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SCTTC Smash 2026 Singles Tournament | April 19
2025 SCTTC Doubles Smash
Date/Time
Sunday, Apr 19th 12:00pm – 4:00pm
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).
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.
Top 10 Points | Doha 2026
Lucky Shots of 2025
ITTF Best Points of 2025
Top 10 Points | Hong Kong 2025
Marty Supreme film opens 12/23
As mentioned previously, Marty Supreme is a bio-pic about Marty Mauser pursuing his dream of becoming a champion table-tennis player. Opens next week in Capitola, Del Mar Theatre, and Santa Cruz Cinema.
Late obituary news for Herb Rossman
Sometimes news comes to me late… Just learned that club member Herbert Rossman died on June 5, 2023 at the age of 95. Herb was both the oldest table tennis player at the SCTTC, and the oldest person I had ever played. He was one of the first people I played with when I discovered the club. He played until he was 85. Great guy who had one of those defensive table tennis styles with the simple goal of just getting the ball back on the table. Sad to just discover this news, but it sounds like had a great life.
Monterey Table Tennis Club open this Sunday 12/14
Got a message from Gil inviting SCTTC members down to Monterey to play some bonus table tennis on Sunday (12/14). No fee for SCTTC members.
Monterey YMCA by Dennis Menace park.
Open play 2:00 to 5:00