TableTennisDaily Podcast

Hey everyone!  In today’s episode we are joined by Sweden’s Mattias Falck. Mattias is fresh off his incredible 2019 World Championship performance! He claimed silver in the event after losing a very competitive match to World and Olympic Champ Ma Long. Mattias talks about his World Championship journey and what life has been like since his truly special achievement. Mattias also talks about how he developed his unique style and why he uses short pimples on his forehand.  Enjoy! 

Hey everyone!  We were live at the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest doing podcasts with key figures and players in the sport. Here's our 4th podcast with the ITTF Commentator and table tennis personality Adam Bobrow. Dan and Adam discuss all things table tennis and what makes Adam tick.

Hey everyone!  We were live at the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest doing podcasts with key figures and players in the sport. Here's our third podcast with the ITTF president Thomas Weikert. Thomas Weikert talks to us about the recent rule changes, different colour rubbers, prize money in table tennis and lots more. 

Hey everyone!  Here's our second podcast with TableTennisDaily's Dan and Paralympic Champion Will Bayley! This week on the podcast features special guest Patrick Franziska who talks about his training, recent success at the Qatar Open, life, upcoming 2019 World Table Tennis Championships and most importantly why Timo Boll wears a headband.  In the podcast Dan and Will discuss the latest hot topics in the world of table tennis!

Heyyyy Everyone!!  The TableTennisDaily Podcast is back and this time it's in a video format which you can watch on our Youtube channel with TableTennisDaily's Dan and Paralympic Champion Will Bayley! This week on the podcast features special guest Liam Pitchford who talks about his win against Ma Long and his preparations for the upcoming World Championships.  In the podcast Dan and Will discuss the latest hot topics in the world of table tennis! Which guest would you like us to have on the podcast next?

Hello and welcome to episode 18 of the TableTennisDaily podcast. In today's episode we are talking to table tennis legend Jean Michel Saive. The Belgian Star was world number one on multiple occasions and perhaps even more impressively, Belgian number 1 for an astonishing 30 years without interruption from 1985 until his recent retirement in 2015. Jean Mi is potentially running for the ITTF presidency and we go into great detail about this new venture of his and lots more.  Enjoy the podcast.

Hello and welcome to episode 17 of the TableTennisDaily podcast, today on the show we have world number 25 Quadri Aruna! Aruna has had an extraordinary summer reaching the quarter finals of the Rio Olympics losing to the eventual winner Ma Long. Enjoy the podcast.

Here's our Latest Podcast with current world number 8 Vladimir Samsonov.  We talk to Samsonov about his incredible career and how he has maintained such a high level for so long, his Rio experience, rule changes, how Europe can take on the world and lots more.

Welcome to episode 15 of the TableTennisDaily podcast, today on the show we are joined alongside the Marketing Director of the ITTF, Steve Dainton.  Steve Dainton has had the role as the ITTF Markting director for the last 8 years helping grow and promote table tennis world wide. Steve has had an important role on developing the new revolution of table tennis known as TTX! What is TTX? Steve discusses on TTX and much more! 

Here's our Olympic Podcast special with Paul Drinkhall who talked to us a few hours ago live from the Olympic village in Rio. We talk to him about his Rio 2016 journey so far and what's it's like in Brazil.

Hello everyone welcome to episode 13 of the TableTennisDaily podcast. In this episode we are joined alongside current World number 26 and Greek National team player Panagiotis Gionis. Last season Panagiotis played for Borussia Dusseldorf in the German Bundesliga alongside Timo Boll. Gionis is a defensive player who has represented Greece at 3 Olympic Games and is playing his 4th, in the upcoming games in Rio. We look into many different aspects of his game such as his current training methods, for example how he uses his long pimples to full effect, and we talk about his co mpetitions, greatest achievements and much more. Enjoy the podcast.

Welcome to episode 12 of the TableTennisDaily podcast, today on the show we are joined alongside the ITTF President Thomas Weikert. Thomas became the German National Association President in 2005. And in 2014, he took over the presidency of the ITTF from Adham Sharara. In this podcast we really explore and question recent rule changes and possible future rule changes for the sport including the net height increase, plastic balls and boosting.

Hello and welcome to episode 11 of the TableTennisDaily podcast, today on the show we have arguably the greatest player of all time Jan Ove Valdner. Over the course of his career Jan has collected virtually every honour available in table tennis from winning the Olympics to years of dominance over the Chinese in multiple world team and individual championship victories. Here's the podcast.

Hello again everyone and welcome to episode 10 of the TableTennisDaily podcast. In this episode we are joined by Paralympian Will Bayley. Will is the current class 7 world champion and London 2012 Paralympic silver medallist. Will currently trains full time in the English institute of sport in Sheffield the home of the GB Paralympic team. Will talks about his current life as a world class disability athlete and how he has achieved such a high level of success. We would like to thank Will for giving up his time to talk to us, here’s the podcast…

Hello and welcome to episode 9 of the TableTennisDaily podcast, thanks for tuning in. In this episode we are joined alongside Swedish Legend Jorgen Persson! Jorgen Persson won the World Championships in 1991 defeating team mate Jan Ove Waldner and has played in every single Olympic event since table tennis was introduced in 1988, an incredible 7 times. Enjoy the podcast.

