TTC O.E. Clarity-Tel.Syst.Bad Homburg has signed right-handers Australia's Finn Luu and Japan's Kazuki Hamada, both of whom are under 25 years old, ahead of the 2026-27 Table Tennis Bundesliga (TTBL) season.
This announcement comes on the heels of Bad Homburg superstar Jo Yokotani's decision to leave the club at the end of the 2025-26 TTBL season. Yokotani will reportedly return to his home country of Japan and compete in the T. League.
Yokotani ranks as the Bundesliga's No. 17 player at the time of this article's publication. He holds an individual record of 15:11 and has wins over SV Werder Bremen's Kirill Gerassimenko (Bundesliga No. 10), TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau's Feng Yi-Hsin (No. 12) and TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell's Ruwen Filus (No. 40).
Luu represented Australia in the 2024 Paris Olympics, in which he finished 33rd in Men’s Singles. The World No. 46 also won the ITTF-Oceania Cup Christchurch 2026 and qualified for WTT United Smash 2025, WTT Europe Smash 2025 and WTT China Smash 2025.
Hamada ranks as the No. 60 Men’s Singles player in the world at the time of this article’s publication. He reached the Round of 16 at WTT China Smash 2025, and the quarterfinals of WTT Star Contender Foz do Iguazu 2025.
Luu and Hamada will join a Bad Homburg team that currently consists of Yokotani, Ivor Ban (No. 48) and Csaba Andras (No. 53), among others. Bad Homburg’s new additions would be its two highest-ranked players on ITTF’s Men’s Singles list if they competed this season.
Those players will be coached by Slobodan Grujic, who coached TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau during the 2025-26 season. Grujic will replace Helmut Hampl, who will reportedly leave Bad Homburg at the end of this season.
Yokotani and Bad Homburg turned heads after stunning top-seeded Borussia Düsseldorf in this year’s Liebherr Cup quarterfinal. Their tournament run ended at the hands of Fulda in the Liebherr Cup Final Four just one round later.
Bad Homburg currently holds an 8-13 record with a point differential of 16:6. That makes them the Bundesliga’s No. 9 seed with one more round of matches to go, which is enough for them to avoid relegation.
Bad Homburg will play its final match of the 2025-26 TTBL season on Sunday at 9 a.m. EDT against TSV Bad Königshofen.
