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T. BOYD BOYD & CO. LTD. 74/75, WATLING STREET, LONDON, E.C.4 Telephone: 01-248-4433 Official TRAVEL AGENTS TABLE TEN IS NEWS to the E.T.T.A. Official Journal of the English Table Tennis Association Consult us for your business and holiday travel fdited by GEORGE YATES ALL CAR FERRY BOOKINGS by SEA and AIR No. 14 MARCH, 1968. Price 1/ ENGLISH OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS- INTERNATIONAL TEAM COMPETITION by John Woodford Men's Singles Women's Singles STANISLAV GOMOZKOV ELEANORA 'MIHALCA RUSSIANS PIPPED TWICE (U.S.S.R.) (Rumania) THE scarlet-shirted Soviet team of Stanislav Gomozkov, the European Men's Doubles Women's Doubles ISTVAN KORPA and SVETLANA GRINBERG and No.1, and Anatoliy Amelin were well beaten by Yugoslavia 3-2 in a stirring men's team final at the Dome, Brighton. Yugoslavia's DRUGUTIN SURBEK ZOYA RUDNOVA (Yugoslavia) (U.S.S.R.) Dragutin Surbek started well with a good win over Amelin and Istvan Korpa followed suit by taking Gomozkov. Russia fought 'back strongly Mixed Doubles taking the doubles and levelling with a Gomozkov victory over Surbek. STANISLAV GOMOZKOV and ZOYA RUDNOVA Korpa finished a successful day fop Yugoslavia overcoming Amelin. (U.S.S.R.) In an exciting women's final the Czechpait Martai,Luzova and litka Veteran Men's Veteran Women's Karlikova beat the Soviet team, who started hot favourites, 3-2. High LOU HOFFMAN MARJORIE CUMBERBATCH speed penholder Zoya Rudnova started like the overnight express from (Middlesex) (Staffordshire) Moscow to Leningrad, She sped through the Czech No. 2 Karlikova but Miss Luzova then struck back with even more speed to smash TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Grirrberg, Men Women Dragutin Surbeck (left) and Istvan Russia " came again" to win a fine doubles set but then Czecho YUGOSLAVIA CZECHOSLOVAKIA Korpa (Yugoslavia) winners of the slovakia took over led by Luzova who put on even more speed on her Team Competition and Men's Doubles forehand to beat the Russian No. 11 21-12 in the third. At 2-2, Karlikova ·then hit top form to clinch the championship with a win INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIOHSHIPS by George R. Yates over Grinberg. BRIGHT START Mary Wright and Karenza Smith started the championships with a BRIGHTON LINE LEADS NOWHERE grand 3-0 slamming of Rumania in Round 1. Mary hit peak form to ca~abl~ t~at slam the European No.2 Maria Alexandru. Karenza also hit the high EMPHASISING the giant strides 1looki.ng of extending the I broth of a boy from Dublin- spots by defeating Eleanora Mihalca. The two top English girls then made by Soviet players in Rus~lan paIr, m the first ga.me, JIm Langan. combined to win the doubles taking them to the semi-finals against recent years was their threefold DellIS Neale and Mary WrIght But how about the ousting of Russia. haul of trophies at Brighton, where thereafter slumped to easy defeat. Stuart Gibbs, in 3-straight by England women's after lunch semi-final date with the Soviet pair the 41st English Open Ohampion Exchanging partners, Miss RUD- junior Trevor Taylor? What too saw the tables well and truly turned when Russia swept through to the ships were held from February 29 NOVA was the dominant force, with of "Connie" Warren beaten by final 3-0. to March 2, in the Dome and SVETLANA GRINBERG, in annexing Sammy Ogundipe and Mike Johns The left-handed pen-holder and European No. 1 Zoya Rudnova Corn Exchange. the women's doubles title brooking losing to Bobby Stevens both in displayed a fantastic forehand hit that smashed through her opponents A b fitf h' I . d no nonsense whatsoever from the first round? time and again. : ~ mig I!,s new y acq~~re Maria Alexandru and Eleanora It was against the sterner England's No. 1 men's team was selected as Denis Neale and Alan JMom o. ur?pean trand mgt' Mihalca of Rumania in another opposition provided by Korpa that Hydes against Hungary II in Round 'I leaving Ian Harrison and Stuart oscow engmeenng sue n h I H' f II d'd AI STANISLAV GOMOZKOV hammered one-way stretc . Hand arnson e ' has Ii I .an Gibbs as England II. Both sides were beaten-England I 3-2 by Miss MIHALCA, howev·er, was the y es to tIe.l C zec rst strmg Hungary II, and England II 3-0 by Rumania. surprise winner of the women's Stefan Kollarovlts. Neale struck international form when he came through against singles event and it was through N or was the return of Chester Rozsas. England then went into a 2-1 lead when Neale and Hydes the dogged defence of her com- Barnes destined to start