Table Tennis Wellington

Congratulations to all teams for another great competition and especially to the winning teams.

We intend to run a grade champs for all grades on Wednesday 1st July for all players who have played in Winter Series 1 this year. It will be a singles competition for individuals not a team event. We would very much appreciate hearing if you are intending to come along letting us know as it makes the organisation on the night easier.

Premier 1

• Winner: Empire Eagles (Manish Ahlawat (c), Kushal Kumar, Callum Rusbridge, Vig Sivapragasam)
• Runners-up: Titan Terriers (Lindsay Ward, Ben Collins, Yufeng Wang, Keith Aldersley, Zhidong Yu)

Premier 2

• Winner: Empire Emperors (Jacob Hawker, Scott Higham, Liam Johnston (c), Hamid Mahroeian)
• Runners-up: Titan Trinity (Cristian Rios, Nabe Tioti, Jacob Andrews)

Division 1

• Winner: Filipino Community (Michael Onganon, Jayson Alamani, Glen Gawe, Isagani Alamani)
• Runners-up: Empire Elms (Leigh Grinlinton, Andrea O’Brien, Tony Rutledge (c), Kerrin Winstanley)

Note that for Series 2 that teams can be re-entered or re-formed and new teams can come in for Series 2.

All the info is in the pdf and the final results are here:

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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).

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…

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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 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.

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

• Premier 1
• Premier 2
• Division 1

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