Fiji Deserved Table
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Tennis Victory
The knock-out system followed in table tennis at the Games brought a number of long faces, but Fiji de served to win its gold medal never theless. Fiji took it from New Cale donia, which thus ended with the silver medal in a 7 to 1 result.
Table tennis, a game requiring tactics and coaching, s6ems to be a speciality in the more sophisticated areas where players have more time to devote to it.
Both New Caledonia and Fiji had had plenty of experience, with the Chinese well to the fore among team members. The New Caledonian team (which included a 14-year-old girl) didn't play as well as it has in Noumea, but it is doubtful if this affected the result.
The Papua-New Guinea team felt it would have had a showing if the points system had been followed, be cause it was knocked out after the first game under the existing rules.
The only other competing teams were Niue, GEIC and Tonga.