JOOLA USA

JOOLA's Allen Wang

Equipment
Racket: JOOLA Stefan Feth Cross
Forehand sponge: JOOLA Air
Backhand sponge: JOOLA Air
Shoes: JOOLA Rush

What are your best titles or rankings?

• 2007 U.S. Open 9 & Under Boys' Singles Champion
• 2007 Nate Wasserman Memorial Junior Award for Boys' Under 10 (awarded by the U.S. Hall of Fame Committee)
• Highest USATT rating: 2043

When and how did you start playing?
My father let me play when I was about 6 and a half.

Describe your playing style.
Loop, hit & push.

Who is your coach(es), past or present? Who do you practice with?
My daily coach is my father. Once in a while I get lessons from Lily Yip & Barry Dattel, Wang Chen, Gao Yan Jun or Lim Ming Chui. I get a lot of help from players at the West Jersey TT club & Westfield (NJ) TT club, and Lily Yip's family. I practice TT mostly with my father in our basement.

What are you currently working on?
Learning two-wing looping.

What are your table tennis goals? Short-, intermediate- and long-term?
Short-term: reach 2150 by the end of 2008, and national age group title.

Intermediate-term: USATT Cadet & Junior team.

Long-term: USA Men's Team.

What are your interests outside table tennis?
Reading books, singing Chinese songs, swimming at my family's backyard pool in summer, and playing piano.

Tell us something really interesting about yourself.
I have three worlds: my family (Chinese language only, simple Chinese food), school (English, American fast food), and Table Tennis (English & Chinese, all kinds of food).

A great thanks to JOOLA for their sponsorship, great encouragement and help!