In July are the 2013 Table Tennis New Zealand Junior Championships. This will be help in Auckland from the 17th to the 21st of July. Entries are due June 12. The TTNZ entry form is here.
PS: ** A wrap-up the 2013 19th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships results from the TTNZ website: here and from ITTF here.
There is also a prospectus for an ITTF Hotspot Training Camp to be held also in Auckland just prior to the Junior Championships (July 15/16) – all junior players are invited.
You may have heard the news at summer interclub but for the record Hui-Ling Vong had great success at the recent ITTF Oceania Hopes Challenge event in Melbourne.
From TTNZ:
The Oceania Hopes Challenge concluded [April 6] in Melbourne with Yang Lun Zhao (Waikato) and Hui-Ling Vong (Wellington) winning both the boys and girls event for New Zealand. Yang Lun and Hui-Ling comfortably won all their matches
3-0.
As winners of the Oceania Hopes Challenge Hui-Ling and Yang Lun will be invited to participate in the ITTF Hopes Week and Challenge at the Werner Schlager in Vienna, Austria from the 9th to 16th June 2013.
From the ITTF Oceania Hopes site: The ITTF-Oceania Hopes Challenge is a talent identification tournament targeted for athletes aged 11 and 12 Years Old (Born in 2001/02). 2013 is the first year in which the event will be held.
The ITTF story is here – check this out.
No doubt Hui-Ling has some stories to tell you from her exciting trip so feel free to ask lots of questions on Wednesday nights for the next 4 weeks until the end of summer interclub!
May 4/5 is the 2013 Marlborough Open (supported by The Redword Trust) to be held at the SIMCOX STADIUM, Batty’s Road, Springlands, Blenheim. Supported by The Redwood Trust.
Entries close on MONDAY 29 April 2013 with Chris Hood, 7 Brian Bary Street, Blenheim 7201. Entry fees with entry please. Maximum family fee of $70.00. Enquiries: hoodfamily [at] ihug.co.nz Phone (03) 578 8330 after 6.30pm or 027 782 6098 (anytime).
Chris & Ian TalbotHere is a result summary from Raewyn from the recent 2013 NZ Master Games held in Wanganui earlier in February.
Over 35 Team event
Gold Larn Sweeney with Shane Wilson & David Rowan (Wanganui) Silver Paul Brown, Depak Patel and Raewyn Young Bronze Chris & Ian Talbot and Bryan McConnochie
Over 45 Team event
Ian Talbot (mid) & Bryan McConnochie (r)
Gold Chris & Ian Talbot Silver Bryan McConnochie with Gerard Lucas (Sri Lanka) Bronze Depak Patel and Raewyn Young
Over 55 Team event
Raewyn Young & Depak Patel
Gold Ian Talbot and Bryan McConnochie
Over 35 events
Mens Singles Bronze Paul Brown Womens Singles Gold Raewyn Young Mens Doubles Silver Ian Talbot and Bryan McConnochie Mens Doubles Bronze Paul Brown and Depak Patel Womens Doubles Bronze Raewyn Young and Kaye Power (Australia) Mixed Doubles Gold Depak Patel and Raewyn Young Mens Plate Silver Tony Rutledge Mens Plate Bronze Raewyn Young Womens Social Doubles Silver Nola Burrell and Joy Mozer (now Wanganui but formerly Wellington) Womens Social Plate Bronze Joy Mozer
Over 45 events
Mens Singles Gold Depak Patel Mens Singles Bronze Ian Talbot Womens Singles Gold Raewyn Young Mens Doubles Gold Chris & Ian Talbot Mens Doubles Silver Bryan McConnochie and Depak Patel Mens Doubles Bronze Tony Rutledge and David Scott (North Harbour) Womens Doubles Gold Raewyn Young and Gladys Halford (Manawatu) Mixed Doubles Gold Depak Patel and Raewyn Young Mens Plate Bronze Tony Rutledge
Over 55 events
Mens Singles Gold Ian Talbot Mens Doubles Silver Ian Talbot and Bryan McConnochie Mens Doubles Bronze Tony Rutledge and Jim Jarmin (Manawatu)
Over 65 events
Mens Doubles Silver Tony Rutledge and Jim Jarmin (Manawatu)
Overall a big medal haul from the Wellington contingent! And a good time was had by all!
