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July 2013

Local News: Northland School Table Tennis Champs

You might recall earlier that TTW were contacted by Northland School who have a couple of table tennis tables but no proper bats and we were after some donations of old bats or usable rubbers.

Thanks to some help we were able to provide some bats with fresh rubbers on them which makes a big difference to these young kids when trying to put some spin on the ball!

In the last week of term 2, Steph sent me a report on the championships they had that week:

We held our table tennis doubles championship today at lunchtime. We had an awesome crowd to watch and it was a tight final: best of three games, went to the third set, the first 2 games had to be played to advantage, a real nail-biter!! We had two great umpires too!

Steph thanked our members for their most generous donation of bats and rubber and said the kids were getting some good topspin and backspin on the ball during the final games, thanks to the new rubber.

With the new term starting tomorrow I’m sure the kids at Northland School are looking forward to getting back to table tennis, oh and school too of course!

Northland School TT championships 1

Table Tennis New Zealand Junior Nationals Teams Report

B grade Silver Medals
B grade Silver Medals
A grade Silver Medals
A grade Silver Medals

Infinity FoundationWellington took a squad of 8 players to the New Zealand Junior Nationals this year and every member came home with a medal!

The Under 18 team of Chun-Kiet Vong, Gareth Telfer, Ben Westenra and Ian Wang started their campaign with a grading match against Waikato to try and qualify for the A grade. They fought hard but were beaten 4:1 in the contest. Chun-Kiet won the only singles match. They then moved on to compete in the B grade getting through to the final before going down very closely 3:4 to Auckland 3. Chun-Kiet did exceptionally well winning 100% of his singles matches in B grade!

The Under 15 Team of Frank Fu, Sean Hanson and Adam Xiong did very well in the A grade. They topped there side of the group with wins over North Harbour 5:2, Auckland 2 5:2 and Northland 7:0. In the semi Final they accounted for their local rivals Manawatu 5:2. The final was against Auckland 1 who proved to be too strong however Adam raised his game to beat Roger Wang (one of Auckland’s best) to save us a from a white wash and result of 1:4. No other teams got a match off Auckland 1.

Hui-Ling Vong ended up as a draft player in two teams. Cook Islands in the under 13’s and North Harbour in the under 15’s. She was the star player in both teams. The Cook Islands team finished in 3rd place and Hui-Ling then enjoyed the extra support from the Cook Islands players and families for the rest of the tournament! North harbour finished 2nd in a round robin competition with Auckland, Canterbury and New Caledonia. Auckland won, but not before Hui-Ling took a very well fought win over her long time rival Nai Xin from Auckland (for the 1st time!) The teams events concluded with medals all round. It was a great effort and an outstanding result.

Thanks must go out to Hayden Tapp who assisted me with enthusiasm and quality in his coaching role and to Gabrielle Telfer for her management and cooking skills. Everyone was well fed and on time to every event. Also a mention to Sophie Telfer for her help to us all and to Till Armbruster (The Telfer’s homestay student) who unfortunately couldn’t play for us, but was a great team member, camera operator and hitting partner for the rest of the team.

-Paul Solt
Head Coach

Huge thanks to the Infinity Foundation for their support on the coaching and expenses!

2013 Junior Nationals – mini update

I’f I’m decoding the text messages I’ve received from Gabrielle correctly, the TTW U18 B Grade boys’ team (Chun-Kiet Vong; Gareth Telfer; Ben Westenra; Ian Wang) finished second and the U15 A Grade boys’ team (Sean Hanson; Frank Fu; Adam Xiong) finished second too!  Congratulations to the teams, sounds like some good play along the way so we’ll look forward to some stories and pictures on your return!  (Individual events follow the teams.)

PS: Anyone who is a club member who is up for seeing the movie Ping Pong, TTNZ have sent us details of a discount which is available here.

Winter Division Grades – Joola Series 1 Completed

JOOLAblack175x69Hi folks, here are the Joola Series 1 Division grade completed results (and Premier up until last week): Winter Interclub 2-3 July (updated July 17)

Congratulations to:

Division 1 Series 1 winners: Waterloo Wasps (Sean Hanson 100%, Win Nguyen 95%, Scott Higham 83%)
Division 1 Series 1 runners-ups: Empire Elders (Chris Williams 81%, Tony Rutledge 78%, Bruce Connolly 67%)

Division 2 Series 1 winners: Waterloo Whales (Martin Xiong 94%, Callum Gates 83%, Ellen Xiong 50%, )
Division 2 Series 1 runners-ups: Karori Kometz (Steve Mongomery 93%, Reg Feuz 61%, Roger Watkin 56%)

Division 3 Series 1 winners: Empire Engines (Vlassi Benaki 94%, Terry Hooper 87%, Sunil Kunjappen 75%, Murray McLeod 67%)
Division 3 Series 1 runners-ups: Waterloo Wapitis (Dean McNicholl 91%, Chris Sutton 71%, Ian Thomas 62%)

For Premier, Belmont Bang is ahead of Titan and we’re about half way through the Premier competition.

Series 2 for the Division (and Junior) grades starts August 6/7 but grade champs are tonight.

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TTW Joola Interclub Division Grade Champs coming up

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Remember that for the Division grades (1/2/3) Series 1 is now complete (results to be posted up) but next week (July 9/10 Tues/Wed) will be the Grade Championships event (one event per grade on the normal night for each grade). This is a non-team ‘tournament-style’ event to see who can be No. 1 in their division so be sure to come along. The format usually starts with several round-robins with the top 1 or 2 going through to the knock-out rounds (entries on the night will determine the exact format).

Division 1 and 3 folks are on Wednesday, Division 2 on Tuesday. You can play in the grade you are playing in and you may also play in a higher division should you wish!

The Grade Champs are a good practice for the TTW Yasaka Open coming up: here – July 13/14

Following the grade champs are 2 weeks off (the mid-year holidays are on) before Series 2 starts, after that (Aug 6/7) is Series 2 (any grading matches, if necessary, will be Aug 1). The Division grades continue until Sept 17/18 with a finals night Sept 25 (all grades – including Premier too).

Clubs will be preparing Series 2 team entries for the Division grades over the next few weeks so keep in contact with your club contacts about this – it is also a good time to bring in extra people into the winter interclub who weren’t available earlier so clubs can add more teams or make some alterations if necessary. Ask a friend who hasn’t played interclub before to come in for series 2 – a 7 week series could be a good introduction for them.

There is also a junior interclub starting around the same time for those more entry-level juniors who might not yet be ready for regular interclub.

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