Not available for home use yet, but looks like soon, we’ll always have someone a robot to play with.
RayPong
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DHS RS40 WTT 3-Star Recycled Material Table Tennis Ball
In what I believe is a first for a major table tennis company, DHS has released a ball made from post-consumer recycled materials. I’ve often wished there was a way to recycle the balls we use, but this is a great step in reducing waste. It is the official ball of WTT competitions until 2028. Available at Amazon and other usual table tennis supply stores.
Singles Tournament POSTPONED
Sorry everybody, the SCTTC Smash Singles Tournament is canceled for now. New date to be determined.
SCTTC Smash 2026 Singles Tournament
2025 SCTTC Doubles Smash
Date/Time
TBD
Doors open 11:00am
Fee
$10/person
Tournament Format
Three Skill Levels
Tourney will be divided into three divisions based on skill level.
Round Robin Seeding Into Championship Brackets
Tourney is divided into two sections: Round Robin and Championship Brackets.
Round Robin
All players compete in round robin pools for seeding into the Championship bracket.
Double-Elimination Championship and Second Chance Brackets
All players advance from round robin into the Championship Bracket and are placed based on seeding. Players who lose their first-round game drop to the Second Chance Bracket with a chance to come back and compete for the Championship finals.
Prizes
Every player will receive a free Nittaku ball.
Club merch prizes will be awarded to 1st and 2nd places in each division. Choose from hats, shirts, and hoodies (shirts and hoodies will be ordered based on size and style choices).
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Nittaku “Premium Clean” 40+ Balls
Back in 2022, Japan, like the rest of the world, was just coming out of the worst of the pandemic. During that time, Nittaku developed a ping pong ball they called “Premium Clean”. Identical to their other 3-star balls, it has:
Nittaku’s antiviral and antibacterial coating, single nano composite particle coating
“Medical Nano Coat”
This antiviral and antibacterial coating uses a unique technology to uniformly coat various functional inorganic materials with particle sizes of less than 10 nanometers, keeping surfaces clean.
For more info and spec sheets.
Thanks to Derc for making me aware of this product. Never available widely in the US at regulation size, it has now been discontinued completely. Seems like a good idea, whether or not it can be proven safer…
Table Tennis Serves “Explorer”
There’s a new website that’s building what it calls a “Serve Explorer” to describe and explain all table tennis serves. Fun idea with links to demo videos. I can see this as useful for both expanding your serves as well as identifying your opponent’s serves.
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