NZ wins gold at the Australian Vets Over 40s women’s team event, beating Victoria 6-5 in the final!
This team includes Raewyn Young (captain) (Empire Club) with: Sarah Sandley, Joanna Ma, & Akiko Goto.
For detailed results click here.
Note also the over 50 Men No. 1 Team: Ian Talbot (Empire Club), Bryan McConnochie (Kapiti), Depak Patel (Captain) (Empire Club).
More details and pics coming soon…
Missing that ping pong patter already? Get your bat out and your name down for the upcoming Composite Team Interclub… just email your name, club, and contact numbers to Bruce (chairperson [at] ttwellington [dot] org [dot] nz) or call him on 04 589 1818 (or post Table Tennis Wellington, PO Box 12-038, Thorndon, Wellington 6144).
When: Wednesdays Nov 3 – Dec 1, 7pm.
Where: Empire TTC, Marine Parade, Petone
What: 3-player teams to be arranged to keep teams as equal as possible. 11-match format.
Who: You! Please enter by Oct 26 (as individuals to be matched up into teams).
Full details here: TTWComposite Interclub Entry Form
As a wrap-up, all results and the team finals results are at “2010 Winter Interclub Results” (in a nutshell, congratulations Waterloo Wasps/Prem 1, Waterloo Wizards/Prem 2, and Karori Kometz/Prem 3!). We also had the Prem 2 and Prem grade champs (singles and doubles) with these results:
Prem 3 Singles Elias Villanueva bt Luke Falvey
Prem 3 Doubles Elias Villanueva/Vladimir Vysotskiy 1st, Jack Ho/Luke Falvey 2nd , Maggie Dyer/Margaret Cloughley 3rd in a round-robin where there had to be a count back on points, to separate the three combinations, after they all won one contest in five sets!
Prem 2 Singles Tai Zhu bt Matthew Hobbs
Prem 2 Doubles Tai Zhu/Graham Sole bt Tristian Alay-ay/Hayden Kirkbeck.
Here are some pictures from the Prem 2 night after I brought my camera down (must do more often…):
It’s on Alexandra Rd, Newtown, Wellington and while there are no street numbers the building appears nestled in the bush – you won’t see much of the building driving by except for a street sign and a car park on each side of the road:
How to get there? If driving turn up Alexandra Rd from Constable St and the stadium will be on the left shortly after the tennis, running,and croquet clubs with a parking lot above it and also on the other side of the road.
If walking or biking from the city, Mein St is a more direct access and has a path at the end leading up to the southern (rear) of the stadium (the door is on the Northern side).
And inside… (Titan club Sunday mornings 9:30am – 1pm, midweek clubs, )
Ian and Chris Talbot, two well known Empire Premier 1 players, come from a table tennis family. The father, Des, and all the six sons played. The boys started playing in primary school. Ian, Ross, Geoff and Chris won the Wellington Primary Schools Boys Singles Titles. Ross won the Primary Schools Singles three times and was only 9 years of age when he won for the first time in 1965. Ross won the Wellington Senior and Junior Secondary Schools Boys Singles in 1970.
Des Talbot took over the running of the Porirua Table Tennis Club. The family dominated the Club Singles Title. Des, won the title when it was first held in 1969, and also 1975. Ian won in 1970 and 1972-73. Ross won seven times,1971,1974,1977-78 and 1982-84. Murray won 1980-81. Chris won eight time, 1985-92. Only non family members to win were Tony Rutledge (1976) and Steve Corbett (1979). Chris Talbot still has the cup as the Porirua Club folded up after 1992.
The Talbot brothers had their own basketball team in the Porirua league, with Ross and Bryan the stars. Bryan went on to represent Porirua . Ian, Chris and Bryan have run marathons. Ian has run 20 marathons with a best time of 2 hours 29 minutes 16 seconds (London 1981). Ian has also run triathons and been on the Round Taupo Cycle Challenge (160 km) 3 times. Chris played senior cricket for North City and caught NZ opening batsman Bruce Edgar out.
