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October 2011

Empire News (October Newsletter)

The latest Empire newsletter is here:
Empire Table Tennis Club October 2011 Newsletter

Hungry Empire members read this for details of the annual dinner (Saturday, Nov 19) and the midweek annual Xmas lunch (Thurs Nov 24).

Also I copied this news for wider interest:

Midweek Doubles Tournament: 15 September

The annual Midweek Doubles Tournament was held on 15th September and was organised by Arthur Lee and Melanie Armstrong. Arthur has submitted a full report to the Board. Here are the highlights:

• There were 96 participants, of whom 52 were Empire members.
• Teams came from Kapiti, Levin, Wairarapa, Wainuiomata, Tawa and Miramar. Miramar was a newcomer to the tournament.
• Empire winners were Alfred Chin & Stan Joe and Ken Moy & Karl Johnston.
• Empire teams finished runners up on seven of the eight tables.
• There was a cash raffle and a grocery raffle. The grocery items were donated by Empire club members.
• The tournament prizes were again sponsored by Wellington Star, Mercedes Benz dealer, and we than them for their continuing support. The Empire Board also donated prizes.

Many thanks to Arthur and Melanie and to all the other helpers who contributed to such a successful day. Thanks too to Norman Chan for securing the Wellington Star sponsorship.

2011 Composite Team Interclub – Schedule & Entries

Last year’s popular composite team interclub was a lot of fun and is on again. This competition works by teams being arranged to be more even with a top, middle, and lower ranked player allocated to each team. This makes for closer and interesting match-ups every week (Wednesday) is a chance for mentoring of lower ranked players and is less formal that the winter leagues. Also it’s a chance to play with team-mates you may not otherwise get a chance to play with.

Clubs/players are invited to submit entries for the 2011 composite interclub event being run from 9 November to 7 December. Please note that all grades play on a Wednesday night.

All matches will be played at the Empire Stadium, Marine Parade, Petone. The stadium will be open from 6:30pm each interclub night. Interclub matches are due to start at 7:00pm.

Matches are 3-player, 11-match format (same as winter interclub, fees are also the same).

Wed 2 Nov: Entries close for all grades
Wed 9 Nov: commence
Wed 7 Dec: Final round

For more details refer to the form here: 2011 TTW Composite Interclub Entry Form

ENTER TO BRUCE BY WEDNESDAY NOV 2 with your name, your club affiliation, contact phone number(s) & email, and whether you are unavailable for certain dates (refer to the form above).

Until this starts, here is an idea of what to do with your table-tennis balls in the meanwhile:

Scott Weaver’s Rolling through the Bay from The Tinkering Studio on Vimeo.

Nationals – More Results

Here is a results highlight from team managers Steve Hirst & Gabrielle Telfer.

On that men’s doubles win (Thom Nguyen & Hayden Tapp) you should check out this article by Thom on the Belmont Table Tennis Club site.

Sabine Westenra won the Over 30’s Women’s Singles!

Lindsay Ward was runner-up in the Over 30 Mens Singles (Depak Patel won bronze as losing semi-finalist).

Sabine Westenra and Heath Murdoch won the Over 30’s Mixed Doubles.

Runners up were Stephen Hirst and Heath Murdoch in the Over 30’s Men’s Doubles.

Under 21 Men’s Singles Thom Nguyen was runner up to Phillip Xiao.

C Grade Men’s Doubles runners up, Jeffrey Chin and Delano Lam.

Under 21 Mixed Doubles, Thom Nguyen and Jennifer Tseng (Auckland) were runners up.

B Grade women’s Doubles runners up, Lisa Yue and Natalie Paterson (Manawatu).

Teams Events

Wellington Women Catherine Zhou, Sabina Westenra and Lisa Yue came 2nd.

Wellington Men’s Team 2 of Bryan and Phillip McConnochie, Depak Patel and Paul Solt came 2nd in
the Men’s B Grade.

Sabine Westenra was awarded the Veteran of the Year by TTNZ

There is also some great pics of Wellington players on Matt Hetherington’s Blog which can be found
here.

The Barna Cup for Sportsmanship, etiquette and general behaviour was awarded to Team 3 Robbie
Chung, Kai Xu, Jeffrey Chin and Delano Lam which was judged by an independent panel of students.

The Womens Team narrowly missed out by half a point in the women’s equivalent.

More general results are found on the TTNZ site (click under Events).

See here for a nice slideshow from the Nationals!

