Table Tennis

Inaugural amateur TT tournament concludes

The inaugural Amateur Table Tennis tournament, organised by the Rotary Club of Gulshan One and Smash Station Table Tennis Club, concluded yesterday with the participation of 37 players.

Soma, Mou return to 'controversial’ national TT squad

Sonam Sultana Soma and Sadia Rahman Mou are set to represent Bangladesh again in international competitions after serving one year of a two-year ban, but there was more controversy surrounding the eight-player Bangladesh table tennis contingent for the upcoming Asian championships

History-maker Ramhim aware of the challenge

Ramhim Lian Bawm fell in love with table tennis in his childhood, after watching a game on television. That love dragged him towards the game some eight years back, eventually seeing him becoming the first indigenous player to lift the crown in men’s singles event of the National Table Tennis Championships on Saturday.

Ramhim's history in national table tennis

Ramhim Lian Bawm created a piece of history in the National Table Tennis Championship in Chattogram today, becoming the first player to win both boys’ and men's singles titles.

BTTF combines junior TT with senior one

The National Junior Table Tennis Championships are set to be incorporated into the senior one as the 39th edition of the national event gets underway on Saturday at the Rifles Club in Chattogram, following a four-year gap.

Lac-taka prizemoney TT tournament underway

Futures Sporting Club, with support from Shawn Smash Up, has organised a two-day table tennis tournament at the iconic building of Lab Aid in Kalabagan, Dhaka which got underway today.

‘It cannot go on like this anymore’

In her field, Bangladesh’s table tennis icon Zobera Rahman Linu remained a cut above the rest during her stellar 24-year playing career between 1977 to 2001, having bagged a whopping 16 national titles from 1977 to 2001

Soma, Mou guide Police to clinch TT league title

Sonam Sultana Soma and Sadia Rahman Mou shone throughout the Women's Premier Division Table Tennis League to guide Police Table Tennis Club in becoming unbeaten champions after they handed a 3-1 defeat to JBL 71 in the last match of the Super-Four stage at the Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Indoor Stadium in Dhaka today.

TT duo to be banned for bunking Commonwealth Games matches

National table tennis players Sonam Sultana Soma and Sadia Aktar Mou are set to be suspended from international and domestic competitions for three and two years respectively as the duo went to visit relatives in London skipping their matches of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham earlier this month.

May 10, 2022

Paddlers beat Sri Lanka to create history

Bangladesh clinched a gold medal for the first time in their South Asian Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Championships history as the paddlers beat their Sri Lankan counterparts 3-2 in the Boy’s U-19 team final in Male, Maldives today.

January 28, 2022

‘We are in a take-off position’

Khandokar Hassan Monir, vice-president of the Bangladesh Table Tennis Federation (BTTF), plays an important role in the development of table tennis in Bangladesh and he spoke to The Daily Star’s Anisur Rahman about the past, present and future. The excerpts are below:

August 5, 2021

For the Love of the (Unpopular) Game

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April 19, 2019

Top table tennis players denied Hungary visa

"I could have stayed back in Japan or United Kingdom had I wished. Why will I stay back in Hungary?", was the reaction of 2017 national table tennis champion Mohammad Javed Ahmed this morning after being refused visa for Hungary for the World Table Tennis Championships to be held in Budapest from April 21 to April 28.

March 8, 2019