Aussie Star On the Way to Cardiff

Melissa Tapper will base herself in Cardiff prior to the Paralympic Games in London. The Australian player will train with the Welsh squad whilst also having dedicated 1:2:1 sparring with the best Wales has to offer We welcome her and hope to help her in anyway we possibly can...

Pink Pong

The charity Pink Pong will come to Cardiff City Table Tennis Club on the 16th August to raise awareness and funds with some of the best players in Wales there to help. An open session will run 4-6pm so anyone can come to try out at the newly opened TT academy. Olympic torch bearer Betty Gray will attend as will England number 3 Hannah Hicks, Welsh Champion and National Coach Ryan Jenkins and many other top players. Capital radio DJ Matt Lisak will also make a guest appearance. Please show your support to help Pink Pong....

European Youth Championships

With just 2 weeks left until Wales depart for the European Youth Champs in Austria, players are preparing well ready for the big occasion. A 4 day training camp will happen 7-10 July at Sport Wales National Centre. Charlotte Carey (pic) will also attend the Sport Wales Rising Star dinner at the Village hotel on Friday evening.

Holiday camps in Cardiff

Cardiff city Table Tennis club have holiday dates and senior/junior leagues all taking place this summer. From 25th June to 22nd July training is taking place at various dates at the purpose built centre. There is also a junior (2 a side teams) and senior (3 a-side teams). Please contact Nathan Thomas - cardiffcityttc@gmail.com

International Schools Guernsey

The Welsh team are on the way to Guernsey today from Poole on the 5am ferry. Good luck to the teams in the U14, U16 and U18 events. Results to follow

Luxembourg Open

Good luck to Team Wales on way to Luxembourg - Jac Jenkins, Chris Griffiths, Conor Edwards, Beth Roberts and Chloe Thomas

Summer Camps

Stephen Jenkins (Stephen Jenkins Sports Agency) are holding a series of Summer camps during August. Contact him on stephenjenkins19@hotmail.com for a flyer with all the information you need. The classes are limited to 20 players for each day. Get in there....

European Youth Champs

Wales girls are placed in a group with Norway, Armenia and Scotland in the team event which takes place 13th-22nd July in Austria

Chloe Thomas

Chloe has signed for new Swedish club Peng Da in national league for next season

Welsh Schools Finals 2012 - winners

Dan the Man

Dan O'Connell has signed for French club Boulogne in the national French League

24th June - Dragon Event

Entry form on the TTAW website

World Rankings - June

Leading Places Men: 1. ZHANG Jike (CHH) 2. MA Long (CHN) 3. XU Xin (CHN) 4. WANG Hao (CHN) 5. MA Lin (CHN) 6. Timo BOLL (GER) 7. Jun MIZUTANI (JPN) 8. CHUANG Chih-Yuan (TPE) 9. WANG Liqin (CHN) 10. JOO Saehyuk (KOR) Women: 1. DING Ning (CHN) 2. LIU Shiwen (CHN) 3. LI Xiaoxia (CHN) 4. GUO Yan (CHN) 5. Kasumi ISHIKAWA (JPN) 6. GUO Yue (CHN) 7. WANG Yuegu (SIN) 8. Ai FUKUHARA (JPN) 9. TIE Yana (HKG) 10. FENG Tianwei (SIN)

Half Term Camp

Players from Ireland, Scotland and England will be present in Cardiff this week for the 2 day holiday camp

Tipton GP

Chris Griffiths reached the final of the band 5 losing out to Jessie Kendrick-Hill. Nicole Hall lost out to Jas Ould in the semis of the band 1 women's. There was limited success for Dean Cundy, Dan O'Connell, Conor Edwards and Ryan Oyler but all had some very close matches with top seeds throughout the weekend Ryan Jenkins claimed the men's singles and the overall GP title for a second successive season (6 in total) beating Matt Ware in the final Angharad Phillips and Megan Phillips weren't present but had high finishing places in the women's singles and band 1 singles to claim prize money from the season http://etta.co.uk/news/featured-news/all-go-in-tipton/