Africa-Press – Ghana. The Bono Regional Office of the National Sports Authority (NSA) at the weekend held table tennis competition in honour of the late Anthony Kwaku Asante, a certified table tennis coach in the Bono Region.
The late Asante, a former regional table tennis coach in the then Brong-Ahafo Region died on October 26, 2025, after a short illness.
According to the deceased family, the final funeral rites of the late coach who was 78 years old was scheduled for Friday, December 7, 2025, at Fiapre in the Sunyani West Municipality of the region.
The NSA in collaboration with the Bono Regional branch of the Ghana Table Tennis Association and the Anthony Kwaku Asante Foundation, a table tennis development organisation, organised the day’s competition, at the premises of the Sunyani Senior High School.
It featured 50 young talented table tennis players drawn from Bono, Bono East, Ahafo Eastern and Ashanti regions, competing for prizes including trophies, medals and undisclosed cash prizes ranging between GHC1,000 and GHC2,000 and other souvenirs.
The late Anthony Kwaku AsanteSpeaking in an interview with sports on the sidelines of the opening session of the encounter, Mr Kwame Bea Mensa, the Bono Regional Director of the NSA said the competition would be organised annually to unearth and build on the table tennis talents, nationwide.
He said the sport was a lucrative enterprise that could create job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youth and called for support from corporate bodies and stakeholders.
Mr Manfred Nyarko, the Bono Regional Chairman of the Ghana Table Tennis Association also told that: “Coach Asante left a lasting legacy, and we must continue to build on that and to harness and tap into the huge economic prospects in the game”.
He expressed concern about the lack of facilities to build the game and urged the government to invest more into table tennis, saying the region had numerous young boys and girls good at table tennis.
Mr Frederick Asante, the Executive Director of the Anthony Kwaku Asante Foundation, explained that the foundation was established to continue with the legacies of the late coach Asante.
Describing him as passionate about table tennis, he said the region and the nation in general would forever remember the late coach for support and partnership towards organizing the annual event.
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