TTNSW PLAYERS ACHIEVE 15 MEDALS AT 2022 TTA TOUR MELBOURNE

The 2022 TTA Tour - Melbourne kicked off on 16 - 17 April 2022 at Croydon and Districts Table Tennis Association, Melbourne.

162 top athletes with 327 individual event entries from 6 States/Territories competed across a full quota of events, ranging from U11 to Open as well as Para (Class 1 - 11) during the two-day national event.

10 NSW players achieved incredible results with a swag of 15 medals.

Men’s Open Singles Gold: A Lee, Silver: C Yan, Bronze: D Shimojo.

Women’s Open Singles Silver: S Buddhadasa

U21 Men’s Singles Silver C Cheng. U19 Boys’ Singles Bronze: C Cheng.

U19 Girls’ Singles Gold: S Buddhadasa.

U17 Girls’ Singles Gold: S Buddhadasa. U17 Boys’ Singles: Silver C Cheng. U17 Boys’ Singles Bronze: C Nie.

U11 Girls’ Singles Gold & U13 Girls’ Singles Bronze: M Mirzadeh. U11 Girls’ Singles Bronze: J Dou

U13 Girls’ Singles Gold: L Zhang.       U13 Boys’ Singles Gold - L Piyachai

The TTA Tour - Melbourne, is the second event of 2022 national tournaments in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

TTA CEO Scott Houston commented TTA Tour on 10 Mar 2022:“The success of the inaugural TTA Tour in 2021 can lead to the events' continued growth. After the TTA Tour was successfully piloted last year in Sydney, we have full confidence the event series will continue to grow. It is pleasing to see that so many players are travelling from interstate to compete, which is a big step forward after COVID-19 impacted many national events in 2020 and 2021 and gives us full confidence to move forward in 2022.”

TTNSW Junior Team Manager, Leonie Whiteford congratulated NSW junior players for their fantastic results at 2022 TTA Tour - Melbourne, where NSW junior players won 5 Gold Medals, 3 Silver Medal and 4 Bronze Medals This follows on from the success of the NSW Junior players who won 8 Gold Medals, 5 Silver Medal and 7 Bronze Medals at 2022 TTA Tour - Canberra last month. Leonie wishes TTNSW junior players good luck in the 2022 National Junior Championships in July 2022.”

TTNSW President, Tony Aduckiewicz said: “TTNSW is proud of our players’ great achievements: 17 TTNSW players achieved incredible results with a swag of 22 medals at 2022 TTA Tour - Canberra in March 2022 and 10 TTNSW players achieved incredible results with a swag of 15 medals at 2022 TTA Tour - Melbourne in April 2022. TTNSW is delighted to continue supporting TTA in its endeavours to assist the elite players to achieve their goals at both national and international level. “

Tony continued: “TTNSW welcomes the 2022 TTA Tour - Sydney to be held at Sydney Olympic Park on 4 - 5 June 2022. TTNSW is excited to support TTA to organize this highest-level table tennis event at Sydney Olympic Park. Good luck to all players.”

Full details about 2022 TTA Tour – Sydney can be found via the following link:

https://www.tabletennis.org.au/events/133974/

David Lee and Michael Li wish to gratefully acknowledge Table Tennis Australia and Table Tennis New South Wales.