Bonteheuwel’s Boundary Table Tennis club members performed well at last week’s SA championships, in Brixton, Johannesburg. Among the club’s top achievers were Tamika van As, 11, a Grade 6 pupil at Athlone North Primary School and part of the teams that won gold in the girls’ under-13 doubles and mixed doubles events, and the Dadaker siblings, Sameena, Mohammed and Zaeem, who dominated their respective divisions.
Boundary Table Tennis Club’s Dadaker siblings, from Athlone, arrived home with a trunk full of medals. Pictured from left, are Sameena, 10, a Grade 4 pupil at Rustenburg Girls’, Mohammed, 12, in Grade 7 at Rondebosch Boys’ Prep School and Zaeem , 11, a Grade 5 pupil at Rondebosch Prep. Sameena was crowned under-11 girls’ champion, under-13 girls’ silver medalist and won gold in the under-11 doubles and mixed doubles finals with partners Lael Marshall from Gauteng and older brother Zaeem, who was crowned under-11 champion in the boys’ division. Zaeem then teamed up with Mohammed to take silver in the boys’ under-13 doubles event. Mohammed finished with silver in the under-13 boys’ section and gold in the under-13 mixed doubles with partner Tamika Van As.Boundary Table Tennis Club’s Tamika Van As and Mohammed Dadaker after winning gold in the under-13 mixed doubles event, at last week’s national championships, in Johannesburg. Tamika won four gold medals in total – gold in the girls’ under-13 doubles and under-15 mixed doubles and, gold in the girls’ under-13 and under-15 singles division.Boundary’s Samuel Schrieff reached the boys’ under-11 mixed doubles quarter-finals and won silver in the boys’ under-11 finals.Pictured, from left, are, Boundary Table Tennis Club’s Timothy Lingeveldt, Milo Katz and Matthew Lingeveldt. Milo and Timothy partnered to win the boys’ under-11 doubles. Milo also reached the boys’ under-11 semi-final while Matthew was part of the duo that won the boys’ under-15 doubles title.
