Mixed Success For N.Z. Table Tennis Tourists

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31335, 4 April 1967, Page 19

Mixed Success For N.Z. Table Tennis Tourists

(Special Crspdt. N.Z.PA.) CAMBRIDGE, (England). Members of the New Zealand table tennis team had only mixed success in the Cambridge open . tournament which has just concluded, New Zealanders contested the men’s single semi-finals, the men’s doubles semi-finals, the women’s singles final, the women’s doubles final, and the mixed -doubles final, but won only the mixed doubles event

B. A. Foster played well in the men’s singles but was eliminated in the semi-final round by the eventual winner, D. Brown, 21-14, 16-21, 21-16.

Foster, and his partner, T.

J. O’Carroll, were beaten by Brown and T. Venner in the semi-final of the doubles after eliminating their team mates, A. R. Tomlinson and M. L. Dunn, in the quarter-final round.

Mrs N. Trail was out of form in toe final of the women’s singles, losing to Miss E. Sayer 18-2 L 15-21. In toe doubles final, Mrs Traill and Miss C. E. Johnston lost to Misses Sayer and J. Simpson, 19-21, 17-21, 17-21. The mixed doubles final was an all New Zealand affair —Mrs Traill and Foster beat Miss D. L. Wade and H. J. Waterhouse 17-21, 21-13, 2115. The next playing engagement for the team is at Leicester.