Turning rookies into pros

The tournament was promoted as an entertaining and energetic way to spend a Saturday morning. As it turned out, this promise was more than fulfilled, as more than 100 people turned up at the sports hall on ul. Siennicka in Warsaw’s Praga-Południe district – to battle it out for the trophies, to cheer on the players, or just to have a very pleasant day out. Several generations of family members even turned up for the tournament – the youngest of these was only three months old, while the oldest... well, they were much older. You could bump into some old friends from past events, because this year there was an informal ‘tournament regulars’ category (some had scores to settle from previous tournaments and a few even succeeded in doing so!). What also pleased the organisers was the fact that many new enthusiasts of the sport entered the competition along with names familiar from previous years. So we had some explosive confrontations across the ping-pong tab