This file was held by the interclub committee while determining a result. I’m posting this now though the Week 5 results will be here soon!
Week 4: Winter Interclub 11-12 June
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.
Men’s Singles
1st Spencer Sandridge (Christchurch)
2nd Daniel Dexter (Wellington)
3rd Benton Flavell (Auckland)
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)




Hello juniors and minders thereof, Table Tennis Wellington is proud to present the first Junior Developing tournament of 2013.
Full details & conditions: 2013 TTW Junior Developing Tournament June 16 Entry Form
When: Sunday June 16: Under 12s & Under 17s at 2pm; Under 14s at 10am. (Please be 15 minutes early.)
Where: Empire Table Tennis Club Hall (directions).
Tournament Manager: Kevin Haines, ph: 04 478 0741, email: treasurer[at]ttwellington.org.nz
Entries: are due to Kevin by 9pm Friday June 14.
Fees: Pay on arrival or post with entry.
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.

Results:2013 TTW Winter Week 1.
Gareth Telfer is again working on the statistics so thanks to Gareth for picking this task up.
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.
Draw: Premier
Draw: Division 1 – Series 1
Draw: Division 2 – Series 1
Draw: Division 3 – Series 1
And the Rules & Code of Conduct. Please look through these, these are affective from the start of 2013 winter interclub.
2013 Winter Interclub rules
2013 Code of Conduct
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.
Statistics from this grade in 1993: 1993 WTTA A-reserve Interclub.

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.
Also upcoming are two TTNZ basic umpire courses.
The 2013 Counties Manukau Table Tennis Open (8th & 9th June 2013) entry form is here.
The 2013 Canterbury Open Table Tennis Championships (June 2 & 3) entry form is here and also a conditions document.
You are invited to enter into our next Rating tournament which is the 2013 TTSports Table Tennis Wellington Autumn Open.
Form: 2013 TTW Autumn Open Entry Form
Conditions: 2013 Wgtn Autumn Conditions
Events are Saturday May 18 (Open, Under 21, Over 30) and Sunday May 19 (Under 12, Over 45/55/65).
Entries Close May 15 with: tournament [at] ttwellington.org.nz (for options refer to the entry form).
Note that each entry includes a single $2 contribution towards a new Junior Development Fund.
| Time | Saturday May 18 | Sunday May 19 |
| 9:15am | Under 21 & 0ver 30 | Under 12, Under 16 & Over 45, Over 65 |
| 12:15pm | Open Singles | |
| 1:30pm | Open Women’s Singles | Under 14, Under 18 & Over 35, Over 55 |
Venue
Empire Table Tennis Stadium, Marine Parade, Petone, Lower Hutt (a map is at the end of here).
Enjoy!

