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Summer Interclub – Draw & Results so far

Hi folks, the team results and individual percentages to date:

April 6 – Finals night – team playoffs! Final results: 2011 Summer Interclub 0406 Final (individual %s exclude the finals playoffs)  final positions:

Section One winners: 1st Pommie Gits (Depak Patel, Keith Aldersley)

Section Two winners: Warriors (Sabine Westenra, Delano Lam)

Section Three winners: Dangerous (Elias Villanueva, Kai Xu)

March 23/30: 2011 Summer Interclub 0330

March 16: 2011 Summer Interclub 0316

March 9: 2011 Summer Interclub 0309

March 2: 2011 Summer Interclub 0302

Remember that this Summer Interclub is a trial of the 2-person format.  There will be advantages and disadvantages… keep this in mind as you go because at the end we’ll round-up everyone’s thoughts and see where to go from there.

Live Summer Interclub action at Empire
Live Summer Interclub action at Empire

Waikato Summer Open – Hamilton, Now SAT APR 16

(Wednesday, March 9th ) CHANGED TO Saturday, April 16th, 2011

WKSummerOpen 2011 entry form

Complimentary BBQ and Drinks will be held at the conclusion of play!


Nic Willis Track Meet 4 Chch – in Wellington this Saturday (tomorrow)

This Saturday: an emergency relief international track meet at Newtown Park, 5-6:30pm. Although entry to the event is absolutely free, The Salvation Army will be collecting donations for the earthquake relief appeal. The meet will feature perhaps the best line up of international milers seen in New Zealand for decades and will also play host to the presentation of Nick Willis’ Olympic silver medal.

 

NB: How to donate to various appeals is here.

New Zealand Masters Games Report

The latest report from Malcolm Wong:

The New Zealand Masters Games (4-13 February, 2011), a multi sports event, started in Wanganui (1989) and alternates between Wanganui and Dunedin. Dave Welch has organised the table tennis from the beginning, which is held at Jubilee Stadium. Dennis Galvin (Waitemata) and Robert Dunn (North Harbour) have been to the table tennis at all the Games in Wanganui.

Six gold medals to Raewyn Young and Ian Talbot

Raewyn Young made a clean sweep of the Over 35 and Over 45 individual events, winning the Women Singles, Women Doubles and Mixed Doubles. Ian Talbot was a member of the winning Over 35, Over 45 and Over 55 teams. He also won the Men’s Doubles in the same age groups. Other Wellington players to win gold medals were Bryan McConnochie (4), Chris Talbot (3), Depak Patel (2) and Graeme Sole (1).

Teams events (Wednesday- Friday, 9-11 February)

Over 35 Teams finalists
Over 35 Teams finalists: Gold – Bryan McConnochie, Chris Talbot, Ian Talbot; Silver – Paul Solt, Depak Patel, Raewyn Young

In the Over 55 teams, Bryan McConnochie and Ian Talbot retained their title winning all their matches. In the Over 45 teams Chris and Ian Talbot won their fourth consecutive title in a close final 3-2 against Depak Patel/Raewyn Young. In the Over 35 teams, the Talbot brothers and Bryan McConnochie won the final 4-1 against Depak Patel, Raewyn Young and Paul Solt. This was also the Talbot brothers fourth consecutive title.

A player collapsed from heat exhaustion in the late afternoon, during the teams event. He went to hospital and was later discharged. This happened despite him drinking plenty of water during the day. It was a reminder that players must listen to what their bodies are telling them.

Individual Events (Saturday-Sunday 12-13 February)

Saturday was the longest day with play finishing at 10.30pm. This was due to allowing people to enter both the Over 35 and Over 55 events. In the Over 35 Men’s Singles final Shane Wilson (Wanganui) beat Ian Talbot 3-0 which was a repeat of the 2005 final. A great 43rd birthday present for Shane, who was the 1993 Wellington Open Men’s Singles winner. Charly Talumepa (Manawatu) won the Over 45 Men’s Singles beating Chris Talbot 3-2. Gerard Lucas (Sri Lanka) retained the Over 55 Men’s Singles 3-2 against Ian Talbot. Gerard also won the Over 65 and Over 70 Men’s Singles and won the most gold medals for table tennis (7).

