26.04.2016
Launching the new Academy!
The course is set.
To keep up pays off! After years of legal dispute today the new Werner Schlager GmbH finally signed an agreement with the insolvency administrator. The first steps of restructuring are done, practice is going on and will be soon even better! The design of the homepage will change, too - but this will take some time. Yours, Werner Schlager
14.11.2015
A perfect sensation – the Werner Schlager Academy is officially honoured with the „Academy Status“ of the ITTF International Training Centre Network. Only the WSA is evaluated on the same level as Shanghai!
Read more … WSA is rewarded as ITTF Academy!
02.11.2015
Photo: WSA
Some of the players of the (inter-) national training group of the Werner Schlager Academy have made partly big steps forward in this month’s ITTF World Ranking.
Read more … WSA-Pros improved extremely
02.11.2015
Photo: Expert TT
The WSA Table Tennis School is an international table tennis school for hobby and club players who like to improve their playing skills in a high-standard training. Tom Lodziak, coach and player from Cambridge, UK, visited us in May and reported in an interview about this experience.
Read more … Review about the WSA Table Tennis School from UK
22.10.2015
Photo: ITTF
Last week, the Youth Top 10 took place in Romania. From the WSA, Marie Migot, since this year players for SVNÖ Ströck participated in the event and she returned home with a great success.
Read more … Great success for Marie Migot
12.10.2015
Photo: ITTF
Some of the players from the (inter-) national training-group of the Werner Schlager Academy made an enormous improve in the recent World Ranking.
Read more … Huge step from Lily Zhang
06.10.2015
Photo: Kleine Zeitung
The players of the (inter-)national training group of the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat celebrated big victories at the just finished European Championships.
Read more … WSA-Flood of medals in Jekaterinburg
14.09.2015
Photo: Scheiber
Since 2013 Christian Scheiber, born in Burgenland, practices at the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat. Already 3 times in the past he won the national championship in class 7. What an extraordinary success. Now he has a new goal in mind and therefore needs your support: the Paralympics 2020.
Read more … Support Christian Scheiber
09.09.2015
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All the persons responsible and especially the participants of the first European Women Table Tennis Seminar that took place from Monday to Wednesday in the premises of the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat summed up euphorically.
Read more … Women Coaches Seminar was a huge success
09.09.2015
Photo: ITTF
Lily Zhang, the latest gain of the international women-training-group of the Werner Schlager Academy and the new starlet of the WSA-partner-club SVNÖ Ströck will come to Schwechat these days with a lot of self-confidence. In Schwechat, Lily will have her permanent training-homebase in the future.
Read more … Double triumph for Lily Zhang
04.09.2015
Photo: WSA
On Monday September the 7th the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat experiences another highlight.
Besides the regular operation of the (inter-) national WSA-training-group, the world-table tennis training-center in the heart of Europe has special visitors.
Two hot-spots will take place at the same time, next door to each other in the premises of the WSA.
Read more … ITTF & ETTU hold a meeting at the WSA at the same time
25.08.2015
Photo: WSA
The situation was not that promising in the beginning. In the first round of the current Champions League season 2015/2016 our team, SVNÖ STRÖCK, could not deploy the new Japanese star player Sayaka Hirano (due to a shoulder injury). And the opponent, UCAM Cartagena, was a very hard one in the first match of group B.
Read more … SVNÖ STRÖCK - 3:0 victory over Cartagena
07.08.2015
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This August it’s getting hot in Schwechat- not only because of the record-breaking heat that is again forecasted for the next few days and weeks. In fact the air will heat up in the WSA when 90 players burn out themselves completely in their training session. Even though the hall was already fully booked the last weeks, the month of august will break all records.
Read more … August breaks all records
03.08.2015
Photo: Prause
Last weekend a very special encounter took place in chinese Zhangjiagang. The allstars from Europe under the guidance of Ex-WSA coach Richard Prause faced their counterparts from Asia. On the side of the European Team, 2 players were nominated who train and live in Schwechat since many years. These two players were in the end the ones who were crucial for the outcome of the Euro-Asia Allstars Challenge.
Read more … WSA-players at the Euro-Asia Allstars Challenge
23.06.2015
Photo: Zimbio
On the 12th of June 2015 a new major event in sports was brought to life- the first ever European Games started in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. This event is similar to the Olympic Games with the one distinction that only athletes from the National Olympic Committees of Europe were authorized to participate.
Read more … European Games in Baku
26.05.2015
Photo: Scheiber
On Saturday, May 23 2015 the seventh Salzburg Open took place on the Olympic Centre Rif/Hallein. All in all 24 players - invited by the Salzburg club for sports for the disabled – participated in the tournament. Christian Scheiber represented the Burgenland organisation for the sports for disabled for the second time at the Salzburg Open.
Read more … Fighting for the Salzburg Bull
06.05.2015
Tamolwan Khetkuen
Big improve by the WSA players in the World Rankings:
Many of the players of our international training group made a big step forward in the World Rankings that were published immediately after the World Championships.
Read more … New World Rankings
04.05.2015
Foto: WSA
Multiversum/WSA overrun by Table Tennis enthusiasts!
A deluge of excited Table tennis players found its way into the Multiversum Schwechat. Reason for that were the 2. Riha Open 2015, organized by the Werner Schlager Academy.
Read more … 2. Riha Open 2015
29.04.2015
Photo: Bartuschek
UThe World Championships in Suzhou goes on with big steps. The first surprising results have already overcome the table tennis world. Dimitrij Ovtcharov who was supposed to be one of the candidates for a medal was defeated in the second round of the tournament.
Read more … WSA at the World Championships in Suzhou - 3
29.04.2015
Lubomir Jancarik
The eagerly awaited main round of the table tennis World Championships in Suzhou started on April, 28 consistently positive for the WSA-players, as everyone mastered to trigger his or her best performance, thanks to the optimal preparation in the run-up to the event. Therefore most of the players managed to win their first-round games.
Read more … WSA AT THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN SUZHOU – 2
25.04.2015
Photo: WSA
Richard Prause, WSA Head Coach and prominent representative of the Werner Schlager Academy at the World Table Tennis Championships 2015 in Suzhou, has already flown to the Chinese metropolis on last Wednesday and was on site for the traditional Butterfly evening before the competition starts.
Read more … WSA at the World Championships in Suzhou – 1
13.04.2015
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Marcos Freitas, reigning European Team Champion and permanent member of the international WSA training group since 2 years, could consolidate his position among the top players in the world in the latest ITTF world ranking.
Read more … WSA Star Marcos Freitas reaches for the stars
30.03.2015
Photo: K. Bartuschek
The international table tennis’ highlight 2015 approaches rapidly: the World Table Tennis Championships in the Chinese city Suzhou (April, 26 – May, 3). Again and again the Chinese competitors will be the favourites for the titles and will be hunted by the rest of the world.
Read more … 24 WSA Players participate in the WC in China
24.03.2015
Photo: Guangzhou
The Werner Schlager Academy, founded in 2010 and now well established as a world class training centre in the heart of Europe, has now taken a further step forward in widening its range of item on an ever growing itinerary.
Read more … WSA proposes an agreement with Guangzhou
18.03.2015
Photo: DTTB
The „lost son“ returns home to Germany. For almost five years the former DTTB national team coach for the women’s and later for the men’s team has worked in Wien-Schwechat. As WSA Head Coach – together with Düsseldorf’s former Head Coach Dirk Wagner and coach legend Mario Amizic – he built up the world training centre “Werner Schlager Academy” (WSA).
