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Warren Evans – A lifetime in table tennis

1960!
1960!

It all started way back in 1952 when Warren (10 years old) went to a coaching session at the Taita Table Tennis Club run by the English Coach, Ken Stanley. His father, Vincent, a Life Member of the then Hutt Valley Table Tennis Association, was his first coach. Both Warren and his younger brother, Barry, keenly took to the game and improved rapidly.

Warren had an outstanding junior career, winning five New Zealand Junior Titles, including the Under 16 Boys Singles (1956) and Under 18 Boys Singles (1958). In 1957, on the same day, his brother Barry won the North Island Under 16 Boys Singles while Warren won the South Island Under 16 Boys Singles.

Warren went on a table tennis OE to England (1960-62). He joined the Putney Club in London where he meet World Men’s Singles Champions Victor Barna and Johnny Leach. He played in a number of interclub leagues during the week and won the Willesden League Men’s Singles (1962). Warren formed an excellent doubles combination with South African, Derek Wall (who was to represent England and Canada). They won the Men’s Doubles at the North of England (Manchester) and West of England (Exeter) Tournaments in 1962. The highlight of the trip was playing in the European Champions (1962) in Berlin.

On his return to New Zealand Warren showed the benefit of playing overseas by twice beating former Australian Champion, Geoff Jennings, in Wellington interclub (1962). He was a member of the Wellington Team which won the New Zealand Men’s A Grade Teams Title in 1962 and 1963.

Warren then joined the Empire Club and was in teams that won 6 Hutt Valley A Grade interclub titles (1964-67, 1969 and 1972). He has won the Empire Club Men’s Singles on four occasions in four different decades (1965, 1986, 1990 and 2002). He won the 1972 Wellington Open Men’s Singles.

The highlight of his table tennis career was reaching the New Zealand Open Men’s Singles Final in 1970. He beat Gary Frew (Last 16), Richard Lee (Quarter finals) and Alan Tomlinson (Semi finals) before losing to Gary Murphy (Otago) in the final 21-15 16-21 17-21 17-21.

As a veteran Warren won the New Zealand Open Over 35 Men’s Singles (1986) and Over 45 Men’s Singles (1988 & 1990). He also won the Over 40 Men’s Singles (1988) at the NZ Veterans Championships.

Warren is still a keen member of the Empire Table Tennis Club and has a great knowledge of all aspects of table tennis and is currently on the Table Tennis Wellington executive committee.

At the Marlborough Open (1960)

L/R rear: Barry Radford (Men’s Singles winner, Mixed Doubles winner with Audrey Eden),
Warren Evans, Peter Thompson (Men’s Doubles winners)
front: Miss Audrey Eden (Women’s Doubles winner with J Sara),
Miss Jennifer Sara (Women’s Singles winner)

Winners Hutt Valley A Grade Interclub (1964)

Empire Club team: L/R Warren Evans, Malcolm Evans, Keith Pointon

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– Player Profile by Malcolm Wong

2011 Winter Interclub

Clubs are invited to submit entries for the 2011 winter interclub season.

Entry Form: 2011 TTW Winter Interclub Entry Form & Rules: 2011 TTW Interclub Rules

Please refer to the TTW Interclub Rules and Code of Conduct for further information.

Timetable

Tues 17 May               Entries close for all grades

Tues 24 May               Series 1 Premier 1 & 3 grades commence

Wed 25 May               Series 1 Premier 2 & B grades commence (B grade subject to sufficient entries)

25-31 July                   2nd week of school holidays (no interclub play – junior nationals being played)

2/3 Aug                        Series 2 commences

13-14 Sept                  Final rounds will be played

20/21 Sept                   Semi Finals nights

27/28 Sept                   Grade champs for Premier 2, 3 & B grades

4 or 5 Oct                    Finals night – all grades

Venue & Start Time

All matches will be played at the Empire Stadium, Marine Parade, Petone.  The stadium will be open from 6:30pm each interclub night and interclub matches are scheduled to start at 7:00pm. Team captains/players need to pay the team’s night fees and provide the playing order (Premier 1 only) to the duty official before the score sheet will be given out.

It is still a key objective for TTW to ensure interclub contests finish at a reasonable time.  Would all teams please be aware of their responsibilities in this area.

Teams

Teams consist of three or more players of a similar ability. While only three players from a team can play singles in a contest, a fourth player can be introduced to play in the doubles matches only, regardless of the score in the contest, in place of one of the singles players.