Doctor Gerard Lucas, a retired paediatrician, was the former Sri Lanka number 1 (1965) and national team member. He had wins against the visiting Pakistan national champion, the Russian ranked number 2 player and Chinese players. In 1967 he won the All India Men’s Doubles, with P V Gopalakrishnan. At the World Masters Games in Edmonton, Canada (2005) he won the Silver medal in the Over 55 Men’s Doubles.

The Women Singles was won by Raewyn Young (Over 35 and Over 45), Val Scarr (Over 55 and Over 65) and Annice Robottom (Over 70). A certain international umpire was 65 on Sunday. She will be umpiring at the World Championships held in May, in the Dutch city of Rotterdam.

Results are on the NZ Masters Games site.

Dave Welch (Table tennis organiser) with Malcolm Wong
Dave Welch (Table tennis organiser) with Malcolm Wong

Summer Interclub – New Trial Format

Can’t remember what a table tennis ball looks like? You need to get back into interclub! Summer interclub is starting at the start of March. We had the composite teams in spring, and again something different for summer: 2-player teams (with best-of-7 matches). This format is used elsewhere (e.g. Auckland use it for all their regular season divisions) and has some advantages over 3-player format.

Start: March 2 (Wednesdays)
End: April 6 (may vary according to entries)
Entries close: Feb 23 (to Bruce: chairperson [at] ttwellington.org.nz)
Entry form and full details: 2011 TTW Summer Interclub Entry Form

The format is 2 singles each (best-of-7) and one doubles (which is best of 7 too unless both captains agree on best of 5). For singles (2-player best-of-7 matches) you get about the same number of sets (8-14) as 3-player best-of-5 (9-15). For doubles, the player who would have played 2 matches plays less while the other two play a little more.

Fees are a flat $7 each ($14/team).

Players must be affiliated to a clubs but can find their own team, cross-club teams are fine. You can enter as a reserve-only if you like.

Stag 3-star balls will be provided.

Points are 2 for a team win, 1 for a 2-3 loss (‘bonus-point’ style), and 0 for any other loss.

Summer competition is a great way to get back into form and this new format should be interesting to try out. The main change being longer matches which I think means:

  1. Fewer upsets. In theory a longer match means less chance of an upset. All the more satisfying when you beat that higher ranked player!
  2. More drama. Coming back from 0-3 to win 4-3 on the cards?
  3. More experimentation. With more games there is more opportunity to change tactics to experiment for yourself or to test an opponent.
  4. Strategy. You are more likely to have to change your tactics during a longer match if your opponent adjusts.

N Z Veterans Open Championships (Invercargill 21-25/4/11)

Mitre Peak
Fancy a trip down south? See the TTNZ National Events page for all the details… (entry forms from the Table Tennis Southland website, entries close March 7).

From the newsletter:

With the collapse of the roof over Stadium Southland due to excessive snow we have been able to secure the ILT Velodrome (part of Stadium Southland) for the 2011 New Zealand Veteran Championships together with the Paul Skelt Hall at Badminton Southland (across carpark from Stadium Southland).

The Velodrome will have a mobile wooden floor installed for Netball and Basketball which we are able to use during Easter. This floor will hold 14 tables. A further 4 tables will be used in the Badminton Stadium (Paul Skelt Hall). Also a wooden floor.

INVERCARGILL is the gateway to the south. Planes fly into Christchurch, Dunedin and Queenstown. Air New Zealand is the only one to fly into Invercargill.

Take an extra one or two weeks to travel south via the South Otago road through the Catlins to Invercargill. Visit Stewart Island by boat, approx 1 hr or fly about 15 min. Visit beautiful Fiordland via coast road through Riverton to Manapouri, Doubtful Sound, Te Anau, Milford Sound, then to Queenstown.

It takes approx 2 ½ hrs to travel to Manapouri, Te Anau or Queenstown, but there are lots to see on the way so allow for more time. Wanaka, West Coast, Mount Cook are all worthwhile taking time to visit.

