https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/rss/524572/feed The latest news and top stories on Tomokazu Harimoto, a Japanese table tennis prodigy. Known for his aggressive, speed-focused style playing close to the table, he has achieved remarkable success from a young age. Harimoto holds records as the youngest winner of multiple ITTF World Tour and World Junior Championships titles. His accomplishments include an Olympic team bronze medal, World Championship silver medals in mixed doubles and numerous WTT and ITTF tour victories. He consistently ranks... en https://assets-v2.i-scmp.com/production/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg SCMP Sport SCMP Sport China’s Wang Manyu beat compatriot and defending champion Sun Yingsha in the women’s singles final at the Asian Games on Sunday to cement her position as the sport’s new table tennis queen. Wang’s win came days after she displaced Sun at the top of the world rankings. China also enjoyed success in the men’s doubles final, with Huang Youzheng and Lin Shidong beating Japan’s Tomokazu Harimoto and Hiroto Shinozuka 4-2. Wang reclaimed the title she last won at the Jakarta Asian Games in 2018,... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/other-sport/article/3368966/chinas-wang-manyu-beats-sun-yingsha-womens-singles-table-tennis-final-asian-games?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/other-sport/article/3368966/chinas-wang-manyu-beats-sun-yingsha-womens-singles-table-tennis-final-asian-games?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:52:38 +0000 Josh Ball Josh Ball Japan’s men pulled off a stunning upset at the Asian Games on Thursday, beating China to claim table tennis team gold in front of a raucous home crowd. With the sides tied at 2-2 following a back and forth tussle, Sora Matsushima won the decisive match, downing Wen Ruibo 3-1 at Sky Hall Toyota. Matsushima recovered from just losing the opening encounter to Wang Chuqin, who laboured his way to a 3-2 victory, but was overpowered 3-0 by an inspired Tomokazu Harimoto, who set up the thrilling finale... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/other-sport/article/3368691/japan-men-stun-china-claim-asian-games-table-tennis-team-gold?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/other-sport/article/3368691/japan-men-stun-china-claim-asian-games-table-tennis-team-gold?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:49:59 +0000 Mike Chan Mike Chan The World Table Tennis Finals will get a new home this year, with the season-ending showpiece moving from Hong Kong Coliseum to Kai Tak Arena. While the WTT has yet to officially announce the move for December’s tournament, government sources and the local table tennis association both told the South China Morning Post it would happen. City officials had previously said the Coliseum would switch to prioritising concerts. Still, Tony Yue Kwok-leung, chairman of the Hong Kong, China Table Tennis... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/hong-kong/article/3355678/wtt-finals-switch-leaves-hong-kong-table-tennis-bosses-facing-challenging-task?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/hong-kong/article/3355678/wtt-finals-switch-leaves-hong-kong-table-tennis-bosses-facing-challenging-task?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:04:23 +0000 Mike Chan Mike Chan Hong Kong head coach Li Ching remained positive despite the city’s men’s and women’s teams exiting the World Team Table Tennis Championships without a medal. The women’s team lost in the quarter-finals 3-1 to Germany on Thursday after the men were eliminated in the second round, also by the Germans, earlier in the week. With the Asian Games looming, Li was happy to take away the positives from the London tournament, especially in light of the women’s last-eight run. “We were very close to a... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/hong-kong/article/3352849/hong-kong-coach-takes-positives-world-team-table-tennis-championship-despite-lack-medals?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/hong-kong/article/3352849/hong-kong-coach-takes-positives-world-team-table-tennis-championship-despite-lack-medals?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 May 2026 05:30:05 +0000 Stephy Zhang Stephy Zhang Sun Yingsha won her first Asian Cup women’s singles title on Sunday, while her compatriot Wang Chuqin successfully defended his crown. The five-day 35th ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup concluded in Haikou with the Chinese table tennis team taking both the men’s and women’s singles titles. The women’s team completed a clean sweep of medals, winning gold, silver and bronze. In the women’s singles final, the 25-year-old Sun beat Wang Manyu 4-3. The world No 1 started strong, winning the opening game 11-2. In... