HAMILTON Table Tennis Association was in the thick of the action, hosting the Mid-Western Open for junior and senior players at the weekend.

NEARLY 90 junior and senior table tennis players will converge in Hamilton for this weekend’s Hamilton Mid-Western Open.

IT was semi-final time in the Hamilton Table Tennis Association, highlighted by wins to Tigers and Blues in the top grade.

BLUES got the better of Magpies in their Hamilton Table Tennis Association A grade clash last week.

HAMILTON’S Melissa Tapper was back in Paralympics action earlier this week, taking to the South Paris Arena for her Women’s Singles WS10 quarter-final against Chinese Taipei’s Shiau Wen Tian early Tuesday morning (local time), going down in five games, 2-3.

HAMILTON’S Melissa Tapper will open her Paris Olympics Women’s Singles campaign on Monday night (local time) when she faces Korean, Yubin Shin, in the round of 64.

HAMILTON’S Milly Tapper is set for an Olympic swansong, qualifying for the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

A BRIGHT future is on the cards for local tennis star, Eve Wear, after she helped South West Region win the 18-and-Under title at the Tennis Victoria Region Teams event staged in Bendigo recently.

THE sport of table tennis has a long and storied history here in Hamilton, with current Olympian and Paralympian, Melissa Tapper, being the obvious name that springs to mind, but now youngster, Ruby Rankin, is progressing through junior pathways.