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Wednesday 30 December 2009

London GP - Ceri the Band winner

Ceri James from Wales [S2] took home a nice piece of glassware for his efforts in Men’s Band 3, defeating the likes of John McBeath, Sullivan Morais, Wayne Mason and then finalist Jared patel in straight sets final.

Men’s Band 3.
Ceri James (WAL) beat Jared Patel (E)
11-6, 9-11, 11-8, 11-7.

Matt Lancey [S1] lost in the Q Final of the band 5 event to French player Fabien Mauroy 3-2.

Tuesday 29 December 2009

Charlotte is Queen Sponsor!!!

Well Done to Charlotte Carey who raised £200 at the TTAW players Party on December
22nd. Charlotte along with many others dressed up as festive characters at the bash in WIS, Cardiff....

"Welsh in the World"

These are the Top 5 Welsh players in the World ITTF list

1 11238.00 No#198 ROBERTSON Adam (WAL)
2 11055.00 No#269 JENKINS Ryan (WAL)
3 10454.00 No#745 JENKINS Stephen (WAL)
4 10447.75 No#751 THOMAS Patrick (WAL)
5 9981.75 No#1347 GERTSEN Stephen (WAL)


1 10939.25 No#324 OWEN Naomi (WAL)
2 10210.75 No#965 WILSON Naomi (WAL) *
3 10111.50 No#1038 CAREY Charlotte (WAL)
4 10083.25 No#1057 THOMAS Chloe (WAL)
5 10079.75 No#1059 PHILLIPS Angharad (WAL)
6 9521.75 No#1164 PHILLIPS Megan (WAL)

VISIT www.ittf.com FOR ALL THE WORLD RANKED PLAYERS

Thursday 24 December 2009

Greenhouse Open Report

The Greenhouse Wales Christmas Tournament took place last night at Tonyrefail Comprehensive with over 50 players in attendance in what was a fantastic evening. TTK players from Ferndale, Tonyrefail and Tonypandy were joined by associated club Nantymoel in a jam packed tournament.

The first event of the evening was the open event and with top welsh juniors on display the quality and standard of play was really impressive. Greenhouse Welsh Internationals Nicole Hall, Keiran Tann, Alex Prosser, Conor Edwards, Carys Webster and Jared Parsons all progressed safely into the knockout stages. At the last 16 stage number 4 seed Nicole Hall fell to hands of Ethan Lewis whilst all other matches went to seeding. The quarters saw Nantymoel's Gywn Carvill beat Keiran Tann to set up a semi final against Jared Parsons whilst in the other half Conor Edwards and Alex Prosser both Progressed beating Ethan Lewis and Chris Griffiths respectively. The semi final's saw the end of Carvill and Prosser as they lost out to the in form Parsons and Edwards. In a great final which went the distance it was Edwards who held his nerve taking it 13-11 in the decider. Great Match!!

The next event on show was a tournament put together for the new year 7s/begginers/primary School players. With 40 entries alone in this event it was really pleasing to see so many new faces from the 3 Greenhouse projects enjoying competitive play. Both Caitlin Williams and Jac Jenkins lived up to their seedings reaching the final stage. On route Jenkins beat Tonypandys Liam Hale in the quarters and Ferndale's Dylan Bruford in the semi. Caitlin beat Tonyrefail's Connor Davies in quarters and Tonyrefail's Tyler Wasley in Semis, Tyler however produced the surprise of the event beating number 3 seed Steffan Jones. The final was a great showdown between 2 upcoming stars with on this occasion Caitlin Williams taking the title.

The highlight of the night was the doubles event with names going into the hat to see who they would be partnered with. This was great fun for all involved and drew up some interesting partnerships with players from different schools and abilities combined. (Altough I dont think the Girffiths brothers were too happy to be drawn with eachother!!) Carvill and new year 7 Shaun Nicolas were the surprise package of the tournament going all the way to the final just losing out to Edwards and Logan Evans in a tight match. Conor picked up his 2nd winners title of the night and was awarded with player of the tournament.

Merry Christmas To all.....

The TTAW wishes all its members a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year

Portugal Junior Open - Algarve

Team Event:
Cadet Girls –

With Wales entering two strong teams into this category, there were high hopes to advance on last season’s low position. Chloe Thomas and Megan Phillips had a great win against Italy ‘B’ 3-0 in their first match. Then they had a close match versus number 1 seeds Sweden 2-3, but picked themselves up to beat Portugal 3-0 and finish 2nd in the group. In the knockout rounds they beat Luxembourg in a tight 3-2 result before losing to Germany ‘B’ 1-3 and finishing with a magic 3-0 win against Italy to finally finish 9th place.
Angharad Phillips and Charlotte Carey made up Wales ‘B’ and also wanted to finish in the top 10. In their first match they slipped past Finland in a close 3-2 win but found things tougher against Germany ‘A’ losing 0-3. In the knockout rounds they beat Guernsey 3-2 and Italy 3-0 to play for 7th-8th place against Germany ‘B’. Unfortunately that was one match too far as they lost 0-3 and finished 8th place.
Junior Boys –
The lads found the experience tougher with a real hard draw with Denmark [0-3], Sweden [0-3] and Luxembourg [1-3]. Patrick Thomas won the sole match against Sven Hansen of Luxembourg 3-1.With Scotland and Qatar not attending that left the boys on top of group 4 and finished position 19th.

