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.
The 2013 Wellington New Chinese Friendship Association Table Tennis Tournament was held on Sunday 27 October at the Empire Table Tennis Club hall (Petone). The organiser was Stephen Wang. A free hot lunch was provided for everyone.
The singles was held in the morning. 17 entered the Men’s Singles. There was group play followed by knockout in the main draw and in the consolation. In the final Frank Fu beat Martin Young 3-2 and in the playoff for third place Min Su beat Harry Chen 3-2. The Consolation Singles was won by William Yang defeating Charles Chua 3-0 There were 4 in the Women’s Singles. A round robin was held which was won by Judy Zheng with the runner up Hong Yuan.
In the afternoon the team competition was held. A round robin was held for the 5 teams which resulted in 3 teams tied for first place. They were Blue Tiger (Frank Fu, Zhidong Yu, Ping Chui), Red Dragon (Martin Young, Harry Chen, Malcolm Wong) and White Panda (William Yang, Wai Chung, Judy Zheng).
Thanks to Malcolm Wong and Martin Young for preparing the draws.
Malcolm Wong (TTNZ National Official of the Year!) submitted an update on the Nelson Open which he went to several weeks ago.
Malcolm Wong won the over 50 Doubles and was runner up in the Over 40 Doubles, with Mark Nalder (Nelson). This was their 12th title together. It was also Malcolm’s 20th Nelson title and his 79th overall.
Former Titan Club member, Alastair Naysmith, won the Over 60 Singles and Doubles. He has been living in Nelson since April 2012 and been playing interclub there the last 2 years.
Lionel Wells (Nelson) was the oldest competitor. He was born in 1920 and will be 93 in October. Lionel stills plays interclub.
There were 35 players entered in the tournament which had been postponed from June due to flooding which resulted in the floor needing to be replaced. Full results are here: 2013 Nelson Open results.
Thanks to the organisers, Paul Op den Buysch, Bruce Hay, Kay Hazeldine and Glenda Ferguson. Also thanks to Karen Holmes, Dianne Watson and Debbie Watson who operated the cafeteria.
Results from the Primary/Intermediate Schools Tournament on Friday September 13 are here: Primary-Intermediate Schools Tournament 2013-Results
The main results:
Girls winners
Raroa 1: Ivy McLean, Maggie Jenkins, Brianna Mitchell
Premier Boys winners
Wellesley 1: Harry Hunter, Ciaran Sim, Isaac Becroft
Division 1 – Boys winners
Wellesley 3: Jack Healey, Ben Irving, Christopher Bramley
Division 2 – Boys winners
Hutt Intermediate 3: Seth Groombridge, Gareth Atken, Finn McDonald
Division 3 – Boys winners
Karori West Normal 3: Aniwaniwa, Joseph, Max
Division 4 – Boys winners
Raroa 6: Zach Prince, Milind Naidu, Fraser Asghar
Division 5 – Boys winners
Raroa 7: Digby Carroll, Tim Robinson, Toby Simpson
Also, re the 2013 Manawatu Open Championship (remember this was deferred from earlier in the year). This year’s Manawatu Open will be held at the Barber Hall, Waldegrave St., Palmerston North, on 14 September, commencing at 8:30 am. An Entry Form is here. Entries must be received by Shona Cudby by 7 September either by phone (06-354 6840{h}) e-mail (shonacudby@xtra.co.nz) or mail (see Entry Form).
A list of defending champions and all detailed results from 2012 is available here.
As a reminder for anyone thinking of entering the individual events for the 2013 New Zealand Nationals Tournament (Friday 4th to Sunday 6th October) – entries are due on Friday Sept 6.
Refer to here for forms and details.
The results from the recently held 2nd Junior Development tournament are in. Congratulations to the winners and all entrants!
Under 12s
Open Singles
1st Sam Wright (Empire)
2nd Cayden Larson (Empire)
3rd Jet Hogan (Empire)
4th Emma Hanson (Waterloo)
Open Doubles:
Caydon Larson (Empire) & Jet Hogan (Empire
bt. Sam Wright (Empire) & Emma Hanson (Waterloo)
Under 14
Boy’s Singles
Final: Andy Yu (Onslow) bt Chris Pearson (Onslow)
3rd/4th: Olly Evans (Empire) bt Atsushi Ikemetsu (Onslow)
5th/6th: Liam Buckrell (Titan) bt Jack Hammond (Empire)
7th/8th: Ben Wright (Empire) bt Sam Wright (Empire)
9th/10th: Zac Austin-Bailey (Waterloo) bt Jack Webb (Fielding)
11th/12th: Jacob Dickens (Waterloo) bt Alex Stirton (Waterloo)
Boy’s Doubles
Andy Yu (Onslow) & Ben Wright (Empire)
bt. Olly Evans (Empire) & Liam Buckrell (Titan)
Under 17s
Boy’s Singles
1st Andy Yu (Onslow)
2nd Jarred Tangatatai (Waterloo)
3rd Ben Hatfield (Waterloo)
4th Carlos Amos (Waterloo)
5th Thomas Prince (Onslow)
6th Jack Webb (Fielding)
Boy’s Doubles
1st Sean Hanson (Waterloo) & Ben Hatfield (Waterloo)
2nd Carlos Amos (Waterloo) & Jarred Tangatatai (Waterloo)
3rd Andy Yu (Onslow) & Thomas Prince (Onslow)
Results in a pdf are here: Tournament 2- 18 August
A note from Jane Miles, Events Organiser at Sport Tasman…
Are you ready to play?
