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CRAIG
POINTON SIGNED BY FRENCH TABLE TENNIS CLUB:
As
most Manitoba players know, perennial "terror" Craig
Pointon (Manitoba #2) has been travelling the world the past
couple of years and so hasn’t been playing locally as much as
he used to. Last
year it was Mexico and this year it is France.
I am happy to announce that Craig was signed by French
table tennis club “Club Pongiste Orangeois” before Christmas
and is playing for their team this season in one of the many
French table tennis leagues.
He won his first matches on January 8th and is
excited as his next match is Sunday January 13th
against a team from the “Haute Alpes”.
Craig
is excited as he tries to help the “Orangeois” reach the
French regionals.
Good
luck Craig and keep us posted!
Orangeois website is http://cpo84.free.fr
Ron
Edwards Reporting
TERRY ZHANG FIGHTS HARD AT THE CANADIAN OLYMPIC QUALIFIER:
Last
month I reported that based on his results at the Canada Cup
National League finals in Quebec, that Terry had earned a
National Coach "wild card" selection for the first
Canadian team qualification event to see who represents Canada
in Beijing. Well,
this past January 5-6, Terry travelled to Vancouver with Coach
Damianov where he competed against 13 of Canada’s top players.
In
the first round the competition was split into two round-robin
pools of seven players. Terry finished 6th in his pool with a record of 1
win/ 6 losses. He
defeated Quebec’s Bryan Michaud who was rated at 2931 some 225
points higher than Terry. In
this first pool he also took a game off of Canadian #4 Pradeban
Peter-Paul plus he extended each of BC’s Andre Ho and
Quebec’s Yang Jiang to five games.
Round
two saw the top 7 players contest positions 1-7 and the last 7
places 8-14. In
this second round Terry again played very well with a record of
3 wins/ 4 losses. This
tied him for positions 10-12 where he unfortunately wound up 12th
based on the tie-break rules.
So,
finishing 12 out of 14 may not sound too hot but ya gotta
remember that at 13 about to turn 14 he was by far the youngest
player in the event.
Well-done
Terry! Complete results can be found at www/ctta.ca
Ron
Edwards Reporting
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