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Spring Composite Teams – Week 3 Oct 31

Results from Wednesday:
* 2012 Spring Week 3 Teams
* 2012 Spring Week 3 Individuals

Division One

Pumas 6 Lions 5
Cougars 6 Leopard 5
Panthers 9 Tigers 2
Cheetahs 8 Jaguars 3

Division Two

Hyenas 6 Terriers 5
Jackals 6 Coyotes 5
Dingos 6 Foxes 5
Wolves 8 Hounds 3

A number of close games this week, noticeable in particular for the closeness of the doubles with the wins being shared in seven of the eight matches. Next week sees the competition moving beyond the mid point of the round robin phase so a better guide to team fortunes may start to become more apparent.

-Kevin

Spring Composite Teams – week 2

Round 2 saw a few replacements appearing and the potential for some mismatches but these didn’t eventuate to the levels possible with close results still the norm. Thanks to those who filled in on the night.

Two new teams were added to Division Two which has evened out the numbers nicely. Thanks also to the new players for adding to the variety of the competition.

Teams: Composite Week 2 Teams
Individuals: Composite Week 2 Individuals

-Kevin

TTNZ Nationals


Catherine Zhou wins the Over 30 Women’s Singles
Image courtesy of Murray Finch
The Senior Nationals finished and full results are here. (Wellington team results were blogged earlier.)

Successes from Wellington include:

Catherine Zhou winning the Women’s Over 30s Singles.
Catherine Zhou winning the Women’s Doubles with Sarah Hee-Lee (AKL).
Catherine Zhou & Stephen Hirst were runners-up in the Over 30s Mixed Doubles

Also see Matt Hetherington’s blog entries: here and here.

On behalf of all Wellington players congratulations to Catherine and Stephen on their success!
Congratulations to the other Wellington players competing too, I see Frank Fu did especially well to get past the pool stage in the Men’s C-grade.

Spring Composite Teams – week 1

The Composite Teams competition for 2012 got off to a solid start after the players worked out who their teammates were. Most results might have been predictable but there were a few minor upsets and many close games occurred With the ideal being that teams in each division are closely matched, the number of 6-5 results was pleasing and only a couple of 7-4 results occurred. It is hoped that by week 2, an extra two teams will added to Division Two, rounding out the grade nicely.

Results in a spreadsheet are here: 2012 Composite Results Week 1 Oct 17 (individual results are on sheet 2).

Points to the end of round 1 (Oct 17)

Played Won For Against Points Placing
DIVISION ONE
Cheetahs 1 1 7 4 2 1
Cougars 1 1 6 5 1.5 2=
Lions 1 1 6 5 1.5 2=
Pumas 1 1 6 5 1.5 2=
Jaguars 1 0 5 6 0.5 5=
Tigers 1 0 5 6 0.5 5=
Panthers 1 0 5 6 0.5 5=
Leopards 1 0 4 7 0 8
DIVISION TWO
Wolves 1 1 7 4 2 1=
Dingos 1 1 7 4 2 1=
Jackals 1 1 6 5 1.5 3
Foxes 1 0 5 6 0.5 4
Hyenas 1 0 4 7 0 5=
Coyotes 1 0 4 7 0 5=

NB: Points are:
1.5 for a team win by 6-5
2 for a win by 7-4 or greater
0.5 for a 5-6 loss.

The Spring season is underway – the handicap-teams night

Wednesday 10th October saw the inaugural TTW Handicap tournament held at Empire. There were 12 keen players who came along expecting some fun and who got an enjoyable night. Teams of 2 players all played 2 matches. One team who dared to call themselves the “Champs” John Gan / Adam Xiong shared “1st prize” with another team who since they hadn’t named themselves were given the name of the “Olds” Ian Talbot / Graham Sole by some administrators! There must be something in a name as the “Ninjas” Mat Hobbs / Martin Xiong and the “2 M’s” Maggie Dyer / Mariana Proctor didn’t win a match, although players did win some games and / or sets (note all start with letter M) . Also playing were Gareth Telfer / Zhidong Yu and Bryan McConnochie / Rod Weston and both these teams won one match.

