UCLA TABLE TENNIS

President: Hon-Lim (Harry) Wong, hlwong@ucla.edu
Internal Vice President: Ho-Kwan (Erik) Leung, erik@dessertfox.com
External Vice President: Virginia Huynh, vgurl25@hotmail.com

Meeting time: Tuesday and Thursday 7pm-10pm, Sunday Noon-3:30pm
Meeting location: Tuesday and Thursday at Lobby of John Wooden Center, Sunday at Pyramid Room.

News:
Date Event
5/29/03 Table Tennis tournament at 7pm (thursday). $2 per person for one or two events. Beginner Singles, Advance Singles, Open Doubles. To sign up, email pingpong@ucla.edu and include your name, studnet ID number and events entering. Sign up by Wednesday 5/28/03 midnight.
1/14/03 Our first meeting will take place at the Lobby of John Wooden Center starting at 6pm
1/21/03 Our practice time will change to 7-10 on Tuesdays and Thursdays
1/22/03 It's finally confirmed that we are getting two more tables!!! They shall arrive in two weeks.

Intro:
Table Tennis has been an Olympic Sport since 1988. There are some impressive statistics associated with this sport: It is the sport with the second highest number of participants in the world - second to soccer only. More Americans played table tennis in 1990 than baseball (20 million vs. 15.5 million). With less than half a second time between a player's contact and his opponents', it is also the fastest racket sport. (from www.alphatt.com)

Our goal:
Our primary goal is to promote table tennis to students in UCLA. By providing a place and opportunity to play with other players within and outside of UCLA, we hope that students will gain match experience and thus improving their skill.

Useful websites:
Name Content
ITTF Homepage This is the homepage of the international table tennis federation. It contain a lot of informations about equipemnts, world rankings and other news of ongoing competitions.
USATT Homepage This is the homepage of the table tennis association, it has all the info you need to know about where to go to participate in leagues as well as rules and other useful information
Tabletennis.gr This is a website set up by a local table tennis fan in Germany, here you will find some inside tips and informations that you seldom find somewhere else.
Alpha TT This is a place located at culver city where you can go and train with professional (well, sort of) to improve your skill, you can also buy more advance equipments that you won't find in the UCLA store and in Big5.

contact us at pingpong@ucla.edu