Fastbats member Liam Chipman has reached his first table tennis final.

He won all his group matches in the Blackpool Stiga One-Star Junior Tournament and finished at the head of his section.

Chipman progressed to the semi-finals, where he met Halifax’s Mathew Shaw, who he had lost to in the quarter-final of the preceding tournament.

However, Chipman triumphed this time only to lose the final in three straight sets.