Images from Cardiff Grand Prix

Rocktape UK

after a series of small injuries, a back injury to the National Coach, really made a difference to everyday life. A petruding nerve into the L5 disc meant the trapped nerve restricting flexibility and mobility to his back, legs and ankles on the right side. After trialling RockTape UK he found what a difference it made not only to his injury but other niggles and pain from compensating and aggravating. He is now a #Rockstar after teaming up with RockTape UK and is helping spread the word of what a difference it has made to his playing career. There are few #Rockstars from a variety of sports and it shows the partnership not made between the company and the athlete. Ryan has won 4 out of the last 5 UK Grand Prix's and is training hard for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in the Summer of 2014

Visit them here http://rocktape.net/

21.11.13 Board Meeting

Here are a selection of the items passed at today's TTW board meeting:

* Dave Treharne to become Regional Director again...

* a call for coaches for interest for a UKCC Level 2 has been asked for....

* New tabletennis365 link to website to happen shortly

* The EGM is set for Thursday 30th January 2014 at 7:30pm

* The Welsh Championships will be played in Carmarthen on 1st weekend of March 2014

* Mike Marsden passed as TTW selector for junior/cadet teams

* Players who play TCW and don't yet have a licence will face action unless they get it sorted before 31 Dec

Senior Home Nations 2013 - Wales

Conor, Ryan, Charlotte & Jac

Welsh players are on show at the Hungarian Open this week in Sombatherly with the above players in attendance

follow their progress on www.ittf.com & @walesTT on twitter [www.twitter.com]

Welsh Players on ITTF List

281 JENKINS Ryan (WAL), 713 JENKINS Stephen (WAL), 1150 O'CONNELL Daniel (WAL) 1257 EDWARDS Conor (WAL), 1446 WILLIAMS Lewis (WAL), 1461 OYLER Ryan (WAL) 1514 GRIFFITHS Chris (WAL), 1692 JENKINS Jac (WAL), 1720 EVANS Callum (WAL)

341 OWEN Naomi (WAL), 347 CAREY Charlotte (WAL), 608 PHILLIPS Megan (WAL) 757 PHILLIPS Angharad (WAL), 887 THOMAS Chloe (WAL), 1056 HALL Nicole (WAL)

7th November 2013 www.ittf.com

Ping Pong at the Ally Pally returns

Matchroom Article Following the unqualified success of its 2013 debut, Matchroom Sport are delighted to announce tickets are now on sale for the World Championship of Ping Pong 2014 at Alexandra Palace, London on January 4 & 5.

Live on Sky Sports in the UK, 64 of the world's best players will take part in the two-day tournament with a substantial prize fund and tickets are on sale now at SeeTickets.com (search ‘Ping Pong’) and at www.worldchampionshipofpingpong.net.

Using traditional sandpaper rackets, the World Championship of Ping Pong is a throwback to the early days of table tennis and is catapulting ping pong into the big league and onto the international television stage.

Qualifiers are being staged for the 2014 World Championship of Ping Pong in 21 countries around the world, with the first names already confirmed for Alexandra Palace.

All eight 2013 quarter-finalists are invited back, and 2013 champion Maxim Shmyrev has confirmed he will defend his title in London. He will be joined by qualifiers including England’s Denis Neale, Dutchman Lars Adema and Lithuanian female star Egle Adomelyte.

Matchroom Sport Chairman Barry Hearn said: “I am thrilled that once again we are staging the World Championship of Ping Pong in London. This year’s tournament was the start of something really quite exciting and we are building on that for 2014. We are staging qualifiers all over the world and players are desperate to be a part of this.

“We are taking the sport back to its purest form, back to the old days when it was just a bit of wood and a piece of sandpaper. It’s all about player versus player, not scientist versus scientist, and that is what I love about it.

“This year was great but you’d better get your tickets quickly because next year is going to be even better.”

Tickets are on sale now priced £10 for afternoon sessions and £15 for evenings.

The tournament takes place over four sessions, with a double elimination group stage featuring eight groups played out on eight tables on the Saturday afternoon before the last 32 enter a knockout stage played across two tables in the evening.

On Sunday morning the last 16 will be whittled down to eight quarter-finalists, who will proceed to the evening session to battle it out for the 2014 World Championship of Ping Pong crown. http://youtu.be/GmK5lw6UBTI

Confirmed participants for the 2014 World Championship of Ping Pong

Cardiff Legaue News

Hi Everyone,

G E Ilan Nomads is desperate to sign a player for their 1st team in division 1. They are based in Pontypridd and their home night is Thursday.