Read more … Richard Prause returns home
05.03.2015
Photo: K. Bartuschek
Tetyana Bilenko (Ukraine), who has reached the ninth place at the World Championships 2013 in Paris and plays for the reigning Austrian Team Champion SVNÖ STRÖCK, could go upward by 26 places. Reaching the quarter finals at the Qatar Open she improved on rank 62.
Read more … WSA-Players (Women) on the rise!
05.03.2015
In the current world ranking published by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) the players of the Werner Schlager Academy (WSA) have sensationally climbed upwards.
Read more … WSA-Players (Men) on the top!
03.03.2015
Photo: ETTU
After the weekend of the National Championships the table tennis nations in Europe have found their new champions! Of course numerous WSA players who practice or even live at the Werner Schlager Academy participated at their respective National Championships. We publish here the list of „our“ victors:
Read more … After the National Championships
23.02.2015
Photo: ITTF
Yesterday the Qatar Open ended with the thrilling final between Dimitrij OVTCHAROV (GER) and Vladimir SAMSONOV (BLR). The past master Samsonov could beat Germany’s new number one in 5 games. Besides this result the Werner Schlager Academy is very proud of its athletes who have started for their nations at the Qatar Open!
Read more … Qatar Open - WSA is proud of its athletes!
03.12.2014
Photo: K. Bartuschek
Some spectacular visitors arrived at the Werner Schlager Academy for the Champions-League match SVNÖ Ströck against Szekszard AC.
Read more … Visit at the highest level
02.12.2014
Photo: K. Bartuschek
Finally they made it! With a brilliant performance the SVNÖ Ströck team won their first match in the current Champions League season.
Therefore they had to fight hard against the guests from Szekzard AC.
Read more … First victory for SVNÖ Ströck
04.11.2014
After the restructuring the SVNÖ Ströck team started with a rebuilt and rejuvenated team into the new season 2014/2015. The reigning Austrian champion has still two Champions League matches in this year and is willing to fight for the qualifications for either the Champions League semi-final or the ETTU-Cup which was won by the STRÖCK team in the last season.
Read more … SVNÖ Ladies on the rise
29.10.2014
On Tuesday evening the WSA employees were amazed at what they saw. Suddenly a tall and muscularly stood in the WSA table tennis shop “Go Sports” who just wanted to buy a blade and some table tennis rubbers. Nothing spectacular as one may say.
Read more … Suddenly Lennox Lewis appeared in the WSA!
29.10.2014
WSA’s partner club SVNÖ STRÖCK fought bravely in the first home match of the current European Champions League against the favourite team KTS Zamek Tarnobrzeg (Poland). After more than three hours they lost unfortunately with 2-3 points.
Read more … SVNÖ Ströck ladies fought bravely
27.10.2014
Ströck Team 13/14
Austria’s Champion in the women’s Bundesliga has won the ETTU Cup which is the first big title for the club in the last season. Therefore the team was nominated for the election “Sportsman of the Year 2014” of Lower Austria and could win a place among the Top 5 teams in Lower Austria
Read more … Likeable award for SVNÖ Ströck
21.10.2014
At the Men’s World Cup in Düsseldorf (24. – 26. Oct) the international training group of the Werner Schlager Academy (WSA) is represented by two famous players: Austria’s number one Robert Gardos and Portugal’s newly European Team Champion Marcos Freitas.
Read more … World Cup Fever in Düsseldorf and Linz
20.10.2014
WSA partner club SVNÖ STRÖCK is confronted with a big task – the home match premiere in the new Champions League season 2014/2015.
On Monday, Oct 27, 2014 (19.00 / 7 p.m.) the Austrian Champion and reigning ETTU-Cup Winner SVNÖ Ströck welcomes the Polish Champion KTS Zamek Tarnobrzeg.
Read more … CL-Highlight at WSA
16.10.2014
Neven Cegnar, who has been Croatian national team coach for 23 years and mainly responsible for the success story of the former world no. 2 and bronze medallist Tamara Boros, will reinforce the WSA coach team in July 2015.
Read more … New Coach for WSA: Neven Cegnar
14.10.2014
In the last week the ITTF hosted a ITTF Competition Manager seminar from 6th to 8th October at WSA in Schwechat. Prospective Competition Managers from all world participated in the 3-day event.
Read more … ITTF hosts seminar at WSA
06.10.2014
A great victory has been achieved by a young player, who has recently joined the international WSA training group in summer 2014.
Lea Rakovac, 17-year-old Croatian who plays in the season 2014/2015 for the Austrian national champion SVNÖ STRÖCK, won the European Top 10 tournament.
Read more … Awesome Triumph for SVNÖ STRÖCK Stars
29.09.2014
Pic: ITTF
The athletes of the Werner Schlager Academy were able to celebrate great successes at the European Table Tennis Team Championships in Lisbon, Portugal.
Read more … Two Schwechat-based won EC-gold
19.09.2014
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Andreas Levenko is making headlines in Varaždin (Croatia). The rookie from the Werner Schlager Academy was in a dramatic final able to decide the Croatia Junior Open for himself, and win the first major title in his career.
Read more … Andre Levenko wins the Croatia Open!
18.09.2014
Pic: ITTF
5 female and 5 male players - this is the contingent's limit for every nation at the Table Tennis European Team Championships (24th - 28th September 2014) in Lisbon. Consequently the Werner Schlager Academy (WSA) located in Schwechat / Austria will have the biggest team in the competition.
Read more … 22 WSA stars at European Team Championships in Lisbon in action
01.09.2014
Photo: ITTF
The new season 2014/2015 begins for Marcos Freitas exactly like the last season has ended: with a huge success! The 26-year old Portuguese won the Czech Open in Olomouc and was able to celebrate several premieres.
Read more … Marcos Freitas wins Czech Open 2014!
26.08.2014
Werner Schlager Academy is very proud of “WSA-Baby” Tamolwan Khetkuen who has participated in the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China from 16th till 28th August. Tamolwan – nickname “Mo” – has practiced at Werner Schlager Academy continuously since 2010 and had no problems to qualify for the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing.
Read more … Bravo Mo!
15.08.2014
Werner Schlager Academy participates with a real strong „team“ in the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing (China). Six players who practice regularly at WSA will fight from August 17th till August 28th 2014 for the desirable Olympic medals in the Chinese metropolis.
Read more … WSA goes Olympia
06.08.2014
Foto: Danny Reed
It is one of the biggest events for the countries that has belonged and still belong to the British Commonwealth: The Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow. All in all 17 sports participate in this fantastic event and our WSA-player Danny Reed could achieve two medals in table tennis.
The likeable right hander, who has practiced regularly at WSA since one year, has won two medals for England, one in the mixed and one in the team competition.
Read more … Successful Commonwealth Games 2014 for Danny Reed
02.08.2014
Werner Schlager Academy (WSA) in Schwechat has started a spectacular collaboration with the Chinese metropolis Chengdu-Xindu this week. The cooperation started with a one-week training camp from a group of young Chinese players. Coach of the group was the well-known Olympic champion in 1988, Chen Longcan.
Read more … WSA starts a spectacular collaboration with Chengdu
18.06.2014
"It's so wonderful," was the statement of the visibly relieved players from Qatar after landing at Vienna's Schwechat airport. At a temperature difference of about 20°C this is well comprehensibly. The table tennis team of the "ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence" will be a guest at the Werner Schlager Academy.
