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International News - ,38th World Championships FOR RUBBERS AND BLADES ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT RING OR WRITE By The Editor Rose Bank Sports also for other T, T, equipment! clothing at Discount Prices 119 WITTON STREET NORTHWICH, CHESHIRE Telephone: 0606-48989 (day) 0978-760249 (after hours) PERSONAL COMMENT Some nineteen years have passed since I took over the editorship of this magazine and much as I would have liked to have reached one further milestone to make it twenty, pressure of work in connection with my new role as Hon, Secretary of the European Table Tennis Union has made it impossible to continue. To do so would have meant falling between two stools and it would THE 38th WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS not have been fair to either commitment, as it has been these SAME AGAIN IN GOTHENBURG Cai Zhenhua and Cao Yanhua, past twelve months, to continue by George R. Yates the mixed. building up pressures and falling But what of the exploits of down on either one or the other, Hong Kong's Lo Chuen Chung It is with reluctance therefore that I in reaching the semi-final stage quit the post of Editor having of the men's singles? Here was enjoyed my stint notwithstanding a player who, in the Isle of Man the slings and arrows that have ROLL OF HONOUR Commonwealth Champion crossed my desk during my period SWAYTHLING CUP MARCEL CORBILLON CUP ships, was twice beaten by in office, I have tried to keep a (Men's Team) (Women's Team) Desmond Douglas, and once by balance and have been indebted to CHINA CHINA Carl Prean, and in the team all my correspondents, those for event in Gothenburg was again and against, and, more latterly, my ST, BRIDE VASE G. GEIST PRIZE the victim of the same two decision to curb, not silence, the (Men's Singles) (Women's Singles) English players when England outpourings from a certain won 5-1! JIANG JIALIANG CAO YANHUA gentleman and his wife in the Isle of Such players as Tibor Klampar Wight. (China) (China) (Hungary), Fan Chang mao (China) The magazine is, after all. the and Yoshihito Miyazaki (Japan) lay official journal of the Association IRAN CUP W. J. POPE TROPHY in the wake of the Hong Kong player and although free speech is to be (Men's Doubles) (Women's Doubles) who was finally eliminated by the encouraged it is not for me, a MIKAEL APPELGREN DAI lILi and ultimate winner Jiang Jialiang member of the establishment, to let and ULF CARLSSON GENG lIJUAN whose only two games dropped criticism run out of hand to, an (Sweden) (China) were to Horatio Pintea of Canada extent which could upset, and and to Lo Chuen Chung. possibly deprive us of. sponsors Yugoslavia's Dragutin Surbek, Erik HEYDUSEK PRIZE To all those writers and photo Lindh and Appelgren of Sweden graphers who have contributed, (Mixed Doubles) were the only European players to freely and unstintingly, to the CAl ZHENHUA and CAO YANHUA figure in the last sixteen of the men's welfare of this publication, and to (China) singles whilst. in the counterpart those advertisers who have, women's event, Alice Pelikanova of throughout the years, supported Czechoslovakia. Bettine Vriesekoop the magazine I would express my As in the Yoyogi Stadium, that still exists between the players of the Netherlands, Maria Alboiu of gratitude with the sincere hope that Tokyo in 1983, so it was in the of Asia and those of Europe, Never Romania. Olga Nemes of the this be the lot of my successor. Scandinavium, Gothenburg, more was this in evidence than in Federal Republic of Germany and over the period March 28 the two singles events in which, at Fliura Bulatova of the Soviet Union April 7, 1985 when, in the 38th the quarter-final stage. not one progressed no further from the last ENGLISH TABLE TENNIS World Championships, players European. man or woman. sixteen. ASSOCIATION from the People's Republic of rem'ained in contention and this too What then of England's fortunes? China again captured six of the applied at the semi-final stage of the In the team events the men dropped Patron: Her Majesty The Queen, seven titles at stake, And, women's doubles, from NO.4 in Tokyo to NO.1 0 and President: M. Goldstein, 0, B, E, again, the one to escape them Having swamped the two team the women from NO.7 to No.9. Chairman: T, Blunn, was the men's doubles this time events with final wins of 5-0 over Undoubtedly our stars were Deputy Chairman: G. R. Yates, won by the host country's Sweden (men) and 