Morris top women’s seed

Press, 2 August 1983, Page 34

Morris top women’s seed

Canterbury’s Jan Morris has been named top seed for the women’s open singles event at the national table tennis championships in Auckland later this month. Miss Morris, the current New Zealand captain, has won the singles title in four of the last six years and remains the only obstacle to the North Island’s total dominance of the sport at top level. Shelley Bougen, formerly Palmer, who won the national singles title in 1978 and 1982 to break Miss Morris’s domination of the event, is seeded third, with Christine Lee placed second.

Those three players made up New Zealand’s women’s team at the world and Commonwealth championships earlier this season. The brilliant young Aucklander, Barry Griffiths, will defend his singles title from the No. 1 spot, with Gary Haberl, of New South Wales, seeded second. James Morris and Peter Jackson, who with Griffiths formed the men’s contingent at the world tournament have been given third and fourth places. The open individual events are scheduled to start on August 31, after the inter-island, junior and

senior championships have been completed. The seedings are.— Men: B. Griffiths (Auckland) 1, G. Haberl (New South Wales) 2, J. Morris (Northland) 3, P. Jackson (Auckland) 4, M. Temperley (North Shore) 5, R. Lee (Auckland) 6, M. Darroch (Franklin) 7, K. Schick (Auckland) 8. Women: J. G. Morris (Canterbury) 1, C. Lee (Auckland) 2, S. Bougen (Auckland) 3, A. Leishman (Auckland) 4, K. Rice (Bay of Plenty) 5, A. Gyongyos (Wellington) 6, Y. Y. Fogarty-Eyre (Otago) 7, A. Campbell (New South Wales) 8.