World Teqball Championships | Women’s Singles, Final | J. Kuntatong vs R. Fontes

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M Welcome back to continuing coverage of the sixth World Tech bow championships live from the capital of Thailand this is the Bangkok arena in the historic capital in the Nang Chong District we’ve already had the bronze medal matches they were the orderer pretty tasty but I think we still have room for the main

Events in the quarter a millionar world championships the sixth time that it has been staged but the first ever outside of Europe and coming up a guest appearance from Ronald Jr as well sandwiched in between the women and the men’s finals first up as you can see will be jut punong against Rafael

Fontes a real Clash of styles be interesting to see how that one goes then team Moro J taking on team Thailand big welcome for the genius the footballing genius from Brazil at the airport when he arrived yesterday lots of Brazil supporters in the crowd for sure many of them local people but quite

A few have followed over here in a few X Pats as well so the women’s final is up first and this is what we’ve been waiting for then jtip katong has taken the world of tech by storm quite literally along with some of her male counterparts the attacking overhead

Style and developed with the sport of CPAC Tira has really served thae play as well and the crowd is anxiously awaiting their local hero in this one they’ve met once before and it went the way the Brazilian but jtip katong is a much better player now it was tied even then

With just a couple of points in the sets between them he really lit up the doubles as much as the singles jtip and uh came through a fabulous quarterfinal against Janette yanich having lost the first set earlier in the week so jurus deniset is the French referee

For this encounter and he’ll be assisted underneath the camera by ammed El Kaku and here come the two athletes who’ve made it through to the final the first gold medal of the sixth World Tech ball championships will be decided in the next hour or so will it be the Local

Hero will it be the tie player from l near changai the 24 25-year-old jip katong or will it be her more experienced opponent even though she’s only 21 raphaela Fontes GIS from Brazil a real star already even at her tender age winner on tour in June in LA and The

Wom’s Doubles Bronze in the last event as well and looking imperious on her way to the final has not dropped a set and demolished king of barabasi Europe’s finest 123 121 in the semi-final if you were watching that a little earlier on the live fee broadcasting around the world

Chech more YouTube channel is always on as well for those matches that aren’t being broadcast on the bigger screens and a little look at the two competitors then who’ve made it through to the showpiece event katong just like almost all Tha players intent on attack we saw the differences

In rafhael font’s play in her semi-final and her route to the final as well hasn’t dropped a set this week and indeed only once has an opponent got more than seven in any of the sets that they played against Rafaela Fontes a minute warm up is over and we are about

To play the 2023 women’s world champion will be known at the end of two or three sets Ball please yeah I think that was Ball please an extra little practice rally they managed to get in before we get underway our French referee M deny will call the players to order

Ready bedam in the Bangkok Arena here first set first fairly new stadium that was opened in 2015 qualifiers actually were not played here they were played in the AA Mac Arena outdoor facility Fontes reacting quickly to the little chip back over the net forced her opponent back expecting

The big hit and just died it neatly over the net he uses her head in a thinking way more than just the sniper headers ECT and takes the opening Point Raphael AES got that one all wrong served really well in the semi-final in particular I thought second service she completely dominated her

Opponent P tayor well we’ll get that reaction every time that she takes a point may have be a little bit more pressure on in front of her home crowd but she didn’t show it there executed perfectly didn’t try to hit it too hard got depth first service always difficult

For a player when it hits the back of the table you’re never quite sure what angle it’s going to come off at oh she did well there to leave that you can do two touches don’t have to do three to Brazil but it only prolonged inevitable as the Brazilian took the

Point PES from Maria de janiro plays with the time Tech B Rio Club former world champion herself back in 2021 when she was a teenager one the first ever women’s doubles the years prior to that it was an open category she got the edge illegal return

Oh point to braz she’s surprised by that she does have an appeal if she wants one but it’s very early in proceedings to use up an appeal so 3-1 after the first four serves and now the tie player is play catch up a little bit needs to make sure

She doesn’t go any further behind during these cor n this looks a little edgy no sign of that in the second final when she had a brilliant win over the defending Champion put out Caroline Greco Californian girl oh here comes the overhead misses it though Point you’ll

See a few of those a little nod towards a coach of the team the Brazilians have uh also got into the act in terms of the decibels holding their own against the majority tie crowd here in Bangkok again glances off the top of the net even if

It had hit the table which it didn’t would Ser the fault on serve VIP area behind by the way in case you’re wondering lots of dignitaries a lot of them we’ll see in the presentation ceremony a little later many members of the international Olympic committees and National committees around the world

