Doubts at the Brabant table tennis table: ‘How can we? No idea | Regional sports

How can we? No smell. “In November 2019, Julia Janssen left for Curaao, without a table tennis racket in her suitcase. Not knowing that three-quarters of a year later, Korona would have flattened the world, including table tennis.

We are now a year later and in the meantime Etten-Leurse has still not played the game. ,, Some Eredivisie clubs were allowed to train, so you had to meet certain requirements. We couldn’t do that, we don’t have a club doctor, for example. He didn’t miss it. If you don’t do anything at all, you won’t miss it very much. It wasn’t until the first exercise that I felt what I had lost. “

Tanaka’s women’s team has been in operation again for a few months. “But now is the holiday season, so I still haven’t trained constantly. “When the Eredivis begins, he does it. Looking forward to it. “It’s great to work towards something, to be together again as a group. That fun also motivates you.

Janssen has been playing table tennis for about ten years. He moved from the football field to the table. “It’s very fast, you can surprise someone who is much better, and it’s a fun kind,” he explains his love. But in the early years, there was also a downside, people who called table tennis a camping sport. “Oh, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They should have known how intense it is. Fortunately, people react more positively as you get older.

He rose to Eredivisie, where he now plays with his teammates Femke Boot (25), Sophie Dijkers (60), Hannah de Ruiter (18) and Janine Snoep (26). “I find it special to play table tennis at this level, but I’m not so worried about that. I just like to play the game.

The competition knocks on the door. On September 18, Tanaka beats the first servo in the new Eredivisie season. ,, It’s really weird when you haven’t played the game in so long. I have no idea how I can, the same goes for the team. Maybe it’s an advantage that other clubs have been practicing hard all the time and we don’t. We are open about whether they feel a certain pressure to occur. “He hopes to be able to preserve his body. We have a certain foundation and experience that we can count on. We will do our best to make the season good.