The traditional annual Empire Veterans tournament has been expanded this year to run under the auspices of Table Tennis Wellington and is open to all-comers. It is ideally placed as a lead-up for the TTNZ Veterans tournament this year. This is itself a lead-up to the ITTF WORLD VETS CHAMPS 2014 to be held in Auckland! (This will be the first time that this event has ever been held in New Zealand.)
Catherine Zhou wins the Over 30 Women’s Singles Image courtesy of Murray FinchThe Senior Nationals finished and full results are here. (Wellington team results were blogged earlier.)
Successes from Wellington include:
Catherine Zhou winning the Women’s Over 30s Singles. Catherine Zhou winning the Women’s Doubles with Sarah Hee-Lee (AKL). Catherine Zhou & Stephen Hirst were runners-up in the Over 30s Mixed Doubles
On behalf of all Wellington players congratulations to Catherine and Stephen on their success!
Congratulations to the other Wellington players competing too, I see Frank Fu did especially well to get past the pool stage in the Men’s C-grade.
Catherine Zhou was drafted into a team with Waikato – see here for match details (the last 2 pages).
For the Wellington Men’s team (Callum Rusbridge, Andrew Rieper, Frank Fu, Stephen Hirst, Paul Solt) they made it into the A grade after winning a tough grading match 4-3 over North Harbour 2. Callum won 12-10 in the fifth set of a tense deciding match! In the A grade they finished 7th of the 8 teams in this (the top) grade which is a great effort. The A Grade match details are here (further down) – but are not complete yet as of the time I write this.
Watch TTNZ for official updates and details of the teams and individual events. It is interesting to also see John Cordue in action – those of us who were playing in the mid 90’s will remember John from his much younger days in Wellington!
Below are some pictures from the Nationals thanks to Gina Connell & Murray Finch.
The annual Wellington vs. Manawatu team challenge took place on September 15th. This year Wellington travelled up to Palmerston North (we alternate) and congratulations to all players who took part. Wellington won overall 5-2 with the overall team result summary below:
The #1 Team won 10-4 (Hayden Tapp, Callum Rusbridge, Catherine Zhou)
Under 18s lost 4-7 (Frank Fu, Gareth Telfer, Ellen Xiong)
Under 15s won 13-1 (Ben Westenra, Charlie Waddy, Sean Hanson)
under 13s won 10-4 (Adam Xiong, Chris Linton, Abram Goh)
Vets #1 won 9-5 (Bryan McConnochie, Ian Talbot, Depak Patel)
Vets #2 won 11-0 (Sabine Westenra, Raewyn Young, Paul Solt)
Vets #3 lost 3-8 (Malcolm Wong, Kevin Haines, Roger Watkin)
Manawatu have posted detailed results for each match-up on their website. Vets #3 Wgtn team
Next week on Tuesday September 11 will be the team finals night for the 1st vs. 2nd ranked teams from Premier 1, 2, and 3. Due to a scheduling conflict, the final for Premier 4 was played on September 4 with Belmont 38 defeating Karori Thunder to win Premier 4. The player fee is reduced to $5 for finals nights.
All non-players are also encouraged to come along to watch the finals night (no charge!).
Junior interclub is still underway.
The week following will be the Winter Interclub Grade Championships. This is a separate singles competition for each Premier grade with players eligible to play in the championship for the grade they played in during the 2012 winter interclub and/or for the championship for the next-higher grade. The format will be groups of round-robins followed by a knock-out round.