Combined club teams may be allowed, therefore, clubs can enter individuals or pairs of players.  All teams are subject to the approval of the TTW Interclub Subcommittee.

Format

The final format is subject to team numbers – it is intended to play eight team grades, if at all possible, over two separate competitions as occurred last year (Series 1 and 2).  Grading matches, for all grades, maybe held prior to the beginning of both Series 1 and 2 competitions if required, and at the discretion of the TTW Interclub Subcommittee.

Teams will play 1 contest each week, consisting of 11 matches; three singles for each player and two doubles for the team. Matches will be best of five advantage games to 11 points.

For example – an eight team grade:

Play a round robin competition of 7 weeks followed by semi finals and/or final, have one week off then a further competition of 7 weeks culminating in semi finals, then the grade championships the week after and a finals night a further week on for all grades.  The senior nationals begin the week after that.

After the Series 1 round robin competition TTW will call for new entries re Series 2.  Any applications for regrading players to a lower grade must be submitted to the interclub subcommittee for approval, at least five days before Series 2 commences. Additional teams may be entered/accepted, at the discretion of the interclub subcommittee and subject to an available slot in an appropriate grade.

Grade championships will be held for Premier 2, 3 and B grades on 27/28 September.  All grade championships are dependent on entries and TTW reserves the right to alter the format to ensure equitable contests.

 

Conduct 

The TTW Code of Conduct will be enforced in all interclub matches.

Ball  

TTW requires the use of the – TTNZ adopted – Stag 3 star white ball in all interclub contests.  This ‘approved’ ball will be supplied, at no charge, for all interclub contests.

Points

Assuming the use of a format that has playoffs at the end of round robin play, the following points system will be used in all grades:

2 points for a win

1 bonus point for teams losing 5-6

1 bonus point for teams winning a contest 10-1 or 11-0

If the format used is a round robin contest only ie: no playoffs, then the following points system will be used:

2 points for a win

0 points for all losses

With reference to the TTW Code of Conduct; TTW interclub contest points may be taken off teams whose players persistently ignore the requirements of the Code of Conduct re the ‘new’ 3 strikes rulings and/or are involved in more serious breaches of the Code.  While serious breaches will require formal proceedings, lesser offences will be dealt with immediately under the ‘3 strikes’ policy.

Further action may be taken against individual players involved in breaches of the Code of Conduct.

Matches will be recorded and used to determine final/playoff places in each series, if two or more teams are equal on points.

Fees

The team registration fee will remain the same as last year, $12.00 per team.

Night Fees – No change from last year.

Premier grades B Grade
Waged                $8.00 per nightUnwaged            $7.00 per nightStudents             $6.00 per night Waged                $7.00 per nightUnwaged            $6.00 per nightStudents             $5.00 per night

Entry Form

Please complete the entry form below with your team names, players and approximate grade. Please note in the comments column any other relevant information e.g. reserves, availability of players.

Please return this form via email or post (as noted below) to Bruce Northover by Tuesday 17 May. The TTW Interclub Subcommittee will then do the draws and endeavour to forward them to clubs by Friday 20 May.

Results

Results will be processed as soon as possible after the interclub matches have been played and will be available on the TTW website. If players wish to subscribe to an email mailing list to receive interclub results please send an email to secretary [at] ttwellington.org.nz with SUBSCRIBE TO INTERCLUB RESULTS as the subject.

Entries are to be sent to Bruce Northover, Interclub Convenor, no later than Tuesday 17 May

email:  chairperson [at] ttwellington.org.nzPhone:    04 589 1818 Post:          Table Tennis WellingtonPO Box 12038Thorndon

Wellington 6014

Empire Spin (selections)

Empire club have a regular newsletter “Empire Spin” – for those outside of Empire I’m taking the liberty of extracting some pieces from it and pasting below (with a couple of pics from Malcolm Wong).  Any other clubs with news are most welcome to post here or email to me and I can put it into a blog entry too.  It’s always interesting to share what’s going on!

Empire Spin

April 2011

Recent Results

Empire Vets Tournament 2011

First a big thank you to Chris Williams for doing all the pre-tournament planning and excellent organisation of the events on the day. Everything went very smoothly, the atmosphere was good and there were some enjoyable round robins and matches until mid-afternoon when unfortunately Merv Allardyce collapsed. Everyone rallied to help and special thanks must go to Melanie Armstrong who performed CPR before the ambulances (2) arrived. We are pleased to say Merv, although still in Wellington Hospital at the time of writing, is now doing well. Most people carried on playing although the atmosphere was not the same after Merv’s collapse.

