All the info is in the pdf and the final results are here:
Continue reading “2025 November Comp”
Our Sunday junior club is kicking off again for Term 4 2025 now on Sundays from 2-4PM at Newtown Stadium with coach Depak Patel.
We’ll be running the club from October 5 through until December 14 – the next 11 weeks.
For casual players it’s $10 per session, or if you’d like to pay for the whole term in one hit we can do a special rate of $100.
We can take cash on the day or if you’d prefer we can do bank transfers too.
Please put your child’s name and junior club when depositing into the Table Tennis Wellington account: 03-0558-0038972-00.
For people who don’t know where the stadium is see here, it’s up Mt Vic – 160 Alexandra Road, Newtown – and bats can be provided if players don’t have one.
See you Sunday!
Sad news that Bryan McConnochie has passed away. Bryan played premier interclub up until last year and has represented New Zealand veterans against Australia multiple times (e.g. 2023). Below is the player profile article “Bryan McConnochie – The Big Looper” from our website way back in 2011 about Bryan and he didn’t stop there winning multiple titles (see here for results on our website).
Club Doubles Champions Joel Carton/Bryan McConnochie and runner ups Hugo Yick/Yang Low 
2016 NZ Veterans Over 60 Teams Match Presidents 1 (2) v Wellington (3). Wen Ung , George Abdilla, Lindsay Ward, Bryan McConnochie, Ian Talbot, Shinji Hiraoka. 
L-R Lindsay Ward, Bryan McConnochie, Ian Talbot (Wellington) Shinji Hiraoka, Stephen Tai (New South Wales) 
Over 50 Men’s B Teams: J Gan, B McConnochie, J Mason, M Hay 
2010 NI O50 MD Champs Depak Patel (L) and Bryan McConnochie (R). R-up M Wong (Middle) with D Scott 
Over 35 Teams finalists
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2025 Winter Interclub Series 2 (see here for Series 1) is now complete. Congratulations to:
- Premier 1 winners Empire Entertainers (Manish Ahlawat, James Harter, Depak Patel, Om Thakur)
- Premier 2 winners Empire Eagles (Swapneel Dias, Mohsen Kafi, Martin Murdoch, Michael Stechman)
- Premier 3 winners Onslow/Waterloo (Andy Budden, Nabe Tioti, Craig Gear)
- Division 1 winners Titan Spin Squad (Anil Ram, Jayathi Jaiganesh, Callum McKinnon, Ayush Goel)
Volunteer Call-Out – 2025 North Island Open Championships 🏓
📅 11–13 July 2025 | 📍 Te Rauparaha Arena, Porirua
The Newtown stadium on Alexandra Rd has a new floor! The stadium was out of action from July 10 and reopened Tuesday July 22.
Table Tennis Wellington would like to sincerely thank the New Zealand Community Trust for their grant to help with the costs of our new floor. The next time you’re looking to have a meal or a drink out please think about supporting one of the New Zealand Community Trust’s partner venues in the Wellington region:
* Wellington: Backbencher Pub & Café, Bay 66 (Kilbirnie), Bond Sports Bar, Corner
Bar, Featherston Bar & Grill, JJ Murphy’s, The Cutting Sports Cafe (Miramar), The
Pickle Jar (Karori) and Wellington Sports Cafe.
* Hutt City: Cutlers Bar, Sin Bin and The Hardware Bar & Restaurant.
* Kapiti Coast: Family Hotel (Otaki)
* Porirua: The Sandbar (Mana) and The Mariner (Titahi Bay).
* Upper Hutt: Charltons Silverstream.
Thanks also great work from those involved in getting this project up and ready to go.
Mark your calendars for the 2025 New World Wellington Open on 19 & 20 July 2025.
For the 10th consecutive year, this event’s main sponsor is New World Wellington City, 279
Wakefield Street, Wellington City (near Te Papa).
Full Results or just the winners/runners-up:
Winter Interclub Series 1 is complete. It ran on Wednesdays from May 21 through July 9. The first 5 weeks were round-robins of grouped teams. Each team’s placing in that round-robin determined their grade in the final three-week playoff, either Premier 1, Premier 2, Premier 3, or Division 1. There will be a break before Series 2 starts on July 30 (Wednesdays).
Premier 1 Winners Empire Eagles (Hayden T, Manish A, Mohsen K, Swapneel D) 
Premier 2 Winners Empire Enforcers (Harry C, Ian T, Darrell B) 
Premier 1 Winners Empire Eagles (Phil T, Jayathi J, Steve M, Anil R)
Night fees $10.
Final results:
At: Empire Table Tennis Stadium, Marine Parade, Petone
Entries close Monday 28 April 11.59pm via Tournament Planner
Details below.
Also coming up:
* TTNZ Women & Girls Tournament May 10-11
* Marlborough Open Champs ’25 May 3-4
As occurred in 2024, in the place of the more usual Summer Interclub for teams, the Summer Competition will be for individuals competing against each other, similar to the November events of recent years.
