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Table Tennis: Kent's Olympic Athletes
National Table Tennis Champion Lewis Gray speaks about his hopes for a medal at the 2012 Olympics. More Details View Transcript
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A Spaghetti Weston production for Kent TV.
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Kent's Olympic Hopefuls - The Athletes
Lewis Gray, National Champion Table Tennis
LEWIS GRAY, National Champion, Table Tennis: 'I'd love to play at the 2012 Games. It would be a great achievement just to be there and then obviously I'd always try and win... I just want to win.
'I'm Lewis Gray, I'm fourteen and I'm from Benenden. I've got three national titles, two singles and a doubles and I'm currently ranked number three under fourteen and eight under fifteen in England.
This season I'd like to become national champion again; that's always a really big honour and I'm always aiming for London 2012. It would be amazing to get there and I'd love to get there but it's going to be really hard, I know that.
I have to train 12-14 hours per week on the table and then extra for tournaments and England camps on the weekends. Also I do physical training which includes stamina and strength. It's quite hard. I have to sacrifice quite a few things, like sometimes football matches for training and although I do like doing other sports sometimes I have to miss doing that. I've been training a lot recently but I'm going to Spain at the weekend to play for the England youth development squad in Barcelona.
KEN MUHR, Coach In Charge: 'Ok, so this is another footwork exercise and what we are going to do is play cross court and down the line but the difference is the person playing cross court, which is Yolanda, is going to play all forehand. So a forehand from your forehand side cross court and a forehand from your backhand side cross court and John will block it back straight. So it's a reaaly tough, hard footwork exercise. You notice also, John's end the blocker, he's covering the table close, still keeping low right down behind the ball.'
LEWIS GRAY: 'All my coaches are volunteers and they obviously give up time for me so that's a real big ask of them. They have to give up a lot of their free time to come and train with me and help me out. It's really helped me a lot.
I got into table tennis through my dad who ran the club at Benenden and I used to just go along when I was four and he used to hold me up above the table because I couldn't see above.
If you're going to take up table tennis you can be any age. It's a great sport to play. You can basically be any size, any age and any fitness. It's a good game to have fun, muck around with your mates. When you go to a higher level you've obviously got to train a lot more... a lot more hours and a lot more serious and then you start to enjoy it more I think and you get all these rewards.'
Lewis Gray, National Champion Table Tennis
LEWIS GRAY, National Champion, Table Tennis: 'I'd love to play at the 2012 Games. It would be a great achievement just to be there and then obviously I'd always try and win... I just want to win.
'I'm Lewis Gray, I'm fourteen and I'm from Benenden. I've got three national titles, two singles and a doubles and I'm currently ranked number three under fourteen and eight under fifteen in England.
This season I'd like to become national champion again; that's always a really big honour and I'm always aiming for London 2012. It would be amazing to get there and I'd love to get there but it's going to be really hard, I know that.
I have to train 12-14 hours per week on the table and then extra for tournaments and England camps on the weekends. Also I do physical training which includes stamina and strength. It's quite hard. I have to sacrifice quite a few things, like sometimes football matches for training and although I do like doing other sports sometimes I have to miss doing that. I've been training a lot recently but I'm going to Spain at the weekend to play for the England youth development squad in Barcelona.
KEN MUHR, Coach In Charge: 'Ok, so this is another footwork exercise and what we are going to do is play cross court and down the line but the difference is the person playing cross court, which is Yolanda, is going to play all forehand. So a forehand from your forehand side cross court and a forehand from your backhand side cross court and John will block it back straight. So it's a reaaly tough, hard footwork exercise. You notice also, John's end the blocker, he's covering the table close, still keeping low right down behind the ball.'
LEWIS GRAY: 'All my coaches are volunteers and they obviously give up time for me so that's a real big ask of them. They have to give up a lot of their free time to come and train with me and help me out. It's really helped me a lot.
I got into table tennis through my dad who ran the club at Benenden and I used to just go along when I was four and he used to hold me up above the table because I couldn't see above.
If you're going to take up table tennis you can be any age. It's a great sport to play. You can basically be any size, any age and any fitness. It's a good game to have fun, muck around with your mates. When you go to a higher level you've obviously got to train a lot more... a lot more hours and a lot more serious and then you start to enjoy it more I think and you get all these rewards.'
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