TABLE TENNIS NEWS Published each month, October to May inclusive. Postal subscriptions £1.35 for eight issues. llrd WORLD Advertisentents: Miss Cynthia Scrivens~ English Table Tennis Association, 21 Clare­ mont~ Hastings~ East Sussex~ TN34 lHA. 'Phone: Hastings (0424) 433121. CHAMPIONSHIPS Circulation: Albert W. Shipley~ Administra­ tive Secretary, E.T.T.A., 21 Claremont, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 lHA. 'Phone: ~-.---------------~-._----_ Hastings (0424) 433121. .. Distribution: Mrs. E. Doreen Yates, 43 !(nowsley Road, Smithills, Bolton~ Lancs.~ Men's Si,ng,les Women's Singles BLl 6]H. 'Phone: Bolton 42223. ISTVAN JO(NYE:R YU'NG SUN KIM Editorial: George R. Yates, 43 Knowsley ( Hungary) (Kore'a to.P.R.) Road, [\mithills, Bolton, Lancs., BLl 6JH. 'Phone: Bolton 42223 (h); 061-228 2141 Ext. 2698 (b). Men's D10ulbles Womlen's iDouble,s GABOIR GE.RGELY MARIA A,L,EXAN,D'RU and ISTVA,N JO'NYER and SHO'K,O TAKAHASHI DYNAMIC (Hungary) (Rumani,a/Japan) DUO M'ixed Doubles STA,NISLAV GOMOZKO,V and TATJANA FERDMAN The retention of all seven Common­ (U.S.S.R.) we'alth titles in Melbourne was quite: a feat in itse'lf, but for our women to go on Swaythling Cup Corbinon Cup and Nft the'mse'lves five positions in the Corbillon Cup competition in Calcutta, is CHINA CH:IINA deserving of special praise. Jubile,e Cup They now rate fifth in the world and KARL NO'ELLER second only to Hungary of the European (Luxembourg) contenders, the two players mainly res­ L~-.-r -...r _ ponsible be1ing Jill Hammersley and Linda Howard. It was these two players who, at the he'ight of an Australian summer, fought Rhapsody for Jonyer out a magnificent women's singiles final in Melbourne Town Hall, in front of an . appreciative audience who, it is doubted, had ever seen such a standard of play In Calcutta from the' fair sex. Harmoniously paired as a doub!es bV GEORGE R. YA TES combination in India, they were without defe'at in eight Cot1billon Cup matches, the only pity being that because of prior Hungary's Istvan Jonyer, coming back from and Corbillon Cup events, China - perhaps arrangements, they were split in the a 0-2 deficit against Anton Stipancic, of Yugo­ content to rest on their laurels-did not have women's doubles event for the G. Geist slavia, won the men's singles title in the 33rd a winner in the five individual tourneys. W·orld Championships played in the newly­ Champions Hsi En-ting and Hu Yu-lan were Prize. completed Netaji Stadium, Eden Gardens, beaten, respectively, by Stipancic, in the Calcutta, over the period Feb. 6-16. lquarter-finals of the men's singles, and by Having regard to the subsequent Russia's Asta Gedraitite in the first round ot failures of Jill, paired with Hungary's It was the first all-European final since 1953 when another Hungarian, the legendary Ferenc the wo,men's singles. Beatrix Kishazi, and Linda with Ann­ Sido, beat Ivan Andreadis, of Czechoslovakia, Hsi En-ting was the top seed in the men's Christin Hellman, of Sweden, such part­ in Bucharest. event with Surbek at No.2, the Yugoslav of nerships for future high leve,1 events must North Korea's doll-like Yung Sun Kim) the mighty mus1cles surviving until the now be considere,d at an end. ·making her first World Championships quarters when he, like Hsi En-ting, was elimin­ appearance, won the counterpart women's ated at the hands of Mitsuru Kohno, of Japan, event with final victory over a most docile who was the beaten finalist in Stockholm Chang Li, of China but, so easily could have (1967) when Nobuhiko Hasegawa won the title. ENGLISH TABLE TENNIS ASSOCIATION gone out in the first round when she just got ANOTHIER FALLER home 21-18 in the fifth game decider dgainst Third seed, Kjell Johansson, of Sweden, the Patron: Her Majesty the Queen. England's Jill Hammersley. beaten finalist in Sarajevo, was another faller Jonyer took his second title in the ,men's in the quarters, his conqueror being yet President: M. Goldstein doubles when, with his compatriot, Gabor another J ap, Norio Takashima. But Li Chen­ Gergely, more sorrow was heaped on to the shih, the fourth seed, who plays a fast attack­ Life Vice-President: Hon. Ivor Montagu drooping shoulders of Stip'ancic and his Yugo­ ing close-to-the-table game, fell in the secop.d slav partner, Dragutin Suribek. round to Miran Savnik, .of Yugoslavia. Chail'1nan: C. M. Wyles, O.B.E. In the women's doubles event Rumania's Jonyer was the other quarter-final winner, Deputy Chairman: G. R. Yates Maria Alexandru exchanged her Japanese his victim being Sarkhojan, as had been Inge­ partner in Sarajevo, Miho Hamada, for Shoko 'mar Vikstrom (Sweden), Jar()Slav lKunz Hon. Treasurer: T. Blunn Takahashi, to again come out on top against (Czechoslovakia), Errol Caetano (Canada) and Chu Hsiang-yun and Lin Mei-chin, of China. Jochen Leiss (Federal Germany) before him. General Secretary: E. R. Taylor And, in a Russian-dominated mixed doubles Both Jap contenders surrendered in the event, Stanislav Gomozkov and Tatjana Ferd­ semis when J onyer, of the fair complexion, Management Committee: man had a final straight games victory over thumped off Kohno a.nd the left-handed I. R. Crickmer, M. Goldstein, A. E. Upton Sarkis rSarkhojan and Elmira Antonian. Stipancic finally put paid to the aspirations ot and K. Watts. Although success,ful in both the Swaythling Takashima, the Kinki University student who, Page 2 World m,en's singles ch~ml?ion, .Istvan jonyer, displ'!ys Yung Sun Kim, of Kore,a D.P.R., with the W. J. Pope the St. Bride Vase. To hIS rIght IS the defeated finalIst, Trophy which she won as a result of beating Chang Li Anton Stip'ancic, the Rosing semi-finalists being Takashima in the final of the women's singles. 'and the bespectacled Kohno, of Japan. Photo by ajoy dey, Calcutta. I Photo by "The Statesman," Calcutta. it may be recalled, figured in that epic ~uel aside, in straight games, the challenge of 1st round of the women's singles, the path in Sarajevo against Li Ching-kuang, of ChIna, Herman Hopman (Netherlands), Bagrat looked golden for Jill Hammersley, who was in the Srwaythling Cup. Burnazian (USSR) and Li Ching-kwang. drawn in the same quarter. After taking, the 'Of the big na1mes to fall in the early rounds "Tomahawk" went down -20~ -11, -5. But then first game, at 18, over Yung Sun Kim, of the perhaps that of the European chamrpipn, Milan Bengtsson, after holding a 2-1 lead over Kohno, Korean Democratic People's Republic, it Orlowski was the most notable, lOSIng as he was snuffed out like a candle. appeared more so. did in the third round, to Takashima -12, -14~ Jarpan'ls new top man, Katsuyuki Abe.. after But squeaking like a cornered mouse as -7. But there was an excuse for Orlowski, just wins over Ulf Thorsell (Sweden) and Tiao she emerged sucrcessfully from each tight as there was for many other players, who Wen-yuan (China) let slip a lead of 2-1 ovel encompass, the North Korean girl took the contracted that most prevalent of Indian Hsi En-ting, whilst Anatoliy Strokatov, winner next two games only for Jill to fight ba'ck and diseases, the "Calcutta Gut." of the Norwich Union International Champion­ squared the set at 2-all. 'Gomozkov, of the whiplash backhand, took ships title, after beating Federal Germany's Peter Engel, lost to Takashi1ma. Tactically mature in ,breaking, Jill's concen­ a turrltble to England's Trevor Taylor, who, tration, even to the extent of taking bet1ween­ enigmatic as ever, with more downs than ups Jacques Secre'tin endeared himself to the points advice from her bench, the diminutive In the Swaythlin!? Cup event, also acc~Llnte.d Indian spectators, all 12,000 of them, with his Korean won the day and with it, I felt, the for Witold 'Woznlca (Poland) and, beheve It spectacular high-lobbed returns, which had cha',mpionship itself which ,could otherwise or not, Heinz Schliiter, of Austria, who Trev the stadium in an uproar time and time again. have been destined for the Englishwoman, may have had occasion to remember in Sara­ The Frenchman got into his rhythm against who lost 18, -14, -13, 19~ -18. jevo! Dal Joon-Lee, of the U.S.A., and maintained I In that same ill-fated round Linda Howard Taylor, who was by ~ar our ,most successfl:ll it against Laszlo Foldy (Switzerland) and was beaten by Birgitta Olsson, of Sweden (13, player in the men's SIngles, finally took hIS Borszei, but Takashima was having none of it 1·13, 21, -21, -16), and Karenza Mathews by leave when despatched summarily by Stipan­ when he brought matters to a s.wift end in the 'China's Huang Hsi-ping (-11, -13, -15). Carole' cic. Nicky Jarvis, who had performed so wep fourth game after exchanging compliments in Knight failed to emerge from the qualifying in the team events, blotched hIS copy book the previous three. competition when beaten by Dubravka Fabri, t~e and might well have put .himself out .of Danny See1miller, the States champion, met of Yugoslavia, 13, 17 and 10. running for a World rankIng when lOSIng, In up with a "Pickwickian" companion in Claus Tatjana Ferdman emerged as the JIllost the first round, to E'mpie Wuisan, of Indonesia. Pedersen, of Denmark, who, in Round 2, won promising ne1w'con1er on the scene with spec­ Denis Neale, alfter beating Paul Pinkewich 15, 20 and 9.