Jags at Liverpool

At the first tournament of the 2003-4 season, there was a good turn out from Jags. In the Men's Singles Abdul Wuraola, Clive Carthy, Jerome Jonah, David Langer and Kevin Haste all qualified from their groups.

David Langer had a very good win in the groups beating one of Darlington's rising stars - Kevin Wilson.

Some tough draws in the first round meant that only Jerome and Abdul survived.

Jerome pulling out a good performance to beat Daniel Horner - one of England's top ten juniors last season.

This win set up a mouth-watering clash between Abdul and Jerome. Eventually Abdul showed much more consistency and came out on top.

A last 16, encounter with Paul Drinkhall awaited Abdul and it went right to the wire, unfortunately a couple of suspect backhands from Abdul
allowed Paul to take it 11-9 in the deciding end.


In the women's open and star singles, new South Bank signing Tong Fei Ming took all the honours and did the double, not even dropping a game in either final.


In the banded events, good performances came from Chris Beckley reaching the final of band 2.

In band 3, Rohan did well to reach the quarter-finals before succumbing to Irish international Marcus McDonnell.

David had a good win over fellow Londoner Taiwo Adedayo in the first round before suffering the same fate as Rohan did.

Kevin Haste played in band 5 and got some good wins on route to the quarter-finals before losing to Wing-Yung Chan, the number 4 under 13 in England.



Overall a good start to the season, but there is definitely room for improvement.