As a reminder, finals night will be September 11 (this is a TUESDAY for you P2/P4 folks). This is because of the secondary schools finals in Auckland next week, affecting some players.
For the week in between we are considering a ‘grade champs’ event – the exact format to be determined but if held it would be a singles event per grade. More info will be available at interclub.
Enter by
mail: Table Tennis Wellington, PO Box 12-038, Wellington
or phone: Tournament Manager Kevin Haines on (04) 478 0841 (evenings)
or email: treasurer [at] ttwellington.org.nz
Pay: with entry (if posted) or pay on arrival.
Entries Close: 5.00 p.m, Thursday 6 September
Programme
Sunday 9 September
Under 12: 2.00 pm
Under 14: 10.00 am
Under 17: 2.00 pm
Age
December 31, 2011 is the criteria date for eligibility for U12, U14,
U17, events.
Notes
Don’t wear white shirts!
Previous singles winners will not be eligible for the same age group in which they were successful in previous Development Tournaments.
The 2012 Wellington New Chinese Friendship Association Table Tennis Tournament was held on Sunday (29 July) at the Empire Table Tennis Club (Petone). The organisers were Kate Wang, Clara Zhang and Stephen Wang. The Chinese Embassy provided the prizes and entered two teams in the teams competition held in the morning.
There were eight teams in two groups, with the group winners playing off in an exciting final. This was between the team of Red Dragon and Mighty Mouse. With the match tied at 2-2, Martin Young became the hero for the Red Dragon team when he beat Chun-Kiet Vong 11-3 9-11 12-10 5-11 12-10 to win the deciding match.
In the afternoon there were 25 players entered in the singles competition. The final was between two Wellington Junior Represenatives. Frank Fu defeated Chun-Kiet Vong 11-9 11-9 6-11 11-7. In the playoff for third place, Min Su defeated Martin Young 8-11 11-9 11-8 5-11 11-8.
Youwen Fu (Chinese Embassy) with the winning Red Dragon Team (Martin Young, Harry Chen and Malcolm Wong)Team runner up, Mighty Mouse (Chun-Kiet Vong, Jason Zhao, Hui-Ling Vong) with Dian Chang Jiang (Chinese Embassy)Kate Wang (Organiser) with Singles prize winners, Chun-Kiet Vong, Frank Fu and Min Su
Thanks to Paul Solt for managing the tournament this weekend and for all players who came along and made this a great event including a large contingent from Manawatu and also further afield – to these people thanks especially for making the trip.
Following is the list of winners that I wrote down (if you are missing from this list and won something, let me know!), congratulations to all.
SATURDAY (August 11)
Men’s Open: Phillip Xiao (runner up: John Cordue) B Grade: Matthew Ball (runner up: James Harter) C Grade: Dean Lochhead (runner up: Win Nguyen) D Grade: Frank Fu (runner up: Sean Hanson) Women’s Open: Catherine Zhou (runner up: Natalie Paterson) Open Men’s Doubles: Phillip Xiao and John Cordue (runner up: Stephen Hirst and Callum Rushbridge) B Grade Doubles: Matthew Hetherington and Callum Rushbridge C Grade Doubles: Jae Lee & Terry Lee D Grade Doubles: Malcolm Wong & Matthew Sheppard Women’s Open Doubles: Natalie Paterson and Jessica Macaskill Open Mixed Doubles: Phillip Xiao and Catherine Zhou
SUNDAY (August 12)
Under 13s: Frank Fu Under 13s Doubles: Frank Fu & Abram Goh Under 15s: Nathan Watson Under 15s Doubles: Nathan Watson & Jae Lee Under 18s: Dean Lochhead Under 18s Doubles: Dean Lochhead & Nathan Watson Under 21s: Zhiyang Cheng Under 21s Doubles: Zhiyang Cheng & Delano Lam Over 30s: Phillip McConnochie Over 30s Doubles: Raman Tiwana & Depak Patel Over 40s: Lindsay Ward Over 40s Doubles: Lindsay Ward & Bryan McConnochie Over 50s: Lindsay Ward Over 50s Doubles: Lindsay Ward & Bryan McConnochie Over 60s: Kerry McGeehan Over 60s Doubles: Norman Chan & Graham Sole Over 70s: Merv Allardyce
Here are some assorted pictures from Sunday afternoon:
There are only a few week left before the finals night and some close match-ups are still to go, so 1st and 2nd placings for teams are still up for grabs. Note that finals night will be September 11, i.e. two weeks after the last regular draw week #14 (finals night was originally scheduled for 4/9 but this clashed with the Secondary Schools championships in Auckland which are that week and affects some likely finalists).
