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Swedish Open (table Tennis)
The Swedish Open, also known as the Swedish Open Championships (SOC), is an annual table tennis tournament in Sweden, run by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). It is currently part of the ITTF World Tour. History The tournament was first held in 1954, and has featured on the ITTF World Tour's schedule frequently since the tour's inception in 1996, including every year since 2011. China's Fan Zhendong and Wang Liqin jointly hold the record for most men's singles tournament wins, with three. Agnes Simon holds the record for the most women's singles tournament wins, with four, representing the Netherlands for her first title and West Germany for the other three. In August 2016, it was announced by the ITTF that Stockholm has been chosen as one of six cities to host a regular World Tour event in the revamped 2017 schedule. This is the equivalent of the Major Series status that the tournament currently holds, with "Platinum" events replacing the Super Series as the tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITTF World Tour
The ITTF World Tour, known as the ITTF Pro Tour until 2011, is an annual series of table tennis tournaments introduced by International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) in 1996. The tour includes events in seven categories: Men's and Women's Singles, Men's, Women's, and Mixed Doubles, and Under-21 Men's and Women's Singles. The tour has its own points system, with players accumulating points based on their performances in the tournaments they enter. Since 2017, the ITTF also announced that the World Tour would be split into two tiers, with six World Tour Platinum, the new top tier of World Tour, and six regular World Tour events. The players who gain the most points in each of the seven different categories will be invited to participate in the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals at the end of the year. Overview ITTF Pro Tour (1996–2011) Number of tournaments in each year (Grand Finals not counted): ITTF World Tour (2012–present) Number of tournaments in each year (Grand Finals no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tage Flisberg
Tage Valfrid Flisberg (12 October 1917 – 13 May 1989) was a male Swedish international table tennis player. He won a bronze medal at the 1949 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's doubles with Richard Bergmann. Five years later he won a silver medal at the 1954 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's singles. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists Results of individual events The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed). Men's singles Medal table Women's singles The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Flisberg, Tage 1917 births 1989 deaths Swedish male table tennis players World Table Tennis Championships medalists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Furong
Li Furong (; born 1942 in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese male table tennis player. He was a native of Zhejiang province starting to play table tennis at 15 and joined the national team in 1959. Li helped the Chinese men's team win four team titles at the World Table Tennis Championships in 1961, 1963, 1965 and 1971. In men's singles competitions, he made 3 consecutive appearances at the finals of the World Championships in 1961, 1963, and 1965. However, Li lost to compatriot Zhuang Zedong in all of the three finals, making himself become one of four players who played in three finals without winning (together with Hungarian Laszlo Bellak, Polish Alojzy Ehrlich and countryman Ma Lin). Rumor had it that Li's losses at the finals were prearranged. The 1961 Championships was referred as the commencement of match fixing in history of Chinese table tennis. In 1999, Li was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame. Li became the president of Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU) in 2001. The pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhuang Zedong
Zhuang Zedong (Chuang Tse-tung; August 25, 1940 – February 10, 2013) was a Chinese table tennis player, three-time world men's singles champion and champion at numerous other table tennis events and a well-known political personality during the tumult of the Cultural Revolution. His chance meeting with American table tennis player, Glenn Cowan, during the 31st World Table Tennis Championship, later referred to as ping-pong diplomacy, triggered the first thawing of the ice in Sino-American relations since 1949. Zhuang was once married to the pianist Bao Huiqiao, and his second wife was the Chinese-born Japanese . Table tennis career Zhuang was born in August 1940 and he joined the Chinese National Table Tennis team as a teenager. His coach was Fu Qifang. In 1961, at the 26th World Table Tennis Championship, he won his first men's singles championship, and at the next two World Table Tennis Championships, the 27th and 28th in 1963 and 1965 respectively, he again won the men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Alexandru
Maria Alexandru (née Golopența) (born 30 December 1939 in Plugova) is a former Romanian table tennis player. Table tennis career From 1957 to 1980 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships. Between 1953 and 1979, she played in 12 World Championships, winning three gold medals in the doubles competition. During her active career she played for Progresul Bucharest. She also won eleven English Open titles including six in the singles. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists Results of individual events The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed). Men's singles Medal table Women's singles The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ... References 1939 births Living people People from Caraș-Severin County Romanian female table ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gheorghe Cobirzan
