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.