If you are interested/know of anyone interested, please contact Bill Berry on 01443 400562.

Rhondda TTC Appeal...

Rhondda Table Tennis Club has been shortlisted for the South Wales Echo's wish 2013 campaign. The £25,000 will be shared amongst the clubs on that wish list. The more tokens each group collect, the larger amount of cash they will receive.

How you can help:

Four tokens will be printed each day in the South Wales Echo from 2nd October-30th November. If you can manage to collect the tokens and hand them to me then I can stick them in the books provided. Watch out for the 'bonus tokens' as well, these could give the group a much needed boost.

The more people collecting the tokens and spreading the word then the better chance of getting a bigger share of the cash pot and helping Rhondda Table Tennis club. Therefore please spread the word, ask parents, relatives, work colleagues, local community,schools,local shops and anyone you can think of. I have posters and leaflets if you need any to help spread the word.

Stephen Jenkins (Head Coach)

JBL weekend 1

Junior British Lge kicks off this weekend in Lilleshall and Welsh players are in action. Follow @walesTT for all the weekend's results

Glamorgan U13/Cadet/Junior Championships

Under 13 Boys-Semi Final Joseph Roberts bt Ellis Burgess,Cade Short bt Benedict Watson, Cade bt Joseph 3-2 in the Final

Under 13 Girls Round Robin 1Lydia John, 2Jamie Lee Harvey 3Anna Hursey 4 Lauren Stacey 5Bethany Brewer 6 Lara Whitton

Under 15 Boys-Semi Final Jac Jenkins bt Marc Castro,Josh Stacey bt Benedict Watson, Jac bt Josh 3-0 in the Final

Under 15 Girls Round Robin 1 Lydia 2 Jamie Lee 3 Anna 4 Bethany 5 Lauren

Under 18 Boys Semi Final Callum Evans bt Connor Edwards,Ryan Oyler bt Jac Jenkins,Ryan bt Callum 3-1 in the Final

Under 18 Girls Semi Final Laura Edwards bt Beth Roberts,Soffi Jenkins bt Lydia John, Laura bt Soffi in the Final

Dai Tree

Welsh players in the world rankings ITTF

Men - Ryan Jenkins 281, Stephen Jenkins 710, Dan O'Connell 1146, Conor Edwards 1248, Lewis Williams 1426, Ryan Oyler 1445, Chris Griffiths 1498, Jac Jenkins 1669, Callum Evans 1701

Women - Naomi Owen 356, Charlotte Carey 366, Megan Phillips 605, Angharad Phillips 755, Chloe Thomas 887, Nicole Hall 1053

Visit www.ittf.com for all the information with rankings

Wales on the road...

Keep up to date with what`s going on in Brazil, Belarus and Sheffield this weekend on twitter @walesTT and our website and this page of course....

Glasgow 2014 ticket sales

The 1st phase Of public sale of tickets for CWG Glasgow 2014 ends 16th September 2013. Get your application in to avoid disappointment. There is an opportunity in phase 2 however demand is high.

Wales at World Events this week....

follow Charlotte in Brazil and Angharad/Megan Phillips in Belarus throughout this week on www.ittf.com

Wales take on the UK

The UK School Games start tomorrow in Sheffield and Wales are hoping to bring back the medals. Conor Edwards, Ryan Oyler, Jac Jenkins and Chris Griffiths will do their best in the boys event as will Kate Roberts, Soffi Jenkins, Laura Edwards and Beth Roberts in the girls category. Lawrence John, Cellan Hall and Ashley Wray represent Wales in the disability events.

Follow their progress on twitter @walesTT, and on the UK School Games website www.2013schoolgames.com

Affiliation

Affiliation to TTW can now be arranged in the following ways;

1.For individuals who prefer to apply direct to TTW by going to:

https://memberdesq.imgstg.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=main&OrgID=10341

Before using the new system existing members applying direct and not through their club/league first need their individual user name and password – to obtain this simply email; ttwmembership@outlook.com. (Brand new members who have not previously affiliated will set up a new registration and will have a user name and password automatically allocated)

2.By posting a cheque for the £12 fee to The General Manager, High Winds, St Marys Hill, Vale of Glamorgan, CF35 5ED. Please provide full name, address, email address, if any and date of birth. Please also supply a stamped self-addressed envelope if no email address is supplied. Cheques payable to TTAW.

