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Congratulations to Yufeng Wang from all of us, he was selected by TTNZ to represent New Zealand (announcement) at the 2022 ITTF-Oceania Youth Championships! This event will be held in Melbourne Sep 5-10, be sure to give him a pat on the back next time you see him.

ITTF Oceania Championships 2022 – TTNZ Team 

The NZ team of 20 players, 4 coaches and a team manager participated in the ITTF Oceania Championships 2022 at the Eastland Shopping Centre, Melbourne, Australia from the 5th-10th Sep. The team had a 2-day training camp at the Auckland Table Tennis Association (1/2 Sep) in NZ prior to departing to Australia and then a 2-day training camp in Melbourne (3/4 Sep). 

There was a high degree of excitement and anticipation for this event considering we had not seen international play for our teams and players for a long period of time due to the pandemic. 

The four coaches and team manager were appointed on completion of a robust application and interview process. The team and support staff were: 

Dean Shu (Auckland)                                             Maia Cavanagh (Invercargill)
Alfred Dela Pena (Waitemata)                                Abbey Webb (Manawatu)
Adrian Soh (Auckland)                                           Cecilia Huang (Auckland)
Max Henderson (Bay of Plenty)                             Jiayi Zhou (Canterbury)
Kelsey Amor (Waitemata)                                       Lydia Mercer-Beumelburg (Canterbury)
Alex Liu Cao (Auckland)                                         Joanna Yang (Auckland)
Griffin Buchanan (Canterbury)                               Jocelyn (Zuyan) Lam (Auckland)
Timothy Choi (Auckland)                                        Lisa Gear (Auckland)
Yufeng Wang (Wellington)                                      Ellie Zhang (Canterbury)
Payas Jajal (Auckland)
August Xiao (North Shore)
Support Staff
Ray Sheath – Team Manager
Chunli Li – Seniors Coach
Naina Suri – Juniors Coach
Daniel Yantao Wei – Seniors Coach
John Cordue – Juniors Coach

Youth Team Results – Click Here
Open Team Results – Click Here
Individual Results – Click Here

Teams: 8 teams male and female, Open, U21, U19, U15 – All but one team finished second, with the U21 Women’s team finishing third. 

Individuals: Players were entered into multiple events across singles, doubles and mixed. The highlight being Jiayi Zhou’s silver medal in the U12 women’s singles. A number of players/combinations made semi-finals, and all made quarter final stages, unfortunately the dominant Australians took away all the other major medals!