JAPANESE ON TOP
No Win For N.Z. Teams
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE.
Japan made a clean sweep of the teams’ events in the South-East Asia Pacific area table tennis championships on Thursday. Meeting South Korea in the finals of both sections, the Japanese men and women won bv the same score, 3-0 New Zealand completed the championships without winning a match. Its teams had high hopes of beating Singapore, but the men lost, 0-3, and the women went down 1-3. The New Zealand team captain. A. Tomlinson, won one game against the 14-year-old Singapore schoolboy. Tan Khoon Hong, but the youngster. like most of the other opponents the New Zealanders had faced, played too strongly and attacked much more consistently. The results of New Zealand’s final matches were: Men, —Singapore 3. defeated New Zealand 0: Tan Khoon Hong beat A. Tomlinson, 21-11, 16-21, 21 14: Lim Wae Sheng beat M. Borlase 21-10. 21-13: Tan Khoon Hong and Sia Soon Seng beat Tomlinson and Borlase, 21-13, 21-19. Women.—Singapore 3, New Zealand 1: Peck Nooi Hway beat D. Wade, 21-17, 21-15; Tan Kek Kiang beat C. Tadema, 21-15, IS-21, 21-14; Miss Wade and Mrs Tadema beat Peck Nooi Hway and Tan Kek Hiang, 9-21. 21-12, 29-27; Tan Keg Hiang beat Miss Wade, 21-17, 21-19.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31653, 13 April 1968, Page 15
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