The Entry Forms for the South Island Championships being hosted by Table Tennis South Canterbury in Timaru on 14/15 August 2010 are available at http://www.tabletennis.org.nz. Entries Close Tuesday 20 July 2010. The TTNZ site as above is having temporary access technical problems at this very present time following a move of the server by the web host. If you cannot access the site the forms are also available at http://www.tabletennissc.org.nz/
The 2010 New Zealand Junior National Championship are being hosted by Auckland from July 7th – July 11th. The following teams have been selected to represent Wellington at the Championships:
Under 18 Boys Team
Thom Nyugen, Delano Lam, Jeffrey Chin
Under 18 Girls Draft Player
Lisa Yue
Under 15 Boys Team
Connal Warrender, Matthew Sheppard, Caleb Magan
Under 15 Girls Team
Maddy Nash, Ellen Xiong, Angela Chapmen
Under 13 Boys Team ‘A’
George Stoupe, Sean Hanson, Adam Xiong
Under 13 Boys Team ‘B’
David Van Drimmelen, Ben Westenra, Mats Olsthoorn
Entry forms and information for the North Harbour Open have been received.
This event is being held on July 24.
19 people attended the Have-a-go day held on June 20th at the Empire Table Tennis stadium. The event was organised by Parafed Wellington sports co-ordinator Michelle Laurenson. TTW was represented at the event with Secretary Stephen Hope setting up and TTW Chairman Bruce Northover assisting throughout the day.
TTW coach Andrew Hubbard commented ‘ there were 7 disabled athletes, wheelchair athlete 11 year old Catherine Pot showed a lot of potential and is keen to continue. Working with Parafed Wellington we plan to follow up on this day with regular coaching sessions for a number of wheelchair athletes who we hope may go on to represent Wellington at the NZL Parafed Championships being held in North Harbour 22-25 October.”
A special thanks to Empire Table Tennis Club Building Convenor John Kane who spent many long hours making the bathroom facilities at Empire wheelchair compliant for this event.
Under the direction of Wellington High School Head of Sport Mrs Di Jordan, Wellington High have been the first school in the Wellington region to benefit from the sponsorship arrangement TTW have entered into with one of New Zealand’s leading providers of sports equipment Rebel Sport. Following a very well attended demonstration to promote the term three Wellington zone interschools competition Mrs Jordan was the driving force to get a school table tennis club up and running. Three new Double Fish Deluxe roll away tables were purchased to complement the existing school tables as well as nets, bats and balls and going by the turnouts at the club so far more tables will be required. TTW coach Andrew Hubbard commented ‘ It’s great to see so many students enjoying table tennis, today there were around 60 students playing, many new to the sport and I am hopeful that we’ll see a good number of these students taking part in the Interschools comp which will commence on Tuesday 10 August at the TTW Newtown stadium.”
The Fiji Table Tennis invites players from all countries to participate in their Open National Championships which will be played at:-
Kashtriya Hall,
LAUTOKA
Fiji Islands
from the 26th to the 29th August 2010.
A Prospectus with Information plus an Entry Form has been uploaded to the OTTF website www.ottf.org for downloading and entry. Access is from the Front Page.
A Basic Course for Umpires will also be conducted by the OTTF URC Chairman Mr David Delpratt and information in relation to this is contained in the Prospectus. If anyone is interested please contact as per below.
We urge players to participate in this event if possible, support Fiji Table Tennis and have a holiday as well.
I understand Lautoka is on the west side of the island and close to Nadi International Airport.
For any further information please contact Anthony Ho at tabletennisfiji@aha.com.fj
NZ Junior Open (25-28 September 2003) revisited, a summary from Malcolm Wong including how some of the players have progressed:
This World Junior Circuit Tournament was held, in conjunction with the New Zealand Championships, at the Queens Wharf Events Centre in Wellington City. There were four Oceania countries. New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia and Fiji. From Asia came China, Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei, Japan and India.
