The Costa Brava Spanish Para Open did not generate any kind of medals for the British Para Table Tennis team however there was plenty to be favorable concerning with the mostly young and also unskilled professional athletes from the Pathway and also Development programs getting useful experience of top-class competitors.
In Paralympic certification year every competition is very disputed and also the resistance in Spain consisted of some of the very best gamers in the globe.
Picture: Bly Twomey & & Theo Bishop in activity (image by Alba Pacheco)
In the songs occasions just Theo Bishop (males’s course 7) advanced from his team to the knockout phases, heading out in the last 16 to Paulo Fonseca from Brazil, gold medallist in the Copa Tango in 2015.
However, there were additionally wins for Andrew Guy (males’s course 2), Ryan Henry (males’s course 8) and also 19-year-old Max Flint (males’s course 10) in just his 2nd global competition.
The increases given the very first success for 12-year-old Bly Twomey on her launching in a GB tee shirt and also she directly lost out on a medal with Grace Williams in ladies’s course 20, both resisting from 2-0 to degree at 2-2 prior to shedding 3-2 to the German set of course 8 globe No 3 Julianne Wolf and also Nina Reck in the last suit of the competition.
“This week has been a massive learning curve for all the Pathway guys,” stated BPTTPathway Manager Shaun Marples “There is a great deal of great that everybody is doing in the training hall, however it is moving that to match factors in table tennis and also the one point that all the gamers have actually discovered today particularly is they require to take note of the essentials.
“Make certain the essentials are covered so they understand what they are performing with the round, maintaining the round on the table, ensuring they are entering the rallies and also removing the foolish blunders. Romain and also Theo, that are taking place to Italy following week, will certainly have an excellent possibility to place that right in the following competitors.
“Special reference for the ‘newbies’ Chris and alsoBly Chris (previous GB mobility device rugby captain Chris Ryan) showed some amazing knowing while in the suit– particularly in his very first suit when he shed the very first 2 collections however handled to win the 3rd which revealed durability which you can still find out while playing a suit.
“Young Bly was great, and also her battling high qualities truly appeared. She was a little bit let down to begin with to be identified in course 8 however she still took a triggered the globe No 8 and also the globe No 9. Now she has actually been identified as a course 7 after an evaluation so she has had an actually favorable competition and also her future potential customers are terrific.
“Our last suit summarize the competition in terms of virtually. It can have been a lot much better however we ended up the competition on a favorable note– revealing some great team, great group communication with everybody collaborating to assistance for the last suit.
“Definitely a lot to work on so Matjaz (Pathway coach Matjaz Sercer) and I need to get our heads together and make sure we are doing the right things for the athletes but also challenging them in the right way to make sure they are performing and doing the basics well.”
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