The results are in from the TTNZ NZ Junior Open (Canterbury) so I am pasting some here (full results will be available on the TTNZ website). Full team results are here.
Great news!
Thom Nguyen won the under 18 Boy’s singles (3-0 vs. Kevin Wu).
Thom Nguyen is also named the Table Tennis New Zealand Junior Player of the Year for 2012!
Thom Nguyen and Kevin Wu (AKL) won the under 18 boys doubles.
Hui-Ling Vong and Roufei Rao (AKL) won the under 13 girls doubles.
Hui-Ling Vong was a semi-finalist in the U13 girl’s.
Team results:
The Under 18 Boys got Silver (Thom Nguyen, Jeffrey Chin, Delano Lam).
The Under 15 Boys got Bronze (Frank Fu, Sean Hanson, Chun-Kiet Vong).
The Under 15 Boys B got Gold in the B grade (David Van Drimmelen, Charlie Waddy, Ben Westenra).
The under 18 Boys B got Bronze on the B grade (Gareth Telfer, Tan Wang, Jason Zhao).
The Under 13 boys came 5th (Abram Goh, Chris Linton, Shikhar Sharma).
And I’ll share the word to the players from TTW Exec Chair, Gabrielle Telfer, after returning with the team:
Well what a great few days we all had – and a medal (or medals) for 13 of our 16 players.
Congratulations to you all. I am very proud of the way you all played and behaved throughout the tournament. You all represented Wellington in a positive and enthusiastic way, and all contributed to a superb team spirit.
Also congratulations from the rest of us to all who made the trip to Christchurch, we’re sure you learned a lot and are looking forward to interclub resuming after the break so show off your new skills!
Mark Nalder and Malcolm WongMalcolm Wong sent in a report on the Nelson Open that he went to earlier in the season. Malcolm reached 5 finals, winning the Over 50 Men’s Doubles (with Mark Nalder), and was runner up in the Second Grade Men’s Doubles and Over 40 Men’s Doubles, Over 50 Singles and Over 50 Mixed Doubles. This was Malcolm 11th Doubles title with Mark Nalder and his 19th Nelson title.
There were 34 players on the Saturday and 19 juniors on Sunday at Saxton Stadium in Stoke. The oldest competitor was Lionel Wells (91) who had won the NZ Over 45 Men’s Doubles twice (1967-68) with fellow Nelson player, Jack Hall. There was a story on Lionel in the newspaper last year.
Thanks to the tournament organisers, Donny Harris and Paul Op den Buysch. Also to Karen Holmes and her team (Jackie Blanchet, Lisa Op den Buysch and Noelene Wells), who ran the cafeteria.
Robert Chung, Bethan Collings (Event Organiser), Malcolm Wong and Roger WatkinMalcolm was also involved in an unusual event, he was contacted out of the blue on short notice to help come up with a few umpires to help umpire a table tennis tournament that NZIS was holding as part of a multi-sport competitive event between their various regions. It was held at the ASB Sports Centre in Kilbirnie, Wellington.
Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles and Mixed Doubles events were held as best of 5 sets, with Auckland winning all events. I hear that the Auckland contingent consisted of someone who had played table tennis at a club!
Thanks to Malcolm Wong for organising umpires at very short notice for the event. Well done to Chris Williams, Rob Chung, Roger Watkin and Paul Solt for assisting!
Here are the complete team and individual statistics for the competition up to and including week 6 (June 19/20). Please pass on any corrections to Roger so that they can be incorporated for the following week.
Here are the complete team and individual statistics for the competition up to and including week 5 (last week). Thanks to Roger Watkin for collating all the results! Please pass on any corrections to Roger so that they can be incorporated for the following week.
