hall availability in January 2012

Please note there is no hall available on the 24th and 25th January 2012 due to a Sport Wales function in the Upper Hall

Mark it in the diary

Merry Christmas

To all the members of the TTAW and all the people connected to Welsh Table Tennis

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR

Watch Swedish League Tonight LIVE

Ryan Jenkins is in action tonight in the Swedish Elite League against Sparvagens

To see the match copy http://www.pingistv.se/ into your browser
Then go to 'titta nu'

5.30pm UK time

If you miss it just go to the archive on the site

........fingers crossed........

ETTU

http://www.ettu.org/news_view.php?id=4479

Aled attended the ETTU coaches conference in Barcelona

World Championships -

Highlights from Rotterdam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Xg8zYtcrA

Finland Open

Ryan Jenkins and team mate Chris Doran are seeded 5th in the team event starting tomorrow at 11am where they play the winners of New Zealand/Bulgaria or Finland 2.

Naomi Owen and Charlotte Carey play Austrailia/New Zealand at 9am, whilst Angharad Phillips and team mate Hannah Hicks play Russia 6 at the same time.

To keep up to date with all the results visit the Finland Table Tennis Association

On the 4th August 2012.....

...The TTAW will hold a coaching conference which will be extremely valuable to all coaches throughout Wales.

The conference to be held at Sport Wales National Centre will hold a general session with more specific workshops in the afternoon

A guest coach will also be in attendance which will be high profile

Please look out for more information in the new year

Sports Coach UK - Inspire 2014

Ryan Jenkins, The National Coach, has been invited onto a new mentoring programme in the lead up to the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

The Inspire 2014 project will give certain young coaches the benefits of gained experience from noted, high profile coaches.

Ryan was nominated by Sport Wales which makes this even more special

Senior Test Match vs England South West

Wales are beaten in Plymouth....


Order of Play - 1 plays 1,2,3. 2 plays 1,2,4. 3 plays 1,3,4. 4 plays 2,3,4

Wales (Men)
1. Dan OConnell
2. Wiktor Dzwonkowski
3. Connor Edwards
4. Lewis Williams

South West (Men)
1. Stamatis K
2. Richard Marshall
3. Dom Sussex
4. Harry Cutler

Wales (Women)
1. Angharad Phillips
2. Megan Phillips
3. Nicole Hall
4. Sharlene Williams

South West (Women)
1. Marketa Myskova
2. Vicky Smith
3. Lisa Radford
4. Naomi Jackson

Results (men)
Stam v Connor 3-0 (Stam)
Richard v Lewis 3-0 (Richard)
Stam v Dan 3-0 (Stam)
Richard v Wiktor 3-2 (Richard)
Dom v Lewis 3-0 (Dom)
Stam v Wiktor 3-2 (Stam)
Dom v Dan 1-3 (Dan)
Harry v Wiktor 2-3 (Wiktor)
Dom v Connor 3-0 (Dom)
Harry v Lewis 3-1 (Harry)
Harry v Connor 2-3 (Connor)
Richard v Dan 1-3 (Dan)

Match Result South West 8, Wales 4.

Results (Women)
Marketa v Nicole 3-2 (Marketa)
Vicky v Sharleen 3-0 (Vicky)
Marketa v Angharad 3-0 (Marketa)
Vicky v Megan 1-3 (Megan)
Lisa v Sharleen 0-3 (Lisa)
Marketa v Megan 3-0 (Marketa)
Lisa v Angharad 3-2 (Lisa)
Naomi v Megan 1-3 (Megan)
Lisa v Nicole 3-0 (Lisa)
Naomi v Sharleen 3-0 (Naomi)
Naomi v Nicole 2-3 (Nicole)
Vicky v Angharad 3-1 (Vicky)

Match Result South West 9, Wales 3.

New Upper Hall floor

Please remember the Upper Hall is getting a new floor over the next 2 weeks so the following dates are unavailable:

Monday 5th & 12th Dec
Tuesday 6th & 13th Dec

Wednesday 7th & 14th (6-8pm) plus Thursday 8th & 15th (5-7pm) have been changed to the dance studio instead

The last day for Welsh Squad training before Christmas is Thursday 15th December. In 2012 it starts back on Monday 9th January

New Poll on the site

scroll to the left side of the page...

