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.
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.
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.
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).
Hi folks, here are the first results from round 2 of Summer Interclub. Apologies for the delay, as i have been working on a school project pretty much all the time for the last week!
The results for week four of Summer Interclub. Bound to be some interesting matches next week, particularly division two with three players on 100% facing each other!
Chris & Ian TalbotHere is a result summary from Raewyn from the recent 2013 NZ Master Games held in Wanganui earlier in February.
Over 35 Team event
Gold Larn Sweeney with Shane Wilson & David Rowan (Wanganui) Silver Paul Brown, Depak Patel and Raewyn Young Bronze Chris & Ian Talbot and Bryan McConnochie
Over 45 Team event
Ian Talbot (mid) & Bryan McConnochie (r)
Gold Chris & Ian Talbot Silver Bryan McConnochie with Gerard Lucas (Sri Lanka) Bronze Depak Patel and Raewyn Young
Over 55 Team event
Raewyn Young & Depak Patel
Gold Ian Talbot and Bryan McConnochie
Over 35 events
Mens Singles Bronze Paul Brown Womens Singles Gold Raewyn Young Mens Doubles Silver Ian Talbot and Bryan McConnochie Mens Doubles Bronze Paul Brown and Depak Patel Womens Doubles Bronze Raewyn Young and Kaye Power (Australia) Mixed Doubles Gold Depak Patel and Raewyn Young Mens Plate Silver Tony Rutledge Mens Plate Bronze Raewyn Young Womens Social Doubles Silver Nola Burrell and Joy Mozer (now Wanganui but formerly Wellington) Womens Social Plate Bronze Joy Mozer
Over 45 events
Mens Singles Gold Depak Patel Mens Singles Bronze Ian Talbot Womens Singles Gold Raewyn Young Mens Doubles Gold Chris & Ian Talbot Mens Doubles Silver Bryan McConnochie and Depak Patel Mens Doubles Bronze Tony Rutledge and David Scott (North Harbour) Womens Doubles Gold Raewyn Young and Gladys Halford (Manawatu) Mixed Doubles Gold Depak Patel and Raewyn Young Mens Plate Bronze Tony Rutledge
Over 55 events
Mens Singles Gold Ian Talbot Mens Doubles Silver Ian Talbot and Bryan McConnochie Mens Doubles Bronze Tony Rutledge and Jim Jarmin (Manawatu)
Over 65 events
Mens Doubles Silver Tony Rutledge and Jim Jarmin (Manawatu)
Overall a big medal haul from the Wellington contingent! And a good time was had by all!
The traditional annual Empire Veterans tournament has been expanded this year to run under the auspices of Table Tennis Wellington and is open to all-comers. It is ideally placed as a lead-up for the TTNZ Veterans tournament this year. This is itself a lead-up to the ITTF WORLD VETS CHAMPS 2014 to be held in Auckland! (This will be the first time that this event has ever been held in New Zealand.)
Let me know of any name spelling corrections at interclub. The first night is this Wednesday, see you there!
Team Listings
Division 1
Belmont A: Callum Rusbridge & Martin Murdoch Empire A: Depak Patel and Paul Brown Empire B: Chris Talbot and Ian Talbot Belmont B: Cath Zhou & Larn Sweeney Empire C: Raewyn Young and Sabine Westenra Empire D: John Gan and Jason Giles
Division 2
Empire E: Bryan McConnochie and Tony Rutledge Belmont C: Frank Fu & Chun-Kiet Vong Empire F: Martin Young, Paul Solt and Harry Chen Waterloo A: Gareth Telfer & Sean Hanson Waterloo B: Scott Higham & Adam Xiong Empire G: Matthew Hobbs & Russell Buchanan
Division 3
Empire H: Isaac Noanoa and Graham Sole Waterloo C: Martin Xiong & Ellen Xiong Empire I: Vladmir Vysotskiy, Mo Whare and James Stewart Empire J: Merv Allardyce, Arindom Choudhury and Darren O’Brien Belmont D: Abram Goh & Hui-Ling Vong Waterloo D: Jacob Gates & Reuben Reid
Division 4
Belmont E: Jason Zhao & Allan Carson Belmont F: Charlie Waddy & Shikhar Parijat Empire K: Reg Feuz & Ian Grace Waterloo E: Chris Sutton & Ian Thomas Belmont G: Jeremy Traub & Nicholas Baucke
Division 5
Waterloo\Empire: Marius Lukkonnen & Jimi Nelson Belmont H: Angus Horan & Regan Craig Belmont I: Alex Tam & William Tam Empire L: Tyler Guthardt & Mason Tangatatai Empire M: Chris Beeston & Jacob Rattray Empire N: Adam Archibald-Mason & Hugh Pawson
Notices for the upcoming Summer Interclub were sent out to the clubs and players lists last week (if you are not on the players list, and want to be, let me know), the details are below. Let your club contact know you are available to play!
In a nutshell:
2-player teams entered by clubs
7pm Wednesdays from Feb 20 until May 1 with a break on March 27.
5-match format to 11 with singles best of 7 and doubles best-of-5.
Flat fee $7/player.
Entries to be submitted by clubs in (to me) please by Feb 13.
Players help your club out by helping wrangle your friends together and pass on the names to your club contact.
Composite teams (players from separate clubs in the same team) are fine just be sure to have both clubs know about the team and have it be entered by one of the clubs. (Check with your club contact.)
The full 2013 TTW Summer Interclub Entry Form is here as a doc or a pdf.
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.
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.
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.
