NATIONAL champions Yvonne Foster and Joseph Dibbs continued their dominance of local table tennis by adding the lucrative Flow/Superior Parts-sponsored 2010 Extreme Spin Open Singles events to their collection of prizes this year at the YMCA Auditorium in Kingston on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Stephen Grant won the Mandingo Roots Tonic Wine-sponsored Hard Bat competition by beating Michael Cai 3-1 in the final.

The Flow-sponsored Men's Singles was played over seven sets from the semi-final on with the Superior Parts-sponsored Women's Open Singles played over seven sets in the final only.

It was the final tournament which called curtains on the 2010 table tennis season and both Foster and Dibbs were in fine touch and played unbeaten throughout. Foster accounted for Nigerian player Patricia Nikiru Ojie in the final in straight sets 4-0 (11-8, 11-7, 11-7 and 12-10) and was happy that she came out on top.

"I was expecting a lot of competition and I got it. So overall I'm pleased with my performance. At one point I had to tell myself that I am the best after she (Patricia) demonstrated that she herself was a fine player and wanted to win," said Foster.

When Ojie lost it cast a dark shadow over her countenance and she was very close to tears. Said Ojie: "I am disappointed that I lost, I thought that I can beat her but I felt stressed. It was a new setting for me and I was unsettled playing before an audience that I have not yet got accustomed to. However, I think the next time I play her I will do much better."

Meanwhile, Dibbs had a similar straight sets (11-2, 11-4, 11-5, 11-4) win over the hag-ridden Phillip Drummond, who looked totally unprepared for the occasion.

In the women's semis, Foster 17, the six-time national champion and Sixth-Form student at Meadowbrook High School, booked her place in the final by beating Shenique Clare (UWI) in straight sets 3-0; 15-13, 11-7, 11-6, while Oje beat her sister Akpoebi Ghamorai also of Nigeria, 15-13, 11-7, 6-11, 2-11, 11-7.

In men's semi-final play Dibbs squeezed past Dale Parham 4-2 (9-11, 11-9, 11-6, 12-10, 7-11 11-9), while Drummonds outlasted Kane Watson 4-3.

It was the richest tournament ever to be held among local players with Dibbs pocketing $100,000 for winning the men's singles, while Foster also in penetrating form taking, home $35,000.

Play was staged over two days and catered for a wide range of categories, which were well supported, especially at the junior levels.

While the big blast was the Open Singles, competition was added to the programme to include boys and girls play from Under-10 to Under-18 levels, an Over-40 competition and the innovative Hard Bat competition which was played competitively for the first time in a tournament in Jamaica.

This went down well although many players stayed away because of the poor lighting condition and uneven surface of both floor and tables which existed at the playing venue.