It’s all here:
2015 Summer Interclub 11 March – Premier
2015 Summer Interclub 11 March – Divisions
2015 Summer Interclub draw continued for Division 3
Below is a picture taken by Reg Feuz of two of the old timers of TTW: Brian Hearfield and Bob Knight who hadn’t seen each other in years and had a great time catching up on Wednesday!
TTNZ has announced New Zealand representative teams for several upcoming events…
Congraulations to Hui-Ling Vong for her selection in the Oceania Junior Championships & Cadet Challenge Girls Team!
This is scheduled for May 12-17.
This will be held in Tarawa, Kiribati which roughly is here:
Best of luck to you Hui-Ling from everyone.
From TTNZ:
INTRODUCTION OF PLASTIC BALL
Table Tennis New Zealand has just received our first supply of the new Stag 3 star Plastic Ball. All National Coaches, Associations, and all players representing New Zealand overseas in the 2015 season will be provided with a supply of the new plastic ball to trial. We would welcome feedback on the new ball.
The Stag 3 Star Celluloid ball currently used for all TTNZ tournaments will again be used for all TTNZ 2015 tournaments.
Once we have had the chance to assess the new ball, TTNZ will change to a Plastic Ball in the 2016 season for all TTNZ tournaments.
We should be able to get some plastic balls in during the year (some players have some already) to try out, watch this space…
Week 2 results are below:
2015-Summer-Interclub-4-March-results Premier
2015-Summer-Interclub-4-March-results Divisions
FYI the draw schedules are here.
The week 1 results are below (I’m not sure why it prints to two pdf documents but it does…):
2015-Summer-Interclub-25 Feb-results Premier
2015-Summer-Interclub-25 Feb-results Divisions 1-3
If you have any corrections to results or names let us know!
Hi folks, a good excuse for a weekend trip coming soon:
2015 Manawatu Autumn Open
Saturday 21 March 2015
Barber Hall, Waldegrave Street, Palmerston North
8:30am onwards
ref the form for details: here
(entries due 5.00 pm Saturday 14 March 2015)
Also here is a cover sheet for the Business House competition (posted earlier here) that is underway on Tuesdays @ Newtown.
Business Class Summer League 2015
Division 1
Sprout Media
Supreme
Kitomba B
Loyalty
Division 2
Kitomba A
ANZ
Springload
Johns & Co.
(for more details, contact Paul Solt)
Summer Interclub is starting on Wednesday (25th), all Summer grades are here:
2015 Summer Interclub draw Premier
2015 Summer Interclub draw Division 1 (updated)
2015 Summer Interclub draw Division 2
2015 Summer Interclub draw Division 3
FYI the points structure for teams is different this time:
Points: 2 for a win + how many matches won
e.g. 3 – 2 win equals 5 points for winning team and 2 points for losing team
ref the sheets for more details
Ivan Moffat was born in 1917 in Wellington. He was 97 in August last year and is Table Tennis Wellington’s oldest Vice President. He started playing at age 12 at the Boys Institute in Tasman Street, Wellington. This began a lifetime involvement with table tennis.
During World War 2 Ivan was a private and sapper with the 36th NZ Army Battalion (1941-45) in the Pacific. He borrowed a bat from the Salvation Army and played with his fellow soldiers when there was time.
Ivan played interclub for the St Josephs Club in Mount Victoria. He was in their 1954 winning E Grade Team. In the final St Josephs beat Kilbirnie RSA 12-8. There were 61 teams in E Grade that year, in 8 sections. The next year Ivan was playing C Grade. His team won Section 3 and finished 3rd of 4 teams in post section play. Brian Hearfield (TTW Life Member) recalls that he played against Ivan in B Grade. The St Josephs team also included Jack Dobbs and Bob Gallagher. Bob who played for St Josephs (1957-62) said that Ivan was an attacking player who used the same side of the bat for both forehand and backhand. Bob also said that Ivan was the most awkward player he has played against. Ivan also played in the A Reserve Grade. He later played for St Pats in Kilbirnie. His wife Florence (better known as Florrie or Flossie) was ever present with him on club night and at his interclub matches.
Ivan was on the Wellington Table Tennis Association Executive Committee (1962-73). He was on the Emergency, Tournament and Hall, and Equipment Sub Committees. Ivan was also the Recording Secretary for A-B Grades (1963-73). He was a Junior Selector (1962) and Senior Selector (1963-70). He was the Manager for Wellington Teams in matches against Wairarapa, Canterbury (Clapshaw Trophy) and the Grades Match against Hutt Valley. He was the Manager of the Wellington Teams at the NZ Championships (1963) and Women’s Team (1964-67, 1969-70). Ivan was on the New Zealand Table Tennis Committee (1974).