Read more … From the heat of Qatar
06.06.2014
Foto: K.Bartuschek
Great day for WSA partners club SVS STRÖCK. The team secured in a duel with the freshly baked French champions Lille Pongiste the victory in the ETTU Cup and gained the first major international title in the first four years of club history.
Read more … TRIUMPH FOR SVS STRÖCK
26.05.2014
In less than a year after the start of the Werner Schlager Academy on July 26, 2013 in the world's largest social network, today a new "milestone" of "Likes" is scored.
Read more … 4000 cracked!
23.05.2014
You realize Summer Youth Olympic Games 2014 (August 17 to 28) of Nanjing ( China) coming closer and closer, not least at the well known names of the training guests at the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat.
Read more … ITTF Course: Nanjing approaching
12.05.2014
A few days before the first ETTU Cup final against Lille the SVS Ströck girls presented themselves in top form despite the stresses and strains at the World Team Championships in Tokyo (Japan) and secured the title in the easyTherm table tennis national league.
Read more … SVS Ströck is Austrian Champion
09.05.2014
Last weekend the 10th Club WSA tournament took place at the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat. To celebrate this anniversary, the tournament was held under the motto "Barrel Tournament". Besides
Read more … This was the "Barrel Tournament"
08.05.2014
There was good news for some players of the Werner Schlager Academy after their success at the World Team Championships in Tokyo (Japan). The latest Men and Women ITTF World ranking is published yet.
Read more … WSA-players on the rise
06.05.2014
China's table tennis aces (again) left their mark at the World Team Championships in Tokyo: first the Chinese men could beat Germany 3-1 in the final and then the women from the Middle Kingdom completed the double gold.
But also the Werner Schlager Academy is one of the big winners of the Championships in Japan.
Read more … Big success for WSA in Tokyo
25.04.2014
One of the absolute highlights from the perspective of (still) - celluloid aces (note: as of summer 2014 change to plastic balls) are undoubtedly the Table Tennis World Team Championships, starting 28 April 2014 in the Japanese capital.
Read more … Next stop: Tokyo
16.04.2014
The charismatic superstar is together with the Danish national team at the Werner Schlager Academy in preparation for the World Team Championships in Japan. He also took some time for an interview.
Read more … aMAZEing times at the WSA
09.04.2014
After a thrilling match and tears of happiness it was certainty. WSA player Andreas Levenko has just qualified for the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing (China) from 16th - 28th of August 2014. The 15 year-old Austrian fought hard for the biggest win in his young career.
Read more … See you in Nanjing Andre!
04.04.2014
Stefan Fegerl
The new world rankings published by the International Table Tennis Federation once again proof the top form of the players of the Werner Schlager Academy. 12 athletes (men and women) of the WSA are ranked within the top 100.
Read more … ITTF world rankings for April 2014
27.03.2014
Tetyana Bilenko
The ETTU-Cup semifinal between SVS Ströck and LZ Linz was awaited with great anticipation. Our team showed a great performance with a 3:0 success. However, some little flaws were used by the players from Linz very well.
Read more … SVS Ströck dominates Linz!
24.03.2014
Neven Cegnar - Croatian national team coach for 22 years, won 32 medals at European Championships and World Championships and was coach of one of the best European players ever, the former no. 2 in the world, Tamara Boroš.
Read more … Interview Neven Cegnar
18.03.2014
As of now Werner Schlager Academy can be found not only on Facebook but also is represented in another big social network: Google+
Read more … WSA on Google+
14.03.2014
Li Fen & Dimitrij Ovtcharov
With WSA key players such as Marcos Freitas , Robert Gardos , Alexander Shibaev , Chen Weixing, João Monteiro , Daniel Habesohn and many more , the term " world-class table tennis " was already commonplace in Schwechat.
Read more … European champions amongst themselves
03.03.2014
Foto: WSA
WSA Table Tennis School: Service and Return course with Werner Schlager! Get tips for the two most important strokes in table tennis from the World Champion.
Read more … Learn from the World Champion!
17.02.2014
Foto: ITTF
Stefan Fegerl, WSA key player of the first hour, followed up on the impressive winning streak of his training partners and won the doubles title of the ITTF World Tour Kuwait Open alongside the Chinese Lin Gaoyuan.
Read more … Fegerl cleaned up in Kuwait
10.02.2014
Photo: by courtesy of ITTF
After victories over WSA colleague Alexander Shibaev and France hope Adrien Mattenet, Freitas completed the perfect week with the title win in Lausanne.
Read more … Freitas wins DHS Europe Cup
30.01.2014
With a perfect total score of 6:0 against Dr. Casl Zagreb WSA partner club SVS STRÖCK has reached the semifinals in Women’s ETTU Cup.
Read more … Semifinal cracker
28.01.2014
The ÖTTV Junior Super League is an Austria-wide 4-tournament series (two tournaments per half year) for junior players, played in several groups.
Read more … WSA rocks Super League
24.01.2014
Both the all-important second leg between SVS Ströck and STK Dr. Časl Zagreb in the ETTU Cup quarter-finals, as well as the showdown between SVS Niederösterreich and Vaillante Angers TT to the semi-finals of the ETTU Champions League will be shown live on Sunday and Monday live on Laola1.tv.
Read more … SVS home matches on Laola1.tv
09.01.2014
94 Players - 187 Registrations - 8 Competitions - 7 Nations
These are the numbers that prove that the Niederösterreich Open 2014, which took place at WSA on Sunday, 5th January 2014, were very successful.
Read more … Successful NÖ Open '14
08.01.2014
Considering his age, some players at the various ITTF tournaments could be his grandsons, but the Spanish old pro himself can’t be left on the shelf.
Read more … Visit of ‚Juanito‘
10.12.2013
WSA partner club SVS STRÖCK has won the 5th CL-round match against Metz TT 3-1 and remains in the running for a place in the Champions League semifinal.
Read more … "Final" in Berlin
06.12.2013
It reads like a unique success story. In the summer of 2010, the Women's Table Tennis Club SVS STRÖCK was founded parallel to the imminent opening of the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat.
Read more … The 100th match of SVS STRÖCK
05.12.2013
National and international players in the WSA training group made great leaps forward in the newly published world rankings of the ITTF.
Read more … WSA players on the rise
27.11.2013
The Werner Schlager Academy is well-known for offering perfect training conditions to players of all levels from every continent and every region around the world.
Read more … Austria? No, Australia!
06.11.2013
Latest rankings of the world federation ITTF are showing due to the European Championships at the Werner Schlager Academy and the Men's World Cup numerous major changes.
Read more … Giant leap of Li Fen
24.10.2013
Watching athletes from over 20 nations playing on 29 tables, the phrase "after the EC is before the EC" probably is no exaggeration.
Read more … 20 at one stroke
21.10.2013
No time to rest for the team of SVS STRÖCK. The European Championships at Werner Schlager Academy were followed by an impressive 3:0 (9:0 set ratio) in the Champions League group stage (Group A) against the French top club Metz TT on Friday.
Read more … Day of revenge
03.10.2013
The ( European ) Table Tennis is focused to Schwechat near Vienna.
More specifically, to the Werner Schlager Academy, when dated 4 - 13 October 2013 the largest table tennis training center in Europe will be the stage for the stars of the continent.
Read more … WE ARE EUROPE . . .
23.09.2013
16 players have been nominated by the ÖTTV for the LIEBHERR Table Tennis European Championships (4 - 13 October) at the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat.
