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10th reincarnation of the Metropolitan Championships - Review

Published Wed 21 Jun 2023

8:30am on Saturday 17th June came round and kicked off the 10th reincarnation of annual Victorian Metropolitan Championships.

This event has had a long history, going back to 1952, and even before this the Atlas Shield, which was the forerunner to both Country & Metropolitan Championships, commenced in 1939.

Split across two venues in Croydon & Districts TTA & Greater Dandenong TTA, there was plenty of action across the tournament throughout the weekend.

Day 1 of the championships was the team’s event where multiple different teams faced off across grades A1-E5. There was a record entry of 84 teams entered this year, meaning there was 21 different grades in the Championships.

In A1, it was a fierce battle for victory between Croydon 1, and Coburg 1 with Croydon 1 edging out to take victory in the final match finishing up on 3 wins and taking home the shield. Yugandh Zende took home the Metro Champs A1 leading player topping the ladder with 5 matches won.

In the other grades, Croydon won 6 shields, Miao’s won 5, LOOPS won 4, Dandenong won 2, Sunshine, ESCTTA & Peter’s Table Tennis Academy each winning 1.

Grade

Winning Club

Team

Runner Up Club

Team

A1

Croydon 1

Sanish Ambekar,

Dillon Chambers, Alex Huang, Yugandh Zende, Scott Huang

Coburg 1

Craig Carter, Yousef Hassan, Raymond Myrteza

A2

Sunshine 1

Brian Pham,

Erdong She,

Alex Tran,

Viet Anh Tran

Croydon 2

Justin Kwan,

Harsh Madaan, Anthony Silk

B1

ESCTTA 1

Colin Chen,

Vahid Delshab,

David Griffiths,

Henry Sutanto

Croydon 3

Andrew De Zwart, Chunting Li,

Arvin Yeung

B2

Dandenong 4

Simon Nguyen,

Omar Thabet,

Mathew Chang

Croydon 4

Joshua Ding,

Amer Kudi, Victoria Zhang

B3

LOOPS 2

Andrew Cornell,

Aarong Nguyen,

Izac Ooi

Miao’s 1

Yee Pun Ben Cheng,

Weichen Feng, Gabriel Lee,

Tier Zhang

B4

Croydon 7

Patrick Jiang,

Jonah Schuster,

Qinle Alice Xia

Croydon 5

Eric Luk,

Kevin Su,

Aiden You

C1

Croydon 8

Esme Ho,

Kavyaa Madaan,

Serena Zhang

Miao’s 3

Yuhan Li,

Uykui Leon Te, Boswen Wang,

Shi Chang Zhang

C2

Miao’s 5

Raymond Lu,

Wenrui Wang,

Ziheng Leo Zheng

ESCTTA 2

Uday Kaza,

Kian Ken Niu,

 Clive Sim,

Ali Taheri

C3

Peter’s 1

Alex Giang,

Abhinav Sharma,

Preston Tan-Kang

Coburg 6

Charby Ibrahim, Gordon Latta, Jacob Rossignuolo

C4

Miao’s 4

Kushagra Baveja, Fengwei David Dong, Kenny Wu

Croydon 11

Craig Buchan, Hangchen Jerry Li, Brian Levi Tesler

C5

Croydon 13

Darlene Ding,

Andy Song,

Henry Song

LOOPS 5

Leonardo Nguyen, Thejashvin Vinodhkumar, Matthew Wan, Vinodkhumar Seshadri

D1

LOOPS 6

Yu Lily Li,

Wen Hwu Yong,

Lingtao Zheng

Dandenong 7

Lasith Kulasekara, Johnson Lee,

Peter Wajngarten, Jeremy Wan Kee Cheung

D2

LOOPS 3

Jaden Deng,

Samarth Singh,

Samyukt Vinodhkumar

Coburg 10

William Lin,

Ashley Xu Somers, Morgan Zhou

D3

Croydon 15

Anne Bellion,

Jack Chau, Edmond Cheung

 Sunshine 5

Eric Lindberg,

Nenad Ned Vrabec, Deepak Yadav

D4

LOOPS 7

Swetha Sundaresan, Cassandra Yap,

Anne Zheng

Miao’s 6

Carly Jiang,

Andy Zhang, Junhan Jullien Zhang

D5

Dandenong 9

Prna Ahuja,

Immanuel Mullapudi, Linda Suy,

Lydia Tran

Croydon 17

Jingtian Angie Li, Charlie Mak, Audrey Tang

E1

Miao’s 8

Maggy Lyu,

Ethan Shi,

Xiaoyao Shi

Miao’s 7

Jifan Liu,

Champ Mendis, Abner Enqi Yang

E2

Croydon 19

Shrinika Hariprasad, Varun Ram,

Ryan Remilton

Miao’s 9

Om Charegaonkar, Jinyang Max Zhang,

Ryan Zhao

E3

Croydon 21

Louisa Fung,

Suhani Karnani,

Alyssa Yeung

Dandenong 10

Ansh Aggarwal, Zhiyao Liu,

Keene Pan,

Kellom Pan,

Zhile Yao

E4

Miao’s 10

Sihua Ivana Chen,

Mike Yu,

Lifei Lena Zhao

LOOPS 10

Aatmika Prasanna Kumar,

Hasit Sharma, Inigo Villegas

E5

Miao’s 12

Shuyao Sabrina Dong, Mason Gao,

Qiaorui Ryan Yang

LOOPS 11

Warrun Konara, Angad Nijjar,

Lucas Zhao

 

Day 2 saw the individual’s event being played out.

Craig Carter edged out Zachary Anstey in the Men’s Singles final after being down 2-1 and coming back to win 3-2. Victoria Zhang topped out the group of the Women’s Singles with 3 wins and no losses.

The Open Doubles saw Craig Carter and Raymond Myrteza defeat Zachary Anstey and Rivindu Buddhadasa winning 3 matches 11-5, 11-8, & 13-11. The Mixed Doubles ended with Esme Ho & Arvin Yeung winning 3-1.

The U/21 Boys’ singles were won by Justin Kwan defeating Colin Chen 11-6, 8-11, 11-8, 12-10 and in the girls, Esme Ho took home the win defeating Yuhan Li 3-2 after 5 matches.

You can read the full individual results HERE

TTV CEO Gen Dohrmann was pleased with the tournament and how the weekend operated.

“It was a very professional and well-run event, and I loved visiting and having great conversations with so many happy players and community members.”

Tournament Director, Greg Bristowe was extremely pleased with the record numbers for this year’s event.

“What a fantastic weekend of table tennis! When we recommenced this event back in 2013, we only hoped to eventually get the numbers similar to the Country Championships. Due to a strong turnout from 11 Affiliates comprising 84 teams and 276 players, this year’s event will be the biggest event on the Victorian tournament landscape for 2023.”

“Whilst we have conducted this tournament for 10 years now, it started back in 1952 and I believe this was the 53rd Championships. This year we had a Referee, Deputy Referee, 3 umpires and 15 volunteers on hand to make the event run very smoothly. There were over 1300 singles matches played.”

Our next goal is to try and reach the magical 100 teams and to also get several other Metro affiliates to enter as well.”

Overall, the 10th annual Metro Championships was a huge success, seeing a great turnout of players and volunteers across both facilities. A massive thankyou to Greg Bristowe, Graeme Ireland and Yoke-Ching Tan all the other members involved in making this another fantastic event for all to enjoy.

 

Written by Noah Newnham

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