Nick Brown in Holland

Well done Nick for travelling to Holland and competing at the World Hardbat Champs. Nick lost to Gilles Van Oorschot 27-25 & 21-10 in the last 16. Oorschot went on to lose to former Olympic Champ Jan Ove Waldner in the QF stage.

Nice one Nick...

Poll: The Highest Yet...

The current poll really has the Welsh public excited. With just 22 hours remaining to cast your vote on the category of 'who will win the junior girls Welsh Championships in March' it has had the most votes ever on this blog!!




Charlotte Carey leads the way with Angharad Phillips close behind in 2nd place at present....

Re-arranged Players Party

Due to the snow conditions on the 20th December and the cancellation of the ice-skating and the players party, some players have re booked their skating time at WinterWonderland for 12:20 on the 1st January.
If you need to call Ticketline to rebook your time, have your reference number ready and call 02920 230130 to speak to an agent.

See you there...

You Tube Videos from British League

Videos courtesy of Barrow TTC

- R Jenkins vs P Drinkhall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND0V8hVzTXI

- S Jenkins vs D Knight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu1WJQUEhAE

- R Jenkins vs G Rumgay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1WbGgqCLZs

ETTA Camp

2-5 January, Sheffield

Conor Edwards & Lewis Williams have been selected to attend an ETTA camp in the New Year. They will team up with all the top English junior players for a 4 day camp.

Cardiff GP results

Report on the TTAW website

www.ttaw.co.uk

Dates for the Diary

Welsh Primary Schools Championships - Cardiff
April 13th 2011

Welsh Secondary Schools Championships - Cardiff
May 7th
(You must attend this tournament to be able to qualify and then compete in the UK School Games, Sept 2011 in Sheffield)

Forms available soon...

Weather Disrupts, but...

The Cardiff GP is still on at present on the weekend despite the weather chaos around the UK.

Please check the TTAW site if this changes over night

Welcome Back

Ryan Owen, who was a Welsh International up to 2001, has returned to the table to try and get back into the fold. Ryan, from Merthyr, has competed already in TCW and British League. He will look to get back to his best at this weekends Cardiff GP.

Glamorgan Super League 3/1/2011

As there is a Bank Holiday on this day I thought this date will be suitable to hold the GSL as the last was cancelled by snow. Please email if you want to enter, entries on a first come first served basis as well as giving priority to people who entered first time around & the cost is £5 which can be paid on the day.

Dave Treharne - daitree@uwclub.net
Secretary

TT on S4C

Angharad & Megan Phillips were on S4C to promote themselves and Table Tennis leading into the Commonwealth Games. Copy and paste the link into your browser and move to 10minutes into the programme to see them:

http://www.s4c.co.uk/clic/c_level2.shtml?programme_id=419805502

Gwent Closed 2010

The Gwent Closed was once a firm favourite in the playing calendar of players from the South East Region of Wales, but has not been run for several years due to difficulties with venue and organisation.

The Gwent Table Tennis Association (GTTA) decided to get the competition organised this season, and so the event took place at Newport Velodrome on Saturday 4th of December, run on behalf of GTTA, by John Evans of Newport and District League.

The event had a good entry despite some players being unable to attend due to the weather, even so both Gwent leagues and all Gwent clubs were represented. All events were mixed male and female, and this made results difficult to predict. First away were the veterans and junior events. The big surprise in the junior event was that only one male player made it to the semi final stage, and the final was girls only. This bears testament to the strength of the young female players.
The eventual winner was Charlotte Carey, runner up was Beth Roberts.

The veterans was a hard fought event and the final between Tony Collins and Ray Goulding was a classic, going to deuce in the fifth. It was Ray Goulding who finally managed to grab 2 clear points to secure the victory. The seniors turned up the usual suspects for top honours, making it to the final were previous event winners Ray Goulding and Charlotte Carey. In yet another close match, Charlotte won through in the fifth set to claim the Halex Trophy.

New Poll - Vote Today

See Left side ....... Vote Today for your favorite

Greenhouse Super Series

Well Done to Charlotte Carey and Ryan Oyler for Winning today at Tonypandy in the Greenhouse Super Series

UKCC Tutors

Congratulations to Simon Oyler, Ryan Jenkins and Aled Howells on passing the initial stage of the tutors course at SWNC, Cardiff over the past 3 days. The final part of the training consists of an independent verifier who looks over the learners to confirm the level.

