Same opponent, same result.

For the second-straight year, 19-year-old Ryan Bachli beat coach Kevin Murphy in the open singles final of the Yukon Table Tennis Championships, held at Whitehorse Elementary School over the weekend.

Bachli dropped the first game 11-13 before taking Murphy for four straight (11-6, 11-8, 11-8, 11-7) for the title.

"In previous years he beat me, but for the last two years I beat him, so it was really good,” Bachli said, adding that he remained calm after losing the first game.

"I was just warming up.”

Murphy, who last won the open singles championship in 2009, has gone from coaching Bachli to being the only player at the club who can play at the same level.

Well, sort of, Murphy said.

"I knew it was tough for me going in and, well, there's always next year,” he said of the final.

"He came out to play. He was hungry. I've seen it in him for many, many years, he's got a great mental make up, he's got all the tools, he's got a few shots that I've never even tried. I know his game so well that I'm usually the one that gives him the best match in the place here. That's my advantage, I know his game and his shots and I know how to defend against him. It's just a matter of him making them count in his favour and today he did.”

The open singles title was Bachli's third at this year's championships. He and partner Alex Zheng won the open doubles title over Murphy and Mark Preston.

Bachli, partnered with Kyle Gonder, also won the open random team event over Murphy and Edna Knight.

The only satisfaction Murphy could get from playing Bachli was by winning a best-of-three match on Saturday.

"But it doesn't even compare to the pressure in the finals,” Murphy said.

"I played OK. I was playing with a few injuries; it comes with age, I think, and maybe concentrating a lot more on coaching than trying to keep my own playing chops in shape.

"He's taught himself a lot of the shots that he's already got that nobody else in the club uses, he's perfected them for his game.”

Such perfection takes time.

Bachli and his sister Zara trained in China for the lead up to the 2007 Canada Winter Games in Whitehorse.

"It was like eight hours a day,” he said of China.

Murphy put it a different way.

"They learned three years of table tennis in one month, is the way I look at it.”

Ryan has also won numerous medals at the Arctic Winter Games, and has trained across Canada and the United States since he began playing competitively in 2003.

Most recently, he's won the under-1,100 rating at the Edmonton Open in November.

"He's got the right attitude to go further if he chooses to, and I'd like to see him in some more pressure situations in tournaments Outside,” Murphy said.

Ryan has also shown interest in coaching – and helped Murphy at the 2011 Canada Winter Games in Halifax, N.S. – which can only help the club grow.

Especially when combined with his playing ability, Murphy added.

"But if he's the top of the club here – and he's still a teenager – then the younger kids can aspire to his level. They don't see it as being out of reach. They see a young man that's basically their peer that plays a superb game, and that's what they want to do. They don't want to see some old guy that's impossible to beat, like the wizard of magic on the table, they don't want to play against some gray-haired guy that knows all the tricks.”

Complete results are as follows:

Open singles

1st Ryan Bachli

2nd Kevin Murphy

3rd Mark Preston

4th Laurie Sokolowski

Open doubles

1st Alex Zheng/Ryan Bachli

2nd Mark Preston/Kevin Murphy

3rd Kamran Idrees/Ehsan Idrees

4th Kyle Gonder/Victor Zsohar

5th Laurie Sokolowski/Edna Knight

6th Haider Rajab/Keith Perley

Novice singles

1st Matthias Hoenisch

2nd Abed Rajab

3rd Hassan Rajab

4th Greg Murdoch

5th Thomas Brenner

6th Kia Knowler

Adult novice singles

1st Andy Todd

2nd Keith Perley

3rd Haider Rajab

4th Colleen Hoenisch

Open random team

1st Ryan Bachli/Kyle Gonder

2nd Kevin Murphy/Edna Knight

3rd Mark Preston/Ehsan Idrees

Adult random team

1st Victor Zsohar/Andy Todd

2nd Haider Rajab/Keight Perley

3rd Laurie Sokolowski/Colleen Hoenisch

Junior singles

1st Ehsan Idrees

2nd Alex Zheng

3rd Kamran Idrees

4th Kyle Gonder

5th Matthias Hoenisch

6th Greg Murdoch