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2013 TTSports TTW Autumn Open May 18 & 19

You are invited to enter into our next Rating tournament which is the 2013 TTSports Table Tennis Wellington Autumn Open.

Form: 2013 TTW Autumn Open Entry Form
Conditions: 2013 Wgtn Autumn Conditions

TTSports

Events are Saturday May 18 (Open, Under 21, Over 30) and Sunday May 19 (Under 12, Over 45/55/65).

Entries Close May 15 with: tournament [at] ttwellington.org.nz (for options refer to the entry form).

Note that each entry includes a single $2 contribution towards a new Junior Development Fund.

Time Saturday May 18 Sunday May 19
9:15am Under 21 & 0ver 30 Under 12, Under 16 & Over 45, Over 65
12:15pm Open Singles
1:30pm Open Women’s Singles Under 14, Under 18 & Over 35, Over 55

Venue

Empire Table Tennis Stadium, Marine Parade, Petone, Lower Hutt (a map is at the end of here).

Enjoy!

Hui-Ling wins in the ITTF/Oceania Hopes Challenge

HuiLingVong2013OceaniaHopesCaption
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.

Well done Hui-Ling and Yang Lun too!

Full results are here.

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!

Upcoming 2013 Marlborough Open May 4/5

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.

ENTRY FORM is here and INFORMATION here.

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).

2013 TTW Vets Results

The recent 2013 TTW Vets Tournament went off smoothly and was a timely lead up for those heading off to the TTNZ Vets (which included a historic win for the NZ team over Australia!)and a good excuse for some non-Wellingtonians to come and visit on a nice Wellington weekend.

Results:

Over 40 singles:
Depak Patel bt. Paul Brown

Over 50 singles:
Depak Patel bt. Ian Talbot

Over 60 singles:
Jim Jarmin bt. Graham Sole

Over 70 singles:
Richard Ammundsen bt. Jim Jarmin

Over 40 doubles:
Depak Patel & Paul Brown

Over 50 doubles:
Depak Patel & Bryan McConnochie

Over 60 doubles:
Jim Jarmin & Richard Ammundsen

Over 70 doubles:
Jim Jarmin & Richard Ammundsen

(doubles runner-ups pending entry here)

NZ Masters Games February 2013 (Wanganui)

Chris & Ian Talbot
Chris & Ian Talbot
Here 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)
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
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!

-Raewyn Young

Photos from the Wanganui Chronicle.

PS: The complete set of all results are here.

2013 TTW Veterans Tournament

Hi folks,

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.)

The 2013 Table Tennis Wellington Veterans Tournament will be held on Sunday March 17 at Empire Table Tennis Club Hall, Marine Parade, Petone.

Details: 2013 Wgtn Veterans Conditions
Entry Form: 2013 Wgtn Veterans Entry Form

Schedule

Time Sunday March 17
10:00am Over 50, Over 70
12:30pm Over 40, Over 60

Entries Close Thursday March 14, 6pm

Table Tennis Wellington, PO Box 12-038, Thorndon 6144, Wellington
email: tournament [at] ttwellington.org.nz

Tournament Manager

Paul Solt

TTNZ Nationals


Catherine Zhou wins the Over 30 Women’s Singles
Image courtesy of Murray Finch
The 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

Also see Matt Hetherington’s blog entries: here and here.

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.

Senior Nationals – Teams Updates

After some tough battles the Wellington players at the Senior Nationals have completed the team events. The individual events are up next.

A write up of the Men’s title is on Matt Hetherington’s Blog and he also has a write up on the Women’s team title too. Be sure to check those articles out.

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.

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Manawatu-Wellington Representative Match

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

Notice for Finals night (11/9) and Grade Championships (18-19/9)

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.

Junior Developing Tournament 2012 (Sunday September 9)

Table Tennis Wellington is pleased to announce the next Junior Developing Tournament on Sunday September the 9th.

Here are the details and the form:

When: September 9, 2012
Where: Empire Table Tennis Club Stadium

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.

Wellington New Chinese Friendship Association Table Tennis Tournament

Thanks to Malcolm Wong for this report.

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

2012 TTSports Wellington Open Winner List

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:

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2012 TTSports Wellington Open Aug 11 & 12

TTW is pleased to announce the 2012 Wellington Open (Aug 11, 12) kindly supported by TTSports.

Details & Conditions: 2012 Wellington Open Conditions
Form: 2012 Wellington Open Entry Form

Mark it in your diary today!

