OPEN 7:00pm, OPEN from 6:40pm or call the stadium 04 568 6054 if late or can’t make it (or pre-arrange with us if at all possible). Group play to start soon after.
FORMAT Each Wednesday round-robin groups for singles matches will be formed semi-randomly. Afterwards are doubles-play bonus points. A combination of skill & luck will determine your destiny.
DIVISIONS The number of distinct grade divisions will depend on the entry count.
POINTS One point per opponent you beat in the round-robin group plus bonuses below.
TERMINATOR BONUS One bonus point for the winner of each round-robin group.
BEING-THERE BONUS Two bonus points for each competition night you complete.
BUDDY BONUS Up to one bonus point each competition night for winning at least one doubles match. To get a BUDDY BONUS point you must win any doubles match:
With any player from any group as a partner so long as all four players must have completed their round-robin groups.
The match is the best of 3 games by mutual agreement.
While you can’t earn more than one BUDDY BONUS each Wednesday you can play as many doubles matches as you like for the benefit of your partner(s) or for your own amusement until we kick you out.
PIED PIPER BONUS For each affiliated player you bring to play who hasn’t played TTW interclub in the last five years (or ever) both that player & you get a two point bonus (only one ‘bringer’ per player).
Series 2 of Winter Interclub finished recently. Premier played for the Brian Hearfield Trophy for Series 1 but for series 2, the Tommy Williams Cup was at stake. The Empire Enforcers retained the Cup by beating a Waterloo/Titan composite team 7-3 in the final. The same four players (Bruno Omizu, james Harter, Daniel Rosner and Depak Patel) won in 2017 and 2018. The final contest was exactly that, with only three matches of the ten being won in straight sets.
Titan Terriers finished third by beating Empire Entertainers 6-5 and Empire eagles beat an understrength Titan Tomatoes 6-5.
Division One contest the Chris Williams Trophy in each Series and the Onslow Ogres retained the Trophy by beating old foes Waterloo Wolves 7-3. The final mirrored that of Premier with only three matches being straight set victories.
Division Two final was played between Waterloo Whales (top after the round robin) and Titan Youngsters. The Youngsters got off to a fast start and raced away to a 9-2 victory.
Both these divisions played Grade Championships the week after their finals. Eight players competed in Division One with Mat Hobbs (Onslow) beating Michael Onganon (Empire) 11-9 in the fifth set. Liam Johnston (Empire) beat Craig Gear (Waterloo) in the third/fourth playoff. Six played in the Division Two event with Reg Feuz (Karori) winning the round robin from Peter Lowe (Empire) with Josh Brown (Empire) third.
Summer interclub for 2018 wrapped up recently on a night more suitable for winter interclub.
Division One favourites, Waterloo 1 duly finished on top, Sean Hanson and Vance Kelly coming out 4-1 winners. Daniel Rosner won a consolation last singles against Vance but the moment of note was a 28-26 fourth set victory in the doubles match.
A theoretically rusty Gareth Telfer joined Sabine Westenra for a 5-0 win over Empire 4 in the 3v4 match up and the DD team beat Empire 3 5-0 to secure 5th place.
In Division Two, Doom maintained their good team form to beat Empire 6 5-0 to win the grade. Paneeb reversed their loss of the previous week to beat Waterloo 3 3-2 and Empire 5 also reversed their result against Shatner’s Pants with a 3-2 win, both matches dependant on the doubles results.
Division Three saw Ooshkebabs overturn the previous week’s loss by beating Empire 8 4-1. Anna Wilson beating Ram Sitaram in a close encounter helped her team to win the grade. The other two fixtures were affected by unavailabilities, the outcomes being that the Titan Teens and Empire 9 finished 3rd and 5th respectively.
Thanks to the players who entered and thanks also to those players who filled in, sometimes at short notice. So as to ensure that everyone had the chance to play.
Blast from the past 20 years ago 1997 Wellington Autumn A Grade remembered
by Malcolm Wong
1997 Te Rama Team Members Martin Young, Malcolm Wong and Matthew Hobbs reunite at the Wellington Interclub Finals Night, Series 2 (Tuesday 19 September).