This Weekend

On Friday night Wales travel to Plymouth for a senior friendly match vs England South West region

Team - Dan O'Connell, Wiktor Dzwonkowski, Lewis Williams & Conor Edwards plus Nicole Hall, Megan Phillips, Angharad Phillips and Sharlene Williams

Charlotte Carey and Ryan Jenkins head to Kilarney, Ireland for the Munster Open on Friday & Saturday

All results will follow.........

TT Gifts

www.TableTennisInessentials.co.uk

Check out the above website to find your table tennis gifts this Christmas

Owen out of Finland

NEWS

Ryan Owen has had to withdraw from the Finland Open next week due to a knee injury

Interview with RJ

Huw Silk runs the blog - http://anearlybath.wordpress.com/

He asked some questions to the National Coach Ryan Jenkins:

Table tennis is another relatively non-mainstream sport hoping for a boost as a result of coverage at the London Olympic Games. One of Wales’ top players in recent years, Ryan Jenkins is now involved in a drive to encourage more people to take the game up and to improve coaching standards.

At the Sport Wales Coach of the Year awards earlier this month, he won the Contribution to Coach Development category. Such is his commitment to table tennis, the ceremony heard, he rarely has a weekend at home in Wales; instead he is travelling around the country and the world with those he coaches.

Here is the blurb from the event’s programme:

Ryan works closely with the newly trained and developing tutor workforce to ensure that Wales has its own pool of tutors and assessors to provide coach education opportunities in their local areas.

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Huw Silk: Congratulations on your Sport Wales award – can you describe exactly what you do in coaching terms?
Ryan Jenkins: I coach from under 11 right through to the men’s and women’s national teams. I’m in charge of development and performance table tennis plans.

HS: When did you first start playing? Most people have played table tennis at some level in school common rooms etc, but when and why did you decide to take it to a higher level?
RJ: I started when I was seven years old in the local boys club in Ystrad Rhondda. I started to get good and was invited to the Welsh squad when I was 12 years old. It just got out of hand! I love table tennis and that’s why I continued to the next levels.

HS: Do you still play at national level? What are your current and highest rankings?
RJ: Yes I still play as I want to show my players how always to be professional. My highest world ranking is 175, now I’m 278. My highest British ranking is first when I won the title in 1999 and 2005. I’m currently around fourth.

HS: Which top-level international tournaments have you competed at?
RJ: I have played in three Commonwealth Games, seven World Championships and eight European Championships. I have won six Commonwealth medals to date.

HS: What is it like competing at such a high level, almost the pinnacle of your sport?
RJ: Fantastic – such a feeling to know you are doing what you enjoy every day and always trying to be better at it. It’s a great feeling when so many people want to watch you because you are good at something.

HS: What is it like receiving proportionately less coverage than fellow competitors in athletics, swimming etc?
RJ: It’s life. Table tennis needs to be better in showcasing itself first. People have a wide choice on what they wish to watch so table tennis needs to try harder to get more viewers.

HS: What are your hopes for Welsh players at the 2012 Olympics and over the next decade? Are you hopeful regarding the potential legacy?
RJ: I hope we get a player at London. Naomi Owen (22 years old) is our best bet as she is in the squad, as is Charlotte Carey (15 years old). I want two to three players in the GB squad in four years’ time!!!

HS: Why do you think table tennis has not caught on here in the same way it has in the Far East?
RJ: In reverse we could ask the same about rugby. Some countries just like certain sports and that’s hard to change. It will take Wales to produce a world or Olympic champion – as what happens at Wimbledon with tennis – for everyone to know their best players and support them. In turn viewers will want to try their hand at it and then the sport starts getting popular and more sponsors get into the sport. It snowballs from there. Let’s hope our youngsters are inspired

North Gwent Open

Winners at today's event:

Junior Boys - Conor Edwards
Junior Girls - Nicole Hall
Cadet Boys - Ryan Oyler
Cadet Girls - Beth Roberts

Fair Play Award - Ben Evans

Congratulations

To Chloe Thomas on passing her driving test [Beware...] and her level 1 UKCC coaching award

Portugal Junior Open

Megan Phillips and Conor Edwards will travel to Faro to represent Wales at the Portugal Junior Open 16-18 December

North Wales

The NC will travel to North Wales today and visit Denbigh table tennis club. With various meetings in the schedule it will also give Ryan the chance to visit the club session held every Thursday night and have a 1:2:1 session with Kate Roberts

R/Up at Uxbridge

Jac Jenkins reached the final of the U13 event at Burton Uxbridge last weekend. Jac also had a good run in the cadets and junior events.

