If you are a junior you are invited to the first 2012 Junior Development Tournament.
When
It will be on: Sunday 10th June 2012.
at the Empire Table Tennis Stadium on Marine Parade, Petone.
Entries Close: Noon, Wednesday 6 June.
Schedule
Sunday 10th June
Under 12 2.00 pm
Under 14 10.00 am
Under 17 2.00 pm
Details
For details refer to the entry and rules document: TTW Development Tournament 2012 First Sunday June 10.
The spreadsheet is a WIP but here are the sheets for the play-by-play:
Premier 1: TTW 2012 Winter Week 2 Premier 1
Premier 2: TTW 2012 Winter Week 2 Premier 2
Premier 3: TTW 2012 Winter Week 2 Premier 3
Premier 4: TTW 2012 Winter Week 2 Premier 4
NB: The draws are here.
Thanks to Reg from Karori club for forwarding on these pictures from Wednesday night:
Update: The draw for next week (June 4-6):
This is part of the comprehensive Table Tennis Wellington schools program with endless hours of coaching by Stephen Hirst at many schools in the Wellington/Hutt Valley area and competitive events such as this one between the schools.
Thanks to Stephen (and helpers!) and CollegeSport Wellington for being able to run this program.
PS: An example score-sheet is here.
… are in the pipeline but for those die-hards who like to analyse everything here are the score-sheets from Tuesday and Wednesday: Part 1 and Part 2 (part 2 is a re-scan of a couple of sheets unclear in the first scan).
The team count by clubs is:
Empire 11
Belmont 7
Waterloo 5
Karori 3
Onslow 2
Titan 1
Johnsonville 1
Draws were tweaked a little including some name changes and the extra team added to P4, I updated the links to the draw on the original post here.
Hot off the press the draw and rules are now available below. Enjoy the competition!
Information & Rules: TTW 2012 Winter Interclub Rules
Premier 1: Premier 1 draw
Premier 2: Premier 2 draw
Premier 3: Premier 3 draw
Premier 4: Premier 4 draw
Timetable
May 15 Premier 1 & 3 grades commence (Tuesdays)
May 16 Premier 2 & 4 grades commence (Wednesdays)
May 30/5 Junior Grade Commences
June 28 – July 16 School holidays (no interclub play, Junior Nationals)
July 17 Premier 1 & 3 grades continue
July 18 Premier 2 & 4 and Junior grades continue
Sept 4 Grade champs for Premier grades (1st vs. 2nd teams in each grade)
Remember Junior Interclub dates per above.
Tournament
Also remember the Wellington Autumn Open – May 19/20 – entries close May 15!
Malcolm Wong flew up to Auckland for the recent KVB Kunlun TTNZ 2012 New Zealand Junior & Cadet Open held April 19-22. He was there as one of the official umpires and I hear it was non-stop at the umpire stand for all umpires involved so thanks to all of them! Following is Malcolm’s report along with photos borrowed from various sources. Local Wellington and Belmont player Thom Nguyen represented New Zealand at this event.
Results and details are on this page on the TTNZ website and on the ITTF website.
This tournament was held at the Auckland Table Tennis Stadium at Newmarket, Auckland. There were 82 participants (46 boys and 36 girls). Most were from New Zealand (37) and Australia (23).Other countries were The Cook Islands (8), Kirabati (3), Hong Kong (2), Malaysia (2), New Caledonia (2) Singapore (2) Norway, Solomon Islands and Thailand.
Only 6 umpires were available for all 4 days, with a few more on Saturday only. This meant the umpires were required for all rounds from 9am and finishing 9pm for the first 3 days. Play on the last day finished at 7pm. So it was a very tiring experience for the umpires. On the first day I umpired 8 team matches. I umpired the finals of the Cadet Boys Teams, Junior Girls Oceania World Championship Qualification, Cadet Girls Doubles, Junior Boys Doubles and the Junior Girls Singles.
Thom Nguyen was Wellington’s sole player at this tournament. He won a Bronze Medal in the Junior Boys Team as a member of New Zealand B (with Daniel Lowe). These two also won the Silver Medal in the Junior Boys Doubles.