When and Where: Wednesday evenings commencing 5 March and finishing on 2 April 2024. At Empire Stadium, reporting time before 7.00 pm for a 7.15 pm start.
Nightly Format
* Each player to play four singles, best of five sets. Mainly round robins, but possibly by arrangement to ensure players play four matches.
* No doubles
Saturday March 25 9am @ Jubliee Extension, Springvale Stadium, Whanganui. For players 40 years and over (As at 31st Dec 2025), for all details and entry:
Saturday 8:45 AM: Over 30 or Over 50 or Over 70 (enter only one)
Saturday 1:00 PM: Over 40 or Over 60 (enter only one)
At the recent TTNZ AGM dinner TTNZ presented the National Umpire of the Year 2024 award to Averil Roberts for her exceptional service and contributions to national events throughout the year. Be sure to congratulate Averil next time you see her!
Congratulations to Mohsen Kafi for topping the final table! Final results below…
Continue reading “2024 November Comp”
A great time in Nelson for the 2024 TTNZ Nationals Teams tournament with Wellington bronze in the Senior Teams Open Men B (Mohsen Kafi, Yau Yang Low, Yufeng Wang) – fending off Otago 4-1 to claim that placing. Plus the Wellington U15 Girls finished third as well (Jayathi Jaiganesh, Ruby Wei-Solt, Zoe Mildenhall) for the bronze! Thanks to TTNZ and also Nelson for hosting this event.
Yufeng had especially notable success also in the individuals with Silver in the B Grade Mens Singles. Yufeng partnered with Ashkay Aneesh (Manawatu) to win another silver in the B Grade Mens Doubles and (joint) bronze in the U19 Boys Doubles.
Thanks also to Saxton Lodge in Stoke where the teams and managers stayed for the duration of the event – it sounds like this was a great setup for us – thumbs up from us.
- Starting Monday, 21st October (sign up)
- Newtown Table Tennis Stadium (Alexandra Rd, Wellington)
- Doors open from 7pm then start playing at 7:30pm
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All skill levels welcome, so grab a teammate and get ready for some action!
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AD: Manawatu Open Sep 21-22 (Entries by Sep 14)
AD: check out the August TTNZ Newsletter and September TTNZ Newsletter including an article on TT Wellington donating tables to Hataitai School plus an article on Yang Low’s insights from being on the TTNZ Board!
2024 Winter Interclub Series 2 is now complete, detailed results below, the winning teams are:
- Premier 1: Empire Eagles (Manish Ahlawat, James Harter, Mohsen Kafi, Ben Palmer-Jones, Callum Rusbridge (c))
- Premier 2: Empire Embers (Scott Higham, Michael Stechman, Om Thakur, Daniel Rosner)
- Premier 3: Empire Emperors (Jacob Hawker, Liam Johnston, Hamid Mahroeian, Martin Young)
- Division 1: Waterloo (Craig Gear, Tim Wilson, Aadi Madhaven, Fuard Abdullahi)
Women’s Open Doubles winners Amy Xiyan Su & Ye (Fiona) Zhai with runners-up Philippa Morris & Anh Nguyen 
Men’s Open Doubles runner-up Matthew Ball with winners Akshay Aneesh & Yufeng Wang 
Mixed Doubles runners-up Fiona Zhai/Yang Low with winners Heath Murdoch & Sabine Westenra 
Open Men’s Singles final Matthew Ball vs John Cordue (winner) 
Open Men’s Singles final Matthew Ball vs John Cordue (winner) 
Open Men’s Singles final Matthew Ball vs John Cordue (winner) 
Open Women’s Singles winner Fiona Zhai with runner-up Karen Looi 
Men’s Open Singles winner John Cordue with Tournament Manager Kevin Haines 
Open Singles winner Neil Yeats with runner-up Swapneel Dias 
Men’s Open Singles runner-up Matthew Ball 
Mixed Open Doubles winners Heath Murdoch & Sabine Westenra
Timetable
Saturday
8.45 am Open Singles Round Robin
11.00 am Open Doubles Rounds (Men’s, Women’s & Mixed)
12.45 pm Open Singles post section
1.15 pm Combined C & D Doubles
2.45 pm D Grade Singles
3.15 pm C Grade Singles
Sunday
8.30 am Under 13, Under 19 (is singles only), Over 30, Over 50 (is singles
only)
10.45 am Over 30 Combined Doubles
1.00 pm Under 15 (Singles only), Over 40, Over 60 (singles only)
3.00 pm Over 40 Combined Doubles
Light refreshments and drinks will be available for purchase on both days.
This event’s main sponsor is New World Wellington City, 279 Wakefield Street, Wellington
City (near Te Papa).
Please enter via Table Tennis New Zealand. Entries must be accompanied by fees paid to Table Tennis Wellington account 03-0558-0038972-00 (put ref name and ‘Wgtn Open’).
Fees
Open Singles: $20
Open Men’s, Women’s, Mixed Doubles: $10 per player
Grade Singles: $15
Age Group Singles: $15 each
Grade and Age Group Doubles: $7 per player
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