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Interclub Finals Night & Grade Champs

Congratulations to all interclub players, a great season all-round with some close results in the end leaving some results in the balance until the last night!  Thanks to Stephen, Diane, Bruce, & Paul for their hard work in keeping the wheels rolling and the results posted.

Tuesday Sep 14:  Premier 1, 2  and 3 Team Finals:

Prem 3 Final:  Karori Kometz (winners of Series 2 round robin) v Empire Tsunami (on equal points with Empire Tornado but make the final on a count back by one game!).

Prem 2 Final:  Waterloo Wizards (winners of Series 1 & Series 2 round robin) v Karori/Titan

Prem 1 Final:  Waterloo Wasps (winners of Series 1 & Series 2 round robin) v Titan/Kapiti

Premier 2 & 3 Grade Championships:

Tuesday Sep 21, Premier 3 grade champs – open to all Premier 3 players (except the three main players in Empire Advancers promoted from Premier 3 to Premier 2 for Series 2).

Wednesday Sep 22 Premier 2 grade champs – open to all Premier 2 & 3 players (except the two players promoted from Premier 2 to Premier 1 for Series 2).

The Empire Table Tennis Stadium opens at 6:30pm in each case, matches start 7pm.

Australian Vets Championships – 16 to 23 Oct, 2010

2010 Aust Vets Indiv Entry Form

27th Australian Veterans

Table Tennis Championships

 16 – 23 October 2010

 To be held at the

Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre, Albert Park, Melbourne, Victoria

 Referee:                        Mr Graeme Ireland.       (International Referee)

 Deputy Referees:          Mr Philip Males   (International Referee), Ms Fanny Ho       (International Umpire)

 Tournament Director:    Mr Alan Hopkins

 Organising Committee:  Table Tennis Victoria – Veterans Committee

(Chairperson    Mr Nick McConnell)

 Tournament Control:     Brian & Bev James

 Entries Close:                        Friday, 3rd September 2010

NZ Team to World Junior Championships – Thom Nguyen

National news…  Thom Nguyen from the Waterloo club has been selected to represent New Zealand in the Boys’ team at the world junior championships, congratulations!  This will be in Bratislava, Slovakia from 4-11 December 2010.

more team info here: http://www.tabletennis.org.nz

Manawatu Vets Graded Doubles Tournament – Aug 21, 2010

Entries close Thursday 19 Aug. See entry form below for more information.

MVTC 11th Veterans Doubles Tournament

Waikato Open – 18-19 September, 2010

Waikato Table Tennis Open Tournament 18 -19 September 2010.

Entry Form

 Entries close 15 September 2010

2010 WELLINGTON OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS

TTW Chairman Bruce Northover with 2010 Women’s Open Singles Champion Catherine Zhou(Lin Zhou) and runner up Natalie Patterson
TTW Chairman Bruce Northover with 2010 Open Men’s Singles Champion Oliver Scarlett and runner up Phillip McConnochie

 

July 31. Spectators were treated to an impressive display from Wellington’s Lin Zhou(Catherine Zhou) , beating Manuawatu’s Natalie Paterson in a close seven set encounter.  Lin won the first set 11-9, dropping the next two sets 6-11, 7-11.  Patterson, a right handed attacking player with strong counter hit and topspin loops and a variety of heavy forehand spin serves had Wellington’s Lin Zhou under a lot of pressure.  Lin is a left handed penhold player with a high toss serve , she plays close to the table using  short pimple rubber on the forehand and smooth rubber on the reverse side which she sometimes twiddles and uses in combination with her high toss serve.  Lin equalised by winning the fourth set 12-10.  Patterson won the sixth set and led  6-2 in the seventh set before Lin fought back to equalise at 6 all, before going onto to win 11-8, adding a fourth Wellington Open Women’s singles title to her name.

Auckland’s Oliver Scarlett was the winner of the 2010 Wellington Open Men’s Singles title defeating Wellington’s Philip McConnochie 4 sets to one in the final. In the quarter finals Scarlett defeated Auckland’s Aaron Gong 11-8,11-8,13-11,12-10. In the semi-final he defeated Waikato’s James Harter 4-2. Earlier Harter had  defeated North Harbours Mitchell Barker 4-o in the quarter final match.  Barker had previously shown good fighting qualities defeating Wellington’s Hayden Tapp 4-3 with Tapp unable to capitalise on a 3-1 lead. In the other side of the draw  North Harbours Craig Dye defeated Thom Nyugen 4-2  in one quarter final while Wellingtons in form  Philip McConnochie defeated Callum Rusbridge 4-3 before going on to defeat Dye in the semi final.