Video Section

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeAh81EVXlA&feature=related

Exhibition Match in Iceland 2005

Ryan Jenkins vs Gummi Stephenson (Iceland)

2018

For those young players looking for something to work towards, the Gold Coast, Australia, have been awarded the 2018 Commonwealth Games‏

Spain beat a defiant Great Britain team 7-1 at the Newtonabbey Sports Complex on Tuesday evening. Jo Parker won the point for Team GB but Kelly Sibley, Naomi Owen and Lui Na fought hard in their encounters also

The evening finished with an exhibition match between Oriel Monzo and Ryan Jenkins, which was a re-match of the final at the Munster Open last January

GB camp in Belfast

Naomi Owen is in Belfast this week training with the GB and Spanish squads in a week long training camp and test match get together

The week has been financed by Sport NI and the Irish TTA

Charlotte on ETTU website

http://www.ettu.org/news_view.php?id=4410

November World Rankings

Women
Naomi Owen 413
Charlotte Carey 567
Megan Phillips 823
Angharad Phillips 875
Chloe Thomas 946
Nicole Hall 1109

Men
Ryan Jenkins 278
Stephen Jenkins 760
Daniel O'Connell 1362
Lewis Williams 1438

Selections:

GB 2012 Camp - Ireland
7-11 November
Naomi Owen
Coach - Ryan Jenkins

Home Nations 11-13 November
Ryan Jenkins, Dan O'Connell, Ryan Owen, Angharad Phillips, Chloe Thomas, Charlotte Carey
Coaches - Liz May & Aled Howells

Swiss Open - Lusanne
18-20 November
Stephen Jenkins, Ryan Jenkins, Naomi Owen, Charlotte Carey

Senior Test Match vs England South West
2 December - Plymouth
Aled Howells, Lewis Williams, Dan O'Connell, Conor Edwards
Angharad Phillips, Megan Phillips, Nicole Hall, Charlotte Carey

Finland Open 8-11 December
Ryan Jenkins, Ryan Owen, Dan O'Connell
Naomi Owen & Charlotte Carey

East Midlands Cadet/Junior 4*
7-8 January 2012
Lewis Williams, Ryan Oyler, Conor Edwards, Beth Roberts, Nicole Hall, Sharlene Williams

Welsh Squad Weekend Camp

2-4 December

Letters will be sent to players who are invited to the Welsh Squad/YDS camp on the 2-4 December

There will be 1 session Friday evening, 2 Saturday and 2 Sunday for all players.

Top English coach Jason Sugrue, plus Welsh coaches Simon Oyler and Steve Jenkins will be on that camp

Result overturned

The ITTF have confirmed that the decision to disqualify Ryan Jenkins at the Austrian Open Pro Tour was wrong and have offered compensation to put it right.

The ITTF will pay for entry, hotel and flights to any Pro Tour of choice in the world. The result and ranking points of the win against Vanrossomme (Belgium) last month will also be reinstated

A result finally

The Art of Table Tennis

Your World on a Ball

Schools across the world are invited to decorate as many table tennis balls as they wish to reflect their countries history.

Once completed they can be sent to the German Table Tennis Association to display at the World Table Tennis Championships next March in Dortmund.

Schools can have as much fun as they wish on this project and each participate will receive a certificate to acknowledge entry. The 10 most beautiful balls in each category (5-9yrs, 10-14yrs and 15-18yrs) will get prizes.

To enter please ask your school to email - coaching@ttaw.co.uk and the relative forms will be sent back with all the information needed

Happy Birthday...

