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2025 Geelong Open Review
Published Wed 19 Feb 2025
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