Read more … 28 WSA aces at the home EC
26.08.2013
At the Czech Open in Olomouc – a World Tour tournament – the European Doubles Champions Daniel Habesohn / Robert Gardos presented themselves in a very good shape six weeks before the LIEBHERR European Championships at the Werner Schlager Academy (4 – 13 October 2013).
Read more … Successful last test before EC
02.08.2013
Yet exactly two months - then they will start. The LIEBHERR Table Tennis Championships at the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat Multiversum (October 4 to 13) cast their shadow.
Read more … Another two months. . .
29.07.2013
Great news for the Werner Schlager Academy (WSA) in Schwechat. Two and a half years after the official opening of the World Table Tennis Training Center of World and European Champion Werner Schlager, THE accolade was carried out by the World Table Tennis ITTF (which is with 218 member countries the second largest sports federation in the world).
Read more … THE accolade for the Werner Schlager Academy
17.06.2013
60 children from 35 countries, the entire squad of the coaches of the Werner Schlager Academy with Mario Amizic, Richard Prause, Dirk Wagner, Tamara Boros, Aya Umemura, Dmitry Levenko, Mathias Habesohn and Provas Mondal.
Read more … Emotions and honored guests
07.06.2013
For the second time after 2011, the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat organizes in collaboration with the ITTF and the Butterfly the "World Hopes-Week".
9 - 16 June, the WSA (and thus Schwechat) turns into a madhouse.
Read more … Children in power
16.05.2013
As part of the LIEBHERR World Table Tennis Championships in Paris-Bercy (all results and detailed reports can be found at www.ittf.com) the Canadians Adham Sharara was elected for another four years as President of the ITTF,..
Read more … Adham Sharara re-elected
06.05.2013
Friday night China's table tennis team arrived in Vienna-Schwechat for the direct preparation for the Individual World Championships in Paris-Bercy (from 13 May).
Read more … The guests from "Hollywood"
25.04.2013
Austria's women table tennis champion SVS STRÖCK, who failed in the 2012/2013 season with an incredible bad luck and due to injury series in the semifinals of the European Champions League on the later winner Linz Froschberg , has begun the rebuilding of the team for the upcoming season.
Read more … Petra Lovas - new signing for SVS STRÖCK
22.04.2013
From 13 – 20 May the (table tennis) world is looking to Paris-Bercy. Ten years after the legendary World Championships singles gold by Werner Schlager the World Table Tennis Championships take place again at the same location.
Read more … 17 WSA-players at the World Championships
12.04.2013
For the third consecutive year after 2011 (before the World Championships in Rotterdam) and 2012 (before the World Team Championships in Dortmund) China's table tennis national team comes for World Cup preparations into the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat.
Read more … 13 World and Olympic champions from China at the WSA
05.04.2013
The players in the (inter) national training group of the Werner Schlager Academy significantly have improved in the recent ITTF World Ranking.
Read more … WSA players on the way up
03.04.2013
Copyright: ÖTTV
During a press conference at the Vienna Marriott Hotel, the representatives of the European Table Tennis Union (represented by ETTU President Stefano Bosi), the Austrian Association (with President Dr. Gottfried Forsthuber) and the Werner Schlager Academy (CEO Martin Sörös) signed a cooperation agreement for the Table Tennis Championships (4 to 13 October 2013).
Read more … EC Contract signed
29.03.2013
SVS STRÖCK star Daniela Dodean returns exactly four months after her serious knee surgery on 5 December 2012 to competitive table tennis sports.
Read more … Comeback of Daniela Dodean
15.03.2013
Two players of the Werner Schlager Academy have been nominated by the European Association ETTU for the comparison fight "Euro-Asia" on 16 / 17 March in Qingdao: Marcos Freitas (Portugal) and Chen Weixing (Austria).
Read more … WSA-Stars in the Euro-selection
01.03.2013
Good news from the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat: Double European Champion Daniela Dodean, since the summer of 2010 at home in Schwechat and star player of WSA Partners Club SVS STRÖCK has, Friday for the first time after her severe knee surgery, contested table tennis training.
Read more … SVS STRÖCK Star Daniela Dodean has restarted training
28.02.2013
Some great improvements for the players of the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat brought the newly published March World Ranking list of the ITTF.
Read more … Fegerl first time Top 100
10.02.2013
The chance for SVS STRÖCK to continue the unbraked skyrocketing of the last two and half years was not given already before the Champions League semifinal against Linz AG Froschberg.
Read more … Bravo SVS STRÖCK
28.01.2013
Ten years after the historic World Champion title of Werner Schlager the Table Tennis World Championships in a few weeks (13 - 20 May) return to Paris-Bercy. To that legendary site where the Austrian table tennis star became a globally recognized icon.
Read more … Record World Championships at Paris
21.01.2013
Foto K. Bartuschek
At the Austrian Open, which take place this year (starting on Wednesday) in Wels, the WSA again is represented with a large contingent:
Read more … Large WSA contingent in Wels
13.12.2012
Photo K. Bartuschek
The 1st spring round robin of the Austrian Women's National League will take place - as the ÖTTV has now decided - on 12 / 13 January at the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat.
Read more … Women's National League in the WSA
10.12.2012
WSA Partners Club SVS STRÖCK sovereignly secured the winter crown in women's national league and after half of the championship's almost reached the first major season goal (reaching the final tournament for the TOP 4 of the Austrian Championship title).
Read more … SVS STRÖCK superior autumn champion
26.11.2012
Once again, high attendance in the Werner Schlager Academy. The stars of the Russian elite team UMMC Verkhnaya Pyshma have pitched their tents in Schwechat.
Read more … Russian top stars at the WSA
12.11.2012
Daniela Dodean, player of the Champions League finalist SVS STRÖCK, could qualify at the tournament of the last chance, the Polish Open in Poznan with her Romanian double partner Elisabetha Samara for the World Tour finals in Hangzhou, China (6 – 9 December).
Read more … Great success for Daniela Dodean
09.11.2012
Nice image promotion for the double European champion Daniel Habesohn: The SVS Niederösterreich player who has improved exorbitantly since the foundation of the Werner Schlager Academy, reached in the choice to Lower Austria's athletes of the year 2012 the excellent second position.
Read more … Prestigious award for Daniel Habesohn
05.11.2012
She was almost like a child in the first hour at the WSA in 2009, as part of our "WSA on tour". The head coach of the Werner Schlager Academy quickly recognized in the then 12-year-old Thai woman Tamolwan Khetkuen an exceptional talent.
Read more … Mo - a young lady on the rise
17.10.2012
Wednesday and Thursday at the European Table Tennis Championships in Herning, Denmark the players from the second row are in the center.
Read more … Reaching for WSA-medals
15.10.2012
On 11 January 2011, the Werner Schlager Academy (WSA) was officially opened in Schwechat. As early as the late autumn of 2010, the Werner Schlager team was hard at work with the center’s activities. A new world-class Table Tennis Training Center in the heart of Europe had arrived. After two years, we look back with great pride on a sensational development.
Read more … 2 Years WSA
01.10.2012
Since the opening of the Werner Schlager Academy, the largest table tennis training center in Europe has provided a promising youth project with the International Table Tennis Federation.
Read more … ITTF Youth Project
11.09.2012
Photo K. Bartuschek
Austria's women table tennis champion SVS STRÖCK opens the new CL-season with a 3-1 win
Read more … 3-1 win for start
24.08.2012
Since the founding of SVS STRÖCK in autumn 2010, everything is different in the Austrian and European women’s table tennis.