All in all a good night as I’m sure our one spectator, Garbrielle will agree. There is another of these tournaments scheduled for the 12th December so we hope to see more of you there. Thank you to Mat who organised the handicaps which I think all players considered fair, made more difficult by the fact we play to 11 now”.

-Maggie Dyer

The basic formula (described in an attachment here) was OK looking at the individual matches it still looked like the higher ranked ranked player beat the the lower ranked player most of the time. This means the formula should be adjusted to increase the ‘spread’ even further. Ideally you want the top-seeded player to only win half of the time under a perfect balanced system. In one example Ian Talbot (handicap 8) played Mariana Proctor (handicap 0) meaning each set starts with Mariana 8-0 up and Ian won but only just with -7, -8, 8, 9, 9. There were a few other close ones but there is room to push the handicap further.

-Mat Hobbs

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2012 Composite Competition Teams & Draws

Kevin Haines has worked hard to get the teams and draws arranged and here they are below. See you all on Wednesday!

Teams: 2012 Composite Teams
Draw: 2012 Composite Draw and Info (full details including reserve information is in here – if you are not listed but would like to play as a reserve let Kevin Haines know).

Division 1

CHEETAHS: Paul Brown, Jason Giles, Frank Fu, Richard Dalziel
COUGARS: John Gan, Raewyn Young, Hui-Ling Vong
JAGUARS: Bryan McConnochie, Chun-Kiet Vong, Russell Buchanan
LEOPARDS: Depak Patel, Scott Higham, Craig Gear
LIONS: Callum Rusbridge, Sean Hanson, Brendyn Shaw
PANTHERS: Chris Talbot, Mat Hobbs, Gareth Telfer
PUMAS: Ian Talbot, Sabine Westenra, Martin Xiong
TIGERS: Catherine Zhou, Martin Young, Adam Xiong

Division 2

COYOTES: Arindom Choudhury, Maggie Dyer, Angus Horan
DINGOS: Peter Douglas, Reuben Reid, Ian Grace
FOXES: Isaac Noanoa, Rod Weston, Hayden Haughey
JACKALS: Graham Sole, Chris Linton, Chris Sutton
HYENAS: Mo Whare, Yvonne Cuthbert, Edwin Rivers
WOLVES: Zhidong Yu, Abram Goh, Tavish Voight

Senior Nationals – Teams Updates

After some tough battles the Wellington players at the Senior Nationals have completed the team events. The individual events are up next.

A write up of the Men’s title is on Matt Hetherington’s Blog and he also has a write up on the Women’s team title too. Be sure to check those articles out.

Catherine Zhou was drafted into a team with Waikato – see here for match details (the last 2 pages).

For the Wellington Men’s team (Callum Rusbridge, Andrew Rieper, Frank Fu, Stephen Hirst, Paul Solt) they made it into the A grade after winning a tough grading match 4-3 over North Harbour 2. Callum won 12-10 in the fifth set of a tense deciding match! In the A grade they finished 7th of the 8 teams in this (the top) grade which is a great effort. The A Grade match details are here (further down) – but are not complete yet as of the time I write this.

Watch TTNZ for official updates and details of the teams and individual events. It is interesting to also see John Cordue in action – those of us who were playing in the mid 90’s will remember John from his much younger days in Wellington!

Below are some pictures from the Nationals thanks to Gina Connell & Murray Finch.

