… are here: Composite Interclub 13-11-13 This includes the nest phase of the Division 2 draw and remember the Division 1 draw is here.
Hi folks, the spreadsheets are up to date by Gabrielle and the results so far here:
* TTW Spring 2013 Composite Div 1 Week 2
* TTW Spring 2013 Composite Div 2 Black Week 2
* TTW Spring 2013 Composite Div 2 Gold Week 2
**** OTHER NEWS ****
We had a 4-team challenge from Manawatu on Sunday, the results were 2-2 for the teams with points wellington 28 to Manawatu 16 overall, congratulations to all players called up for this event! Manawatu won the top team (6-5) and the development team while Wellington won the two veteran team matches comfortably to pull well us ahead on overall points.
I’ll post some pictures or more detail up as I get them.
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.
Hi folks, here are the teams all due to start Wednesday so see you all there!
Teams: Composite Teams 2013
Draws:
Division 1
Division 2
As a reminder, details of the event are here.
It’s 6 weeks from Oct 30 to Dec 4. The 6-team division one will be 5 weeks round-robin and then a 1v2/3v4/5v6 final night. The 8-team division two will be split into two sections for 3 weeks, then re-formed into 2 sections for the last 3 weeks (based on the results of the first split).
Hi all, these are updated sheets which now include the results from deferred matches and the finals nights.
** NEWS: Wellington team got second place in the B grade at the senior nationals, a great effort!** (Rob Chung, Ben Collins, Depak Patel, Paul Solt.)
In a nutshell: Wednesdays, 6 weeks Oct 30 – Dec 4. (Probably as 6-team divisions playing 5 weeks and a final.) Ref below for the details:
2013 TTW Spring Interclub Entry Form (doc)
2013 TTW Spring Interclub Entry Form (pdf)
Players, contact your club contact for entries.
Encourage your friends to enter, the composite structure is a good change of pace and is also a good opportunity to people new to interclub to come in and get some mentoring.
Entries are due to Kevin Haines treasurer [at] ttwellington.org.nz or phone (04) 478 0841 by Wednesday Oct 24.
If you can’t make all 6 weeks, that is OK, we can combine you with someone else or it would be great to have you as a reserve – with the composite structure finding reserves is trickier so it’s useful to have a heap of them just in case.
On Tuesday and Wednesday the 1st vs. 2nd placed team finals took place, the winners were:
Premier: Belmong Bang beat Titan (Premier Scoresheet)
The 2013 Premier final was played in front of a number of spectators who were treated to an arm wrestle of a contest which went to the last match. Most matches provided opportunities for both teams to win and the tension of the occasion created the atmosphere it deserved.
Congratulations to both teams on their efforts, particularly to Belmont Bang for their victory and the retention of the Tommy Williams Trophy.
Division 1: Waterloo Wasps beat Empire Elders
Division 2: Waterloo Whales beat Empire Elms
Division 3: Waterloo Whippets beat Empire Eagles
Congratulations to all winners and the runners-up too!
There are details of including all those who played for these (and the other) teams during all of premier or the Series 2 division grades here.
Here are some pictures from Wednesday (send me more to see them up here) and I’ll update the left-to-right names once I confirm them!
Also some videos from the Tuesday are up on Win’s ttwfan youtube channel: here, here, here & here!
And some more in a slideshow:
Mid-week club Open Days at the Newtown Stadium:
Monday September 30 & Wednesday October 2
Please come and support this new initiative if you can, and let your senior friends in Wellington city know this is on!
* How to find the stadium: here.
Congratulations to Diana Winn for getting these sessions up and running. This will be a great opportunity to meet an untapped table tennis need in the eastern suburbs and indeed the Wellington city area.
In the 23/9/13 issue of the Cook Strait News is an article on the open day! Click on the article below to bring it up on screen.
For more details contact Diana Winn on 801 9556 or winnich [at] xtra.co.nz .
Winter Interclub 17-18 Sept (yet to be updated with one deferred match that was played on Wednesday)
The TTW Winter Interclub finals nights are Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 September, with prize giving afterwards on each night.
