A good month for Mitchell

The few weeks have been good for Cippenham Table Tennis Club star Edward Mitchell. During that time Mitchell has turned thirteen years of age, made his British League debut for Cippenham and starred in three tournaments all played at his home club.

The Cippenham Junior 2-Star Open Championships attracted a good entry from all over the south of the country yet it was two of Cippenham’s team-mates in the Junior British League that contested the final of the Boys’ Singles. In it Eddie Mitchell overcame Ruihao Zhang, a player from Southampton that Cippenham signed to bolster their squad at the start of the season. It was tight match: won by Mitchell 11-7 in the fifth came after coming back from a 2-1 game deficit.

Cippenham’s Angela Oetiker and Stephanie Mitchell made it through to the quarter-finals of the Girls’ Singles, an event won by Charleigh Kirby of Middlesex.

The previous day the same players had been taking part on the Buckinghamshire Junior Closed Championships. Mitchell, undoubtedly the star of the tournament, won three events: the Under-18 Boys’ Singles, Under-15 Boys’ Singles and the Under-18 Boys’ Doubles with another rising Cippenham star Alex Polding. Angela Oetiker captured the Under-18 Girls’ Singles with victory over Stephanie Mitchell to give Cippenham a clean sweep of all of the under-18 titles.

To cap a fine series of events Eddie Mitchell then reigned supreme at the Southern Region Trials. In this, he won the top event, the Under-15 age group, while another Cippenham player Jonathan Evans finished second.