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Talented table tennis players impress at SA Open

Fuad Esack|Updated

Boundary Table Tennis Club's Tamika van As, pictured here during a club competition earlier this year, won five gold medals at the SA Open championships, in Durban, over the weekend. Her five-medal haul include winning gold the the girls' under-13 and under-15 divisions.

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Bonteheuwel’s Boundary Table Tennis Club’s Tamika van As, 12, secured back-to-back championship titles at the SA Open table tennis championships in Durban, over the weekend, winning gold in the girls’ under-13 and under-15 singles divisions. The youngster also won gold in the under-13 girls’ doubles and mixed doubles events and helped Cape Town Table Tennis win gold in the under-13 team event, to take her individual medal tally to five, the most won by any player at the tournament. In the under-19 division, Duinefontein Table Tennis Club’s Rochica Sonday won gold in the girls’  section and Community House Table Tennis Club’s Cuten Lodewyk, gold in the boys’ section.

Star performer Tamika van As, secured back-to-back titles at the the SA Open in Durban, at the weekend.

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Duinefontein Table Tennis Club's Wayden Brown, pictured here at a club competition in Mitchell's Plain, earlier this year, clinched gold in the boys' under-15 division, at the SA Open in Durban.

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Top Table Tennis Club's Jacob Mthwa also represented Cape Town Table Tennis at the SA Open in Durban, winning gold in the boys' under-11 doubles division.

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Duinefontein's Shonah Jones, pictured here at the Cape Town Table Tennis Open, at Wynberg Military Base, earlier this year, collected bronze in the girls' under-13 and under-15 divisions and bronze in the under-13 mixed competition, along with clubmate, Adam Domingo.

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Duinefontein Table Tennis Club's Rochica Sonday clinched gold in the girls under-19 division at the SA Open in Durban at the weekend. She also won gold in the mixed doubles event, along with her partner, Cuten Lodewy, from Salt River's Community House Table Tennis Club..

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Boundary Table Tennis Club's Qaai-im Jacobs, from Bo-Kaap, helped Cape Town Table Tennis win gold in the under-15 team event, at the SA Open, in Durban.

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Boundary Table Tennis Club's Qwais Jacobs also represented Cape Town Table Tennis at the SA Open, in Durban, winning bronze in the mixed doubles and bronze in the under-15 team events, at the SA Open in Durban.

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Bo-Kaap siblings, Qaa-im and Qwais Jacobs was part of a talented Cape Town Table Tennis squad who impressed at the SA Open championships, in Durban.

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