In 1997 there were 8 Teams in the February-April competition. A round robin was followed by 3 knockout rounds to determine the winner. Onslow A (Greg Smith, Stuart Cordue, John Cordue) were top after the round robin and they made the final. Te Rama, 4th after the round robin, hit form to beat Titan A 9-2 and Titan B 11-0 to make the final. A close final was expected. However Te Rama (Malcolm Wong. Bob Bell, Matthew Hobbs) beat Onslow A 9-2. Malcolm Wong won all his 3 singles for Te Rama, continuing his good recent form where he had won his last 12 singles. Greg Smith won 2 singles for Onslow A
Malcolm Wong has been in 4 Te Rama winning interclub teams. 1986 C Grade (with Brian Hearfield, Jeff Larsen, Olaf Leijon), 1989 B Grade (with Brian Hearfield, Henry Anastasi), 1991 A Reserve Grade (with Martin Young, David Robinson) and 1993 A Reserve Grade (with Martin Young, Brian Neale). Martin Young was in the following Ling Tse winning Teams. 1986 C2 Grade (With Lewis Young, Kee Yee) and 1988 C Grade, Division 1 (with Martin Gee, Chuah, Glen Douglas). Bob Bell had been the following winning Newlands A Reserve Grade Teams. 1986 (with Brian Neale, Kaz Witko, Chas Wong), 1989 (with Adrian Sutton, Pam Sutton, Brian Neale) and 1992 (with Ray Hardy, Brian Neale, Kerry Duggan, Ross Fisher). Matthew Hobbs was in the winning 1992 C Grade Titan B Team (with Mike Winsborough, Geoffry Hobbs). Malcolm Wong (12) and Martin Young (18) were Te Rama Club Singles Champion. Malcolm had also won the 1995 Titan Club Singles. Bob Bell was the Newlands Club Singles Champion (1995). Bob (2011) and Matthew Hobbs (2012) would win the Onslow Club Singles.
Onslow A’s top player was Greg Smith, who was in the NZ Under 17 Boy’s Team to Australia (1995 &1996). His Wanganui City College Team won the NZ Secondary
Schools Open Teams Championship in 1995 (with Ben Chapman and James Chapman) &
1996 (with James Chapman and Michael Purvis). In 1996 his Gonville 2 Team (with Jonathan Spring and Larn Sweeney) finished 2nd in the Wanganui A Grade (2 person teams) Interclub behind Wanganui East 1 (Lee Mummery, Jared Smith, Nelson Tizard). He was the top ranked Wanganui Junior Boy and 3rd on the Men’s list, behind Shane Wilson and his brother Jared (Top ranked Man). Stuart Cordue was a former ranked Wellington Junior Boy (4th in 1974) and the father of John. He was in the winning 1974 A Reserve Grade team with Onslow B (with Lloyd Richards, Murray Bordignon, Ruth Futter). John Cordue (1996 NZ Under 14 Boys Rep) would be the Onslow Club Singles Champion in 1999 and 2000. He won the 2009 South Island Men’s Singles. John would become a future NZ Men’s Representative, playing in the World Championships (2005, 2009-2014) and the 2014 Commonwealth Games. At this years World Masters Games Table Tennis, John won the Over 30 Men’s Singles and was in the winning Over 30 Men’s Team with Simon Wallace. He was also runner up in the Over 30 Men’s Doubles with Chen Rong.
New players to Wellington were Kel and Marilyn Smith, the parents of Greg, who had moved from Wanganui. Aroha Tam (1993 NZ U14 Girls, 1994 NZ U15 Girls and 1996 NZ U20 Women) had moved from Dunedin. Liam Orange travelled from the Wairarapa with his grandparents Des and Rose Orange.
7 players (Martin Young, Matthew Hobbs, David Buckrell, Bryan McConnochie, Phillip McConnochie, Win Nguyen, Andrew Budden) were still playing Wellington interclub in 2017.
1997 Autumn A Grade
Place Team
1 Te Rama (Malcolm Wong, Martin Young, Bob Bell, Matthew Hobbs)
2 Onslow A (Greg Smith, Stuart Cordue, John Cordue)
3 Titan B (Jake Yang, David Buckrell, Alvin Wong)
4 Onslow E (Kel Smith, Marilyn Smith, Aroha Tam)
5 Onslow B (Bryan McConnochie, Phillip McConnochie, Blair Duckett)
6 Titan A (Win Nguyen, Geoff Fletcher, Alan Cliffin)
7 Onslow C (Paul Escott, Liam Orange, Steve Dunn)
8 Onslow D (Mark Freeman, Andrew Budden, Cameron Gordon)
Interclub Averages
Place Wins Games %
1 Jake Yang 17 18 94
2 Greg Smith 27 29 93
3 Win Nguyen 25 29 86
4 Bryan McConnochie 20 27 74
5 Martin Young 18 25 72
Congratulations to Bryan McConnochie for topping the table!