Premier 1 and Premier 3 grade championships will be held on Tuesday September 18 with Premier 2 and Premier 4 grade championships on Wednesday September 19. The player fee is reduced to $6 for grade championship nights.
Following this there is a break followed by the spring competitions on Wednesdays starting from mid October. More details on this will be sent out soon.
Enter by
mail: Table Tennis Wellington, PO Box 12-038, Wellington
or phone: Tournament Manager Kevin Haines on (04) 478 0841 (evenings)
or email: treasurer [at] ttwellington.org.nz
Pay: with entry (if posted) or pay on arrival.
Entries Close: 5.00 p.m, Thursday 6 September
Programme
Sunday 9 September
Under 12: 2.00 pm
Under 14: 10.00 am
Under 17: 2.00 pm
Age
December 31, 2011 is the criteria date for eligibility for U12, U14,
U17, events.
Notes
Don’t wear white shirts!
Previous singles winners will not be eligible for the same age group in which they were successful in previous Development Tournaments.
The 2012 Wellington New Chinese Friendship Association Table Tennis Tournament was held on Sunday (29 July) at the Empire Table Tennis Club (Petone). The organisers were Kate Wang, Clara Zhang and Stephen Wang. The Chinese Embassy provided the prizes and entered two teams in the teams competition held in the morning.
There were eight teams in two groups, with the group winners playing off in an exciting final. This was between the team of Red Dragon and Mighty Mouse. With the match tied at 2-2, Martin Young became the hero for the Red Dragon team when he beat Chun-Kiet Vong 11-3 9-11 12-10 5-11 12-10 to win the deciding match.
In the afternoon there were 25 players entered in the singles competition. The final was between two Wellington Junior Represenatives. Frank Fu defeated Chun-Kiet Vong 11-9 11-9 6-11 11-7. In the playoff for third place, Min Su defeated Martin Young 8-11 11-9 11-8 5-11 11-8.
Youwen Fu (Chinese Embassy) with the winning Red Dragon Team (Martin Young, Harry Chen and Malcolm Wong)Team runner up, Mighty Mouse (Chun-Kiet Vong, Jason Zhao, Hui-Ling Vong) with Dian Chang Jiang (Chinese Embassy)Kate Wang (Organiser) with Singles prize winners, Chun-Kiet Vong, Frank Fu and Min Su
Thanks to Paul Solt for managing the tournament this weekend and for all players who came along and made this a great event including a large contingent from Manawatu and also further afield – to these people thanks especially for making the trip.
Following is the list of winners that I wrote down (if you are missing from this list and won something, let me know!), congratulations to all.
SATURDAY (August 11)
Men’s Open: Phillip Xiao (runner up: John Cordue) B Grade: Matthew Ball (runner up: James Harter) C Grade: Dean Lochhead (runner up: Win Nguyen) D Grade: Frank Fu (runner up: Sean Hanson) Women’s Open: Catherine Zhou (runner up: Natalie Paterson) Open Men’s Doubles: Phillip Xiao and John Cordue (runner up: Stephen Hirst and Callum Rushbridge) B Grade Doubles: Matthew Hetherington and Callum Rushbridge C Grade Doubles: Jae Lee & Terry Lee D Grade Doubles: Malcolm Wong & Matthew Sheppard Women’s Open Doubles: Natalie Paterson and Jessica Macaskill Open Mixed Doubles: Phillip Xiao and Catherine Zhou
SUNDAY (August 12)
Under 13s: Frank Fu Under 13s Doubles: Frank Fu & Abram Goh Under 15s: Nathan Watson Under 15s Doubles: Nathan Watson & Jae Lee Under 18s: Dean Lochhead Under 18s Doubles: Dean Lochhead & Nathan Watson Under 21s: Zhiyang Cheng Under 21s Doubles: Zhiyang Cheng & Delano Lam Over 30s: Phillip McConnochie Over 30s Doubles: Raman Tiwana & Depak Patel Over 40s: Lindsay Ward Over 40s Doubles: Lindsay Ward & Bryan McConnochie Over 50s: Lindsay Ward Over 50s Doubles: Lindsay Ward & Bryan McConnochie Over 60s: Kerry McGeehan Over 60s Doubles: Norman Chan & Graham Sole Over 70s: Merv Allardyce
Here are some assorted pictures from Sunday afternoon:
Mark Nalder and Malcolm WongMalcolm Wong sent in a report on the Nelson Open that he went to earlier in the season. Malcolm reached 5 finals, winning the Over 50 Men’s Doubles (with Mark Nalder), and was runner up in the Second Grade Men’s Doubles and Over 40 Men’s Doubles, Over 50 Singles and Over 50 Mixed Doubles. This was Malcolm 11th Doubles title with Mark Nalder and his 19th Nelson title.
