Killerspin is a table tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

 equipment, accessories, and clothing brand that also sponsors and hosts competitions, as well as table tennis related special events. With table tennis becoming a global sport, Killerspin equipment and products are distributed in fourteen countries on five separate continents.

Events

The company has hosted the largest table tennis events ever held in the United States, including the:

• Extreme Table Tennis Championship
• Spinvitational Table Tennis Championship
• Arnold Classic Table Tennis Challenge
• Mohegan Sun Table Tennis Championship.

These competitions are often aired nationally on ESPN. With top international table tennis talent and outstanding production, the Killerspin Extreme Table Tennis Championships have become standard for table tennis events in the world. With table tennis being a very diverse sport, fans from around the world will be at events supporting their country. Killerspin has been privileged to be present at the Arnold Sports Festival, hosted by California Governor and film star Arnold Schwarzenegger, for the past six years.

• Killerspin hosted its Spinvitational http://www.killerspin.com/tournaments/2008-spinvitational.php and Holiday Open from December 27, 2008 through December 29, 2008 at Chicago
  Chicago
  Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
  
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  McCormick Place
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Some of the activities will include:

• Daily Table Tennis Exhibitions

• Killerspin Table Tennis Product Booth

• Sanctioned & Unsanctioned Tournaments

• Recreational Championship Day

Monday, December 29, 2008

• Adult & Youth Championships for players that have not played in sanctioned tournaments

• US Table Tennis Association Competition

Saturday-Monday, December 27–29, 2008

• Over 20 Events from Beginning Level to Olympic Level competing for prize money and trophies

Players invited to the Holiday Open and Spinvitational are:

* Chen Qi

Chen Qi (table tennis player)

Chen Qi is a male Chinese table tennis player.He won the gold medal in men's doubles at the 2004 Summer Olympics with Ma Lin, and is the youngest male ever to hold this title at age 20. A native of China, Chen Qi began to receive training in Nantong Spare-time Sports School in 1990. He became a...

, China / Olympic Gold Medalist and World Champion
* Wang Liqin

Wang Liqin

Wang Liqin is a Chinese table tennis player. As of October, 2011, he is ranked 8th in the International Table Tennis Federation . He began playing at the age of 6 and was picked for the Chinese men's national squad in 1993 when he was only 15 years old. Wang is the last man since Jiang Jialiang to...

, China / World Champion, Olympian
* Kalinikos Kreanga

Kalinikos Kreanga

Kalinikos Kreanga is a Greek table tennis player. Born as Călin Creangă, he chose to defect from Communist-ruled Romania at the age of 17 while he was participating in the European Table Tennis Youth Championships in Luxembourg in 1989.Born in Bistriţa, Romania, Kreanga started to play table...

, Greece / 3 Time Olympian, 3 Time Pro-Tour Champion
* Andrei Filimon, Romania / Pro-Tour Champion
* Ilija Lupulesku

Ilija Lupulesku

Ilija Lupulesku is a former Yugoslav and now Serbian table tennis player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics, in the 1992 Summer Olympics, in the 1996 Summer Olympics, in the 2000 Summer Olympics, and in the 2004 Summer Olympics. He compeeted for USA from 2004 to 2006 including 2004 Summer...

, United States / 5 Time Olympian, Olympic Silver Medalist
* Sharath Kamal

Sharath Kamal

Achanta Sharath Kamal is a professional table tennis player from Tamil Nadu India. His mother tongue is Telugu. He won the men's singles gold in the 16th Commonwealth table tennis championship held at Kuala Lumpur in 2004. He is a recipient of the Arjuna award for the year 2004. He lives in...

, India / Commonwealth Champion, Olympian
* Ma Lin

Ma Lin (table tennis)

Ma Lin is a male table tennis player. He is the world's number four ranked player as of June, 2011 in the International Table Tennis Federation ....

, China / World Champion, Olympian
* Michael Maze

Michael Maze

Michael Maze is a male table tennis player from Faxe, Denmark. He normally plays both in the men's singles and in men's doubles. As of 2005, he is one of the top five left-handed players in the world. His strength is in his strong forehand loop and lobbing. He is considered to be one of the best,...

, Denmark / European Junior Champion, Olympian
* Vladimir Samsonov

Vladimir Samsonov

Vladimir Samsonov is a Belarusian professional table tennis player, ranked ninth in the world as of October 2011...

, Belarus / 4 Time Olympian, 4 Time Pro-Tour Champion
* Biba Golic

Biba Golic

Biljana "Biba" Golić is a Serbian table tennis player. She is ranked relatively low in comparison to players who get similar amounts of media attention and is known for her beautiful looks.-Early career:Biba Golic began playing table tennis at age 9, becoming a member of the Serbian National...

