Soffi in Sussex

Soffi Jenkins made her way to the Sussex Open over the weekend and finished up 5th place out of a strong field of 9 competitors. Soffi lost out close to the 4 above her which dashed her hopes to get any medals

Glamorgan County Results

Glamorgan 4 Worcestershire 6 (Wins for Glamorgan Liam 1 Lawrence 1 Thomas 2)

Devon 2nd 6 Glamorgan 2nd (4 Wins for Glamorgan Liam 1 Lawrence 1 Charlotte 1 Lydia 1)

Glamorgan 2nd 2 Surrey 8 (Wins for Glamorgan Charlotte 1 Lydia 1)

Middlesex 2nd 8 Glamorgan 2nd 2 (Wins for Glamorgan Lawrence 1 Thomas 1)

Rankings

Check out the new TTW rankings online - www.ttaw.co.uk

World Junior Champs - India

Wales finish 17th in the World Championships in Hyderabad beating Australia and Puerto Rico

Clip of the week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfOeCslvYOM&feature=g-high-rec

4 year % - World results

in the last 4 years here's the % of wins for our Welsh stars:

Adam 66.7%, Ryan 66%, Stephen 39.7%, Daniel 21.8%, Conor 38%, Lewis 26.8%

Naomi 53.3%, Charlotte 49.8%, Megan 37.2%, Angharad 22.9%, Chloe 22.6%, Nicole 22%

*some players have played at more events than others

Glamorgan Senior Champs

Results for the weekend

Derbyshire - 6, Glamorgan 4 (Wiktor and Conor won 2 each)

Glamorgan 4, Berkshire 6 ( Wiktor won 2, Conor 1, nicole 1)

Essex 5, Glamorgan 5 (Wiktor won 2, conor won 1, nicole won 1 and Ryan won 1)

New TT Centre

Talks are underway to start a fulltime table tennis academy in Tonyrefail which will happen in 2013 - keep a look out here!

Finland Open 2012

Final positions for the Finland Open 2012: Angharad 28th, Megan 35th, Charlotte 37th, Chloe 43rd

Daniel 47th

Thank you for entering the Blaenau Gwent Open. The starting times for each event are as follows:-

Cadet Girls - 10am

Cadet Boys - 10am

Junior Girls - 12pm

Junior Boys - 1pm

See you all on Sunday. Regards Gerald Watkins

World Junior Championships

Wales are given the 20th spot in the event. Check out www.ittf.com

Cardiff GP

The form is out - download it www.ttaw.co.uk

O'Connell does the job

Dan won his 3 matches in France yesterday to help his club win their league encounter

This Weekend in Cardiff

A busy weekend awaits with TCW juniors weekend 1, TCW Vets in both Cardiff and Y Morfa. a dragon event on Sunday plus a TTW Hopes camp on Saturday all taking place. Keep your eyes on twitter @walesTT

Le France

Good luck to Daniel O'Connell who will play in France this weekend for his club

County Results

Results: Yorkshire 4 Glamorgan 6 (Chris 2 wins, Jac 1,Callum 2, Beth 1) A good start

Essex 6 Glamorgan 4 (Wins Chris 1, Callum 1, Jac 1, Soffi 1) At 4 all I thought we had a chance of a win, but it was not to be.

Kent 6 Glamorgan 4 (Wins- Chris 1, Jac 1, Callum 1, Beth 1) Overall I was a bit disapointed, for although we had a young team i thought we were capable of at least a draw in the last 2 games. Dai Tree (manager)

Swiss League

Let's see another 3 big wins off Steve Jenkins this weekend for his club. Follow him on @sj_sportsagency

Home Nations 2012

Good luck to the Welsh team going to Guernsey for the Home Nations Championships today-Daniel O'Connell, Dean Cundy, Angharad Phillips and Nicole Hall.

GP points 2012-2013

http://etta.co.uk/events/events-subpages/grand-prix-events-subpages-events/grand-prix-points-12-13/ updated points for you....