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Manawatu-Wellington Representative Match

The annual Wellington vs. Manawatu team challenge took place on September 15th. This year Wellington travelled up to Palmerston North (we alternate) and congratulations to all players who took part. Wellington won overall 5-2 with the overall team result summary below:

The #1 Team won 10-4 (Hayden Tapp, Callum Rusbridge, Catherine Zhou)
Under 18s lost 4-7 (Frank Fu, Gareth Telfer, Ellen Xiong)
Under 15s won 13-1 (Ben Westenra, Charlie Waddy, Sean Hanson)
under 13s won 10-4 (Adam Xiong, Chris Linton, Abram Goh)
Vets #1 won 9-5 (Bryan McConnochie, Ian Talbot, Depak Patel)
Vets #2 won 11-0 (Sabine Westenra, Raewyn Young, Paul Solt)
Vets #3 lost 3-8 (Malcolm Wong, Kevin Haines, Roger Watkin)

Manawatu have posted detailed results for each match-up on their website.

Vets #3 Wgtn team

Upcoming ‘Spring’ interclub

Clubs will now be gathering names for the 2012 spring interclub season. The spring competition is traditionally a more relaxed competition than winter interclub so it is also a good time to introduce interclub to club players who may not have experienced this before.

Timetable (Wednesdays)

10/10 Entries due for Composite Interclub from clubs (please including available reserves)
10/10 First inaugural one-off Handicap Teams Competition (2-player teams)
17/10 Week 1 (Composite Interclub 3-player team interclub estimated 8 teams per division)
24/10 Week 2 (Composite Interclub continued)
31/10 Week 3 (Composite Interclub continued)
7/11 Week 4 (Composite Interclub continued)
14/11 Week 5 (Composite Interclub continued)
21/11 Week 6 (Composite Interclub continued)
28/11 Week 7 (Composite Interclub continued)
5/12 Week 8 (Composite Interclub continued) – likely a finals night (e.g. grade crossover)
12/12 Second one-off Handicap Teams Competition (2-player teams)

The Composite Interclub runs from 17/10-5/12 and will work in the same way as in recent spring-season composite interclub competitions. It will run to 8 weeks likely as a round-robin format followed by a finals night (grade vs. grade crossover) depending on the number on teams entered.

The ‘Handicap Teams Competition’ is a new format to be trialed first as a more social/casual competition – it will run separately from the Composite Interclub. The two nights of 10/10 and 12/12 will also be separate to each other.

In a Nutshell…

The Composite Interclub is a 3-player team competition where TTW matches up teams to be as even as possible – normally with one stronger, one medium, and one weaker player in each team. Depending on the number of entries there will normally be two separate grades playing a round-robin within that grade.

The handicap-teams 2-player team interclub is being trialled and will be held as separate events on two separate nights. The idea is to start scoring off in every set with the weaker player starting at a higher score. This effectively equalises all players so there is no concept of grade – everyone is on a level playing field.

Full Details

Full details are attached here: 2012 TTW Spring Interclub Details

South Island Open Report (Malcolm Wong)

There were 72 competitors at the Saxton Stadium (Stoke) in Nelson for the South Island Open earlier in August. There were 12 tables (where normally there were 8) to meet TTNZ requirements. This meant that the playing area (per table) was smaller than usual, which made defensive play difficult. Later in the day the playing area was widened for finals. Results are on the TTNZ website (with photos here) or from Table Tennis Nelson with the results document posted here.

Much thanks to Donny Harris and Paul Op Den Buysch for all their long hours of work in collating the entries and entering them on the computer. Also to the volunteers (Alan Cuthbert, Graeme Mathieson, David Watson and Malcolm Wong) who set up the playing area on the Friday before the tournament. Considerable time was required as the Table Tennis Nelson Butterfly Tables were taken down, the playing area cleaned and the Stag Tables set up. There is a significant cost to Table Tennis Nelson in using the Stag Tables as they had to pay the freight cost for transporting them to the venue and then returning them to Table Tennis NZ.

Thanks to the tournament organisers for all their hard work in making this a well run tournament. Joachim Kusche (Referee), Henry Redmond (Tournament Manager), Donny Harris and Paul Op den Boysch (Tournament Controllers), and Kay Hazeldine (TTN Secretary). Great scheduling meant play finished at 6.00 pm (Sat) and 5.00pm (Sun). The cafeteria was well run by Karen Holmes and her team ( Nolene Wells and her daughter Katherine, Don and Audrey Harris, and Dianne Watson).

