Photo: ITTF

The Women Table Tennis project of the Werner Schlager Academy causes a ripple effect.

The development of the (inter-)national WSA-Women-training-group progresses rapidly. Up to 30 players from 16 different nations practice regularly in the WSA. At the time of the official WSA-opening in January 2011 there were only 4 players from 3 different countries who stayed permanently in Schwechat.

Another pleasing fact is the WSA-partner club SVNÖ Ströck which celebrated an amazing 3:0 victory over the Spanish elite-team UCAM Cartagena on Monday and therefore started promising into the new Champions-League season 2015/16.

The latest hit: From 7^th to 9^th September, immediately after the Austrian Open in Wels the WSA premises will host the first European seminar for women table tennis, by request of the European Federation ETTU.

The focus: the work of female coaches.

Representatives from various countries have registered for this 3-day seminar and also high ranked officials from the World-Federation ITTF have ensured their arrival for this top-class event.

It can be categorized as top-class not only but to a big part because of the participation of Li Xiaodong, Chinas highest-ranked table tennis coach who will give a much respected lecture.

Li Xiaodong is not only a worldwide known table tennis guru, but especially in Austria he is not unfamiliar, as he is the father of ÖTTV-teamplayer Li Qiangbing.