Club of the Month: Brooklyn TTC

If you’re in NYC and you’re looking for the biggest and best table tennis club around you’ll probably find yourself in Brooklyn at 2200 Coney Island Avenue, the Brooklyn Table Tennis Club.  The club boasts nine professional playing tables and one practice table with a Newgy Robot. 

The Brooklyn Table Tennis club is run and owned by Nison Aronov with the generous help of Michael Patin.  Mr. Patin has been playing table tennis for a number of years.  When I first played him, I thought he was just a novice player, but he took some games off me.  He’s got good serves and tries to kill every ball.  He even tries to kill the ball before it reaches his side.  He’s a very good practice player.

I’m sure many of you know Nison Aronov.  He is an incredibly gifted player with the best off the table topspin defense in the country.  He won countless titles in Russia as a junior and a professional player.  His most recent successes (ironically) have been with me at the U.S. National where we made the semifinals two years in a row in men’s doubles.  Last year we defeated the top-seeded team of Eric Owens and Jim Butler.  (Of course, I had to throw that in!)

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