Mass international invasion for ping-pong tourney :: Mmegi Online

A total of 37 international players have registered for the Phoenix Assurance Botswana Table Tennis Association (BTTA) Regional Open. The tournament, that will be played tomorrow at the Botho University, has attracted 24 men and 13 women paddlers from countries such as Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

The BTTA Regional Open was extended to players in the southern part of Africa and only South Africa did not honour the invitation. The tournament is the first international one to be played on home soil since the AUSC Region V Games in 2018 and carries P8,000 prize money, which is one of the highest in the region.

The second-placed players will walk away with P4,000 with the semi-finalists and quarter-finalists getting P2,000 and P1,000 respectively. The Botswana Open also has the juniors’ section, the Under-19 Cup. The winners in the juniors’ category will pocket P2,000 while the second-placed and semi-finalists get P1,000 and P500 for their sweat.

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