....to Patrick Thomas (29th Oct)

Other birthday's that happened in October -
1st Oct - Ryan Oyler







Best Wishes for November:
Ryan Jenkins on the 20th
Dean Cundy on the 26th
Carys Webster on the 27th

How to enter tournaments.....

If you are looking for more competitions, look across the border and check out this web address:

http://etta.co.uk/events-modules/entry-forms/

Here you'll find all the tournament entry forms and closing dates, so there's no excuses at all!

Cancelled sessions @ SWNC

Due to Sport Wales National Centre working on a new floor in the Upper Hall, plus the Sport Wales Coach of the Year awards taking our hall space, the following dates are not available for training:

Thursday 3rd November
Tuesday 15th November [Sport Wales Coach of the Year Awards]
Wednesday 16th November [Sport Wales Coach of the Year Awards]
Monday 5th December [New Floor for Upper Hall]
Tuesday 6th December [New Floor for Upper Hall]

*Please note the following dates have been changed to the dance studio instead of the Upper Hall*
Wednesday 7th, Thursday 8th, Wednesday 14th & Thursday 15th December 2011

East Midlands 4*

Wales have selected the following players to attend the East Midlands 4* Junior on the 7/8 January 2012

Lewis Williams, Conor Edwards, Ryan Oyler, Beth Roberts, Nicole Hall & Sharlene Williams

Olympic Meeting

The BTTF selectors will hold a meeting on the 26th January at Stansted Airport to cut the long list to the short list

Naomi Owen and Charlotte Carey both sit on the long list at present

The BTTF chairman will make the announcements public in due course

ETTA Camps for Welsh Players

2 boys and 2 girls will be selected to train with England's IYS camps on 14-16 January (boys) and 28-30 January (girls)

Selections will be made in December

Two further camps will be held in April

Twitter

Follow Ryan on twitter

@TTwales

For all the news and events happening around the world

New Poll on site

Get over to the left side of the page and vote now on your thoughts for the Team Championships of Wales winners 2011-2012

German Youth Open - Dinklage

Megan Phillips, Chloe Thomas, Charlotte Carey & Nicole Hall are in Dinklage, near Bremen competing at the Youth Open Thursday-Sunday

The team event starts tomorrow with Wales facing France B, Romania B and group favorites Russia. The singles and doubles events start Saturday morning

All results here or on www.ttaw.co.uk

New UKCC date.....

Here is the information for the Table Tennis Level 1:



Dates: Sunday 11th December 2011 and Sunday 29th January 2012

Venue: Y Morfa Leisure Centre, Cader Avenue, Kinmel Bay, Conwy LL18 5HU

Anyone interested should visit http://etta.tv/coaching-modules/coach-education/application-form-3/ for an application form and terms and conditions.

Match: Wales vs England South West

England South West taught our young Welsh players a little lesson yesterday down in Okehampton.

Stefan Jeczalik, Jon Bisp, Matthew Francis, Thomas Heydon, Harry Langley, Jack Cole Soffi Jenkins & Charlotte Slye all tried their best but we were unable to stop the ever progressing region

All in all, a great chance for our players to shine

YDS session

Today in Cardiff, Simon Oyler took the new YDS [Youth Development Squad] in a 3 hour session.

Players were put through their paces in the Upper Hall of SWNC in a gruelling training schedule.

The next session will happen next month, as will a tournament in Stockton, to continue the good work with this group

Thursday 20th October

Please remember there is no training on Thursday 20th October at Sport Wales National Centre 5-7pm

What a service....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfDVXPrLVkg&feature=youtu.be

(copy and paste the link into your browser)

Table Tennis Look-a-like

Scott Barton (Scotland) & Benjamin Rogiers (Belgium)

Burton Uxbridge 1*/2* Junior Event - 6 November

Please email coaching@ttaw.co.uk if you want the entry form for the above event

The closing date is 31 October

to be played at

Burton Uxbridge TTC
Robert Sutton Catholic Sports College
Bluestone Lane, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire DE15 9SD

Play TT on computer

Copy and paste the link to your browser

http://flash.pcastuces.com/jouer.asp?Id=26

Have fun!!

