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2025 Winter Interclub Series 2 (see here for Series 1) is now complete. Congratulations to:
- Premier 1 winners Empire Entertainers (Manish Ahlawat, James Harter, Depak Patel, Om Thakur)
- Premier 2 winners Empire Eagles (Swapneel Dias, Mohsen Kafi, Martin Murdoch, Michael Stechman)
- Premier 3 winners Onslow/Waterloo (Andy Budden, Nabe Tioti, Craig Gear)
- Division 1 winners Titan Spin Squad (Anil Ram, Jayathi Jaiganesh, Callum McKinnon, Ayush Goel)
Winter Interclub Series 1 is complete. It ran on Wednesdays from May 21 through July 9. The first 5 weeks were round-robins of grouped teams. Each team’s placing in that round-robin determined their grade in the final three-week playoff, either Premier 1, Premier 2, Premier 3, or Division 1. There will be a break before Series 2 starts on July 30 (Wednesdays).
Premier 1 Winners Empire Eagles (Hayden T, Manish A, Mohsen K, Swapneel D) 
Premier 2 Winners Empire Enforcers (Harry C, Ian T, Darrell B) 
Premier 1 Winners Empire Eagles (Phil T, Jayathi J, Steve M, Anil R)
Night fees $10.
Final results:
As occurred in 2024, in the place of the more usual Summer Interclub for teams, the Summer Competition will be for individuals competing against each other, similar to the November events of recent years.
When and Where: Wednesday evenings commencing 5 March and finishing on 2 April 2024. At Empire Stadium, reporting time before 7.00 pm for a 7.15 pm start.
Nightly Format
* Each player to play four singles, best of five sets. Mainly round robins, but possibly by arrangement to ensure players play four matches.
* No doubles
Congratulations to Mohsen Kafi for topping the final table! Final results below…
Continue reading “2024 November Comp”
AD: Manawatu Open Sep 21-22 (Entries by Sep 14)
AD: check out the August TTNZ Newsletter and September TTNZ Newsletter including an article on TT Wellington donating tables to Hataitai School plus an article on Yang Low’s insights from being on the TTNZ Board!
2024 Winter Interclub Series 2 is now complete, detailed results below, the winning teams are:
- Premier 1: Empire Eagles (Manish Ahlawat, James Harter, Mohsen Kafi, Ben Palmer-Jones, Callum Rusbridge (c))
- Premier 2: Empire Embers (Scott Higham, Michael Stechman, Om Thakur, Daniel Rosner)
- Premier 3: Empire Emperors (Jacob Hawker, Liam Johnston, Hamid Mahroeian, Martin Young)
- Division 1: Waterloo (Craig Gear, Tim Wilson, Aadi Madhaven, Fuard Abdullahi)
PREMIER INDIVIDUAL GRADE CHAMPS JULY 3 RESULTS:
Winner: Manish Ahlawat (Empire)
Runner-up: Om Thakur (Empire)
DIVISION ONE INDIVIDUAL GRADE CHAMPS JULY 10 RESULTS:
Winner: Matthew Hobbs (Onslow)
Runner-up: Steve Montgomery (Titan)
Series One of Winter Interclub
- Wednesdays from May 22 (matches start 7:00pm-7.10 pm)
- Three player teams (+ reserves)
- Night fees $8 ($7/$6 concession)
- Entries to secretary@ttwellington.org.nz by Thursday May 16 6pm as teams, reserves, or as individual seeking a team
Depending on the entered team count we will determine grade sizes and hope to include a promotion/relegation mechanism. Players will be permitted to play in grades suitable to their level of play.
*ALSO UPCOMING*
June 27 – June 30 North Island Individual & Para Championships
Whanganui Vets Open June 1
Whanganui Vets Open June 1
Marlborough Open May 11-12
Taranaki Open May 25-26
Hawkes Bay Open June 26
Whanganui Open July 7
Wellington Open July 27-28
The first Summer Competition designed for individuals rather than teams has finished after an interesting five weeks. With the match format each week being based on accumulated points from previous weeks, it provided players with different challenges to move up the table from week to week.
The final week saw Manish Ahlawat extend his almost unassailable lead and finish comfortably ahead of his nearest challenger, Yang Low. There was an interesting tussle for the bronze medal with up to half a dozen possibilities, dependent on the various wins and margins on the night. Even after most had left, two or three were in with a chance. In the end, it was Jacob Hawker who with several very good wins, outshone the competition to finish ahead of Depak Patel and Darrell Brown.
Thanks to all those who participated, particularly those who lasted the distance. I hope you enjoyed the format.
-Kevin
We have some tournaments coming up too:
- TTNZ Regional Qualifier 2 on the weekend of 9 & 10 March (entry but see below).
- The 2024 Wellington Veterans tournament on Saturday 16 March (entry).
- The 2024 Wellington Autumn Open on the weekend of 4 & 5 May.
Also note the TTNZ Vets in Taupo (29/3-1/4), for entry in a team ping us directly (for individual events enter here). See here for all the details on the TTNZ vets event.
More generally, for events across NZ check out the TTNZ Calendar.
The TTNZ Qualifier event is part of a series of tournaments set up by TTNZ to provide high level competition for current and prospective New Zealand representative candidates. It is designed to assist with selections for New Zealand teams and training squads for players eligible to represent New Zealand.
As a result, there are criteria which apply to players entering this tournament. Please read through the Prospectus below which goes through the criteria and which also has the in depth details of the tournament itself. If you have any queries about the criteria, please contact TTNZ. I am happy to handle queries about the tournament structure.