Thanks must also go to our prize sponsors Graeme Jackson and Opus for 6 bottles of wine and to Paul Solt for the 4 bat cleaning kits. Additional prizes were purchased. Light refreshments provided by Maggie Dyer were available on the day – bread rolls, fruit and homemade slices.

We are pleased to announce the results:

Event Place Name
Combined Age Doubles WinnersRunners / up Jim Jarmin / Ian WhiteMerv Allardyce / Chas Wong
Over 40 Doubles WinnersRunners / up Depak Patel / Keith AldersleyLindsay Ward / Ian Talbot
Over 40 Singles Division 1 WinnerRunner / up Lindsay Ward                             Ian Talbot
Over 40 Singles Division 2 WinnerRunner / up Depak Patel                       Raewyn Young
Combined Age Singles Division 1 WinnerRunner / up Jim Jarmin / Ian White (shared)
Combined Age Singles Division 2 WinnerRunner / up Paul Hurst                                   Joy Mozer

 

Over 40 Singles winner Lindsay Ward and runner up Ian Talbot
Combined Age Singles (shared) Jim Jarmin and Ian White, with guest appearance from Graeme Jackson!

Summer Interclub

Congratulations to Depak Patel, a member of the winning team “Pommie Gits” in Section 1 and Elias Villaneuva and Kai Xu of “Dangerous” who won Section 3. Empire members playing and their results are shown below:

Section One Team Played Won Lost %age
Depak Patel Pommie Gits

10

10

0

100%
John Gan Gantals

10

8

2

80%
Ian Talbot Gantals

10

6

4

60%
Larn Sweeney Wolverines

10

5

5

50%
Raewyn Young Young Guns

10

4

6

40%
Paul Solt Team Jools

8

3

5

37.50%
Jason Giles Assassins

10

1

9

10%
Warren Evans Assassins

10

1

9

10%
Section 2
Mat Hobbs Pong Masters

10

8

3

80%
Martin Young Courage

10

5

5

50%
Malcolm Wong Courage

10

2

8

20%
Harry Chen Brave

9

1

8

11.10%
Section 3
Elias Villaneuva Dangerous

10

10

0

100%
Kai Xu Dangerous

10

10

0

100%
Rahul Suvarnan Fearless

10

8

2

80%
Hayden Kirkbeck Executioners

10

7

3

70%
Darren O’Brien Heroes

10

5

5

50%
Russell Buchanan Heroes

10

5

5

50%
Graham Sole Executioners

9

4

5

44.40%
Rod Weston Fearless

10

3

7

30%
Adam Xiong Gladiators

8

1

7

12.50%
Ellen Xiong Gladiators

10

0

10

0%

Wanganui Open

Four keen and hardy souls went from Empire Club to play in the Wanganui Open on Saturday 16 April.  A good day was had by all and some even made a profit (prize money earned exceeded entry fees) on the day!  Here are the results of their day:

Depak Patel

Open Mens Singles – Runner up

Open Mixed Doubles with Raewyn Young – Winner

Over 40 Mens Singles – Runner up

Over 40 Mens Doubles with Bryan McConnochie (Titan) – Winner

Over 40 Mixed Doubles with Raewyn Young – Winner

Over 50 Mens Singles – Winner

Over 50 Mens Doubles with Bryan McConnochie (Titan) – Winner

Raewyn Young

Open Womens Singles – Winner

Open Womens Doubles with Gladys Halford (Manawatu) – Winner

Open Mixed Doubles with Depak Patel – Winner

Over 40 Womens Singles – Winner

Over 40 Mixed Doubles with Depak Patel – Winner

Paul Solt

Over 50 Mens Singles – Runner up

Over 50 Mens Doubles with David Welch (Wanganui) – Runner up

Elias Villaneava

Open Mens Singles Plate – Winner

Coming up…..

Coaching Nights

Depak with help from Raewyn, is now running a coaching night for members, every Thursday night. Come along and pay the usual $4.00 or use your concession card and take advantage of some expert coaching.

Winter Interclub

This is likely to commence towards the end of May. If you would like to play please contact Chris Williams.

