Remember that for the Division grades (1/2/3) Series 1 is now complete (results to be posted up) but next week (July 9/10 Tues/Wed) will be the Grade Championships event (one event per grade on the normal night for each grade). This is a non-team ‘tournament-style’ event to see who can be No. 1 in their division so be sure to come along. The format usually starts with several round-robins with the top 1 or 2 going through to the knock-out rounds (entries on the night will determine the exact format).
Division 1 and 3 folks are on Wednesday, Division 2 on Tuesday. You can play in the grade you are playing in and you may also play in a higher division should you wish!
The Grade Champs are a good practice for the TTW Yasaka Open coming up: here – July 13/14
Following the grade champs are 2 weeks off (the mid-year holidays are on) before Series 2 starts, after that (Aug 6/7) is Series 2 (any grading matches, if necessary, will be Aug 1). The Division grades continue until Sept 17/18 with a finals night Sept 25 (all grades – including Premier too).
Clubs will be preparing Series 2 team entries for the Division grades over the next few weeks so keep in contact with your club contacts about this – it is also a good time to bring in extra people into the winter interclub who weren’t available earlier so clubs can add more teams or make some alterations if necessary. Ask a friend who hasn’t played interclub before to come in for series 2 – a 7 week series could be a good introduction for them.
There is also a junior interclub starting around the same time for those more entry-level juniors who might not yet be ready for regular interclub.
OK, playing catchup, Week 5 results are below for completeness but expecting week 6 results on the weekend, watch this space.
Week 5: Winter Interclub 18-19 June
This file was held by the interclub committee while determining a result. I’m posting this now though the Week 5 results will be here soon!
Week 4: Winter Interclub 11-12 June
Chun-Kiet VongThe first week results are here. Too early to spot any trends yet but a few upsets already to spice things up. “Malcolm’s Upset win of the week” was Belmont Beasts’ Chun-Kiet Vong (15) beating Titan’s Lindsay Ward (though Titan won 9-2) and took this picture of Chun-Kiet at Titan club on Sunday where he was practising. Please email me your play or player or upset of the week after each week and I’ll add it to the results posting!
Here are the draws for the Premier and Division grades. (Premier is analogous to Premier 1 last year while Divisions 1, 2, and 3 are analogous to last year’s Premier 2, 3, and 4.)
A note for the Division grades is the scoring system (points per team for each night) which are noted at the bottom of the draw sheet:
Division Points:
11-0 & 10-1 Winner 5 pts / Loser 0 pts
9-2, 8-3, 7-4 Winner 4 pts / Loser 1 pt
6-5 Winner 3pts / Loser 2 pts
NB: If a team wins all seven of their contests, and hasn’t had points taken off for disciplinary reasons, they will win the grade even if another team has accrued more points overall.
For Premier it is simply 1 point for a win, 0 for a loss.
Refer to the documents for full details.
For the Division grades there is one series of 7 weeks, then a grade champs, then a second series – teams are re-entered for the second series so there could well be differences in teams from series 1 and series 2. For the Premier grade, there are three rounds with the same teams throughout.
Malcolm Wong has a lot of old records and sent in a story about the interclub grade he was involved in 1993, 20 years ago (pre-merger with Hutt Valley so it is only the Wellington teams). For those of you who have been around long enough some of the names will be recognisable and many are still playing today!
Blast from the Past
1993 Wellington A Reserve Grade remembered.
There were ten teams representing seven clubs, with Titan providing three teams. After the first round the top six teams qualified for Divison 1 and the bottom four teams for Division 2. Team results, and individual averages attached.
The first round was won by Onslow A (22 points) ahead of Karori (20) and Te Rama (19). The Onslow A team were all juniors. Their top player was Jamie Lennox, who had won the NZ under 13 Boys Doubles (1992). He would be selected for the New Zealand under 17 Boys Team (1995-96). Jonathan Armstrong was to win the NZ Under 21 Men’s Doubles (1996). Andrew Wiggins was the Wellington Secondary School’s Boys Singles winner that year.
Karori had the veteran, Ken Hindson, and two juniors, Simon Reed and Mark Jurgeleit. Ken had won the Te Rama Club Singles (1989) and would be in the Te Rama Team (with Matthew Hobbs and Malcolm Wong) that would win Division 2 at the Manawatu Teams Tournament (1996). Simon would be later involved in coaching Wellington Junior teams (1998-2001) and was the Manager/Coach of the Wellington Under 19 Boys Team that won the NZ Under 19 Boys Teams Title (2000) beating Canterbury 5-4 in the final.
