Africa-Press – Lesotho. Lesotho Table Tennis Association (LeTTA) top players represented the country in the Bloemfontein Open Tournament that was hosted by Free State Table Tennis Federation in South Africa (SA) under the
South African Table Tennis board over the weekend. The purpose of this tournament was to activate and raise the players’ competition spirit for international standards
and to present an opportunity for them to advance their profiles in the continental African Table Tennis Federation. Another aspiration was that Lesotho
National Olympics Committee (LNOC) will then review the players’ profiles to book their seats at the Commonwealth Games or have them represent the country
at the international level competitions for their active national exposure. As further revealed by LeTTA Vice Secretary General Kamohelo Seaka on Monday in an exclusive interview with Informative
Sport, this competition is an annual tournament and LeTTA started participating in it from 2019. “African Table Tennis Federation invited all African countries
to take part in this tournament, to improve their players’ profiles and assess their performance,” Seaka noted. He further said LeTTA was represented by four players who competed against countries such as Botswana and Eswatini.
“These are the players who occupied position one and two respectively in the national
rankings from the previous preliminary winter open tournament that was held at Khubetsoana in August this year,” Seaka said. He mentioned that in the ladies category,
Lesotho was represented by Thato Mathibeli and Reaboka Bofelo from Thamae Table Tennis while in the gentlemen were twin brothers Khethang and Likhetho Mothibe.
He said among these, two players secured position two; Reaboka Bofelo and Likhetho Mothibe. Seaka added that LeTTA delegation to Bloemfontein was made up of four players, Coach Oupa Rasemeri and the Physical
Trainer Moliehi Matsepe through the help of the Lesotho Sports and Recreation Commission (LSRC). Seaka explained that all players were knocked out in the group stages but in terms of performance, their games were
good. He, however noted that their bets are not in good condition. “Going forward I think we shall have to conduct intense training and our National Executive Committee (NEC) has to see to it that they buy bets of good quality
because things keep on improving. The association is in preparations to host camps and tournaments for the players to commence trainings so that they improve
their skills,” he said. LeTTA promotes and develops table tennis in Lesotho. It has competed in the National Championships in several parts of SA, taken part in Botswana Table Tennis Championship and Table Tennis Senior Championships in Senegal and Mauritius in recent years.
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