2012 Marlborough Open O50 Doubles winnersMalcolm Wong and Steve Craw won the Over 50 Doubles, which was their 6th title together. This was Malcolm’s 10th Marlborough title and 72 overall. Malcolm was the sole Wellington player at this tournament held at the Simcox Stadium (Blenheim). There were 57 players at the tournament. Thanks to the Marlborough Association Committee for all their hard work. As usual, Chris Hood and Debbie Stratford ran the tournament. Daryl Jones wrote out the certificates and was in charge of the prize money. Full results with a report on the tournament is here.
Thanks to Malcolm for submitting this info.
Anyone traveling to a tournament is welcome to submit a report and photos for the TTW blog, or for most any table tennis news topic for that matter! Email me or email secretary [at] ttwellington.org.nz for forwarding on. Or, to be able to post directly, see here.
Here are some photos with results from the recent 2012 TTSports Wellington Autumn Open (May 19-20). Sorry if we didn’t get a picture of you this year – maybe next year! Thanks to Paul Solt for managing the tournament and all the helpers and ring-ins too, if I try to list them I’ll only forget a few.
Henry Stoupe – Under 12 Singles winnerCharlie Waddy – Under 14 Singles winnerSean HansonFrank Fu – Under 16 singles winnerDelano Lam – winner under 18 and under 21 singles titlesGareth Telfer – winner Mens Open Singles D grade
This is part of the comprehensive Table Tennis Wellington schools program with endless hours of coaching by Stephen Hirst at many schools in the Wellington/Hutt Valley area and competitive events such as this one between the schools.
Thanks to Stephen (and helpers!) and CollegeSport Wellington for being able to run this program.
… are in the pipeline but for those die-hards who like to analyse everything here are the score-sheets from Tuesday and Wednesday: Part 1 and Part 2 (part 2 is a re-scan of a couple of sheets unclear in the first scan).
May 15 Premier 1 & 3 grades commence (Tuesdays)
May 16 Premier 2 & 4 grades commence (Wednesdays)
May 30/5 Junior Grade Commences
June 28 – July 16 School holidays (no interclub play, Junior Nationals)
July 17 Premier 1 & 3 grades continue
July 18 Premier 2 & 4 and Junior grades continue
Sept 4 Grade champs for Premier grades (1st vs. 2nd teams in each grade)
Malcolm Wong flew up to Auckland for the recent KVB Kunlun TTNZ 2012 New Zealand Junior & Cadet Open held April 19-22. He was there as one of the official umpires and I hear it was non-stop at the umpire stand for all umpires involved so thanks to all of them! Following is Malcolm’s report along with photos borrowed from various sources. Local Wellington and Belmont player Thom Nguyen represented New Zealand at this event.
Junior Boys Doubles Final (22 April) Ben Hurr (Umpire) Thom Nguyen (NZL) Daniel Lowe (NZL) Nathan Van Der Heiden (AUS) Dillon Cathcart (AUS) Malcolm Wong (Umpire) Match won by Cathcart/Van Der Heiden 3-1 (11-5 5-11 11-7 11-7)NZ Junior and Cadet Open – Cadet Girls Doubles Final (22/04/2012) Malcolm Wong (Umpire), Ruofei Rao (NZL), Sophia Dong (NZL), Samantha Ong (MAS), Desiree Hung (HKG), Graham Boyton (Umpire)
This tournament was held at the Auckland Table Tennis Stadium at Newmarket, Auckland. There were 82 participants (46 boys and 36 girls). Most were from New Zealand (37) and Australia (23).Other countries were The Cook Islands (8), Kirabati (3), Hong Kong (2), Malaysia (2), New Caledonia (2) Singapore (2) Norway, Solomon Islands and Thailand.
Only 6 umpires were available for all 4 days, with a few more on Saturday only. This meant the umpires were required for all rounds from 9am and finishing 9pm for the first 3 days. Play on the last day finished at 7pm. So it was a very tiring experience for the umpires. On the first day I umpired 8 team matches. I umpired the finals of the Cadet Boys Teams, Junior Girls Oceania World Championship Qualification, Cadet Girls Doubles, Junior Boys Doubles and the Junior Girls Singles.
Thom Nguyen was Wellington’s sole player at this tournament. He won a Bronze Medal in the Junior Boys Team as a member of New Zealand B (with Daniel Lowe). These two also won the Silver Medal in the Junior Boys Doubles.
-Malcolm Wong
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PS: A great news story on Manawatu umpire Val Scarr is here.
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