Author- FATOUMATTA
SAHO
The
Hopes championship tournament organized by the Gambia Table Tennis
Association was meant to Identify two youngsters who were born in
2001,the championship was played among eleven male participated in a
round robin competition of ten matches, out of which one was selected
while five female contested out of which one was selected through
their performance.
Fatou
Gassam a grade 6 student of Bakau Newtown Primary and Ebou Sowe a
grade 5 student of Bakau Newtown Primary made it though after
battling it out with other students from different schools.
Speaking
to this reporter, the technical director of table tennis, Mr.
Surakatu Adebayo Gafar Abdoul, revealed that Ebou Sowe and Fatou
Gassama were identified by the association after they champion the
various categories male and female, noting that the two athletes have
been duly registered for the Hopes Program and hoping that they will
be selected for the next stage of the championship, which is due in
June in Sweden.
Mr
Adebayo added that the athletes will be camp among other athletes
worldwide to compete where the best young tennis players would be
identified and that they would later be sponsored by the
International Table Tennis Federation, and be prepared for the
future.
The
technical director also revealed that the cost of finance for the two
athletes would be finance by the association for the championship.
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