Rex Lee Surrey Champion strikes again!
Saturday saw an early start for The Surrey U19 Table Tennis Champion, and Sixth Form boarder Rex L. He was invited to compete at the U19 National School’s Finals in Wolverhampton alongside 40 other players vying for the title.聽 Rex demonstrated a fabulous array of technical skills to test his opposition, using a variation of tempo and spin to ascertain areas where he could gain advantage and areas of weakness in his opposition that could be exploit.
The first game of the day turned out to be the most important with these two battling through to the maximum 5 sets. Rex showing excellent resilience to come back from two sets down to level the score at 2-2 narrowly missing out on victory the final set. His opposition, from Lancashire, had been runner-up in his county every year for the past 7 years, and finally, during his final year becoming county champion and with it earning his place at the National Finals that day.
Next-up Rex made light work of the Cornish Champion, brushing him aside in straight sets 16-14,11-6,11-5 recognising that the consistency of his shots would outclass his opponent. Next was the Northampton champion, here Rex went on the attack realising his opponent would defer to a defensive style to stay in the game which didn’t pay off; this foe vanquishes in just over 9minutes 5-11, 11-3,11-8,11-6.聽
Rex then took-on the eventual national semi-finalist and ranked 2nd聽seed Janak S the two went toe to toe for long passages of play, with Janak coming out on top, winning the group.聽
The final group game came against the Worcester Champion, where Rex, umpired by the English Women’s Commonwealth player put on a display in front of the tournament organisers table (Centre Court). Rex toyed with his opposition demonstrating the breadth of serve variety and maximising his court time at the top table; 11-3, 6-11,11-9,11-9 allowing his opposition to get close just to snatch it away with service games that wrong footed his opposition.聽
An excellent day-out for Rex who, as an U16, has still has two more years to compete for top spot.
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