18/07/03
SOUTH PACIFIC GAMES-Suva, Fiji
In the Women’s singles the semi finals left two young Tahitians battling out against the two finalists from the games in Guam. Melveen Richmond from Tahiti whom had accounted for hot favourite and in this case the queen of table tennis in the region Laura Leroy in the Women’s team event found the going a little more difficult. Laura whom also is a three-time winner showed that you can’t buy experience to overcome her younger opponent 4-2. On the other side it was Cyrine Sam who came up against defensive player Wai Yien Wong from Vanuatu. In this case experience and the fact that Wong was the only defensive player in the competition helped her significantly as she overcame a determined Sam 4-2. Laura Leroy in the final proved chop was of no factor to her and was far to strong easily taking the gold.
In the Mens Doubles, Eric Cholet and Lionel Chewtchouk Of Tahiti defeated top seeds Laurent Sens and Fredrich Quach. The Women’s doubles was won by the New Caledonians Laura Leroy and Laura Arnaud defeating the Vanuatu pair Kerry Mok and Wei Yian Wong. Raoul Rainouard and Laura Leroy dropped only one game on their path to mixed doubles gold defeating the Tahitians Cholet and Richmond comfortably in the final.
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