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ICC Table Tennis - Meet the Team

 

Table Tennis Instructors
 

Massimo Costantini: Head coach Massimo recently won 2011 USA National Coach of the year award by USATT/USOC for outstanding performance by his students at National & International level.

As a player Massimo has represented Italy for 23 years, He played for his country almost 500 team matches. Massimo has reached the best ranking at 39 in the World having played 11 World Championships, 11 European Championships, and One Olympic Games. Massimo quit in 1995 after the World Cup in Atlanta and became full time coach and is certified ITTF high performance coach.

As a Head Coach of Italian Men’s & Women’s Team in 2003 Italy girls won the European team championship. In 2004 Italy men finished in the quarter at the WTTTC.

In 2004 August Massimo conducted a special Olympic training camp at his hometown (Senigallia ITA) before the Olympic Games for all Olympians European Players. Top World class Players trained in that camp include

Jan-Ove Waldner, Jorgen Persson, Peter Karlsson (SWE), Vladimir Samsonov (BLR), Werner Schlager, Chen Weixing, Jindrak (AUT), Patrick Chila (France), Karakasevic, Grujic (SRB), Zoran Primorac (CRO), Alexey Smirnov (RUS), Yang Min, Mondello (ITA)

In 2004 Massimo was coach in the Athens Olympics where 5 players (3 women & 2 men) trained under him were qualified for the Olympic Games.

In 2006-2007 Massimo coached top club in Italy finishing runner-up in the major league. Shen Yang from Heilojiang CHN and Hakansson from Sweden were the players trained with him to play for the club..

In 2007-2008 Massimo was coach for UAE. The best player he produced was Omar Rashid who got elevation in WR of 150 positions just in few months.

From 2009 Massimo is coaching Indian National Men's 7 women's team. 2010 U.S. Open & Qatar Open champion Achanta Sharath Kamal has traind with Massimo since last two years and gives full credit to him for reaching top 40 in the World.

Zhou Xin - Full time coach

Zhou Xin is formar Chinese National team member and currently 2766 USATT rated player. With this high rating he is the number one active player in United States.

Opendro Singh - Full time coach

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Opendro is one of the best chopper and coach from India. He trained with Indian National Men's & Women's team in preparation of 2010 Commonwealth Championship till October 2010. Opendro also coached several years at Indian National Junior training center in Ajmer. He also served as a head coach for Maldives for International events including World Championships.

Kashyap Anal - Full time coach

Former Junior National Champion & Men's National team member from India and 2625 rated player. Kashyap is also winner of 2010 North American tour Berkeley Open.

Dan Liu - Full time coach

Top professional player from China and strong 2600 rated player come coach. Dan is one of the most popular coaches in bay area just in his one year of coaching activity. He recently won 2012 ICC California State Open.

Meng Tien - Full time coach

Meng Tian is a professional Table Tennis player from China, LiaoNing provincial team. She masters both Penhold and Shakehand styles by starting as a shakehand player then later switched to penhold to match better with her teammates Wang Nan and Guo Yue. She has short pips on her forehand for fast attacking and inverted rubber on her Reverse Penholder backhand for fast looping.

Meng Tien also won 2010 U.S. Open Championship for women's 21 & under. She is current World ranked player.

Liang Yonghui - Full time coach

Over 2700 rated professional player from China who played elite league in Denmark in 2010. Some recent achievement for coach Liang in China.

2011 Chinese B league team-Champion

2011 Chinese A league team- 5th place

2010 Chengdu Junior & Cadet Open-ITTF premium junior circuit - Men's doubles Champion and singles round of 16.

Recently playing in USA Liang won 2012 Berkeley Open-NA tour, and in LA Open he led 2-1 to 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Dimitrij Ovtcharov.

Rajul Sheth - Full time coach

Coach Rajul is awarded as Development coach of the year by US Olympic Committee in 2008 & 2009 two years in a raw. He was the head coach of  ICC Table Tennis center from 2005 till 2010.

Students trained under him include 2011 U.S. Womens, Juniors and Cadet team members Ariel Hsing, Lily Zhang. 

Some top players in coutry started their Table Tennis career with Rajul as their first coach to make solid foundation in their Table Tennis career includes Prahi Jha, Krish Avvari, Kanak Jha, Kunal Chodri, Shivansh Kumar, Aashay Patel, Aarsh Shah, Diane Jiang & Isabel Chu. 

On top of these eight full time coaches ICC Table Tennis Center has another 15 part time coaches for Junior training program.