Over 50 Mixed Doubles Medalist: Russell Holden and Donna Madden (Silver) Glenda Ferguson and Malcolm Wong (Gold)
Stephen Hirst won the Open Men’s Doubles with Callum Rusbridge, and the Over 30 Men’s Doubles with Heath Murdoch. Callum Rusbridge and Heath Murdoch won the B Grade Men’s Doubles. Heath Murdoch was runner up in the Over 30 Men’s Singles and won the Over 40 Mixed Doubles with Donna Madden (Nelson). Malcolm Wong won the Over 50 Mixed Doubles with Glenda Ferguson (Nelson) and was runner up in the Over 50 Men’s Doubles with Mark Nalder (Nelson) and C Grade Men’s Doubles with Steve Bellamy (Nelson).

-Malcolm Wong

2012 TTW Winter Interclub Final Team Results

The finals night of winter interclub was completed last night (Tuesday 11/9) so along with last Tuesday’s Premier 4 final we have the winning teams (with the players in each as listed at the start of the season):

Premier 1: Belmont Blasters (Thom Nguyen, Hayden Tapp, Heath Murdoch, Dzung Nguyen)
runners-up: Belmont Bang (Stephen Hirst, Callum Rusbridge, Larn Sweeney, Chun-Kiet Vong)

Premier 2: Empire Pine (Win Nguyen, Raman Tiwana, Brendyn Shaw, Richard Dalziel)
runners-up: Empire Oak (Tony Rutledge, Chris Williams, Bruce Connolly, Uy Tang)

Premier 3: Empire Rowan (James Stewart, Yang Sun, Mo Whare, Murray McLeod, Peter Douglas, T Metuariki)
runners-up: Belmont Barbarians (Matt Gill, Matt Hannah, Tony Pietras)

Premier 4: Belmont 38 (Desmond Goh, Abram Goh, Sri Galloway)
runners-up: Karori Thunder (Steve Montgomery, Russell Jackson, Peter Bloor)

Congratulations to all winners and all players during the winter season!

The final individual results are: here (results from Finals nights don’t get included in the winter season individual percentages). The season draws were here.

As mentioned earlier, NEXT WEEK are the Winter Interclub Grade Championships. This is a separate singles competition for each Premier grade with players eligible to play in the championship for the grade they played in during the 2012 winter interclub and/or for the championship for the next-higher grade. The format will be groups of round-robins followed by a knock-out round. Premier 1 and Premier 3 grade championships will be held on Tuesday September 18 with Premier 2 and Premier 4 grade championships on Wednesday September 19. The player fee is reduced to $6 for grade championship nights.

Following this there is a break followed by the spring competitions on Wednesdays starting from mid October. More details on this will be published soon.

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Notice for Finals night (11/9) and Grade Championships (18-19/9)

Next week on Tuesday September 11 will be the team finals night for the 1st vs. 2nd ranked teams from Premier 1, 2, and 3. Due to a scheduling conflict, the final for Premier 4 was played on September 4 with Belmont 38 defeating Karori Thunder to win Premier 4. The player fee is reduced to $5 for finals nights.

All non-players are also encouraged to come along to watch the finals night (no charge!).

Junior interclub is still underway.

The week following will be the Winter Interclub Grade Championships. This is a separate singles competition for each Premier grade with players eligible to play in the championship for the grade they played in during the 2012 winter interclub and/or for the championship for the next-higher grade. The format will be groups of round-robins followed by a knock-out round.

Premier 1 and Premier 3 grade championships will be held on Tuesday September 18 with Premier 2 and Premier 4 grade championships on Wednesday September 19. The player fee is reduced to $6 for grade championship nights.

Following this there is a break followed by the spring competitions on Wednesdays starting from mid October. More details on this will be sent out soon.

