Lodi's Forsberg wins table tennis tourney

The success keeps coming for Lodi's Byng Forsberg.

Byng Forsberg

Forsberg recently won three table tennis events in the California Senior Games Championships in Pasadena to qualify for the 2007 National Senior Games in Louisville, Ky.

Forsberg won the singles, doubles and mixed table tennis events in the over-80 group of the 250-person tournament.

"I was just looking at the map to figure out how to get to Louisville, Kentucky," said Forsberg, who plans to drive there in his new Toyota Prius hybrid car with playing partner Walter Witkowski, of San Leandro.

In the meantime, the Lodian has been writing letters to the office of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after he saw the governor in a magazine posing with some table tennis players. In his letters, Forsberg states that he'll pitch in $100 to Schwarzenegger's re-election campaign if he'll play him in a game of table tennis.

Earlier this month, Forsberg captured the title at the North American Seniors Table Tennis Tournament in Laguna Hills despite falling ill just prior to the event.

On the morning of the tournament's opening day, he awoke to chest pains and went to the local emergency room, where it was discovered he had pneumonia. Instead of getting bed rest at the request of his doctor, though, Forsberg took antibiotics and played in the event anyway.

First published: Tuesday, June 27, 2006