-Malcolm Wong
PS: A great news story on Manawatu umpire Val Scarr is here.
Entries close May 15!
The Wellington Open is August 11/12 but TTW will be hosting a non-rating Open tournament in May: the 2012 TTSports Wellington Autumn Open this will be held on May 19-20. Paul Solt will be the Tournament Manager and the tournament will be sponsored by local table tennis equipment supplier TTSports. Volunteers to help out with running this (or general enquries) please contact Paul (tournament [at] ttwellington.org.nz).
Empire Table Tennis Stadium (Marine Parade, Petone, Lower Hutt)
| Time | Saturday May 19 | Sunday May 20 |
| 9:15 AM | Under 21 & 0ver 30 | Under 12, Under 16 & Over 45, Over 65 |
| 12:15 PM | Open Mixed Singles | |
| 1:15 PM | Open Women’s Singles | Under 14, Under 18 & Over 35, Over 55 |
This is the latest player profile from Malcolm Wong:
The Technical Club was formed in 1936. The Club has won 32 Wellington interclub titles including 6 A Grade (1939-41, 1943-44 & 1946). The A Grade team included Frank Mooney, Wellington’s top ranked man (1943) who was also a wicket keeper in the NZ Cricket Team (1949-54). The W M Jackson Shield (Most interclub points) was won twice (1946 & 1977). The Sportswear Model Trophy (Highest point average for 3 nominated teams from a club) was won 6 times (1974, 1977, 1981, 1987, 1989 & 1990). The most interclub teams entered were 11 in 1971 & 1977.
Club members were involved in several notable achievements. Max Gosling was selected for the first ever NZ Team in a match against the touring Hungarian Team (1938). Eric Boniface was selected for the first NZ Team to travel overseas (1939). The team travelled to Australia for matches against state teams. John Crossley and John Stewart were in the first NZ Team at the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary (1950). Crossley won the first international title by a New Zealander when he won the Scottish Open Men’s Singles held in Edinburgh (1950). Gosling (1939), Boniface (1940-41) and Crossley (1944) were ranked Number 1 in Wellington and all won the Wellington Open Men’s Singles. Crossley was North Island Men’s Singles Champion (1949).
29 New Zealand Open Titles were won. The first was achieved in 1940 when Dawn Croxton won the Women’s Doubles with Leonie Kennedy, and the Mixed Doubles with Max Gosling. This was the first year of the NZ Inter-Association Teams Championships and Wellington won both the Men’s and Women Teams Title. Club members representing Wellington were Max Gosling and Eric Boniface (Men) and Leonie Kennedy, Dawn Croxton and May Wareham (Women).
In 1950 Club members were in all 5 NZ Open individual finals. John Crossley lost to Bob Jackson (Auckland) in the Men’s Singles. John won the Men’s Doubles with Neville Brightwell (Canterbury). Margaret Hoar won the Women Singles, Woman Doubles with Thyra McGregor, and the Mixed Doubles with Owen Jaine (Auckland). As well, Murray Dunn won the NZ Under 16 Boys Singles that year. Murray was to win a record 9 Wellington Open Men’s Singles and also 4 NZ Men’s Singles (1960-63).
Margaret Hoar was the number 1 ranked Wellington and NZ Woman (1949-50) when she was at the Club. She was the Wellington, North Island and NZ Women’s Singles Champion in those years. Christine Beasley (nee McGregor) was the number 1 ranked Women for 7 consecutive years (1973-79) and won 10 Wellington Open titles including 5 Women’s Singles (1973-74, 1976-78). She was also an excellent tennis player and won the Wellington Tennis Open Women Singles (1979), achieving a unique tennis/table tennis double.
In 1967 the club moved to the Te Rama Tennis Pavilion in Kilbirnie when the Technical Tennis Pavilion had to make way for new buildings. In 1972 the club changed its name to Te Rama to meet city council requirements to stay at the site as the tennis club had folded up. In 1984 the club moved to the Kilbirnie Gym due to the Aqua Centre being built where the Tennis Pavilion was. In 1985 the club moved to St Giles Church Hall and later to the Newtown Stadium. A team was last entered in interclub in 2001.
