Earlier we had blogged the Manawatu Open but FYI this has been postponed until further notice.
This file was held by the interclub committee while determining a result. I’m posting this now though the Week 5 results will be here soon!
Week 4: Winter Interclub 11-12 June
Another exciting week of interclub has gone by, and here are the results! We hope everyone is enjoying the competition
From the Wellington City Mission:
As a keen Table Tennis player, we’d like you to be the first to know about the next Movies with the Mission film preview we have secured for 2013.
Ping Pong – is an inspiring documentary feature film which follows 8 senior citizens from around the world – with 703 years between them – competing for gold in the Over 80 Table Tennis Championship in Inner Mongolia. It is as much about the tenacity of the human spirit as about the game and age of the players. Described by British critics as “the cinema event of the year…warm, touching, funny.”
Fittingly funds raised go to support our Mission for Seniors work.
We‘d love you to join us from 8pm on Thursday 4 July at the Penthouse Cinema & Café Brooklyn, for a chat and a glass of wine, with the screening commencing at 8.30pm.
(run time 75 minutes)
Tickets are $25 and include a glass of wine and some sweets to enjoy during the movie.
Bring some extra cash so you can buy a raffle ticket to win a hamper donated by Ruth Pretty or a night at the Bay Plaza Hotel. Or both!
Or you can make a night of it!
The Penthouse are offering free parking on a first come basis for the evening if you dine with them on their ‘2 for $30’ Thursday meal deal. You will need to book dinner by calling them directly on 384 3157.
The first 100 tickets purchased go into a draw for a free meal on the night if purchased before 21 June.
To purchase your tickets please email me anne@wgtncitymission.org.nz and I will be back in touch with payment options.
Visit http://www.wellingtoncitymission.org.nz/public/news-events for more details about the film.
Hope to see you on 4 July.
Warm regards
Anne Hannah
Events Co-ordinator
Wellington City Mission
A flyer for printing: Movies with The Mission – Ping Pong 4 July 2013.
Here are the second week’s results for Winter Interclub! Looks like some close and exciting matches took place.
& now for some assorted pictures from that Wednesday night – Mat Hobbs
Hi folks, Northland School is a small school here in Wellington, currently trying to boost their children’s interest in Table Tennis. They have two tables and some very old and tatty bats, some without rubber!
Stephanie Prince used to represent Manawatu at table tennis some years ago and is teaching table tennis at the school during a lunch break each week but she is somewhat hampered by the lack of bats. If anyone has any spare old bats out there or even spare old bat rubbers that they would like to donate please pass them along to me or someone at interclub to pass on to me and I’ll see that Stephanie gets them and that we can glue any rubbers on the bats that they do have! (Or contact Stephanie on 475 9660 or 027 2222 906.)
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.
Results:2013 TTW Winter Week 1.
Gareth Telfer is again working on the statistics so thanks to Gareth for picking this task up.
Here are the draws for the Premier and Division grades. (Premier is analogous to Premier 1 last year while Divisions 1, 2, and 3 are analogous to last year’s Premier 2, 3, and 4.)
A note for the Division grades is the scoring system (points per team for each night) which are noted at the bottom of the draw sheet:
Division Points:
- 11-0 & 10-1 Winner 5 pts / Loser 0 pts
- 9-2, 8-3, 7-4 Winner 4 pts / Loser 1 pt
- 6-5 Winner 3pts / Loser 2 pts
NB: If a team wins all seven of their contests, and hasn’t had points taken off for disciplinary reasons, they will win the grade even if another team has accrued more points overall.
For Premier it is simply 1 point for a win, 0 for a loss.
Refer to the documents for full details.
For the Division grades there is one series of 7 weeks, then a grade champs, then a second series – teams are re-entered for the second series so there could well be differences in teams from series 1 and series 2. For the Premier grade, there are three rounds with the same teams throughout.
Draw: Premier
Draw: Division 1 – Series 1
Draw: Division 2 – Series 1
Draw: Division 3 – Series 1
And the Rules & Code of Conduct. Please look through these, these are affective from the start of 2013 winter interclub.
2013 Winter Interclub rules
2013 Code of Conduct
Let the games begin!
Malcolm Wong has a lot of old records and sent in a story about the interclub grade he was involved in 1993, 20 years ago (pre-merger with Hutt Valley so it is only the Wellington teams). For those of you who have been around long enough some of the names will be recognisable and many are still playing today!
Blast from the Past
1993 Wellington A Reserve Grade remembered.
There were ten teams representing seven clubs, with Titan providing three teams. After the first round the top six teams qualified for Divison 1 and the bottom four teams for Division 2. Team results, and individual averages attached.
The first round was won by Onslow A (22 points) ahead of Karori (20) and Te Rama (19). The Onslow A team were all juniors. Their top player was Jamie Lennox, who had won the NZ under 13 Boys Doubles (1992). He would be selected for the New Zealand under 17 Boys Team (1995-96). Jonathan Armstrong was to win the NZ Under 21 Men’s Doubles (1996). Andrew Wiggins was the Wellington Secondary School’s Boys Singles winner that year.
Karori had the veteran, Ken Hindson, and two juniors, Simon Reed and Mark Jurgeleit. Ken had won the Te Rama Club Singles (1989) and would be in the Te Rama Team (with Matthew Hobbs and Malcolm Wong) that would win Division 2 at the Manawatu Teams Tournament (1996). Simon would be later involved in coaching Wellington Junior teams (1998-2001) and was the Manager/Coach of the Wellington Under 19 Boys Team that won the NZ Under 19 Boys Teams Title (2000) beating Canterbury 5-4 in the final.