The points system was more fun oriented and should be taken with a grain of salt or two (especially regarding those who do the draws and yet end up near the top!) but notable stars in the table who battled well vs. higher grade players include: Martyn Barry, Darrell Brown, Leigh Grinlinton, Mei Mun Teh, & Ilkka Havukkala. Also the up and coming juniors gave many of us a scare or few and we’ll sure be seeing more of them in the years to come (in addition to Mei Mun we had Tom Christie, Aaron Lan, Anna Wilson, Erin Huang, & Ryan Pigou).
A special thanks to all players who came along. I think the experiment worked well and we might try similar again in future (if you have any competition structure/format ideas to try let us know).
The next competition will be the summer interclub which is typically around six weeks at the end of summer, in recent years that has a been a 2-person team format playing best-of-7 matches. See you then.
Winter Interclub Series 2 for 2017 finished with a couple of absorbing finals and a full hall as other finishing positions were determined over the three grades.
The premier final between Waterloo Wasps and Empire Entertainers was 2-2 after the first doubles but the second batch of singles saw the Entertainers edge ahead and continue the momentum to run out 6-3 winners, with Bruno Omizu being the rock with 3 singles and 2 doubles wins.
The Division Two final between Waterloo Wolves and Empire Enforcers was a cliff hanger all the way, matches going each way until the Enforcers took a 5-3 lead only for the Wolves to even up the score. This left Craig Gear (Wolves) and Ryan Cronin (Enforcers) to battle for the title with Ryan giving the Enforcers the victory. Ryan had earlier won a match 12-10 in the fifth set, a result which had a major impact on the final outcome.
Empire completed a sweep of the finals with the Egrets closing out their Division Two final with Waterloo Wapitis 6-3.
Waterloo Wasps v Empire Entertainers 1 vs 2 Titan Terriers v Titan Tomatoes 3 vs 4 Empire Eagles v Titan Trailblazers 5 vs 6 Empire Waterloo Embers v Empire Energisers 7 vs 8
Division One
Empire Enforcers v Waterloo Wolves 1 vs 2 Onslow Ogres v Titan Empire 3 vs 4 Empire Enigmas v Onslow Waterloo Owls 5 vs 6
Division Two
Waterloo Wapitis v Empire Egrets 1 vs 2
Here are the teams & draw for matches starting next week, plenty of teams gunning for payback after Series 1!
The first week in July saw an enthralling end to Series One 2017 with all grades experiencing tight finals.
Premier saw an arm wrestle between Empire Entertainers and Titan Terriers before Bruno Omizu won the final match for Empire to win 6-5. Bruno maintained his 100% singles winning record win this victory. Congratulations to Bruno, James Harter and Depak Patel on their victory, the first in this grade for Empire for some years, taking away the Brian Hearfield Cup.
Division One also finished in a 6-5 win to Onslow Ogres over Empire Enforcers, after Onslow started well only to be down 5-3 before dramatically winning the last three singles. Win Nguyen also finished the series unbeaten and was well supported by teammates Mat Hobbs and Andy Budden. Onslow thus regained the Chris Williams Cup, presented several years ago by Chris, who sadly passed away recently.
The Division Two final was a win by Empire Egrets over Waterloo Wapitis, 7-4. Doubles was possibly the difference as Empire won both contests, in a match which had five 5 set contests. Maggie Dyer, Leigh Grinlinton and Michael Stechman were the members of the winning team. 2017 Winter Series 1 Premier Winners: Empire Entertainers (James Harter, Bruno Omizu, Depak Patel, with Brian Hearfield)
Summer Interclub 2017 finished on a night anything but Summer. The Division One final went to the last singles match with Jo Larsen prevailing over Ian Talbot to give Young and Young a 3-2 victory over Empire Talbot.
Division Two saw another tough final fight before Onslow Budden won against Misfits, the final score also being 3-2.
Division Three finishes their round robin with Waterloo Thomas going down 3-2 to The Decrepits leaving Caesars Pride to come out on top of the grade following a 5-0 win over One and A Half Asian.
Thanks to all players who participated in the competition. We look forward to mid May when Winter Interclub commences.