Vontes going in for the kill with a powerful head and now she goes back but it’s from Kong which gives rapael Fontes the point to the Del light of the supporters either in the gold shirts or the blue shirts have another look here at the technique seemed in a perfect position

Maybe a little worried by the impending halfway line was rushing towards her might have just taken her eye slightly off so now facing a bit of trouble having lost the first but a service winner enlivens the crowd she giv a little jump for joy herself and reduces the arear by one to

Three points textbooks here low firm first service if you’re going to get it to bounce high on the table you want it to be very high from a long way back like Fontes goes but the low flat serve makes it difficult Fontes dealt with it really well but Jin tippo worked

Out the angles well uses the head just biing a time hope she gets a chance to set herself up for the spectacular Ed oh hits the edge she’ll have to replay it she will not in the point bit of an escape there for the Brazilian I feel pesh must have been

Fearing the worst and although it seems like a very healthy lead at 5-3 as we look again at the edge being caught there if first just gets a couple of points in a row here the crowd will start really going crazy could be difficult for the Brazilian in this bare pit of an

Atmosphere NE change up by return point to T so she used the put in successive final touches in the rally is’s quering it and asking whether it’s worth an appeal change up service she’s not going to appeal then and so the serve goes over and the areas have been reduced first [Applause]

Service contest remember 5 one up two points in a row one by default really lays it up short but not short enough to get a second bounce on the table and the is into the side I think y side brail knows that she should have made that one first ever World Championships in

Tech tech ball were back in 2017 in budapes the birthplace of this amazing sport over 20 nations were represented but now just a few years later even allowing for a year out with the pandemic we’ve got over 60 Nations represented oh here we go brilliant from K tip good defending though Fontes will

Come back at it oh but she chested into the net she did the hard work but stumbled over the [Applause] easiest it’s all relative as I tell you it’s not that easy chesting over from that point maybe just a little excited here we go with a big ball to the back

Forcing her opponent to retreat quite away Fontes setting herself up for the head of this time good tip could have a go with the swing of the foot she’s just not ning it yet though gets away and she’s happy look at her reaction clearly she felt that was going to be a side

Ball and a point against her huge relief she gets another bite of the metaphorical cherry and we can go again with this 11 Point score still six SC first service indoors quite a lot of events in the tech ball tour being played Outdoors on beaches and other brilliant settings this one point brail

It means that the conditions are more equal don’t have to cope with variant like a dipping Sun or a crosswind or sand blowing up first service and it’s fitting for the finals day in one of the biggest cities in South Asia Fontes little header good return quick a little Tippy T there

Fones put it long from Four Points the Gap earlier it’s back down to two change the serve again a Fontes still in a measure of control but was really hoping it’ll be 84 as it is 57 with this tie player serving now diive but most well some of the players

On the team to three weeks what a Christmas and birthday present this would be combined Tech tour takes a break at brail this tournament the end of the season will resume in 2024 you can keep up to date when the calendar is announced by visiting the fek fit EQ the governing

Body Federation International of Techo now the tie player in po position to win this one and she does was celebrating even before hones should completed her attempt to return I think must have seen that their opponent fo was not in the right position yeah just a toenail they’re going to hook it

Back on mental positivity first service leaving junp katong back within Striking Distance now Gap is not getting more than two but we’re coming towards the end of set first the 12 win brilliant but Fontes is there as she soft and is should get this back as well

Uses the chest well here it comes again maybe no it goes for the head of sniper that time now what a headed winner that is brilliant sniper edgeball and it’s been called an edgeball to her disbelief and she’s appealing immediately sh by brap was Edge ball the sign that

She thought it was Edge ball the ball came late now where did it hit here we go wasn’t the edge looked to me good in with a naked eye oh wow that’s so difficult to tell to hit the Edge from that distance on a dipping table is really

Difficult I she might win her appeal here but it’s got to be a clear and obvious error I’m not sure I think I’d say it is legal and but will it be overturned because it’s not clear and obvious how many times do you have to look at it

Don’t the guys in the truck watching this [Applause] one in some sports where it’s not definitive you get to keep your challenge but she won’t if this stays as an edge ball because there’s no absolute proof then the Brazilian will lose their challenge for the entire match here

Comes the French referee challenge is completed no Edge B oh she’s W Brazil she gets the point she keeps remain well with the naked eye I thought it looked good and so it was first service tip didn’t really leave that one she hoped Fontes getting a boost by that

