Half Term Camps are Success

Both groups A and B worked extremely hard throughout the sessions of the Welsh squad camps this week.

Yongbo Zhang, Billy Pegg, Ellenbrough TTC (coached by Hungarian Urban Gergley) and top English junior Evie Collier were in attendance to supply sparring to our Welsh players.

Picture - Ellenbrough TTC players

Greenhouse Super Series

The 3rd Greenhouse tournament will be the 7th May at Tonypandy Community College

Entry forms available soon

please email stephenjenkins19@hotmail.com for any information about the tournament

Comic Relief 2011

If you want to be part of the Comic Relief fun and games around March 18th please email ryan.jenkins@ttaw.co.uk for a sponsorship form and together we can raise lots of cash for charity

Grand Prix

Check out how many points you have at:
http://etta.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/GP_points_2011.pdf

There still needs to be points added for Cardiff and Doncaster GP though

- For those players interested, the Jersey GP and the Blackpool GP forms are now on the ETTA website

Camp in Ellenbrough

Conor Edwards, Alex Prosser, Callum Evans, Jac Jenkins, Ryan Owen and Charlotte Carey - along with coach Aled Howells went to the Ellenbrough table tennis club for the day

Jac Jenkins won the B tournament, whilst Ryan Owen beat Charlotte Carey in the A tournament.

The day was organised by former Welsh coach, Steve Gertsen.

German Open

Naomi Owen is currently at the German Open trying to improve her World Ranking against the best players around the globe

More results will follow

Check www.ttaw.co.uk

safir open

Dan O'Connell (Grantham) and Chloe Thomas (Ljungsbro btk) will compete at the Safir International Open this week for their respective clubs

Good Luck Both!

A Weekend of Fun

Lots went on this weekend:
Dan & Lewis in Ireland
British Lge - Div 1
UKCC course @ Nantymoel
Burton Junior Open
Team Champs in Cardiff
Glamorgan @ County weekend in Sussex
Greenhouse super series

See www.ttaw.co.uk for a full breakdown of all the above

British League

Several Welsh players were involved in competition today in Cippenham

Nathan Thomas, Ryan Owen, Dean Cundy, Nick Brown, Neil Wright & Steve Gertsen played the British League Division 1 South and will play matches over the next 2 days.

Greenhouse Super Series (2)

The second GSS tournament took place on Saturday 19 Feb at Tonypandy Community College. With a new beginner and year 7 tournament taking place at the adjacent main hall there were many young players around the site to hopefully learn and improve to better things.

The day started at 9am with the U14 groups. Stefan Jeczalik, Callum Evans and Jac Jenkins were the top seeds looking to improve on their points tally from last time whilst taking the title on the day. Callum had a thriller with Jac in group B winning 3-1 to finish 1st. Stefan, a Tonypandy Community College, eased past Pontypridd’s Jon Bisp in group A to move towards a clash with Jac in the semi finals.
The first semi final however sawTonyrefail’s Callum go behind 1-2 against Bisp before turning it around to come through 3-2 and move into the final.

Stefan had a mammoth match with Jac, again going behind 1-2 to turn it around and reach the final 3-2. The level of the play in both semi finals was very good and will keep improving.
Callum had the better start in the final and at 10-9 in the 3rd was looking very good for a 3-0 win but Stef dug deep and took that set. That made Callum move into a higher gear where he won the next set 11-7.

U14 - Callum Evans beat Sefan Jeczalik 11-4, 13-11, 10-12, 11-7
Dylan Lewis [Ferndale] beat James Dean Clayton [Tonyrefail] in the U14 consolation final 3-0.

U19
The older players started later in the day and with 4 quality groups things were always going to be close. Players like Carys Webster, Tom Goodall, Sadie Edwards, Laura Price and Liam Winder couldn’t get through to the main knockout and settled for the consolation event. This was won by Cathays star Tom Goodall against Ferndale’s Liam Winder 3-2.

The QF’s of the knockout saw four mouth watering ties. Charlotte Carey vs Steve Fawkes, Luke Groom vs Angharad Phillips, Nicole Hall vs Gwyn Carvill and Megan Phillips vs Sharlene Williams. Charlotte made good starts in all 3 ends to beat Fawksey 3-0. Angharad set up a SF clash with rival Charlotte by beating Luke [Nantymoel] 3-0. The third match saw Nicole beat Gwyn [Nantymoel] 3-0 to meet Megan, who beat he team mate from last night’s match in Okehampton, Sharlene [again Nantymoel] 3-0.

Nicole tried her best to defuse the tricky play of Megan but couldn’t do enough to worry her throughout the 4 sets played, losing 1-3. Meg was looking to the next table where her sister was doing battle with number 1 seed Carey. The match went back and for until Charlotte gained that vital advantage in the 5th set and made it too hard for Angharad to claw it back winning 11-7.

