Sukun grabs overall title

SEMARANG (JP): The Sukun table tennis club of Kudus, Central Java, grabbed four of nine individual titles to claim the overall championship at the sixth Gotong Royong Cup Open Table Tennis National Tournament at the Youth Building in Ambarawa, some 30 kilometers south of here.

Sukun's four titles were won by Franky in the men's beginner division, Arista in women's cadet, Johan in men's junior and Nur Anis in the men's senior division.

Semarang Regent B. Guritno presented the winners with their trophies and other prizes.

"One hundred players from 10 clubs from Bandung, Banjarnegara, Jakarta, Kudus, Semarang, Surakarta and Surabaya took part in the open tournament, which began on Wednesday," the chairman of the tournament's organizing committee, Soehartono Lenggono, said.

"We expect more athletes from all over Indonesia to take part next year, especially players from outside Java," he said. (har)