There were 34 players on the Saturday and 19 juniors on Sunday at Saxton Stadium in Stoke. The oldest competitor was Lionel Wells (91) who had won the NZ Over 45 Men’s Doubles twice (1967-68) with fellow Nelson player, Jack Hall. There was a story on Lionel in the newspaper last year.
Thanks to the tournament organisers, Donny Harris and Paul Op den Buysch. Also to Karen Holmes and her team (Jackie Blanchet, Lisa Op den Buysch and Noelene Wells), who ran the cafeteria.
Robert Chung, Bethan Collings (Event Organiser), Malcolm Wong and Roger WatkinMalcolm was also involved in an unusual event, he was contacted out of the blue on short notice to help come up with a few umpires to help umpire a table tennis tournament that NZIS was holding as part of a multi-sport competitive event between their various regions. It was held at the ASB Sports Centre in Kilbirnie, Wellington.
Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles and Mixed Doubles events were held as best of 5 sets, with Auckland winning all events. I hear that the Auckland contingent consisted of someone who had played table tennis at a club!
Thanks to Malcolm Wong for organising umpires at very short notice for the event. Well done to Chris Williams, Rob Chung, Roger Watkin and Paul Solt for assisting!
Here are some photos with results from the recent 2012 TTSports Wellington Autumn Open (May 19-20). Sorry if we didn’t get a picture of you this year – maybe next year! Thanks to Paul Solt for managing the tournament and all the helpers and ring-ins too, if I try to list them I’ll only forget a few.
Henry Stoupe – Under 12 Singles winnerCharlie Waddy – Under 14 Singles winnerSean HansonFrank Fu – Under 16 singles winnerDelano Lam – winner under 18 and under 21 singles titlesGareth Telfer – winner Mens Open Singles D grade
This is part of the comprehensive Table Tennis Wellington schools program with endless hours of coaching by Stephen Hirst at many schools in the Wellington/Hutt Valley area and competitive events such as this one between the schools.
Thanks to Stephen (and helpers!) and CollegeSport Wellington for being able to run this program.
The Wellington Open is August 11/12 but TTW will be hosting a non-rating Open tournament in May: the 2012 TTSports Wellington Autumn Open this will be held on May 19-20. Paul Solt will be the Tournament Manager and the tournament will be sponsored by local table tennis equipment supplier TTSports. Volunteers to help out with running this (or general enquries) please contact Paul (tournament [at] ttwellington.org.nz).
In July are the 2013 Table Tennis New Zealand Junior Championships. This will be help in Auckland from the 17th to the 21st of July. Entries are due June 12. The TTNZ entry form is here.
There is also a prospectus for an ITTF Hotspot Training Camp to be held also in Auckland just prior to the Junior Championships (July 15/16) – all junior players are invited.
The 2013 Counties Manukau Table Tennis Open (8th & 9th June 2013) entry form is here.
The 2013 Canterbury Open Table Tennis Championships (June 2 & 3) entry form is here and also a conditions document.
Table Tennis Wellington 