2025 Geelong Open Review

Over the weekend of Feb 8th & 9th we saw the 2025 Geelong Open both Senior & Junior championships take place!

It was an outstanding event, with talent coming from all around the state to compete against each other.

“Over 200 of Australia’s best players vied for success at the Geelong Open Senior and Junior Championships at the weekend.” said Geelong Table Tennis Association Secretary, Phil Carruthers.

Nicholas Lum emerged as the men’s champion, defeating runner-up Sanish Ambekar in the final.

Riti Shankar emerged as the women’s champion, defeating runner-up Victoria Zhang in the final

The Para event was won by Christopher Morehead, special mentions to Eddie Teijeiro who was runner up to Morehead.

On Feb 16, the Veterans tournament also took place, see below for all finalists of all events:

Finalists

Senior

Finalists	Winner	Runner-Up
Open Men’s Singles	Lum, Nicholas	Ambekar, Sanish
Open Women’s Singles	Shankar, Riti	Zhang, Victoria
Para Singles	Morehead, Christopher	Teijeiro, Eddie
Open Men’s Doubles	Hassan, Y & Lum, L	Anstey, Z & Nguyen, A
Open Women’s Doubles	Zhang, S & Zhang, V	Shankar, R & Walker, E
Mixed Doubles	Nguyen, A & Xia, Q	Cosgriff, L & Walker, E

To view the full Senior & Para results click here

Junior

Finalists	Winner	Runner-Up
Under 19 Boys’ Singles	Lum, Lucas	Hassan, Yousef
Under 19 Girls’ Singles	Xia, Qinle Alice	Sundaresan, Swetha

To view the full Junior results click here

Veterans

Finalists	Winner	Runner-Up
Over 40 Men’s Singles	Pandya, Zankar	Segal, David
Over 40 Women’s Singles	Liu, Lydia	Yoshida, Akie
Over 40 Men’s Doubles	Forrest, L & Rankin, D	Chan, J & Kempton, R
Over 40 Women’s Doubles	Ball, M & Lum, M	Bowd, M & McKenzie-McHarg, J
Over 40 Mixed Doubles	Pandya, Z & Ziong, C	Bennett, B & Salem, J

To view the full Veteran results click here

Congratulations and thank you to all players and volunteers who made the tournament a great success.

The next tournament on the State Tournament Circuit calendar is the Croydon Masters from March 8-10.

Sign-up links for the Croydon Masters: Junior - Senior & Para - Veterans

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