Te Rama had an experienced team. Malcolm Wong and Martin Young were in the Te Rama Team had won the A Reserve Grade (1991) with David Robinson. Malcolm was in the Te Rama Team that won the C Grade (1986) and B Grade (1989). He has won 9 Te Rama Club Singles and also the Titan Club Singles (1995). Martin was in the Ling Tse Team that won the C2 Grade (1987) and C Grade (1988). He has won 15 Te Rama Club Singles. Brian Neale had played A Grade for Victoria University and Newlands. He was in the Newlands Team that won the A Reserve Grade (1971,1986 & 1989). He has won 10 Newlands Club Singles.Brian was in the Victoria University Team that won the NZ University Teams Tournament (1963) and he was runner up in the Men’s Singles.
Another good junior was Graeme Windley (Onslow B) who played mainly B Grade that year. He was NZ Under 17 Boys Singles runner up (1995) and won the NZ Under 19 Boys Doubles (1996) and NZ Under 21 Men’s Doubles (1999).
Other players still involved today were Kevin Haines (Onslow B), Bob Bell (Newlands)[recently moved to Napier] and Matthew Hobbs (Titan C). Bob won the Newlands Club Singles (1996) and Onslow Club Singles (2011). Matthew won the Onslow Club Singles (2012).
In Division 1 Te Rama won all their matches. There were 2 crucial matches. In the third round Te Rama beat Karori 6-5 despite Ken Hindson winning his 3 singles. Then in the penultimate round Te Rama played the leaders Onslow A, who were leading by 2 points. Te Rama needed to win by 7-4 or more to gain 3 points and move into the lead. Onslow started well and lead 4-2 only for Te Rama to win the last 5 matches. Malcolm Wong won all his 3 singles for Te Rama. In the last round Te Rama beat Titan A 9-2 to win the Grade. Division 2 was won by Titan B.for whom Ross McFarland starred.
In the grade match against Hutt Valley (8 August) two A Reserve Grade teams were selected. A Reserve 1 (Malcolm Wong, Martin Young and Hamish Rennie) and A Reserve 2 (David Buckrell, Nick Julian and Matthew Hobbs). The Hutt Valley A Reserve 1 Team (Staff Marshall, Stan Joe and Brett Pottinger) won 7-4 and their A Reserve 2 Team (Jeremy Evans, Steve Westmoreland and Darren O’Brien) won 8-3
In the A Reserve Grade Chanpionships (25 August) Te Rama had more success. Martin Young won the Singles against team mate Malcolm Wong (1990 & 1991 winner). In the Doubles Malcolm Wong and Martin Young won for the third successive year when they beat Jonathan Armstrong and David Buckrell.
Statistics from this grade in 1993: 1993 WTTA A-reserve Interclub.
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.
You are invited to enter into our next Rating tournament which is the 2013 TTSports Table Tennis Wellington Autumn Open.
Form: 2013 TTW Autumn Open Entry Form
Conditions: 2013 Wgtn Autumn Conditions
Events are Saturday May 18 (Open, Under 21, Over 30) and Sunday May 19 (Under 12, Over 45/55/65).
Entries Close May 15 with: tournament [at] ttwellington.org.nz (for options refer to the entry form).
Note that each entry includes a single $2 contribution towards a new Junior Development Fund.
| Time | Saturday May 18 | Sunday May 19 |
| 9:15am | Under 21 & 0ver 30 | Under 12, Under 16 & Over 45, Over 65 |
| 12:15pm | Open Singles | |
| 1:30pm | Open Women’s Singles | Under 14, Under 18 & Over 35, Over 55 |
Venue
Empire Table Tennis Stadium, Marine Parade, Petone, Lower Hutt (a map is at the end of here).
Enjoy!
The last results for the summer interclub competition. Hope everyone enjoyed it and had fun!
Again there is a detailed results chart with the scores from each game.
The results for week 4 of Round 2 Summer Interclub.
Good luck for the final week everybody!
You may have heard the news at summer interclub but for the record Hui-Ling Vong had great success at the recent ITTF Oceania Hopes Challenge event in Melbourne.
From TTNZ:
The Oceania Hopes Challenge concluded [April 6] in Melbourne with Yang Lun Zhao (Waikato) and Hui-Ling Vong (Wellington) winning both the boys and girls event for New Zealand. Yang Lun and Hui-Ling comfortably won all their matches
3-0.
As winners of the Oceania Hopes Challenge Hui-Ling and Yang Lun will be invited to participate in the ITTF Hopes Week and Challenge at the Werner Schlager in Vienna, Austria from the 9th to 16th June 2013.
Well done Hui-Ling and Yang Lun too!
Full results are here.
From the ITTF Oceania Hopes site:
The ITTF-Oceania Hopes Challenge is a talent identification tournament targeted for athletes aged 11 and 12 Years Old (Born in 2001/02). 2013 is the first year in which the event will be held.
The ITTF story is here – check this out.
No doubt Hui-Ling has some stories to tell you from her exciting trip so feel free to ask lots of questions on Wednesday nights for the next 4 weeks until the end of summer interclub!
May 4/5 is the 2013 Marlborough Open (supported by The Redword Trust) to be held at the SIMCOX STADIUM, Batty’s Road, Springlands, Blenheim. Supported by The Redwood Trust.
ENTRY FORM is here and INFORMATION here.
Entries close on MONDAY 29 April 2013 with Chris Hood, 7 Brian Bary Street, Blenheim 7201. Entry fees with entry please. Maximum family fee of $70.00. Enquiries: hoodfamily [at] ihug.co.nz Phone (03) 578 8330 after 6.30pm or 027 782 6098 (anytime).
Hello people, the results for week 2 of round 2 of summer interclub are done!
Table Tennis Wellington 