Singles
It was mixed results on the first day of the singles. Lewis beat L Kilian Ort of Austria 3-0. Charlotte won 3-1 against a Luxembourg opponent. Megan and Chloe then lost to French and German opponents respectively. Angharad beat Kate Stubbington of Guernsey 3-1 but Dan lost to an aggressive Lauren Enghien of Belgium 0-3.
On day 2 things did not go to plan with Lewis losing to the number 3 seed and eventual winner Leonardo Mutti of Italy 0-3. Charlotte lost to Jeger of Croatia 0-3 as did Angharad to Wabik of Poland, who also won the event. Then Patrick had a chance to change fortunes but lost 11-9 in the 4th to England’s Dan Lowe and then 0-3 to Florian Wagner of Germany. Dan lost 0-3 to the French player Hachard and Chloe couldn’t get to grips with number 1 seed Truksova of Slovakia, losing in 3 close sets. Megan was the sole Welsh player still competing. She lost to Pinja Eriksson 11-5 in the 5th but went out with a win against Joana Rosa 3-0 which meant she still couldn’t progress.

Pontypridd Open

Saturday saw the first tournament held at the newly set-up table tennis programme at Pontypridd High School. There were about 30 players entered in all, with the standards ranging from beginners to established Welsh internationals. It was played in a fun, friendly environment, along with the competitiveness and desire to win from all players.
The first event of the day was the Band 2 (for beginners) and was contested by 13 competitors. It was good to see so many Ponty players involved, also joined with new players from the Tonyrefail academy, and one from Treorchy Comprehensive. There were two initial groups, with the top three placed players progressing into the top group playing for positions 1-6, and the bottom three/four moving into the bottom group playing for positions 7-13. Kyle Adams (Pontypridd High) and Tyler Wasley (Tonyrefail) were the front runners going into the 2nd stage having stayed undefeated in the initial groups. There was also strong competition from Soffi Jenkins (Tonyrefail) and Ben Davies (Pontypridd) that had only lost once going into the final stages. It was Tyler who came out a convincing winner only dropping 1 set on route to victory. Kyle was a worthy runner-up playing very well considering the short amount of time he has been playing. Soffi took 3rd place coming out on top in a three way count back between herself, Ben and Bradley (Treorchy).
The second event of the day was the Band 1 (established players) and was contested by 10 players. This again started with two groups of five with the bottom 2 placed players playing a preliminary round to try and progress to the quarter finals. This was a highly contested event with over 50% of the group stage matches going the full distance. Connor Edwards (Tonypandy) came through his group unbeaten justifying his number 1 seed placing, only having one scare against his fellow team mate Stefan Jeczalik. Jack Parry (Tonyrefail) came through 2nd, with Stefan taking 3rd leaving Steven Fawkes (Ferndale) and Sadie Edwards (Tonyrefail) going into the preliminary rounds. In the second group the much fancied Nicole Hall (Tonyrefail) didn’t have it all her own way, losing out to the in-form Chris Griffiths (Ferndale) in a match that went the full distance. She was also made to work hard in getting past Liam Winder (Ferndale), just coming through in a tight 5th set. Tyler who had an invite to Band 1 found it tough, coming 5th with Jac Jenkins (Tonyrefail) coming 4th. Sadie and Steven came through the preliminary rounds joining Connor, Stefan, Nicole, Jack, Liam and Chris to make the final eight. The quarters were very competitive with Connor and Chris coming through fairly comfortably with wins over Steven and Sadie. The other two quarters however were a different story, and were very tight affairs with Stefan coming through against Nicole, and Jack coming through against Liam, both in tight 5th sets. The semis were played in fantastic spirit and fight with Connor coming through an exciting match 3-1 against Stefan. The other semi produced probably the match of the day with Jack and Chris both hitting top form producing a very exciting spectacle. It was Chris who came through in a tense 5th set, setting up a Final encounter with Connor. However, it wasn’t meant to be for Chris who couldn’t reproduce his top form, resulting in Connor coming through a 3-1 winner, taking the prize on offer.
The final and main event of the day was The Open. This was made up of players from the previous events as well as the inclusion of Cameron Thomas, Benjy Gregory, and Brian Kerley who along with Connor Edwards made up the top 4 seeds. The groups went as seeding suggests, with them all progressing through. They were joined by Chris, Jack, Liam, and Nicole who were the runner-ups in each group. In the quarters the highlight was Connor against Liam, this was a fantastic match that went all the way with Connor finally joining Cameron, Benjy and Brian who all progressed safely through. The semis were set to be exciting with all 4 seeds making it through, in the first Cameron came through comfortably against Brian, booking his place in the final. The other produced a great match between Connor and Benjy. It was Benjy who had that little extra experience coming through 3-2 to set up a final encounter with Cameron. The final was a good match which was won by the tournament favourite Cameron coming through in three close sets, taking the £20 prize money on offer.

