Recently Table tennis Wellington held the 2019 Wellington Open. 77 players participated, up slightly on the previous few years. There were a number of players from other Associations, particularly Manawatu, but also Auckland, Waitemata, Waikato and Marlborough.
Results as follows:
Men’s Singles | Matthew Ball (Man) | Sean Hanson |
Women’s Singles | Hui-Ling Vong | Ye Zhai |
Men’s Doubles | Matthew Ball (Man) & Rajitha Samaraweera (Ak) | Noam Bar-Shalom & Yotam Malka |
Women’s Doubles | Lisa Yue & Ye Zhai | Yashka Rabichand & Anna Wilson |
Mixed Doubles | Sean Hanson & Ye Zhai | Rajitha Samaraweera (Ak)& Hui-Ling Vong |
Men’s Singles Plate | Andrew Maguire | Bryan McConnochie |
B Grade Singles | James Harter | Mark Page (Wk) |
B Grade Doubles | Depak Patel & Daniel Rosner | James Harter & Mark Page (Wk) |
C Grade Singles | Harry Chen | Tony Rutledge |
C Grade Doubles | Carlos Fung (Man) & Callum McKinnon (Man) | Andrew Palmer (Wait) & Tony Rutledge |
D Grade Singles | Martin Young | Michael Stechman |
D Grade Doubles | Andrew Maguire & Michael Stechman | Jacqui Wood (Marl) & Vanessa Wood-Lin (Marl) |
Under 13 Singles | Akshay Aneesh (Man) | Yufeng Wang |
Under 13 Doubles | Aaron Lan & Yufeng Wang | Akshay Aneesh (Man) & Hadley James (Man) |
Under 15 Boys Singles | Callum McKinnon (Man) | Yufeng Wang |
Under 15 Girls Singles | Yashka Rabichand | Vanessa Wood-Lin (Marl) |
Under 15 Doubles | Yashka Rabichand & Anna Wilson | Callum McKinnon (Man) & Vanessa Wood-Lin (Marl) |
Under 15 Boys Plate | Abilash Sivasith | Ben Riddell |
Under 18 Boys Singles | Callum McKinnon (Man) | Carlos Fung (Man) |
Under 18 Girls Singles | Hui-Ling Vong | Vanessa Wood-Lin (Marl) |
Under 18 Doubles | Carlos Fung (Man) & Callum McKinnon (Man) | Yashka Rabichand & Anna Wilson |
Over 30 Singles | David Buckrell | Daniel Rosner |
Over 30 Doubles | Heath Murdoch & Callum Rusbridge | Depak Patel & Daniel Rosner |
Over 40 Singles | Daniel Rosner | James Wang |
Over 40 Doubles | Depak Patel & Daniel Rosner | John Gan & Heath Murdoch |
Over 50 Singles | Lindsay Ward | Bryan McConnochie |
Over 50 Doubles | Bryan McConnochie & Lindsay Ward | John Gan & Heath Murdoch |
Over 60 Singles | Lindsay Ward | Tony Rutledge |
Over 60 Doubles | Bryan McConnochie & Lindsay Ward | Malcolm Wong & Martin Young |
Congratulations to the titleholders, the volunteers who worked tirelessly behind the scenes, the volunteer umpires, to Maggie on the shop & to Empire for hosting the event and to everyone who completed or just came along to watch and helped make this event a success!