Welsh Primary Schools - Team

Entry forms for the above event are now on the TTAW webpage to download

Photos from the Carmarthen Festival

Photos available from the Carmarthen Festival earlier this month

http://www.flickr.com/photos/63713558@N00/sets/72157623591944931/
provided by Stan Eastwood [TTAW]

London Super League

Great Results from the 6 players who were at the London Super League this month:

Final Positions:

Patrick Thomas - 6th
Charlotte Carey 16th
Chloe Thomas 18th
Lee Morgan 19th
Josh Jenkins 22nd
Cameron Thomas 26th

TTAW selections

The following players have been chosen to represent Wales at the forthcoming events:

French Junior Open:
Angharad Phillips, Lee Morgan, Lewis Williams, Chloe Thomas, Charlotte Carey, Megan Phillips and Nicole Hall.

BATTS London 1*
Chris Griffiths, Alex Prosser, Conor Edwards, Ashley Stavrakis, Jac Jenkins and Thomas Heydon.

EuroKids Training Camp - Italy
Jac Jenkins and Lauura Edwrads

Luxembourg Junior Open
Charlotte Carey
Daniel O'Connell
Nicole Hall
Lee Morgan
Caitlin Williams
Ryan Oyler

World Championships - Moscow
Adam Robertson, Ryan Jenkins and Stephen Jenkins

BATTS super league

Patrick Thomas, Chloe Thomas, Charlotte Carey, Lee Morgan, Josh Jenkins and Cameron Thomas will be heading to London tonight to compete in the London Super League circuit against the best players in the area.

South Africa Test Matches in Wales

Prior to the Commonwealth Games in October a team of 5 men from South Africa will visit Wales to undergo training and test matches against the Welsh men's team.
Shane Overmeyer, Luke Abrahams, Theo Cogill, Kurt Lingerveldt and Itumeleng Molahloe will be flying into Heathrow on the 19th April and stay until the 26th April. As part of the visit they will also compete at the West Wales Open in Carmarthen.

http://www.ittf.com/ittv

The ITTF just launched a new version of the ITTF TV channels atwww.ittf.com/ittv
6 TV channels provide with all the ITTF world events LIVE and delayed videos of the matches played on the TV table. Access to the TV channels is free.

Cardiff Cathays v Greenhouse Tonypandy

http://www.south-eastwalesdevelopmentcoach.blogspot.com/

Visit Simon Oyler's blog for the information on the result.....

WSA article

An article was published on the WSA website about the forthcoming roadshow trip around Wales in our van..

http://www.welshsports.org.uk/news/index.asp?action=goNews&naction=viewArticle&category=9&uID=&ID=1413

Player of the month - March

Nicole Hall - Rhondda

Check on the lefthand side why....
(under the poll!!)

German Open Final [men]

What a great match - check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF8pob52ggo&feature=related

BRITISH CHAMPIONS......

Drumchapel TTC were crowned champions for a second successive season over the weekend. The Glasgow club (who has Welsh team players, Ryan & Stephen Jenkins in their team)remained unbeaten all season to take the crown.
Ryan Jenkins had a great weekend winning 8 out of 8, and only losing 1 individual match all season. Stephen had a particularly good win against former Irish number 1 and world ranked 90, Column Slevin. Steve had one of the best averages for positions 3 in the league.

Another Welsh star, Patrick Thomas, helped Ormesby to 4th spot overall and had a good weekend winning 6 out of 8.

Drumchapel on top form

Drumchapel TTC are favorites to retain their British Premier League title this weekend at the famous Ormesby club. Both Ryan and Stephen Jenkins compete for the Scottish club who won the title for the first time in its history 12 months ago.

Patrick Thomas will also be competing at the weekend for the home club team Ormesby.

German Open - Berlin

The German Open starts on Thursday with Adam Robertson, Naomi Owen, Patrick Thomas and Ryan Jenkins all in action for Wales

Report will follow....

Carmarthen Festival

I visited the West Wales festival today and what a fantastic surprise i got as i entered the hall. There was over 15 tables all full with various schools from the area competing against each other to claim the trophies on offer.

