Mackay’s Emma Widdup’s Queensland Veterans Table Tennis Championships form continued into this week’s Tuesday night table tennis fixtures final.
After being undefeated in singles in the Queensland titles, Emma lost only one match all season and led her Alpha teammates Robbie Richards and Neil Brown to a 6-5 win over the Charlie team of Josh Brown, Andrew McHugh and Steven Whiting.
The Charlies led 5-4 after Steven won a nail-biting battle with Robbie -2, -11, 9, 6, 10 but Alpha came home to win the final two matches and take the final. Steven also featured in a marathon with Neil, winning -5, 3, 8, -8, 9.
Allan Edwards, George Camilleri and Rhonda Payne teamed to win the division 2 final 7-4 over Peter Goodson, Lee Brake and Kevin Scates.
The match was 4-all going into the final round of singles, but wins by George, Rhonda and Allan over Kevin, Peter and Lee gave them victory. The closest match of the night was Rhonda’s win over Peter -10, 8, 9, -6, 8.
Charlie (Jye Callander, Roy Murray and Noreen Fredericksen) won the division 3 final over Alpha (Simon Hogan, Tiffany Camilleri) 9-2.
Noreen and Simon played a lengthy battle, Noreen up 8, -6, -10, 7, 9.
Emma, Graham Drury and Noreen won the leading player awards.
The annual Mackay Closed championships will be played this month, with graded events on Tuesday and veterans on Thursday. Contact Donna 0400 769 560 for details.
By Charlie Payne
Emma Widdup in action at the table. Photo credit: Charlie Payne
