Table tennis seeding proves accurate

Wairarapa successfully defended their fifth seeding in the under-17 teams event at the national summer table tennis championships hosted by the North Harbour association.
Myles Collins and Jori Quaedvlieg started with a 1-4 loss to Wellington and a 0-5 defeat by North Harbour No.1 before beating Waikato 5-0 and North Harbour No.3 3-2.
Against a Wellington side consisting of James Harter and Hayden Tapp, which eventually won the under-17 title, Collins had his first-ever singles win over Harter 3-1.
And Quaedvlieg also gave Harter a decent workout, needing only two more points in the fourth set for a 3-1 win. However, Harter fought back strongly and finally got home 3-2.
Collins almost pulled off an upset in the North Harbour match when he was two games up on Jackson Chew, who has a higher ranking than him in the under-15 age group.
But when Karen Li, New Zealand's number two women's player, proferred advice to Chew the latter lifted his game to win 3-2.
The individual competitions followed the teams event and Collins won the under-17yrs plate. He lost to Matthew Lowe 0-3 in the first round of the main championship before beating Matthew Hetherington of Waikato in the plate ?quarter final. A victory over E.Cook in the semis followed and then he beat Denny Chu by a comfortable 3-0 in the final.
Quaedevlieg had earlier been eliminated from the plate quarter-finals by Jatinder Singh who went on to lose to Chu in the semis.
In the under-14 grade Collins won his group in the singles and his frist knockout game before facing Jackson Chu again in the quarter-finals, Chu won 3-0.
But Collins went one stage further in the doubles where he combined with Jatinder Singh. They made it to the final where they were beaten by Jackson Chu and Hanson Ling.
In the under-20yrs division Quaedvlieg faced quality opposition in the form of Blair Patterson of Manawatu, Jordan Patterson of Wellington and Aaron Gong of Auckland.
He lost all three of those matches and then was beaten in his plate event. He and Matt Hetherington of Waikato got through to the quarter-finals of the doubles where they lost 1-3 to the No.2 seeds.
The Anzac tournament in Auckland saw Collins win the D grade singles and Quaedvlieg make the semi-finals of the same grade.
They combined to be runners-up in the C grade doubles and won the D grade doubles.
At the Wanganui Open Collins reached the final of the under-15 years singles where he lost to James Harter. He and Nick Duncan won the doubles in that division while in the under-19 singles Collins had one win and two losses.
Collins also contested the open men's singles and again he won one and lost two.One of his losses was to a well-performed player in Lindsay Ward with Collins doing well to tally 8, 6 and 8 points in the three games.
In the under-19 doubles Collins and Nick Duncan scored a meritorious 3-1 win over Blair Patterson and Grant Gordon of Manawatu in the semis of the doubles before being beaten 3-0 by James Harter and Callum Rusbridge in the final.