Despite visa troubles that forced her to miss the team event, Ottawa’s Mo Zhang emerged as Commonwealth table tennis singles champion at the May event in India.

Ottawa high school athletes came up big at this year’s OFSAA badminton championships in Pain Court near Chatham, taking home 5 medals over 5 categories, including a gold medal for two Merivale High School students in mixed doubles.

National capital athletes had a remarkable performance at the 2013 OFSAA badminton championships, bringing home a pile of medals from the May 2-4 event in Pain Court, near Chatham.

Eugene Zhen Wang of Ottawa won a bronze medal at February's Swiss Open table tennis event in Lausanne.

Pierre-Luc Hinse is going to the Olympics, and that’s all that matters. He’s got a wonky hip and his prospects in men’s singles aren’t great as the 305th-ranked player in the world, but being able to call himself an Olympian – that’s what it’s all about.

Mo Zhang has been on the move just about all her life, but the 23-year-old is hopeful the next stop will be the best stop as she prepares for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Eugene Wang’s Olympic hopes were crushed. And it wasn’t a defeat to a top opponent or an untimely injury that caused it. Clearly the best player in North America based on world rankings, Wang was the favourite heading into the continental Olympic qualifier, but there was one missing piece of paper preventing him from competing – his Canadian citizenship.

Call it a successful sibling switcheroo for Sheniz Eyuzlu, who repeated as national capital high school tennis mixed doubles city champion on Thursday, May 10 at Tennis Centre West Ottawa.

Pierre-Luc Hinse’s Olympic dream has been 15 years in the making.
The 24-year-old first picked up a table tennis racket when he was only nine. Now, thanks to his performance at April’s North American Olympic qualifier, Hinse is set to compete at this summer’s Olympic Games.