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Annual Meiringen Colorado Trophy Challenge Championship

The Annual Meiringen Colorado Trophy Challenge Championship is a very prestige annual table tennis tournament. It was first held at the All Meiringen Table Tennis Country Club & Spa in the Meiringen neighbourhood of Lenggasse in July 2010. The first tournament took place on an evening between the host, Simon T., wild card winner and tournament favorite Alex T. and special invited guest from the USA Kevin L.

The official Table Tennis Table was sponsored and provided by the Lenggasse community. The total attendance was 3, a record that is yet to be broken. The organisation committee chose to hold the tournament in July because of the secure weather and warm temperatures during this time of the year. An indoor Tabel Tennis Tabel in case of bad weather was not provided.

First edition of the Tournament
The Main event called „Gentlemen's Singles“ was played between Alex T., Kevin L. and Simon T. Each player played one full length Table Tennis match against the others. Alex T. who first played Simon T. has been known as mental strong, fast and steady player. In the Table Tennis community in Meiringen he is also know as “Alex the ping-pong bear Teige”. Simon T. on the other hand is a fairly new player to the sport who has limited experience but is very talented. Because of his wide repertoire of shots and fast speed he is also called “Simon the hot hand Thoni”. Although the odds where against Simon he managed to beat Alex in a great match, known as “the battle of Lenggase”, in two sets. This prestigious victory still is to this date a hot topic under the Table Tennis players in Meiringen. For the second match Kevin L. made his first appearance against Alex. Little known about Kevin put him in the position of the secret favourite of the tournament. Kevins inconspicuous style gave him the name ”ghost from Colorado”. After a few rallies it was clear that his ambitions for the title win where justified. This second round match will be remembered as the longest match ever played at the tournament. At the end Alex won the historical match but Kevin did not finish without putting up a great fight. In the third round Kevin needed a victory against Simon to keep his chances to enter the final match for the championship. Since Simon was able to rest in the second round he came out very strong and seemed fresher and quicker then his opponent who just finished a very long and strength taking second round match. Also this match was very close till the end but Simon managed to have a little more luck on his side then Kevin and therefore secured his spot in the final game after pulling off a victory against Kevin. The first final of the 1st Annual Meiringen Colorado Trophy Challenge Championship was played between Alex and Simon. Simon won both of his prior matches and therefore he was in the position of the favourite. It was unclear how he would manage this role because his mental stamina was not among his best features. Alex tried with verbal warfare to insecure his opponent but with the trophy in front of his eyes Simon did not break down. Unfortunately there is no evidence or recording of this match but rumours make you belief that it was the greatest sport match ever played with the better end for Simon. Therefore the championship title went to Simon followed by the runner up Alex and third placed Kevin.

Aftermath
Having a hard time excepting the loss in the final Alex decided to take a break from the sport for a while. He has not played in any other tournament since but was spotted practicing with Simon on a couple of occasions.

Kevin has been busy playing back home in the USA, as it is his speciality to leave his opponents in the dark, it is hard to evaluate his current condition and skill level. Its been know that Kevin has a new coach in the person of his brother which is very famous in North America.

Simon enjoyed his victory and celebrated for 4 straight days. He is yet to make an other appearance in a tournament and will be under a lot of pressure to defeat his title.

At the end of September there will be a reunion of Kevin and Simon on Kevins home ground in Colorado. Do to an injury on his left toe Alex is not able to participate in this match fixture. Kevin will take on Simon at the 1st Invitational Colorado Meiringen high stacks Tabel Tennis Championship at the National Ping-Pong Center in Denver, Colorado.