In 2022, the table tennis exchange activity for the elderly in Jiaxing City was successfully held

Early summer and June are colorful. From June 15th to 16th, the “Welcome to the 20th National Congress, Recreation Exhibition” 2022 Jiaxing Senior Table Tennis Exchange Event hosted by Jiaxing Senior Sports Association was held in Chaoyue Club of Xiuzhou Experimental Primary School. More than 140 athletes, coaches and other elderly table tennis enthusiasts from 14 teams from the five counties (cities) and three districts of the city’s Senior Sports Association and the city’s branches (clubs) participated in this exchange activity.

Early in the morning, the players reported one after another. After careful inspections such as temperature measurement, site code scanning, health code, and 48-hour nucleic acid report in accordance with the current epidemic prevention and control requirements, the players entered the already arranged competition site and immediately Adjust the state and put it into the warm-up before the game.

This competition is a men’s and women’s mixed team competition. The match adopts the best-of-five-sets system, followed by men’s singles, women’s singles, mixed doubles, men’s singles, and women’s singles. The competition is divided into two stages. The first stage group round robin adopts the best of 3 rounds system, and the second stage elimination play-off adopts the best of 5 rounds system.

At nine o’clock in the morning, the game officially started, and the seven pool tables began to compete at the same time, with beautiful throws, sharp spikes, and clever spins… On the field, the players were all refreshed and high-spirited. Although the players were all grandparents, they were still agile, and their superb skills such as wonderful smashes and wonderful blocks were constantly displayed. The scores rose alternately, and the game was extremely fierce. It was exciting and difficult to tell the outcome. In many battles, the outcome was decided only after 15 or 16 draws. The players are opponents on the field and friends off the field, showing the healthy, optimistic and positive mental outlook of the elderly in our city. While watching the game, everyone couldn’t help cheering for the wonderful performance of the players on the field, and it attracted many people to pick up their mobile phones to take pictures and videos.

After two days of 37 fierce competitions, the winners were the Municipal Branch of the Senior Sports Association, Xiuzhou District Senior Sports Association, Haining Senior Sports Association, Jiashan County Senior Sports Association, Nanhu District Senior Sports Association, and Haiyan County Senior Sports Association Association, Pinghu City Senior Sports Association, City Senior Sports Association Urban Construction Branch, Tongxiang City Senior Sports Association, Municipal Senior Sports Association Financial Branch representative team, the winners of the Excellence Award are the Municipal Senior Sports Association Cycling Club, Economic Development Zone Senior Sports Association, City The representative team of the Education Branch of the Senior Sports Association and the Electric Power Branch. 14 athletes including Li Weichao, two referees Tang Yuzhou and Yu Zhen won the Sportsmanship Award.

Table tennis is my country’s national game. Table tennis has a broad mass base in our city. Many elderly friends love table tennis very much. The Municipal Senior Sports Association arranges the city’s senior table tennis exchange activities every year, and implements the “rotation system” for athletes to participate in the competition. In the event, the beautiful style will be displayed, the cultural and sports life of the elderly will be active, the friendship between each other will be enhanced, and the development of the national fitness movement will be promoted.