Read more … Onto the new season
20.07.2012
Today we finally met her. Nea Nika, the new little sunshine in Werner's and Bettina's life.
Read more … Nea Nika
18.07.2012
Good performances were shown by the boy’s junior teams in the team competitions of the STRÖCK Europan Youth Championships in the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat.
Read more … Strong ÖTTV Teams
13.07.2012
Austria's women table tennis champion SVS STRÖCK has been designated as the number two seeded in the Champions League season 2012/2013.
Read more … SVS STRÖCK set as No. 2
12.07.2012
Wednesday and Thursday were the scheduled days of arrival. Russia (with a 33 person delegation) as the first nation arrived in Schwechat, followed by the players from Sweden, Germany, Netherlands and France.
Read more … Here we go . . .
10.07.2012
Europe's youth table tennis is a guest in Schwechat. The European Junior Championships - the annual highlight for the best young players on the continent are here at the WSA.
Read more … The youth reports
10.07.2012
Foto K. Bartuschek
Friday the 13th is coming up, but do not worry. There is no calamity approaching. Quite the contrary: The STRÖCK Youth Championship is coming up.
Read more … Europe, Welcome
06.07.2012
Photo K. Bartuschek
World and European champions; everywhere you looked, they were there.
From Jorgen Persson to Zoran Primorac, Vladimir Samsonov to Werner Schlager, Adrien Mattenet, Bojan Tokic and Michael Maze to the Russian national team, the WSA was packed with the legends and the greats of the sport.
Read more … It was the week of the Euro-Stars
02.07.2012
Once again, the spacious training hall of the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat is just too small. Since Sunday, the top European stars are in the Academy to prepare for the Summer Olympic Games in London.
Read more … Europe's superstars in the WSA
21.06.2012
Austria's women table tennis champion SVS STRÖCK succeeded in the transfer market with a considerable coup.
There will be an immediate effect on the finalists of the European Champions League with the addition of 15-year-old Tamolwan Khetkuen.
Read more … An exceptional talent strengthens SVS STRÖCK
18.06.2012
Other highly acclaimed celebrity guests will be part of the European Olympic training course at the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat from the 1st to 7th July.
Read more … The Swedes bomb into the WSA
29.05.2012
The 2011/2012 season for WSA-partner association SVS Ströck is now history. As was true in the previous year, this second year from the founding of the club, the team won the Austrian Championships (after a final round victory over Linz Froschberg.)
Read more … Restarting SVS Ströck
18.05.2012
Very much is on the line Monday, 21 May for the Austria women's table tennis champion SVS STRÖCK. Very much, indeed.
Read more … The Inexplicable
18.05.2012
Foto K. Bartuschek
This was the last major motivation before the assured Champion League's thriller on Monday against TTC Berlin Eastside (19.30 clock, Werner Schlager Academy / Mulversum Schwechat).
Read more … SVS STRÖCK is back as State Champion
16.05.2012
Austria's women table tennis champion is at the final leg of the European Champions League on Monday, 21 May (19.30 clock, Werner Schlager Academy / Multiversum in Schwechat) and is going to receive a very different kind of cooperation.
Read more … Friedhofstribüne rocks SVS STRÖCK
14.05.2012
Andreas Levenko, on board since the opening of the Werner Schlager Academy with his father, Dmitri (who works as a trainer here in Schwechat), one week after winning the Austrian Student Championships put a proper explanation point at the international level.
Read more … A Very Big Little Man
10.05.2012
Photo K. Bartuschek
For the ladies, on Monday, 21 May at 19:30 in the Werner Schlager Academy (Multiversum in Schwechat) the title for the European Champions League will be decided.
Europe's best women's table tennis club teams will face each other in the second and decisive final leg.
Read more … Fans coming from 16 countries
07.05.2012
The competition between WSA-partner club SVS STRÖCK against TTC Berlin eastside in the final match-up in the European Champions League resulted in the closest of competition, with Berlin on top as thinly as can be imagined (2:3 in matches; 8:9 in games; 158:158 in points).
Read more … This is extremely exciting. . .
02.05.2012
At full strength, with Fan Ying (China), Austrian national champion Li Qiangbing, and Romanian champion and multiple European Championships medalist Daniela Dodean on staff for Austrian’s SVS STRÖCK, the team prepares for duty on Thursday at noon for the first leg of the finals of the European Champions League.
Read more … Finale, Part I
24.04.2012
The players of the national WSA training group put their stamp on proceedings in the Austrian Youth Championships in Herzogenburg, as expected.
Read more … Triumph of WSA youth
16.04.2012
And so for now, until the 2016 Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, as part of the meetings at the World Team Championships in Dortmund, the cooperation and collaboration between the Werner Schlager Academy and its premium partner Butterfly have increased and been extended for another four years.
Read more … The Shared Path Continues
03.04.2012
A collaborative agreement among Shanghai University, the Chinese Table Tennis Association, the Werner Schlager Academy (WSA) and the ÖTTV has been secured to help create the future in table tennis.
Read more … A High-level Meeting
02.04.2012
Austria's teams left an extremely strong impression in Dortmund at the LIEBHERR World Team Table Tennis Championships.
Read more … Strong ÖTTV Teams
27.03.2012
On the occasion of the Table Tennis World Team Championships in Dortmund, the leading officials of the European Association ETTU with President Stefano Bosi and CFO Gonderdinger and the Austrian OC-Chiefs of the Youth Championships in the Werner Schlager Academy and the Multiversum Schwechat Rudolf Sporrer (ÖTTV) and Martin Sörös (WSA) signed the cooperation agreements.
Read more … EM-contract signed
08.03.2012
Until the upcoming World Championships in Germany, up to 100 players from 22 nations are preparing for the competition at the Werner Schlager Academy.
Read more … WSA rocks Dortmund
06.03.2012
Only 19 days remain until the start of the World Team Championships in Dortmund, Germany. And in these 19 days, the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat will be bursting at the seams!
Read more … Rush of the stars on the WSA
05.03.2012
The dates for the finals in the women’s table tennis Champions League between SVS STRÖCK and the German star squad TTC eastside Berlin are fixed now.
Read more … CL Final on 21 May
02.03.2012
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Foto ITTF/Petter Koubek
Thailand's Tamolwan Khetkuen caught the eye of the Werner Schlager Academy in her first visit in 2009. As part of the WSA-on-week-tour in Lake Faak, Werner Schlager and the WSA trainers had no difficultly seeing the great talent hidden behind this young Thai woman.
Read more … In Ten Months From 593 to 324
01.03.2012
Photo K. Bartuschek
Austria's women's table tennis champions SVS STRÖCK, about a week ago, came up big in a thriller against Linz AG Froschberg and advanced to the finals of the European Champions League. At the contest in May (exact match dates not yet fixed) against the Star Ensemble TTC eastside Berlin, they will take the chance to create even more opportunity for offspring.
Read more … Give Youth a Chance
27.02.2012
WSA-partner association STRÖCK SVS has realized its dream by reaching the final. In an incredible Champions League semi-final thriller against Linz AG Froschberg in Schwechat the arch rival was defeated 3-2.
Read more … FINAL!
22.02.2012
Ticket sales for the unique Champions League double event on Friday, 24 February, in the Multiversum event hall of the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat are outstanding.
Read more … ORF and Laola1tv covers CL-double
21.02.2012
The international networking of the Werner Schlager Academy extends to wider and wider circles around the world. In February alone, representatives from 21 nations were guests at the WSA in Schwechat.
