Nicolas LopezNicolas Lopez
English grassroots table tennis: Keighley advertises its first paid coach, a small step carrying big questionsIn the list of stories reporters usually scroll past, a 20-hour-a-week job...
Points to Defend and Halves of Death: How the WTT Ranking Is Rewriting the Table Tennis CalendarAt three in the afternoon on the fourth day of competition, the press area of...
Rybakina Beats Zheng Qinwen in US Open Semifinal to Claim World No. 1At 4-3 in the deciding set, Zheng Qinwen had a break point. Had she converted...
ASCA World Clinic 2026: The 'Last Chance' Transition Before the Certification RevolutionASCA World Clinic 2026: The 'Last Chance' Transition Before the Certification...
Malaysia – Indonesia on 28/9: A Matchday Placed in the Wrong Slot on the ASEAN Cup 2026 MapMalaysia – Indonesia on 28/9: A Matchday Placed in the Wrong Slot on the ASEA...
Vietnamese Table Tennis at a Crossroads: Talent Exists, But the System Remains the BottleneckHanoi, early May – a Tuesday morning at the National Sports Training Center....
Chelsea, Bayern and Barcelona Chase Vuskovic: The Transfer Market Is Being Priced by Contract ClausesBrighton paid £46m for a 19-year-old centre-back, and one transfer window lat...
Peter Engel: 40 Caps, 5 Federations, and Six Reforms That No Spreadsheet Can Fill40 caps for the German national team. Two World Championships. Three European...
Thamela and Victoria: Six Matches Without Dropping a Set and the Gap Behind the GoldThe final ended 21-7 in the second set. The real story, though, sits in the...
Dinh Bac and Vietnam's New Captaincy: Personnel Signals from BandungOn September 24, in Bandung, Nguyen Dinh Bac sat at the press conference tabl...
VAR in V.League: When Referees See Clearer, But the Law Still Isn't CalibratedMinute 78, score 1-1. The referee sprints to the edge of the box, arm pointin...
US youth table tennis takes 43 of 56 medals at the Americas championships: signals for Vietnam's academy pipelineKaty, Texas has just wrapped up the ITTF Americas youth championships for two...
David Puig Leaves LIV Golf: When the League's Youngest Star Chooses 72-Hole GolfAt the Open de Espana, between the second round and the trophy ceremony, thre...
The Cong - Viettel Lose 1-3 at Home to Ha Tinh: The Spine Named Doan Ngoc Tan Cracks AgainIn the 63rd minute, the scoreboard jumped from 1-1 to 1-3. Four minutes. Only...
Ajax have the ball, Atalanta have the plan: the Marcos Leonardo question at the Johan Cruyff ArenaIn the 34th minute the ball arrived at Marcos Leonardo's feet on the left edg...
Thailand Deserves to Be the Number One Sports Nation in Southeast Asia: Historic Victory Over China and Japan Opens a New Era for Women's VolleyballThe Huamark Stadium in Bangkok had never been so quiet in the final moments o...
Vietnamese Football Data: Nine Empty Fields and What Already ExistsA scouting file lay on my desk with nine rows, and all nine were blank. No...
OAKA on Fire: 17,677 Fans and the Giannis Equation in Greece's 2027 World Cup JourneyFriday night at OAKA Arena, Athens. The stands were 1,766 seats short of the...
Nguyen Xuan Son leaves the national team mid-tournament: a 4-6 week hamstring tear and Kim Sang Sik's Thailand problemAround the 60th minute of the opening Group B match in Bandung, Indonesia,...
Vietnam vs Thailand in Bandung: A 27-Match Unbeaten Run Faces Its Real TestTwenty-seven matches. Twenty-three wins, four draws, not a single defeat. The...
