Table Tennis Club UMMC was founded in September 2007 in Verkhnaya Pyshma with the support of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company. World-renowned tennis players play for the Club from Verkhnaya Pyshma.
Table Tennis Club UMMC participates in the Table Tennis Champions League Men and Russian Club Championship. The Club won Championship title in the Russian Premier league in 2010, 2013, 2016 и 2017.
In 2012 Table Tennis Club UMMC was the runner-up of the European Champions League Men and one year later, in 2013, the Club clinched the Championship title of the ETTU Cup. Several time in its history the Club reached the quarter- and semifinals of the European Club Competitions.
In its history the Club has organized a great number of national and international table tennis competitions in Verkhnaya Pyshma and Ekaterinburg, among them: International «JOOLA» tournament, International tournaments for SCO countries, TTCLM and ETTU Cup matches, regular and play-off matches of the Russian Club Championships, National Russian Championships. Table Tennis Club UMMC supported organization and staging of the ITTF World Tour Russian Open events in Ekaterinburg in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Table Tennis Club UMMC was the organizing body of the European Table Tennis Team and Individual Championships 2015 in Ekaterinburg.
Table Tennis Club UMMC is involved not only with the world of professional sport but also promotes the popularization of the sport of table tennis among the population of Ekaterinburg, Verkhnaya Pyshma and other cities where the UMMC-holding enterprises are located.
“The program for Support and development of table tennis in the cities where the UMMC-holding enterprises are located” has been successfully implemented since 2012.
With the support of the Club UMMC, table tennis was introduced in the kindergartens and secondary school in Ekaterinburg and Verkhnaya Pyshma. The Club helps to organize children’s and amateur table tennis tournaments. Table tennis department was organized at the Children’s sport school “Leader”.