Paul Drinkhall moves to Italy

England sensation and Olympic 2012 hopeful Paul Drinkhall moves to Italy in hope of achieving his life long dreams of a medal at the 2012 Olympic games. Geoff Ware interviews Paul at the recent Fusion Masters on his performance and plans for the London Olympics. Paul collected a well deserved cheque for £1000 in wining the Fusion Masters last weekend on the 4th July.

Video thanks to TableTennisDaily member Mark Kinlocke aka TinyKin




The staged final was between Paul and Kazeem and this was a top class affair full of brilliant rallies and exchanges. However the top seeded Drinkhall was always in the driving seat easing through his turbo charged gears to run out a worthy Champion with a 11-6, 11-7, 11-4 scoreline.

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So what are your views on the 2012 games?

lgreggs said:

Drinkhall works hard and wants it but the state of english table tennis is not good. Funding for only the very top like paul and even then not enough to get them to the top of the world. Training for juniors is not great either with a lack of training partners and at not a young enough age.

If England wants a table tennis medal it's going to have to sort it out.

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Very true Lloyd... England needs to create hot beds of really young kids aged at 6 onwards with the correct coaching and guidance. Then only we may get close to a medal