the nearby combined well to win the doubles. English hearts returned to a normal patriot, Miss Alexandru, that she (cont. on page 7) (cont. on page 7) finally broke. ======================================== I /\. determined Yugoslavian pair I added to their team championship 'success when ISTVA KORPA and , DRAGUTIN SURBEK encountered ilittle resistance from Dorin Giur Igiuca and Radu Negulescu of I Rumania in the men's doubles final. ! Only in the veteran events did I England have matters all their own : way, the men's award going to Lou HOFFMAN, the counterpart trophy being retained by MARJORIE CUMBERBATCH. Consolation singles were won by MIKE JOHNS and JILL SHIRLEY. Stanislav Gomoskov (U.S.S.R.), winner of the Men's Singles and Mixed Doubles GRAND CANYON A single representation at the his way to victory in the men's quarter-final stage in both major singles event with the loss of only singles events underlined the un one game. palatable truth that when Mary Go to your Hungary's Matyas Beleznai made Wright and Denis Neale bow out, the solitary indentation on the the gap between them and those Mitre sports Russian's armour in the semi-finals ranked immediately below is as but it was not repeated by Peter wide as the Grand Canyon. dealer and <J! l~ozsas in the final joust. Granted there were feats per formed by the home contingent, the Partnered by his compatriot, foremost being accomplished by get him to ZOYA RUDNOVA, the deadly back "Les" Haslam in disposing of the ha?d of GOMOZKOV was ~gain in Soviet No.2, Anatoliy Amelin over eylde?ce when the tof' SovIet. com- five pulsating games. show you bmatlOn swept to vIctory m the . mixed doubles. It was a performaJ?ce WIthout repeat, however, for m the very It was the only final in which Inext round the giant Jamaican England had an interest but after I succumbed in meek contrast to championship ENGLAND'S GREAT WIN IN EUROPEAN LEAGUE bats. ENGLAND 4, U.S.S.R. 3 for Gomoskov in the first set of the evening. CONFOUNDING their critics at D. Neale bt A. Amelin -15, 13, Why settle Smethwick, in a European 16; bt S. Gomoskov -:I6, 14, '19. League match on March 5, Eng I. O. Harrison bt Gomoskov -'18, land stormed to a 3-0 lead over 17, 13 ; lost to Amelin -:17, -116. or less? the U.S.S.R. who, despite a tre Mary Wright bt Zoya Rudnova mendous fight back, were beaten ~II, 10, IS. 4-3. A. Hydes / Neale lost to After Brighton, it was a con Amelin/Gomoskov -16, 14, -17. fidence-restoring win for England Neale/Mary Wright lost to to bring about the first European Gomoskov/Zoya Rudnova '18, -15, League defeat suffered by the ~17. Russians. P W L F APts Three English team members Czechoslovakia 4 4 o 23 5 8 shared in the triumph: Denis England 6 4 2 28 14 8 Neale obtaining wins over both U.S.S.R. 4 3 1 20 8 6 Hungary ......... 5 3 2 23 12 6 Gomoskov and Amelin and Mary Austria ............ 4 1 3 8 20 2 Wright beating Zoya Rudnova sub Germany-West 2 0 2 3 II 0 MITRE SPORTS, FITZWILLIAM STREET, HUDDERSFIELD sequent to Ian Harrision accounting Netherlands ...... 5 0 5 o 35 0 2 TABLE TENNIS NEWS MARCH, 1968 Tobie Tennis News Published on the 10th of each month, INTERNATIONAL ROUND-UP October to May inclusive. Postal sub scriptions lOs. for eight issues post free. Advertisements and Circulation: D. P. Tremayne. English Table Tennis Assn. By CONRAD JASCHKE 26/29. Park Crescent. W.1. Deputy Chairman and Hon. International Secretary of the E.T.T.A. Editorial: George R. Yates. 43, Knowsley Road. Smithills. Bolton. Lanes. Telephone Bolton 42223. MARY WRIGHT JOINT No.3 IN NEW EUROPEAN RANKINGS seventh time in succession, beating the young rising player Bernt Jansen FROM No.5, Mary Wright moves up to share third spot with Russia's 3-0 in the final. Svetlana Grinberg in the new Classification Lists, issued in February Edit Buchholz took the women's singles title from Agnes Simon, REGULARISATION by the European Table Tennis Union. Soviet star Zoya Rudnova beating her 3-1 in the final. These two players won the women's makes the biggest jump, from joint seventh to top position, displacing doubles, Scholer/Mrs. Simon took the mixed, and Jansen/Hans A N agreement reaohed between Maria A1exandru. Micheiloff the men's doubles. the four home countries in England's Denis Neale, too, has taken a huge stride from joint GRELKE MOVES Belfast, during the recent Quad No. 15 to No.7 and European singles champion, KjeH Johansson, loses rangular Championships week his top placing jointly to Stanislav Gomoskov who moves up from No. Forty-six-year-old Heiner Grelke, general secretary of the German end.