Congratulations to Aled for his hard work and success in making this happen

Silver for Lewis!!

Lewis Williams got a silver at the singles of the 6 nations losing to Igor Morais 3-1

Full Report on ttaw.co.uk

Derby 4* Junior

Well done to Angharad Phillips who lost in the final to Lucy Davidson 3-2 in the Derby 4* Open.
Angharad beat both Tressa Armitage and Emily Bates to reach her final spot

Selections

The following players have been selected to represent Wales at the BATTS 1* event in Harlow, Essex in April:

U15's
Ashley Stavrakis
Alex Prosser
Chris Griffiths
Conor Edwards
U11's
Matthew Francis
Jac Jenkins

Luxembourg Open
Due to both Adam Robertson and Stephen Jenkins being unable to travel to the Luxembourg Senior Open - Stephen Gertsen, after a period of absence, has been recalled into the team

six nations - Day 1

2 Silver and a Bronze for the Welsh Teams at Largs!!

Full report on ttaw.co.uk

Commonwealth Squad

The Commonwealth squad has been trimmed to include the following players:

Men - Adam Robertson, Steve Jenkins, Patrick Thomas and Ryan Jenkins
Women - Naomi Owen, Megan Phillips, Charlotte Carey, Chloe Thomas and Angharad Phillips

this will now go to the Commonwealth Games Council for them to decide who they would like to select for the October extravaganza

Easter Camp letters are sent

If you have been selected the Easter invitations have been sent out to you!!

There will be training partners from the famous Team Peniel, plus our Chinese star Yongbo Zhang. We are also in discussions to get a Croatian player - Jakov Krivic.

See you there....

6 Nations

Good Luck to all the players this weekend in the 6 Nations event at Largs, Scotland

Junior British League

Wales will be entering 2 teams into the Junior British League next season. Some of the best girls and boys from Wales will be given the opportunity to represent their country and try to win one of the most prestigious titles in the ETTA calender.

Anyone for China??

From nabil Hudda

Following a successful trip, I once again type to you today to see if you (or anyone you may know) would be interested in a coaching trip to China. The trip is suitable for all ages, and indeed all playing abilities, involving around five and a half hours of training each day (excluding days for excursions). The coaching programme promises to be of superlative quality, and each trainee will be paired up with a Chinese sparring partner.

I have attached a leaflet which summarises the trip.

For further information, please visit www.ifctt.com or contact me on: nabil.hudda@gmail.com

Other National Champions

Who won the other home nations national crowns??

Scotland - Gavin Rumgay & Rebecca Russell

England - Andrew Baggley & Joanne Parker

Ireland - John Murphy & Ashley Givan

Adam & Naomi Champions

Adam Robertson and Naomi Owen won their respective singles titles today at the Welsh Championships.
Cameron Thomas and Patrick Thomas won the Men's Doubles and Naomi Owen and Charlotte Carey won the ladies doubles. Naomi teamed up with her brother Davis to win the mixed doubles.

Full results and report on ttaw.co.uk shortly

Belgium TV

Check out this clip of Diest 4-3 win against Virton last week..

http://www.tvlux.be/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4827&Itemid=166

We are the Champions....

Congratulations to Lee Morgan, Charlotte Carey and Daniel O'Connell for winning their respective titles today at the Welsh Championships....
Angharad & Megan Phillips and Conor Edwards and Alex Prosser were also winners of the doubles events.

Belgium League

Diest are nearer to the semi finals after beating Virton once again in the playoffs. I beat former world number 67 and now Belgian national coach, Martin Bratanov 3-1 in this match.
This may set us up for a match versus Villete Charleroi who have world number 13 Dimitrij Ovtcharov in their team.

NC will play Welsh Championships

The TTAW board have insisted that i should be a player at the Welsh Championships this weekend!!
Someone needs to challenge Adam - but not sure if that's me....

Good Luck to everyone in all categories.

Cardiff GP report

Please see the report from the weekend at www.ttaw.co.uk