9 months ago
Leon Griffiths Crowned Racketlon World Tour Champion
Leon Griffiths from the UK won the Racketlon World Tour Finals in Mumbai.
Racketlon is a sport where players compete in table tennis, badminton, squash, and tennis, one after the other.
Each game is played to 21 points with short breaks in between.
Leon, who also won the World title earlier this year, is very good at badminton and has been playing these sports for a long time.
Other top players like Anna-Klara Ahlmer from Sweden and Pauline Cave also competed.
The sport is not very well known, but it is a lot of fun for those who play it.
Mumbai's 85-year-old journalist Rahul Singh became the oldest player in the sport's history.
Leon Griffiths won the Racketlon World Tour Finals in Mumbai, India.
Racketlon involves playing table tennis, badminton, squash, and tennis consecutively, each to 21 points with 3-minute transitions.
Griffiths also won the World title earlier this year and secured triple titles in India, including singles and mixed categories.
Racketlon is a niche sport requiring top-tier facilities across all four racquet disciplines.
The sport originated in Scandinavian countries in the 1970s and offers a unique challenge for athletes to master multiple racquet sports.
- Who
- Leon Griffiths, Anna-Klara Ahlmer, Pauline Cave, Koen Hageraats, Rahul Singh
- What
- Racketlon World Tour Finals
- Where
- Willingdon Sports Club, Mumbai, India
- When
- This weekend (specific dates not mentioned)
- Why
- To determine the world champions in the sport of Racketlon, which combines table tennis, badminton, squash, and tennis
Key facts
- Event
- Racketlon World Tour Finals
- Location
- Willingdon Sports Club, Mumbai
- Winner
- Leon Griffiths
- Sports Played
- Table Tennis, Badminton, Squash, Tennis
- Points per Game
- 21
- Transition Time
- 3 minutes
- Oldest Player
- Rahul Singh (85 years old)
Quotes
Leon Griffiths
Racketlon men's world champion and UK representative
“Dad had a Swedish girlfriend earlier and we travelled to Stockholm on a whim along with my Uncle. I was entered in the U13 World’s at the last minute, and won the title.”
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“All these sports have a common thread – positional tactics, playing fast points and finding opponents’ weakness. It’s fitness chess.”
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Anna-Klara Ahlmer
Women's World No 1 in Racketlon and Sweden representative
“I started with tennis, played squash one day because the courts weren’t free and got started in the sport where it was me and 25 guys! I found Racketlon when I was starting to bore of tennis, and it was fun to improve in other 3. I’d have quit sport if I hadn’t branched out because pro tennis gets monotonous. Racketlon was a second wind.”
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