Though opens the Gap to three which it hasn’t been for a while back comes Katon Fontes with a header careful not to go halfway wins it wow told you she used her head figuratively and physically and on this time the sniper header CH of service bang1 Four Points the Gap now

106 I said earlier today in the third place playoff matches that for the women quite often points are conceded on serve and junip has to attack now J Kong did well there try to catch pontes out of position again she has to make up ground played early with just the two touches

By the tie player Kong again setting herself up now you know it but she misses it pun of Brazil at the moment the punch lines are not funny for katong and the crowd here as the Brazilian takes control and has five set points in the final women’s singles Champion 2023 to be

Decided Fontes has the aces goes with a big booming looping serve to the back when the tie players on it gets the table this time no Edge ball brilliant hit but she has to do that four more times and then win it when it gets to 11 all first

Service same again will do take any part of your body with a third touch it’s a repeat not an action replay it’s real life this time Fontes gets it back but it’ll be coming at it again goes short oh brilliant point you can see what PES was trying to do

There celebrations on PA in the Brazilian Camp first service she loses another Point she’ll be getting a little edgy set was almost lost forong at 116 is halfway no signal given Fontes to win it doesn’t do so needs to use a head or shoulder or chest or something there

Used the head shoulder this time from the Brazilian Here Comes gtip oh played it short when the Brazilian was back but she was wary of it now struggling to stay in this set can head it makes herself time well recovered after a tricky first effort brilliant short

Brazil har header Brazil takes the set 12 points to six magical stuff from the 21y old from Rio hasn’t exactly silenced the crowd or herself actually she wow she packs a punch one of the smallest athlet in the field battled way through to the final almost without a scrape it’s taken

To a deciding point in the semi of the second set against king of barashi but it’s South America to the four here well it was at times exhilarating a brilliant opening set let’s hope for more of the same obviously as a neutral we would absolutely love it to go to three sets

Because the tie crowd will be really up for it there at the moment it’s the Brazilians s like there a few B zers in there as well in the crowd here to try and raise the atmosphere anymore some brilliant rallies and that was the one that sealed the sa for raphaela

Fontes Brazilian takes it 126 the minute is up players will be called back to order here on the second set be getting underway TI Flags in the crow but of Brazilian quite a few big Brazilian flags as well the stats from the first jet show you that 92% of pes’s first

Serves wearing those big booming looping serves to the back and four winners to one and eight unforced errors from Kon well she about to settle down a little bit now after that she was 51 down remember and lost it by six in the end but I think she’ll make a

Better start to this second set and could quite easily take it to a decider just needs a bit of momentum here playing cautiously cries of Brazil going up here from the south Americans in the audience point to Brazil not endearing herself to the locals is she celebrations like that

Right in front of them you can see what it means first service never been a world champion in singles First World Championships that had a women’s singles came in 2021 point to Brazil wow on that occasion it was the Hungarian Anar isak who won it and last

Year it was Carolyn Greco of the United States is it heading to South America the women’s title this time first service expected could have it to make a to make a better start of his second set but it hasn’t materialized yet and pressure is getting to her here Fontes is

Flying little stab over the net oh mistake Brazilian the first mistake makes so few of them she has to be aggressive here JP foron she has to settle onage oh lovely spinning serve well positioned PES took it really well oh that’s mag brail she makes that look so easy but

Let me tell you it isn’t a spinning ball controlled it beautifully on a thigh and then the slic just to make sure it bounces twice on the table you ain’t getting your foot under that one for service the S beat’s going to be sounding soon here the way this one’s

Going but 3-1 a gate serve it’s not irretrievable just needs the crowd to get behind her here needs to give them one big overhead smash or one sniper header to reawaken the belief out theera is a relief if she can just throw in one of those spectacular overhead winners the

Place will really erupt and she can feed off the supporters in the crowd the tie flags are waving again on the far side as I watch from the main stand here to here she go oh fer F all of us just showed a little bit too much enough

Time for Fontes to recover and misses point to braz fairly regulation shot I think she changed her mind There so far it’s virtually repeat of the set where just couldn’t get level after a bit of a slack start this time she’s going for it good defense she’ll have to still do work brilliant absolutely brilliant work from Tesh and then she was wrong footed as

Well but gets it back under order good defense from the tie she’ll have to head it over this time options here though for the Brazilian the foot isn’t an aggressive one it just continues to Rally now the aggression can come from the tie player super defense again the chest back from the

