Hi folks, Northland School is a small school here in Wellington, currently trying to boost their children’s interest in Table Tennis. They have two tables and some very old and tatty bats, some without rubber!
Stephanie Prince used to represent Manawatu at table tennis some years ago and is teaching table tennis at the school during a lunch break each week but she is somewhat hampered by the lack of bats. If anyone has any spare old bats out there or even spare old bat rubbers that they would like to donate please pass them along to me or someone at interclub to pass on to me and I’ll see that Stephanie gets them and that we can glue any rubbers on the bats that they do have! (Or contact Stephanie on 475 9660 or 027 2222 906.)
This was part of a 3 day annual multi sports tournament held between the Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch campuses of NZIS. The table tennis was held at the ASB Sports Centre in Kilbirnie. Singles (Men’s and Women’s) and Mixed Doubles were held. Matches were the best of 3 games. There was only one representative from each campus for each event. Christchurch won all the events, and were first overall, with Wellington second and Auckland third. This was a complete reversal from last year when Auckland were first and Christchurch third. Thanks to Malcolm Wong and Martin Young for umpiring at this event.
Women’s Singles
1st Rebekah McConnell (Christchurch)
2nd Wendy-Ann Preston (Auckland)
3rd Courtney Ann Lockwood (Wellington)
Mixed Doubles
1st Anton Kridle & Alex Cromie (Christchurch)
2nd Daniel Dexter & Courtney Ann Lockwood (Wellington)
3rd Matt Wooding & Jasmine Paaka-Culpin (Auckland)
Umpires Martin Young, Matthew Liua’ana (Organiser) and Malcolm Wong Malcolm Wong with Men’s Singles players Benton Flavell (Auck), Daniel Dexter (Wgtn) and Spencer Sandridge (Chch)Malcolm Wong and Mixed Doubles players Jasmine Paaka-Culpin & Matt Wooding (Auck), Daniel Dexter and Courtney Ann Lockwood (Wgtn), Anton Kridle & Alex Cromie (Christchurch) and Martin Young Martin Young with Women’s Singles players Wendy-Ann Preston (Auck), Courtney Ann Lockwood (Wgtn) and Rebekah McConnell (Chch)
UPDATE: MANAWATU OPEN POSTPONED – NEW DATE TBD The 2013 Manawatu Open is on July 6, 2013 in Palmerston North. Their entry form is [REMOVED AS POSTPONED].
The 2013 Hawke’s Bay Open is on Saturday June 22 (entries close June 18) in Napier. Their entry form is here.
Also, pencil in your diary the 2013 Wellington Open on July 13-14 held at Empire in Petone.
July 17-21 is the TTNZ New Zealand Junior Open Championships in Auckland.
Chun-Kiet VongThe first week results are here. Too early to spot any trends yet but a few upsets already to spice things up. “Malcolm’s Upset win of the week” was Belmont Beasts’ Chun-Kiet Vong (15) beating Titan’s Lindsay Ward (though Titan won 9-2) and took this picture of Chun-Kiet at Titan club on Sunday where he was practising. Please email me your play or player or upset of the week after each week and I’ll add it to the results posting!
Here are the draws for the Premier and Division grades. (Premier is analogous to Premier 1 last year while Divisions 1, 2, and 3 are analogous to last year’s Premier 2, 3, and 4.)
A note for the Division grades is the scoring system (points per team for each night) which are noted at the bottom of the draw sheet:
Division Points:
11-0 & 10-1 Winner 5 pts / Loser 0 pts
9-2, 8-3, 7-4 Winner 4 pts / Loser 1 pt
6-5 Winner 3pts / Loser 2 pts
NB: If a team wins all seven of their contests, and hasn’t had points taken off for disciplinary reasons, they will win the grade even if another team has accrued more points overall.
For Premier it is simply 1 point for a win, 0 for a loss.
Refer to the documents for full details.
For the Division grades there is one series of 7 weeks, then a grade champs, then a second series – teams are re-entered for the second series so there could well be differences in teams from series 1 and series 2. For the Premier grade, there are three rounds with the same teams throughout.
Malcolm Wong has a lot of old records and sent in a story about the interclub grade he was involved in 1993, 20 years ago (pre-merger with Hutt Valley so it is only the Wellington teams). For those of you who have been around long enough some of the names will be recognisable and many are still playing today!
Blast from the Past
1993 Wellington A Reserve Grade remembered.
There were ten teams representing seven clubs, with Titan providing three teams. After the first round the top six teams qualified for Divison 1 and the bottom four teams for Division 2. Team results, and individual averages attached.