Composite Interclub Final Results

The final results are posted here (the file is here).

Congratulations to:

Section 1 winners: Pumas (Depak Patel, Jason Giles, Diana Levinson, Scott Higham)
Section 2 winners: Bobcats (Graham Sole, Reg Fuez, Adam Xiong)

The composite mix certainly led to a lot of close team results each week, I certainly enjoyed it and I hope you all did! Thanks to Bruce for all the legwork on each night, and Chris Williams for collating the results each week. We’re already thinking up ideas for the next summer competition (later in Feb) so something else interesting is on the cards to trial, let us know if you have any thoughts, things like a 2-player section which has been talked about for a while are on the table, and other possibilities too.

Aussie Vets 2010 Gold – Report

The 27th Australian Veterans Table Tennis Championships were held recently (16-23 October 2010) at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, Melbourne.

This venue was situated in a south Melbourne suburb next to a lake in Albert Park, where the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix is held every year.

Over 300 participants from around Australia and New Zealand took part, covering ages 40 to over 80. New Zealand had its biggest team ever with 30 players making the trip over the Tasman.

Four players from Table Tennis Wellington took part in the championships. The Over 50 Mens A team consisted of Depak Patel (captain) and Ian Talbot (both Empire) and Bryan McConnochie from Titan/Kapiti. Raewyn Young (Empire) was the captain of the Over 40 Womens team. The other team members were Joanna Ma (Otago) and Akiko Goto (Canterbury).


Over 40 Womens Teams results:

vs Victoria B won 11-0
vs Queensland B won 10-1
vs Northern Territory won 10-1
vs Western Australia won 10-1
vs Queensland won 6-5
vs New South Wales B won 10-1
vs Presidents won 8-3
vs New South Wales won 6-5
vs Victoria won 6-5

In the final against Victoria, Akiko played the final match against Vicki Carruthers (a very experienced player), who had already lost to Raewyn and Joanna. Akiko was not expected to win but showed great determination to fight back from 2 sets down to win 11-13, 4-11, 11-7, 12-10, 11-8. The NZ team erupted with delight when the last point was won – a truly memorable experience. This team was the first from NZ to win a gold medal in a team event since this tournament commenced 27 years ago.

Raewyn won 70% of her matches and was placed 9th and Joanna was placed 2nd on the Merit List.

Over 50 Mens Teams results:

vs Queensland B won 8-3
vs ACT B won 10-1
vs Northern Territory won 6-5   Bryan won the last match 3-0
vs Victoria lost 2-9
vs New South Wales lost 0-11  Was a tough day at the office! Bryan got a set of Paul Pinkevic
vs Tasmania won 7-4
vs New South Wales B won 11-0
vs Queensland lost 3-8  Ian defaulted 2 matches due to injury

Depak won 58% of his matches with Bryan winning 50% and Ian 46%. The team finished a creditable 6th out of 14 teams.

(click for the TTNZ article with all the names)

2010 Composite Teams Interclub

FINAL Percentages:
2010 Composite Teams 8/12/2010 Final

Dec 8:
Composite Sec 1 Final 081210
Composite Sec 1 3rd & 4th 081210
Composite Sec 1 5th-6th 081210
Composite Sec 1 7th & 8th 081210
Composite Sec 2 Final 081210

Dec 1:
Composite Section 1 (Top 4) Dec 1
Composite Section 1 (Bottom 4) Dec 1
Composite Section 2 Dec 1

Nov 24:
Composite Sec 1 Black 24/11/10
Composite Sec 1 Gold 24/11/10
Composite Sec 2 24/11/10

Nov 17:
Composite Sec 1 Black 17/11/10
Composite Sec 1 Gold 17/11/10
Composite Sec 2 17/11/10

Nov 10:
Composite Sec 1 Black 10/11/10
Composite Sec 1 Gold 10/11/10
Composite Sec 2 10/11/10

TTNZ Survey – National Tournament Structure

Did you attend a National event: Norths or Souths (team or individual), Nationals Junior or Senior, NZ Vets)? Please return the survey per the email copied below from Tim Seaholme (ttnzar [AT] xtra [dot] co [dot] nz).