Friday Night Club

The junior club’s first night for the year is Friday 29th April. This is open to all children, although most suited to those late Primary school age to early Secondary School.  Come along from 6.30 pm.

Plaque for Time Capsule Project

This has now been engraved by Peter Campbell, so keep an eye out on the Time Capsule as it is expected to be attached soon. Thanks to Arthur and his helpers, it is great now to see the project completed…well until the year 2034 when the capsule can be opened!

2011 New Zealand Open Championships

Click below for the Teams and Individual Entry Forms for the New Zealand Open Championships to be held in Christchurch from the 12th to the 16th of October, 2011. Please note the closing date of 31st August 2011.
http://www.tabletennis.org.nz/nationalevents.htm

294 Blenheim Road, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041

Belmont Table Tennis Club

The re-launch of the Belmont TT Club was a great success on the 29th of April getting 10 junior players along including 2 girls that had never played before. The club has high hopes in boosting the grass roots participation numbers within TTW and therefore increasing the chance of a future champion or two.

To get the Club up and running again meant a lot of discussions with the council over storage of tables and venue availability, we luckily got around these obstacles unscathed. An issue we were faced with was finding all the tables that had belonged to the Club all those years ago, but to no avail. We have literally begged, borrowed and stolen equipment to re-launch the Club which we are sincerely grateful to the table tennis community in helping us. Nets came from Waterloo and Tables are on loan from both the Association and the Empire Club. I have been very impressed with the clubs attitudes and willingness to help the Belmont Club out.

Now we are up and running we have the challenge of being able to put together interclub teams in as many grades as possible. Any willing players out there?

The Belmont Club is on every Friday night @ 6-8pm for all junior players and 8-10pm for senior players. We play out of the Belmont Memorial Hall, Belmont Domain, 5011 (juniors $3, seniors $5).

—Stephen Hirst

The Belmont Memorial Hall
The Belmont Memorial Hall
Directions: Belmont Memorial Hall is on the eastern side of the Western Hutt Road (SH2) by Belmont School. Exit to Fairway Drive (Kennedy-Good Bridge) but take the first right (don’t go over the bridge).

Marlborough Open – May 7/8

2011 Marlborough Open Table Tennis Championships
Supported by The Redwood Trust
SIMCOX STADIUM, Batty’s Road, Springlands, Blenheim

Saturday 7th May and Sunday 8th May

Entries due May 2, click here for the details.

North Harbour Junior Open 2011

North Harbour Table Tennis StadiumNorth Harbour Table Tennis are hosting their Junior Open on Sunday May 15.

Click here for more details.  Entries are due May 10.

Summer Interclub Completed

Congratulations to the winning teams in each of the three sections!

April 6 was the final playoff night when teams played off by 1v2, 3v4, and 5v6 in each section.

Section One winners: 1st “Pommie Gits” (Depak Patel, Keith Aldersley)

Section Two winners: “Warriors” (Sabine Westenra, Delano Lam)

Section Three winners: “Dangerous” (Elias Villanueva, Kai Xu)

For team and individual results: 2011 Summer Interclub 0406 Final (individual %s exclude the finals playoffs night).

Feedback on the 2-player format is being digested, and watch this space for winter interclub…

 

Empire Veterans Tournament – April 9

EMPIRE VETERANS TOURNAMENT

SATURDAY 9 APRIL 2011

9:30am – 5:00pm

Empire Stadium, Marine Parade, Petone, Lower Hutt

Over 40, 55 and 70 events

Singles and Doubles

Timetable

9:00 – 9:30am

Registrations, practice time

9:30 – 12:30pm

Round robins for all singles and doubles events

1:00 – 3.00pm

Post section play

3:00 – 4:30pm

 Semi finals and finals

Information

  1. Players may enter in only one age group.

  2. Ages are as at 31 December 2010.
  3. Entry fee is $10 per player and can be paid on the day.

  4. The organisers reserve the right to merge events or change the format, depending on the number of entries.

  5. Entries close on Wednesday 6 April 2011 with Chris Williams ph 04 527 8629 or williamsck [at] xtra.co.nz

Click here for the Entry Form

Light refreshments will be available for purchase.

North Island Open Championships – Palmerston North (Apr 29 – May 1)

“”The North Island Open Championships Entry Forms are available at http://www.tabletennis.org.nz/nationalevents.htm

These Championship are being held in Palmerston North from 29 April to 1 May 2011.

