Noumea GJC & Oceania Juniors
ITTF Updates from Noumea here
The Cadet Girls team defeated Australia 3-0, while the Junior Girls, and both Cadet Boys and Junior Boys finished runner up to our Trans-tasman rivals.
Roll of Honour for NZ
World Cadets Girls: Ruofei Rao 1st, Nai Xin Jiang 2nd
World Cadets Boys: Dean Shu 3rd.
Ruofei and Dean gain spots in the Oceania Cadets team
GJC Teams: Cadet Girls: Ruofei Rao, Nai Xin Jiang, Zhiying Cheng 3rd
GJC Hopes Singles: Xavier Lea 3rd
GJC Cadets Girls Singles: Ruofei Rao 2nd, Nai Xin Jiang 3rd
GJC Cadets Girls Doubles: Ruofei Rao & Nai Xin Jiang 3rd
Oceania Teams: Junior Boys: Daniel Lowe, Nathan Watson, Dean Shu, Victor Ma, Kevin Lin 2nd
Oceania Teams: Junior Girls: Carolyn Zou, Ruofei Rao, Nai Xin Jiang, Zhiying Cheng 2nd
Oceania Teams: Cadet Boys: Dean Shu, Kevin Lin, Victor Ma 2nd
Oceania Teams: Cadet Girls: Nai Xin Jiang, Zhiying Cheng, Ruofei Rao 1st.
Oceania Champs:
Cadet Mixed Doubles: Victor Ma & Ruofei Rao 2nd.
Cadet Girls Doubles: Ruofei Rao & Nai Xin Jiang 2nd, Zhiying Cheng 3rd
Cadet Boys Doubles: Victor Ma & Dean Shu 3rd
Junior Girls Doubles : Nai Xin and Ruofei 3rd
Junior Boys Doubles: Dean Shu & Kevin Lin, Daniel Lowe & Victor Ma 3rd
Junior girls singles: Ruofei Rao 3rd
Cadet Girls Singles: Nai Xin Jiang 3rd
Hopes Boys Singles (& doubles): Xavier Lea 3rd.
Cadet Boys Singles: Victor Ma 1st.
Great team effort NZ!
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New Zealand has joined 16 other nations in a fortnight long festival of table tennis in Noumea, New Caledonia. A large squad of 14 has arrived and participated in international training camps, after completion of the World Cadets qualifiers.
Ruofei was pushed hard by Nai Xin Jiang in completing a 1 / 2 combo for NZ in the girls event. But, our boys were unable to stop an improved Jake Duffy in taking gold for Australia. Dean Shu had the consolation of taking a place in the Oceania Cadets team alongside Ruofei. Victor Ma started in superb form, but was unable to continue it into the later rounds.
ITTF Oceania ran a forum today for young women in table tennis, which was well received.
Next on the agenda is the GJC events, with 11 kiwis competing against opponents from France, USA, Canada, Korea, Chinese Taipei as well as our near neighbours.
All 3 boys teams qualified for the main draw, including Cadet A team of Victor Ma, Dean Shu and Kevin Lin, Cadet B team of Brooklyn Lea and Xavier Lea, and Junior boys team of Nathan Watson and Daniel Lowe.
ITTF Preview of the event is here.