PLEASANTON — The Bay Space Blasters, led by 4 time Olympian Lily Zhang, took dwelling a win and two losses in matches over the weekend on the Main League Desk Tennis Match on the Alameda County Fairgrounds.
The Blasters on Friday misplaced to the Princeton Revolution from New Jersey, beat the Carolina Gold Rush on Saturday and wrapped up the weekend with a loss to the Texas Smash. The Smash is one of the best workforce within the West Division, and the winners of the league’s inaugural Main League Desk Tennis 2023-2024 Cup remaining.
Zhang, who first competed within the Olympics in 2012 in London when she was 16 years outdated, started taking part in desk tennis in a laundry room at Stanford rising up, the place her father was a professor. She racked up a singles win in opposition to Princeton’s Jiangshan Guo on Friday, however later misplaced matches in opposition to the Gold Rush’s Hong Lin and the Smash’s Amy Wang, who’s one other desk tennis Olympian and Zhang’s fellow 2024 Group USA teammate.
The Blasters will likely be competing once more within the Main League Desk Tennis match in Miami from Feb. 14-16 and from March 21-23 in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
Bay Space Blaster’s Lily Zhang, proper, performs in opposition to Carolina Gold Rush’s Hong Lin throughout a Main League Desk Tennis match held on the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2025. About 150 folks attended the occasion. Zhang misplaced the match to Carolina Gold Rush’s Hong Lin. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Space Information Group)
An viewers member holds an indication supporting Bay Space Blaster’s Lily Zhang throughout a Main League Desk Tennis match held on the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2025. About 150 folks attended the occasion. Zhang misplaced the match to Carolina Gold Rush’s Hong Lin. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Space Information Group)
Bay Space Blaster’s Lily Zhang celebrates after successful the primary recreation of a Main League Desk Tennis match held on the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2025. About 150 folks attended the occasion. Zhang misplaced the match to Carolina Gold Rush’s Hong Lin. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Space Information Group)
Bay Space Blaster’s Lily Zhang, proper, performs in opposition to Carolina Gold Rush’s Hong Lin throughout a Main League Desk Tennis match held on the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2025. About 150 folks attended the occasion. Zhang misplaced the match to Carolina Gold Rush’s Hong Lin. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Space Information Group)
Bay Space Blaster’s Lily Zhang performs throughout a Main League Desk Tennis match held on the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2025. About 150 folks attended the occasion. Zhang misplaced the match to Carolina Gold Rush’s Hong Lin. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Space Information Group)
Bay Space Blaster’s Lily Zhang waves throughout participant introductions earlier than competing in a Main League Desk Tennis match held on the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2025. About 150 folks attended the occasion. Zhang misplaced the match to Carolina Gold Rush’s Hong Lin. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Space Information Group)
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