Read more … Prause in Macao, Wagner coaches SVS
17.02.2012
In 2011, to prepare for the World Championships in Rotterdam, China's National table tennis team trained at the Werner Schlager Academy. As they were very impressed by the experience, they are returning to the WSA to get ready for the 2012 World Team Championships in Dortmund (25th March to 1st April).
Read more … The Parade of International Stars
07.02.2012
Since preparing at the Werner Schlager Academy for the Individual World Championships in Rotterdam in May, 2011, the Chinese National Team has done well.
Impressively, they captured all the titles and dominated at the Worlds.
Read more … China's stars back in the WSA
06.02.2012
The first full year of operations at the Werner Schlager Academy has now been completed. We can now, through the recently released new ITTF World Rankings, more readily understand the impact the Academy has had on the sport.
Read more … The WSA Missiles
26.01.2012
Foto: Kurt Bartuschek
On the occasion of the Chinese New Year the Werner Schlager Academy and the Austrian Chinese Business Association (ACBA) organized a nice social evening in the WSA.
Read more … A pleasant evening in the WSA
25.01.2012
In the foyer of the Multiversum in Schwechat (Möhringgasse 2 – 4), tickets for the most spectacular Champions League double event on Friday, February 24th are available.
Read more … The sale has begun
24.01.2012
23 January 2012 - Welcome to the New Year. Welcome to the year of the dragon.
On the occasion of Chinese New Year, the Werner Schlager Academy organizes, in cooperation with the Austrian Chinese Business Association, a nice get-together with partners, friends and networkers from and for China.
Read more … Welcome to the New Year
16.01.2012
With the opening tournament on 16 January 2011 the amateur sports project of the Club WSA started. At this tournament 120 players from several provinces and foreign countries were represented. Was it at the beginning, of course, pure curiosity, which drove many players in the WSA, this branch has now become a fixed part of the overall construct WSA.
Read more … One year amateur sports in the WSA
15.01.2012
This was as exciting as it gets! More than three hours of table tennis at the highest level resulted in a 3:2 team victory for the Austrian women's table tennis champion SVS STRÖCK in the first Champions League semi-final match with archrival Linz AG Froschberg.
Read more … SVS STRÖCK reaches for the final ticket
11.01.2012
On 11 January 2011, the Werner Schlager Academy was officially opened in Schwechat: A World Table Tennis Training Center in the heart of Europe. After a year, we proudly look back at the Academy's sensational development from our point of view..
Read more … Year One of the Werner Schlager Academy
09.01.2012
Austria's best junior players, all members of the international training group at the Werner Schlager Academy, all made giant leaps forward in the ITTF January Under-18 World Ranking list.
Read more … Giant leap of the WSA young aces
05.01.2012
The Austrian Association has released its latest national rankings. The players of the WSA partner clubs SVS Niederösterreich (men) and SVS STRÖCK (Women) indicating clearly the tone.
Read more … SVS-Stars dominate the rankings
04.01.2012
A special treat is in store for the table tennis fans on Friday, 24th February in the Werner Schlager Academy in the Multiversum – Schwechat with the great opportunity of a Champions League double header.
Read more … The big night of Champions
02.01.2012
There is expected high attendance at the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat in early January. The Fakel Gazprom Orenburg star ensemble from Russia and, without a doubt, in this season a first rate candidate for the Men's European Champions League are coming to the WSA in Schwechat to prepare for the League's quarter-final match in Pontoise (France) on January 13th.
Read more … Samsonov and Ovtcharov in the WSA
18.12.2011
The WSA-ladies partner club SVS STRÖCK is already in the semifinals of the European Champions League; now the second WSA partner team, the SVS Niederösterreich men's team has made an important step in this direction.
Read more … SVS Men's Team Group Winners in the ECL
13.12.2011
WSA-partner association STRÖCK SVS has passed another sporting milestone. In its first year of participation in the European Champions League, Austria's women's champion team won the preliminary round Group A competition, thus reaching the League's semi-finals.
Read more … Four Matches; Four Wins
06.12.2011
The WSA-partner club remains on the road to victory in the Women's European Champions League with a three-set win in the Group A preliminary round.
Read more … From victory to victory
05.12.2011
Daniela Dodean, continuously training at the Werner Schlager Academy from the beginning and star player for the partner affiliated SVS STRÖCK team has qualified directly to the European top 12 (February 4- 5 2012 in Lyon) via the December ITTF world rankings.
Read more … Daniela Dodean Qualifies for the Top-12
01.12.2011
Ma Long and Ding Ning (both China) lead the ITTF World Rankings in December.
For Austria and the training community at the Werner Schlager Academy this month also provided encouraging news of the upper movement of team members Stefan Leitgeb and Simon Pfeffer.
Read more … WSA youngsters on the way to the top
30.11.2011
The group matches in the cross-border Super League are completed and both WSA-partner clubs have - as expected – fixed the win in their preliminary round groups.
Read more … WSA partner clubs group winners
16.11.2011
The WSA-partner association SVS STRÖCK seeks to deny Breclav (Czech Republic) on Breclav's home court on Friday (18:00) in the second group match (Group A) in the European Champions League.
Read more … A Great Day for a Talent
14.11.2011
On Friday, 18 November, WSA partner club SVS STRÖCK strives for success in Breclav (Czech Republic) in their second match in the Champions League preliminary round in Group A. In their first encounter against Breclav, the Austrian ladies champion won 3 – 0.
Read more … Top Ladies Visit the WSA
11.11.2011
Austria's men's national team (Werner Schlager, Robert Gardos and Chen Weixing) has improved one position in the ITTF JOOLA Team world rankings, moving from sixth to fifth place.
Read more … Austria overtakes Hong Kong - No. 5
02.11.2011
The players of the (inter-)national WSA training group have achieved some outstanding leaps upward in the latest ITTF world rankings.
Read more … WSA players on the rise
17.10.2011
The European Table Tennis Championships in Gdansk are now history. For the WSA (with many happy partnership discussions with equipment vendors and numerous responsible ETTU associations), these championships were a sporting success.
Read more … See you in Schwechat
10.10.2011
Excellent results were attained by the international training group from the Werner Schlager Academy so far in the Team Event of the 2011 European Championships in Gdansk.
Read more … WSA players on a long journey
04.10.2011
What an impressive debut in the Champions League by Austria's Women's Champion SVS Ströck !
Read more … What a debut
30.09.2011
On Monday at 19:30 in the WSA Hall, Austrias' highly acclaimed table tennis champion team SVS STRÖCK makes its debut in the European Champions League against the strong Czech team Gumotex Breclav in Group A action.
Read more … The Future Has Begun
26.09.2011
The Chinese Ma Long and Ding Ning are the Austrian Open Champions, an event held at the Werner Schlager Academy in the Multiversum in Schwechat.
Read more … Worldwide Coverage
25.09.2011
There was a particular high tension that was created in the World number one arithmetic prior to the first rally in the men's singles final at the Austrian Open in Schwechat.
The winner in China's internal battle between Ma Long and Zhang Jike would decide who the new World number one would be in the October ITTF rankings.
Read more … Ma Long after winning the Austrian Open is new No.1
23.09.2011
Being in amazing shape, the players from the international WSA-training group presented very well in the qualifying rounds of the Austrian Open at the WSA in Schwechat.