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/other-sport/article/3342913/sun-yingsha-wins-first-asian-cup-singles-title-while-wang-chuqin-successfully-defends-crown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/other-sport/article/3342913/sun-yingsha-wins-first-asian-cup-singles-title-while-wang-chuqin-successfully-defends-crown?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:30:51 +0000 SCMP Sport SCMP Sport World No 113 Lam Siu‑hang upset a Chinese player ranked 101 spots higher to become the last Hongkonger remaining at the 35th ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup table tennis in Haikou on Saturday. Four Hong Kong players in the men’s and women’s singles tournament made it past the group stages on Friday, but only Lam survived the round after beating China’s Xiang Peng 3-2 (11-7, 9-11, 8-11, 11-8, 13-11) in a tight last-16 contest at the Haikou Wuyuan River Gymnasium in Hainan province. However, Lam, 29, later... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/hong-kong/article/3342764/lam-siu-hang-becomes-last-hongkonger-standing-after-upset-win-asian-cup-table-tennis?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/hong-kong/article/3342764/lam-siu-hang-becomes-last-hongkonger-standing-after-upset-win-asian-cup-table-tennis?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 07 Feb 2026 09:22:42 +0000 Ada Li Ada Li Table tennis star Doo Hoi‑kem has continued her recent fine form by leading the charge as Hong Kong’s players advanced to the last 16 of the 35th ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup in Haikou at the end of their group-stage matches on Friday. Doo, who won the mixed doubles title with Wong Chun-ting in Qatar and reached the final of the women’s doubles a week later in Oman, beat Uzbekistan’s Kamalova Arujan 3-0 and Chinese Taipei’s Chien Tung‑chuan 3-1 to finish second in her group. She had earlier lost to... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/other-sport/article/3342683/hong-kong-stars-doo-hoi-kem-wong-chun-ting-advance-table-tennis-asian-cup-last-16?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/other-sport/article/3342683/hong-kong-stars-doo-hoi-kem-wong-chun-ting-advance-table-tennis-asian-cup-last-16?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:35:48 +0000 Fan Chen Fan Chen Japanese militarism is infiltrating culture and sports, a key Communist Party publication has warned, spotlighting table tennis star Tomokazu Harimoto and others in a pointed commentary. According to the article in the Study Times, run by the cadre-training Central Party School, Japanese far-right forces are using cultural and sporting activities to “influence public perception and beautify the history of aggression”. These activities included football player Kaoru Mitoma being photographed with... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/china/diplomacy/article/3338620/chinas-communist-party-paper-warns-japanese-militarism-seeping-culture-and-sports?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/china/diplomacy/article/3338620/chinas-communist-party-paper-warns-japanese-militarism-seeping-culture-and-sports?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Jan 2026 11:56:31 +0000 Mike Chan Mike Chan Hong Kong delivered a WTT Finals “beyond my expectations”, the head of table tennis’ governing body has said after the city concluded its first staging of the year-end tournament. Steve Dainton, the World Table Tennis CEO, believed there was the potential to host an “even better” event when it returned to Hong Kong in 12 months. Even the withdrawals through injury of Chinese world No 1s Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha in their respective men’s and women’s singles semi-finals could not dampen... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/hong-kong/article/3336462/world-table-tennis-chief-says-successful-finals-debut-hong-kong-beyond-expectations?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/hong-kong/article/3336462/world-table-tennis-chief-says-successful-finals-debut-hong-kong-beyond-expectations?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:39:34 +0000 Mike Chan Mike Chan Wang Chuqin withdrew from the semi-finals of the WTT Finals on Sunday, the second world No 1 to pull out injured in the space of 24 hours, sparking concern among officials that there might be too many table tennis tournaments on the calendar. A day after women’s top seed Sun Yingsha forfeited during her singles semi-final in Hong Kong, her compatriot followed suit before his last-four contest against Sweden’s Truls Moregard had even begun. The absence of Wang resulted in swathes of empty seats... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/hong-kong/article/3336389/wtt-finals-wang-pulls-out-semi-finals-hong-kong-sparking-fears-over-season-schedule?