You’re invited to the South Island Masters Games, 5-13 October [10-12 Oct for TT] in Nelson. Over 3,000 participants, over 50 sports across 9 days. You don’t need to qualify or belong to a club you just have to be old enough and for most sports that’s 30 years. In addition to the sporting events there are themed party nights, daily live music and a bar and cafe at the games village. Registration is now open. View the full programme and for more information go here. See you in sunny Nelson!
(Events for those aged 30 or over.)
Sunday 18th August 2013
Empire Table Tennis Club, Marine Parade, Petone
Entry information & details all here: TTW Development Tournament Aug 2013. Managed by Kevin Haines. Entries close 9.00 p.m, Friday 16 August.
Sunday Aug 18 timetable:
Under 12 1.30 pm
Under 14 9.45 am
Under 17 1.30 pm
The last winners are here!
For the books, below is the list of winners and runners-ups that I have, if you think there is an error in here, let us know because this is what will end up in the Annual Report!
| Open Men’s Singles | J Zhang | M Ball |
| Open Men’s Doubles | S Fenwick & M Hetherington | N Watson & M Ball |
| B Grade Singles | S Fenwick | J Zhang |
| B Grade Doubles | M Hetherington & D Patel | S Fenwick & G Davey |
| C Grade Singles | W Nguyen | T Armbruster |
| C Grade Doubles | P Solt & G Telfer | J Lee & T Lee |
| D Grade Singles | T Armbruster | G Telfer |
| D Grade Doubles | M Wong & C Gear | B Westenra & G Telfer |
| Over 40 Singles | L Ward | D Patel |
| Over 40 Doubles | L Ward & D Patel | D Partridge & Z Yu |
| Over 50 Singles | L Ward | D Patel |
| Over 50 Doubles | B McConnochie & D Patel | L Ward & I Talbot |
| Over 60 Singles | S Craw | D Scott |
| Under 21 Singles | C-K Vong | D Lochhead |
| Under 21 Doubles | D Lochhead & Z Lochhead | N Watson & C-K Vong |
| Under 18 Singles | C-K Vong | D Lochhead |
| Under 18 Doubles | N Watson & C-K Vong | D Lochhead & Z Lochhead |
| Under 15 Singles | F Fu | H-L Vong |
| Under 15 Doubles | F Fu & A Yu | A Goh & A Xiong |
| Under 13 Singles | A Goh | S Lochhead |
| Under 13 Doubles | A Tam & A Goh | S Lochhead & W Tam |
| C Grade Consolation | G Telfer | M Wong |
| D Grade Consolation | D Goh | S Maxwell |
| Over 40 Consolation | S Higham | Z Yu |
| Over 50 Consolation | D Partridge | K McGeehan |
| Under 18 Consolation | Z Lochhead | A Xiong |
| Under 15 Consolation | A Yu | A Tam |
| Under 13 Consolation | W McNaughton | T Dempster |
We also have some pictures from the day, thanks to Malcolm Wong for collecting these:
Wellington took a squad of 8 players to the New Zealand Junior Nationals this year and every member came home with a medal!
The Under 18 team of Chun-Kiet Vong, Gareth Telfer, Ben Westenra and Ian Wang started their campaign with a grading match against Waikato to try and qualify for the A grade. They fought hard but were beaten 4:1 in the contest. Chun-Kiet won the only singles match. They then moved on to compete in the B grade getting through to the final before going down very closely 3:4 to Auckland 3. Chun-Kiet did exceptionally well winning 100% of his singles matches in B grade!
The Under 15 Team of Frank Fu, Sean Hanson and Adam Xiong did very well in the A grade. They topped there side of the group with wins over North Harbour 5:2, Auckland 2 5:2 and Northland 7:0. In the semi Final they accounted for their local rivals Manawatu 5:2. The final was against Auckland 1 who proved to be too strong however Adam raised his game to beat Roger Wang (one of Auckland’s best) to save us a from a white wash and result of 1:4. No other teams got a match off Auckland 1.
Hui-Ling Vong ended up as a draft player in two teams. Cook Islands in the under 13’s and North Harbour in the under 15’s. She was the star player in both teams. The Cook Islands team finished in 3rd place and Hui-Ling then enjoyed the extra support from the Cook Islands players and families for the rest of the tournament! North harbour finished 2nd in a round robin competition with Auckland, Canterbury and New Caledonia. Auckland won, but not before Hui-Ling took a very well fought win over her long time rival Nai Xin from Auckland (for the 1st time!) The teams events concluded with medals all round. It was a great effort and an outstanding result.