Dear Association/Player,

As you know 2010 had in place a trail tournament structure, and the review process for this is underway. TTNZ would love to include your experiences and views on how this has gone and invite you to complete an online survey by following this link:

TableTennis NZ survey_distributed.pdf

Your views will help to shape the tournament structure in 2011 so please take the time to complete the short survey. Please complete your responses by Sunday 7th November.

TTNZ hope that you have had an enjoyable year of table tennis, and I look forward to more excitement next year.

Kind regards,
Tim Seaholme.

Composite Teams – now starting Nov 10 Wednesday

Quick update: due to various schedule clashes this is starting next week ending Dec 8.

Australian Vets Gold

NZ wins gold at the Australian Vets Over 40s women’s team event, beating Victoria 6-5 in the final!

This team includes Raewyn Young (captain) (Empire Club) with: Sarah Sandley, Joanna Ma, & Akiko Goto.

For detailed results click here.

Note also the over 50 Men No. 1 Team: Ian Talbot (Empire Club), Bryan McConnochie (Kapiti), Depak Patel (Captain) (Empire Club).

More details and pics coming soon…

Interesting new PingSkills articles

Check out the PingSkills blog with a couple of new entries with particular NZ interest in particular a wide-ranging interview with Richard Lee – 3 Time New Zealand Open Champion.

Maybe some new ideas for you to try out in the upcoming Composite Teams!

(thanks to Paul Griffin for the link)

Composite Team Interclub

Missing that ping pong patter already? Get your bat out and your name down for the upcoming Composite Team Interclub… just email your name, club, and contact numbers to Bruce (chairperson [at] ttwellington [dot] org [dot] nz) or call him on 04 589 1818 (or post Table Tennis Wellington, PO Box 12-038, Thorndon, Wellington 6144).

When: Wednesdays Nov 3 – Dec 1, 7pm.
Where: Empire TTC, Marine Parade, Petone
What: 3-player teams to be arranged to keep teams as equal as possible. 11-match format.
Who: You! Please enter by Oct 26 (as individuals to be matched up into teams).

Full details here: TTWComposite Interclub Entry Form

NZ Senior Nationals

Full Results

Are here from the TTNZ site.

Peak result summary includes:

  • Men’s Open Qtrs: Andrew Hubbard
  • Women’s Open Semis: Catherine Zhou
  • Open Mixed Doubles Finals: Andrew Hubbard/Catherine Zhou
  • B Grade Men’s Singles Winner: Thom Nguyen
  • O30s men’s Semis: Julian Wootton
  • U21 Men’s Singles Qtrs: Thom Nguyen

Team Results

Both Wellington teams won their grading matches (men 3-2 over Tahiti to go into the B Grade and the women 3-2 over Tahiti to go into the A Grade).

Team results here:
2010 New Zealand Senior Open Team Events results
The men 5th in B Grade and the women 6th in A Grade. Congratulations to all!

“Roger Rao (Auckland) (pictured) created history at the TTNZ National Senior Championships when he became the youngest ever winner of the men’s singles at 13 years and 337 days, breaking a record previously held by TTNZ Hall of Fame inductee Richard Lee………..”(TTNZ)

“Table tennis: Eyes on place at top table” – NZHerald

Click here for a NZ Herald article on the NZ team currently competing at the Commonwealth Games.

The TTNZ site posts results.

Or go here for a ‘what’s on’ and recent results search on NZ Herald.

Update: NZHerald on the quarter final loss to Malaysia

Update: TTNZ wrap-up here: New Zealand Table Tennis Team at the Commonwealth Games– with lots of great pictures also note Val Scarr of Manawatu umpired in the teams Gold match between England and Singapore.

L/R: Jenny Hung, Annie Yang, Li Chunli (coach), Karen Li, Yang Sun



Regional Schools – Final Results

Perhaps the biggest thing this year was the big push this year into secondary schools in combination with the primary/intermediates. Thanks to Andrew Hubbard who worked closely with College Sport Wellington for the secondary schools and The Lion Foundation for the primary/intermediate school work. (See also Andrew’s earlier entries on this blog under TTW:Schools for a glimpse into coaching and development in the schools in our area.)