Te Rama had an experienced team. Malcolm Wong and Martin Young were in the Te Rama Team had won the A Reserve Grade (1991) with David Robinson. Malcolm was in the Te Rama Team that won the C Grade (1986) and B Grade (1989). He has won 9 Te Rama Club Singles and also the Titan Club Singles (1995). Martin was in the Ling Tse Team that won the C2 Grade (1987) and C Grade (1988). He has won 15 Te Rama Club Singles. Brian Neale had played A Grade for Victoria University and Newlands. He was in the Newlands Team that won the A Reserve Grade (1971,1986 & 1989). He has won 10 Newlands Club Singles.Brian was in the Victoria University Team that won the NZ University Teams Tournament (1963) and he was runner up in the Men’s Singles.
Another good junior was Graeme Windley (Onslow B) who played mainly B Grade that year. He was NZ Under 17 Boys Singles runner up (1995) and won the NZ Under 19 Boys Doubles (1996) and NZ Under 21 Men’s Doubles (1999).
Other players still involved today were Kevin Haines (Onslow B), Bob Bell (Newlands)[recently moved to Napier] and Matthew Hobbs (Titan C). Bob won the Newlands Club Singles (1996) and Onslow Club Singles (2011). Matthew won the Onslow Club Singles (2012).
In Division 1 Te Rama won all their matches. There were 2 crucial matches. In the third round Te Rama beat Karori 6-5 despite Ken Hindson winning his 3 singles. Then in the penultimate round Te Rama played the leaders Onslow A, who were leading by 2 points. Te Rama needed to win by 7-4 or more to gain 3 points and move into the lead. Onslow started well and lead 4-2 only for Te Rama to win the last 5 matches. Malcolm Wong won all his 3 singles for Te Rama. In the last round Te Rama beat Titan A 9-2 to win the Grade. Division 2 was won by Titan B.for whom Ross McFarland starred.
In the grade match against Hutt Valley (8 August) two A Reserve Grade teams were selected. A Reserve 1 (Malcolm Wong, Martin Young and Hamish Rennie) and A Reserve 2 (David Buckrell, Nick Julian and Matthew Hobbs). The Hutt Valley A Reserve 1 Team (Staff Marshall, Stan Joe and Brett Pottinger) won 7-4 and their A Reserve 2 Team (Jeremy Evans, Steve Westmoreland and Darren O’Brien) won 8-3
In the A Reserve Grade Chanpionships (25 August) Te Rama had more success. Martin Young won the Singles against team mate Malcolm Wong (1990 & 1991 winner). In the Doubles Malcolm Wong and Martin Young won for the third successive year when they beat Jonathan Armstrong and David Buckrell.
Hi folks, here are the first results from round 2 of Summer Interclub. Apologies for the delay, as i have been working on a school project pretty much all the time for the last week!
The results for week four of Summer Interclub. Bound to be some interesting matches next week, particularly division two with three players on 100% facing each other!
Let me know of any name spelling corrections at interclub. The first night is this Wednesday, see you there!
Team Listings
Division 1
Belmont A: Callum Rusbridge & Martin Murdoch Empire A: Depak Patel and Paul Brown Empire B: Chris Talbot and Ian Talbot Belmont B: Cath Zhou & Larn Sweeney Empire C: Raewyn Young and Sabine Westenra Empire D: John Gan and Jason Giles
Division 2
Empire E: Bryan McConnochie and Tony Rutledge Belmont C: Frank Fu & Chun-Kiet Vong Empire F: Martin Young, Paul Solt and Harry Chen Waterloo A: Gareth Telfer & Sean Hanson Waterloo B: Scott Higham & Adam Xiong Empire G: Matthew Hobbs & Russell Buchanan
Division 3
Empire H: Isaac Noanoa and Graham Sole Waterloo C: Martin Xiong & Ellen Xiong Empire I: Vladmir Vysotskiy, Mo Whare and James Stewart Empire J: Merv Allardyce, Arindom Choudhury and Darren O’Brien Belmont D: Abram Goh & Hui-Ling Vong Waterloo D: Jacob Gates & Reuben Reid
Division 4
Belmont E: Jason Zhao & Allan Carson Belmont F: Charlie Waddy & Shikhar Parijat Empire K: Reg Feuz & Ian Grace Waterloo E: Chris Sutton & Ian Thomas Belmont G: Jeremy Traub & Nicholas Baucke
Division 5
Waterloo\Empire: Marius Lukkonnen & Jimi Nelson Belmont H: Angus Horan & Regan Craig Belmont I: Alex Tam & William Tam Empire L: Tyler Guthardt & Mason Tangatatai Empire M: Chris Beeston & Jacob Rattray Empire N: Adam Archibald-Mason & Hugh Pawson
Notices for the upcoming Summer Interclub were sent out to the clubs and players lists last week (if you are not on the players list, and want to be, let me know), the details are below. Let your club contact know you are available to play!
In a nutshell:
2-player teams entered by clubs
7pm Wednesdays from Feb 20 until May 1 with a break on March 27.
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 13.
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 2013 TTW Summer Interclub Entry Form is here as a doc or a pdf.
Hi folks, here are the Joola Series 1 Division grade completed results (and Premier up until last week): Winter Interclub 2-3 July (updated July 17)
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