Table Tennis
Stand fans to the rescue of table tennis tourney
Bangladesh Table Tennis Federation (BTTF) has reversed its decision to postpone the President’s Cup Table Tennis tournament after players insisted on competing despite the non-functioning air-conditioning at the Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Indoor Stadium in Paltan..Originally slated for May 15-
7 May 2025, 03:00 AM
China completes table tennis gold clean sweep
China claimed their fifth gold from five competitions at the Games.
10 August 2024, 15:44 PM
Ma Long makes Chinese history with sixth Olympic gold
Ma Long made Chinese Olympic history with the sixth gold of his career on Friday in the men's team event in Paris to embellish his reputation as the best table tennis player ever.
9 August 2024, 17:55 PM
Triumph over adversity: Lind eyes medal
When doctors x-rayed his spine after the crash in 2021, "they said maybe I'll never walk normally again," an emotional Lind told AFP after his win on Wednesday.
31 July 2024, 17:45 PM
Delight to disgust as Olympic champ has table tennis bat broken
A top-ranked Chinese table tennis player's elation at winning Olympic gold quickly turned to anger after a photographer accidentally broke his bat.
31 July 2024, 08:43 AM
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.
22 October 2023, 14:48 PM
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
29 August 2023, 02:25 AM
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.
31 July 2023, 02:45 AM
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.
29 July 2023, 13:11 PM
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.
21 July 2023, 02:00 AM
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.
14 July 2023, 14:14 PM
‘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
10 March 2023, 18:00 PM
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.
19 October 2022, 15:30 PM
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.
30 August 2022, 06:36 AM
Paddlers make history in Commonwealth Games
Bangladesh table tennis team created history on Saturday as they reached the quarter-finals in the Commonwealth Games for the first time.
30 July 2022, 06:12 AM
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.
10 May 2022, 12:25 PM
‘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:
27 January 2022, 18:00 PM
For the Love of the (Unpopular) Game
How do these players and athletes fuel their passions and dreams?
4 August 2021, 18:00 PM
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.
19 April 2019, 04:48 AM
'Give women more room'
Today is Women's Day, which has been celebrated in our country for a long time. It is also a day to realise the rights of women and bring equity between men and women.
7 March 2019, 18:00 PM