The results from the first week of TTW Winter Interclub 2014
Here are the draws for Series I – starting this week:
Premier – Series 1
Division 1 – Series 1
Division 2 – Series 1
Division 3 – Series 1
Also note:
Rules: 2014 Winter Interclub rules
Code of Conduct: 2014 Code of Conduct
Thanks to NZCT for their support
Thanks to all players and reserves who played in the summer interclub that finished last week – we hope you had a great season! Full Results are here: 2014 Summer Interclub 16 April Final Results.
Congratulations to Hayden Tapp, Callum Rusbridge & Hui-Ling Vong (Belmont-Waterloo) in Division 1 and to Martin da Costa & Steve Montgomery (Karori) in Division 2.
Winter interclub is starting in less than a month (May 20/21 start, teams due from your club May 13) please work with your club over the next couple of weeks to get your name in and help get players together for the season. (Forms and rules will be sent out to clubs.)
from Malcolm Wong
1989 Wellington B Grade remembered
There were originally 7 teams entered in the B Grade, with an additional team, Onslow, entering towards the end of section play. Te Rama and Titan had 3 teams each, with one from Apollon and Onslow. There were 9 Affiliated Clubs and 30 interclub teams in 5 grades in the Wellington winter interclub that year.
The first round was called Section Play. The Te Rama teams completely dominated and finished in the top 3 places. Te Rama A won all its matches. Brian Hearfield and Henry Anastasi had been in the Te Rama A team (with Ken Mitchell and Roger Watkin) that was runner up in the B Grade the previous year. They were joined by Malcolm Wong, who had played A Reserve in 1988, and was to win 10 Te Rama Club Singles. Brian and Malcolm were in the Te Rama Team that had been runner up in C Grade (1985), won C Grade (1986) and were runner up in B Grade (1987).
Their main rivals Te Rama C had regulars Roger Watkin and Peter Wong, joined by David Robinson and Martin Young, who had previously played C Grade for the Ling Tse Club which had folded up. Regular interclub players included Chris Papanicolau and Peter Varuhas (Apollon), Reg Seddon (Titan A), Ken Hindson, John Lister, Jeff Larsen, Giles Moiser (Te Rama B) and David Pyle (Titan B).
In the Championship Round Te Rama had won all its matches prior to the last round. They then lost to Te Rama C 4-8. Both teams finished with 12 points but as Te Rama A had 71 points compared to Te Rama C’s 65, they won the title. Team results and interclub averages are attached here.
Te Rama players dominated the interclub averages taking the first 6 places. Henry Anastasi headed the averages with 36 wins out of 39 games (92.30%) ahead of Brian Hearfield (27 /30) 90%. Te Rama also won the Sportswear Models Trophy awarded to the club gaining the best average of interclub wins, based on their 3 most successful teams. Te Rama had previously the Trophy in 1974, 1977, 1981 and 1987. A final win was to be achieved in 1990.
In the B Grade Championships (4 July), Henry Anastasi was the first winner of the Brian Hearfield Cup (B Grade Singles) when he defeated his team mate Malcolm Wong 21-16 19-21 21-13. The B Grade Doubles was won by Henry Anastasi and Malcolm Wong who won against Ian Searle and Rith Kim 21-10 21-14. Henry and Malcolm also won the A Reserve Grade Doubles (6 July), beating Jason Granville and Andrew Milburn 24-22 21-17. Malcolm’s previous success was the 1982 C Grade Regional Doubles with Brian Roberts. Henry had won the 1982 D Grade Regional Singles and Doubles (with B Hislop) and 1982 D Grade Open Doubles (with Richard Chung). He also won the 1988 B Grade Doubles with Bruce Lawrence.
In the Wellington v Hutt Valley Grades match (13 August) the Wellington B Grade Team (Henry Anastasi, Brian Hearfield, Malcolm Wong), lost 5-6. This was the last year that these 3 players were to play interclub together. Henry Anastasi moved to Australia the following year. Brian Hearfield remained in B Grade. Malcolm Wong moved up to A Reserve and later on to Premier 2 and 1.
The Mike Flynn Memorial Award is awarded to the most improved junior in Table Tennis Wellington for the previous year also including attitude, cooperation and respect for others. We would like to congratulate Ellen Xiong as the winner of the award for 2013! As well as her excellent play and friendly attitude, her work on the Waterloo club committee has been greatly appreciated by Waterloo and beyond.
Let me leave you with some recent pictures from the Summer interclub currently in progress…
Here are the first week’s result tables as xls including team and individual results to date. Bruce has draws made up for this summer’s competition but we won’t publish them in advance because we are trying with a bit of a surprise factor by having you now know who you are playing until turning up on the night!
Notices for the upcoming Summer Interclub are on their way out and details are below. Let your club contact know that you are available to play! The 7-week summer competition with 2-player teams is a good opportunity to bring in a friend or two from the past who might not have played for a few years.
In a nutshell:
- 2-player teams entered by clubs
- 7pm for 7 Wednesdays from March 5 until April 16.
- 5-match format to 11 with singles best of 7 and doubles best-of-5.
- Flat fee $7/player.
