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September 2012

Manawatu-Wellington Representative Match

The annual Wellington vs. Manawatu team challenge took place on September 15th. This year Wellington travelled up to Palmerston North (we alternate) and congratulations to all players who took part. Wellington won overall 5-2 with the overall team result summary below:

The #1 Team won 10-4 (Hayden Tapp, Callum Rusbridge, Catherine Zhou)
Under 18s lost 4-7 (Frank Fu, Gareth Telfer, Ellen Xiong)
Under 15s won 13-1 (Ben Westenra, Charlie Waddy, Sean Hanson)
under 13s won 10-4 (Adam Xiong, Chris Linton, Abram Goh)
Vets #1 won 9-5 (Bryan McConnochie, Ian Talbot, Depak Patel)
Vets #2 won 11-0 (Sabine Westenra, Raewyn Young, Paul Solt)
Vets #3 lost 3-8 (Malcolm Wong, Kevin Haines, Roger Watkin)

Manawatu have posted detailed results for each match-up on their website.

Vets #3 Wgtn team

Upcoming ‘Spring’ interclub

Clubs will now be gathering names for the 2012 spring interclub season. The spring competition is traditionally a more relaxed competition than winter interclub so it is also a good time to introduce interclub to club players who may not have experienced this before.

Timetable (Wednesdays)

10/10 Entries due for Composite Interclub from clubs (please including available reserves)
10/10 First inaugural one-off Handicap Teams Competition (2-player teams)
17/10 Week 1 (Composite Interclub 3-player team interclub estimated 8 teams per division)
24/10 Week 2 (Composite Interclub continued)
31/10 Week 3 (Composite Interclub continued)
7/11 Week 4 (Composite Interclub continued)
14/11 Week 5 (Composite Interclub continued)
21/11 Week 6 (Composite Interclub continued)
28/11 Week 7 (Composite Interclub continued)
5/12 Week 8 (Composite Interclub continued) – likely a finals night (e.g. grade crossover)
12/12 Second one-off Handicap Teams Competition (2-player teams)

The Composite Interclub runs from 17/10-5/12 and will work in the same way as in recent spring-season composite interclub competitions. It will run to 8 weeks likely as a round-robin format followed by a finals night (grade vs. grade crossover) depending on the number on teams entered.

The ‘Handicap Teams Competition’ is a new format to be trialed first as a more social/casual competition – it will run separately from the Composite Interclub. The two nights of 10/10 and 12/12 will also be separate to each other.

In a Nutshell…

The Composite Interclub is a 3-player team competition where TTW matches up teams to be as even as possible – normally with one stronger, one medium, and one weaker player in each team. Depending on the number of entries there will normally be two separate grades playing a round-robin within that grade.

The handicap-teams 2-player team interclub is being trialled and will be held as separate events on two separate nights. The idea is to start scoring off in every set with the weaker player starting at a higher score. This effectively equalises all players so there is no concept of grade – everyone is on a level playing field.

Full Details

Full details are attached here: 2012 TTW Spring Interclub Details

South Island Open Report (Malcolm Wong)

There were 72 competitors at the Saxton Stadium (Stoke) in Nelson for the South Island Open earlier in August. There were 12 tables (where normally there were 8) to meet TTNZ requirements. This meant that the playing area (per table) was smaller than usual, which made defensive play difficult. Later in the day the playing area was widened for finals. Results are on the TTNZ website (with photos here) or from Table Tennis Nelson with the results document posted here.

Much thanks to Donny Harris and Paul Op Den Buysch for all their long hours of work in collating the entries and entering them on the computer. Also to the volunteers (Alan Cuthbert, Graeme Mathieson, David Watson and Malcolm Wong) who set up the playing area on the Friday before the tournament. Considerable time was required as the Table Tennis Nelson Butterfly Tables were taken down, the playing area cleaned and the Stag Tables set up. There is a significant cost to Table Tennis Nelson in using the Stag Tables as they had to pay the freight cost for transporting them to the venue and then returning them to Table Tennis NZ.

Thanks to the tournament organisers for all their hard work in making this a well run tournament. Joachim Kusche (Referee), Henry Redmond (Tournament Manager), Donny Harris and Paul Op den Boysch (Tournament Controllers), and Kay Hazeldine (TTN Secretary). Great scheduling meant play finished at 6.00 pm (Sat) and 5.00pm (Sun). The cafeteria was well run by Karen Holmes and her team ( Nolene Wells and her daughter Katherine, Don and Audrey Harris, and Dianne Watson).