Murray, Ian, Ross and Chris all represented Kapiti at the NZ Championships. Murray, Ross and Chris have all been the top ranked man in Kapiti. After the Kapiti Association folded up Ian and Chris joined the Empire Club. Chris has played Premier 1 since 1994 and Ian from 2000.They were in the Empire team that finished runner up in Premier 1 (2009). They have both won the Empire Club Singles. Chris 5 times (1999-2001, 2003, 2006) and Ian (2005). And together they have won the club doubles 10 times (1999-2006, 2009-2010).
Ian and Chris Talbot have represented New Zealand in the veterans table tennis test against Australia at Easter. Ian has won the NZ Over 45 Men’s Doubles twice, with Lindsay Ward (2003) and with his brother, Chris (2008). They have had much success in the NZ Masters Games in Wanganui. Ian has won 12 Gold Medals and Chris 10 Gold medals.
-Malcolm Wong
Congratulations to all interclub players, a great season all-round with some close results in the end leaving some results in the balance until the last night! Thanks to Stephen, Diane, Bruce, & Paul for their hard work in keeping the wheels rolling and the results posted.
Tuesday Sep 14: Premier 1, 2 and 3 Team Finals:
Prem 3 Final: Karori Kometz (winners of Series 2 round robin) v Empire Tsunami (on equal points with Empire Tornado but make the final on a count back by one game!).
Prem 2 Final: Waterloo Wizards (winners of Series 1 & Series 2 round robin) v Karori/Titan
Prem 1 Final: Waterloo Wasps (winners of Series 1 & Series 2 round robin) v Titan/Kapiti
Premier 2 & 3 Grade Championships:
Tuesday Sep 21, Premier 3 grade champs – open to all Premier 3 players (except the three main players in Empire Advancers promoted from Premier 3 to Premier 2 for Series 2).
Wednesday Sep 22 Premier 2 grade champs – open to all Premier 2 & 3 players (except the two players promoted from Premier 2 to Premier 1 for Series 2).
The Empire Table Tennis Stadium opens at 6:30pm in each case, matches start 7pm.
National news… Thom Nguyen from the Waterloo club has been selected to represent New Zealand in the Boys’ team at the world junior championships, congratulations! This will be in Bratislava, Slovakia from 4-11 December 2010.
more team info here: http://www.tabletennis.org.nz
TTNZ will be running an ITTF Level 1 Coaching course later in the year. Anyone interested please email secretary [AT] ttwellington.org.nz !
Venue yet to be determined, it is possible that funding may partially cover any travel costs. It would start on a Thursday night and continue until Sunday (it is a 24 hour in total course).
A Level 2 course is planned for 2011.
Ref: ITTF Coach Accreditation for more details.
Entries are now open for the TTSports Wellington Table Tennis Open. The entry form and conditions have been corrected since being sent out via email on 9 July.
Entry Form (pdf version) or go to www.ttwellington.org.nz for an excel version to submit electronically.
Thanks to our tournament sponsors: TTSports, Andro, Foreshore Motor Lodge
Entries and enquiries should be sent to tournament@ttwellington.org.nz
I talked to Malcolm Wong following the recent 2010 Junior Open: “I became a provincial umpire in 2000 as I felt I should know the rules of the sport I played. Umpiring at the NZ World Junior Circuit Tournament in Wellington (2003) encouraged me to go further in umpiring. I umpired the world men’s number 1, Ma Long, at this tournament.”
In 2004 Malcolm became a National Umpire, a National Referee in 2007, and then passed the International Umpires exam in 2008. Last year he umpired at the French Junior Open and the Commonwealth Championships. After attended and passing an exam at a Racket Control Seminar (5 April) in Auckland he can now be appointed to be Chief Racket Controller at ITTF Tournaments.
On umpiring at the recent NZ Junior Open (6-9 April) in Auckland: “The first three days I was umpiring twelve hours each day, including 21 matches on day one. A lack of umpires meant I was umpiring virtually every round!
“Umpiring requires a good knowledge of the rules, the ability to concentrate during matches and apply the rules in an impartial manner.” – If you are interested in learning more about Table Tennis umpiring, Malcolm would love to hear from you!