Saturday 12 December 2009

Centre Of Excellence

At a recent friendly match between the Cardiff and Swansea COE groups it was Cardiff that came away as clear winners in a 16-2 victory.

Teams:

Cardiff - Ryan Oyler, Steve Fawkes, Liam Winder, Jac Jenkins, Laura Edwards, Naomi James.

Swansea - Alex Francis, Thomas Hayden, Matthew Francis, Max Clews, James Lewis.

UKCC Level 4

I am part of the UKCC Level 4 PG Diploma Pentagon group which met on the weekend of the 12/13 December in Llangollen Tyn Dwr outdoor centre. This is a unique group consisting of coaches from squash, basketball, rugby league, table tennis and hockey. The group is managed by UCLAN [university of Central Lancashire - Preston] and have many mentors including Dave Collins [British Athletics]. There have been guest speakers such as John Inverdale appearing and it has been a great process to be apart of to present....
It continues until July 2011 where pupils have the chance to take this to MA level or even become a Doctor of coaching!!!

Hold your breath.....

Newport Open

Well done to the winners of the Newport Open

Cadet Boys - Lee Morgan
Cadet Grils - Nicole Hall
U13 Boys - Ryan Oyler
U13 Girls - Beth Roberts

Thursday 10 December 2009

Belgium League

Good Luck to patrick and Cameron Thomas who take the Eurostar to Brussels to play in the Belgian league on Friday/Saturday night.

Finland Open - singles

Ryan Jenkins and Naomi Owen played very well at the recent Finalnd Open. Ryan was the highest finishing British player in the event. After losing to a Russian in the last 16, he quickly got himself ready to beat England No.3 Danny Reed 4-3 before finishing 21st beating a top French player in the last match.

Naomi finished 25th having a great win over a Spanish chopper in her last match. She beat a quality Japenese player in the team event and beat Englands Hannah Hicks 4-0 in a singles match.

Monday 7 December 2009

Josh the Champion

Josh played the banded and the open at Westfield, in the banded final he played Sam Wildman (number 2 seed) 11-4 in the fifth, these were the only two sets Josh dropped as he went on to beet H Rupal (fourth seed) 11-3,11-4, 11-6 in the junior open.

Thursday 3 December 2009

BATTS super league

Last Friday saw the BATTS super league open its doors the players of the British League.

Final Placings
1 Chen Po Huang
2 Qian Hai Song
3 Ryan Jenkins
4 Wang Zheng
5 Garth Kinlocke
6 David Meads
7 Michael Marsden
8 Dong Da Quin
9 Steve Jenkins
10 Patrick Thomas

Finland Open

The Suisse/Wales combination reached the 2nd round of the team competition at the Finland Open. Ryan Jenkins and Christian Hotz beat the Estonia/Russia pair in the first round before losing to Spain in a tough match.

Naomi Owen and Alice Loveridge won their first round before losing to a Japanese pair in the 2nd round. Naomi won her singles in that match.

Wednesday 2 December 2009

Stockton 4 star

Charlotte reaches another final

Well done to Charlotte Carey at a tournament where Welsh players made some excellent results. Charlotte lost in the cadet girl’s singles final to Jess Dawson of Ormesby. Josh Jenkins and Matt Lancey both won their first round match in the junior team before exiting at round 2 to Lewis Gray and Ping Ho. Chloe Thomas and Angharad Phillips lost in the girls team Q-finals. Charlotte and Megan Phillips also lost at this stage to Melissa Wright and Natalie Slater.
Lewis Williams and Dan O’Connell lost at the semi final stage to Greenhouse London. Lewis also had a great win over Scottish number 1 Scott Barton in the Q-finals of the cadet singles to reach the semis where he lost against Igor Morais 0-3.
In the junior singles Lewis fell at the first round to the inform Luca Mariano. Josh lost in the same round to Scotland’s Barton. Dan lost to one of the top seeds, Daniel Basterfield, 2-3 in round 2. Matt sadly failed to progress through the group, but it wasn’t without trying.
In the junior girl’s singles, Chloe and Megan lost in round 2. Charlotte lost again to Jess Dawson in the first round. Angharad lost to Abbie Milwain [who also defeated Chloe] in round 3.

Well done to all the Welsh players for great results and great effort over the weekend.

Coaches: Neil Powell, Simon Oyler, Emmaleigh Newman & Claire Ford