Please mark down Saturday 3/29 as the day that our buddy, keen supporter of alumni activities in HK and our table tennis activities, Dr. A.Yeh (Cl. 69), is scheduled to play socially with us. He will arrive the evening before and stay for 2 days before returning to Hong Kong.
For those of us who have not watched Fan Zhendong 樊振東 (ITTF Wolrd #5) played, here he is playing against Zhang Jike 张继科 (ITTF World #3) and YAN An 闫安 (ITTF World #7).
Watch out for these guys in 2 months time in the ZEN-NOH 2014 World Team Championships.
Staged in the Japanese capital city of Tokyo from Monday 28th April to Monday 5th May, the ZEN-NOH 2014 World Team Championships move ever closer; thus logically so does the deadline date for submissions (today).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuJdM52MHD8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlp-ODKQ8dE
Then follow the man against robot game between Timol Boll and KUKA the robot on 3/11/2014 at www.kuka-timoboll.com to find out who is the winner.
Keep playing as a human with emotion and passion are my takes.
Best wishes for another sparkling and successful 2014 with lots of laughter and happiness.
Cold cold Toronto. Warm yourself up with 12 minutes of the best table tennis action clips and highlights of who’s in and who’s out (just posted yesterday) at year end.. Choppers had a great year in 2013.
男單前17名座次都沒有變化，國乒的馬龍、許昕、張繼科、王皓和樊振東(this guy made a quantum leap in ranking in 2013.. see below) 占據前五，德國的奧恰洛夫第六，之後7-10名依次是中國新秀閆安、德國名將法烏、中華台北的莊智淵和白俄羅斯老將薩姆索諾夫。兩名已經退役的老將馬琳和王勵勤排名第11和12，再次殺進直通東京國乒選拔賽的郝帥排名第14。
Happy swinging and hope to see you more often at Saturday afternoon rally.
We had a great tourney year with Team A but Team B (and C?) need younger players to step up and perhaps add some ladies so that we can play co ed eventually in those inter school alumni games.
Start recruiting or this Saturday interest group is not going to last through 2014.
12 minutes of fantastic video showcasing all the major tournaments in October, including World Men, 2 continental championships, European Championship In October and Women World Cup and best trick shots contest in September
Click here to see the pictures (provided by the organizer) of the charity table tennis tournament.
Congrats also to our players for their fine achievement at the Joint Universities Alumni Badminton Championship today, sponsored by the HK Economic & Trade Office:
Thank you Allan for dropping by, amongst his very busy schedule, to support our players, in Aurora.
1) Bill Ip – Men’s Doubles A Champion
2) Vinnie Yam (wife of Mike) Women’s Doubles A Champion
3) Cbris Tam – Men’s Doubles A 2nd runner-up
4) Mike Yam – Men’s Doubles B Champion
5) Wilfred Wei – Mixed Doubles B 1st runner-up and overall Champion as convener for HKPU, for the HK Cup sponsored by HKETO
Congrats to WYKAAO Team A (David Ho, Mike Yam, Allan Lee, Michael Luk) for winning the new Alumni Cup in the New Horizon Lions Club 5th Charity Table Tennis tournament at MTTC today.
First runner-up (which we beat 3-0) is Cheung Chuk Shan College Alumni with two OTTA high ranked players, 2nd runner-up is last year’s champion Ying Wa College Old Boys Association with a huge support group.
Other participants include WYKAAO Team B, Raimondi College Old Boys’ Association, DBS, Tsung Tsin College Alumni and Victoria Technical School Alumni.
A job well done and displaying true Wah Yan spirit throughout the tournament!
WYKAAO Team B (Wilfred Wei, Bill Ip and Chris Tam with Sonny Sie a late scratch due to injury) had a very hard fight in a group consisting of CCS ( 1st runner-up), DBS, #4 seed and 4th in final overall standing (we lost 2-3 with several 3 setters) and beat Raimondi College 3-0 and showed continuous progress).
Thank you for our usual great supporters who have come to cheer and shared in the glory: Tim Cheung, Sonny Sie, George Cheng, Millie Luk (wife of Michael Luk), Vinnie Yam (wife of Mike Yam) and our honourable advisor, Mr. Anthony Ho.
Some of the players and Coach Diana Zhu went for celebration dinner after.
Thank you Andrew for spending so much time at the event with us and be the official photographer and ambassador to post game banquet. (see the pictures here)
It’s been a great day for our team and a mile stone for our table tennis. We are the first team to appear as champion on the annual plating on the HKISAA trophy.
Thank you all, players and cheer leaders (George, Roger, Sonny & John Tsui) and spouses, for keeping us togetherto perform at a high level.Recognition also goes to Coach Diana 朱娟 who gave us rally support and coaching at crucial matches.
Thank you Tim Cheung for providing us with 1st class catering that kept us energized throughout lunch and many ideas at post game banquet. Really appreciate.
Have a fantastic weekend and thank you David for mobilizing a strong team and flying back last night to lead Team A.
We will do it again on 9/22 in New Horizon Lion’s Club 5th Charity Tournament.
For those with prior engagement and not able to join us today, here are the results.
Team A, (David Ho, Mike Yam, Alan Lee, Michael Luk) despite being 5th seeded, beat 4th seed Ying Wa Team A 3-2, then ,Raimondi College 3-0 to come out first in Group D (there are 4 groups of 3 teams each) , beat DBS 3-0 in round of 8, beat La Salle Team A (2nd seed) 3-2 in semi and finish it off with a convincing 4-1 win over 3rd seed Cheung Chuk Shan College (3rd seed) as 12 teams tourney champion.
Congratulations !
Our doubles (David Ho/Allan Lee and Mike Yam/Allen Lee remained undefeated throughout the tournament and are critical success factors. Mike Yam won 3 points in final and won all his singles in other pre- final matches including a win over Danny Leung (LSC A) whom LM beat last year with some sweat. Allan Lee lost a tough 2-3 in his first single but had a great performance in his double with Mike and 2nd single. Top seed Munsang College ended up 4th, losing to La Salle Team A. Quite an upset.
Team B (Wilfred Wei, Bill Ip, Jeff Mah & Chris Tam) lost to first runner
up Cheung Chuk Shan College 1-3 and then 1-3 to La Salle B in round
robin (did not advance) with Bill Ip and Wilfred Wei/Chris Tam winning a point each.
Mike Yam did his part, silver for Men’s A Single on Sunday and got POLYU 2 points, losing to a 2,000 point rated HKU player/coach Jacky Fok (MTTC). He was rusty and anxious in early matches but played a much better 3rd game against Jacky.
Bill Ip’s MX team was placed in a tough group and did not advance. Good luck to fast recovery from hand injury. Need you!
Chris Tam showed up direct from airport to watch the finals of Men’s and Ladies Single between his HKU & my POLYU (captained by Sandy Chu of Mung Sang whom we will face 8/10).
HKU beat reigning champion POLYU by 1 point overall and reversed last year’s final results. Got HK Cup.
Alex Lam (was from WYHK, I heard) played MD A Final (beat HKU Sidney’s MD team in 5 sets) but lost bad against BU’s Chung.
Officiating was good and cheer groups loud as expected.
Alex Pang (whom we will face at JS 8/10 from Chung Chuk San) won B MD Final for POLYU..
La Salle had Danny (#1 player) & Eric (#3 player) as spectators and watched both Mike & Bill played.
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