Maldives - singles results

Ryan Jenkins won the Maldives International Open from 2-4 December. The tournament which celebrated their association’s 50th anniversary was attended by players from Indian, Sri Lanka, Ireland, Germany, Pakistan, Wales and the hosts Maldives.

Ryan beat Lennart Wehking of Germany 4-2 in a tight final. In the semi finals Ryan took on Hermann Muehlbach also of Germany, and won 4-0. Hermann defeated Ryan’s brother Stephen 2-4 in another Quarter final.

The match was screened live on Maldives NBC1 channel, which is our equivalent of BBC1

Maldives Results

50th Anniversary Maldives Invitation Event

Ryan Jenkins teamed up with Indian partner Pooja Sahasrabudhe to win the mixed doubles event beating Rohan Sirisena (Sri Lanka) & Neha Aggarwal (India) 3-0 in the final.

In the Men's singles Ryan & Stephen Jenkins are safely through to the Q-Finals. They are joined by Irish talent Ryan Flood. Simon Oyler lost out to Sirisena (Sri Lanka) and Herman (Germany) in his qualification pool.

Player of the Month - November 2010

Please see the left side of this page....

Wales lose out to England

On Saturday night Charlotte Carey, Angharad Phillips, Megan Phillips and Nicole Hall lost out to Karina Lefevre, Eve Collier and Ify 9-4.
The star innings for Wales was Megan Phillips win 2 wins out of 3 (losing to Karina) and a doubles win with sister Angharad.
Charlotte won the other point for Wales against Ify 3-0.
Wales 4-England 9

Visit - http://www.batts.org.uk/

BATTS Super League

The Super league in Harlow on Friday night taught the players from Wales a lesson. Megan Phillips, Charlotte Carey, Nicole Hall & Angharad Phillips all had tough initial groups against much older and experienced players. Nicole played her first match against Darius Knight for instance...
Ryan & Steve Jenkins were also in attendance but both fell to the in-form Darius in the last 16 and the semi finals respectively. Darius went on to win the event against Chris Doran in the final 3-2.

Barrow too Strong...

Congratulations to Barrow for holding onto their 2 point lead at the top of the British League over the weekend.
Paul Drinkhall, Darius Knight, Gavin Rumgay and Seb Laux beat all the opponents before a draw with holders Drumchapel.
Drumchapel (represented by Welsh Internationals Ryan & Steve Jenkins) fought hard for their point and now hope that another team from the league upsets Barrow over the next two weekends in January and March respectively.

ETTA YDS Camp

Nicole Hall & Beth Roberts have been invited to attend a Youth Development Squad Camp this weekend at Lilleshall National Sports Centre in Shropshire. They will meet up with the best from England on Saturday and Sunday

Sport Wales Awards

Betty grey has won Sport Wales 'Lifetime Achievement Award' at their annual awards today in Cardiff
Well done Betty
Great news for Swansea and Welsh table tennis

If Carlsberg did tournaments.....

Ryan and Stephen Jenkins have been invited to a tournament that defies belief. Not only is there great competition against foreign players, but it is based in one of the most exotic countries there is - The Maldives!

The tournament has been organised to coincide with their associations 60th anniversary and the Jenkins brothers are fortunate to be on the list. The Association of Maldives are renting a private island to host the players for free!!

Ryan & Steve, who are ranked number 3 in the world on the unofficial list of sibling rankings, will team up in the doubles event in the 5 day long extravaganza.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for players of the TTAW who have been at the front end of Welsh table tennis for over 20 years...

They now know why they chose table tennis...

Ends

ETTU website

http://www.ettu.org/news_view.php?id=3267
check the link above of an interview with National Coach, Ryan Jenkins, with the ETTU at the recent coaches conference in Austria.

Leinster Matches

Ryan Jenkins was asked by UCD (university college Dublin) to play some tournament matches for them this weekend in Dublin.
Ryan won all his matches - 4 out of 4

Next up in Ireland will be the Munster Open in January, with a 1000 Euro prize

English Open 2011

The following players have been selected for the English Open in January 2011

Men - Adam Robertson, Lewis Williams and Daniel O'Connell

Women - Angharad Phillips, Chloe Thomas, Charlotte Carey, Naomi Owen & Megan Phillips

Coaches - Ryan Jenkins & Stephen Jenkins

RJ in Belgium

Latest News

Check out link for Ryan in Belgium league
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAO8c3jY53Y&feature=related

Won 1 lost 1
Match score - 3-4 loss against Immo Mortsel

PW Diest – Immo Mortsel 3-4
0-1 Davy Vanvinkenroye – Adeleke Kazeem 2-3
0-2 Ryan Jenkins – Zhang Dong Ying 0-3
1-2 Chen Sung tt.nu - Sau Ajemoyuba 3-2
1-3 Dubbel 0-3
1-4 Davy Vanvinkenroye – Zhang Dong Ying 0-3
2-4 Ryan Jenkins - Sau Ajemoyuba 3-0
3-4 Chen Sung - Adeleke Kazeem 3-0

10,000 hits looming

The national coach wales blog has attracted major interest in just 1 year - 10,000 hits to be precise

...you know where the news is...

