Round 2 saw a few replacements appearing and the potential for some mismatches but these didn’t eventuate to the levels possible with close results still the norm. Thanks to those who filled in on the night.
Two new teams were added to Division Two which has evened out the numbers nicely. Thanks also to the new players for adding to the variety of the competition.
Teams: Composite Week 2 Teams
Individuals: Composite Week 2 Individuals
-Kevin
Catherine Zhou wins the Over 30 Women’s Singles
Image courtesy of Murray Finch
Successes from Wellington include:
Catherine Zhou winning the Women’s Over 30s Singles.
Catherine Zhou winning the Women’s Doubles with Sarah Hee-Lee (AKL).
Catherine Zhou & Stephen Hirst were runners-up in the Over 30s Mixed Doubles
Also see Matt Hetherington’s blog entries: here and here.
On behalf of all Wellington players congratulations to Catherine and Stephen on their success!
Congratulations to the other Wellington players competing too, I see Frank Fu did especially well to get past the pool stage in the Men’s C-grade.
The Composite Teams competition for 2012 got off to a solid start after the players worked out who their teammates were. Most results might have been predictable but there were a few minor upsets and many close games occurred With the ideal being that teams in each division are closely matched, the number of 6-5 results was pleasing and only a couple of 7-4 results occurred. It is hoped that by week 2, an extra two teams will added to Division Two, rounding out the grade nicely.
Results in a spreadsheet are here: 2012 Composite Results Week 1 Oct 17 (individual results are on sheet 2).
Points to the end of round 1 (Oct 17)
| Played | Won | For | Against | Points | Placing | |
| DIVISION ONE | ||||||
| Cheetahs | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Cougars | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1.5 | 2= |
| Lions | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1.5 | 2= |
| Pumas | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1.5 | 2= |
| Jaguars | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0.5 | 5= |
| Tigers | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0.5 | 5= |
| Panthers | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0.5 | 5= |
| Leopards | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 8 |
| DIVISION TWO | ||||||
| Wolves | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1= |
| Dingos | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1= |
| Jackals | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1.5 | 3 |
| Foxes | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0.5 | 4 |
| Hyenas | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 5= |
| Coyotes | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 5= |
NB: Points are:
1.5 for a team win by 6-5
2 for a win by 7-4 or greater
0.5 for a 5-6 loss.
Wednesday 10th October saw the inaugural TTW Handicap tournament held at Empire. There were 12 keen players who came along expecting some fun and who got an enjoyable night. Teams of 2 players all played 2 matches. One team who dared to call themselves the “Champs” John Gan / Adam Xiong shared “1st prize” with another team who since they hadn’t named themselves were given the name of the “Olds” Ian Talbot / Graham Sole by some administrators! There must be something in a name as the “Ninjas” Mat Hobbs / Martin Xiong and the “2 M’s” Maggie Dyer / Mariana Proctor didn’t win a match, although players did win some games and / or sets (note all start with letter M) . Also playing were Gareth Telfer / Zhidong Yu and Bryan McConnochie / Rod Weston and both these teams won one match.
All in all a good night as I’m sure our one spectator, Garbrielle will agree. There is another of these tournaments scheduled for the 12th December so we hope to see more of you there. Thank you to Mat who organised the handicaps which I think all players considered fair, made more difficult by the fact we play to 11 now”.
-Maggie Dyer
The basic formula (described in an attachment here) was OK looking at the individual matches it still looked like the higher ranked ranked player beat the the lower ranked player most of the time. This means the formula should be adjusted to increase the ‘spread’ even further. Ideally you want the top-seeded player to only win half of the time under a perfect balanced system. In one example Ian Talbot (handicap 8) played Mariana Proctor (handicap 0) meaning each set starts with Mariana 8-0 up and Ian won but only just with -7, -8, 8, 9, 9. There were a few other close ones but there is room to push the handicap further.
-Mat Hobbs
Kevin Haines has worked hard to get the teams and draws arranged and here they are below. See you all on Wednesday!
Teams: 2012 Composite Teams
Draw: 2012 Composite Draw and Info (full details including reserve information is in here – if you are not listed but would like to play as a reserve let Kevin Haines know).
CHEETAHS: Paul Brown, Jason Giles, Frank Fu, Richard Dalziel
COUGARS: John Gan, Raewyn Young, Hui-Ling Vong
JAGUARS: Bryan McConnochie, Chun-Kiet Vong, Russell Buchanan
LEOPARDS: Depak Patel, Scott Higham, Craig Gear
LIONS: Callum Rusbridge, Sean Hanson, Brendyn Shaw
PANTHERS: Chris Talbot, Mat Hobbs, Gareth Telfer
PUMAS: Ian Talbot, Sabine Westenra, Martin Xiong
TIGERS: Catherine Zhou, Martin Young, Adam Xiong
COYOTES: Arindom Choudhury, Maggie Dyer, Angus Horan
DINGOS: Peter Douglas, Reuben Reid, Ian Grace
FOXES: Isaac Noanoa, Rod Weston, Hayden Haughey
JACKALS: Graham Sole, Chris Linton, Chris Sutton
HYENAS: Mo Whare, Yvonne Cuthbert, Edwin Rivers
WOLVES: Zhidong Yu, Abram Goh, Tavish Voight
After some tough battles the Wellington players at the Senior Nationals have completed the team events. The individual events are up next.
A write up of the Men’s title is on Matt Hetherington’s Blog and he also has a write up on the Women’s team title too. Be sure to check those articles out.
Catherine Zhou was drafted into a team with Waikato – see here for match details (the last 2 pages).
For the Wellington Men’s team (Callum Rusbridge, Andrew Rieper, Frank Fu, Stephen Hirst, Paul Solt) they made it into the A grade after winning a tough grading match 4-3 over North Harbour 2. Callum won 12-10 in the fifth set of a tense deciding match! In the A grade they finished 7th of the 8 teams in this (the top) grade which is a great effort. The A Grade match details are here (further down) – but are not complete yet as of the time I write this.
Watch TTNZ for official updates and details of the teams and individual events. It is interesting to also see John Cordue in action – those of us who were playing in the mid 90’s will remember John from his much younger days in Wellington!
Below are some pictures from the Nationals thanks to Gina Connell & Murray Finch.
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