Tuesday 24th: Premier – Belmont Bang v Titan
Wednesday 25th:
Division 1 – Waterloo Wasps v Empire Elders
Division 2 – Waterloo Whales v Empire Elms
Division 3 – Waterloo Whippets v Empire Eagles
… are here: Winter Interclub 10-11 Sept
I took a bunch of Wednesday pics last week and I’ll post them up here soon…
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
The stats from last week’s games are here: Winter Interclub 3-4 Sept
On a totally separate note, we received a request to pass on a message about 15 year-old Ola Ratka from Canterbury who has been training in South Korea (for 6 months) and plans to complete in the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in China. He father Piotr has applied for a AMP scholarship including a “People Choice” scholarship – every vote counts to try and win it so visit here for details!
Hi folks, we have a catchup result set here for the latest: Winter Interclub up to 27-28 Aug
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
I’ve been accumulating a pile of recent interclub pictures from Wednesday nights so here they are. Anyone on Tuesdays feel free to forward pictures to me at secretary[at]ttwellington.org.nz!
I’ll lead off though with Waterloo Wasps with their gold medals from Series 1:
And here are all the rest in a slideshow:
A special mention goes to Malcolm’s highlight ‘result of the week’ (well the week before) winner Russell Buchanan who had a surprise upset win over Tony Rutledge!
Hugh was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (1931). He left school at 14 and worked in the shipyard (2 years). Hugh then served a 5 year apprenticeship to qualify as a baker. His grandfather, Warmington, was a champion baker in Belfast. Hugh lived in Bisley Street and started playing football at 15 for the Bisley Street team as a goalie. Later he played for the Agnes Street Methodist Church team which won Division 2 (1949/50) in the Methodist Church League.
In 1954 Hugh moved to London and loved living in the city. He supported the Arsenal Football Club as he lived near their stadium at Highbury, North London. Hugh watched the team play midweek as he was playing football himself in the weekend. Hugh meet the English singer, Matt Monro, who was a friend of his boss. In 1958 he emigrated to Australia and lived in Redcliffe, near Brisbane. While there, Tommy Steele, the English singer/actor was a guest player for the Annerly Football Club team Hugh played for.
In 1963 Hugh moved to Auckland. Later he moved to Masterton (1977) to set up a bakery. Hugh sold the bakery to Alastair Naysmith (1980) with who he was later to play Wellington interclub table tennis with. Hugh then moved to Timaru, where he has relatives, to set up another bakery. While there he coached the Timaru Girls High School Football first eleven, which won the local competition for 3 consecutive years. He moved to Dunedin (1986) to set up another bakery, and finally to Masterton (1994) where he still lives today.
Hugh started playing table tennis at the Red Star Club in Masterton (1994). Among the players there were Peter Greenlees, who had coached Margaret Hoar (NZ Women Singles Champion 7 times between 1948 and 1957). Peter helped Hugh to significantly improve his table tennis. Hugh said he modelled his game on Peter’s.
Hugh started travelling to Wellington to play at the Titan Club (1998) on Sunday mornings, with Alastair Naysmith, as both were improving and needed to play stronger players. Soon they were playing Wellington interclub (2000-2008) which meant a 3 hour return trip from Masterton.
Hugh’s perseverance paid off and soon he was winning Titan Club Veteran Titles, including the Over 60 and 70 Singles. He started playing tournaments and won the Manawatu Over 70 Men’s Singles (2004). Success came to Hugh in the older age groups in the NZ Veterans Championships. He has won the Over 75 Men’s Singles (2006 & 2008), the Over 75 Men’s Doubles (2006 & 2007) and the Over 80 Men’s Doubles (2013). To paraphrase the current Ping Pong film, you are never too old to win gold medals.
Hugh is a bionic man, with 2 hip and 3 knee replacements. He still plays at the Red Star Club and the Titan Club. Hugh continues to play in the NZ Masters Games (Wanganui) and NZ Veterans Championships. He intends to play at the 2014 World Veterans Tournament in Auckland.
-Malcolm Wong
Table Tennis Wellington 