Glamorgan Super League

December the 5th @ Nantymeol

Contact Dai Treharne (32 places available - only 8 left)
daitree@uwclub.net

New UWIC Schools Academy starting

A new table tennis schools academy will be starting in February at UWIC to enhance the relationship the TTAW has with one of Britain's best Universities



Starting Wednesday 2nd February 2011
6 – 7.30pm; 7 to 11 year olds
7.30 – 9pm; 12 – 16 year olds
10 weeks for £35.00 (introductory offer)

Contact UWIC Sports Facilities for more information on
029 2041 6777/6770 or visit www.uwic.ac.uk/juniorsportsdevelopment

Welsh Champions Help Pudsey

Angharad and Megan Phillips, who played at the recent Commonwealth Games in India, are ready to challenge all students of Ysgol GlanTaf in a special ‘Children in Need’ fundraiser. Pupils will pay what you feel you can afford to donate and see how many shots you can make during a rally.

TTAW Players Party 2010

On December 20th in Cardiff
More details to follow and there is a page on facebook

RJ in Belgium

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nosdg0ajoA
Check out Ryan in Belgian super league match against Merchez(Belgium) and Momhedavic (Bosnia)

Greenhouse Super series

Greenhouse are organising 4 super series tournaments for under 15 and under 19 ages over the coming months
Each tournament played will earn you points depending on the round you get to. The further you get in the tournament, the more points won. At the end of all 4 events a list will be produced and a 'finals' event will happen to crown the champion.
Each player form the U15 and U19 who is top will win £100 each.

Please contact Steve Jenkins for entry forms
first event is December 11th in Tonypandy Community College
- stephenjenkins19@hotmail.com

Bristol GP...

Look at the draw for the forthcoming Bristol GP this weekend
http://etta.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/bristol.pdf

Cardiff GP entry form

Please get the Cardiff GP entry form from the ttaw website

www.ttaw.co.uk
Closing date is 10 December 2010

Team Championships of Wales

Angharad & Megan Phillips are searching for teams in both senior and junior TCW for this season. After numerous unsuccessful attempts to find a suitable team, they are looking once again and would welcome some contact if someone is interested.
Please email Mr Phillips on - eds099@bangor.ac.uk
They don't necessarily need to be in the same team so if you're only looking for 1 player then please still get in contact. You have until December 31st to sign the players.

Thanks
Mr Tegid Phillips

Leamington Spa 1*

Lewis Williams was a winner at the Leamington Open winning the Grade A singles

New site

New TT site to view....

http://pontyhightta.blogspot.com/

Pontypridd Table Tennis Academy
Jonathan Gregory (Coach)

Stockton 4* Junior

Great Results By Welsh Girls

Charlotte Carey won junior and cadet singles
Angharad & Megan Phillips semi finalists singles and finalists team!!!

Well Done Girls

Want to be Up to Date?

Full reports on Wolverhampton JBL, Home Nations and Dragon Event on www.ttaw.co.uk

New Blog on left hand side of page

Vote today!!

Player of the Month

Please scroll down and see who has claim the prize for October 2010

Home Nations Results

Day 1

Wales 1 Ireland 6 (highlight Angharad beat Amanda Mogey)
Wales 4 Scotland 3 (highlight Aled beat Craig Hardie)

Well Done Chloe

Chloe Thomas won the elite singles and the U17 singles at a tournament in Vemmerby, Sweden last weekend.
Chloe is staying in Sweden for several months to improve her table tennis full-time with a professional club.

Well Done Chloe...

Report from Simon Oyler...

EuroKids – Sierra Nevada Spain

Jac Jenkins and Laura Edwards will have learnt a lot from the EuroKids Training Camp in Sierra Nevada Spain, after having trained all week with some of Europe’s best players they both got the chance to play with Spanish legend He Zhi Wen.
In the tournament both players played some good table tennis, With Jac Jenkins Showing signs of brilliance with big topspins on the backhand from the back of the courts (A Jenkins Special...) and Laura having some fine wins they have both learnt from this trip and will surely take their experiences back home and put them into practise to better themselves next time in Europe.