TTW Junior Development Tournament – August 2010

This tournament is being held on Sunday August 22.

Age groups are U12, U14 and U17.

Please refer to the Junior Development Entry Aug 2010 for more information.

2010 New Zealand Open

The New Zealand Open Championships are being hosted by the Auckland Association 5-10 October 2010.
This is a reminder that entries Close 9 September 2010.
The entry forms are available at: http://www.tabletennis.org.nz/nationalevents.htm with the option of an Excel form or a pdf one, and fees payment can be direct to Auckland's Account.
Please complete the forms clearly and fully with all the information requested - this includes email contact and Date of Birth.
All communication regarding the champs should be to: aucklandtt@xtra.co.nz

Manawatu Open: 4 September, 2010

The Manawatu Open is to be held 4th September 2010. Please note entries close on 28th August 2010.

Manawatu Open Entry Open

ITTF Level 1 Coaches Course 2010

TTNZ will be running an ITTF Level 1 Coaching course later in the year. Anyone interested please email secretary [AT] ttwellington.org.nz !

Venue yet to be determined, it is possible that funding may partially cover any travel costs.  It would start on a Thursday night and continue until Sunday (it is a 24 hour in total course).

A Level 2 course is planned for 2011.

Ref: ITTF Coach Accreditation for more details.

Eric Tindill

Eric Tindill, who died on Sunday 1 August aged 99, was the first Treasurer of the Wellington Table Tennis Association (1933) and a Life Member.

He is better known as one of seven ‘Double All Blacks’ and the only one to play rugby and cricket tests for New Zealand. Eric represented NZ at rugby (1935-38) and played one test against England (1935) as a five eight. He played 5 cricket tests for NZ (1937-47) as a wicket keeper and did manage to catch the great Australia batsman, Sir Don Bradman, off the bowling of Jack Cowie in NZ v South Australia (1937). He also refereed three rugby tests (1950 v Lions (2), 1955 v Australia) and umpired a cricket test (1959 v England).

Eric was inducted into the NZ sports hall of fame (1995) and was officially recognised as a legend of Wellington sport (2005).  He also represented Wellington at football and table tennis.

Eric retained a keen interest in table tennis and attended many Wellington Table Tennis Association AGMs.

-Malcolm Wong

Also: The Dominion Post, Telegraph, NY Times.

Wgtn Open on youtube

Win took some unofficial video with his phone on Saturday,  search on youtube for “ttwfan” to see what he’s got.  (Contact Win with any questions!)

2010 Cathay Pacific Auckland Open Open entry form

Here is the entry form for the 2010 Cathay Pacific Auckland Open.  Events will be held over two days – Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th August, 2010.
Events range from Under 11 to Over 60, and from Junior Novice to Open.
Entries close on Wednesday 25th August, 2010.

Table Tennis for Fun and Table Tennis for Blood

"Chess for Fun and Chess for Blood" by Edward Lasker

The title of the 1942 book: “Chess for Fun and Chess for Blood” (by Edward Lasker) captures the spirit of competitive chess (and indeed any sport) with enthusiasm on one side and yet the innate mortal warfare on the other.

Enjoy the TTSports Wellington Open this weekend everyone!

Nelson Open Report

A report on the recent Nelson Open (June 25/26) from Malcolm Wong who won the O40 & O50 MD with Mark Nalder (Nelson) and was r/u in the Second Grade XD with Glenda Ferguson (Nelson).  The Wong/Nalder combination have now won 10 doubles titles and Malcolm Wong has won 65 tournament titles!

This tournament was held at the new Saxton Field Sports Stadium (7,000 sqm) which was built at a cost of $13 million.  Funding has been provided by the Nelson City Council, Tasman District Council and the Saxton Field Sports Stadium Society.  There are 5 basketball courts in the main part of the complex, which is also used for netball, volleyball and handball.  Table tennis is in a separate part of the complex. There are 8 tables and there is heating to regulate the temperature inside.  There is an office, table tennis shop and cafeteria on the ground floor and seating upstairs.

Bryan Keane ran the tournament with his normal efficiency, with Paul Op Den Buysch operating the Xpand2Play system on the computer and Daryl Jones (Marlborough) writing out the certificates. Play started 9am on the Saturday and finished 10.30pm. Having group play for all events meant a longer day than usual.