Entries Close 8 April 2011. Entry fees payable with entry – details at above and on the forms.

The Manawautu Association advise that the published timetable is a proposed one. They may be adjusted when the number of entries is ascertained.

They will email entrants when finalised, so do not forget to include your email address on the entry form.  The start times will also be published on the web site.” – TTNZ

 

Summer Interclub – Draw & Results so far

Hi folks, the team results and individual percentages to date:

April 6 – Finals night – team playoffs! Final results: 2011 Summer Interclub 0406 Final (individual %s exclude the finals playoffs)  final positions:

Section One winners: 1st Pommie Gits (Depak Patel, Keith Aldersley)

Section Two winners: Warriors (Sabine Westenra, Delano Lam)

Section Three winners: Dangerous (Elias Villanueva, Kai Xu)

March 23/30: 2011 Summer Interclub 0330

March 16: 2011 Summer Interclub 0316

March 9: 2011 Summer Interclub 0309

March 2: 2011 Summer Interclub 0302

Remember that this Summer Interclub is a trial of the 2-person format.  There will be advantages and disadvantages… keep this in mind as you go because at the end we’ll round-up everyone’s thoughts and see where to go from there.

Live Summer Interclub action at Empire
Live Summer Interclub action at Empire

Waikato Summer Open – Hamilton, Now SAT APR 16

(Wednesday, March 9th ) CHANGED TO Saturday, April 16th, 2011

WKSummerOpen 2011 entry form

Complimentary BBQ and Drinks will be held at the conclusion of play!


Nic Willis Track Meet 4 Chch – in Wellington this Saturday (tomorrow)

This Saturday: an emergency relief international track meet at Newtown Park, 5-6:30pm. Although entry to the event is absolutely free, The Salvation Army will be collecting donations for the earthquake relief appeal. The meet will feature perhaps the best line up of international milers seen in New Zealand for decades and will also play host to the presentation of Nick Willis’ Olympic silver medal.

 

NB: How to donate to various appeals is here.

New Zealand Masters Games Report

The latest report from Malcolm Wong:

The New Zealand Masters Games (4-13 February, 2011), a multi sports event, started in Wanganui (1989) and alternates between Wanganui and Dunedin. Dave Welch has organised the table tennis from the beginning, which is held at Jubilee Stadium. Dennis Galvin (Waitemata) and Robert Dunn (North Harbour) have been to the table tennis at all the Games in Wanganui.

Six gold medals to Raewyn Young and Ian Talbot

Raewyn Young made a clean sweep of the Over 35 and Over 45 individual events, winning the Women Singles, Women Doubles and Mixed Doubles. Ian Talbot was a member of the winning Over 35, Over 45 and Over 55 teams. He also won the Men’s Doubles in the same age groups. Other Wellington players to win gold medals were Bryan McConnochie (4), Chris Talbot (3), Depak Patel (2) and Graeme Sole (1).

Teams events (Wednesday- Friday, 9-11 February)

Over 35 Teams finalists
Over 35 Teams finalists: Gold – Bryan McConnochie, Chris Talbot, Ian Talbot; Silver – Paul Solt, Depak Patel, Raewyn Young

In the Over 55 teams, Bryan McConnochie and Ian Talbot retained their title winning all their matches. In the Over 45 teams Chris and Ian Talbot won their fourth consecutive title in a close final 3-2 against Depak Patel/Raewyn Young. In the Over 35 teams, the Talbot brothers and Bryan McConnochie won the final 4-1 against Depak Patel, Raewyn Young and Paul Solt. This was also the Talbot brothers fourth consecutive title.

A player collapsed from heat exhaustion in the late afternoon, during the teams event. He went to hospital and was later discharged. This happened despite him drinking plenty of water during the day. It was a reminder that players must listen to what their bodies are telling them.

Individual Events (Saturday-Sunday 12-13 February)

Saturday was the longest day with play finishing at 10.30pm. This was due to allowing people to enter both the Over 35 and Over 55 events. In the Over 35 Men’s Singles final Shane Wilson (Wanganui) beat Ian Talbot 3-0 which was a repeat of the 2005 final. A great 43rd birthday present for Shane, who was the 1993 Wellington Open Men’s Singles winner. Charly Talumepa (Manawatu) won the Over 45 Men’s Singles beating Chris Talbot 3-2. Gerard Lucas (Sri Lanka) retained the Over 55 Men’s Singles 3-2 against Ian Talbot. Gerard also won the Over 65 and Over 70 Men’s Singles and won the most gold medals for table tennis (7).

