Table Tennis Academy

04/06/05

Men's Singles Competition

WELL DONE MALTA TEAM!!!!!

All the efforts have born fruit with Simon and Andrzej obtaining GOLD and SILVER in the men's singles competition respectively.

SemiFinal Results
Makowski vs De Sousa (Luxembourg) 3-1
Gerada vs Stephensen (Iceland) 3-2

The Final......
Simon Gerada vs Andrzej Makowski
3-1 (11-6, 11-13, 13-11, 11-8)

The singles final yesterday also marked a first for GSSE table tennis as never in the previous ten editions had two players representing the same country contested the gold medal match.

03/06/05

Men's Doubles Competition

Simon and Andrzej win bronze in the doubles competitions with an incredibly good win 3-1 over the Luxembourg duo.

02/06/05

Men's Singles Competition

Simon and Andrzej are strongly determined to earn more medals for Malta when they crushed all their opponents and topped their respective groups with maximum points also making sure that they do not meet in the semi finals but hopefully in the final.

Andrzej's results in Group A were:
3-0 vs Romain Loulergue (Monaco)
3-1 vs Marco Vannucci (San Marino)
3-2 vs Gudmundur Stephensen (Iceland)
3-0 vs Dominik Marxer (Liechtenstein
3-0 vs Patrick Rodriguez (Andorra)

Simon's results in Group B were:
3-0 vs Florian Prosper (Monaco)
3-0 vs Sylvain Franceschi (Andorra)
3-0 vs Riccardo Tentoni (San Marino)
3-1 vs Peter Frommelt (Liechtenstein)
3-1 vs Airlindo De Sousa (Luxembourg)

The Semi Finals will be held tomorrow 04/06/05.
Andrzej Makowski vs Airlindo De Sousa (Luxembourg)
Simon Gerada vs Gudmundur Stephensen (Iceland)

01/06/05 (afternoon)

Men's Team Event Final - Malta vs Luxembourg

Result: 3-2

Simon Gerada and Andrzej Makowski beat Luxembourg's Fabien Simon, Mike Bast and Airlindo De Sousa in the Men’s Table Tennis Final this afternoon in the Encamp sports complex.

Lasting almost two and a half hours, and with nail-biting situations, this was a well deserved win to the Maltese team.

The first game match went to Simon with a score of 3-1 (7-11, 12-10, 11-4, 11-8) against Simon Fabien. A very decisive win.

Second was Andrzej who doubled Malta's advantage with a 3-1 (11-6, 5-11, 11-5, 11-8) win over Airlindo De Sousa. Malta were now leading by 2-0 and only needed a win in the doubles event to clench the gold medal.

However, the Luxembourg duo Simon and Bast fought hard to win the doubles game 3-1 (11-8, 10-12, 9-11, 11-5). In the next game, Airlindo De Sousa grabbed the fourth match from Simon 3-2 (14-16, 12-14, 11-6, 11-2, 11-6) who although leading after the first 2 sets seemed to lose his rythmn.

It was all in the hands of Andrzej who played the final decisive game winning 3-0 against SImon to seal Malta's success and secure the gold medal.

Final Standings:
GOLD - Malta
SILVER - Luxembourg
BRONZE - Iceland

01/06/05 (morning)

Men's Team Event SemiFinal - Malta vs Liechtenstein

Result: 3-0

31/05/05

Malta beat Monaco and Cyprus with decisive 3-0 wins and lost to Iceland in a hard fought game 1-3. Simon and Andrzej now face the semifinal game vs Lichtenstein.