Canterbury players dominated the Open events. Simon Fenwick won the MS against William Pringle 4-2  Pringle/Chris Erskine (Nelson) won the MD against Fenwick/Nalder(Nelson) 3-1  Jenny Hung beat Megan Stratford (Marlborough) in the WS 4-0 Hung/Tracey Deeley (Nelson) won the WD and Hung/Fenwick won the XD.  Veteran Mark Nalder played in 7 finals, winning the O40 & O50 MS and MD, and was r/u in the MD and Second Grade MS & MD.

2010 Cathay Pacific NZL Junior Open

…results are all posted on http://www.tabletennis.org.nz, in particular the draws including Wellington players (search for “(W)”) – many players making it out the the group stages:

U18 Boys‘ – congratulations Thom Nguyen winner!!!

U15 Boys’ and Girls’

U13 Boys’ and Girls’

Teams:

U18 Boys’,  U15 Boys’,  U15 Girls’,  U13 Boys’.

TTSports Wellington Open – July 31 & August 1, 2010

Entries are now open for the TTSports Wellington Table Tennis Open. The entry form and conditions have been corrected since being sent out via email on 9 July.

Information and Conditions

Entry Form (pdf version) or go to www.ttwellington.org.nz for an excel version to submit electronically.

Thanks to our tournament sponsors: TTSports, Andro, Foreshore Motor Lodge

Entries and enquiries should be sent to tournament@ttwellington.org.nz

NZL Junior Nationals-Day 2

July 8, day two at the New Zealand National Junior Championships saw TTW teams play a total of 13 team matches.

The under 15 girls team continued to impress with a 5-0 win over Counties Manukau ‘B’ and a narrow 2-3 loss to Counties Manukau ‘A’ .

In the U/18 Boys team event the TTW team had a 5-0 win over Canturbury,  next we played Tahiti who defeated us 3-2 despite Thom Nguyn leading  the way for Wellington with a  clear 3-0 win over Oceania top 5 U/18 ranked Ocean Belrose and a second singles win.  Later in the day the U/18 team went down 3-2 to the visiting Victorian team and again Thom Nguyen performed well with  a 12-10 win in the fifth over Edward Anderson-Higginson and a win over Brodee Cookson.

The U/15 boys showed a lot of determination throughout the day recording a 3-2 win over the Auckland ‘B’ team with Conal Warrender winning two singles and Matthew Sheppard clinching the match with a 3-2 win over Eugene Yao. The big match was against the North Harbour team with the winner likely to progress through to the final against Auckland ‘A’.  Conal Warrender started well with a 3-2 win, Matthew Sheppard then lost a close match 1-3 before teaming up with Caleb Magan to play a blinder in the doubles. Wellington won the doubles to lead 2-1. The next two matches produced some great table tennis but unfortunately the contest ended in a 3-2 win for the North Harbour team.

U/15 TTW Girls Lead The Way On Day One of Championships

Wellington made a good start in the Under 15 girl’s ‘A’ grade competition with a 5-0 win against North Harbour ‘B’ .  11 year old Angela Chapmen recorded her first victory at National level pairing with Maddy Nash in a 3-0 doubles win and then defeated  Iris Liu 3-0 to make it two wins.

In the new U/13 team events Wellingon ‘B’ were narrowly beaten by Waitemata ‘A’ 3-2. Mats Olsthoorn performed well teaming up with Ben Westenra to win a doubles and also won his singles match.

In the U/18 Boys team event Wellingto played  Auckland ‘A’ with Thom Nguyen recording a 3-1 victory over Z Cheng.  Thom  also had a very exciting  5 set match with Lingnan Kong , where he led 2 sets to nil but unfoutunately lost 3-2. Delano Lam lost 3-0 against Oliver Scarlett and Jeffrey Chin lost 3-1 to Oliver Scarlett. Auckland also won the doubles and Wellington lost 4-1.

Overall Wellington Team Manager Russell Stoupe commented ‘It’s been great to have so much support from the other parents that are here. Everyone is working incredibly hard to look  after the boys and girls which is enabling the team to play to their full potential. Looking forward to some great matches through the coming week.”

Hawkes Bay Table Tennis Open – July 17, 2010

Entry Form

RODNEY GREEN CENTENNIAL EVENTS CENTRE LATHAM STREET, NAPIER

Play Starting at 9-30AM sharp

Entries close Saturday, 10 July 2010

With K. Bird, 29 Riverbend Road, Napier or

e-mail: hbtabletennis@gmail.com

Tournament Committee

Tournament Manager:   Kevin Bird                   Ph. (06) 843 6223 (evenings)  

Tournament Secretary:  Janice Kent                 Ph. (06) 844 9948 (evenings)

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