In the 8th episode of the podcast we are joined alongside world renowned coach Richard Prause! Richard started his roll as head coach of the German National Team in 2004 where he coached the likes of Timo Boll, Christian Suss and Dimitrij Ovtcharov. In 2010 Richard was appointed as the head coach of the Werner Schlager Academy where he remained until August 2015. He has since returned to the German Table Tennis Association to take on the role of Director of German table tennis. Richard talks in depth about coaching and provides many great tips to help improve your game. He also explains the ins and outs of world table tennis and tells us about the various experiences he has had working and coaching the worlds best players.

Hello again everyone and welcome to episode 7 of the TableTennisDaily podcast. In this episode we are joined alongside current world number 7 Marcos Freitas. Marcos currently plays for Pontoise Cergy in the French pro A division with former podcast guest Kristian Karlsson as well as Tristan Flore and Jian Jun Wang. Marcos is captain of the Portugese men's national team, the team that won European team championships in 2014. We would like to thank Marcos for giving us the time out of his busy schedule to talk to us. Hope you guys enjoy and be sure to like and share this episode and subscribe on YouTube and iTunes.

Hello again everyone and welcome to the 6th episode of the TableTennisDaily podcast today we are joined by the current world Ping Pong champion, 3 time English national champion and London 2012 Olympian Andrew Baggaley. Although Andrew is a world class regular table tennis player and currently plays in the top division in the Polish league. He takes 1 month out of playing every year to play sandpaper table tennis and compete in the “world championship of ping pong”. We would like to thank Andrew for giving his time from his busy schedule to talk to us! Hope you guys enjoy this slightly different episode and be sure to like and share it and also subscribe to the table tennis daily channel on YouTube and iTunes. 

What’s going on everyone, this is the 5th episode of the TableTennisDaily podcast with current world number 34 and French National Team player Simon Gauzy. Simon currently represents Ochsenhausen in the top division in the German League where he trains and competes full time. Simon is only 21 years old and already has a French national men's singles title to his name as well as a European Mens Team Medal. We look into many different aspects of his game such as his current training methods, competitions, greatest achievements and much more.  We would like to thank Simon for giving us the time out of his busy schedule to talk to us. Hope you guys enjoy and be sure to like and share this episode and subscribe on YouTube and iTunes. We would also love to hear your feedback on what you enjoyed about this episode and any ideas you might have for episodes in the future.

What’s going on everyone, this is the 4th episode of the TableTennisDaily podcast with current world number 32 and Swedish National Team player Par Gerell. Par currently represents Chartres in the Pro A league in France alongside Gao Ning, Robert Gardos and Joao Monteiro. In this episode we talk about Par's tremendous serve and how it is a key feature to his game, we really look into what he has done to create this unique style of serving through video analysis, training and more. We also cover his current training methods, competitions, greatest achievements and talk about his brilliant 91 shot rally with Adrien Mattenet.   We would like to thank Par for giving us the time out of his busy schedule to talk to us. Hope you guys enjoy and be sure to like and share this episode and subscribe on YouTube and iTunes. We would also love to hear your feedback on what you enjoyed about this episode and any ideas you might have for episodes in the future.    

What's going on guys, heres episode 3 of the new TableTennisDaily podcast. In this episode we are joined by another Olympian, German Bundesliga player and world ranked 58 Liam Pitchford. Liam represented team GB in the London 2012 Olympics and is currently playing for Ochsenhausen alongside Simon Gauzy, Hugo Calderano and Jakub Dyjas. In this episode we talk about Liam's career, training methods and strength and conditioning work. You may be surprised to hear what sort of weights top table tennis players can lift! We would like to thank Liam for giving us the time out of his busy schedule to talk to us. Hope you guys enjoy and be sure to like and share this episode and subscribe on YouTube and iTunes. We would also love to hear your feedback on what you enjoyed about this episode and any ideas you might have for episodes in the future.

Hey everyone, Here is the second episode of the new TableTennisDaily podcast. In this episode we are joined by German National team player and world ranked 42 Patrick Franziska. Patrick is now playing for German Bundesliga side Borussia Düsseldorf the current German Champions. In this episode we cover everything from training methods to what Patrick likes to do in his spare time as well as what it is like playing alongside Timo Boll and Dimitrij Ovtcharov in the German National Team. We really enjoyed recording this episode and hope you will enjoy listening. We would like to thank Patrick for giving us the time out of his busy schedule to talk to us. Hope you guys enjoy and be sure to like and share this episode. We would also love to hear your feedback on what you enjoyed about this episode and any ideas you might have for episodes in the future.

On our very first episode we are joined by guest, current and two time Swedish National Men's Champion Kristian Karlsson. Kristian currently sits at 47 in the world and plays for French Pro A side Pontoise Cergy the current French National Champions and 2014 European Champions League winners. Kristian also holds a European doubles silver medal which he won playing alongside Swedish compatriot Matthias Karlsson. In this episode Kristian talks about what it was like growing up in Sweden as a table tennis player and being mentored by table tennis legend Jorgen Perrson from an early age. We also discuss his current training, diet and conditioning. We discuss a few hot topics like the new plastic balls and Japanese 12 year old sensation Harimoto and his thoughts on the current state of European table tennis. We also talk about what it was like for him playing doubles with the Chinese world number 3 Fan Zhengdong and Fan's "brutal honesty" be sure to check that bit out at. We would like to thank Kristian for giving us the time out of his very busy schedule to talk to us. Hope you guys enjoy and be sure to like and share this episode and subscribe on YouTube and iTunes.  We would also love to hear your feedback on what you enjoyed about this episode and any ideas you might have for episodes in the future.