Over 50 Mixed Doubles Medalist: Russell Holden and Donna Madden (Silver) Glenda Ferguson and Malcolm Wong (Gold)
Stephen Hirst won the Open Men’s Doubles with Callum Rusbridge, and the Over 30 Men’s Doubles with Heath Murdoch. Callum Rusbridge and Heath Murdoch won the B Grade Men’s Doubles. Heath Murdoch was runner up in the Over 30 Men’s Singles and won the Over 40 Mixed Doubles with Donna Madden (Nelson). Malcolm Wong won the Over 50 Mixed Doubles with Glenda Ferguson (Nelson) and was runner up in the Over 50 Men’s Doubles with Mark Nalder (Nelson) and C Grade Men’s Doubles with Steve Bellamy (Nelson).

-Malcolm Wong

2012 TTW Winter Interclub Final Team Results

The finals night of winter interclub was completed last night (Tuesday 11/9) so along with last Tuesday’s Premier 4 final we have the winning teams (with the players in each as listed at the start of the season):

Premier 1: Belmont Blasters (Thom Nguyen, Hayden Tapp, Heath Murdoch, Dzung Nguyen)
runners-up: Belmont Bang (Stephen Hirst, Callum Rusbridge, Larn Sweeney, Chun-Kiet Vong)

Premier 2: Empire Pine (Win Nguyen, Raman Tiwana, Brendyn Shaw, Richard Dalziel)
runners-up: Empire Oak (Tony Rutledge, Chris Williams, Bruce Connolly, Uy Tang)

Premier 3: Empire Rowan (James Stewart, Yang Sun, Mo Whare, Murray McLeod, Peter Douglas, T Metuariki)
runners-up: Belmont Barbarians (Matt Gill, Matt Hannah, Tony Pietras)

Premier 4: Belmont 38 (Desmond Goh, Abram Goh, Sri Galloway)
runners-up: Karori Thunder (Steve Montgomery, Russell Jackson, Peter Bloor)

Congratulations to all winners and all players during the winter season!

The final individual results are: here (results from Finals nights don’t get included in the winter season individual percentages). The season draws were here.

As mentioned earlier, NEXT WEEK are the Winter Interclub Grade Championships. This is a separate singles competition for each Premier grade with players eligible to play in the championship for the grade they played in during the 2012 winter interclub and/or for the championship for the next-higher grade. The format will be groups of round-robins followed by a knock-out round. Premier 1 and Premier 3 grade championships will be held on Tuesday September 18 with Premier 2 and Premier 4 grade championships on Wednesday September 19. The player fee is reduced to $6 for grade championship nights.

Following this there is a break followed by the spring competitions on Wednesdays starting from mid October. More details on this will be published soon.

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Notice for Finals night (11/9) and Grade Championships (18-19/9)

Next week on Tuesday September 11 will be the team finals night for the 1st vs. 2nd ranked teams from Premier 1, 2, and 3. Due to a scheduling conflict, the final for Premier 4 was played on September 4 with Belmont 38 defeating Karori Thunder to win Premier 4. The player fee is reduced to $5 for finals nights.

All non-players are also encouraged to come along to watch the finals night (no charge!).

Junior interclub is still underway.

The week following will be the Winter Interclub Grade Championships. This is a separate singles competition for each Premier grade with players eligible to play in the championship for the grade they played in during the 2012 winter interclub and/or for the championship for the next-higher grade. The format will be groups of round-robins followed by a knock-out round.

Premier 1 and Premier 3 grade championships will be held on Tuesday September 18 with Premier 2 and Premier 4 grade championships on Wednesday September 19. The player fee is reduced to $6 for grade championship nights.

Following this there is a break followed by the spring competitions on Wednesdays starting from mid October. More details on this will be sent out soon.

Winter Interclub Statistics after Week 14 (Aug 28-29) (last week before finals night)

Regular round play has completed (the two round-robin rounds) with the top two teams from each grade going through to the final next week – Tuesday September 11 (except Premier 4 which is scheduled for Tuesday September 4). If you’re not in a team that made it to the final, feel free to come along and watch. The week following, will be a grade-championships (singles event) for each grade. I’ll post with more details of that in a day or two.

The team results: 2012 Winter Week 14 Teams [Corrected as of 3/10]

Individual results: 2012 Winter Week 14 Individuals

Premier 1 Final: Belmont Blasters vs. Belmont Bang
Premier 2 Final: Empire Oak vs. Empire Pine
Premier 3 Final: Empire Rowan vs. Belmont Barbarians
Premier 4 Final: Belmont 38 vs. Karori Thunder

Let me know if you see any error in the results. Thanks to Roger for updating the spreadsheet during the season.

Encouraging this year was the jump in the number of interclub teams and many players coming through the ranks. Much of this is a strong crop of juniors but also we welcomed many new senior players and some old(er) faces from the past who I hope have been relishing the challenges of weekly competition!

There will be a ‘spring’ interclub’ (normally starting at the end of October or early November) which ín recent years was a composite (multiple graded players within each team to provide balance and closer matches). This has proved popular and provides for closer matches (lots of 6-5 results), something different that achieves a similar effect but is something new is being considered so watch this space!

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