Brian Hearfield started off in F Grade and was in C Grade the following year. He played mainly in B grade. He recalls filling in at A Grade interclub and playing Murray Dunn, Geoff Jennings, John Crossley, Ron Foster and Ivan Houghton. In 1956 at the Hutt Valley Open, Brian and Bill Stewart (both C Graders) upset Mike Beder/Stan Ferguson ( NZ Boys Doubles Champions 1955) to reach the quarter finals where they lost to the top seeds, Murray Dunn/John Crossley (NZ Men’s Doubles Champions 1954). Brian has been in 9 Technical/Te Rama winning winter interclub teams (See below).
A Reserve A Grade 1963 Brian Hearfield, Foon Chin, Thyra McGregor
B Grade 1966 Brian Hearfield, Jack Ngan, Diane Bates
1974 Brian Hearfield, Ray Bryan, Dawn Perks, Judy Sharman
1977 Brian Hearfield, D Hitchcock, Roger Watkin
1989 Brian Hearfield, Henry Anastasi, Malcolm Wong
1990 Brian Hearfield, Roger Watkin, Peter Wong
1993 Brian Hearfield, David Feist, Roger Watkin, Giles Moiser
C Grade 1959 Brian Hearfield, John Wilcox, Andy Curran
1986 Brian Hearfield. Malcolm Wong, Jeff Larsen, Olaf Leijon
Brian had the highest interclub average in B Grade (1990, 1991 & 1993). His best result was 37 wins from 39 matches (94.9%) in the B Grade (1985, 1990). He won the B Grade Singles (1966) and the B Grade Doubles with David Fry (1965) and Bruce Mills (1966). Brian represented Wellington in the annual match against Hutt Valley 7 times. C Grade (1959), B Grade (1965, 1966, 1974, 1989, 1990) and B/C Grade (1993). Wins were achieved in 1959 (7-5) 1965 (10-2) 1966 (9-3). He donated the Brian Hearfield Cup for the B Grade Singles at the Wellington Grade Championships. The first winner was fellow club member Henry Anastasi in 1989.
Brian has been Secretary, Treasurer and Club Captain for the Club. He served on the Wellington Committee (1962-77) and (1992-2009). He was a long serving member of the interclub subcommittee and chaired it when there were 167 interclub teams. Brian was the Secretary/Treasurer (1999-2001) and Secretary (2002-2009). He was a regular sight on night duty at interclub. Brian is a Life Member of the Te Rama Club (1980) and the Wellington Association (1994).
Brian played cricket for Institute Old Boys, Wellington South Institute, Technical College Old Boys and Onslow. His 1971-72 Onslow team included Trevor Mallard (Labour Member of Parliament since 1984 and former Minister (1999-2008). He was a batsman/wicket keeper with a highest score of 85 not out. Brian was in three winning teams: Technical College Old Boys 3B (1958/59); Technical College Old Boys 5th Grade (1960/61); and Onslow 3C (1972/73). The Onslow 3C Team also included a young Kevin Haines, the current TTW Treasurer.
– Malcolm Wong
Winter interclub dates are announced (see below) so talk to your club about getting into a team. There are multiple grades covering all levels of play.
All entries are through clubs (and you need to belong to yours) but I’m attaching the entry form here for your reference on the details:
Junior grade interclub starts two weeks after the Premier grade and runs on Wednesdays.
Interclub grades are called Premier grades and Junior grades. One difference this year for Premier grades is that the target for each Premier grade will be 6 teams per grade which means that there will be an extra fourth Premier grade. It means closer competition within each grade (and grades will be stronger overall) but also that many people will end up in a lower ‘named’ grade than last year but realize that a lot of people will be in the same situation and you will still be playing against five teams of similar ability.
I know that some like to play against players of much higher ability all the time but mathematics being what it is, the other side of that same coin is the other player playing against someone of a much lower ability. Reducing the team count in the grades keeps competition more even.