October 2011 ITTF rankings

Ryan Jenkins 285
Stephen Jenkins 720
Patrick Thomas 1015
Stephen Gertsen 1243
Daniel O'Connell 1389
Lewis Williams 1465
Men’s Team Ranked at 75 in world

Women
Naomi Owen 393
Charlotte Carey 715
Angharad Phillips 872
Megan Phillips 919
Chloe Thomas 965
Regina Grech 971
Women’s team Ranked at 64 in world

Good Luck...

...To all the players competing at the Team Championships of Wales this weekend in Cardiff

The new format of 2 full weekends will be a better way to find the club champions of Wales

Results will be posted here

Wales Train in Essex before flying to Euro's

http://updates.etta.tv/east

South Wales Conference League

There are still a couple of places in the 2-a-side South Wales Conference League played on Sunday nights at WIS, if you are interested please contact Neil Wright at neil_wright5@msn.com

He's back....

Ryan Owen had 10 years out of the International game but he's in Gdansk, Poland to see if he can get back to his level of 2001.

Owen, who last competed at the European Championships in Bremen, Germany, will play against Belgium, Turkey and Finland to help Wales stay in the Challenge division.

The man from Merthyr has a goal to get ranked inside the top 500 players in the world after this major event.

Check www.ttaw.co.uk & www.ettu.org for all the breaking results

Next Week Squads

Due to the number of players away next week competing at the European Championships in Poland, there will be no squads on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.

Simon Oyler will be with his COE group on Monday 5-7pm and he will look after players if they decide to attend that night

New Coaching Structure

Here is the New Coaching Structure for the season:
Ryan Jenkins
National Coaching Manager

Stephen Jenkins
TTAW Male Programme Coach

Simon Oyler
TTAW Youth Development Squad
South East Regional Coach

Aled Howells
South West Regional Coach

Mostyn Lewis
TTAW Coaching Officer

Nathan Thomas
Assistant Welsh Squad Coach

UKCC Tutors
Barry Robertson, Aled Howells & Simon Oyler

TTAW Leaders Tutors
Ryan Jenkins, Aled Howells & Simon Oyler

COE (Centre of Excellence) Coaches
Rhondda - Stephen Jenkins & Scott Johnston
Cardiff - Simon Oyler
Swansea - Aled Howells
Gwent - Alan Monks & Mike Marsden
Wrexham - Barry Robertson

TTAW Leaders Course

Next Leaders Course is Saturday 15th October 9am-1pm

Venue:
Cathays High School, Crown Way, New Zealand Road, Cathays, Cardiff CF14 3XG

Please contact course tutor Simon Oyler
simon_oyler_1@hotmail.com

Course cost - £15

Unlucky in Sweden

In the first Swedish League match it was a loss for Ryan Jenkins

His new club, BTK Warta, faced champions of two years ago, Soderhamn away. With a 200strong crowd rooting for the home team

Ryan Jenkins lost to Victor Brodd (who beat Jan Ove Waldner at the season's Swedish Championships) after being 2-0 up. There Ryan ran out of steam and went home having lost 2-3. The team lost 1-3.

My 'disqualified bat'

Austrian Open NEWS

Ryan Jenkins beats Lee Jung Sam 4-1 in men's event (Korean ranked 119 in the world)

Charlotte Carey lost 0-3 to Imamura (Germany) U21 event

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6luN-tBaCQ
Set 5 from Jenkins & Lee

Shafted by the ITTF

Ryan Jenkins won his first match of the Austrian ITTF Pro Tour in a gigantic battle against Vanrossomme of Belgium 4-3 (12-10 in the 7th!), only for both players to get disqualified after the match.

For Jenkins, it was a case of his bat connecting with the table during the 6th set and a small piece of wood dislodging for the side of his bat. This meant the racket 'was not complete' and therefore disqualified. An appeal would not be heard and the win was scratched from history. This means a loss of world ranking points for the Welshman.

Additionally the Belgian was also shown the exit door as his bat failed the gloss test with the forehand rubber being 'too shiny'.

Both players are able to continue the tournament today against the Korean Lee Jung Sam.

The ITTF has not shown the same rules to other players at this event with problemed rackets.