For the record, here are the final results for the recent schools teams competition:
2010 Regional Intermediate Tournament Results
CSW 2010 Secondary Schools

Secondary

Premier Girls:
1st: HVHS : Helen Wu, Ellen Xiong, Philippa Morris, Shannon Fitzgerald
2nd (equal): Kapiti College : Mako Nishikawa, Ariana Te Raugiita, Ruby Meres, Yuri Sato
and Chilton St James 1 : Natalia Walker, Mikie Milloy, Stef McCallum, Victoria Munn

Division 2 Girls:
1st: Sacred Heart College 2 : Danielle Duggan, Teneya Nicole, Michelle Pather, Keely Cherry
2nd: Sacred Heart College 3 : Wairemana Williams, Teresa Warner, Jess Andrew, Belinda Dodge

Premier 1-Boys:
1st: Upper Hutt : Martin Murdoch, Conal Warrender, Jermaine Harawia
2nd: Onslow College : Noam Bar-Shalom, Rory McKenzie, Evan Simmers

Premier 2-Boys:
1st: HVHS 2 : Callum Gates, Ian Wang, Craig Morgan, Steven Cheong
2nd (equal): HVHS 3: Stefan Vrecic, Gareth Telfer, Garrett Fitzgerald, Yao Chun
and Kapiti College 1 : Naoki Suo, Joe Harris, Max Beckman, Daniel Reupke

Premier 3-Boys:
1st: Wellington College 2 : Cheyaathan Haran, Arjun Sundareshwar, Cameron Crofts, Sam Cooper, James Partridge, Gavin Hewitson
2nd (equal): Onslow College 2 : Jack Walker-Bowell, Rhune Pettit, Rowan Stimpson, Conor Harrison
and Newlands College 1 : Sam Chittenden, Thomas Chittenden, Joanna Judge, Karan Sood

Premier 4-Boys:
1st: Upper Hutt College 2 : Daniel Dexter, Jesse Pullen, Matt Reynecke, Alex Zurek
2nd (equal): HVHS 5 : Rob Salisbury, Donald Tang, Louie Thie, Brandon Ngan
and Wellington High 1 : Jeremy Le Garrec, Jackson Croft, Sam Forman, Jeremy Sutton, Christy

Premier 5-Boys:
1st: St Patricks Silverstream 5 : Kameron Field, Nikau Fiso, Angelo Miranda, Jermaine Rodgers
2nd: Kapiti College 2 : William Duncan, Daniel Ellison, Janosch Nagy

Premier 6-Boys:
1st: Newlands College : Neel Patel, Andrew Withers, Scott Edgecomb, Riddhesh Bardiy, Quijada Munoz
2nd: St Patricks Silverstream 6 : Lewis Barr-Brown, Ryan Drake, Steven Mitchell, Cory Van de Coolwijk

Intermediate

Premier Boys:
1st: Hutt Intermediate 1 : Liam Campbell, Kieran Mouton, Jordan Duff
2nd: Wellesley College 1 : Willem van der Wilt, Christian Davey, Ben Linton

Division 2 Boys:
1st: Wellesley College 3 : Jules Harrey, Louis Stevens, John Clearwater, Christian Webby
2nd: Wellesley College 4 : James Watkins, Toka Sopoaga, Hayden Nickel, Hector McLachlan

Division 3 Boys:
1st: Wainuiomta Intermediate 1 : Sunzer Wu, Caleb Smith, Scott Saengpanya, Ryan Millar
2nd: Karori West Normal School 2 : Jordan Collicoat, Michael Woods, Mitchell Crayford, George Nesus-Stainton

Girl’s Division:
1st: Hutt Intermediate 1 : Angela Chapman, Mia Paranihi, Trinity Masoe, Brea Rolton
2nd: Naenae Intermediate 1 : Naea Albert, Fonofa Fale, Danche Anae, Dianna Oloapu