Licences

Similarly licences can be obtained as follows;

1.For individuals who wish to apply direct to TTW by using our new online system following the same link above. Again before using the system existing members first need their individual user name and password – to obtain this simply email; ttwmembership@outlook.com as above. (Again brand new members who have not previously affiliated will set up a new registration and will have a user name and password automatically allocated)

2.By posting a cheque for the £12.50 fee to The General Manager, Table Tennis Wales, High Winds, St Marys Hill, Vale of Glamorgan, CF35 5ED – cheques payable to TTAW please. Please provide full name address any email address and date of birth. Please also supply a stamped self-addressed envelope if no email address is supplied.

Either way it costs £24.50

Table Tennis Wales 200 club winners - August & September 2013

August

1st – Mrs M Thomas

2nd- Tim Evans

3rd – Ron Davies

September

1st – Mr M Lewis

2nd – Ms E Winder

3rd – Mrs H Howell.

Updated Rankings

Go to www.ttaw.co.uk/ranking to get the latest and up to date Welsh rankings

Junior Masters Draw Sunday 25th Aug, 10am

Junior Masters 2013

Boys Group 1 - Conor Edwards, Jac Jenkins, Dylan Lewis, Ashley Perry, Ryan Lo

Boys Group 2 - Ryan Oyler, Chris Griffiths, Callum Evans, Macauley Morgan, Liam Winder

• Top 2 in each group play 1-4 places [semi finals] • 3rd & 4th play for 5-8 places • 5th play for 9-10 places

All matches are best of 5

Girls Round Robin Beth Roberts, Laura Edwards, Kate Roberts, Charlotte Slye, Buddog James, Lauren Stacey, Anna Hursey

2013 TTW awards

Images from the TTW awards in Bridgend on 28th July

A write up is here http://www.ttaw.co.uk/news/2013/07/ttw-awards-2013-0

48hrs

Just 2 days remain until the winners are announced at the TTW awards in Bridgend. Categories include Volunteer of the year, young coach of the year, player of the year, club of the year and many more.... The event starts at 1pm with Mike Marsden's band the Dragon puppets. A casino table will open for players to have some fun throughout.... See you there, remember your ticket....

Anna in Burton 2*

Burton 2 star 21.07.2013: Anna Hursey played well and came runner up in the under 11's, won four matches and lost one, to Katie Holt. Visit twitter - @walesTT

Medal for sure

Charlotte Carey has won a European Youth medal for sure but the colour is still yet to be determined. The Ebbw Vale youngster and partner Kim Vermaas (Holland) will play Balint (Romania) and Trosman (Israel) today to see if they enter the final. Regardless of the outcome of the match a medal will be returning to Wales, the first since Adam Robertson won a singles Silver some years ago. Follow the results on twitter - @walesTT or on www.ettu.org for live updates

Lyon Trip

Well done to Greg Price and Joseph Roberts on their recent Lyon EuroKids adventure. The training was intense and Joseph had the chance to practice with ex-Olympic Gold winner Zhang Yingyin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Kc6Q4LHzg

https://plus.google.com/photos/106728086669745107929/albums/5900031221897930609?authkey=CKPV642hxcS8bQ#photos/106728086669745107929/albums/5900031221897930609?authkey=CKPV642hxcS8bQ

Not many tickets available

With just under 2 weeks until the TTW host their annual awards there are few tickets remaining. Please act now to avoid disappointment. See www.ttaw.co.uk for details on how to get tickets.

EYC 2013 Ostrava

Follow the action in Ostrava on http://ftp.vitesseonline.it/Ettu/EYC2013/index.html

ETTU Rankings

The following Players have rankings on the ETTU list:

Cadet Boys: Jac #125, Callum #198

Junior Girls: Charlotte #30, Nicole #246

Junior Boys: Conor #198, Lewis #274

ETTU Conference 2013

Cardiff will host the ETTU conference in December 2013. Check www.ttaw.co.uk where you'll see an information sheet

TTW Awards - Update

More than 50% of tickets have been reserved for the Awards with just under 3 weeks remaining. Drop and email to coaching@ttaw.co.uk and reserve the tickets and then pay for them by cheque. You will get the tickets (adult & Child) emailed to you for the night

Liverpool GP Entry Form

http://etta.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Liverpool-GP-Tees-Sport-17-08-13.pdf

200 club

TTAW 200 Club winners July

1st Ms Lynne Evans 2nd Mr R Bishop 3rd Ms Claire Flannagan

30% of Awards Tickets gone

30% of tickets were sold on day 1 of them being made available. Today its likely with more webpage posts that number will be higher, so act now to reserve yours. Adults are £4 and children (under 16) are free. Contact coaching@ttaw.co.uk