Entries for these tournaments are via the Tournament Planner website only. The March tournaments are already available for entries. The details around timetables and other conditions can be found on the website.
Congratulations to the winning premier Empire Entertainers team (below) and also the Waterloo Wombats (Division 1 winners)!
The first Series of Winter Interclub 2023 finished with the Titan Terriers winning the Premier Division unbeaten, with the Empire Eagles the nearest competition. For the Terriers, it was a true team effort, with all three regular players having strong performances. Particular mention should be made of the evergreen veteran Lindsay Ward who was unbeaten, despite some strong efforts to topple him by other players.
Division Two was won by the Empire Emperors, narrowly from Waterloo Wombats. Again, this was a close competition, coming down to the last night. Sai Murali of Karori Kaboom was unbeaten in her appearances, while Emperor’s Ethan Attewell had an excellent season.
Division Two players had a Grade Championships to conclude the competition with sixteen entrants. The Singles event was taken out by Tony Rutledge who outlasted Andrew Maguire late in the evening. Ethan and Doug Westmoreland were the beaten semi-finalists. Jeremy Evans beat Craig Gear in the Consolation event.
Is happening at the Empire hall from 7pm (no later than 7:10pm) Wednesdays May 17 for six weeks.
Two player teams, play two other teams each night, best of 5 to 11
- Five Wednesdays 15 March – 12 April @ Empire TTC Hall (04 568 6054)
- Open from 6:30pm, matches to start 7pm
FEES $8 per player per Wednesday to the duty official before play.
ENTER by Thurs 9 March via your club or haineskj52@gmail.com (we match extras into composite teams). A team can have any number of players but only two play per match.
FORMAT 2 Player teams: each team plays two matches (against two other teams) each Wednesday – each team vs. team match is two singles each player (best of 5 to 11) plus a one-set doubles (best of 1 to 11) played only as a tie break if it is 2-all. i.e. each night you play four singles and sometimes also one or two doubles sets.
Continue reading “2023 Summer Competition”
We thank the TAB for recently awarding us a grant towards accommodation costs for teams at the recent TTNZ nationals. We are a volunteer-run sport and the annual Nationals is a large expense for us as well as the travelling players and team managers every amount is greatly appreciated!
Manish Ahlawat won the Four Wednesdays November competition for the third consecutive year, comfortably seeing off nearest rivals Depak Patel and Ian Talbot, with Paul Solt and Darrell Brown close behind those two. The minor medal positions were in doubt until the last doubles, following which, it was agreed that Depak placed second by virtue of beating Ian earlier in the competition.
There were many interesting results achieved over the four weeks with a number of players beating higher rated opponents and a couple of young players also catching the eye with their performances. Thanks to all who participated.
Starts November 2 – Wednesdays @ Empire Table Tennis Club hall
Four Wednesdays: Nov 2nd/9th/16th/23rd (7pm).
Final results:
For the details…
At the Empire hall from 7:10pm Tuesdays August 2nd / Wednesdays August 3rd (eight weeks until September 20/21) – same week days and same formats as Series 1.
Draw & Current Results
Congratulations to the winning teams:
Premier 1: Empire Eagles – Mohsen Kafi & Manish Ahlawat
Premier 2: Karori/Waterloo – Sabine Westenra & Sai Murali
Division 1: Attack on Titan – Danny Eyre, Meena Chang, & Erin Huang, & Vignesh Sivapragasam
Starts @ Empire from 7:10pm Tuesdays May 17 / Wednesdays May 18 (eight weeks).
Draws & Final Results – Series 1
Teams
Structure
Premier grades (Premier 1, Premier 2) on Tuesdays
* 2-player teams (2 x singles best of 7 & a doubles best of 5)
Division 1 grade on Wednesdays
* 3-player teams (9 singles & 2 doubles matches – as usual)
Division 2 grade on Tuesdays
* 3-player teams (9 singles & 2 doubles matches – as usual)
Teams are entered only from clubs – reach out to your club contact to be included.
Partial teams may be entered and we will endeavour to form composite teams. Extra players may be entered for a team but only two (for Premier grades) or three (for Division 1 & 2 grades) may play for that team on any specific evening.
We will seed teams and limit the number of teams per grade to eight but each team may request a preferred highest grade.
Each grade will include a round robin with every team playing every other team.
Replacement players can be sourced from a lower grade or as approved by the interclub committee. E.g. a Premier 2 player can fill in for a Premier 1 team (with another lower grade player filling in for the Premier 2 player’s team).
If a player is deemed to be of a certain standard through being named in a particular grade (and confirmed by the interclub committee at the time of naming teams in Grades), then that player can play any number of fixtures for a higher grade while still continuing to play in the lower grade. However players can fill in for higher grades in only one team during the series.
Entries close Wednesday 11 May. Late entries accepted only to fill byes in grades.
Note: treat this Series 1 as a distinct competition. There will be a Series 2 (anticipated for after mid-year) however the format for Series 2 is TBD by the TTW interclub committee. Teams would be re-entered for Series 2 & may be seeded & graded differently than Series 1 effectively this may mean some promotion/relegation vs. Series 1 (with or without playoff TBD).
The usual Code of Conduct will apply.
Summer Interclub
Summer Interclub is now complete! Final results below. Also for the Vets on Saturday April 2 click below for the detail.
Continue reading “2022 Summer Interclub & Wellington Vets”
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