The November competition wrapped up after week 4, again with a few replacements helping out.
Grade A saw some good matches which could have gone either way but the two top rated players pulled away from the pack in the end.
Grade B, which had experienced promotional/relegation at both ends after the first two weeks finished with ten of the eighteen matches going to five sets with three to advantage including a 21-19 result!
Grade C was affected by withdrawals but those who played had some tight games.
Leading players in each grade:
A Grade
7 wins J Harter
6 wins V Kelly
4 wins B Shaw, S Higham
B Grade
7 wins M Hobbs
6 wins L Johnston, C Gear
5 wins A Budden, S Eguchi
C Grade
6 wins R Buchanan, H Pan
5 wins L Sweeney, M Stechman
4 wins T Wilson, R Cullen
The annual Wellington area Primary/Intermediate Tournament was held on September 16, results and 3 photos (taken by the Clyde Quay School photographer).
There were 39 teams (28 boys and 11 girls) representing six schools (118 players in total). Clyde Quay School had the biggest number with 14 teams, Raroa Intermediate 12, Hutt Intermediate 6, Wellesley College 3 and Newlands Intermediate & Karori West Normal School 2 each. Clyde Quay School created a record that is unlikely to be broken for some time by winning all 5 boy’s divisions and both the girl’s divisions for a clean sweep of titles!
Thanks for all the helpers including Bruce Northover, Rob Chung, & Kevin Haines for all the legwork!
UPDATE – FORMAT SPECIFICS: We have three groups of 9 players – for the first 2 weeks each group will complete a round-robin – each playing every one else in their group. Then the top two in each group automatically promote to the next highest grade (if any) and the bottom two automatically relegate to the next lowest grade (if any). The adjusted grades then play the same format for two weeks to determine final placings. This makes it pretty competitive especially in the middle grade where things will get real dicey at both ends of the table!
Also a reminder about the New Zealand Masters Games being held in Whanganui from 3 – 12 February 2017. There are still a few weeks for Table Tennis entrants to secure the “Gotta Have It” Pass rate of only $45.00. Entrants will save on their registration fee if they enter by 31st October 2016.
In the teams we had some great results with our Men’s B Grade team (Ben Collins, Sean Hanson, Hayden Tapp) winning the B Grade after a down-to-the wire 4-3 win over Canterbury in the final claiming the Russell Algie Shield just in time to take off for a flight!
Hui-Ling Vong was drafted into the Manawatu under 18 girls’ team which finished 3rd – winning all her matches bar vs. a dominant Auckland team who took 1st place unbeaten in all their matches.
The under 18 boys’ team of Frank Fu & Sean Hanson, along with drafts of Carl Rodmell & Nathan Geraghty, got 3rd in the A Grade (just behind Waitemata and Auckland) including good wins 5-2 over Manawatu & 4-3 over both Canterbury & Otago.
The under 15 boys’ team of Liam Buckrell & Calvin Li, along with draft Zenith Sayer finished 7th in the A Grade, pipping Otago 4-3 at the end into 8th place.
Individuals
*** Hui-Ling Vong is the under 15 girls’ champion – cleaning up against all opposition!
*** Hui-Ling Vong is also the under 15 doubles champion – with Rachel Li!
Hui-Ling in the under 18 girls’ made it all the way through to the semi-final before bowing out to eventual winner Guiting Lu.
Joanna Roberts (with Joanne Shaw) won Silver in the Open Women’s doubles!
In the boys’ under 18s – Sean Hanson & Frank Fu won their round-robin groups with both making it to the second round of the knockout draw. In the under 18 boys’ doubles, Sean & Frank battled through to the semi-final.Likewise Sean played with Hui-Ling in the under 18 mixed doubles – again making it to the semi-final!
Similarly Liam Buckrell and Calvin Li made it past the round-robin phase of the under 15 boys’ event too. In the doubles they were also semi-finalists – losing only to the eventual winners.
Paul Solt wins the D grade doubles (with Neil Chen)!
The finals of the three grades were held on Tuesday 13 September, with many interesting matchups. The Premier final saw a close match to begin with between Vance Kelly of the Waterloo Wasps against James Harter of the Empire Entertainers. Vance won in four sets, each of which had only a two point margin. From then on each of the following matches were won three straight by the Wasps who ran out 6-0 winners. Vance and Hayden Tapp each won two singles while Sean Hanson won his only match.