Read more … WSA Players on a Long Journey
21.09.2011
Fortune did not favor local hero Werner Schlager in the draw of the Austrian Open (21 – 25 September. For the tournament in the homeland of the 2003 World Champion in the Werner Schlager Academy located in the Multiversum in Schwechat was randomly assigned as the number 17 seed to play a qualifier in the first round. However, in the next round he plays no less than the reigning World Champion Zhang Jike.
Read more … Fortuna does not wobble
20.09.2011
The international table tennis stars have arrived; the preparatory work in the Werner Schlager Academy and the Multiversum in Schwechat is nearly complete. It is done for the best table tennis players in the world!
Read more … The Young Guns on the Bench
19.09.2011
The shuttle drivers are very busy; the hotels are checking in the customers diligently. Table tennis players from 49 countries are approaching Schwechat, from 21 – 25 September, to attend the ITTF Pro Tour tournament at the Werner Schlager Academy in the Multiversum.
Read more … The Stars are There – It Gets Hot
18.09.2011
So now it's official. China's table tennis magician are sending their very best of the best onto the ITTF Pro Tour tournament (21 – 25 September) at the Werner Schlager Academy in the Multiversum in Schwechat.
Each table tennis fan clucks his tongue while reading the entry list.
Read more … Chinese superstars in Schwechat
12.09.2011
The ITTF Pro Tour tournament in Schwechat (21 – 25 September) stands at present as the best selling tournament of the year, with the stars from China leading the seedings.
Read more … The Incredible Trio
17.08.2011
Though it is still summer, the international table tennis season is slowly coming to an end. The last really big highlight from the European perspective is the European Championships in Gdansk, Poland – October 8 – 16. On the way to these Championships is Schwechat.
Read more … Schwechat is the last test before the EC
17.08.2011
The organizers of the Austrian Open – September 21–25 – have achieved a remarkable coup. The Liebherr Group, for many years a major participant in international table tennis events, has become the major sponsor for this $122,000 ITTF Pro Tour event.
Read more … LIEBHERR is major sponsor in Schwechat
10.08.2011
For the first time, from September 21 – 25, 2011, an ITTF Pro Tour event will be held at the newly established Werner Schlager Academy in the Multiversum located in the Austrian city of Schwechat, on the outskirts of Vienna. And now, news has arrived that makes the table tennis heart beat faster.
Read more … China's superstars come to Schwechat
08.08.2011
Between September 21 and 25, the Earth is not flat; and it is not a rotational ellipsoid. At least in and around Schwechat, it is simply a table tennis ball.
Read more … A home game with many guests
04.08.2011
WSA-player Simon Pfeffer continues to climb the ITTF World Rankings following his strong results in the European Youth Championships in Kazan (especially in the team competition), with the latest gains coming in the August rankings list.
Read more … Giant step of Simon Pepper
22.07.2011
It is still about two months until an absolute highlight of competition in 2011.
From 21 – 25 September, the $122,000 ITTF Pro Tour event will be held at the Werner Schlager Academy in the Multiversum in Schwechat.
Read more … A Star Dish in Schwechat
18.07.2011
Austrian women's table tennis now has a new number one. Li Qiangbing, the state champion in singles and mixed doubles (with life partner Stefan Fegerl) and under contract with the WSA-partner association SVS STRÖCK,...
Read more … SVS-STRÖCK Star new number one
15.07.2011
On Friday, the European Youth Table Tennis Championships began in Kazan, Russia.
Austria and the Werner Schlager Academy have a strong team participating, for the first time being represented by the new youth officer ÖTTV-Günter Plattner.
Read more … Kazan – The “warm-up” in Schwechat
11.07.2011
25 years St. Pölten – thus the governor of Lower Austria, Erwin Pröll invited Austria's Table Tennis World and European Champion Werner Schlager to the anniversary party in St. Pölten.
Read more … Schlager visited Capital Festival
05.07.2011
The final phase of preparation for the European Youth Championships in Kazan, Russia (15 – 24 July) has begun.
Austria is represented in all four categories (Under 18 boys and girls; Under 15 boys and girls).
Read more … WSA’s Large Contingent at the EYC
01.07.2011
Again, the ÖTTV junior hopeful Nicole Galitschitsch has improved her world ranking again with the ITTF July report. The 17 year old, who will compete next season for SVS STRÖCK, improved an amazing 126(!) places to reach a ranking of 385, a career high.
Read more … Galitschitsch already Europe's number 38
24.06.2011
For the next highlight in the ITTF World Hope's Week at the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat, Dane Michael Maze and Hungary's Women's European table tennis champion Kristina Toth provided the excitement in a meet and greet with the kids from around the world.
Read more … Rubbing shoulders with international stars
22.06.2011
The Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat is bursting at the seams.
In the WSA Training hall, 36 tables are set up for the kids with an additional 15 tables in the Multiversum Event hall.
Read more … Werner Schlager and the kids
20.06.2011
With 78 players from 32 countries participating in the first ever ITTF World Hope's Week, hosted by the Werner Schlager Academy, Schwechat once again becomes the world's center for the sport of table tennis.
Read more … Michael Maze in the WSA
14.06.2011
For the first time ever, the international governing body of table tennis, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) will be organizing the World Hopes Week, featuring players born in 1999 through 2001.
Hosting this event is the Werner Schlager Academy in the Multiversum in Schwechat.
Read more … The world comes to Schwechat
10.06.2011
The decision-makers are still at work finalizing the exact dates for the Champions League. What we do know at this point is that SVS Niederösterreich is in Group A, competing against defending champions Borussia Dusseldorf, Bogoria Grodzisk (Poland) and Istres (France) scores.
On the women's side, ...
Read more … The Champions League debut of SVS STRÖCK
10.06.2011
In the seminar room in the Multiversum in Schwechat, the draw for the European Champions League for both the gentlemen and the ladies was made.
Read more … Thursday was the Draw
08.06.2011
Recently the WSA partner club SVS STRÖCK announced the commitment of Chinese national team member Feng Yalan to the team for next season. She will be the top star for the newly crowed Austrian team champion, a most notable designation.
Read more … Great Honor for a SVS-STRÖCK-Star
07.06.2011
The European Table Tennis Union (ETTU) will make the Werner Schlager Academy and the Multiversum in Schwechat the center of European table tennis for two days.
Read more … Europe looks to Schwechat
07.06.2011
Even in the first season after the founding of the WSA partner club SVS STRÖCK, this team has taken over the Austrian women's table tennis, a feat that broke the 14 year dominance of Linz.
Read more … SVS STRÖCK has been upgraded further
06.06.2011
It was in the spirit of the youth this weekend in the Werner Schlager Academy at the Multiversum in Schwechat.
Read more … Junior Success!
03.06.2011
In the Multiversum in Schwechat, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the Werner Schlager Academy, top young players will be on display.
Read more … Kids days in Schwechat
01.06.2011
The changing of the guard is complete. After 14 years of dominance by Linz, the Werner Schlager Academy's women's team SVS STRÖCK has, in its first season, secured the women's league title.
Read more … SVS Ströck is the Master
30.05.2011
WSA partner men's club SVS Niederösterreich has won, for the 12th time in a row, the Austrian Table Tennis Championships.
Read more … 12 Titles in a Row!
26.05.2011
A Prestigious Award for Richard Prause, head coach of the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat.
Richard Prause has been selected by the ITTF as the coach of the World team to compete against the great world champion China in Shanghai on 24 – 25 June.