3-0 over Korea Douglas, and to a lesser degree. Hon, Treasurer: A. Drapkin. Mikael Appelgren and Ulf D. P. R. (women) the Chinese Carl Prean whilst on the distaff side General Secretary: A. W. Shipley, Carlsson at the final expense of wizards further demonstrated their Lisa Bellinger had by far the better Management Committee: Milan Orlowski and Jindrich prowess in the individual events. record and figured prominently in (Vice Chairmen) Pansky of Czechoslovakia. Jiang Jialiang took the men's the final two cross-over matches P. Charters, C. J. Clemen, Otherwise the championships singles, Cao Yanhua, the against Romania and France when A. E, Ransome, N, K, Reeve, were totally dominated by the women's, Dai lili and Geng she accounted for Alboiu, Otilia D, I. Whiteside Chinese emphasizing the wide gulf lijuan, the women's doubles, and Badescu, Nadine Daviaud and 3 38th World Championships Brigitte Thiriet. not to mention INDIVIDUAL RESULTS Bulatova in the opening match. and Sweden's Marie Lindblad of Men', Singles: Round 3: Jiang Jialrang (CHN) bt Chih Chin-Long (TPEI 13. Sweden. 11. 13; Douglas was only beaten on D. Su,bel (YUG) bt Cho Yong Ho (PRK) 16. 20. 12. 14; three .occasions in the men's HeZhiwen (CHN) btJ. Takaes(HUN) -19. 17. 16. 1B; K,m Ki Taek (KOR) bt .J-O. Waldne' (SWE) -1 B. 17. team event losing to Patrick 16.14; Renverse of France, Kiyoshi Fan Changmao (CHN) bt U. Carlsson (SWE) -18. 17. Saito of Japan and, surpris 16. 14; Lo Chuen Chung (HKG) bt J. Rosskopf (FRG) 13. 14. ingly, to IIija Lupulescu of Yugo 15; slavia, the latter before beating Chen Xinhua ICHNI bt R. Wosik (FRG) 5. 16. 9; Y. Miyazaki (JPN)btA. Mazunov(URSj 10.-18.17. Zoran Kalinic and Surbek. 13.1B; But it was a dismal showing in the Wang Huiyuan (CHN) bt Kim Wan (KORI 14. 16. 12: E. Lindh (SWE) bt Wu Wen-Chia (TPE)-l B. 15. -19. individual events with both Skylet 12. 13; Andrew and Graham Sand ley failing Chen Longcan (CHN) bt M. Costantini (ITA) 11. 17. 17: to emerge from their qualifying M. Loukov(BULlbtJ. Pansky(TCHI23. -lB. 15.13: groups although Andrew, having M. Appelg,en (SWE) bt M. O,lowski (TCH) 20. -11. 11. 17; beaten Engelbert Huging to record Teng Yi (CHN) bt A Podpinka (HUNI14. 10. lB; his first win in Gothenburg. must Park Ji Hyun (KORl bl Kim Song Hui (PRK) 19. 16. lB. 13; have been surprised to find such a THE SCANDINAVIUM - EXTERIOR Xie Saike (CHN) bt A Musa (NGRI14. -20. 1B. 19. player as Orlowski within the group! Round 4 Up against Jan-Ove Waldner and Jiang Jialiang bt Surbek 14. 20. 16: Kim Ki Taek bt He Zhiwen -12.19.16.11: Fan Chang mao in the first round. Lo Chuen Chung bt Fan Changmao 20. 20. 18: Alan Cooke and Prean could be Miyazaki bt Chen Xiahua 11. 16. 16: Wang Huiyuan bt Lindh 19. -10. -17. 13. 15: excused their defeats although the Chen Longcan bl Loukov 19. 18. 12: latter put up a terrific fight before Teng Yi bt Appelgren 15. 14, -19. 12: going down in the fifth. Des Xie Saike bl Park Ji Hyun -16, -19. 9.19.15: flattered to deceive in taking a 2 Quarter-final: Jiang Jialiang bl Kim Ki Taek 13. 14. 11: game lead over the North Korean Lo Chuen Chung bl Miyazaki 22. -18. 19. 15: junior. Kim Song Hui. only to lose Chen Longcan bt Wang Huiyuan -17.14.17.18: the next three. Teng Yi bl Xie Saike 12, -19.12.20. In the women's singles qualifying Semi-final: Jiangliang bt Lo Chuen Chung 17. 18. -18.11: groups Jackie Bellinger lost to Chen Longcan bt Teng Yi 16, 17. 15. Sweden's Gunnel Borgstrom but sister Lisa made it through three Final: JIANG JIALIANG bt Chen Longean 14. 21. 1B. rounds and registered a first round proper victory over Vesna Ojsterzek Women's Single.: Round 3: Gao Yanhua ICHNI bt M. Lindblad (SWE) 17. 16. 17; of Yugoslavia before bowing out to Yoon Kyung Mi (KORI bt 1. Shimonaga (JPNI9. 11. Bulatova whose compatriot. Narine 10; A. Pelikanova (TCHI bl V. Popova (URSI19, 16, 19: Antonian.despatched Alison Tong Ling (CHNI bl Li Bun Hui (PRK) 12. 11, 10: Gordon. Karen Witt failed to make B. Vriesekoop (HOL) bl B. Wiklorsson (SWEI17. 21, THE SCANDINAVIUM - INTERIOR 11; any impression on Bulgaria's youth Ni Xialian (CHN) bl G. Fazekas (HUNj 5. 7. 6: ful Daniela Guergueltcheva. Mok Ka Sha(HKG) bt B. Batinie(YUG) -11.16. -9. 12. 12; Oi Baoxiang (CHNj bt Han Hye Song (PRK) 17. 10, 14: STORMED Geng Lijuan (CHNr bt N. Antonian (URS) 20. 16. Prean and Andrew stormed their 14; M. Albo;u (ROM) bt Z. Olah (HUN) -13. 19. 16. way through three qualifying 13; rounds of the men's doubles only to J;ao Zhimin (CHN) bt ChoJong Hui (PRK) 19.