Visit www.ttaw.co.uk for all the info and nomination forms

Live Streaming available this weekend in Douglas

Live streaming will be on 4 show courts this weekend for the International Senior Schools in Isle of Man. Check out www.ttaw.co.uk for more information on where to look for the webpage. Follow your players on twitter with us - @walesTT

(Picture - Nicole Hall - hoping for more trophies this weekend at the ISS Champs)

90,000 hits

Soon the 100,000 mark will be passed and the NCM blog will show how popular it has become

Camp for ISS players

The 2 day camp is in full swing with all the players going to Isle of Man in action today and tomorrow in Sport Wales National Centre. The draw is now out and all players are ready to take on the best the schools event has to offer. Results are always on @walesTT

Cardiff City TTC Event

Here are the final positions for the event last weekend:

U - 11 1 Joseph Roberts 2 Lauren Stacey 3 Anna Hursey 4 Suyash Agarwal 5 Kavin Durai

U-13 1 Joseph Roberts 2 Raja Gulim 3 Joe Williams 4 Advait Nair 5 Anna Hursey 6 Thomas Hunter 7 Mohammed Kadir 7 Alex Doughty 9 Shaili Kadambande

U-15 1 Marc Castro 2 Huw Standen 3 Macauley Morgan 4 Pouyan Javanmard 5 Martin Alldrick

U-18 1 Macauley Morgan 2 Tom Goodall 3 Peyman Mollaei 4 Huw Standen 5 Pouyan Javanmard 6 Martin Alldrick

Just Give a Little....

On August 19th Pink Pong will be in Cardiff to celebrate table tennis whilst raising money for cancer patients. You can donate here http://www.justgiving.com/pinkpongwales

Also people can text WALE50 £1,£2,£3,£4,£5,£6,£7,£8,£9,£10 to 70071 on your mobile phones

Anytime you want to set up a page for a charity event in your clubs, set up as Cancer Research UK and then link to pink pong team via - https://www.justgiving.com/teams/PinkPongUK

Volunteer Opportunity

The Community Games, in association with Street Games, are taking place on August 21st at Cardiff Metropolitan University and TTW are searching for volunteers for the event. Please feel free to contact coaching@ttaw.co.uk for more information about the event

European Youth Champs draw

Junior Boys - England, Ukraine, Norway & Armenia

Junior Girls - Belgium, Lithuania, Switzerland & Israel

Cadet Boys - Israel, Luxembourg & Armenia

Cadet Girls - Belgium, Spain and Luxembourg

News

Check the news www.ttaw.co.uk

George dining with some Legends

George Evans sat and had dinner with several legends whilst at the European Vets Championships in Bremen last week (photo: Jan Ove Waldner, Mikkael Applegren, Steffan Fetzner)

TTW Annual Awards 2013 - Bridgend

Please visit www.ttaw.co.uk

for the nomination form for the awards on 28th July in Bridgend. Tickets on sale soon....

Dates to be aware of

The following flyers are out here to help you know when there are important Cricket and Rugby dates in Cardiff so you know about increased traffic and less carpark spaces at the centre. It will also help with some road closures that occur when large matches take place at the Millennium Stadium

Parents Evening 31st May 6-9pm

Invite parents have the chance to meet National Coach Ryan Jenkins to discuss the TTW programme, players sessions and International tournaments on May 31st 6-9pm in Cardiff. Emails have gone to the players parents so please reply quickly. Thanks

New World Rankings...

Ryan #271 Stephen #708 Dan #1119 Conor #1256 Lewis #1427

Naomi #344 Charlotte #400 Megan #579 Angharad #762 Chloe #865 Nicole #1074

Welsh Open - Hardbat Challenge Event Tour

Cardiff was due to host a Welsh Open hard bat tour event on 22nd September. Unfortunately the tour has been in touch and all events are cancelled until further notice

New Club opens in Swansea

The recently opened club in Manselton community centre, which happens on Thursday nights from 6pm-9pm,is open to anyone to attend. Please feel free to contact the Chairman Chris Donovan Chrisdonovans1982@msn.com for further information

for all the Swansea info contact regional coach Judith Whitton on @judewhitton or judewhitton@googlemail.com

Half Term Camp in the Rhondda

Dates/Times/cost

Tues 28th, Wed 29th, Thurs 30th, Fri 31st May

10.00-12.00

£2 per day

For more information please contact Stephen Jenkins on info@stephenjenkinssportsagency.co.uk, 07875718131

ITTF page report

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zvjp5JX3o8

World Championships -Paris

After Dubai and Delhi, Conor Edwards, Dan O'Connell, Ryan Jenkins, Naomi Owen, Megan Phillips and Charlotte Carey will now move onto Paris to represent Wales at the World Table Tennis Championships. Follow the team on twitter - @walesTT

UK School Games 2013

There will be trials for the boys and girls team for the 4 places available on 2nd June at Sport Wales NC, Cardiff (Upper Hall). The final team needs to be submitted a week later onto the EMS online system. The main event will be held in Sheffield this September and is supported by Sainsbury's.

updates.....