, Serbia / Serbian National Champion
* Georgina Pota, Hungary / Hungarian Champion, Olympian
* Kang Kang Huang, Singapore / Singapore National Team Member

Killerspin is the official Table Tennis equipment partner of The HardBat Classic, which will take place from June 26–28, 2009 at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas, Nevada

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Killerspin Krew

Killerspin boasts an impressive team of endorsed players from across the globe. The ‘Killerspin Krew’ has dominated American table tennis, achieving numerous titles including winning every spot on the US Men’s Table Tennis Team. Current team members include:

• Biba Golic
  Biba Golic
  Biljana "Biba" Golić is a Serbian table tennis player. She is ranked relatively low in comparison to players who get similar amounts of media attention and is known for her beautiful looks.-Early career:Biba Golic began playing table tennis at age 9, becoming a member of the Serbian National...
  
  
• Aleksandar Karakasevic
  Aleksandar Karakasevic
  Aleksandar Karakašević is a Serbian table tennis player and has been claimed by many to be one of the most talented players in the world. His incredible feeling and powerful backhand has helped him win against some of the top players in the world. He won a bronze medal on 2011 European Championship...
  
  
• Chen Qi
  Chen Qi (table tennis player)
  Chen Qi is a male Chinese table tennis player.He won the gold medal in men's doubles at the 2004 Summer Olympics with Ma Lin, and is the youngest male ever to hold this title at age 20. A native of China, Chen Qi began to receive training in Nantong Spare-time Sports School in 1990. He became a...
  
  
• Sasa Drinic
• Ilija Lupulesku
  Ilija Lupulesku
  Ilija Lupulesku is a former Yugoslav and now Serbian table tennis player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics, in the 1992 Summer Olympics, in the 1996 Summer Olympics, in the 2000 Summer Olympics, and in the 2004 Summer Olympics. He compeeted for USA from 2004 to 2006 including 2004 Summer...
  
  
• Mark Hazinski
  Mark Hazinski
  Mark "Haz" Hazinski is an American professional table tennis player. He was born on in South Bend, Indiana and grew up in Mishawaka, Indiana. Hazinski started playing table tennis at the age of nine and is the youngest player to make the US Men's National Table Tennis Team at the age of 15...
  
  
• Andrei Filimon
• Eric Owens
  Eric Owens (table tennis player)
  Eric Owens is an American table tennis player. He began playing table tennis at the young age of 6 with this father, who he describes as a table tennis “fanatic”...
  
  
• Georgina Pota
• Adam Hugh
  Adam Hugh
  Adam Hugh is the number one table tennis player under sixteen in the United States and is most noted for his victory in the 2003 North American Cadet Championship, as well as the US National Cadet Championship....
  
  
• Elie
• Barney Reed

Affiliates

On October 13, 2008, The National Collegiate Table Tennis Association

National Collegiate Table Tennis Association

The National Collegiate Table Tennis Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting competitive table tennis at the collegiate level in the United States and Canada...

 announced its exclusive Table Tennis Equipment Partnership http://www.nctta.org/2008-09/KSPressRelease101908.htm with Killerspin for the duration of three years. Killerspin will provide balls and barriers to 17 NCTTA Divisions throughout the country. With this agreement Killerspin becomes the official equipment supplier for College Table Tennis.

Marketing

Killerspin's media initiatives have brought table tennis to the masses, with televised table tennis competitions that have been broadcast on Fox Sports Net and ESPN worldwide. Killerspin also produces both instructional and event-based table tennis DVDs for consumers.

Killerspin products have been featured in television programs including MTV's Real World

The Real World

The Real World is a reality television program on MTV originally produced by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray. First broadcast in 1992, the show, which was inspired by the 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family, is the longest-running program in MTV history and one of the...

, The Simple Life and HGTV’s Don’t Sweat It. Additionally, Killerspin gear and sponsored players were highlighted in the Hollywood feature film, Balls of Fury

Balls of Fury

Balls of Fury is a 2007 American sports comedy film starring Dan Fogler and Christopher Walken. It was directed by Ben Garant and was released on August 29, 2007.-Plot:...

, and the independent film Ping Pong Playa

Ping Pong Playa

Ping Pong Playa is a 2007 comedy film directed by Jessica Yu and written by Jessica Yu and Jimmy Tsai. The story centers on an Asian ping pong family with a buffoonish and irreverent son.-Plot:...

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External

• http://www.killerspin.com
• http://www.myspace.com/killerspin Killerspin Myspace page
• http://www.youtube.com/user/KillerspinKrew Killerspin YouTube Channel
• http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Chicago-IL/Killerspin/18617741839 Killerspin Facebook Fan page