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“We wanted to go through an additional stage, to make sure that the city of Montluon is recognized as a stronghold of table tennis in terms of organization.”
At the weekend, pour the first time, the tournament is organized by the ASPTT and the international statute. “A little challenge” by Philippe Vekeman, head of the organizing committee, and Xavier-Antoine Michard, president of the Omnisports club.
1,600 euros for the Winner
To get there, the club put their hands in their pockets by awarding the tournament a 10,000 Prize (items and Rewards), or 4,000 more than in the 2019 edition (2020 and 2021 Editions were canceled due to Covid, NDLR). The Winner of the Elite tournament, which starts Tomorrow, from 3 pm (the final is scheduled around 9:30 pm, NDLR), will start with a round sum of 1,600.
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More than two hundred players are engaged.
A professional player earns a fixed salary of between 3,500 and 4,000. In half a day of competition, they can save 1,600, observes Philippe Vekeman, who knows very well that one does not pull the waves with vinegar.
National and international pongists await the Montluon (Allier) tournament
With such an endorsement, ASPTT paired two Iranian players and a world-class Italian player, allowing him to unveil the international label. It also had to convince local communities, edited a specific regulation on the tournament to come to an international referee in the person of Jean-Louis Longpe.
For several years, the club can count on twenty loyal volunteers capable of setting up an organization without fail. Another element to take into consideration, the sports hall is perfectly adapted to the practice of table tennis.
From one year to the next, 60% of players return, it’s not a coincidence
Philippe Vekeman (head of the organizing committee)
The leader can, with Satisfaction, contemplate the path traveled since 1988, the year the tournament was created by Xavier-Antoine Michard and his brother. At this time, the Champions are limited to the Auvergne region.
Philippe Vekeman is the head of the tournament organizing committee.
The ASPTT will record the scales one by one. First the interference, the national B, then the national A where we begin to see the first big players in Montluon like Stphane Ouaiche, the seventh French player, and Winner of the tournament in 2017 and 2018.
We have been proven and we are dressed up today with very good players. This proves that there are only the big Metropolis who are capable of building a tournament of this magnitude ”, assures Philippe Vekeman who would like, in the future, to get from the French Federation the organization of a great Competition like the French Championship.
In numbers
230
The number of players entered on the two days of competition
18
The number of tables (A to R). Depending on its national ranking, determined by points), each player plays on a definite table.
Fabrice Redon
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