All the days reports online www.ttaw.co.uk

India Event Starts Today

Keep up to date with all the results as they happen at the Commonwealth Championships on the ITTF http://www.ittf.com/competitions/competitions2.asp?Competition_ID=2231&category=Special

Spin Dubai

http://www.thenational.ae/lifestyle/ping-pong-bounces-into-dubai-with-susan-sarandons-star-power

Selection News

The selection committee today decided the following selections for the summer events: www.ttaw.co.uk

WR - May 2013

Naomi #358, Charlotte #406, Megan #646, Angharad #748, Chloe #822, Nicole #1022

Ryan #280, Stephen #686, Daniel #1122, Conor #1197, Lewis #1359

Naomi wins again...

Naomi Owen, the 9 times Welsh Champion, helped her club Eslov to the Women's Elite division title last weekend. Well done Naomi from everyone in Welsh table tennis....

Commonwealth Champs

Stephen Jenkins, Dan O'Connell, Conor Edwards, Charlotte Carey, Megan Phillips, Angharad Phillips and Chloe Thomas (along with coaches Ryan Jenkins and Simon Oyler) head off tomorrow to Delhi for the Commonwealth Championships starting on the 5th May. First there is a 'pit-stop' in Dubai for some training with former Welsh coach Li Chao at his club where he is currently based. Follow us @walesTT.....

Seeds for the weekend

Glamorgan Championships - www.ttaw.co.uk

TTW Annual Awards 2013

The TTW Annual awards will be held in Bridgend on Sunday 28th July 2013 this year with special guests the Dragon Puppets http://dragonpuppets.wix.com/band#

Day 1 Report - Estonia

Day 1

The morning session belong to the women’s team event with Angharad/Megan and Chloe/Charlotte teaming up. The Denbigh sisters found their draw tough and went down 1/3 to their Belarus opponents. Angharad lost out 1/3 and Meg lost 0-3 to leave it to the doubles to keep the match alive. That was won 3/1 and there was a glimmer of hope installed. Angharad lost a battle 2/3 to end that and the match was over. Meanwhile on the next table Charlotte and Chloe both won 3/0 and the doubles went the same way to finish the match in double quick time to progress to the Quarter finals.

A tough draw waited as the number 1 seeds from Ukraine stood in the way of a semi final place. Charlotte looked in control of set 1 but things turned around and she was quickly 0/2 down. The third seemed to be going Charlotte’s way until her opponent dug deep and the match went their way. Chloe couldn’t match her opponent and we needed the doubles to save the match. With a 2/1 lead it looked likely we could extend the match back into the singles but it wasn’t to be and another lead slipped away.

The boys were involved in the U18 category and all 3 made it through to the last 16. Conor won his group winning all 3 matches whilst Ryan and Chris won 2 and lost 1 to finish runner up. Chris went 2-0 ahead in his last 32 match but failed to take advantage and lost it eventually 2/3. Ryan fought back from 2-0 down to level at 2-2 and then had a bad start in the 5th set and lost 11-4. Conor made it through winning 3-0 against his Finland opponent to get to the last 16.

Conor was the last man standing for Wales and had to play a Ukraine opponent (seed 3) in the last 16. The opponent beat Chris Griffiths in the group so we knew of him and knew he was a strong and worthy player. Conor didn’t have the ammunition he required to win the match and the strength of the opponent told as he went down 0-3. So Day 2 tomorrow and we have the men’s/women’s singles plus the U16’s singles for Chris and Ryan......

Butterfly Baltic Cup - Estonia

Angharad Phillips, Chloe Thomas, Megan Phillips, Charlotte Carey, Conor Edwards, Chris Griffiths & Ryan Oyler are in the Estonian capital, Talinn, to play the world ranking event which is the Butterfly Baltic Cup. Follow their results on @walesTT and www.ttaw.co.uk

Welsh Open Hardbat