Winter Interclub Statistics after Week 14 (Aug 28-29) (last week before finals night)

Regular round play has completed (the two round-robin rounds) with the top two teams from each grade going through to the final next week – Tuesday September 11 (except Premier 4 which is scheduled for Tuesday September 4). If you’re not in a team that made it to the final, feel free to come along and watch. The week following, will be a grade-championships (singles event) for each grade. I’ll post with more details of that in a day or two.

The team results: 2012 Winter Week 14 Teams [Corrected as of 3/10]

Individual results: 2012 Winter Week 14 Individuals

Premier 1 Final: Belmont Blasters vs. Belmont Bang
Premier 2 Final: Empire Oak vs. Empire Pine
Premier 3 Final: Empire Rowan vs. Belmont Barbarians
Premier 4 Final: Belmont 38 vs. Karori Thunder

Let me know if you see any error in the results. Thanks to Roger for updating the spreadsheet during the season.

Encouraging this year was the jump in the number of interclub teams and many players coming through the ranks. Much of this is a strong crop of juniors but also we welcomed many new senior players and some old(er) faces from the past who I hope have been relishing the challenges of weekly competition!

There will be a ‘spring’ interclub’ (normally starting at the end of October or early November) which ín recent years was a composite (multiple graded players within each team to provide balance and closer matches). This has proved popular and provides for closer matches (lots of 6-5 results), something different that achieves a similar effect but is something new is being considered so watch this space!

Winter Interclub Statistics after Week 13 (Aug 21-22)

The results up to Week 13 (Aug 21/22) are here:

Teams: 2012 Winter Interclub stats Week 13 Teams

Individuals: 2012 Winter Interclub stats Week 13 Individuals

As a reminder, finals night will be September 11 (this is a TUESDAY for you P2/P4 folks). This is because of the secondary schools finals in Auckland next week, affecting some players.

For the week in between we are considering a ‘grade champs’ event – the exact format to be determined but if held it would be a singles event per grade. More info will be available at interclub.

NB: The draws are here.

Junior Developing Tournament 2012 (Sunday September 9)

Table Tennis Wellington is pleased to announce the next Junior Developing Tournament on Sunday September the 9th.

Here are the details and the form:

When: September 9, 2012
Where: Empire Table Tennis Club Stadium

Enter by
mail: Table Tennis Wellington, PO Box 12-038, Wellington
or phone: Tournament Manager Kevin Haines on (04) 478 0841 (evenings)
or email: treasurer [at] ttwellington.org.nz

Pay: with entry (if posted) or pay on arrival.

Entries Close: 5.00 p.m, Thursday 6 September

Programme

Sunday 9 September
Under 12: 2.00 pm
Under 14: 10.00 am
Under 17: 2.00 pm

Age

December 31, 2011 is the criteria date for eligibility for U12, U14,
U17, events.

Notes

Don’t wear white shirts!

Previous singles winners will not be eligible for the same age group in which they were successful in previous Development Tournaments.

Winter Interclub Statistics after Week 12 (Aug 14-15)

The results up to Week 12 (Aug 14/15) are here:

Teams: 2012 Winter Interclub stats Week 12 TEAMS

Individuals: 2012 Winter Interclub stats Week 12 Individuals

The highlight for week 12 was Empire Pohutukawa getting their first well-earned point of the season (a bonus point)!

As a reminder, finals night will be September 11 (this is a TUESDAY for you P2/P4 folks), i.e. two weeks after the last regular draw week #14.

NB: The draws are here.

Wellington New Chinese Friendship Association Table Tennis Tournament

Thanks to Malcolm Wong for this report.

The 2012 Wellington New Chinese Friendship Association Table Tennis Tournament was held on Sunday (29 July) at the Empire Table Tennis Club (Petone). The organisers were Kate Wang, Clara Zhang and Stephen Wang. The Chinese Embassy provided the prizes and entered two teams in the teams competition held in the morning.

