Para Table Tennis Open in Lasko on Thursday 9th May 2013.

Alvaro Valera clinched the top prize in the Men’s Singles Class 6 event, beating Denmark’s Peter Rosenmeier in the final (22-20, 11-3, 11-3), the player who had been the bronze medallist in London.

One step higher for Alvaro Valera and it was the same for Will Bayley.

 04/15/2013      

Eight classes were contested in the Team events at the 6th Alwatani Para Table Tennis Championships staged in Amman, the capital city of Jordan; when matters came to a conclusion on Sunday 14th April 2013, all eight events saw players add to successes gained earlier in the week.

In every instance, a player who had secured gold in the singles events repeated the success.

It meant for Jordan and Egypt unmitigated success.Khetam Abuawad, Ibrahim Sardas and Osama Abu-Jame flew the flag for the host nation, all departing with a brace of gold medals; whilst for Egypt Sameh Saleh, Hassan Hefny, Rezk Eid and Abdelrahman Abdelwahab all added to team success.

 04/14/2013      

The host nation and Egypt emerged as the most successful nations in the singles events at the 6th Alwatani Para Table Tennis Championships staged in Amman, the capital city of Jordan, on Friday 12th April 2013.

Each country clinched four titles, the remaining three crowns being donned by players from France, Iraq and Russia.

Jordan dominated matters in the Women’s events with Maha Bargouthi clinching the Women’s Singles Class 1-3 crown and Khetam Abuawad, who was in action at the recent London 2012 Paralympic Games and was a bronze medallist at the World Para Table Tennis Championships in Gwangju, Korea, in 2010, securing gold in Women’s Singles Class 4-5.

 03/25/2013      

Gold medallists in the singles events, earlier in the week at the Lignano Masters Open in Italy, there was further success for Sweden’s Ann-Carin Ahlquist and Russia’s Olga Gorshkaleva in the Women’s Team events, which concluded on Saturday 23rd March 2013, as there was for five male colleagues.

Austria’s Andras Vevera, Germany’s Thomas Schmidberger, Norway’s Tommy Urhaug, Poland’s Patryk Chojnowski and Pascal Pereira Leal of France all added to Men’s Singles successes in the Men’s Team event.

Meanwhile for Sweden’s Ingela Lundbäck, Russia’s Julia Ovsyannikova, it was one step higher in the Women’s Team event.

 03/21/2013      

Medallists from the London 2012 Paralympic Games excelled in the Men’s and Women’s Singles events at the Lignano Para Table Tennis Open Championships in the Adriatic coastal resort on Wednesday 20th March 2013.

Notably in Men’s Singles Class 5, Norway’s Tommy Urhaug, the gold medallist in London, repeated his success; he won the same class in Lignano finishing ahead of Serbia’s Mitar Palikuca.

Similarly, Poland’s Patryk Chojnowski repeated his London success.

He won the Men’s Singles Class 10 title beating Russia’s Pavel Lukyanov in the final.