Some
comments from this morning’s matches.
Somoa go on to record there first win in International play in Men’s
table tennis after a ten year absence. John Leasi Galuvao from
Samoa
only dropped one set on his way to winning three matches for his team.
Day
two at the South Pacific Games – Mens Team event – Kiribati played
Vanuatu in what was a must win match for either team to progress out of
the group play and into tomorrows semi-finals.
The
8-1 winning scoreline for
Vanuatu
line did not reflect the number of close matches and intensity of the
encounter. In the second match Kevin Reo led two sets to nil before Tsi
Mok battled his way back to win 3-2.
In the fourth match Kevin Reo was leading 10-6 in the fifth set against
Yoshua Shing, The lead was slowly reduced and Yoshua went on to win the
match. In an upset result
Kiribati
cadet Nooa Takooa who recently benefited from four weeks of intensive
training with Oceania Women’s Champion Karen Li as well as attending
the North Harbour WJC and ITTF training camp defeated 2007 ITTF
Scholarship holder Yoshua Shing who has been training in
China
for the last six months.
The
Solomon Islands
recorded there first win over
American Samoa
.
In
the Women’s team event
New Caledonia
secured a match against Kiribati 5-4 to ensure that they progress into
tomorrow’s semi-finals. Ornella Bouteille was the player that
performed when the pressure came on. With the teams tied at 4-4
she was up against
Kiribati
’s Atea Tetabo who had also had two comfortable 3-0 wins. After losing
the first set Ornella came back to win 3 – 1 and
New Caledonia
were through.