There were eight teams in two groups, with the group winners playing off in an exciting final. This was between the team of Red Dragon and Mighty Mouse. With the match tied at 2-2, Martin Young became the hero for the Red Dragon team when he beat Chun-Kiet Vong 11-3 9-11 12-10 5-11 12-10 to win the deciding match.

In the afternoon there were 25 players entered in the singles competition. The final was between two Wellington Junior Represenatives. Frank Fu defeated Chun-Kiet Vong 11-9 11-9 6-11 11-7. In the playoff for third place, Min Su defeated Martin Young 8-11 11-9 11-8 5-11 11-8.

Youwen Fu (Chinese Embassy) with the winning Red Dragon Team (Martin Young, Harry Chen and Malcolm Wong)
Team runner up, Mighty Mouse (Chun-Kiet Vong, Jason Zhao, Hui-Ling Vong) with Dian Chang Jiang (Chinese Embassy)
Kate Wang (Organiser) with Singles prize winners, Chun-Kiet Vong, Frank Fu and Min Su

2012 TTSports Wellington Open Winner List

Thanks to Paul Solt for managing the tournament this weekend and for all players who came along and made this a great event including a large contingent from Manawatu and also further afield – to these people thanks especially for making the trip.

Following is the list of winners that I wrote down (if you are missing from this list and won something, let me know!), congratulations to all.

SATURDAY (August 11)

Men’s Open: Phillip Xiao (runner up: John Cordue)
B Grade: Matthew Ball (runner up: James Harter)
C Grade: Dean Lochhead (runner up: Win Nguyen)
D Grade: Frank Fu (runner up: Sean Hanson)
Women’s Open: Catherine Zhou (runner up: Natalie Paterson)
Open Men’s Doubles: Phillip Xiao and John Cordue (runner up: Stephen Hirst and Callum Rushbridge)
B Grade Doubles: Matthew Hetherington and Callum Rushbridge
C Grade Doubles: Jae Lee & Terry Lee
D Grade Doubles: Malcolm Wong & Matthew Sheppard
Women’s Open Doubles: Natalie Paterson and Jessica Macaskill
Open Mixed Doubles: Phillip Xiao and Catherine Zhou

SUNDAY (August 12)

Under 13s: Frank Fu
Under 13s Doubles: Frank Fu & Abram Goh
Under 15s: Nathan Watson
Under 15s Doubles: Nathan Watson & Jae Lee
Under 18s: Dean Lochhead
Under 18s Doubles: Dean Lochhead & Nathan Watson
Under 21s: Zhiyang Cheng
Under 21s Doubles: Zhiyang Cheng & Delano Lam
Over 30s: Phillip McConnochie
Over 30s Doubles: Raman Tiwana & Depak Patel
Over 40s: Lindsay Ward
Over 40s Doubles: Lindsay Ward & Bryan McConnochie
Over 50s: Lindsay Ward
Over 50s Doubles: Lindsay Ward & Bryan McConnochie
Over 60s: Kerry McGeehan
Over 60s Doubles: Norman Chan & Graham Sole
Over 70s: Merv Allardyce

Here are some assorted pictures from Sunday afternoon:

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Winter Interclub Statistics after Week 11 (Aug 7-8)

The results up to last week (Week 11, Aug 7-8) are here:

Teams: 2012 Winter Week 11 TEAMS

Individuals: 2012 Winter Week 11 INDIVIDUALS

There are only a few week left before the finals night and some close match-ups are still to go, so 1st and 2nd placings for teams are still up for grabs. Note that finals night will be September 11, i.e. two weeks after the last regular draw week #14 (finals night was originally scheduled for 4/9 but this clashed with the Secondary Schools championships in Auckland which are that week and affects some likely finalists).

NB: The draws are here.

Winter Interclub Statistics after Week 10

The spreadsheet is in, results up to last week (Week 10) are here:

Teams: 2012 Winter Interclub Round 10 TEAMS

Individuals: 2012 Winter Interclub Round 10 INDIVIDUAL

NB: The draws are here.

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