Doctor Gerard Lucas, a retired paediatrician, was the former Sri Lanka number 1 (1965) and national team member. He had wins against the visiting Pakistan national champion, the Russian ranked number 2 player and Chinese players. In 1967 he won the All India Men’s Doubles, with P V Gopalakrishnan. At the World Masters Games in Edmonton, Canada (2005) he won the Silver medal in the Over 55 Men’s Doubles.

The Women Singles was won by Raewyn Young (Over 35 and Over 45), Val Scarr (Over 55 and Over 65) and Annice Robottom (Over 70). A certain international umpire was 65 on Sunday. She will be umpiring at the World Championships held in May, in the Dutch city of Rotterdam.

Results are on the NZ Masters Games site.

Dave Welch (Table tennis organiser) with Malcolm Wong
Dave Welch (Table tennis organiser) with Malcolm Wong

Summer Interclub – New Trial Format

Can’t remember what a table tennis ball looks like? You need to get back into interclub! Summer interclub is starting at the start of March. We had the composite teams in spring, and again something different for summer: 2-player teams (with best-of-7 matches). This format is used elsewhere (e.g. Auckland use it for all their regular season divisions) and has some advantages over 3-player format.

Start: March 2 (Wednesdays)
End: April 6 (may vary according to entries)
Entries close: Feb 23 (to Bruce: chairperson [at] ttwellington.org.nz)
Entry form and full details: 2011 TTW Summer Interclub Entry Form

The format is 2 singles each (best-of-7) and one doubles (which is best of 7 too unless both captains agree on best of 5). For singles (2-player best-of-7 matches) you get about the same number of sets (8-14) as 3-player best-of-5 (9-15). For doubles, the player who would have played 2 matches plays less while the other two play a little more.

Fees are a flat $7 each ($14/team).

Players must be affiliated to a clubs but can find their own team, cross-club teams are fine. You can enter as a reserve-only if you like.

Stag 3-star balls will be provided.

Points are 2 for a team win, 1 for a 2-3 loss (‘bonus-point’ style), and 0 for any other loss.

Summer competition is a great way to get back into form and this new format should be interesting to try out. The main change being longer matches which I think means:

  1. Fewer upsets. In theory a longer match means less chance of an upset. All the more satisfying when you beat that higher ranked player!
  2. More drama. Coming back from 0-3 to win 4-3 on the cards?
  3. More experimentation. With more games there is more opportunity to change tactics to experiment for yourself or to test an opponent.
  4. Strategy. You are more likely to have to change your tactics during a longer match if your opponent adjusts.

N Z Veterans Open Championships (Invercargill 21-25/4/11)

Mitre Peak
Fancy a trip down south? See the TTNZ National Events page for all the details… (entry forms from the Table Tennis Southland website, entries close March 7).

From the newsletter:

With the collapse of the roof over Stadium Southland due to excessive snow we have been able to secure the ILT Velodrome (part of Stadium Southland) for the 2011 New Zealand Veteran Championships together with the Paul Skelt Hall at Badminton Southland (across carpark from Stadium Southland).

The Velodrome will have a mobile wooden floor installed for Netball and Basketball which we are able to use during Easter. This floor will hold 14 tables. A further 4 tables will be used in the Badminton Stadium (Paul Skelt Hall). Also a wooden floor.

INVERCARGILL is the gateway to the south. Planes fly into Christchurch, Dunedin and Queenstown. Air New Zealand is the only one to fly into Invercargill.

Take an extra one or two weeks to travel south via the South Otago road through the Catlins to Invercargill. Visit Stewart Island by boat, approx 1 hr or fly about 15 min. Visit beautiful Fiordland via coast road through Riverton to Manapouri, Doubtful Sound, Te Anau, Milford Sound, then to Queenstown.

It takes approx 2 ½ hrs to travel to Manapouri, Te Anau or Queenstown, but there are lots to see on the way so allow for more time. Wanaka, West Coast, Mount Cook are all worthwhile taking time to visit.

Composite Interclub Final Results

The final results are posted here (the file is here).