Laura Edwards finished 12th
Jac Jenkins Finishing 18th

All Welsh Participation Ends....

The XIX Commonwealth Games have ended for all Welsh players today

Check out www.ttaw.co.uk for the full report of the days action at the Yamuna Sports Complex...

October 10th

Results of the Day

Mixed Doubles - wins for Ryan & Naomi (against Barbados)

Singles - Wins for Ryan (against Lewis of Guyana), Stephen Jenkins (against Langeveldt of South Africa) and Patrick Thomas (against Crawford of Scotland)

EuroKids Update

Jac Jenkins and Laura Edwards had the benefit of learning serves from one of the best in the world today at the Eurokids camp in Spain. Hi Shi Wen taught the players from all over Europe his tactics and tricks when he has control on the white ball!!

..The most important part of the game...

CWG Latest News

Men's team finished 8th after playoff losses to Australia and Malaysia today

Naomi, Megan, Charlotte and Angharad meanwhile were progressing through their groups all with 4-0 wins.

The singles continues tomorrow for all players....

CWG Latest

Full report on www.ttaw.co.uk

Wales men lose to Singapore and now play for 5-8 tomorrow against Australia. The women beat Guernsey but lost to Northern Ireland to finish 10th overall.

CWG - Latest

Wales reach Q-finals of men's team having beaten Guyana 3-1 (RJ won 2 and SJ won 1)
Tomorrow they play Singapore, who are the number 1 seeds at 4pm local time.

Wales ladies beat Ghana 3-0 to set up a showdown with Guernsey for positions 9-12. Lets see who can take Alice Loveridge to secure a top 10 finish...

World Rankings (Oct 2010)

Adam Robertson #202
Ryan Jenkins #282
Stephen Jenkins #760
Patrick Thomas #1093
Stephen Gertsen #1298
Dan O’Connell #1499

Naomi Owen #296
Charlotte Carey #937
Angharad Phillips #1031
Chloe Thomas #1036
Megan Phillips #1064

Latest results

Women:
Wales 0-3 Malaysia

Men:
Wales 3-0 Mauritius

See www.ttaw.co.uk for reports

Tonight
Wales vs Ghana (women) for place in top 12

Wales vs Guyana (men) for place in top 12

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England 3 - Wales 0

Paul Drinkall, Liam Pitchford and Danny Reed all won the singles matches to take the tie 3-0.
It wasn't as easy as the scoreline suggests though. Paul beat Ryan 3-1, but at 1-1 and 8-8 things were looking good for the Welshman. In fairness to the UK number 1 he did show his true colours and step it up.
Liam was too hot for Patrick to handle winning 11-5, 11-5 and 11-9.

Steve Jenkins could have had a great win against Danny Reed, England number 2. Being 6-4 up in the 5th set the alarm bells were ringing out, but Reed managed to sneak home.

Tomorrow is Mauritius in the last group match

Results Day 1 CWG

Women
Lost to Australia 0-3
(Naomi lost close to Ley and Charlotte scared Miao Miao)
Beat Vanutu 3-1
(Angharad lost a close match. Charlotte won her first CWG match)

Men
Beat Tanzania 3-0
(Ryan, Steve J and Patrick all won 3-0)

Commonwealth Draw & Opening Ceremony

After a great opening ceremony at the national stadium of India, the focus now switches to tomorrow and the TT.

Men:
England, Wales, Mauritius and Tanzania

Women:
Australia, Malaysia, Wales and Vanutu


There was time for the women's team to say hello to Prince Charles who visited the Village earlier today....

Alex Prosser....

..........Is the man on profile this month. See his profile on the left hand side.

Kate Roberts

Kate Roberts opened the 2010 season with a decisive win in the Oldham Junior 1* tournament.She also played in Blackpool last weekend and came 2nd in the U15's and
2nd in the U13's.
well done Kate

Lewis Williams vs Igor Morais

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCzwnQXWxt8&feature=related

link above for Lewis Williams vs England's Igor in the final of the 6 nations in Scotland last March

Barrow vs Drumchapel on Youtube

With Champions Drumchapel receiving their first loss in 3 seasons against from the formidable Barrow in the British league, things will be hot when the 2 teams meet in November

The link is available now to view the first match in full
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQdtBm2bvz4
(contents are from T Swan)