You may have heard the news at summer interclub but for the record Hui-Ling Vong had great success at the recent ITTF Oceania Hopes Challenge event in Melbourne.
From TTNZ:
The Oceania Hopes Challenge concluded [April 6] in Melbourne with Yang Lun Zhao (Waikato) and Hui-Ling Vong (Wellington) winning both the boys and girls event for New Zealand. Yang Lun and Hui-Ling comfortably won all their matches
3-0.
As winners of the Oceania Hopes Challenge Hui-Ling and Yang Lun will be invited to participate in the ITTF Hopes Week and Challenge at the Werner Schlager in Vienna, Austria from the 9th to 16th June 2013.
Well done Hui-Ling and Yang Lun too!
Full results are here.
From the ITTF Oceania Hopes site:
The ITTF-Oceania Hopes Challenge is a talent identification tournament targeted for athletes aged 11 and 12 Years Old (Born in 2001/02). 2013 is the first year in which the event will be held.
The ITTF story is here – check this out.
No doubt Hui-Ling has some stories to tell you from her exciting trip so feel free to ask lots of questions on Wednesday nights for the next 4 weeks until the end of summer interclub!
May 4/5 is the 2013 Marlborough Open (supported by The Redword Trust) to be held at the SIMCOX STADIUM, Batty’s Road, Springlands, Blenheim. Supported by The Redwood Trust.
ENTRY FORM is here and INFORMATION here.
Entries close on MONDAY 29 April 2013 with Chris Hood, 7 Brian Bary Street, Blenheim 7201. Entry fees with entry please. Maximum family fee of $70.00. Enquiries: hoodfamily [at] ihug.co.nz Phone (03) 578 8330 after 6.30pm or 027 782 6098 (anytime).
The recent 2013 TTW Vets Tournament went off smoothly and was a timely lead up for those heading off to the TTNZ Vets (which included a historic win for the NZ team over Australia!)and a good excuse for some non-Wellingtonians to come and visit on a nice Wellington weekend.
Results:
Over 40 singles:
Depak Patel bt. Paul Brown
Over 50 singles:
Depak Patel bt. Ian Talbot
Over 60 singles:
Jim Jarmin bt. Graham Sole
Over 70 singles:
Richard Ammundsen bt. Jim Jarmin
Over 40 doubles:
Depak Patel & Paul Brown
Over 50 doubles:
Depak Patel & Bryan McConnochie
Over 60 doubles:
Jim Jarmin & Richard Ammundsen
Over 70 doubles:
Jim Jarmin & Richard Ammundsen
(doubles runner-ups pending entry here)
Hi folks, here is the draw for Round 2. Thanks to Gareth for continuing to provide the updated stats (round 1 latest is here) – great job!
TTW 2013 Summer Interclub Round 2 Draw as of Apr 3 2013
Over 35 Team event
Gold Larn Sweeney with Shane Wilson & David Rowan (Wanganui)
Silver Paul Brown, Depak Patel and Raewyn Young
Bronze Chris & Ian Talbot and Bryan McConnochie
Over 45 Team event
Gold Chris & Ian Talbot
Silver Bryan McConnochie with Gerard Lucas (Sri Lanka)
Bronze Depak Patel and Raewyn Young
Over 55 Team event
Gold Ian Talbot and Bryan McConnochie
Over 35 events
Mens Singles Bronze Paul Brown
Womens Singles Gold Raewyn Young
Mens Doubles Silver Ian Talbot and Bryan McConnochie
Mens Doubles Bronze Paul Brown and Depak Patel
Womens Doubles Bronze Raewyn Young and Kaye Power (Australia)
Mixed Doubles Gold Depak Patel and Raewyn Young
Mens Plate Silver Tony Rutledge
Mens Plate Bronze Raewyn Young
Womens Social Doubles Silver Nola Burrell and Joy Mozer (now Wanganui but formerly Wellington)
Womens Social Plate Bronze Joy Mozer
Over 45 events
Mens Singles Gold Depak Patel
Mens Singles Bronze Ian Talbot
Womens Singles Gold Raewyn Young
Mens Doubles Gold Chris & Ian Talbot
Mens Doubles Silver Bryan McConnochie and Depak Patel
Mens Doubles Bronze Tony Rutledge and David Scott (North Harbour)
Womens Doubles Gold Raewyn Young and Gladys Halford (Manawatu)
Mixed Doubles Gold Depak Patel and Raewyn Young
Mens Plate Bronze Tony Rutledge
Over 55 events
Mens Singles Gold Ian Talbot
Mens Doubles Silver Ian Talbot and Bryan McConnochie
Mens Doubles Bronze Tony Rutledge and Jim Jarmin (Manawatu)
Over 65 events
Mens Doubles Silver Tony Rutledge and Jim Jarmin (Manawatu)
Overall a big medal haul from the Wellington contingent! And a good time was had by all!
-Raewyn Young
Photos from the Wanganui Chronicle.
PS: The complete set of all results are here.
Hi folks,
The traditional annual Empire Veterans tournament has been expanded this year to run under the auspices of Table Tennis Wellington and is open to all-comers. It is ideally placed as a lead-up for the TTNZ Veterans tournament this year. This is itself a lead-up to the ITTF WORLD VETS CHAMPS 2014 to be held in Auckland! (This will be the first time that this event has ever been held in New Zealand.)
The 2013 Table Tennis Wellington Veterans Tournament will be held on Sunday March 17 at Empire Table Tennis Club Hall, Marine Parade, Petone.
Details: 2013 Wgtn Veterans Conditions
Entry Form: 2013 Wgtn Veterans Entry Form
Schedule
| Time | Sunday March 17 |
| 10:00am | Over 50, Over 70 |
| 12:30pm | Over 40, Over 60 |
Entries Close Thursday March 14, 6pm
Table Tennis Wellington, PO Box 12-038, Thorndon 6144, Wellington
email: tournament [at] ttwellington.org.nz
Tournament Manager
Paul Solt