- Entries to be submitted by clubs in (to me) please by Feb 26.
- Players help your club out by helping wrangle your friends together and pass on the names to your club contact.
Composite teams (players from separate clubs in the same team) are fine just be sure to have both clubs know about the team and have it be entered by one of the clubs. (Check with your club contact.)
The full 2014 TTW Summer Interclub Entry Form is here as a doc or a pdf.
Location: here.
Details for the summer interclub series will be coming soon, so it’s time to start your training!
For those who competed in the earlier composite summer interclub and the curious, here is the final stat wrap-up: 2013 Composite Interclub-Final, congratulations to the winning teams.
Here are some pictures of recent events and news that I’ve been saving up:
And here is a picture of Malcolm Wong (right) being awarded the 2013 TTNZ National Official of the Year Award from Paul Kyle.
Hi folks, another week’s results are here.
… are here: Composite Interclub 13-11-13 This includes the nest phase of the Division 2 draw and remember the Division 1 draw is here.
Hi folks, the spreadsheets are up to date by Gabrielle and the results so far here:
* TTW Spring 2013 Composite Div 1 Week 2
* TTW Spring 2013 Composite Div 2 Black Week 2
* TTW Spring 2013 Composite Div 2 Gold Week 2
**** OTHER NEWS ****
We had a 4-team challenge from Manawatu on Sunday, the results were 2-2 for the teams with points wellington 28 to Manawatu 16 overall, congratulations to all players called up for this event! Manawatu won the top team (6-5) and the development team while Wellington won the two veteran team matches comfortably to pull well us ahead on overall points.
I’ll post some pictures or more detail up as I get them.
Hi folks, here are the teams all due to start Wednesday so see you all there!
Teams: Composite Teams 2013
Draws:
Division 1
Division 2
As a reminder, details of the event are here.
It’s 6 weeks from Oct 30 to Dec 4. The 6-team division one will be 5 weeks round-robin and then a 1v2/3v4/5v6 final night. The 8-team division two will be split into two sections for 3 weeks, then re-formed into 2 sections for the last 3 weeks (based on the results of the first split).
Hi all, these are updated sheets which now include the results from deferred matches and the finals nights.
** NEWS: Wellington team got second place in the B grade at the senior nationals, a great effort!** (Rob Chung, Ben Collins, Depak Patel, Paul Solt.)
In a nutshell: Wednesdays, 6 weeks Oct 30 – Dec 4. (Probably as 6-team divisions playing 5 weeks and a final.) Ref below for the details:
2013 TTW Spring Interclub Entry Form (doc)
2013 TTW Spring Interclub Entry Form (pdf)
Players, contact your club contact for entries.
Encourage your friends to enter, the composite structure is a good change of pace and is also a good opportunity to people new to interclub to come in and get some mentoring.
Entries are due to Kevin Haines treasurer [at] ttwellington.org.nz or phone (04) 478 0841 by Wednesday Oct 24.
If you can’t make all 6 weeks, that is OK, we can combine you with someone else or it would be great to have you as a reserve – with the composite structure finding reserves is trickier so it’s useful to have a heap of them just in case.
On Tuesday and Wednesday the 1st vs. 2nd placed team finals took place, the winners were:
Premier: Belmong Bang beat Titan (Premier Scoresheet)
The 2013 Premier final was played in front of a number of spectators who were treated to an arm wrestle of a contest which went to the last match. Most matches provided opportunities for both teams to win and the tension of the occasion created the atmosphere it deserved.
Congratulations to both teams on their efforts, particularly to Belmont Bang for their victory and the retention of the Tommy Williams Trophy.
Division 1: Waterloo Wasps beat Empire Elders
Division 2: Waterloo Whales beat Empire Elms
Division 3: Waterloo Whippets beat Empire Eagles
Congratulations to all winners and the runners-up too!
There are details of including all those who played for these (and the other) teams during all of premier or the Series 2 division grades here.
Here are some pictures from Wednesday (send me more to see them up here) and I’ll update the left-to-right names once I confirm them!
Also some videos from the Tuesday are up on Win’s ttwfan youtube channel: here, here, here & here!
And some more in a slideshow:
Winter Interclub 17-18 Sept (yet to be updated with one deferred match that was played on Wednesday)
The TTW Winter Interclub finals nights are Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 September, with prize giving afterwards on each night.
Tuesday 24th: Premier – Belmont Bang v Titan
Wednesday 25th:
Division 1 – Waterloo Wasps v Empire Elders
Division 2 – Waterloo Whales v Empire Elms
Division 3 – Waterloo Whippets v Empire Eagles
… are here: Winter Interclub 10-11 Sept
I took a bunch of Wednesday pics last week and I’ll post them up here soon…
The stats from last week’s games are here: Winter Interclub 3-4 Sept
On a totally separate note, we received a request to pass on a message about 15 year-old Ola Ratka from Canterbury who has been training in South Korea (for 6 months) and plans to complete in the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in China. He father Piotr has applied for a AMP scholarship including a “People Choice” scholarship – every vote counts to try and win it so visit here for details!
Hi folks, we have a catchup result set here for the latest: Winter Interclub up to 27-28 Aug
