Table tennis prodigy clinches under-15 and senior club titles
Tamika van As crowned under-15 and senior women's champion, at the weekend's junior and senior club championships, at Fairview Primary School, in Grassy park
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Boundary Table Tennis Club's Tamika van As, 12, from Bonteheuwel and a Grade 7 pupil at Athlone North Primary School, was crowned under-15 and senior champion at the weekend's junior and senior club championships, hosted by Duinefontein Table Tennis Club, at Fairview Primary School, in Grassy Park.
In the semi-finals, she beat Top Table Tennis Club's Shiloh Smith 3-0 before taking on Caitlyn May in Sunday's senior women's finals. A tight 3-2 win against May was enough to secure the title, and her name was written in the history books as the youngest player to win a senior singles club title.
Boundary Table Tennis Club's Tamika van As keeps her eye on the ball during the early rounds of the weekend's club championships, in Grassy Park.
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It's been a busy year for the youngster as she represented the country Commonwealth table tennis tournament in Botswana in the girls under-13 division and was also crowned under -13 and under-15 girls' champion at last year's Johannesburg Open.
Young Tamika also made it to the senior women semi final at the Johannesburg Open. She repeated her performance Umgungundlovu Open in Pietermaritzburg earlier this year, winning the girls' under-15 section and was a finalist in the senior women's division.
Newly-crowned club champion Tamika van As in action at the weekend's junior and senior championships, at Fairview Primary School.
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