2010 Winter Interclub Completed & Grade Champs

As a wrap-up, all results and the team finals results are at “2010 Winter Interclub Results” (in a nutshell, congratulations Waterloo Wasps/Prem 1, Waterloo Wizards/Prem 2, and Karori Kometz/Prem 3!).  We also had the Prem 2 and Prem grade champs (singles and doubles) with these results:

Prem 3 Singles Elias Villanueva bt Luke Falvey
Prem 3 Doubles Elias Villanueva/Vladimir Vysotskiy 1st, Jack Ho/Luke Falvey 2nd , Maggie Dyer/Margaret Cloughley 3rd in a round-robin where there had to be a count back on points, to separate the three combinations, after they all won one contest in five sets!

Prem 2 Singles Tai Zhu bt Matthew Hobbs
Prem 2 Doubles Tai Zhu/Graham Sole bt Tristian Alay-ay/Hayden Kirkbeck.

Here are some pictures from the Prem 2 night after I brought my camera down (must do more often…):

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Where is the Newtown Wellington Table Tennis Stadium?

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It’s on Alexandra Rd, Newtown, Wellington and while there are no street numbers the building appears nestled in the bush – you won’t see much of the building driving by except for a street sign and a car park on each side of the road:

Newtown stadium street sign (TABLE TENNIS)
Newtown stadium street sign

How to get there?  If driving turn up Alexandra Rd from Constable St and the stadium will be on the left shortly after the tennis, running,and croquet clubs with a parking lot above it and also on the other side of the road.

If walking or biking from the city, Mein St is a more direct access and has a path at the end leading up to the southern (rear) of the stadium (the door is on the Northern side).

And inside…  (Titan club Sunday mornings 9:30am – 1pm, midweek clubs, )

Wellington Table Tennis Stadium Newtown
Wellington Table Tennis Stadium Newtown

The Talbot Brothers

Chris & Ian Talbot

Ian and Chris Talbot, two well known Empire Premier 1 players, come from a table tennis family. The father, Des, and all the six sons played. The boys started playing in primary school. Ian, Ross, Geoff and Chris won the Wellington Primary Schools Boys Singles Titles. Ross won the Primary Schools Singles three times and was only 9 years of age when he won for the first time in 1965. Ross won the Wellington Senior and Junior Secondary Schools Boys Singles in 1970.

Des Talbot took over the running of the Porirua Table Tennis Club. The family dominated the Club Singles Title. Des, won the title when it was first held in 1969, and also 1975. Ian won in 1970 and 1972-73. Ross won seven times,1971,1974,1977-78 and 1982-84. Murray won 1980-81. Chris won eight time, 1985-92. Only non family members to win were Tony Rutledge (1976) and Steve Corbett (1979). Chris Talbot still has the cup as the Porirua Club folded up after 1992.

The Talbot brothers had their own basketball team in the Porirua league, with Ross and Bryan the stars. Bryan went on to represent Porirua . Ian, Chris and Bryan have run marathons. Ian has run 20 marathons with a best time of 2 hours 29 minutes 16 seconds (London 1981). Ian has also run triathons and been on the Round Taupo Cycle Challenge (160 km) 3 times. Chris played senior cricket for North City and caught NZ opening batsman Bruce Edgar out.

Murray, Ian, Ross and Chris all represented Kapiti at the NZ Championships. Murray, Ross and Chris have all been the top ranked man in Kapiti. After the Kapiti Association folded up Ian and Chris joined the Empire Club. Chris has played Premier 1 since 1994 and Ian from 2000.They were in the Empire team that finished runner up in Premier 1 (2009). They have both won the Empire Club Singles. Chris 5 times (1999-2001, 2003, 2006) and Ian (2005). And together they have won the club doubles 10 times (1999-2006, 2009-2010).

Ian and Chris Talbot have represented New Zealand in the veterans table tennis test against Australia at Easter. Ian has won the NZ Over 45 Men’s Doubles twice, with Lindsay Ward (2003) and with his brother, Chris (2008). They have had much success in the NZ Masters Games in Wanganui. Ian has won 12 Gold Medals and Chris 10 Gold medals.

-Malcolm Wong

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