New Poll

Check the poll on the left hand side of the page

Vote for your fave team

40,000 hits

2 years and 40,000 hits

Good Going

Swedish League Final

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PgVTsTuWr4&feature=BFa&list=PL9C7493E779F9E02F&lf=results_video

Copy the link above to see last seasons final in the Swedish League
Eslov vs Soderhamn

British League

check out the averages for all divisions

http://www.tabletennis365.com/SBL/player/averages/SBL_2011-12

Around Europe

Angharad Phillips & Megan Phillips have played 2 matches for their new club in Hungary. Although they didn't come away with a win in the top division they had a great experience. Charlotte Carey will play the next match on October the 2nd.

Ryan Owen lost out 2-3 and 1-3 in his first German league matches. Ryan Jenkins (Sweden) and Steve Jenkins (Belgium) start their club campaigns very soon as does Naomi Owen in France

Dan O'Connell and Chloe Thomas play in Sweden in the coming weeks. With Lewis Williams and Conor Edwards going to Belgium nearer Christmas.

Many Welsh players have started their British League matches with various teams around the UK already

Leaders Award - Ael y Bryn

7 candidates took the first TTAW leaders award of 2011-2012 at Ael y Bryn on Saturday with National Coach Ryan Jenkins taking his first tutoring position

There are several courses planned for the season so email coaching@ttaw.co.uk to keep up with the dates & venues

Additionally regional coaches Aled Howeels and Simon Oyler are being assessed to become UKCC tutors this weekend which will build our coach development workforce in future years

Mostyn Lewis, Swansea, will become a voluntary coaching officer which will bring valuable experience in that department

On top of the world

Andy Flower, England & Wales cricket team manager held a Q&A forum today at Sport Wales National Centre, Cardiff where coaches of all other sports (including table tennis) were able to ask questions about how the cricket team, under his guidance, have reached the top of the world rankings

A very interesting afternoon

Nintendo Wii TTAW Regional Schools League

Region schools competition
with the finals being played on 9th June 2012 in Cardiff

10 regions
Carmarthen, Llanelli, Denbigh, Wrexham, Blaenau, Caerphilly, Swansea, Newport, Rhondda & Cardiff

Each region holds a competition in February or October half term (or both) to find the winners of two age categories - year 7 & 8 and year 9 & 10. Teams can have male or female competitors.
A team will be of 2 players from each age group. So we will have 10 winning teams in age group 7/8 and 9/10 (20 teams in total go to the finals in Cardiff)

Each winning regional team will then represent their area in the finals on Saturday the 9th June 2012

The winners of both categories will win a Nintendo Wii console each (4 consoles in total) as they are sponsors of the league. There will be no prizes for runner's up. So that players have lots of matches in the finals a round robin system will be in place.

*Please remember that no player should enter this competition if they are already involved in Welsh activites (ie TCW, Welsh Squads, Welsh competitions). We are trying to find new fresh players to bring into our sport.

Can you please send this to all the key contacts in schools/5x60 officers/Local Authorities so as many table tennis playing schools as possible get the opportunity to enter their regional event. Promote it as much as possible.

UKCC Level 4

The National Coach completed his final UKCC L4 presentation at Preston University today (UCLAN)

If successful the graduation will take place in December at the University and besides a UKCC L4 qualification, he will gain a diploma in Elite Coaching!

He said he won't let things go to his head......Beware...

Next ETTA Grand Prix

http://etta.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/medway_gp_05-11-11.pdf
Copy and paste the link into your browser for the Medway GP entry form

There will be a TTAW bus going with 7 spaces available

European Championships - Draw

Poland 8-16 October 2011




Men - Belgium, Turkey & Finland

Women - Sweden, Switzerland & Estonia

September 2011 - WR

Latest ITTF Rankings

R Jenkins #318
S Jenkins #711
P Thomas #993
S Gertsen #1223
D O’Connell #1365
L Williams #1445

N Owen #337
C Carey #685
A Phillips #841
M Phillips #887
C Thomas #928

Interview on TTT

Table Tennis Talk has published an interview with Ryan Jenkins for their website

To see it just copy the link into your browser
http://www.tabletennistalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?4776-Interview-with-Ryan-Jenkins&p=45929#post45929

Owen loses in SF

Ryan Owen lost out to Paul McCreery in an Irish Classification event over the weekend in Ireland. McCreery beat Gavin Maguire in the final.