May 3 Entries close for all Premier grades (May 25 for Junior grades)
May 8 Grading night if required
May 15 Premier 1 & 3 grades commence (Tuesdays)
May 16 Premier 2 & 4 grades commence (Wednesdays)
May 30/5 Junior Grade Commences
June 28 – July 16 School holidays (no interclub play, Junior Nationals)
July 17 Premier 1 & 3 grades continue
July 18 Premier 2 & 4 and Junior grades continue
Sept 11 Grade champs for Premier grades (1st vs. 2nd teams in each grade)
All matches will be played at the Empire Stadium, Marine Parade, Petone. The stadium will be open from 6:30pm each interclub night and interclub matches are scheduled to start at 7:00pm for Premier and 6:45pm for Junior.
For your interest I’m including some recent Empire Table Tennis Club news mostly copied from the newsletter that was recently emailed out (the full newsletter is here). Check out all the photos of Depak coaching in there too!
When: Tuesday 24th April, Light House Cinema, Petone at 8.00 pm (nibbles from 7.30)
ALERT: Empire Club Fundraiser – fancy a night out to see a cool romantic comedy and help Empire raise some money for their special building projects? The movie is Salmon fishing in the Yemen which sure sounds like something different! Check out a review.
A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realise a sheik’s vision of bringing the
sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the
impossible possible.
Starring Emily Blunt, Ewan McGregor and Kristin Scott Thomas.
Supper will be provided from 7.30 pm (movie @ 8pm) at the Light House, Petone. Tuesday 24th April.
Contact: Maggie 5899 140 (home) or 5704 820 (work) or maggie.dyer [at] paradise.net.nz to get your tickets ($20). Open to all.
Congratulations also to Eddie Moore, another long standing club member, for being selected to play for the NZ Veterans against the Australian Veterans at the NZ Open Veterans Championships in the Over 75s to be held in Palmerston North over Easter.
Congratulations to Bruce Connolly, a long standing club member, for being selected to play for the NZ Veterans against the Australian Veterans at the NZ Open Veterans Championships in the Over 60s to be held in Palmerston North over Easter.
Saturday 24th of March saw 29 keen players at Empire for the annual tournament. The day was
enjoyed by all, some more than others as they took home a bit of wine! Thanks to Chris for all the
organising – you can see he did get some reward for his efforts….
| Singles winner | Singles runner up | Doubles winners | Doubles runner ups | |
| Over 60s | Chris Williams | Jim Jarmin | Chris Williams / Nha Nguyen |
Jim Jarmin / Richard Ammundsen |
| Over 50s | Lindsay Ward | Depak Patel | Depak Patel / Lindsay Ward |
Chris Talbot / Ian Talbot |
| Over 40s | Lindsay Ward | Depak Patel | Depak Patel / Raewyn Young | Chris Talbot / Ian Talbot |
| Women’s | Maggie Dyer | Nancy Chan | N/a | N/a |
There is a visit in the planning stages for Empire to visit Wanganui some time in late May. The
Feilding Club will be joining in so there will be the three clubs involved in the matches.
************** Update ******************
The Wanganui visit will be Sunday 27th May. The Feilding Club will also be joining the Empire TTC, so the three clubs will be involved in an afternoon of fun table tennis. Carpooling will be available from the ETTC clubrooms. Departing Empire 9 am to arrive Wanganui 12 noon (approx).
ETTC will reimburse petrol costs for vehicles used for carpooling. Lunch will be provided by the Wanganui Club with organised games starting after lunch.
If you are interested let Rose Douglas know (rose.douglas [at] darroch.co.nz) or fill in the clipboard left at the clubrooms before 17th May.
It will be good to have as many there as possible, all grades and standards welcome.
April 28 is the 2012 Wanganui Open, the entry form with details is here.
VENUE: Jubilee Table Tennis Stadium: London Street, Wanganui
Entries close P.M., MONDAY 23rd April 2012 with the Tournament Secretary, Table Tennis Wanganui, PO BOX 29. WAITOTARA 4549. (Phone 06 343 8497 or 06 346 5906) ( e-mail ttw [at] wnet.co.nz)
May 12/13 is the 2012 Marlborough Open, the entry form with details is here.
To be held at the SIMCOX STADIUM, Batty’s Road, Springlands, Blenheim on Saturday 12th May and Sunday 13th May. Supported by The Redwood Trust.
Entries close on MONDAY 7 May 2012 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).
