Table-tennis ace Lois takes schools silver

Chichester teenager Lois Peake won the silver medal at the Butterfly schools’ individual table tennis championships.
By The Newsroom
Published 12th May 2015, 14:09 GMT
(Pictured Keith Thomas of Table Tennis England, Eva Wang, Emily Bolton and Lois Peake Picture by Ted Cottrell)(Pictured Keith Thomas of Table Tennis England, Eva Wang, Emily Bolton and Lois Peake Picture by Ted Cottrell)
(Pictured Keith Thomas of Table Tennis England, Eva Wang, Emily Bolton and Lois Peake Picture by Ted Cottrell)

The Bishop Luffa School student, 18, was seeded second for the event and duly made her way through group and knockout stages, completing her path to the final by beating third seed Emily Bolton 3-1 (11-6, 7-11, 11-8, 12-10) in the last four.

But she found top seed Eva Wang in top form in the final, as she went down 3-0 (6-11, 4-11, 3-11).

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Peake said: “It was good to beat Emily (in the semi-finals) – we always have a bit of a bish-bosh and it was good to get through that. Eva is a top quality player and played really well, she deserved to win.”