Thanks must go out to Hayden Tapp who assisted me with enthusiasm and quality in his coaching role and to Gabrielle Telfer for her management and cooking skills. Everyone was well fed and on time to every event. Also a mention to Sophie Telfer for her help to us all and to Till Armbruster (The Telfer’s homestay student) who unfortunately couldn’t play for us, but was a great team member, camera operator and hitting partner for the rest of the team.
-Paul Solt
Head Coach
Huge thanks to the Infinity Foundation for their support on the coaching and expenses!
I’f I’m decoding the text messages I’ve received from Gabrielle correctly, the TTW U18 B Grade boys’ team (Chun-Kiet Vong; Gareth Telfer; Ben Westenra; Ian Wang) finished second and the U15 A Grade boys’ team (Sean Hanson; Frank Fu; Adam Xiong) finished second too! Congratulations to the teams, sounds like some good play along the way so we’ll look forward to some stories and pictures on your return! (Individual events follow the teams.)
PS: Anyone who is a club member who is up for seeing the movie Ping Pong, TTNZ have sent us details of a discount which is available here.
Himatangi Transport Veterans Graded Open Doubles
This annual Veterans event hosted by the Manawatu Veterans Table Tennis Club will be held on Saturday 17th of August. It is open to anyone over the age of 40. Get some friends together and drive up in the same car and make a day of it! It will be held at Barber Hall Waldergrave Street, Palmerston North. Enter (by Aug 14) with Don Cooper whose details are on the entry form (below).
Here is the entry form (click for a printable size or to see the details):
Earlier in June (June 16) we had the first Junior development Tournament of 2013, I’m a bit late in posting this report from Kevin Haines who managed this event…
On a generally wintery day, 33 players played in the first of the Junior development tournaments for 2013. The level of entries meant for some good sized round robin groupings resulting in plenty of table tennis for those who attended. The standard was good to better with all appearing to benefit from the experience and the opportunity to plenty of games.
Results
| Event | Winner | Runner-Up |
| Under 12 singles | Liam Buckrell | William Tam |
| Under 12 Girls singles | Emma Hanson | Rachel Breen |
| Under 12 doubles | Liam Buckrell & Luka Warring | Jimi Nelson & Travis Dyer |
| Under 14 singles | Alex Tam | William Tam |
| Under 14 doubles | Alex Tam & William Tam | Chris Pearson & Atsushi Ikematsu |
| Under 17 singles | Carlos Amos | Jarred Tangatatai |
| Under 17 doubles | Gareth Telfer & Sean Hanson | Carlos Amos & Ben Hatfield |
The second of these tournaments for 2013 is scheduled for August.
-Kevin Haines
You are hereby invited to enter into our next Open Rating tournament which is the 2013 Yasaka Table Tennis Wellington Open.
Conditions: 2013 Wgtn Open Conditions
Entries close Wednesday 10 July at 9pm with Paul Solt.
Earlier we had blogged the Manawatu Open but FYI this has been postponed until further notice.
This was part of a 3 day annual multi sports tournament held between the Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch campuses of NZIS. The table tennis was held at the ASB Sports Centre in Kilbirnie. Singles (Men’s and Women’s) and Mixed Doubles were held. Matches were the best of 3 games. There was only one representative from each campus for each event. Christchurch won all the events, and were first overall, with Wellington second and Auckland third. This was a complete reversal from last year when Auckland were first and Christchurch third. Thanks to Malcolm Wong and Martin Young for umpiring at this event.
The results were:
Men’s Singles
1st Spencer Sandridge (Christchurch)
2nd Daniel Dexter (Wellington)
3rd Benton Flavell (Auckland)
Women’s Singles
1st Rebekah McConnell (Christchurch)
2nd Wendy-Ann Preston (Auckland)
3rd Courtney Ann Lockwood (Wellington)
Mixed Doubles
1st Anton Kridle & Alex Cromie (Christchurch)
2nd Daniel Dexter & Courtney Ann Lockwood (Wellington)
3rd Matt Wooding & Jasmine Paaka-Culpin (Auckland)
Hello juniors and minders thereof, Table Tennis Wellington is proud to present the first Junior Developing tournament of 2013.
Full details & conditions: 2013 TTW Junior Developing Tournament June 16 Entry Form
When: Sunday June 16: Under 12s & Under 17s at 2pm; Under 14s at 10am. (Please be 15 minutes early.)
Where: Empire Table Tennis Club Hall (directions).
Tournament Manager: Kevin Haines, ph: 04 478 0741, email: treasurer[at]ttwellington.org.nz
Entries: are due to Kevin by 9pm Friday June 14.
Fees: Pay on arrival or post with entry.
UPDATE: MANAWATU OPEN POSTPONED – NEW DATE TBD
The 2013 Manawatu Open is on July 6, 2013 in Palmerston North. Their entry form is [REMOVED AS POSTPONED].
The 2013 Hawke’s Bay Open is on Saturday June 22 (entries close June 18) in Napier. Their entry form is here.
Also, pencil in your diary the 2013 Wellington Open on July 13-14 held at Empire in Petone.
July 17-21 is the TTNZ New Zealand Junior Open Championships in Auckland.
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.
Also upcoming are two TTNZ basic umpire courses.
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.
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