Thanks to Prisident of Chi-Ba-Ken Tennis association Takada San and James Chang that through months of communication, the tournament was finally put into reality.
Though the weather report predicted a cloudy with slight rain day which got everyone of us worried,
it turned out to be a cloudy with partly sunny day.
The
games went on very well with first men's double and women's double between
Japan team and Taiwan team. There are 16 sets played which we played
with no ad game to cut down the play time.
In the
afternoon, mixed double and mixed players were arranged according to
ages and skills. Another 16 sets played until everyone felt exhausted.
The
welcome dinner party was held at 6:30pm at Hai-Ba-Wang Seafood
Restaurant. There everyone enjoyed the delicious Taiwanese styled
seafood banquet tables with wine and beer.
The Vice
President of JSTA Furukawa Fumio San first gave a short speech for the special occasion and then the president of Taiwan Tennis Association, James
Chang gave the welcome speech. He then started the evening with a song to
greet everyone.
The ladies of Japan team then went to
have costume changed and presented a HAwaiian Hula Dance. It was so
beautiful and enticing that some of the Taiwan team members came out to join
them. Oh, it was such a joyful moment! There are many Japanese songs
sung by Taiwan Team members to show their sincere welcome and later
Japan team presented three songs that can be sung in both Japanese and
Chinese which had got everyone into singing!
During the
Party, both team leaders also present with each other their team's polo
shirts as gifts to each player. Mr. Wu Ming-San from Taiwan team also
presented a small gift for each one of the Japan team for their warm
gifts during the day. Japan team again returned with their 2020 Tokyo
Olympic pins for Taiwan members.
Finally the president of TTA led the crowd to sing a farewell song to end the party.
It
was a memorable one and we all hope that there will be more of such
type of friendship tournament going between Japan and Taiwan in the
future!
The Japan team members composed of 5 men players:
Takada Kenji
Furukawa Fumio
Otoshi Hajime
Ota Tomohiro
Yoshimi Yuji
And 10 women players:
Takai Hisayo
Ogiyama miyoko
Koto Chie
Kakuda Chieko
Kidokoro Michiko
Tomioka Fumie
Kawabe Ikuko
Mitsuyama Kumiko
Tagei Atsuko
Domon Yuko
The Taiwan team composed of 14 men players:
Ihsin Chang
Shao-Chung Chang
Po-Hsien Hsiao
Yi-Ben Liao
Ming-San Wu
Yong-Hsien Tsai
Tsun-Fu Chiu
Hong-Long Liu
Yen-Bin Hsieh
Chang-Bin Wang
Zong-Song Huang
Hon-Yang Huang
Allan Wang
Ding-Bao Lin
And women players as follows,
Shiou-Eng Chen
Shu-Er Lee
Tsun-Mei Lin
Ming-Fang Chen
Yun-Chu Liu
Fong-Eng Ko
Wong-Yuan Hsieh
Shiou-Ling Wang
Shiang-Rong Luo
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