Tom Feng

The foundation you build as a beginner really matters, and not every coach is qualified to give it. A lot of players spend real money on lessons and still never reach the level they want. In Manhattan a lesson costs at least $100 an hour. I want table tennis lovers to get the help they are actually looking for, at a fair cost.

This is what the table tennis community is missing. Coaching has always happened in person. The apps that exist are mostly videos, and you cannot talk to the person behind them. But that is where the real knowledge comes from: you ask your question and a pro answers it, instead of watching a video and trying to work out the technique on your own.

When people send me questions on social media, I answer them. From now on, those answers can live here.

My main goal is to promote table tennis in the U.S. Players here do not earn much from the sport, and I have worked a full-time job throughout my playing career. I serve as an athlete representative on the USATT board as a volunteer for the same reason: I want table tennis lovers, in the U.S. and around the world, to have the opportunity to improve and to get advice from a pro.

Over time I want this to go beyond technique. A young player in the U.S. may not know whether to keep playing professionally or go to college, what to do after graduating, or what to do when they retire. Mental health is a really important part of that for youth players. It is something I have always wanted to work on, and it is part of what I am building here.

This app brings together things I have wanted to do for a long time. My full-time job taught me how to write code, how a product is built and what a good product is. Table tennis gave me the knowledge and the connections. Now I can put them together.

Yijun (Tom) Feng

Tom's career connects elite sport, data, and the business of sports and entertainment.

He is a 2-time U.S. Olympian in table tennis (Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020) and a U.S. National Champion, having swept the quadruple crown at the 2015 National Championships. At Rio 2016 he helped Team USA finish 9th in the men's team event, and at Tokyo 2020 he served as captain of the U.S. Olympic table tennis team. He also won the 2016 North American Cup, qualifying for the Men's Singles World Cup in Germany, and helped Team USA to a 5th-place finish at the 2019 World Team Cup.

Tom is in his third season of Major League Table Tennis (MLTT). He played his first season for the Chicago Wind and has played for the Atlanta Blazers since, winning half or more of his doubles matches last season.

Tom chairs the USA Table Tennis Athlete Advisory Council and sits on the USATT board. He has represented U.S. athletes at numerous U.S.-China diplomacy forums and served as a panelist at the 2025 Kuliang Forum.

Away from the table, Tom leads concessions analytics at Live Nation Entertainment, from building the underlying datasets to dashboards and AI tools for brand partners. He holds degrees in sports management and economics from NYU and in quantitative management from NYU Stern.

Drawing on his athletic and sports management background, Tom helped build Hudson River Pickleball in Fort Lee, NJ, in 2024, an 8-court indoor club with space for three table tennis tables, and remains a co-owner.