Full report - http://www.irishtabletennis.com/itta/news/article/senior_classification_kicks_off_season/

Romania

All the players have returned from Constanta with a great weeks training under the belts ready for the season.

For Angharad, Megan, Charlotte and Nicole it is the UK School Games in Sheffield starting Thursday

Sussex 4* Junior Open

The closing date is in 2 weeks with over 200 players entered

Please see www.etta.co.uk for the form

Newcastle GP is out

Find the entry form on www.etta.co.uk

Closing date is 6th September

A Level & GCSE results

The TTAW wishes to congratulate all the players who have had their results for A Level and GCSE exams over the last week.

Well done to you all

Welsh Internal Tournament

At last week's camp the Welsh B group held a competition on Thursday. Ethan Lewis won it on countback beating Jac Jenkins, but losing to Callum Evans. Jac beat Callum so everyone finished with won 1 lost 1. Here were the following place finishes:

1 Ethan Lewis 2 Jac Jenkins 3 Callum Evans
4 Liam Winder 5 Laura Edwards 6 Harry Gwilliam
7 Stefan Jeczalik 8 Thomas Heydon 9 Steve Fawkes
10 Caitlin Williams 11 Sharlene Williams 12 Charlotte Slye
13 Soffi Jenkins

Belgium

Lewis Williams and Conor Edwards have signed for Diest in the Belgium league for the coming season

Good Luck to them

Olympic Flame

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YZ7rljMkQg

Copy and paste the above link into your browser to watch players from Denbigh at an Olympic 'following the flame' launch day

Romania Tomorrow

The Welsh Squad leave for Bucharest tomorrow for a week's training camp in Constanca ready for the UK School Games in 2 weeks time

Charlotte, Angharad, Megan, Nicole, Chloe & Laura will be put through their paces by top coach Viorel Filimon of the famous club which has made so many table tennis stars to date

Charlotte Wins at Liverpool

Charlotte Carey (top seed) won the band 1 on Saturday

Full Report of the days play and all the Welsh players
http://etta.co.uk/news/one-in-a-lifetime/

Last Years Grand Prix review

http://etta.co.uk/news/mens-grand-prix-season-review/ - Men

http://etta.co.uk/news/womens-grand-prix-season-review/ - Women

Liverpool GP Draw

http://etta.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/liverpool_gp_draw_20-08-11.pdf

Above link for the draw for Liverpool GP this weekend

Today's Tournament

At the camp today the following places were reached:

1 Garth Kinlocke 2 Ryan Owen 3 Lloyd Gregory 4 Dom Sussex 5 Dean Cundy 6 Charlotte Carey 7 Vicky Smith 8 Lewis Williams 9 Conor Edwards 10 Andy Smith 11 Angharad Phillips 12 Chris Griffiths 13 Kevin Vanderboda 14 Alex Prosser 15 Megan Phillips 16 Nathaniel 17 Ryan Oyler 18 Laura Edwards 19 Naomi Jackson 20 Nicole Hall

Last Day of week 3 tomorrow...

Cardiff is the Place atm

With players contacting the TTAW from all over the UK at present it seems Cardiff is the place to practice at the moment

With Chinese, Polish, Irish, English and of course home players relocating to the capital the place is buzzing with 'new' players ready to interject with Welsh internationals to create an elite squad

Mike Marsden, Rich Andrews, Ryan Flood, Yongbo Zhang, Lloyd Gregory, Angharad Phillips and Megan Phillips have made their way to Sport Wales National Centre in recent times to better their TT programmes and with Polish players arriving also it looks a promising environment

Welsh players have certainly improved recently and their dedication to hard training is paying off

New season, new focus...

Newcastle GP

Copy & paste the link to your browser

http://etta.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/newcastle_gp_01-10-11.pdf

Pink Pong Charity Night

Next Tuesday evening the 'Pink Pong' team from Plymouth head to Wales to raise money for the great table tennis charity to help fight cancer

There will be a challenge match between top players in the Upper Hall, Cardiff and Welsh players will help raise the money via a sponsorship form

Please ask ryan.jenkins@ttaw.co.uk for a form for this great event and get some money for a great charity