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Attached: Malcolm’s Report on Racquet Control Seminar and New Zealand Junior Open 2010
Series 2 started on July 27/28. Finals were held on September 14 between the first and second placed teams in each grade. Grade champs are being held on September 21 (P3) and September 22 (P2)
The finals have now been played and results are available: Finals Results
Congratulations to:
Waterloo Wasps who defeated Titan/Kapiti 6-0 in Premier 1
Waterloo Wizards who defeated Karori/Titan 6-0 in Premier 2
Karori Kometz who defeated Empire Tsunami 6-5 in Premier 3 (the only close contest of the evening)
Medals were awarded to players in the winning teams. Thanks to all those who participated and made this year’s competition a success.
Week 7 (Sep 7 and 8 ) results are now available. 8)
Prem 3 Final: Karori Kometz (winners of Series 2 round robin) v Empire Tsunami (on equal points with Empire Tornado but make the final on a count back by one game).
Prem 2 Final: Waterloo Wizards (winners of Series 1 & Series 2 round robin) v Karori/Titan
Prem 1 Final: Waterloo Wasps (winners of Series 1 & Series 2 round robin) v Titan/Kapiti
Premier 1 Summary Stats, Premier 2 Summary Stats, Premier 3 Summary Stats
Week 7 results sheets: P1W7, P2W7, P3W7
Week 6 (Aug 31 – Sep 1) results are now available).
(Note: One P2 game has been deferred)
Premier 1 Summary Stats, Premier 2 Summary Stats, Premier 3 Summary Stats
Week 6 results sheets: P1W6, P2W6, P3W6
Week 5 (Aug 24-25) results are now available:
Premier 1 Summary Stats, Premier 2 Summary Stats, Premier 3 Summary Stats
Week 5 results sheets: P1W5, P2W5, P3W5
Week 4 (Aug 17-18) results are now available:
Premier 1 Summary Stats, Premier 2 Summary Stats, Premier 3 Summary Stats
Week 4 Results Sheets: P1W4, P2W4, P3W4
Week 3 results sheets: P1W3, P2W3, P3W3
Series 2 week2 (Aug 4/5): Prem 1 Series 2 Aug 3, Prem 2 Series 2 Aug 4, Prem 3 Series 2 Aug 3
Series 2 week1 (July 27/28): Prem 1 Series 2 July 27, Prem 2 Series 2 July 28, Prem 3 Series 2 July 27
Winter Interclub started May 18/19. Results will be published here each week. Our aim is to have results online by 5pm Thursday each week.
The first round has now been completed and round 2 will commence on July 27 and 28.
ROUND 2 DRAW:
TTW Winter Interclub Premier 1 draw Series 2
TTW Winter Interclub Premier 2 draw Series 2
TTW Winter Interclub Premier 3 draw Series 2
Congratulations to the winners of round 1:
Premier 1: Waterloo Wasps
Premier 2: Waterloo Wizards
Premier 3: Empire Avalanche
Summary data for all grades after week 7 (June 29 & 30):
Premier 1 Summary Stats, Premier 2 Summary Stats, Premier 3 Summary Stats
Scoresheets for week 7 are linked below:
Scoresheets for week 6 are linked below:
P1W6 Results Sheets, P2W6 Results Sheets, P3W6 Results Sheets
Scoresheets for week 5 are linked below:
Scoresheets for week 4 are linked below (please note: games scores for one P1 game are unknown):
P1W4 Results Sheets, P2w4 Results Sheets, P3W4 Results Sheets
Scoresheets for week 3 are linked below:
P1W3 results sheets, P2w3 results sheets, P3w3 results sheets
Scoresheets for week 2 are linked below:
P1W2 Results Sheets, P2W2 Results Sheets, P3W2 Results Sheets
Scoresheets for week 1 are linked below.
Premier 1 draw is here: TTW Winter Interclub Premier 1 draw Rd 1
Premier 2 draw is here: TTW Winter Interclub Premier 2 draw Rd 1
Premier 3 draw is here: TTW Winter Interclub Premier 3 draw Rd 1
Interclub Rules are here: TTW Interclub Rules – final
Code of Conduct here: 2010 TTW Code of Conduct
Have a fun year!
There were players from Canterbury (C), Marlborough (M), Nelson (N) and one from Wellington 
at Simcox Stadium (Blenheim Indoor Centre). Chris Hood and Debbie Stratford were the main tournament organisers.