In the then annual match against Hutt Valley, Ivan was in the Wellington Executive Team (1962,1963,1965,1967,1969 & 1972), C Grade Team (1955) and A Reserve Team (1971 & 1973). The Executive Team won 10-2 (1963) 12-0 (1967) 7-5 (1969) 11-1 (1972) and the A Reserve Team won 8-4 (1971) and 7-5 (1973). Ivan won the Wellington Open Veteran Men’s Singles (Over 45) on 4 occasions (1963,1965, 1966 and 1968). Ivan is a qualified National Umpire. At the New Zealand Championships, Ivan was Deputy Referee (1965), Assistant Referee (1979) and Referee in 1986,1988, 1991, 1996 and 1998. Former Wellington coach Paul Escott said that at the New Zealand Championships, Ivan (Tournament Referee) proudly worn his Wellington blazer. His wife Florence was there at the tournaments with him until she passed away in December 2004.
Ivan left Wellington to move to Papakura, Auckland in July, 1978. He joined the Papakura Club and continued playing and being an official. He was rewarded for his services by being made a Life Member of the Auckland Association (1994), Papakura Club (2005) and Counties Association (2013). Ivan is the Patron of the Papakura Table Tennis Club since 2008 and the joint Patron of the Counties Association. There was a story in the Papakura Courier in 2007 when Ivan won the Papakura Club Doubles at the age of 90. A fellow Auckland Committee member referred to him as always strict but fair. He had an engaging personality and was always able to communicate with all ages and all types. As Referee he would ensure that the playing conditions were right. He would check that the barriers were in their right place, and that the net heights were correct at the start of each session. Ivan had a true love for the game.
Ivan played table tennis until he was 94. He said that table tennis had helped him maintain his coordination and fitness in his life. He was a visitor at the 2014 World Veteran Table Tennis Championships in Henderson, Auckland. Ivan enjoys seeing his family: his son Keith and wife Eunice, 4 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. Ivan has moved into a rest home in Papakura in 2014.
Thanks to information from Ivan Moffat, Eunice Moffat, Val Beaver, Paul Escott, Bob Gallagher, Brian Hearfield and the Papakura Courier. Photos below are from Eunice Moffat, The Table Tennis New Zealand Archives and from the 2014 World Veterans Championships site.
-Malcolm Wong
…and while on the subject of competitions the Business House competition details are below (docx or pdf) if you haven’t received them already. If you’re new to this this is held at the Newtown stadium on Tuesdays (from Feb 10- March 10) with 2-person corporate teams. If you up for it let Paul know by Sunday – just get yourself and a buddy and you’re set!
Hi folks, dust off your bats and get into summer interclub. Clubs enter teams so talk to your club contacts right now about getting into a team – in summer we have 2-player teams and individual matches are best-of-7 sets.
Timetable:
Feb 18 – entries due
Feb 25 (Wednesdays) Summer Interclub (expected end: Apr 1 – i.e. 6 weeks)
Here are the details and entry form:
How well do you know the rules of table tennis?
You can sit either the TTNZ Junior (Under 18) or the Regional Written Exam Paper and find out!
The Junior (Under 18) and Regional Umpire Written Exam is attached. The written exam is open book. People can take as much time as is required to complete the Written Exam. The required pass mark is 80% which means that people sitting the Junior Umpires Exam will need to answer 24 out of the 30 questions correctly and people sitting the Regional Umpires Exam will need to answer 48 out of 60 questions correctly.
For people sitting the exam please complete the Written Exam in pen so that the writing can be read easily. People can scan the completed paper and email to me at m-wong@clear.net.nz or send the paper to P O Box 1528, Wellington 6140.
I have also attached the Handbook for Match Officials which may come in use when answering some of the questions. People will definitely need to refer to the ITTF Rules and Regulations to complete the Written Exam.
Once people have passed the Written Exam I will need to arrange for them to have a practical assessment to complete the Junior or Regional Umpire qualification.
Attachments:
TTNZ Junior Umpire Badge Exam Paper
TTNZ Regional Umpire Exam paper
Handbook for Match Officials (14th edition)
Regards,
Malcolm Wong
TTNZ URC
The exec has drafted a schedule for the main TTW related events as below (to be confirmed), let us know of any suggestions or ideas for 2015. Anyone interested in helping out with any of these events or coming onto the TTW committee or a club committee please let us or your club know, also sponsorship enquiries are always welcome!
If you’re interested in what we get up to in our spare time…
-video thanks to Capturegram
TBD: State Of Origin Trophy 5-person team event!
Any autumn holiday plans? The New Zealand Veteran Championships will be hosted by Table Tennis Northland and are to be held in the ASB Stadium, Western Hills Drive, Whangarei from the 2nd to 6th April 2015.
Individual Entry Form and details are here.
Please contact us regarding team entries.
Hi folks, short notice but the weather is looking ok – we’re having a working bee Sunday at noon onwards at the Newtown TT stadium this Sunday (Jan 18). Please come along if you can, we’ll be doing some painting, gutter clearing, and any indoor work we can do depending on how many turn up!
Btw Titan is underway at the Newtown stadium (9:30am – 1pm) also Empire in Petone is underway from Monday Jan 19 (casual play) and organised games from Jan 26. Other clubs will be starting up for the season later on after summer.
