ICC Table Tennis - Meet the Team
Massimo Costantini: Head coach
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 2748 USATT rated player. With this high rating he is the number one active player in United States.
Opendro Singh
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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
Top professional player from China and 2552 rated player come coach. Dan just played his first major tournament in USA in June 2011, and lost to top seed Barney Reed in semifinals 4-3 after leading 3-1.
Meng Tien - Full time coach
Meng Tian is a professional Table Tennis player from
Gidla Jitendra - Full time coach
Gidla Jitendra is former Indian National men's team member. He playerd active Table Tennis for India till 2007 World Championship.
Gidla Jiten is strong 2575 rated player and winner of 2009 & 2010 ICC California State Open Championship.
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.