There were a bunch of players from Wellington competing in the NZ Veterans Tournament – the largest contingent in a long time and it sounds like a good time was held by all!
Wellington Team placings (full results are on the TTNZ site here):
Over 40 Women:
2nd to Wellington (Sabine Westenra, Raewyn Young)
Over 40 Men’s A Grade:
4th to Wellington 1 (Depak Patel, Lindsay Ward, Ian Talbot)
5th to Wellington 2 (Rob Chung, Keith Aldersley, Bryan McConnochie, Paul Solt)
Over 40 Men’s B Grade:
2nd to Wellington 3 (Martin Young, Harry Chen, John Gan)
Over 50 Men’s A Grade:
3rd to Wellington 1 (Lindsay Ward, Depak Patel)
4th to Wellington 3 (Ian Talbot, Chris Talbot)
Over 50 Men’s B Grade:
1st to Wellington 2 (Bryan McConnochie, John Gan)
3rd to Wellington 4 (Martin Young, Paul Solt)
Over 65 Men’s A Grade:
3rd to Wellington (Chris Williams, Bruce Connolly)
Over 70 Men’s B Grade:
3rd to Wellington (Eddie Moore, Merv Allardyce)
Over 75 Men:
4th to Wellington (Eddie Moore, Merv Allardyce)
Individual results are available through here, I’ve copied down the Wellington results here:
Over 40 Men’s Singles plate Winner: John Gan
Over 40 Women’s Singles Runner Up: Raewyn Young – lost 12-10 in 5th set after being 2-0 sets down
Over 40 Women’s Doubles Winner: Raewyn Young and Sabine Westenra (beat top seeds 3-0 in final)
Over 40 Mixed Doubles Winner: Sabine Westenra and Heath Murdoch
Over 50 Men’s Singles plate Winner: John Gan
Over 50 Men’s Singles plate Runner Up: Paul Solt
Over 60 Men’s Singles 3rd place: Bryan McConnochie
Over 65 Men’s singles plate winner: Bruce Connolly
Over 75 Men’s Singles plate Runner-up: Mervyn Allardyce
Congratulations to all players attending the National Vets tournament this year.
Here are some photos from Malcolm Wong:
Hi all
My name is Gabrielle Telfer and I was recently elected Chairperson of Table Tennis Wellington.
I am a very new person to the Table Tennis Wellington administration – I was invited to join the committee after travelling to Auckland with the team for the Junior Nationals last July.
I have never played Table Tennis myself and I am not a good spectator so please don’t look for me to be sitting court side too often. I would rather be making cups of tea or sweeping up!
My involvement with Table Tennis has been brought about by my son Gareth who began playing Table Tennis at the Waterloo club four years ago and more latterly my daughter Sophie who picked up a bat last year. Maybe it should be on my bucket list!
I intend to visit each of our member clubs over the next few weeks to see where you are, who you are and what we (TTW) can do for you.
My door is (metaphorically) always open and I welcome any comments, questions or opinions you may wish to express. chairperson@ttwellington.org.nz will get to me or my phone contacts are home 5692694 or mobile 021 361162.
I assure you that our very competent committee will be striving to deliver the best possible service we can to each and every one of you as well as working for the betterment of Table Tennis in the greater Wellington region.
Your 2012 committee is:
Paul Solt President
Gabrielle Telfer Chairperson
Raewyn Young Deputy Chairperson
Larn Sweeney Secretary
Kevin Haines Treasurer
Stephen Hirst Head Coach
Mat Hobbs Meeting Secretary
Maggie Dyer
Roger Watkin
I would also like to thank the outgoing 2011 committee for their efforts on your behalf. May those of you who did not seek re-election enjoy a well earned rest and know that we are grateful for all you did for TTW.
VOLUNTEERS ARE NOT PAID BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO VALUE;
BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE PRICELESS
Note that entries (and payment) for the North Island Individuals to be held at North Harbour 4-6 May close at 6pm on Wednesday 11 April.
The form is on the TTNZ site: here.
