Anthony Yeh (’69) had a good rally with a few members and friends of our table tennis team during his visit in Toronto. Click the image to see more pictures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YA6gQ6xQEs

Note: Service tactics change, players’ low cg, follow through and foot recovery !

Nigeria’s Segun Toriola produces an incredible defensive display to win a 41-shot rally against Singapore’s Ning Gao during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. This match was part of the Men’s Team – Table Tennis tournament. Singapore would go on to defeat England for the Gold Medal while Nigeria defeated India for the Bronze.

It bled my heart to watch live HK went down to Japan in nail biting games. I thought we had a shot going into the 2014 World Team final against mighty China, with an upset this morning despite logic tells me otherwise.

The local crowd/supporters made a huge difference, as expected, in this semi final outcome. Japan won 3-1 in three 5 set winners with plenty of drama.

The critical game is Game 3 when 吳穎嵐 was up 2-0 (down 0-5 in 2nd) against 平野 早矢香 and could clinch the all important 3rd game to give HK a 2-1 lead overall. I thought the upset on the way against home court favorite. >From the game line up. We will clinch the game with a tight 3-2 in 5th set with veteran 姜華珺 strategically placed to face a lesser Japanese competitor in the final and deciding game.

Ng collapsed in Set #4, lost momentum, fought a good battle in 5th set and lost (too tentative in her last 3 sets. Wits made a slight difference in the final outcome). That sealed the final outcome of this semi final.

Game 4 was a nail biter but 李皓晴 (#14 World ranking with a great climb in ranking this year) has never beaten 石川佳純 (was #8, currently #9). Lee played fearlessly and went down in 5 sets and I consider that a major boost in confidence going forward for this young lady. BRAVO. She won the only point on record for Hong Kong in the opening game against Yuka Ishigaki (石垣優香), who was recent Egypt Open winner (a medium pip chopper) and could have been the heroine of the day. She is a passionate player like 石川佳純 who wept after clinching her 2nd 5 setter winner over Hong Kong.

The two 21 years old HK born & trained players LEE & NG are a big part of the HK team future success and should hold their heads high going forward.

So bring your friends to 6/28/2014 HKISAA Table Tennis Tourney at CCTTA and cheer for our team even if you are not playing.

SUPPORT MAKES A DIFFERENCE!

We are the defending champion but opponent strength has been deepened and they have home court advantage in a way. Re-ignite your passion and support our team (s)!

You can watch the games on tape now on http://www.ittf.com/ittv/

Go WYK go! Come to the Game on 6/28/2014 Saturday from 9.30 am to 6.00 pm and join banquet after. We need your help!

平野 早矢香 versus 吳穎嵐 3 sets of deuce, changes of momentum, strategy, controversial service calls, crictical since HK/Japan had a point each before this 3rd set.

Lessons to be learnt
1) focus on each stroke
2) momentum will change
3) serve very very important (Japan excel, Ng had a service fault and serve into net also)
4) Aggressiveness pays . If you play defensive away from the table you are at a disadvantge no matter how good your defense or counter attack is.
5) Try to be on offense on receiving serve pays in ths game.
6) High risk high return (make sure you practice for these game changing strokes during regular pratice so that you are confident in critical game execution.and have a high percentage play)

世乒賽進高潮! 看國乒雙線衝決賽 女隊再碰新加坡, 港隊土炮 摔 主場日本隊 2014-05-03

http://sports.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/811/4/1/883617/1.html

TV live game on 2nd link top left corner.

http://www.ittf.com/

A bunch of Chinese Taipei undergraduates and research students put the country in Final 4 in Men’s Team final for the first time, by taking care of ailing South Korea, now faces the formidable task of  taking on reigning world champion China. 男團：國乒怎排陣  誰來「捉」莊智淵

Hong Kong women is underdog in semi final against Japan. The bright side is that two young HK local players (born & trained in HK) continue to shine.

兩位同為 21歲 (as of 2014) 的「土炮」年輕球員，將會是港隊未來重要資產，前途無限。

” 兩名新秀李皓晴、吳穎嵐表現不錯。日本隊在8強中險些翻船，主將石川佳純壓力過大，發揮不夠正常，全隊在福原愛缺陣後實力明顯受到影響，但整體實力仍略強於香港隊，又有主場之利，取勝的希望略大”

http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/sport/20120302/00286_007.html

谁能阻止国乒卫冕：德男乒仍坚挺 日本缺顶尖球星

http://sports.sina.com.cn/o/2014-04-27/09427138497.shtml

http://www.ittf.com/competitions/competitions2.asp?Competition_ID=2278&category=WTTC

http://video.sina.com.cn/p/sports/o/v/2014-04-10/225763726427.html

Happy watching.

Picture taken at the lunch gathering with Anthony Yeh (’69) after a friendly table tennis game in the morning (from left to right, standing – Allan Lee, David Ho, Thomas Lau, George Cheng, Wilfred Wei, Peter Poon; sitting – Eric Lam, Anthony Yeh, Mr. Anthony Ho, Jeff Mah) ~ March 29, 2014.

During the morning , David Ho, Allan Lee , Mike Yam of Team A and Wilfred Wei rallied with Anthony Yeh at CCTTA and played against HKU Ontario Alumni Team A (Sidney Chu/Martin Ho and HK Pong) for fun. Anthony also took 30 minutes lesson from our coach Diana Zhu. Thomas Lau, class mate of David Ho/Anthony Yeh from MCS (Primary Section), came for lunch (see above).