Table Tennis Federation had the two team finals last week, whereby on Thursday November 29th Barberia Cinto had become the champion in the category Masters beating the former champion Orkan with the score of 3-1. Peter Wong was brilliant during this match winning his 2 games and the double with Jacinto to close down the deal. […]
During the weekend 8-10 of October 2015 Aruba has hosted the 2nd edition of the DCT, after it was initiated by Curaçao last year during the celebration of the 30th anniversary of our foundation Sala Rekreo Irene Moreno. Curaçao was present with a delegation consisting of 9 youth players and 4 seniors. Others countries present […]
During the weekend (September 25-27) Bonaire Table Tennis Federation has hosted the International MCB Tournament with participation of around 15 players from Aruba, Curaçao and Holland. Curaçao alone came over with 10 players: 3 women, 2 seniors and 5 masters. A total of around 30 participants played in 4 categories: senior single, master single, women […]
Franklin Mathilda is celebrating the fact that 45 years ago he entered the international world of table tennis. It was a training camp in Holland that he and Robert Hose went to. Since then Franklin was for 45 years long internationally involved as players, trainer, coach, especially as table tennis leader of Curacao and during […]
Past June 28th, we had our second youth event of 2015 whereby a total of 13 players participated. They were classified in 2 divisions:. Division A ( 11 yr or younger): Yazir Anthony, Damian Mattheeuw and Ronelly Vos; Division B (12 – 17 yr) This division was split in 2 groups of 5 players Group […]
During the Latin American Championship Cadets & Junior in Aquada Puerto Rico our umpire Ulrich “Pel” Hernandez had a tremendous performance as umpire. During a lap of 10 days (19-29 of June) Pel did umpire 23 matches, among them 3 finals, which shows his excellent job during the championship. After his first international outing in […]
Last Thursday June 25th, the double open tournament has taken place as one of the last event of this month. As doubles have never been that popular as the single matches, you may say that the interest for this tournament was a kind of high. 11 couples did participate, among of them 2 mix-doubles who […]
After an absentness of a couple of years, due to her study in Holland, Dayanara Jean Pierre was back in the Sala Irene Moreno to participate in the FTMK cup for female players. She competed last on Wednesday June 17th with 5 other ladies among them Cyrella Rosalia, who won the last 2 Female Tournaments this […]
Last Tuesday June 9th the FTMK cup was programmed and started at 8.00 pm in Sala Irene Moreno with participation of 14 players whereby due to work Eldert van den Hout did not complete the 15 inscriptions. This event, the penultimate one valid for the ranking, had raised the expectations at a high level. After […]
The 5th ITTF Latin American Cup was held in Habana, Cuba from the 29th to the 31st of May 2015. It was for Ingrid a great opportunity to be able to attend this event as an international umpire. This international tournament invited the best 12 female and 12 male players of Latin America to compete […]
Last Thursday, June 4th we had the Master 50+ tournament. At 8.00 p.m. it started with participation of 14 players. They were scheduled in 4 groups of 4 players, whereby 2 groups were completed with a bye. Starting with the preliminary there were some very interesting confrontations, whereby all 5 sets had to be played: […]
Wednesday, May 27th the traditionally event named Lulu Salas Cup was scheduled. It is a tournament for women individual and organized to honor Lulu Salas, who had collaborated and served our federation during a long time. Besides that she was a former champion in table tennis and had played in the fifties. For the 2nd […]
On Thursday May 21st , the Master 40+ was scheduled and 13 players did register, included Erik van Veenendaal, the number one player of Bonaire. Due to the amount of players it was opted to play in 3 groups headed by the 3 best payers: Henny Metry, Erik van Veenendaal and Ronaldi Vos. In the […]
Sunday May 24th the federation had her first youth tournament of this year. It had an attendance of slightly over the 10 players. It started with 2 groups, whereby the young ones in the ages of 7-9 years were grouped separately from the older ones. The group of the young ones Yazir Anthony came out […]
The celebration of Sentro di Bario Sta Maria continued on Thursday May 14th with the second ranked group players in action, the so called B-classed players. It was great to see that in this class as well good table tennis can be played. 13 players did show up and participated in 3 groups. There were […]
Last Tuesday May 12th, it was the night of the truth. On initiative of Sentro di Bario Sta Maria within the celebration of her 55th anniversary an event was presented whereby the top gunners among the table tennis players on Curacao had to demonstrate who will be the best. A lot of speculation was hanging […]
In tremendous fashion Oscar Salas Tournament took place last Tuesday May 5th in Sala Irene Moreno in Muizenberg. It was the 5th event, valid for the ranking 2015. 15 players did participate with the presence of almost all the contenders for the nomination at the end of the year of Player of 2015. A special […]
Last Thursday April 23rd, Barberia Cinto tournament had experienced its peak after the preliminary matches, which were played on the Tuesday before. With a participation of 14 players 8 of them went through to the elimination final rounds. There were some excited games played, whereby the fierce battle between Sigmar Carmelia and Raymond Begina in […]