The 2014 Table Tennis Wellington Yasaka Veterans Open tournament is open to all-comers. It is well placed as a lead-up for the World Veterans tournament this year in Auckland. If you turn 40 or more in 2014 then you are eligible – so mark your calendar!
March 15th is the closing date set for entries to the 2014 Stag World Veteran Championships. Local players are encouraged to register online shortly so they do not miss out on this once in a lifetime opportunity in their own backyard. The event is based at Trusts Arena in West Auckland, with the ATTA stadium at Gillies Avenue providing backup.
A large number of volunteers are required for umpiring, table management and many other areas. Anyone interested should email regadmin@wvc2014.com with their details.
The event is likely to attract well over 2000 visitors to Auckland, and is not to be missed.
Here are some pictures of recent events and news that I’ve been saving up:
Wellington at the Senior Nationals (Depak Patel, Ben Collins, Paul Solt)Wellington at the Senior Nationals (Ben Collins, Depak Patel, Paul Solt, Rub Chung)Wellington at the Senior Nationals (Raewyn Young, Depak Patel, Ben Collins, Paul Solt)Depak Patel with Oh Sang Eun from South Korea (won the TTNZ Men’s singles and ranked 31 in the world)
And here is a picture of Malcolm Wong (right) being awarded the 2013 TTNZ National Official of the Year Award from Paul Kyle. 2013 TTNZ National Official of the year: Malcolm Wong
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. Men’s Singles prize winners Min Su, Frank Fu, Martin Young with Stephen Wang (Organiser). Women’s Singles prize winners Hong Yuan and Judy Zheng. Joint Team Winners Red Dragon (Harry Chen, Malcolm Wong, Martin Young).
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.
Nelson Over 50 Doubles winners Malcolm Wong and Mark Nalder.Nelson Over 60 Singles and Doubles winner Alastair Naysmith.Lionel Wells with Malcolm Wong.
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.
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)
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!
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.
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.
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)
Umpires Martin Young, Matthew Liua’ana (Organiser) and Malcolm Wong Malcolm Wong with Men’s Singles players Benton Flavell (Auck), Daniel Dexter (Wgtn) and Spencer Sandridge (Chch)Malcolm Wong and Mixed Doubles players Jasmine Paaka-Culpin & Matt Wooding (Auck), Daniel Dexter and Courtney Ann Lockwood (Wgtn), Anton Kridle & Alex Cromie (Christchurch) and Martin Young Martin Young with Women’s Singles players Wendy-Ann Preston (Auck), Courtney Ann Lockwood (Wgtn) and Rebekah McConnell (Chch)
The 2014 Table Tennis Wellington Yasaka Veterans Open tournament is open to all-comers. It is well placed as a lead-up for the World Veterans tournament this year in Auckland. If you turn 40 or more in 2014 then you are eligible – so mark your calendar!
When: Sunday June 16: Under 12s & Under 17s at 2pm; Under 14s at 10am. (Please be 15 minutes early.)
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