Avonside, Riccarton table tennis leaders

Press, 2 September 1977, Page 22

Avonside, Riccarton table tennis leaders

Now that the national table tennis championships have been; completed, the main local inter- • est centres on the probable | “final of the A-grade inter-club: competition between A\onside I and Riccarton I. On Wednesday evening, the seventeenth round of matches was played and. predictably, both • these teams won their matches. |- Avonside I beat Avonside II,;. 10-2. with Michael Clasper tilling in for Barry Radford in the Avonside II side. Mike Warren picked up a ' singles win over Hany Redmond. 21-4. 21-18 Warren and Clasper beat Redmond and Les Stewart ’in a doubles match. 21-17, 19-21. 21Riccarton 1 beat Avonside IV. 8-4. The Avonside team had a newcomer to inter-dub play. Linda Jekei. a Franklin player who competed at the national championships last week. She also managed to achieve the commendable feat of beating Canterbury’s top-ranked player. Wayne Adamson. 21-10. 21-18 Stephen Adamson also lost a match, to Richard Dixon. 21-8. 22- but recovered to beat John Yang in three games John Armstrong won his three singles matches hut ended up on the losing 'ide in both his i doubles matches.

University beat Dallington, 7-5,. tin a close contest, the winning • margin coming with the tinal : doubles match. Yee Chow Boi. the Canterbury: captain, was taken to three games by both Denis Kalin and! Graham Condliffe and Richard: Tan lost all his three matches,, being beaten by Fred Fisher and Kalin in straight games. What saved University was its three doubles wins but it only: won the final match narrowly. * I Riccarton H beat Selwvn bydefault and Avonside 111 had the' i bye Points: Avonside I 30, Riccar-' ton I 28, Riccarton II 20. Avonside 111 18, Selwyn 14, University l 10, Avonside II 8, Dallington and Avonside IV 4. I Results:— Avonside II 2, Avonside I 10 Singles: M. Clasper lost to H Redmond. 25-27. 16-21: lost to M Burrowes. 12-21. 13-21: lost to L. Stewart. 13-21. 9-21. H. Thompson lost to Stewart. 16-21. 21-13. 21-15; lost to Redmond. 18-21. 20-22; lost to Burrows. 21-15. 9-21. 12-21. M. Warren lost to Burrowes. 14-21. 23-21. 13-21; lost to Stewart. 21-19. 17-21. 19-21; beat Redmond. 21-4.’ 21-18. Doubles Warren and Clasper beat Redmnnd and Stewart, 21-17, 19-21, 2L15; Thompson and

Clasper lost to Burrowes and Stewart. 18-21, 17-21; Thompson and Warren lost to Burrowes and Redmond. 17-21, 22-20, 17-21. j Riccarton I 8, Avonside IV 4 Singles; W. D. Adamson beat ;J. Yang, 24-22, 19-21. 21-14; beat; R. Dixon, 21-19. 22-20; lost to I ■Miss L. Jekei. 10-21. 18-21. S. Adamson lost to Dixon, 8-21.1 • 20-22; beat Miss Jekei. 21-18.1 21-18; beat Yang, 21-12. 20-22.1 i 21-10; J. Armstrong beat Miss Jekei, 18-21, 21-13, 21-17; beat: • Yang, 21-12, 21-13; beat Dixon,' 21-14, 21-18. Doubles: Armstrong and S. I Yang. 12-21. 19-21; Adamson and Adamson beat Miss Jekei and' Yang, 21-19. 16-21. 21-16; W.! Adamson and Armstrong lost to i Dixon and Miss Jekch 17-21. 16-21. University 7, Dallington 5 Singles: Tai Teik Yaw lost to’ G. Condliffe, 17-21. 14-21; lost to D. Kalin. 13-21. 18-21; beat F. Fisher. 21-18. 21-9. Yee Chow Boi beat Fisher. 25-23, 24-22: beat Condliffe, 21-15. 24-26, 21-17; beat Kalin. 21-14. 14-21. 21-13. R. Tan lost to Kalin. 11-21. 14-21; lost to Fisher. 17-21. 17-21: lost to Condliffe. 21-14, 17-21. 9-21. Doubles: Tan and Tai beat Condliffe and Fisher. 21-19. 18-21. 23-21; Yee and Tai heat Kalin and Fisher, 21-17. 21-17: Yee and Tan beat Kalin and Condliffe. 19-21, 21-14, 24-22. j