Nationals – Gold! (Tapp/Nguyen)

Check out Matt Heatherington’s excellent blog for news and pictures on the Nationals, to quote:
“It was a great day of table tennis today in Palmerston North, especially for Wellington coach Stephen Hirst who was overwhelmed when a gold medal opportunity game Wellington’s way. An incredible feat of team work and great skill shown by the combination of Thom Nguyen and Hayden Tapp who defied all odds to win gold in the Open Mens Doubles.” [click for more…]

Gold medal for Hayden Tapp & Thom Nguyen in the men’s doubles!

Some good earlier teams results too (for details see here):

Women’s Wellington – 2nd (Catherine Zhou, Sabine Westenra, Lisa Yue)
Men’s Wellington 1 – 8th in A Grade (Thom Nguyen, Hayden Tapp, Callum Rusbridge, Andrew Rieper)
Men’s Wellington 2 – 2nd in B Grade (Bryan McConnochie, Depak Patel, Phillip McConnochie, Paul Solt)
Men’s Wellington 3 – 3rd in B Grade (Robert Chung, Jeffrey Chin, Delano Lam, Kai Xu)
Men’s Wellington 4 – 6th in B Grade (Chris Williams, Craig Gear, Brendyn Shaw)

Got any pictures or more links? Let me know or post as comments here.

Winter Interclub Series 2 – Senior Final Result

Congratulations to the winning teams, some close results on the Finals night:

Senior grades:

Premier 1: Belmont Bananas (Callum Rusbridge, Thom Nguyen, Hayden Tapp) 6-3 winners over Titan
Premier 2: Empire Dangerous (Chris Williams, Bruce Connolly, Uy Tang) – a nail-biting 6-5 win over the Waterloo Wizards
Premier 3: Karori Kometz (Darrin Carmichael, Ben Westenra, Reg Fuez) 6-4 over Empire Xiong, reversing an in-season loss to Empire Xiong.

Results for Series 2: 2011 Winter Interclub Series 2 Final

(Juniors to be compiled)

NB: Series 1 Results here.

Thanks to Bruce for managing the interclub nights and to Chris for compiling the results. Thanks Reg for the pics:

Premier 1 winning team Belmont Bananas (Callum Rusbridge, Thom Nguyen, Hayden Tapp)

Premier 2 winning team: Empire Dangerous (Chris Williams, Bruce Connolly, Uy Tang)

Premier 3 winning team: Karori Kometz (Darrin Carmichael, Ben Westenra, Reg Fuez)

Wellington Junior Development Tournament – Sept 2011

A second Wellington Junior Development tournament was held on Sunday Sept 11, 2011 at Empire Stadium.

Another successful tournament where Wellington’s developing players were on display.  This included many players from the successful Silver and Bronze level coaching groups. Thank-yous to The Southern Trust for helping support the Silver group and to Pelorus Trust for helping support the Bronze group.

Thanks to all the juniors who played  in the tournament, all in very good spirit.  It was also great to see all the girls who entered – well done for playing, girls! 

In a first ever for a Wellington tournament, we had a brother sister sibling final.  The Under 17 Mixed Singles final was contested between Ellen Xiong and brother, Adam.  And it was the younger sibling Adam who prevailed in the final.  Well done to both Xiongs for contesting a brother vs. sister final! 

Thanks to Bruce Northover and Paul Escott for running the tournament, with great assistance from Alan Costley. 

The winners and runners-up’s of the tournament were:

Event: Winner: Runner-up:
Under 12 Mixed Singles Hui-Ling Vong Chris Linton
Under 12 Plate Singles Tauariki Matthews Liam Buckrell
Under 12 2nd Plate Singles Josh McPhee Taine Eade
Under 12 Doubles Liam Buckrell/Mason Tangatatai Chris Linton/Chris Pearson
Under 14 Mixed Singles Adam Xiong Yao(Frank) Fu
Under 14 Plate Singles Henry Stoupe Chris Pearson
Under 14 2nd Plate Singles Tauariki Matthews Max Turner
Under 14 Boys Doubles Ben Westenra/Yao (Frank) Fu Adam Xiong/Kieran Mouton
Under 17 Mixed Singles Adam Xiong Ellen Xiong
Under 17 Plate Singles Chun-Kiet Vong Henry Stoupe
Under 17 Boys Doubles Adam Xiong/Kieran Mouton Ben Westenra/Chun-Kiet Vong
Under 17 Girls Singles Angela Chapman Abbey L’Estrange
Under 17 Girls Doubles Angela Chapman/Ellen Xiong Angelica Aberia/Abbey L’Estrange

There is video footage from the tournament uploaded onto Youtube (edited and uploaded by Win Nguyen).  There are presently 4 videos, with another one or to two video parts to come.  Check these out (along with heaps of other t.t. videos) at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ttwfan

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