Table Tennis
Main draw places decided, hosts strongly represented
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Thursday, 04 November 2021 03:03
A qualification schedule in which players finishing in first and second positions in each of three groups advanced directly to the quarter-finals, the two further places being decided by a preliminary round involving the remaining players, Geovanny Coello and Juan Jesus Gomez were very much the players in form. They emulated Shemar Britton who, the previous day, had completed the…
Belik and Gupta break new ground with first WTT Youth Series success
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Tuesday, 02 November 2021 16:31
Dreaming big, Belik’s first objective was to make his way through the Under-17 Boys’ Singles quarter-finals. Taking on Carlos Fernandez of Peru, Belik rose to the occasion to beat the Latin American across four games (11-6, 8-11, 11-8, 11-9). One victory in the bag, Belik earnt his second of the day in opposition to Izaac Quek Yong but was made…
Ghorpade wins again at WTT Youth Contender Senec
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Tuesday, 02 November 2021 21:51
The 17-year-old Indian seized the early initiative by taking the first game 11-7 against the Singaporean. Zhou, however, levelled the score after winning the second game 11-8. The advantage swung back to Ghorpade after she snatched victory in the third game 11-6 before a 12-10 win for Zhou meant the match would have to be decided in the fifth and…
Stress free, Geovanny Coello turns back time
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Table Tennis
Tuesday, 02 November 2021 23:46
In his opening group phase match, he beat fellow Ecuadorian, 22-year-old John Espinoza in seven games, the closest match of the day (11-8, 11-8, 5-11, 11-5, 9-11, 9-11, 11-5), prior to rather more comfortably ending the day by overcoming Puerto Rico’s Yadir Lopez (11-8, 11-5, 11-8, 11-7). Most certainly experienced counted as no doubt did the fact that Geovanny Coello…
Sudan mourns passing of Abdelrahman El-Sallawi
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Table Tennis
Tuesday, 02 November 2021 14:48
Born on Sunday 1st January 1956, he held the presidential position for some 30 years, assuming office in the early 1990s; his contribution to the sport of table tennis being greatly appreciated by Khaled El-Salhy, President of the African Table Tennis Federation. “I have to say I lost today a friend who was worked with me in the African Table…
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