Brazilian headed down still unfaced Fontes it’s a difficult one very near the edge of the table beautiful footwork from the tie player Cuda tip struggling here she’s kept it under control magnificently rally of the day rally of the finals it’s still unsure which way the point is going the crowd is so into

This one Fontes again leading by set how the tie player needs this one goes for the big winner oh it’s still not done would you believe it Fontes she just still will not give in after all that it’s it wrong Point losing my voice can’t believe what we’re seeing listen to this atmosphere

You will not see many better points than that in a singles match the doubles can be more spectacular even Ronald Jor is celebrating wow follow that well he will be he’ll be on after thiso but who gets the gold here well both deserve a gold for that last rally again brilliant positioning super

Defense from the 21y old for Maria de janiro local player from near changai gtip puts it back and she’s going to be struggling here jtip from distance can’t get it back on the table and so at the end of that Marathon rally before and the replay [Applause]

Point eventually it goes to pontes and she keeps a three 52 good two touches to set up the big one oh she’s done it again positioning is superb and from such a distance the chested over just nonchalantly short this time from ktip and she just can’t get control of the next [Applause]

Point Raphael Fones is’s playing the game of her life she knew she’d have to be at her very best to take on such a talented an orthodox attacking player change of service St to serve and just how good has she been in defense and attack 62 second set slipping away the

Hopes of home nation gold medal in the singles about to be extinguished maybe unless she canall point to tailand made a couple of mistakes from T and there’s another one trying to go down the short side down the line but should have at least hit the side ball

N oh she’s fighting fire fire here going for the first serve that was long and bouncy the second serve a bit more conservative gets her angles right there K Kong rather and this time oh she’s wrong footed there good header from Fontes but recovered brilliantly just

Gets the safe area at the end of the table oh can she K retrieve this one no she can’t point to Brazil the third touch was involuntary as it stroked the side of ahead and Fontes remarkable standard is maintained in the 10th Point Caesar goes 73

Up anguish on the face couldn’t get out service sixth World Championships just the third women singles event good footwork there from Quon Mes in with aggression but it didn’t have the elev ation for the big swing the overhead kick can’t use the foot again so it has to go for the head

It does well can set up something here oh return point tlor so again Fontes lost track of how she played the previous point the Final Touch before it goes across the net to your opponent’s half must be with a different part of the body to the final touch that we

Play so couple of points gifted there here 74 now stabbed it down the straight line usually across the angles oh the playing on here controversy there Fontes thought she’d won the point she’s still appealing oh she gets the point anyway well that would have been controversial wouldn’t it still hasn’t appeal so she

Lost the point she could have appealed 10 J service oh timeout has been called here by time out so 60c timeout in the women’s final both players have the option of using a timeout at some point but it’s Fontes who is not buckled in the face of the pressure and a

Partisan Crouch has a whole lot of support itself struggling to tip could physically and mentally first ever tie player in the world championship semi-final studying for an NBA by the way Katon plays for the women’s Thai Tech ball Club the crowd are loving it even if the

Local Hero is being beaten at the [Applause] moment coming up then the gala game the exhibition match featuring Ronald J after the conclusion of this one and we also have the men’s singles fine as well to round off the first of the two days of final tomorrow Sunday in Bangkok it’s

All about the doubles you better not miss that because that gets spectacular to say the very least if you think this has been great Serv and full of drama probably haven’t seen anything yet but the singles action this has been scintillating stuff first service so a decisive Advantage perhaps

Can indecision be brought into the equation with a tie come back Fontes defense has been brilliant today here comes the big one oh directed it well changeed the natural angle there wrapped her foot around it a little more took some of the power off and it was

Enough to defeat Fontes on this occasion because every time she’s nailed the overhead I think Fontes has got it back B bouncing ball to the back ow P to Brazil absolutely infuriating as a techer when you make such an elementary mistake after such a good point

Previously we see before on a tech ball court one of only a handful of players to win all the big prizes second service in football and turned to a bit of footell as well I think in India at one stage J Hesh oh it’s that over halfway not caught looked in my angle

Like it might have been she’ll try and Win It Anyway to theone does win it this time that’s what I was asking for in the first set look at the reaction and the crowd will lift her if she is tiring if she was feeling a bit deflated well that’ll help watch the

Body position the eyes on the ball fixed all of the parts of the body move the eyes the header still and the foot does the work they’ve got such a good angle on it first service at last Fontes didn’t get one back 96 setting herself up again this time