Congratulations to:

Section 1 winners: Pumas (Depak Patel, Jason Giles, Diana Levinson, Scott Higham)
Section 2 winners: Bobcats (Graham Sole, Reg Fuez, Adam Xiong)

The composite mix certainly led to a lot of close team results each week, I certainly enjoyed it and I hope you all did! Thanks to Bruce for all the legwork on each night, and Chris Williams for collating the results each week. We’re already thinking up ideas for the next summer competition (later in Feb) so something else interesting is on the cards to trial, let us know if you have any thoughts, things like a 2-player section which has been talked about for a while are on the table, and other possibilities too.

Aussie Vets 2010 Gold – Report

The 27th Australian Veterans Table Tennis Championships were held recently (16-23 October 2010) at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, Melbourne.

This venue was situated in a south Melbourne suburb next to a lake in Albert Park, where the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix is held every year.

Over 300 participants from around Australia and New Zealand took part, covering ages 40 to over 80. New Zealand had its biggest team ever with 30 players making the trip over the Tasman.

Four players from Table Tennis Wellington took part in the championships. The Over 50 Mens A team consisted of Depak Patel (captain) and Ian Talbot (both Empire) and Bryan McConnochie from Titan/Kapiti. Raewyn Young (Empire) was the captain of the Over 40 Womens team. The other team members were Joanna Ma (Otago) and Akiko Goto (Canterbury).


Over 40 Womens Teams results:

vs Victoria B won 11-0
vs Queensland B won 10-1
vs Northern Territory won 10-1
vs Western Australia won 10-1
vs Queensland won 6-5
vs New South Wales B won 10-1
vs Presidents won 8-3
vs New South Wales won 6-5
vs Victoria won 6-5

In the final against Victoria, Akiko played the final match against Vicki Carruthers (a very experienced player), who had already lost to Raewyn and Joanna. Akiko was not expected to win but showed great determination to fight back from 2 sets down to win 11-13, 4-11, 11-7, 12-10, 11-8. The NZ team erupted with delight when the last point was won – a truly memorable experience. This team was the first from NZ to win a gold medal in a team event since this tournament commenced 27 years ago.

Raewyn won 70% of her matches and was placed 9th and Joanna was placed 2nd on the Merit List.

Over 50 Mens Teams results:

vs Queensland B won 8-3
vs ACT B won 10-1
vs Northern Territory won 6-5   Bryan won the last match 3-0
vs Victoria lost 2-9
vs New South Wales lost 0-11  Was a tough day at the office! Bryan got a set of Paul Pinkevic
vs Tasmania won 7-4
vs New South Wales B won 11-0
vs Queensland lost 3-8  Ian defaulted 2 matches due to injury

Depak won 58% of his matches with Bryan winning 50% and Ian 46%. The team finished a creditable 6th out of 14 teams.

(click for the TTNZ article with all the names)

2010 Composite Teams Interclub

FINAL Percentages:
2010 Composite Teams 8/12/2010 Final

Dec 8:
Composite Sec 1 Final 081210
Composite Sec 1 3rd & 4th 081210
Composite Sec 1 5th-6th 081210
Composite Sec 1 7th & 8th 081210
Composite Sec 2 Final 081210

Dec 1:
Composite Section 1 (Top 4) Dec 1
Composite Section 1 (Bottom 4) Dec 1
Composite Section 2 Dec 1

Nov 24:
Composite Sec 1 Black 24/11/10
Composite Sec 1 Gold 24/11/10
Composite Sec 2 24/11/10

Nov 17:
Composite Sec 1 Black 17/11/10
Composite Sec 1 Gold 17/11/10
Composite Sec 2 17/11/10

Nov 10:
Composite Sec 1 Black 10/11/10
Composite Sec 1 Gold 10/11/10
Composite Sec 2 10/11/10

TTNZ Survey – National Tournament Structure

Did you attend a National event: Norths or Souths (team or individual), Nationals Junior or Senior, NZ Vets)? Please return the survey per the email copied below from Tim Seaholme (ttnzar [AT] xtra [dot] co [dot] nz).

Dear Association/Player,

As you know 2010 had in place a trail tournament structure, and the review process for this is underway. TTNZ would love to include your experiences and views on how this has gone and invite you to complete an online survey by following this link:

TableTennis NZ survey_distributed.pdf

Your views will help to shape the tournament structure in 2011 so please take the time to complete the short survey. Please complete your responses by Sunday 7th November.

TTNZ hope that you have had an enjoyable year of table tennis, and I look forward to more excitement next year.

Kind regards,
Tim Seaholme.

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