The final , which was a repeat of last time’s SF showdown, saw Charlotte up her attaching power to move into a two set lead against Megan. The Welsh all-rounder tried to change tactics but Carey wasn’t in the mood for a battle and won the 3rd set 11-5.

U19 - Charlotte Carey bt Megan Phillips 11-5, 11-8, 11-5

A thanks goes to Tonypandy Community College for use of the facilities and equipment. The next event will be emailed out soon for the chance to add to the overall points tally by the players.

TTAW 2011 calendar

please email ryan.jenkins@ttaw.co.uk if you wish to have the 2011 TTAW calendar to use at your house/office/workplace

Use this free DIY calendar to keep track of all your table tennis events this season

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All the latest news on the homepage

Cirencester 1 star (Callum wins U13's)
JBL - 2nd weekend (Gold for Wales boys)
ETTU Eurokids Camp (Jac & Caitlin compete well against Europe's best)
Doncaster GP - (Steve Jenkins gets to Semi Final)

JBL

Conor Edwards, Chris Griffiths, Ryan Oyler, Charlotte Carey, Megan Phillips & Angharad Phillips will travel to Wolverhampton this weekend for the 2nd weekend of the Junior British League.

The 3 Welsh boys are top of division 4 where they intend to secure the main prize whilst the girls, back from a tough week's training with the BTTF squad in Sheffield, are poised ready to take all the teams infront of them.

Results to follow....

ETTU Camp - Antalya

This week so far has been very tough for both Jac Jenkins & Caitlin Williams. With a run on the beach to start every day at 7:15 followed by two 3 hour sessions of training by head coach, Branca Batinic.

Romania and France are both top teams within European table tennis and with their coaches at the training sessions here it has been tough but very good for both kids and I’m sure they have learnt a great deal already. After hard training yesterday all the kids have had the morning off and had the opportunity to visit Antalya Old Town.

This gives them a nice break until this afternoons training session and tomorrows competition. The competition will be a round robin of 17 matches that will take place over both Friday and Saturday. The winner of the tournament will then attend the ITTF Hopes training camp in Werner Schlager Academy in Austria with all expenses paid.

A few words from both Caitlin and Jac from the camp so far.

Caitlin: The past two days has been so hard but throughout them I have learnt footwork, using angles, body positioning, feeling, to think about what shot to play after returning the serve and how important a serve is in a match. I am looking forward to playing the tournament and I could improve a lot of things like not to snatch the ball, not to rush my shots , to spin the ball more instead of hitting the ball flat, to stay down low all of the time, footwork and feeling.

Jac: I have learnt body language, footwork, not to snatch, new serves, that table tennis is like a really quick game of chess because you have to think about every move you make. I want to do well in the competition.

Regional Schools League - Cardiff

Cardiff Schools table Tennis League Kicks Off with Huge Success.

This week has seen two regions of Cardiff (East and West) participating in the first round of matches against schools in their area.

There are 10 Schools with over 80 participants taking part across the two regions it has took of with a bang.
There are 3 different catagories within the Schools League, Having a girls league, Year 7&8 Boys League and Year 9,10 and 11 Boys League

It has been great to see so many youngsters taking part in competitive matches and representing their schools.

Take a look at the South Wales Table Tennis blog for more Details and Information and see who is topping the tables after the first round of matches

www.southwalestt.blogspot.com

World Ranking for Welsh players

Naomi O #307, Charlotte #847, Angharad #950 Chloe #1047, Megan #1097, Nicole #1210

Adam R #212, Ryan J #312, Stephen J #734, Stephen G #1349, Dan O'C #1488

Owen wins Glamorgan Super Challenge

Owen Clutterbuck won the £80 prize at the tournament today at Nantymoel beating Ryan Owen in the final.
Ryan won the first 2 sets 11-0 and 11-7 to command the attention of the crowd. With him at 9-9 in the 3rd lots thought it was 'game over'.
Owen then rallied back 11-9 and 14-12 to level the tie.
Ryan played some good points in the 5th set turning ends at 5-3, but lost his 2 serves to reach 7-7.
It was the nerve of Clutterbuck which brought him through the 5th set winning 12-10 in a very close encounter.

Ethan Lewis won the consolation event beating Carys Webster in the final 3-0.

Girls in Sheffield

Megan Phillips
Charlotte Carey &
Angharad Phillips....
....Are travelling to Sheffield next week for a British training camp with some top English players.

At the women's British League today in Bristol, Megan & Angharad helped their team win the 1st division whilst Charlotte Carey helped her team to the division 3 title. Clare Ford and Julie Furber were also in action.

EGM

The EGM took place today in Cardiff with members of the TTAW able to seek answers to questions they needed to ask board members.