John Stapleton (TTNZ representative and main co-ordinator) and PaulEscott (TTW Chairperson) headed the team organising the event. Key areas were handled by Andrew Palmer, Sabine Westenra and Robert Chung (Information Technology), Shona Cudby (Control Table), Merv Allardyce (Equipment), Averil Roberts (Administration), Ron Menchi (Accommodation), Malcolm Wong (Transport), Steve McCarthy and Robert Chung (Publicity, Sponsorship, Opening Ceremony) and John Stapleton (Timetable, within ITTF formula). The Referee was Angelo Tabone (Australia) and the Deputy Referee was Michael McAvinue (Manawatu). The umpires included Richard Ammundsen, Paul Escott, Averil Roberts and Malcolm Wong from Wellington.
China dominated all the events.
They won both the Boys and Girls Teams and also the Boys and Girls Singles and Doubles. Zhang Jike won the Boys Singles and the Doubles with Ma Long. Jia Jun won the Girls Singles. Chang Chenchen and Feng Tianwei won the Girls Doubles.
Chinese players at this tournament were to achieve further success at the World Junior Championships. Li Hu (2003) and Ma Long (2004) were to win the Boy Singles. Chang Chenchen won the Girls Singles and Doubles (2004).
At senior level, the following were to achieve success at the World Team Championships this year. Feng Tianwei, who had lost to Stephanie Sang (Australia) in the Girls Singles quarter finals 2-4, moved to Singapore in 2007. She represented Singapore at the World Championships and Olympics in 2008 where the team were runner up to China on both ocassions. This year she won 2 singles when Singapore beat China 3-1 in the Women’s World Team finals in Moscow. She is currently the World Number 2.
Ma Long and Zhang Jike were in the China Men’s Team which won this years World Teams final by beating Germany 3-1. Ma Long has been World Number 1 since January 2010 and Zhang Jike is currently World Number 5.
To be held at Empire Stadium on Sunday, June 27.
U14 from 10am to 1pm
U12 and U16 from 1pm to 4pm
Entries close Thursday June 24. Please email entries to secretary@ttwellington.org.nz
Saturday July 10, Lion Foundation Arena, Portsmouth Drive, Dunedin
Email secretary@ttwellington for an entry form or refer to www.otta.org.nz
The inaugural College Sport Wellington Table Tennis competition got underway on Wednesday 2 June. The Hutt Valley zone saw 28 teams from eight High Schools take part. TTW Chairman Bruce Northover along with TTW stalwart Alan Costley were on hand to assist with the running of the event and also a special thanks to Maggie Dyer from the Empire club for opening the canteen. Table Tennis Wellington Coach Andrew Hubbard who as part of the Kiwisport initiative has been around the Hutt Valley Schools promoting this event commented that he was ‘very happy withthe 28 teams entered , and that he will be making a promotional drive into Wellington City Schools coming up later this term.’
There was a strong performance from HIBS first team beating HVHS 2, 7-0. The two Chin brothers Jeoffrey and Garret combing with Josh Baker who is strong in the third slot. They are one of the favourites to win the Premier Grade.
Taita 1 lost 7-0 to HVHS 1 which was expected but Taita’s Rueben Reid nearly upset HVHS rep player Matthew Sheppard losing 12-10 in the fifth.
Taita 2 had an unexpectedly decisive 7-0 win over HVHS 3 which is a good result for them. Taita 3 also beat Upper Hutt 2 5-2 so it was a good day for Taita College.
Eentry forms for the 2010 Waikato Table Tennis Veterans Teams 19 June and Individual Tournaments 20 June are linked below:
Entries close Tuesday 15 June
I talked to Malcolm Wong following the recent 2010 Junior Open: “I became a provincial umpire in 2000 as I felt I should know the rules of the sport I played. Umpiring at the NZ World Junior Circuit Tournament in Wellington (2003) encouraged me to go further in umpiring. I umpired the world men’s number 1, Ma Long, at this tournament.”