The full result spreadsheet is here: 2012 Summer Interclub 0404 Final. Refer to the spreadsheet for the details but the winning and runner-up teams in each grade were:
Grade A:
Winner: Belmont Blast (Heath Murdoch & Callum Rusbridge) 3-2 over Empire Amber (John Gan & Depak Patel).
(All the X position vs. X position section vs. section playoffs in grade A on the Finals night were 3-2 results!)
Grade B:
Winner: Empire Palladium (Chris Williams & Richard Dalziel/Bruce Connolly) 3-2 over Belmont Bumble Bees (Frank Fu & Hui-Ling Vong).
Grade C:
Winner: Belmont Bandits (Matt Gill & Ramnick Tiwana) 4-1 over Empire Silver (Vladimir Vysotskiy & Alex Safronov).
Looks like it was Belmont and Empire fighting it out in the top of every grade on finals night with Belmont taking 2 out of 3 grades.
Congratulations all winners and thanks to all for playing in the summer interclub competition. There is a break before winter interclub which typically starts later in May.
Photos by Gareth Telfer:
There are a couple of great new articles in the press this week on Hui-Ling Vong and also Abram Goh following their results recent ITTF Hopes event in Auckland.
First is one on Hui-Ling in The Wellingtonian: Hui-ling targets table tennis titles which has a nice photo. One of her goals is to be the best player at her club (Belmont) so watch out Belmont – oh wait, that means becoming the best player in Wellington so watch out everyone!
The other one is in the Hutt News: Belmont youngsters rise to top and talked about Hui-Ling and Abram. The classic quote from Stephen Hirst was: “She looked very annoyed with a bronze,” Hirst says !
Stephen Hirst organised and managed a group of juniors that went to the recent Inaugural TTNZ Hopes and Cadets Trials in Auckland on March 25. Results and pictures (click on the “Images” tab) are here.
Organised by Sport Wellington, the annual Pelorus Trust Stadium Sports Festival aims to expose primary school children to a variety of different sports. This year 54 schools applied to attend the event, of which only 20 spots were available. Given the delicate weather requirements of table tennis, outdoors was ruled out but thanks to Jamie Milne at Sport Wellington a place for table tennis was found within the concourse area (along with a couple of other similarly weather-sensitive sports).
While no doubt Stephen & co were run ragged by the end of the day, he reported the day as a great success and well worth the effort. They were able to distribute hundreds of leaflets listing the Wellington junior clubs to students and teachers and interest was high.
The age range here parallels the primary/intermediate & junior club coaching program that Table Tennis Wellington has also been running with thanks to Pub Charity support. Stephen Hirst is also the coach for this program and has been able to reach many schools and junior clubs in the Wellington area. Programs like this and the stadium event help build the grass-roots base and feed into the junior clubs.
Now that it is April 2, I can add that the following is completely false!
Apparently Liu Shiwen has long had an interest in New Zealand since playing rugby for a Guangzhou local side and watching the All Blacks while growing up. After being umpired by Malcolm, Liu was reported as saying that she noted that he was able to stay awake for the entire match; turned the score cards with precision; and she was particularly impressed with the net measuring tool Malcolm deployed prior to the match starting.
After some discussion Liu has arranged to come to Wellington to learn umpiring and in return she will play with Malcolm Wong and Martin Young in Premier 1 this year under the revived banner of the Te Rama Club, though whether she will play one or both doubles matches is yet to be determined as Martin and Malcolm have been a pretty mean doubles combination in the past.
Next week (April 4) is the last week – summer interclub finals night with playoffs based on position as of now.
Results from 28/3 are here (open this to see who you are playing on 4/4): 2012 Summer Interclub 0328
Here are some recent pictures. Picasa 3 has added some new style options which I will now inflict on you…
Every year a winner is selected for the Mike Flynn Memorial Award. This is awarded to the most improved junior in Table Tennis Wellington for the previous year also including attitude, cooperation and respect for others. (According to the rules of this award, an individual can only win this award once.)
Here is the previous winner for 2010 Delano Lam (Waterloo Club) presented by TTW President Paul Solt:
And the 2011 winner Gareth Telfer (Waterloo Club) with TTW President Paul Solt:
Congratulations to our recent and all winners of this award and also Waterloo Club!
Table Tennis Wellington 