UWIC Junior Academy

Last night UWIC, working in partnership with the Table Tennis Association for Wales, launched its first ever Junior Table Tennis Academy and the evening was a huge success. 30 mixed ability players from across Cardiff turned up to learn new skills and improve existing ones under the supervision of Table Tennis Wales Coaching Staff. UWIC’s Sports Development Manager Sara Nicholes said “It’s been a fantastic evening and we are so pleased to see so many young people attend the first week. Table Tennis is a fast growing sport in Wales and we are excited to be working alongside Table Tennis Wales in promoting the sport and in creating new opportunities for young people to get involved in it”.

Wales beat England SW

The score was 9-8 at Okehampton TTC in Devon with wins for Callum Evans (1), Jac Jenkins (1), Thomas Heyden (1), Mathew Francis (0), Caitlin Williams (2), Soffi Jenkins (2) and Charlotte Slye (2).

Well Done Wales.....

UKCC L1 - Nantymoel

20 February - Day 1
10 April - Day 2

Here are the names of the candidates we have received application forms from so far: Aled Liddington, David Maginnes, Don O’Driscoll, Ryan Owen, Martin Queeley and Christopher Richards.

If you want to join the course download a form from the ttaw website (go to the coaching section)

English Open & West Scotland Open

English Open 2011
Naomi Owen was the Welsh star in the women’s singles progressing through her qualification group and into the last 64 with a fine win against the Korean Kim Eunji 4-0. Prior to that Naomi just lost out to ex-World ranked top ten player Tamara Boros of Croatia 3-4 with a great chance of finishing top of the group.
Boros played very well towards the 2nd part of the 7th set. Naomi came up against a top player in Elizabeta Samara (WR #38) of Romania and lost 6-11, 6-11, 6-11, 7-11 to halt further progress.

The ‘younger crew’ of Daniel O’Connell, Lewis Williams, Chloe Thomas, Megan Phillips, Angharad Phillips and Charlotte Carey all competed well and did themselves proud against some of the best players in the world.

Dan had Gavin Rumgay sweating, but couldn't’t get close enough to force a 7th end and lost 2-4. Lewis had a great match against Ireland’s Gavin Maguire, again a close 2-4 loss. Angharad beat Yolanda King of England 4-1 in the women’s singles and Chloe Whyte 3-2 in the U21’s to avenge her loss in the East Midlands Open a few weeks ago.

Megan lost 2 close matches against Tin Tin Ho in the women’s and U21 singles. Chloe lost to Necula, Huang & Xian the women’s plus Karina LeFevre in the U21’s (4-0).
Charlotte lost two 5 set thrillers, both 11-9 in the last, against Vickers of England & Dessaint of France (WR #191) which would have given her great WR points.

Angharad & Chloe plus Megan & Charlotte lost their opening doubles match to their respective opponents as did Daniel & Lewis (against Maynard & Andrews of England).
Next was a trip up the A1 and the M8 to Glasgow for the West of Scotland Open.......

West Scotland Open
....Angharad & Chloe won the women's doubles, Ryan & Stephen Jenkins won the men's doubles. Ryan Jenkins won men's singles and Naomi Owen won women's singles. Charlotte Carey was R/Up women's singles to Naomi 3-1. Dan O'Connell and Steve Jenkins were Q Finalists in men's singles.

John Bisp was SF in minor boys. Charlotte won the band 1 women's singles.

Chloe Thomas won junior girls beating Charlotte Carey in final. Angharad Phillips was Semi Finalist. Megan Phillips was Q-Finalist.

U21's - 4 players reached Q-Finals (Dan O'Connell, Chloe, Angharad and Lewis Williams)

Junior Boys - Dan lost to Scott Barton in S-Final 0-3. In cadet boys, Lewis lost to Conor Edwards in SF, whilst Conor lost to Blair Fowler (Scotland) in final. Charlotte Carey won the cadet girl's beating Lucy Elliot of Drumchapel 3-0 in final

Munster Open - Ireland

Welsh take titles

Ryan Jenkins and Naomi Owen were Welsh successes at the illustrious Munster Open which was played in Kilarny, Ireland on 22nd January 2011.
Ryan and Naomi teamed up to win the mixed doubles final 3-2 with Ryan partnering Gavin Maguire of Dublin to win the men’s doubles against Slevin/Murphy 3-0.

Naomi teamed up with Sarah Timlin but just lost out in their doubles final.
Naomi wiped the floor with all her opponents to win the ladies crown. The final was against Ashley Givan 3-1 while Ryan had it a little tougher.
There was a Spanish warrior to contend with in the men’s final in Orio. Orio of Granada forced his way past Irish legend Slevin (3-1) before storming to the first end in the final. Ryan levelled at 1-1, then led 2-1, but Orio fought back to save matchpoints for a 2-2 deadlock.

Ryan played the better TT in the 5th and won the 1000 Euro first prize winnings and made it a triple in Kilarny.

Ryan Owen was also on show and made it to the band 1 semi finals where he lost to Cardiff based Ryan Flood. Flood went on to win the event.