Eentry forms for the 2010 Waikato Table Tennis Veterans Teams 19 June and Individual Tournaments 20 June are linked below:
Entries close Tuesday 15 June
I talked to Malcolm Wong following the recent 2010 Junior Open: “I became a provincial umpire in 2000 as I felt I should know the rules of the sport I played. Umpiring at the NZ World Junior Circuit Tournament in Wellington (2003) encouraged me to go further in umpiring. I umpired the world men’s number 1, Ma Long, at this tournament.”
In 2004 Malcolm became a National Umpire, a National Referee in 2007, and then passed the International Umpires exam in 2008. Last year he umpired at the French Junior Open and the Commonwealth Championships. After attended and passing an exam at a Racket Control Seminar (5 April) in Auckland he can now be appointed to be Chief Racket Controller at ITTF Tournaments.
On umpiring at the recent NZ Junior Open (6-9 April) in Auckland: “The first three days I was umpiring twelve hours each day, including 21 matches on day one. A lack of umpires meant I was umpiring virtually every round!
“Umpiring requires a good knowledge of the rules, the ability to concentrate during matches and apply the rules in an impartial manner.” – If you are interested in learning more about Table Tennis umpiring, Malcolm would love to hear from you!
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Attached: Malcolm’s Report on Racquet Control Seminar and New Zealand Junior Open 2010
These championships are being held on June 5-6 at North Harbour Stadium.
Entries close May 27.
Based on preliminary expected entries supplied by association officials, it looks like there wil be 32 teams entered for the North Island teams event at Queens Birthday.
Some categories will be combined, and the aim is to have each team play 7 contests over the weekend.
The preliminary timetable is
Saturday sessions: 9am, 11am, 1pm and 3pm finishing at 5pm
Sunday sessions: 9am, 11am, 1pm finishing at 3pm.
It is expected that all teams will play in every session, as the organisers are trying to have no byes.
Entries close next week, so there is room for changes to teams, and there are some teams who have asked for draft players, so organisers will accommodate those requests.
There were players from Canterbury (C), Marlborough (M), Nelson (N) and one from Wellington 
at Simcox Stadium (Blenheim Indoor Centre). Chris Hood and Debbie Stratford were the main tournament organisers.
Top Seed Yi-Sien Lin (C) dominated the Open events. He won the Men’s Singles against Stuart Amstrong (C) in a high quality final 4-1 where Stuart let a big lead slip in the 4th game which would have made the score 2-2. Lin also won the Men’s Doubles with William Pringle (C) against Stuart Armstrong/Simon Fenwick (C) 3-1 and the Mixed Doubles with Kali Stratford (M) against Simon Fenwick/Mimi Walle (C) 3-1.
Mimi Walle (C) won the Women’s Singles (Round Robin) and prevented Akiko Goto (C) a third straight singles success. These two combined to win the Women’s Doubles against Amanda Niblett (C)/ Kali Stratford 3-1.
In the O40 MS Stuart Armstrong found himself 0-2 down against Steve Craw (C) before taking control to win the last 3 games easily. Mimi Walle continued her domination over Akiko Goto to win the O40 WS 3-0. The O50 MS was won by Mark Nalder (N) and the O50 WS by Kath Gilchrist (M). The O60 MS was won by Steve Craw.
Malcolm Wong proved to be the doubles king. He won the Second Grade MD with Sigmund Sue (M) and O40 & O50 MD with Mark Nalder. Malcolm was also runner up in the O40 XD with Akiko Goto and the O50 MS.
pic 1: Mark Nalder and Malcolm Wong – O40/O50 MD Winners. pic 2: Malcolm Wong and Sigmund Sue – 2nd Grade MD Winners
Attached: Marlborough Open 2010 results
Played at the Waterloo school hall on Wednesday 28th April the annual competion for the central zone primary schools was attended by Wellesley College, Eastern Hutt school, Muratai, Waterloo and Saint’s Peter and Paul school. Association stalwarts Alan Costley and Bruce Northover were on hand to make sure all ran smoothly.
TTW Coach Andrew Hubbard was on hand and carried out a demonstration along with former Chinese professional Catherine Zhao which was very well received by students and teachers alike.
Wellesley captured the boys division and Eastern Hutt the girls. 
…will update this with full results soon, for now:
…early success: Gold in the U15 boys’ doubles. Gold and silver in O50 doubles… full news soon…
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