David Zapatka David Zapatka competed in the World Veteran Table Tennis Championships in Las Vegas June 18-24. This is an international event attended by 5,045 table tennis players from 99 countries. This was the first time in 38 years the WVC has been held in the USA. As table tennis is much more popular in…
The Robson Cup is an annual table tennis team challenge pitting Saddlebrooke against Sun Lakes in an alternating home and away format. Last year, Sun Lakes won a thrilling 12-11 match win to bring the Robson Cup back to Sun Lakes after an absence of two years. The Saddlebrooke warriors were intent on sending the…
David Zapatka The Sun Lakes Table Tennis Club Championships were hotter than ever this year. Indiana newcomer Dave Fletcher made a big splash with his wily play employing anti-spin rubber on one side of his paddle while employing spinny rubber on the other side of his paddle flipping between forehand and backhand. But southpaw Steve…
Dave Zapatka Sun Lakes Table Tennis Club sent six members to the Arizona Senior Olympic Table Tennis Tournament and all came home with medals. Leading the way was Gerry Vogelsang, our senior tournament player who won a silver medal in both the 80-84 singles and doubles divisions. Jim Spolar was tops in the 75-79 singles…
David Zapatka Steve Langer, Rich Nadler, Alan Behr, David Novikoff, Bob Snow and David Zapatka represented Sun Lakes at the annual Ahwatukee – Sun Lakes Shoot Out. After nearly four hours and 36 doubles matches, Sun Lakes Table Tennis Club came out victorious! This win allowed SLTTC to bring the traveling trophy back to Sun…