Read more … Prestigious Award for WSA head coach Richard Prause
23.05.2011
Great success for the WSA partner club SVS STRÖCK. In the very first season this team, the Austrian women singles champion Li Qiangbing, the Romanian superstar Daniela Dodean and Taiwan's Huang Yi-Hua No. 1, reached the final of the Austrian Team Championship.
Read more … SVS STRÖCK is dreaming of the title
19.05.2011
Surprising and important visitors arrived at the Werner Schlager Academy. China's living table tennis legend Zhang Yining, the best table tennis player of all time, four-time Olympic champion, ten-time World champion, four-time World Cup winner, 46-time winner on the ITTF Pro Tour, Asian champion and between 2003 and 2009 almost consistently the number one in the women's world rankings, included in her visit to Austria a trip to the Werner Schlager Academy.
Read more … VIP Visitors from China
19.05.2011
During 18 – 26 June at the Werner Schlager Academy in the Multiversum in Schwechat a table tennis world premiere will be held: For the first time ever, the ITTF (now ranked as the second-largest sporting federation with 215 member nations) is organizing the World-Hopes-Week and selected the Werner Schlager Academy for its location.
Read more … A World Premiere in Schwechat
17.05.2011
The WSA-partner associated teams of SVS STRÖCK (women) and SVS Niederösterreich (men) will contest in the semifinals of the Austrian Team Championships in the Werner Schlager Academy at the Multiversum in Schwechat against TTC Villach (women) and Mauthausen (men). Admission is free.
Read more … Championship semi-finals
16.05.2011
Today - one day after the World Cup in Rotterdam – the released world rankings made it clear. It made clear which 28 players receive their direct starting place for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
For the stars of the Werner Schlager Academy it’s time to celebrate.
Read more … Olympic tickets for the WSA Stars
12.05.2011
The International Table Tennis Federation ITTF is now the second largest sports federation in the world.
ITTF President Adham Sharara announced during the World Cup in Rotterdam, that, with Wallis & Futuna, Curacao / Netherlands Antilles, Tokelau, Antigua / Bardbados, Mozambiqu, British Virginia and Iceland, new national associations have been included into the World Federation.
Read more … The World Table Tennis Association continues to grow
09.05.2011
In order to help the victims of the earthquake in Japan the WSA, in cooperation with the partner club SVS Niederösterreich, decided to donate a part of the revenue from the Champions League Semifinal between SVS Niederösterreich and Borussia Düsseldorf on April 6th.
Read more … Werner Schlager presents donation check
06.05.2011
China's table tennis superstars have arrived in Rotterdam, where the GAC Group World Table Tennis Championships will open on Sunday. Giving them strength was a training week in the Werner Schlager Academy located in Schwechat, an experience that left deep impressions.
Read more … The week of the stars of China
02.05.2011
Friday evening the China's national table tennis team arrived in Schwechat for the purpose of preparing for the ITTF World Championships in Rotterdam (8 – 15 May) at the Werner Schlager Academy.
Read more … China's Elite at Work
19.04.2011
There are tremendous expectations for China's team at the World Championships in Rotterdam (8 – 15 May), for they may win (if possible) everything.
Their path to the Netherlands, as reported, travels over the Werner Schlager Academy. It is in Schwechat that the China aces will have their final preparations.
Read more … Ni hao – Chinese stars in the WSA
15.04.2011
About seven months after establishing WSA partner club SVS STRÖCK won its first major title (and besides, it is an international one).
Read more … 1st title for SVS STRÖCK
12.04.2011
The WSA-partner club SVS STRÖCK will compete on Wednesday (17:00) in the Werner Schlager Academy in the first of the final matches for the title in the cross-border Super League.
Read more … The Finale
11.04.2011
As the 2010/2011 Champions League season turns into the home stretch, we gaze in the direction of next season.
In early September (men) and the end of September (women), the 2011/2012 Champions League begins.
Read more … Day of the draw in Schwechat
05.04.2011
It is the big hit of the year - SVS Niederösterreich against the Champions league defending champion Borussia Dusseldorf on Wednesday (20:15) in the Multiversum in Schwechat.
Read more … Newcomer of the month
04.04.2011
From 2004 to 2010, Richard Prause was the coach of the German Men's National Table Tennis Team. Under his leadership, the team attained an Olympic silver medal, two silvers in the World Championships, and eight European Championship golds.
Read more … 6 questions before April 6th
01.04.2011
While China may send only seven players to the individual events in Rotterdam (8 – 15 May) for the World Championships, Austria will be nominating five players for the individual events.
A large contingent from the Werner Schlager Academy is being represented at the World Championships in five weeks time.
Read more … A large WSA-contingent at the World Championships
29.03.2011
After much preparation, the ITTF [International Table Tennis Federation] has brought the new „Hot Spots ITTF Training Center Network“ to life. The purpose of this project is to optimize the training network among the 211 member-nations of the ITTF and link the countries, institutions, and athletes together.
Read more … A High Honor for the Werner Schlager Academy
18.03.2011
In the order of things, it seems it is about wins and losses. Often, it is only the difference of a few millimeters that determines who wins or loses points in the world rankings.
And then, suddenly, it all becomes secondary. You turn on the TV and you are shocked by what you see. It is sad and you are stunned.
Read more … Donation to the victims of the tragedy in Japan
16.03.2011
On Wednesday, 6 April, a real treat is in store for the table tennis fans as the Multiverse in Schwechat will host the semi-final round of the Champions League between SVS Niederösterreich and the defending champion Borussia Dusseldorf.
Read more … Blockbuster on 6 April 2011
10.03.2011
An outstanding performance by the WSA-partner association SVS STRÖCK in the first leg of the semi-final matches puts one foot into the finals of the cross-border Super League.
Read more … Remarkable success for SVS STRÖCK
07.03.2011
It was a festival of success for members of the Werner Schlager Academy training group at the 2011 Austrian Championships in Wels.
Read more … Victory in Wels
02.03.2011
One of Austria's finest young hopefuls, Nicole Galitschitsch, continues her climb in the ITTF World rankings, moving up an impressive 91 places in the March ranking list, to number 514.
Read more … Galitschitsch climbs up
25.02.2011
As the ITTF Individual World Championships in Rotterdam (8th - 15th of May) approaches, fewer opportunities are available for players to measure themselves against the best prior to this event.
Next week, at the ITTF German Open in Dortmund (23rd - 27th February), this tournament offers the last test before the World Cup. Virtually all the top stars will be participating in both events.
Read more … German Open in Dortmund
14.02.2011
WSA HEAD COACH RICHARD PRAUSE IN IRAN
WSA head coach Richard Prause is currently wearing the training suit of the Iranian club. In autumn 2010, the Werner Schlager Academy signed an agreement (initially until the 2012 Olympics) with the Iranian club.
Read more … WSA Headcoach Richard Prause in Iran
08.02.2011
The WSA is still young. Provisional training was started in September 2010 (in a school near the Werner Schlager Academy).
Read more … The WSA Factor
14.01.2011
In 2011, the WSA hosts international highlights like the JOOLA-European Nations League (4.1.2011), the UNIQA-Youth Top 10 (28.-30.1.2011) as well as the Austrian Open/ Pro Tour (21.-25.9.2011).
Read more … 4.1.2011 JOOLA-European Nations League
14.01.2011
Stars like Daniela Dodean (Rumania) and Huang Yi-Hua (Taiwan) who are part of the SVS Ströck Club as well as Chen Weixing and Joao Monteiro have already participated in trainings during the last couple of weeks. The constitution of the WSA is eventually finished.→
Read more … 11.1.11 Opening Gala
