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T. BOYD BOYD & CO. LTD. 74/75, WATLING STREET, LONDON, E.C.4 Telephone: CITy 4433 TABLE TENNIS NEWS official TRAVEL AGENTS Official Journal of the English Table Tennis Association Edited by GEORGE YATES to the E.T.T.A. Consult us for all your business No.8. MAY, 1967. Price 1/ and holiday travel CHAMPIONSHIP ROLL 'DOUBLE HAPPINESS' for JAPAN Men's Singles Women's Singles NOBUHfKO HASEGAWA SACHIKO MORISAWA FOLLOWING on the Chinese double at Llubljana, Japan followed his ,third and final set against Kagi (Japan) (Japan) moto but d<Jubtless smarting from his suit at Stockholm by winning both the Swathling and Marcel without giving his opponent a start Men's Doubles Women's Doubles CorbiUon Cup competitions-a feat they last perfonned in Dort in the second game. HANS ALSER and SAEKO HIROTA and mund in 1959 when represented by Hoshino, Murakami, Narita and Not yet were the North Koreans KJELL JOHANSSON SACHIKO MORISAWA Ogimura (men) and by the Misses Eguchi, Matzuzaki, Namba and done wirh for Chang Ho, with two wins t<J his credit, then returned for (Sweden) (Ja.pan) Yamaziumi. Two entirely new squads comprising Nobuhiko Hasegawa, Koji Mixed Doubles TEAM EVENTS NOBUHIKO HASEGAWA and NORIKO YAMANAKA Kimura (captain), Mitsuru Kono, Hajime Kagimoto and Satoru (Japan) Kawahara served to capture the men's team trophy and Noriko Yamanaka, Naoko Fukazu, Sachiko Morisawa and Saeko Hirota previ'ous Ims the Jap No. 4 rose to Corbillon Cup the occasion to win both the set and SwathIing Cup fonned the quartet from which non-playing captain Ichiro Ogimura the Swat'hling Cup. JAPAN JAPAN permutated his selections to finally defeat Russia 3-0. In the Corbillon Cup fina'l, Japan The final of the Swathling Cup, had an easier time ot It with Yama· l':': ::, :"': :=:= : :':: :',': ':": : 2 :' :' "": : "; 2;:: ":::: ::,' ::0:::: :" 00 : : : : : :: ":':':'" however, was a much closer affair naka beating Zojya Rudnova and the with Kim Chang Ho getting the then-reigning champion, Fukazu t WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS REPORT by Geo. R. Yates I better of Kono to give Nor1th Korea later to lose her crown-proving that a 1-0 ,lead. much better than Svenlana Grinberg. !~"2': ,:' , : ;,; =: : ; '" 2:: =,',:,= ,:: '::,:': :,',::= =, ;,::: : :',,=2::= ==:;,~-=--,--- Japanese champion Hasegawa, Only in the doubles set did -the despite faltering in the second game Russians take a game when Laima against Yung Ryang Woong, levelled Balaishite partnered "pen-gripper" the match score and Ja.pan took the Rudnova. lead when Kagimoto defeated, in What then of England's representa :SWEDES STEM lAP MONOPOlY two-straight, -the North Korea'll No. tives who, in Yugoslavia, finished 1, Pak Sin II, who failed completely seventh in the men's learn champion ships and third in t'he women's? NoT for a decade has Japan had such a field day as in Sweden to measure up to his top ranking. last month when, at J ohanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm, not Christened .. The Maniac" by SEVEN FAILED Denis Neale, Chang Hothen brought [ the 48 countries to have entered only did they win both the Swathling and COl"billon Cups but, with off a well applauded win over Hase for e Swa:rhling Cup seven failed to the sole exception of the men's doubl~s, they also took all other gawa, 14 in the third, and again it make he trip to Sweden and three was tit-for-tat when first Kouo beat of th Brazi'l, Lebanon and The .individual titles, Sin II and Ryang Woong retaliated Philippines, should aU ,have been .lit was precisely ten years ago, aliYo then came the " choppe,r " cere- wi,th a 2-straight victory aver opponen,ts of England in 'the First in Stockholm thaJl Ja.pan came near moniously wielded by the execution Kagimoto to equate the score at 3-3. Stage matches ! to sweeping ~the boar-d When, addi of England's dhief hope. Visions of a triumphant return to Sma.\! wonder then the concern of tional t<J the 'learn troohies, "Tosh" Harrison began his run with a 3-1 Pyongyang were doubtless conjured team captain Johnny Leach who had Tanaka defeated Ichiro Ogimura for win over Sugeng Utomo of Indonesia up when Sin II took a 7-0 lead over only one match, aga:inst Belgium, to the St. Bride Vase and Fujie Eguchi and continued with a most impressive Hasegawa in the first game of the assess the form of 'his players before beat our own Ann Haydon ,to win 3-straight victory over Janos Borzsei seventh set, and at 10-3 his 'Prospects committing a trio against foremast the Geist Prize. of Hungary who, in the team match were stiU good. But never a one to rivals Hungary for tbe No. 1 positi<Jn A mixed success for Ogimura and had beaten both Barnes and Neale. concede defeat easily, Hasegawa in Group 7. Miss Eguchi completed tiheir haul in l,t was back ,to earth however Nobuhiko Hasegawa (Japan) fought back to level at 100all and On the opening day of !the cham 1957 on which occasion ,the men's Iagainst Radu Negulescu of Rumania World Men's Singles Champion from then on steadily forged ahead pionShips, against Belgium, Leach doubles. wenrt t.o the Czech pair who turned the tables oompletely on Photos b}' courtesy of Nitlaku News to a 21-16 victory which ,he repeated (Continued on page 6) .A.:1drca'<!rs and Strpek and the COllute-f- lh", 0101.ceste:-s'hirL play.:r. 1.