-Gabrielle Telfer & the TTW exec
Hi folks and Merry Christmas to y’all, earlier we posted the photos from the final night (with the prizegiving). Here are the full final tables for prosperity:
While I’m on a roll with posts tonight, here is a backlog travel report of the earlier Nelson Open:
Malcolm Wong won the Over 60 Men’s Doubles (with Mark Nalder) and was runner up in the Over 60 Mixed Doubles (with Glenda Ferguson) and Over 50 Men’s Doubles (with Mark Nalder). Malcolm has now won titles at the Nelson Open for 10 consecutive years. This win takes his Nelson Open titles to 21 and is his 13th title with Mark Nalder.
This tournament was late in the season and entries were low (31). The event was held in the weekend before the NZ Open Championships. So an earlier date will probably result in more entries. The tournament report is attached.
Thanks to the organisers, Robin Knight and Michael Holmes (Tournament Controllers), Paul Op den Buysch (Xpand2play), Kay Hazeldine (Certificates and Finance) and Rebecca Nesbitt (Finance). Also to the Cafeteria Ladies, Karen Holmes, Katharine Ritchie and Noelene Wells. More photos of the players are on the TTNZ photo archives.
– Malcolm Wong
Paul Solt gave me this spreadsheet last week and I’m just posting this now…
Here is the full listing: 2014-Business Class results Round 9 End
Final winners: Sprout Media! (Steve Montgomery, Win Nguyen)
From the team results in the spreadsheet it looks like a lot of mini-battles for final placings by the end.
Congratulations to all teams and it sounds like it was a lot of fun each week, we will continue with more competitions in 2015 so watch this space.
1 Sprout Media 2= Kingdom Music 2= Kitomba 4 Atomic A 5 Supreme 6 Springload 7= Power Rangers 7= Atomic B 9 Powerade 10 Powerpuffs
A report by Malcolm Wong
Lindsay Ward dominated the Club Singles and Over 40 Singles. Depak Patel and Paul Brown did likewise in the Doubles. The Championships were held on 4 consecutive Sundays (November 9, 16, 23 and 30).
The Club Singles (9 November) was won for the 9th time by Lindsay Ward, who defeated the titleholder Ben Collins in the final 4-2 (13-11 11-9 9-11 11-7 12-14 11-7). In the semi finals Lindsay Ward beat Paul Brown in a tough struggle 4-2 (9-11 14-12 18-16 11-8 12-14 15-13) and Ben Collins beat Depak Patel 4-2 (6-11 7-11 11-5 11-7 11-2 11-4). Depak Patel had won the Empire Club Singles the previous Sunday against Ian Talbot 3-0. In one of the Quarter Finals Paul Brown beat Ian Talbot 3-1 (11-9 8-11 11-6 11-1) which reversed the result of the Empire Club Singles semi finals won by Ian 3-2. The Singles Plate was won by Gray Hodgkinson against Kung Tepp 3-1 (13-11 5-11 11-8 11-9). Gray is originally from Hamilton and was a former Hamilton Representative (1974-76).
The Over 40 Singles (16 November) was won for the 9th time by Lindsay Ward who defeated Depak Patel 4-2 (11-8 11-8 8-11 11-9 7-11 13-11). In the semi finals Lindsay Ward beat Paul Brown 4-2 (11-4 8-11 9-11 11-9 11-7) and Depak Patel beat Ian Talbot 4-0 (11-9 11-9 11-9 11-9). The Over 40 Singles Plate was won by Ryan Cronin against Gray Hodgkinson 3-2 (11-9 10-12 11-9 8-11 14-12). Ryan is Canadian and played interclub in Division 1 for Titan.
The Club Doubles (23 November) was won by Depak Patel and Paul Brown who beat Chris and Ian Talbot 3-2 (11-7 9-11 2-11 11-9 11-8). This reversed the result of their group match won by Chris and Ian 3-1 (25-23 5-11 11-9 11-8). Depak and Paul had won the Empire Club Doubles earlier this year. In the semi finals Depak and Paul beat Ben Collins and Lindsay Ward 3-1 and Chris and Ian Talbot beat Martin Young and Zidong Yu 3-1. Depak Patel now holds the record for Titan Doubles outright with 5, one ahead of Malcolm Wong and Ian Talbot.
The Over 40 Doubles (30 November ) was a round robin which was won by Depak Patel and Paul Brown ahead of Chris and Ian Talbot. Depak and Paul won the crucial match against Chris and Ian Talbot 3-1.
The trophies were presented at the Titan breakup on Sunday, 14 December. There were also cups for Hugh McIlwrath, who was awarded the Over 80 Singles Cup, and Robert Chung was awarded the Presidents Cup for services to the Titan Club. Much thanks to Tony Tziakis for organising the food and drinks. Of special note was the cake which represented a table tennis table and 2 bats and balls (see photo below). Also thanks to Raewyn Young for the club sandwiches.
Back Row (Left to Right) – Harry Chen, Martin Young, Ian Talbot, Ryan Cronin, Nha Nguyen, Gray Hodgkinson.
Middle Row – Ben Collins, Lindsay Ward, Paul Brown, William Tan, Steve Montgomery.
Front Row – Hugh McIlwrath, Raewyn Young, Depak Patel, Kung Tepp, Tony Tziakis, Malcolm Wong.
– Malcolm Wong