In 2004 Malcolm became a National Umpire, a National Referee in 2007, and then passed the International Umpires exam in 2008. Last year he umpired at the French Junior Open and the Commonwealth Championships. After attended and passing an exam at a Racket Control Seminar (5 April) in Auckland he can now be appointed to be Chief Racket Controller at ITTF Tournaments.
On umpiring at the recent NZ Junior Open (6-9 April) in Auckland: “The first three days I was umpiring twelve hours each day, including 21 matches on day one. A lack of umpires meant I was umpiring virtually every round!
“Umpiring requires a good knowledge of the rules, the ability to concentrate during matches and apply the rules in an impartial manner.” – If you are interested in learning more about Table Tennis umpiring, Malcolm would love to hear from you!
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Attached: Malcolm’s Report on Racquet Control Seminar and New Zealand Junior Open 2010
Wellesley School were the Wellington region Intermediate boys champions in 2009 and won the central zone inter primary schools competition earlier this year. Obviously this is not a co-incidence. Organised by Mr Darren Houston and Mr Murray Blanford the school are currently half way through a knock out competition. There are a 128 players taking part. Regular practise sessions take part on the schools three tables. Organised by Mr Darren Houston on Friday 21 May, TTW Coach Andrew Hubbard and former Chinese provincial player Catherine Zhou carried out a demonstration at the school. Plans to return to provide coaching sessions were made and certainly Wellesley will be a school to watch out for again at this years championship .
These championships are being held on June 5-6 at North Harbour Stadium.
Entries close May 27.
Based on preliminary expected entries supplied by association officials, it looks like there wil be 32 teams entered for the North Island teams event at Queens Birthday.
Some categories will be combined, and the aim is to have each team play 7 contests over the weekend.
The preliminary timetable is
Saturday sessions: 9am, 11am, 1pm and 3pm finishing at 5pm
Sunday sessions: 9am, 11am, 1pm finishing at 3pm.
It is expected that all teams will play in every session, as the organisers are trying to have no byes.
Entries close next week, so there is room for changes to teams, and there are some teams who have asked for draft players, so organisers will accommodate those requests.
Thursday 20th saw TTW Coach Andrew Hubbard together with Catherine Zhou carry out a demonstration at Chilton St James school. A large number of interested students and teachers gathered in the school gym to watch the demonstration. Andrew commented ” My thanks to Head of Sport Ann Fowler for organising this visit. The demonstration went particularly well, the students were very keen and interested to learn more about table tennis. Nearly all of the students came up to have a go at returning Catherine’s high toss serve which they all really enjoyed”. The demonstration ended with a number of students registering to play in the new College Sport Wellington weekly schools competition which will be starting on Wednesday 2 June at the Empire Table Tennis Stadium.
Beginning this Wednesday 19th May a group of 40 keen students from Evans bay Intermediate will take part in a seven week table tennis skills program. The program has been co-ordinated by Evans Bay School Teachers Mrs Mary Sagato and Mrs Gina Newman. TTW Coach Andrew Hubbard commented ” I’m very grateful to Mrs Mary Sagato and Mrs Gina Newman for organising this program and look forward to working with them to grow table tennis in the future.”
On Wednesday 19th May TTW Coach Andrew Hubbard began a seven week program at Hutt Intermediate school working with a group of keen girls. Andrew commented” Given the difficulties we have experienced getting more girls into regular training I’m especially delighted to be working with this group of girls, I’d like to thank both Mrs Paula Willis-Love and Mrs Catherine Sawyer for their support and organisation of this initiative.”
Many Wellington Table Tennis players will remember the name Simon Edmonds, the former nationally ranked player and winner of numerous NZL titles while representing Hutt Valley is now the Principal of Gracefield School. TTW Coach Andrew Hubbard has been carrying out coaching visits to Gracefield school on Friday mornings. The program will run for seven consecutive weeks with five classes each day learning the basics of table tennis and being encouraged to go the next step and join a club.