Top Seed Yi-Sien Lin (C) dominated the Open events. He won the Men’s Singles against Stuart Amstrong (C) in a high quality final 4-1 where Stuart let a big lead slip in the 4th game which would have made the score 2-2. Lin also won the Men’s Doubles with William Pringle (C) against Stuart Armstrong/Simon Fenwick (C) 3-1 and the Mixed Doubles with Kali Stratford (M) against Simon Fenwick/Mimi Walle (C) 3-1.
Mimi Walle (C) won the Women’s Singles (Round Robin) and prevented Akiko Goto (C) a third straight singles success. These two combined to win the Women’s Doubles against Amanda Niblett (C)/ Kali Stratford 3-1.
In the O40 MS Stuart Armstrong found himself 0-2 down against Steve Craw (C) before taking control to win the last 3 games easily. Mimi Walle continued her domination over Akiko Goto to win the O40 WS 3-0. The O50 MS was won by Mark Nalder (N) and the O50 WS by Kath Gilchrist (M). The O60 MS was won by Steve Craw.
Malcolm Wong proved to be the doubles king. He won the Second Grade MD with Sigmund Sue (M) and O40 & O50 MD with Mark Nalder. Malcolm was also runner up in the O40 XD with Akiko Goto and the O50 MS.
pic 1: Mark Nalder and Malcolm Wong – O40/O50 MD Winners. pic 2: Malcolm Wong and Sigmund Sue – 2nd Grade MD Winners
Attached: Marlborough Open 2010 results
The Waterloo Junior Club is based out of the Waterloo School Hall in Waterloo. The junior club night is every friday from 7.00-9.30pm. On Friday May 7 TTW coach Andrew Hubbard made a visit to the club. Waterloo club coach Alan Costley commented that the club has been running well with full attendances. He is being assisted in the running of the club by Brian Pearson and Premier player Steve Chapmen. Andrew commented on the improvement seen in many promising young players including Sean Hanson, Rueben Reid and Jessica Pearson. Andrew also took note of the talented ‘Chapmen’ sisters Samantha and Angela.
On Monday 10 May TTW Coach Andrew Hubbard carried out a coaching visit to the Karori Club. The Karori club operate out of the Karori Recreational Center, which is just behind the Karori library. Junior and Senior Club run on Monday nights and are combined with the junior club running from 7.00-8.15pm, with a light supper afterwards. Seniors start at 8.15pm and go until 10.00pm sharp with the center closing then.
Club Stalwart Jack Ho commented that the club has been running well with good numbers of both juniors and seniors attending the club. He’s excited by some of the young talent coming through at the club including Owen Su, Ben Westenra and David Van Drimmelin.
Andrew carried out two hours of multi-ball training with a number of enthusiastic club members
on the new donic tables in the VIP room. Want to know more, get along to one of the Karori clubnights to find out.
At the invitation of the Red Star Veteran Table Tennis Club TTW Coach Andrew Hubbard made a visit to the club which is situated in Masterton to carry out a day long coaching clinic. Des Orange who is the current Secretary and Treasurer organised the visit and explained “The club currently operates on a Tuesday morning from 9-12 and we normally get 20-25 people, on Thursday we have a club night from 5-7 and get 10-15 players along. It’s normally veterans who are encouraging younger players to come along. We play an annual fixture against Tawa and Kapiti Coast and try to support the Wellington vets tournaments.”
When asked for sometime positive that was happening and a negative Des replied ” Something positive is that the players that we do have are really keen and theres a great club spirit. Many of them travel quite a way to get home every week. Our main problem is trying to get people interested in admin roles.”
TTW Coach Andrew Hubbard commented that he enjoyed the visit, saw a lot of improvement, needed to ‘slow’ a few players down during the ‘crossover’ footwork drills and is looking forward to a return visit.
… are here: 2009 Winter R14
Empire Table Tennis Club is starting a Thursday Night casual play session called “Public Ping Pong”. This commences tomorrow (May 6).
Tables are available for casual use at $4 per person or $10 per family.
The session runs from 7pm to 9pm every Thursday night.
Please invite interested friends, relatives or workmates to come along.
Table Tennis Wellington 