Led by a 100% record from Karina Le Fevre, Ormesby won the Women’s British Table Tennis League for the third successive year in Doncaster as they finished a successful season with a string of victories over the rest of the field.
Playing at No 1 in the team, Le Fevre won all of her eight sets in the final round of matches in South Yorkshire.
In the fixture against the club’s main rivals, Draycot East Midlands, she beat current leader of the English Grand Prix series Abbie Milwain 3-0 and her England team colleague Emma Vickers 3-1.
Le Fevre was supported strongly by the rest of the team.
Maria Tsaptsinos won nine of her 10 sets including all straight games victory over Vickers in the opening set of Ormesby’s win in the Draycot match.
She also helped the team with a win over Yolanda King the No 1 player for YHL of Devon who finished in third position in the final table.
Tsaptsinos triumphed 3-2 after trailing 4 -1 in the decider, winning at 11-6.
Sarah Berge was a tower of strength at No 3 for Ormesby, finishing with an unbeaten record in Doncaster including straight games wins over highly rated Guernsey international Alice Loveridge and Milwain, both with convincing straight games scorelines in the Draycot match.
Chloe Whyte played her part in winning twice against Leicester team Knighton Park.
Ormesby won their first four matches of the weekend by six sets to nil beating Knighton Park, Halton of Merseyside, Burton and YHL.
In the final match against Draycot, Ormesby won 5-1, with the East Midlands team’s only victory being Loveridge over Tsaptsinos by three games to one.
Le Fevre finished with an unblemished record of 16 wins from 16 sets throughout the season.
Tsaptsinos and Berge both had 95% records with 19 wins out of 20 while Whyte also had a 100% return with four from four.
Ormesby have now lifted the Women’s British League title five times in the last seven years including each of the last three.
Le Fevre and Whyte have been an important part of the squad throughout the whole of that period.
The trophy, the Butterfly Bowl, was presented to the Ormesby team by the chair of Table Tennis England, Sandra Deaton.
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