2015
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!