The first round was won by Onslow A (22 points) ahead of Karori (20) and Te Rama (19). The Onslow A team were all juniors. Their top player was Jamie Lennox, who had won the NZ under 13 Boys Doubles (1992). He would be selected for the New Zealand under 17 Boys Team (1995-96). Jonathan Armstrong was to win the NZ Under 21 Men’s Doubles (1996). Andrew Wiggins was the Wellington Secondary School’s Boys Singles winner that year.
Karori had the veteran, Ken Hindson, and two juniors, Simon Reed and Mark Jurgeleit. Ken had won the Te Rama Club Singles (1989) and would be in the Te Rama Team (with Matthew Hobbs and Malcolm Wong) that would win Division 2 at the Manawatu Teams Tournament (1996). Simon would be later involved in coaching Wellington Junior teams (1998-2001) and was the Manager/Coach of the Wellington Under 19 Boys Team that won the NZ Under 19 Boys Teams Title (2000) beating Canterbury 5-4 in the final.
Te Rama had an experienced team. Malcolm Wong and Martin Young were in the Te Rama Team had won the A Reserve Grade (1991) with David Robinson. Malcolm was in the Te Rama Team that won the C Grade (1986) and B Grade (1989). He has won 9 Te Rama Club Singles and also the Titan Club Singles (1995). Martin was in the Ling Tse Team that won the C2 Grade (1987) and C Grade (1988). He has won 15 Te Rama Club Singles. Brian Neale had played A Grade for Victoria University and Newlands. He was in the Newlands Team that won the A Reserve Grade (1971,1986 & 1989). He has won 10 Newlands Club Singles.Brian was in the Victoria University Team that won the NZ University Teams Tournament (1963) and he was runner up in the Men’s Singles.
Another good junior was Graeme Windley (Onslow B) who played mainly B Grade that year. He was NZ Under 17 Boys Singles runner up (1995) and won the NZ Under 19 Boys Doubles (1996) and NZ Under 21 Men’s Doubles (1999).
Other players still involved today were Kevin Haines (Onslow B), Bob Bell (Newlands)[recently moved to Napier] and Matthew Hobbs (Titan C). Bob won the Newlands Club Singles (1996) and Onslow Club Singles (2011). Matthew won the Onslow Club Singles (2012).
In Division 1 Te Rama won all their matches. There were 2 crucial matches. In the third round Te Rama beat Karori 6-5 despite Ken Hindson winning his 3 singles. Then in the penultimate round Te Rama played the leaders Onslow A, who were leading by 2 points. Te Rama needed to win by 7-4 or more to gain 3 points and move into the lead. Onslow started well and lead 4-2 only for Te Rama to win the last 5 matches. Malcolm Wong won all his 3 singles for Te Rama. In the last round Te Rama beat Titan A 9-2 to win the Grade. Division 2 was won by Titan B.for whom Ross McFarland starred.
In the grade match against Hutt Valley (8 August) two A Reserve Grade teams were selected. A Reserve 1 (Malcolm Wong, Martin Young and Hamish Rennie) and A Reserve 2 (David Buckrell, Nick Julian and Matthew Hobbs). The Hutt Valley A Reserve 1 Team (Staff Marshall, Stan Joe and Brett Pottinger) won 7-4 and their A Reserve 2 Team (Jeremy Evans, Steve Westmoreland and Darren O’Brien) won 8-3
In the A Reserve Grade Chanpionships (25 August) Te Rama had more success. Martin Young won the Singles against team mate Malcolm Wong (1990 & 1991 winner). In the Doubles Malcolm Wong and Martin Young won for the third successive year when they beat Jonathan Armstrong and David Buckrell.
In July are the 2013 Table Tennis New Zealand Junior Championships. This will be help in Auckland from the 17th to the 21st of July. Entries are due June 12. The TTNZ entry form is here.
PS: ** A wrap-up the 2013 19th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships results from the TTNZ website: here and from ITTF here.
There is also a prospectus for an ITTF Hotspot Training Camp to be held also in Auckland just prior to the Junior Championships (July 15/16) – all junior players are invited.
Hi folks, Northland School is a small school here in Wellington, currently trying to boost their children’s interest in Table Tennis. They have two tables and some very old and tatty bats, some without rubber!
When: Sunday June 16: Under 12s & Under 17s at 2pm; Under 14s at 10am. (Please be 15 minutes early.)
