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)

NCM Blog is getting popular

With over 2000 visits to the blog in July alone and more than 5000 since it started a year ago the NationalCoachWales Blog is getting good coverage from UK and worldwide table tennis enthusiasts....

United Kingdom 1,528
United States 288
Ireland 27
Czech Republic 17
India 16
Belgium 13
Sweden 10
Canada 8
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Chloe Thomas

Chloe will spend the next 6 months in Sweden to try and better her standard when she returns to Wales. Good Luck Chloe!!

Home Nations - Isle of Man

The following players have been selected for Wales to attend the Home Nations in Isle of Man on the 22-24 October:

Stephen Jenkins, Stephen Gertsen, Angharad Phillips & Naomi Owen
Coach - Aled Howells

New Poll on left side...

With German star Dimi Ovtcharov staring at a lengthy ban if his 'B' sample is found positive as his 'A' was, do you think he should be banned?

Vote today...

Wales on their Way...

From the departure lounge of Terminal 3 at Heathrow, Team Wales are ready to jet to India for the Commonwealth Games! With all the mixed press reports over the past several days, we hope to get to work and get into shape ahead of the first match in 6days time.
All reports from the women and men team events will be posted on www.ttaw.co.uk each day.

Day 2 ETTU Cup In Spain

Drumchapel Qualify

By beating Caja Granada 3-0 in the final match of the weekend, Drumchapel now face a tough trip away to Poland for the next stage of the competition. Ryan Jenkins, Terry Young and Gareth Herbert all won 3-0 in their singles matches to take the victory

Drumchapel lose out in Spain today

The first match of the ETTU cup against Ponta do Pargo didn't go to plan with the Drum losing out 2-3. Ryan Jenkins won 2 against both Chinese players 3-2 each time. Gareth Herbert and Terry Young lost out 2-3 each match in a 2 hour and 45 minute battle.

Tomorrow is Caja Granada for a place in the second stage of the competition.
(Ponta beat Granada 3-0 in the 7pm match)

Diest win first match of season

Diest beat EBS to win the first match of the season 6-1. With two young players and the experienced Bratanov competing for EBS, Diest were always going to be the favorites. With veteran, Chen Sung, Ryan Jenkins and Darius Knight in place things are looking good.
Darius won both, Chen won both and Ryan won 1 and lost 1 (to Bratanov 1-3). Darius and Chen won the doubles also (6-1)

Ryan Interview with Scottish press

- On the up coming ETTU match this weekend in Spain -

1/ Drum had a great adventure in Europe last year. What were some of your favourite memories from that trip?
= apart from the ´goofing around´ - we managed to get Terry in the swimming pool fully clothed - it was the spirit in which their supporters got behind their team. we dont get that in the UK so much

2/ Given the opposition, is it possible to get through the first stage again this year?
= Having spoken to various friends recently at the European Championships in Czech at the strength of the 2 teams we face then yes, i think so. it will be tough, but that is life - this is European table tennis and a great standard

3/ what do you know about the opposition.
= that they have Chinese players playing for them. Of course China are the best and wordly feared but we have played many and can do this

4. Obviously, if you do get through, you personally will miss the next round as you are in Delhi. Will that make you more determined to help ensure the club's passage?
How will you feel at missing it?
= I always do what i can for the Drum as we have a special friendship and I owe the club lots. I´ve had great times there and will continue to have many more, i will do what i can this weekend in Spain to allow the Drum to continue in this big competition. i´m hoping they will win the next round whilst i´m in Delhi and i can come back in to help afterwards.....
I always give 100 percent for them.

5/With the strength of Barrow, Drumchapel now face an almighty fight in the British league. Do you think the club can still go on and win the title again?
Yes i do - we don´t want to lose this title and we play them again in November with a different gameplan. They are strong but we qre more experienced and can learn from our mistakes. We are hurt and want revenge on them...