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/hong-kong/article/3336389/wtt-finals-wang-pulls-out-semi-finals-hong-kong-sparking-fears-over-season-schedule?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Dec 2025 09:29:43 +0000 Mike Chan Mike Chan Sun Yingsha, the top women’s player in table tennis, had to withdraw in the middle of a match for the first time in her career as she bowed out of the singles semi-finals of the WTT Finals Hong Kong on Saturday with an apparent left ankle injury. A double heartbreak was to follow, after Sun joined Olympic and world champion partner Wang Chuqin in the mixed doubles final, where they were swept aside – 11-9, 11-8, 11-6 – by South Korea’s Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin at the Hong Kong Coliseum. It... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/hong-kong/article/3336350/wtt-finals-hong-kong-sun-yingsha-hit-injury-loses-mixed-doubles-final-wang-chuqin?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/hong-kong/article/3336350/wtt-finals-hong-kong-sun-yingsha-hit-injury-loses-mixed-doubles-final-wang-chuqin?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:43:52 +0000 Mike Chan Mike Chan Sun Yingsha remains on course to win two titles at a WTT Finals for a second time, after storming into the quarter-finals of the women’s singles and racking up another convincing mixed doubles victory with partner Wang Chuqin on Thursday. The world No 1 dispatched Wang Yidi with ease at table tennis’ year-ending tournament in Hong Kong, to set up a last-eight clash with Miyu Nagasaki of Japan on Friday. Having beaten her Chinese compatriot nine times in their previous 10 meetings since the WTT... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/hong-kong/article/3336119/wtt-finals-unbeaten-chinese-stars-sun-and-wang-course-double-delight-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/hong-kong/article/3336119/wtt-finals-unbeaten-chinese-stars-sun-and-wang-course-double-delight-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:56:21 +0000 Mike Chan Mike Chan Ahead of his first appearance at the WTT Finals on Thursday, Simon Gauzy said he had been drawing a lot of strength from his children. A member of the French men’s table tennis team who won bronze at last year’s Olympic Games, Gauzy left his German club side TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen after playing in the Bundesliga for 12 years to return home to play for GV Hennebont in the summer. “My son and my daughter, they’re the [reasons] I’ve been playing great this year,” the father of two said. “It’s... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/other-sport/article/3335832/wtt-finals-french-star-simon-gauzy-trying-balance-being-husband-dad-and-good-player?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/other-sport/article/3335832/wtt-finals-french-star-simon-gauzy-trying-balance-being-husband-dad-and-good-player?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:11 +0000 Mike Chan Mike Chan The veneer of invincibility surrounding Chinese table tennis has been slowly chipped away over the past two years, and now Japanese ace Tomokazu Harimoto has sparked a furore by suggesting none of the country’s players are unbeatable. Harimoto also threw further fuel on the fire by saying that, of the Chinese men, only Wang Chuqin was a good player. The 22-year-old added that he, Swede Truls Moregard and Brazil’s Hugo Calderano were among a list of players capable of “consistently beating” their... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/china/article/3326948/japans-tomokazu-harimoto-dismisses-china-table-tennis-threat-says-wang-chuqin-only-good-player?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/china/article/3326948/japans-tomokazu-harimoto-dismisses-china-table-tennis-threat-says-wang-chuqin-only-good-player?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:30:08 +0000 Lars Hamer Lars Hamer China’s best table tennis players being challenged by improving Europeans and Americans is helping to grow the game globally, the sport’s global chief has said. Speaking exclusively to the Post as the WTT Champions Macau event drew to a close at the weekend, Steve Dainton, CEO of World Table Tennis, said the likes of Sweden’s Truls Moregard, French brothers Felix and Alexis Lebrun, and Hugo Calderano of Brazil were attracting “significant global attention”. Wang Chuqin ensured a Chinese men’s... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/china/article/3325758/if-chinas-table-tennis-dominance-challenged-will-sport-grow-wtt-boss-has-his-say?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/china/article/3325758/if-chinas-table-tennis-dominance-challenged-will-sport-grow-wtt-boss-has-his-say?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:30:14 +0000