Didn’t quite have the preferred angle a little bit shielding from the ball can’t use a foot again oh and the brail and yet again one good point gives way to giving one away just what it looked like she might be able to launch a comeback service Sil 97 as it is

106 can’t afford slip UPS now needs a clean sweep to get level with these four serves n went for the aggressive but hasn’t nailed many first serves or as many as she needed now the big bounce to the to force her opponent back behind the service line but Fontes

Is quickly in on he with the header though has a chance here with an aggressive move what did well Fontes will use a chest but too much point to tailand gets it back to three it’s stubbornly been two or three points throughout the match occasionally stretched up to four or five but for

Service just keeps hinting of a comeback but not fulfilling the promise for her supporters inside the arena in Bangkok tried to fool her again but Fontes was waiting for the short one on the tech ball table has to use a head nearly I thought was going to use a foot again

Which would have given the point away shoved it back very quickly not to give Fontes time rushed her Fontes recovered well K sets bicycle kick incoming repelled still Fontes going too much on that out point to tayor well that’ll help the lead is down to two we’re in the home straight who

Can stay the course will we get the final set that we all crave I think everyone apart from those willing Brazilian shirts Brazil would want it and that’s canny we’ve already just had one timeout and now we’re having another after a little little bit of momentum

Was being built up by the tie player just try to disrupt that [Applause] momentum there’s been a lot of media coverage here in Thailand of techb even before this event and it’s only multiplied live coverage on the TV channel even the news program showing the event here a lot of

Competence athletes have found this sport to their liking having played a very in a similar sport called suac TOA where they play with similar skills but on a cord over a volleyball style Net well the skill that is needed to time that the men do it just as well and had to had to put a hands down to avoid a nasty fall as well I think she just about saw that she won the point has the momentum been disrupted

Can she keep it keep it going the 60 seconds have elapsed 25-year-old serving against the 21-year-old in the yellow shirt waiting to receive to try to keep it low powerful over the net but again the defense is so good from the Brazilian that just striving to improve

The serve a little bit more pontes working ni ohing nice position but it’s a mistake from Fontes so now we’re down to one point she didn’t manage to get this close in that first set where she lost 126 got it back to 75 the Brazilian recovered the belief is

Back here I think for Jud tip good C was set down the quarterfinal to be famous techer Janet yanich lost that one convincingly 126 lost the first set here 126 can she repeat the performance won 1210 in the second set against yanich nearly bagged another point there to get level at 1010

Fontes has the defense of a champion though that’s good as well Fontes Steed so easily with that first touch made it look like it’s Child’s Play and it’s bounced twice on the table point to Thailand 10 10 in the women’s [Applause] final excellent comeback the timeout didn’t disrupt her The Gentle Touch and

The second B made sure the point was hers pontes just hoping it went beyond the end of the table side of the table but it didn’t four career titles already at Major level for Fontes first one she’s missed for a while and that could be crucial it’s match point now for rafhael [Applause]

Fontes winner in June and the women’s doubles in La disappointed in a home event in Rio in September to only take bronze on the verge here of becoming world champion for the first time Thailand Hop’s alive it’s a great one surely not she’s struggling oh my goodness me it’s

Magnificent can she wrap it off in style now sniper header is she can she can rafhael FES the tech ball World salutes you Sensational stuff it’s just breathtaking the tie player defeated on home territory but you cannot argue with the defense turned into attack repeatedly by 21-year-old Rafael Fontes let the samb party

Begin not of Knowledge from Ronald J one master acknowledges another [Applause] oh she can’t believe it the tears are indeed flowing looks up I think a little higher even than him into the sky and the predominantly devout Catholic country celebrates a victory and a performance from the heavens from Fontes

I think in all honesty J tap katong was not quite at the level she had been previously in the tournament but new ground broken from Thailand the first ever player from Asia to make the semi-finals of the world championship but for rafhael Fontes she becomes the third ever

Women’s singles champion and the first from South America three winners from Europe and ISAC from North America carollyn Greg but she is replaced by Raphael Fontes who Wrapped Up victory in this point how can you win a point from there you watch and you’ll find out just super

Defense needed to do more there I think goodon wins it with a header 126 1210 really brilliant match far more exciting than the score line might suggest well we went from budapes in Hungary to re in France to L in Poland and then to nurburg last year

12 months on here in Asia for the first time we witness a little bit more history no European in the final let’s see statistically how she won it well 24 points to 18 with a 6 and 10 Victory six winners which is high and good first serving points one as well

And 91% of first ass in she just nails that big looping one uh 7