Whitehorse’s Ryan Bachli repeated Saturday as the Yukon table tennis champion in the open men’s category.

Emily Gaw of Dawson City took the title for the open women’s event.

Approximately 20 players competed in the Yukon Table Tennis Championships over two days.

Bachli defeated second-place Daniel Li three games to one in the best-of-five final. Kevin Murphy, president and head coach for Table Tennis Yukon, placed third.

In the round robin format to determine the open women’s champion, Gaw finished undefeated to unseat defending champion Christina Nie, whose only loss in the round robin was to Gaw. Ashley Harris finished third.

Gaw was also champion in Saturday’s junior women’s event, while Harris placed second and Raghvi Sharma was third. Sharma was also named the top female rookie.

Ethan Gaw of Dawson City took the junior men’s event, Sam Crocker of Dawson City was second and Seth Bennett of Whitehorse was third. Bennett was also named the top male rookie.

In Friday night’s double events, Crocker and Harris won the junior doubles championship and Bachli and Li took the open doubles title.

The head coach said this morning the championship provided a good opportunity to see some of the top players who’ll likely be contending for one of six spots on Team Yukon for the 2019 Canada Winters Games in Red Deer, Alta.

The team will be sending six players under 18: three males and three females.

Each will be competing in singles, doubles and mixed doubles.

Murphy said training for the Games will begin in the fall when school resumes and their back in their regular venue at Whitehorse Elementary School.

“We’ll likely have our first trial in October and we will have the second trial in November or December,” he said.

Murphy said they’ll likely be shooting to have a the second trial and a clinic up in Dawson City to be fair, just as they did for the selection of the Arctic Winter Games team.

Emily Gaw, he said, is probably the top contender for one of the three female spots to represent the territory in Red Deer.

For Murphy, admittedly, father time showed up on the weekend.

It’s the first time in many, many years the head coach hasn’t finished either first or second in the men’s open category.

“That is father time coming to play upon my old muscles,” he chuckled, though he is dedicating much more time to coaching these days than honing his skills.