The fourth competition day of the PPP World Championships started in Wels with very sad news: The oldest of the 286 participants, 84-year-old Italian Antonio Perrone, had died in the hotel on Friday night. On Tuesday and Wednesday, he had…

On the third tournament day of the 4th PingPongParkinson World Championships in Wels, the wheat was separated from the chaff. In the singles, almost half of the participants have been eliminated after the group phase of the main and consolation…

The second day of the tournament in Wels started in the morning of Wednesday with the doubles matches in the three men’s and women’s classes. In the seven preliminary round groups of Men I, the three top-seeded pairs Peter Derheld/Jesper…

After the end of the accreditation, the final number of participants in the 4th PingPongParkinson World Championships in Wels is now known. After some players cancelled their participation in the last days, 286 players from 23 TT associations finally started…

A broad field will compete for the title in the men’s I singles. All the previous individual world champions will be competing here. Hamid Ezzat-Ahmadi, Ilya Rozenblat (both USA) and Holger Teppe (Germany) have won in Pleasantville in 2019, where…

The tournament programme website has now been activated. It can also be accessed via the link “Draws & Results” on the menu bar:  Here you will find the draws, the match schedules and the results of the PingPongParkinson World Championship…

In the women’s main class, Margie Alley from the USA, the winner of the first tournament in 2019, is certainly the top favourite, but there are no less than seven other women who can also play at the top. Like…

In table tennis, the brain and body are challenged at the same time so that the ball can be returned correctly. This is probably one reason for the success of table tennis in the fight against Parkinson’s disease. But there…

On Monday, 25.09., there will be no competitions in Wels yet, but with the Opening Ceremony and the Players Party there will already be two other important events for all participants on the first day. The Players Party will start…

The opening ceremony will feature a number of short speeches in German and English. The host will be Nenad Bach, the 1st chairman of PingPongParkinson international, who will not only speak. It is planned that the already deceased participants of…

While in the mixed doubles all pairings are fixed because all women willing to play have already found a partner, this is not yet the case for the men’s doubles and the women’s doubles. The button “Doubles & Mixed” in…