Club of the Month: Port Washington TTC

Coach Wang Chen and owner/founder Li Tsang.

Li Tsang, one of the  principals of an environmental consulting firm, realized that he needed to be actively involved with sports at his forty-plus age. He first returned to badminton, which he had played years before. After a few months of playing at a badminton club in New York City, he realized that it was tough for him to play at the intensity and level that he possessed twenty years ago.  He then turned his attention towards table tennis, a sport he also played before college. 

Verdon Tsang hits with Coach Wang Chen.

He visited and played at a few table tennis clubs in the greater New York City metropolitan area.  He discovered two major areas of improvement are necessary at most of table tennis clubs: 1) The club’s environment, and 2) The lack of youth programs.  In comparison to the clubs of other sports, conditions at existing table tennis clubs are ranked the worst of all, and participants are primarily adults.  Li believes that table tennis players deserve a playing environment as good as players of other sports. More importantly, he believes that it is critical to establish long-term youth programs in clubs – the best way to increase the number of players in the United States.  Driven by his beliefs, Li decided to create his own table tennis club. He converted the entire ground floor of his building located at Port Washington, NY into the Port Washington Table Tennis Club (PWTTC), the best equipped club that can be found in the area – with 4000 square feet of club area, eight tables, hardwood flooring, gym wall padding, lockers, and shower.  For the youth program, PWTTC partnered up with the Wang Chen Table Tennis Academy (WCTTA) and created various youth training programs at the club.  WCTTA is operated and head-coached by Ms. Wang Chen, a former Chinese National Team member, ranked fourth in the world in the late 1990s, and currently ranked #2 in the U.S.

Coach Wang Chen in the pro shop.

If you would like to play table tennis in an inviting environment or have your children trained by a group of world-class coaching staff, this is the place for you.  For detailed information, please visit www.pwttc.com and/or www.wangchentta.com.