Series 2 started on July 27/28. Finals were held on September 14 between the first and second placed teams in each grade. Grade champs are being held on September 21 (P3) and September 22 (P2)
The finals have now been played and results are available: Finals Results
Congratulations to:
Waterloo Wasps who defeated Titan/Kapiti 6-0 in Premier 1
Waterloo Wizards who defeated Karori/Titan 6-0 in Premier 2
Karori Kometz who defeated Empire Tsunami 6-5 in Premier 3 (the only close contest of the evening)
Medals were awarded to players in the winning teams. Thanks to all those who participated and made this year’s competition a success.
Week 7 (Sep 7 and 8 ) results are now available. 8)
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 1 Summary Stats, Premier 2 Summary Stats, Premier 3 Summary Stats
Week 7 results sheets: P1W7, P2W7, P3W7
Week 6 (Aug 31 – Sep 1) results are now available).
(Note: One P2 game has been deferred)
Premier 1 Summary Stats, Premier 2 Summary Stats, Premier 3 Summary Stats
Week 6 results sheets: P1W6, P2W6, P3W6
Week 5 (Aug 24-25) results are now available:
Premier 1 Summary Stats, Premier 2 Summary Stats, Premier 3 Summary Stats
Week 5 results sheets: P1W5, P2W5, P3W5
Week 4 (Aug 17-18) results are now available:
Premier 1 Summary Stats, Premier 2 Summary Stats, Premier 3 Summary Stats
Week 4 Results Sheets: P1W4, P2W4, P3W4
Week 3 results sheets: P1W3, P2W3, P3W3
Series 2 week2 (Aug 4/5): Prem 1 Series 2 Aug 3, Prem 2 Series 2 Aug 4, Prem 3 Series 2 Aug 3
Series 2 week1 (July 27/28): Prem 1 Series 2 July 27, Prem 2 Series 2 July 28, Prem 3 Series 2 July 27
Winter Interclub started May 18/19. Results will be published here each week. Our aim is to have results online by 5pm Thursday each week.
The first round has now been completed and round 2 will commence on July 27 and 28.
ROUND 2 DRAW:
TTW Winter Interclub Premier 1 draw Series 2
TTW Winter Interclub Premier 2 draw Series 2
TTW Winter Interclub Premier 3 draw Series 2
Congratulations to the winners of round 1:
Premier 1: Waterloo Wasps
Premier 2: Waterloo Wizards
Premier 3: Empire Avalanche
Summary data for all grades after week 7 (June 29 & 30):
Premier 1 Summary Stats, Premier 2 Summary Stats, Premier 3 Summary Stats
Scoresheets for week 7 are linked below:
Scoresheets for week 6 are linked below:
P1W6 Results Sheets, P2W6 Results Sheets, P3W6 Results Sheets
Scoresheets for week 5 are linked below:
Scoresheets for week 4 are linked below (please note: games scores for one P1 game are unknown):
P1W4 Results Sheets, P2w4 Results Sheets, P3W4 Results Sheets
Scoresheets for week 3 are linked below:
P1W3 results sheets, P2w3 results sheets, P3w3 results sheets
Scoresheets for week 2 are linked below:
P1W2 Results Sheets, P2W2 Results Sheets, P3W2 Results Sheets
Scoresheets for week 1 are linked below.
Premier 1 draw is here: TTW Winter Interclub Premier 1 draw Rd 1
Premier 2 draw is here: TTW Winter Interclub Premier 2 draw Rd 1
Premier 3 draw is here: TTW Winter Interclub Premier 3 draw Rd 1
Interclub Rules are here: TTW Interclub Rules – final
Code of Conduct here: 2010 TTW Code of Conduct
Have a fun year!
Table Tennis Wellington 
