Olly Langlois awaits service in yesterday’s table tennis team final. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 1152348)

THEY had talked beforehand about winning gold, but no one could ever have imagined the way Guernsey’s table tennis players would perform to clinch a stunning team final victory yesterday.

Facing Gotland, the dominant side of recent times in the final, the Sarnian team threw the history book out of the window with a resounding 4-0 whitewash of their illustrious opponents.

Make no mistake, Guernsey table tennis has been heading in the right direction for quite some time, but to win an event by dropping only one rubber throughout the week is still a staggering achievement.

It was the mixture of young and old who got the Greens over the line, Alice Loveridge and Dawn Morgan winning an epic five-set women’s doubles encounter, but in truth it was the opening rubber which put Guernsey in pole position.

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