2025 Beach Woodball World Cup: Khedi makes it final in Thailand

Uganda’s beach woodball captain Thomas Khedi made it to the final of the 2025 Beach World Cup at the Laem Charoen Beach in Thailand.

Khedi won the fairway semi-final 3-1, having defeated the world’s number two Thailand star Namjumpa Kittakan 2-1 in the quarter finals.

“It is good we are in the final and we are going to the bull by the horn. He is the defending champion, but I do not want to know because I will focus on my game with the agenda of winning a gold,” Khedi said.

In the women’s category Jackie Naula and Christine Birungi stormed the semi-final of the women’s doubles after a 3-1 win over the Hongkong opponents and will face the winner between hosts Thailand and Indonesia later today.

Coach Onesimus Atamba was also excited with the results; stating that his players are capable of winning medals for Uganda.

“I’m so happy with the performance of the team. We started on a slow note because of the rains, but today they picked up and adapted to the weather so fast giving us good results,” Atamba said.

In the doubles men Uganda pair of Khedi and Amanyire beat Hong-Kong 3_0 but lost to Indonesia 2-1 in the quarterfinals.

Meanwhile, all players are still waiting for the results of the stroke category to see who qualified to the final round.

Khedi was excited about beating the two highly ranked stars and added that the victory is a big motivation to him as he heads into the final.