Gheorghe is a Romanian given name and surname. It is a variant of George, also a name in Romanian but with soft Gs. It may refer to: Given name * Gheorghe Adamescu * Gheorghe Albu * Gheorghe Alexandrescu * Gheorghe Andriev * Gheorghe Apostol * Gheorghe Apostoleanu * Gheorghe Argeşanu * Gheorghe Arsenescu * Gheorghe Asachi * Gheorghe Băgulescu * Gheorghe Balș * Gheorghe Bănciulescu * Gheorghe Banu * Gheorghe Barbu * Gheorghe Benga * Gheorghe Bengescu * Gheorghe Bibescu * Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică * Gheorghe Brăescu * Gheorghe Brega * Gheorghe Briceag * Gheorghe Bucur * Gheorghe Buruiană * Gheorghe Buzatu * Gheorghe Buzdugan * Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa * Gheorghe Călugăreanu * Gheorghe Caranda * Gheorghe Cardaș * Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino * Gheorghe Cartianu-Popescu * Gheorghe Catrina * Gheorghe Cialâk * Gheorghe Cipăianu * Gheorghe E. Cojocaru * Gheorghe Cosma * Gheorghe Danielov * Gheorghe Dănilă * Gheorghe Derussi * Gheorghe Dinică * Gheorghe Duca * Gheorghe Gh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birgitta Tegner
Birgitta is the Swedish and Icelandic form of the Irish Gaelic female name ''Brighid''. Brighid or Brigid was the name of an ancient Celtic goddess, and its English form is Bridget. Birgitta and its alternate forms Birgit and Britta became common names in Scandinavia because of St. Bridget of Sweden.Hanks, P. & Hodges, F. (1990). A dictionary of first names. Oxford University Press. People named Birgitta *Bridget of Sweden (c. 1303 – 23 July 1373), Swedish Roman Catholic saint *Princess Birgitta of Sweden (born 1937), elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf *Birgitta Durell (1619-1683), Swedish industrialist *Birgitta Jónsdóttir (born 1967), Icelandic politician *Birgithe Kühle (1762-1832), Dano-Norwegian editor *Birgitta Moran Farmer (1881-1939), American miniature painter *Birgitta Haukdal (born 1979), Icelandic singer *Birgitte Winther (1751-1809), Danish opera singer *Birgitta Hillingsø (born 1940), Danish antiques dealer and godmother of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
László Földy
László Földy was a male former Hungarian international table tennis player. He won six World Table Tennis Championship medals from 1953 to 1961. This consisted of four medals in the team event, a bronze medal in the doubles with Zoltán Berczik and another bronze in the mixed doubles with Éva Kóczián. He married fellow Hungarian international and his mixed doubles partner Éva Kóczián. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists Results of individual events The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed). Men's singles Medal table Women's singles The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ... References Hungarian male table tennis players World Table Tennis Championships medalists {{Hungary-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vojislav Markovic
Vojislav ( sr-Cyrl, Војислав, ) is a Serbian masculine given name, a Slavic dithematic name (of two lexemes), derived from the Slavic words ''voj'' ("war, warrior"), and ''slava'' ("glory, fame"), which both are very common in Slavic names. Its feminine form is '' Vojislava''. It may refer to: *Stefan Vojislav (fl. 1034–43), Serbian ruler *Vojislav Brajović (born 1949), Serbian actor *Vojislav Đonović (1921–2008), Serbian jazz guitarist *Vojislav Ilić (1860–1894), Serbian poet *Vojislav Jovanović Marambo, Serbian university professor and diplomat * Vojislav V. Jovanović, Serbian writer *Vojislav Koštunica (b. 1944), Serbian politician *Vojislav Melić (1940–2006), Yugoslav footballer *Vojislav Mihailović (born 1951), Serbian politician *Vojislav Nikčević (1935–2007), Montenegrin linguist *Vojislav Šešelj (b. 1954), Serbian politician *Vojislav Vranjković (b. 1983), Serbian footballer *Vojislav Vukčević (b. 1938), retired Serbian politician See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matei Gantner
Matei Gantner is a male former international table tennis player from Romania. He won a bronze medal at the 1956 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Toma Reiter, Tiberiu Harasztosi, Paul Pesch and Mircea Popescu for Romania. He also won the national Championships seven times, three in singles (1954, 1958, 1960), two in doubles (1955, 1957 with Toma Reiter) and two in mixed (1957 and 1958 with Ella Zeller in addition to a bronze medal in the 1958 European Championships. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists Results of individual events The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed). Men's singles Medal table Women's singles The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ... References Romanian male table tennis players 1934 births Living people World Table Tennis Championships medalists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferenc Sidó
Ferenc Sidó (18 April 1923 in Pata – 6 February 1998 in Budapest) was an ethnic Hungarian international table tennis player from Slovakia. Table tennis career From 1947 to 1961 he won 26 medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships The 26 medals included nine gold medals; one in the men's singles, two in the men's doubles with József Kóczián and Ferenc Soos, two in the men's team event and four in the mixed doubles with Gizi Farkas and Angelica Rozeanu. He also won four English Open titles. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists Results of individual events The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed). Men's singles Medal table Women's singles The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ... References Czechoslovak male table tennis players 1923 births 1998 deaths {{Hungary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Jones (tennis)
Ann Shirley Jones, (née Adrianne Haydon on 17 October 1938, also known as Ann Haydon-Jones) is a British former table tennis and lawn tennis champion. She won eight Grand Slam tennis championships in her career: three in singles, three in women's doubles, and two in mixed doubles. As of 2017, she serves as a vice president of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. Career Table tennis Jones was born in Kings Heath, Birmingham, England. Her parents were prominent table tennis players, her father, Adrian Haydon, having been English number 1 and a competitor at world championships between 1928 and 1953. Ann, as a young girl, also took up the game, participating in five world championships in the 1950s, the best result being losing finalist in singles, doubles and mixed doubles all in Stockholm 1957. Soon after this she wrote the book ''Tackle Table Tennis This Way''. Jones also won two English Open titles in women's doubles as Haydon. Tennis She was also a powerful lawn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