Hi folks, the 2013 Table Tennis Wellington Summer Interclub draw for Round 1 (of 2) is here: TTW 2013 Summer Interclub Round 1 Draw as of Feb 18 2013.
Let me know of any name spelling corrections at interclub. The first night is this Wednesday, see you there!
Team Listings
Division 1
Belmont A: Callum Rusbridge & Martin Murdoch
Empire A: Depak Patel and Paul Brown
Empire B: Chris Talbot and Ian Talbot
Belmont B: Cath Zhou & Larn Sweeney
Empire C: Raewyn Young and Sabine Westenra
Empire D: John Gan and Jason Giles
Division 2
Empire E: Bryan McConnochie and Tony Rutledge
Belmont C: Frank Fu & Chun-Kiet Vong
Empire F: Martin Young, Paul Solt and Harry Chen
Waterloo A: Gareth Telfer & Sean Hanson
Waterloo B: Scott Higham & Adam Xiong
Empire G: Matthew Hobbs & Russell Buchanan
Division 3
Empire H: Isaac Noanoa and Graham Sole
Waterloo C: Martin Xiong & Ellen Xiong
Empire I: Vladmir Vysotskiy, Mo Whare and James Stewart
Empire J: Merv Allardyce, Arindom Choudhury and Darren O’Brien
Belmont D: Abram Goh & Hui-Ling Vong
Waterloo D: Jacob Gates & Reuben Reid
Division 4
Belmont E: Jason Zhao & Allan Carson
Belmont F: Charlie Waddy & Shikhar Parijat
Empire K: Reg Feuz & Ian Grace
Waterloo E: Chris Sutton & Ian Thomas
Belmont G: Jeremy Traub & Nicholas Baucke
Division 5
Waterloo\Empire: Marius Lukkonnen & Jimi Nelson
Belmont H: Angus Horan & Regan Craig
Belmont I: Alex Tam & William Tam
Empire L: Tyler Guthardt & Mason Tangatatai
Empire M: Chris Beeston & Jacob Rattray
Empire N: Adam Archibald-Mason & Hugh Pawson
Notices for the upcoming Summer Interclub were sent out to the clubs and players lists last week (if you are not on the players list, and want to be, let me know), the details are below. Let your club contact know you are available to play!
In a nutshell:
- 2-player teams entered by clubs
- 7pm Wednesdays from Feb 20 until May 1 with a break on March 27.
- 5-match format to 11 with singles best of 7 and doubles best-of-5.
- Flat fee $7/player.
- Entries to be submitted by clubs in (to me) please by Feb 13.
- Players help your club out by helping wrangle your friends together and pass on the names to your club contact.
Composite teams (players from separate clubs in the same team) are fine just be sure to have both clubs know about the team and have it be entered by one of the clubs. (Check with your club contact.)
The full 2013 TTW Summer Interclub Entry Form is here as a doc or a pdf.
Location: here.

The Club Doubles was won for the second time by Depak Patel and Raewyn Young, who defeated Bryan McConnochie and Ian Talbot 3-1 (8-11 13-11 11-6 11-8). Depak and Raewyn had previously won in 2009.
Ian Talbot won the Over 40 Singles when he recovered from 0-2 down to defeat Depak Patel 3-2 (2-11 7-11 11-7 11-7 11-8). Ian had beaten the titleholder, Lindsay Ward, in the semi finals 3-2.
The Club Over 40 Singles was started in 1996. Lindsay Ward has won the most singles (7). The Over 40 Doubles was run for four years but then discontinued. Malcolm Wong and William Yang won for the first 3 years. The winners are listed below.

Over 40 Singles
2012 Ian Talbot
2011 Lindsay Ward
2010 Lindsay Ward
2009 Lindsay Ward
2008 Lindsay Ward
2007 Lindsay Ward
2006 Ian Talbot
2005 Lindsay Ward
2004 Ian Talbot
2003 Lindsay Ward
2002 William Yang
2001 Nha Nguyen
2000 Geoff Fletcher
1999 William Yang
1998 Nha Nguyen
1997 Malcolm Wong
1996 Malcolm Wong
Over 40 Doubles
2002 Chris Talbot and Ian Talbot
2001 Malcolm Wong and William Yang
2000 Malcolm Wong and William Yang
1999 Malcolm Wong and William Yang
A listing of past Titan singles & doubles winners is in last year’s Titan championships report.
– Malcolm Wong