The Division One final also featured Empire and Waterloo teams but this time the Empire Enforcers overcame the Waterloo Wolves by 8-3. Andrew Maguire found some of his best form to be unbeaten but had solid support from the others in the team, Brendyn Shaw and Tony Rutledge.
The closest fixture was the Division Two final between two Empire teams. The Empire Elms finally beat the Empire Egrets 6-4, winning the last two matches in close five setters which could have gone either way. Vladimir Visotskiy, Soichiro Eguchi and Yudi Yudistra were the winning team. In a 3v4 fixture, The Combo beat Waterloo Whales 7-3.
In an unofficial “Plate Grade Championship” six players from Division One not involved in the final played a round robin. Liam Buckrell went through unbeaten to claim the win, with Darrell Brown 2nd and Mat Hobbs 3rd.
Summary of results
Premier: Waterloo Wasps beat Empire Entertainers 6-0
Division One: Empire Enforcers beat Waterloo Wolves 8-3
Division Three:
for 1st vs. 2nd: Empire Elms beat Empire Egrets 6-4
for 3rd vs. 4th: The Combo beat Waterloo Wolves 7-3
A good turnout of 23 players fronted for the Grade Championships on Tuesday following the end of Winter Interclub – Series One.
Eleven played in the Premier event, including three Division One interclub players trying something a bit more challenging, each performing well. Three pools played round robin sections with post sections also being played on a round robin basis to ensure players got plenty of matches. Remarkably, all nine post section matches went to four sets, indicating very even contests.
The winners of the Premier sections were Frank Fu, Paul Brown and Depak Patel. Their final round robin saw Depak come out on top with Frank second and Paul third.
Each of the Division One and Division Two events had six entrants and both events involved a full round robin to determine the placings. Tony Rutledge and Vladimir Vysotskiy came out on top of these groups.
Full results:
Premier:
1st Depak Patel
2nd Frank Fu
3rd Paul Brown
Division One:
1st Tony Rutledge
2nd Darrell Brown
3rd Martin Xiong
Division Two:
1st Vladimir Vysotskiy
2nd Ian Grace
3rd Ian Thomas
Hi all, we have two new Coaching sessions starting up for the season:
For Juniors (age 8-16) a Saturday 4:30-6pm session (see the TTW Junior Coaching Flier for details). This starts June 18.
For players at the level of Division 1 or Premier interclub standard there is a Thursday evening 7-9pm session (see the TTW Training Invitation Flier for details). This coaching group is now underway and targets preparation for the Wellington Open (July 30/31).
All sessions are at Empire in Petone. For further information contact Richard Lee on 567 0314 or 022 0684866.
The 2016 Winter Interclub Series One Finals were held June 28/29 and saw the finals of the three interclub divisions.
Premier Grade saw an exciting matchup between the top two teams of recent seasons, Titan Terriers (2015 champions) and Waterloo Wasps. A number of spectators were rewarded with a tight contest for the Hearfield Cup with no match an easy victory. In the end, Waterloo Wasps prevailed by 6 matches to 3, with superiority in the doubles being a key factor.
The playoff for third and fourth place saw Empire Entertainers too strong for Titan Trailblazers, winning 10-1.
Division One featured the Series front-runners, Empire Enforcers against Onslow Titan batting for the Chis Williams Cup. Form from the round robin matchup between these teams was reversed with Onslow Titan causing a surprise by winning 7-4. Previous title holders Waterloo Wolves beat Waterloo Wapitis 10-1 in the playoff for third and fourth.
The Division Two final between two Empire teams, Empire Elms and Empire Egrets was eagerly awaited after a close result the previous week. The Empire Egrets prevailed 7-4 with their greater depth evident, despite a valiant effect from Vladimir Vysotskiy who won three singles for the Empire Elms. In the other fixture, Waterloo Whales beat a depleted Empire Echoes team 8-3.
The full TTW 2016 summer interclub result set is here: Summer Interclub 2016 Final. We have a rest now before winter interclub (forms are coming out soon).
Congratulations to everyone who completed. Special congratulations though to the winners!
Division 1: Waterloo Wasps (Sean Hanson 100%, Vance Kelly 70%)
Division 2: Empire Empresses (Jo Roberts 100%, Raewyn Young 50%)
Division 3: Empire Enigmas (Basil Kananghinis 90%, Om Thakur 80%)
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