Hungarian Junior Open

Follow the team in Hungary this week...

www.ittf.com

Glamorgan County

Junior Division 1b Results: Devon1 7 Glamorgan 3 A win each from the 3 boys

Glam 4 Sussex 2 6 (A win each for Callum,Liam,Charlotte & Lydia)

Dorset 7 Glamorgan 3 (A win each for Callum,Jac & Lydia)

Stockton 4* Open

Well done to Nicole Hall for winning the Stockton 4* Open last weekend. Lewis Williams made it to the semi final losing to the eventual winner George Downing of England Click the link to see all results and a brief report http://etta.co.uk/news/tees-active-ltd-stockton-on-tees-junior-4-open-championship/

News

Cardiff is the city to host the ETTU coaches conference in 2013. The best coaches from the European Nations will arrive in our capital to discuss and improve on coaching topics

The ITTF are keen to host a level 1 coaching award in Wales in early 2013. Details will shortly follow

Entry forms are out for the Welsh events - Swansea Junior/Cadet Open (Penlan) and Blaenau Gwent Junior/Cadet Open (Abertillery). Soon to follow will be the Glamorgan Senior Open in January 2013. Keep an eye on all the latest action www.ttaw.co.uk

Selections for the Finland Senior Open will happen at the end of this month with those names being posted on the official website when confirmed

Invitations have been sent to Romania, Switzerland, Norway, Belgium, Canada and Luxembourg to send teams to the Welsh Challenge Open in February 2013. The new tournament will take place 15-17 February at Sport Wales National Centre

Follow Us.....

You can now follow Table Tennis Wales in several ways:

website - www.ttaw.co.uk

Twitter - @walesTT

www.nationalcoachwales.blogspot.com

FaceBook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/TT-Wales/432508220096105

There's no excuse to be behind on what's happening....

75,000 HITS

we have hit the 75,000 views on this website

Euros - this week

Charlotte Carey, Megan Phillips and Angharad Phillips head to Herning in Denmark tomorrow for the European Singles Championships

check all results on www.ettu.org

Newcastle GP

Chris Doran stole the show at Newcastle over the weekend beating Welsh number 2 Ryan Jenkins 3-1 in the final. Ryan had good wins over Gavin Evans (3-0) and Paul McCreery (3-0) to reach the final

Steve Jenkins lost out to Daniel Basterfield in the same event, but now switches focus back to his club commitments in the Swiss League

In Talks...

Wales are in talks with the Maldives Association about the possibility of training there for a week prior to the Commonwealth Championships in May next year. Table Tennis Wales has a great friendship with the TTAM since senior men players played their 50th anniversary event in 2011.

Dragon Event

The under 9's got the day off to an excellent start and although there were only 6 entries, a round robin provided them with the maximum playing time and the standard was very good....... Results: 1 Louie Evans 2 Mithun Padmanabhan 3 Anna Hursey 4 Lara Whitton 5 Ieuan Morgan 6 Estelle Kelly......

The Under 11's continued with initially 3 groups of 4 and again provided a very good standard of play..... The playoff's consisted of 4 groups of 3 which produced the following results. 1 Darian Eynon 2 Rhys Evans 3 David Avery 4 Mithun Padmanabhan 5 Louie Evans 6 Lauren Stacey 7 Anna Hursey 8 Ieuan Morgan 9 Lara Whitton 10 Sophie Cunningham 11 Danielle Kelly 12 Estelle Kelly ....................

Many of the players in the younger groups willingly accepted the challenge to play in the Under 13 to make up the numbers. Again with 12 players the same format as the under 11's was used and the standard was again really high. Results:

1 Lydia John 2 Bethany Brewer 3 Louie Evans 4 Joshua Stacey 5 Rhys Evans 6 Jack Mullins 7 Jamie Lee Harley 8 Matthew Pearce 9 David Avery 10 Ben Pearce 11 Anna Hursey 12 Danielle Kelly

Last 16

Megan & Angharad make it to the last 16 of the doubles at the Serbia Open.... www.ittf.com

Bristol Grand Prix Entry Form Out

http://etta.co.uk/news/bribar-bristol-grand-prix-entries-open/

Canadian Junior Open in Toronto

Charlotte Carey plays today against a Korean Opponent in the last 16 of the singles. She will also play the final of the team event this evening. http://www.ittf.com/competitions/competitions2.asp?Competition_ID=2173&category=WJC

Good luck

Naomi Owen and Daniel O'Connell both have matches for their clubs this weekend in the French League