For questions or entries contact Paul Solt tournament [at] ttwellington.org.nz
Phone-in entries: call Paul on 04 589 4424

Thanks to Paul for getting all this together.

Nelson Open Report & local NZIS Tournament

Mark Nalder and Malcolm Wong
Malcolm 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.

Organisers Donny Harris and Paul Op den Buysch
Karen Holmes

Full results are here: 2012 Nelson Open Results.

Robert Chung, Bethan Collings (Event Organiser), Malcolm Wong and Roger Watkin
Malcolm 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!

Recent TTSports Wellington Autumn Open – Photos

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 winner
Charlie Waddy – Under 14 Singles winner
Sean Hanson
Frank Fu – Under 16 singles winner
Delano Lam – winner under 18 and under 21 singles titles
Gareth Telfer – winner Mens Open Singles D grade

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– pictures from R Chung & M Hobbs

Junior Development Tournament – Sunday June 10

If you are a junior you are invited to the first 2012 Junior Development Tournament.

When

It will be on: Sunday 10th June 2012.
at the Empire Table Tennis Stadium on Marine Parade, Petone.

Entries Close: Noon, Wednesday 6 June.

Schedule

Sunday 10th June
Under 12   2.00 pm
Under 14   10.00 am
Under 17   2.00 pm

Details

For details refer to the entry and rules document: TTW Development Tournament 2012 First Sunday June 10.

College Sport Wellington Schools Competition

Update: The draw for next week (June 4-6):

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.

PS: An example score-sheet is here.

2012 TTSports Wellington Autumn Open (May 19-20)

Entries close May 15!

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).

The Details

  1. The Entry Form in pdf format or in xls format.
  2. The Summary and Conditions document.

The Venue

 Empire Table Tennis Stadium (Marine Parade, Petone, Lower Hutt)

The Timetable

Time Saturday May 19 Sunday May 20
9:15 AM Under 21 & 0ver 30 Under 12, Under 16 & Over 45, Over 65
12:15 PM Open Mixed Singles
1:15 PM Open Women’s Singles Under 14, Under 18 & Over 35, Over 55

Age Group Eligibility

  • December 31st 2011 is the date used for determining eligibility for Junior age group events.
  • December 31st 2012 is the date used for determining eligibility for Veteran group events.

2012 NZ Veterans Champs – Wellington Results

There were a bunch of players from Wellington competing in the NZ Veterans Tournament – the largest contingent in a long time and it sounds like a good time was held by all!

Wellington Team placings (full results are on the TTNZ site here):

Over 40 Women:
  2nd to Wellington (Sabine Westenra, Raewyn Young)
Over 40 Men’s A Grade:
  4th to Wellington 1 (Depak Patel, Lindsay Ward, Ian Talbot)
  5th to Wellington 2 (Rob Chung, Keith Aldersley, Bryan McConnochie, Paul Solt)
Over 40 Men’s B Grade:
  2nd to Wellington 3 (Martin Young, Harry Chen, John Gan)
Over 50 Men’s A Grade:
  3rd to Wellington 1 (Lindsay Ward, Depak Patel)
  4th to Wellington 3 (Ian Talbot, Chris Talbot)
Over 50 Men’s B Grade:
  1st to Wellington 2 (Bryan McConnochie, John Gan)
  3rd to Wellington 4 (Martin Young, Paul Solt)
Over 65 Men’s A Grade:
  3rd to Wellington (Chris Williams, Bruce Connolly)
Over 70 Men’s B Grade:
  3rd to Wellington (Eddie Moore, Merv Allardyce)
Over 75 Men:
  4th to Wellington (Eddie Moore, Merv Allardyce)

Individual results are available through here, I’ve copied down the Wellington results here:

Over 40 Men’s Singles plate Winner:   John Gan
Over 40 Women’s Singles Runner Up:   Raewyn Young – lost 12-10 in 5th set after being 2-0 sets down
Over 40 Women’s Doubles Winner:   Raewyn Young and Sabine Westenra (beat top seeds 3-0 in final)
Over 40 Mixed Doubles Winner:   Sabine Westenra and Heath Murdoch
Over 50 Men’s Singles plate Winner:   John Gan
Over 50 Men’s Singles plate Runner Up:   Paul Solt
Over 60 Men’s Singles 3rd place:   Bryan McConnochie
Over 65 Men’s singles plate winner:   Bruce Connolly
Over 75 Men’s Singles plate Runner-up:   Mervyn Allardyce

Congratulations to all players attending the National Vets tournament this year.

Here are some photos from Malcolm Wong:

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