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Tin Tin Ho won the Cadet Girls Singles at the French Junior and Open Junior Championships in Metz on 22nd April, beating Japan's No. 1, who is the current Cadet World Champion. (www.ittf.com)
Tin Tin initially started playing at the age of 6 - previously being coached by Mike Pantin from the Crusaders Club in Sutton.
Michael Ho - from the Wilson School in Wallington, (who is currently being coached by Mike Pantin), won the 'Under 19 English Schools' title in Doncaster - and has been selected to represent England in the 'Invitation International Schools' squad, which will be held in Guernsey between 22nd to 24th June 2012"
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Crusaders' Liam Grant and Isabelle Joubeily were part of the triumphant team at the recently held County Championships in the Cadet Premier Division. Having gained promotion only last season, the Surrey Cadets' main ambition was to stay in the Premier. Other team members included Sasha Gillen and Juliette Moussarie (Ashford TTC) and Diogo Freitas (Graham Spicer TTC). Sasha had journeyed from France to join our squad of young stars.
In their opening match Surrey took on the title holders Lancashire and managed a 5-5 draw. A very strong Yorkshire team were next in line who squeezed past our team 6-4 to eventually take the title by a narrow margin. Sasha was unfortunate to lose to England No 9 James Hobson 8-11, 11-8, 11-13, 11-13 and Liam Grant was narrowly defeated by England No 7 Harry Dai 11-8, 10-12, 10-12, 9-11. Isabelle battled well against the Engalnd No 3 Kate Nixon but lost out 11-5, 9-11, 12-12, 5-11. Next time guys!
Surrey did well to beat Sussex 6-4, Middlesex 7-3, Warwickshire 8-2, and Cleveland 10-0. In their final match Surrey forced Lincolnshire into relegation with a 7-3 victory. Liam Grant was outstanding in this match as he beat Nathan Butler 13-11 in the 5th after trailing 2-7. Following this he found himself 2 games to 1 down against England No 10 Matthew Leete only to win 11-8, 5-11, 6-11, 11-4, 11-4.
Isabelle finished the day with 11/14 (78.6%) having only lost to players ranked Nos 1, 2 and 3 in England. Surrey finished as highly respectable runners-up which has not been achieved by the county for some years.
Congratulations to Isabelle who found she had risen to No 5 in England – on her 14th birthday. Her 11 wins from the weekend will certainly help to consolidate her position.
Photograph Courtesy of Michael Loveder.
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Sutton League Crusaders were up against it again during the weekend of 28/29 January as their No 1 player was out again with a back injury. The team had to recruit a replacement quickly and roped in their old friend Trevor Campbell to stave off potential embarassment!
With Dean Rose and Michael Loveder they found Redlands Bats had strengthened their squad and so a disappointing 1-5 defeat was the outcome. However SL Crusaders remained too strong for the Bristol Civil Service team against whom we secured a 4-2 victory. Title contenders RBL Yaxley and Pavilion took no chances as both put out their strongest sides against us and two 0-6's followed! Some consolation was taken in the last match of the weekend against Kingfisher (Reading) when the Sutton League Crusaders of Trevor Campbell, Dean Rose and Michael Loveder triumphed 6-0 to finish in 4th place, the team having played 10 matches and won 5 of them.