TTT31. Summer 2023

Cadet National Cup
13 th -14 th May 2023: Plymouth
20 of the top cadet players, ten boys and ten girls, took part in the Cadet National Cup which was held at the
hospitable Joola Plymouth Table Tennis Club over two days.
It was only a couple of weeks previously that all the players had taken part in the Junior, Under 17 and Cadet
National Championships, so, this was another opportunity for the players to challenge each other. Most of the
top players were there but Ralph Pattison, our number one cadet and so the highest ranked male player, did
not take part as he was participating in back-to-back WTT Youth events.
It was a full weekend, although most of the players did not play as many matches over these two days as they
had at the age group National Championships a couple of weeks ago.
Sienna Jetha and Isaac Kingham were the number one seeds, Jetha also being the title holder. It wasn’t to be
the same result this year for Jetha although it was close. She won all her first eight matches and looked in line
for another championship win but in the last set of matches Ella Pashley beat her 11, 8, -4, 7. Pashley, like
Jetha, also won eight matches with her one loss, surprisingly, to tenth seed, Tilly Simms.
So, Jetha and Pashley finished level on points. Countback resulted with the title going to Pashley.
Naomi Coker was third, Jonabel Taguibao fourth, Mia Lakhani fifth, Brooke Morris sixth, Eva Eccles seventh,
Tilly Simms eighth, Alyssa Nguyen ninth and Luna Archard tenth.
The Boys’ event was even tighter with a three-way countback. Rohan Dani, Isaac Kingham and Max Radiven
all finished with eight wins. Dani had lost to Radiven, Kingham lost to Dani and Radiven lost to Kingham.
Countback resulted in Dani being crowned the new champion with Radiven in second place and Kingham third.
Kacper Piwowar was fourth, Harry Randall fifth, Adam Alibhai sixth, Fernando Frandes seventh, Leo Nguyen
eighth, Janak Shah ninth and Abraham Sellado tenth.
Cadet National Cup Champions Rohan Dani and Ella Pashley
Photo courtesy of TTE
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