-:-::-=-=====::'::::::==::..-' part wamen's title to Agnes Simon . then playing for Hungary with L. In the tourth quarter of the draw, Mosoczy. IBar~es beg~n In mos~ 'Ieth.arglc fashloil against the aging BJ'Orne The. one ti,tle to elude the Ja1?anese Mellstram of Sweden and ,reaHy Mary Wright on thiS current 'occaS'J'on was In theexaspera'ted ,his gallery by going to evenlt destmed to provide so much five for a 21-14 decider when his exci.tement and w.lrich was won, to. the opponent was running out of steam. and acclaim of a near-5,OOO pal'tlsan M '.', 'h . ". h crowd, by the European champIons . ore Wit It Illt e next r'::)\J~d, Hans Alser and KjeU Johansson of agaillst the North Korean No.3 KIm Sweden Sam Yung, the Essex star then had . the misfortune to ,run up against the. Denis Neale 'But how near to :the yawnmg "Tokyo Express," Hasegawa, and it ; chasm of defeat they were In ,he final was the irresistible force that found _________________ the .. object" not so wilthstandable. both reached Earlier in the proceedings young INDIVIDUAL EVENTS Stuart Gi'bbs, after beating Finland's Tapio Pentti'ia, was knocked out by TWO WORLD finalist Kono, and Cornelius Warren, and deciding game against Anatoliy Ihardly justifying the clamour for his Amelin and Sta'llislav Gomozkov of inclusion in ,the Swa,thling Cup team, Russia Who, fram a seemingly had lost in three games ,to Sweden's QUARTER- FINALS invincible position, .. cracked" to Bernhardt in ,the third round after allow the Swedish pair to come surmounting the obstacle provided by through on the rails. Serey Tan of Cambodia 'in the Using Jaques Figuring prominently in the viotory second. ceremonies, 'heralded on each occa One of these days .. Connie" will sion by an impressive fanfare of provide me with a success story but, trumpets was Nobuhiko Hasev,awa 'alas, it was not to be in St;;}ckho1m. Table Tennis Bats not a penholder - Who defeate'd JUSit three Europeans, Vlado Miko MARY WRIGHT, English Open Champion M'itsuru Kono for the men's singles of Czechoslovakia; Eberhard Soholer title and shared a mixed doub'les of West Germany and Istvan Korpa succes's with Noriko Yamanaka over of Yugoslavia, reached the quarter Koji Kimura and Naoka Fukazu. finals and one feH the utmost sym Shock winner 'of :the women's pathy for .. Bbby" Scholer when, singles was Sachiko Morisawa whose after beating Kim Chang Ho of fina:l win over her higher ranked com North K-orea 23-21 in the fifth, the patriot and holder, Miss Fukazu, was West German was allowed just 12 accomplished 'as fue I'esult of tre minutes' respirte before bein'g ca'lled Buy your Mary Wright, Denis Neale or mendous hitting ItO provide a spectacle upon to contest a sem'i against only bettered by the men's doubles Hasegawa! Little wonder he lost. set. Sweden's interest in the St. Bride Brian Wright bat now-and start training Further en'hancing her stock, Miss Vase vaniSihed with Alser's defeaJl in Morisawa added her knO'w-ho'w to the 5th round by Korpa, after his that of Saeko Hirota to capture the compatriot, J'ohansson, :the European women's doublles ti:tle from Yama champion, had gone in the previous straight away tor the 1967/8 season. naka and Fukazu. .... round to the Russian Gomozkov. Whether one played I()r whether Having given a good account of one did not, according :to the dictates himself ,in ,the team matches, Scot of one's captain in !'he team competi land's Malcolm Sugden did nlO less tions, was no 'longer operative for in the individual events especially the individual events. All and sundry agains-t Chang Ho in the singles. were allowed a free rein to cover any Victor Barna headed quite a queue distance thei'r ability and stamina to congratulate the Scotsman on his THE WORLD'S FINEST TABLE TENNIS would permit. performance. The same could not be said after his defeat by Jim The furthest accomplished by an Lan'gan, in the Swath1ing Cup which EQUIPMENT Englishman in the men's singles was result occasioned Jim's non-playing the fif.bh round ('last 32) reached by captain, Joe Veselsky, to do a Prague Denis Neale, Ian Harrison and verspon of ,the Irish jig! Chester 'Barnes in descending order of by the draw.