Belgian League Match

Tuesday evening saw Diest take on the ex European Club champions in Villette Charleroi.
With Villette resting Jean Michel Saive after his Q-Final placing in Ostrava, Diest though they had a chance, but quickly felt their strength.

New boy, Darius Knight, lost both his matches to Andrej Gacina of Croatia (world number 58) and Chinese man Wang (who beat Suss last season). Davy Vanvinkenroy lost to Danchenko of Ukraine and Wang. Deist (Jenkins and Knight) lost the doubles to Wang and Gacina.

Jenkins lost to Gacina in 3 sets but made Deists only point of the night against the former Ukraine number 1 Danchenko with a 3-0 win....

Final score 6-1 Villette

Tonight is Diest vs EBS at home 20.00 CET

British League

After a tough week in the EC in Ostrava, it was back home to the UK for British League in London.
Barrow were the team to beat with Paul Drinkall, Darius Knight and Gavin Rumgay in their team but Drumchapel were going to give it their best against the possible London 2012 GB team.

Ryan beat Rumgay 3-1 but lost to Drinkall 0-3 with two sets being 11-9. Barrow won 5-3 and now have the early lead as league leaders. Drumchapel will fight back though as they will want to defend their title and make it 3 championships in a row.

Visit www.etta.co.uk for a full round up of the weekend

Glamorgan Junior Trials

Results

Girls Singles
Junior - Megan Phillips bt Natasha Rees
Cadet - Naomi James bt Caitlin Williams

Boys Singles
Junior - Conor Edwards bt Josh Jenkins
Cadet - Conor Edwards bt Ryan Oyler

New Blog on the left -

Click for your favorite player

Off to Ostrava

The European Championships start Saturday the 11th so watch this blog and the TTAW website for all Welsh results...

John Lewis Launch - CWG

Team Wales had a send off to remember tonight at the new John Lewis store in Cardiff. The media were in full attendance to witness the flag bearer being named (Michaela Breeze - Weightlifting) and speeches from Anne Ellis OBE and Dr McAllister of Sport Wales

Next Stop - Delhi

Glamorgan senior trials

Men's Singles--Won by Owen Clutterbuck beat Martin Gunn in the Final, Losing Semi Finalists were Peter Champion & Dean Cundy
Ladies Singles-- Round Robin -Final Positions 1st Claire Ford 2nd Natasha Rees 3rd Nicole Hall 4th Samantha Meredith 5th Sharlene Williams 6th Sadie Edwards 7th Romy Killick
Men's Vets--Round Robin--1st Peter Champion 2nd John Paine 3rd Paul Booth 4th Phil Avery 5th Hywel John

Dave Treharne
Secretary Glamorgan County TTA

1 Gold and 2 Bronze

Gareth Jones (Gold), Charlotte Carey (bronze) and the girls team (bronze) brought the medals back home to Wales at the 2010 Sainsbury's UKSG.

Full results on www.ukschoolgames.com or www.ttaw.co.uk

Day 1 and Day 2 reports are online

Visit www.ttaw.co.uk for the up to date reports from the UK School Games

Wales Girls are going for Bronze and Gareth Jones is in for the GOLD

Come on Wales.....

SUKSG declared open!

Amy Williams, an Olympic Gold medalist, declared the Sainsbury UK School Games open in tonight's opening ceremony at the Gateshead International arena. Another gold medalist, Jonathan Edwards, made a brief appearance to share his experience with all the athletes.

Tomorrow the battle commences

Manic Weekend Ahead

With the UKSG's in Tyneside, the Medway Grand Prix, Glamorgan Trials and the Flanders Open all taking place it is going to be manic.

Naomi Owen is representing Wales in Flanders whilst Stephen Jenkins, Patrick Thomas and Nathan Thomas are in Medway at the 2nd GP of the season.

The Glamorgan Trials are in Nantymoel...

Keep your eye on this blog and the TTAW website for all the results

Nick Brown continues his progress with 'Hardbat'

Nick Brown is ranked 25th in the current 'world hardbat rankings' after some more powerful results at Harlow BATTS this month