Barcelona

The team of Chris Griffiths, Callum Evans, Jac Jenkins, Thomas Heydon, Laura Edwards and Beth Roberts head to Barcelona this weekend to compete at the Catalan Invitation event

Results to follow...

Development Camp - Sunday

This Sunday players as young as 5 years old will train with Welsh coaches to get off to a great start in their table tennis careers

Development Camps have been happening monthly since August and have helped many young starters into the game

Welsh Primary Schools Trials...

...take place on the 3rd March at 3pm in the main hall of Sport Wales National Centre. These trials will find the best 4 boys and best 4 girls to represent Wales in Scotland this April

Cardiff Schools Event

On Friday an event in Cardiff will go ahead to see the best school of the region. This takes place at Sport Wales National Centre with several schools in action

Carmarthen Cadet Open - 22nd April

Date for the diary

22nd April

Joe Morris memorial Carmarthen Cadet Open

Entry forms will be out next month

Table Tennis Lookalikes

Andrew Baggaley (ENG) and Mattias Oversjo (SWE)

Naomi Owen - ITTF

http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story1.asp?ID=26603&Competition_ID=2104&
This link above will take you to an article about Naomi

To follow her progress at the Hungarian Open copy and paste this into your browser
http://www.ittf.com/competitions/test/_groups_matches_1.asp?Event_Type=WSP&Competition_ID=2104&rnd=

Welsh Championships

The organisers of the Welsh Championships have included the U21 category for the first time in a few years

With more and more players still playing after the junior days it feels the right time for younger stars to perform in more events over the weekend

Entry forms are on the TTAW website - www.ttaw.co.uk

Angharad Wins 4*

Full report of the weekend's event in Grantham on www.ttaw.co.uk

Well done to Angharad Phillips - junior girls and Ryan Oyler - cadet banded on winning

East Midlands

This weekend the East Midlands 4* takes place in Grantham with a variety of Welsh talent ready for the challenge

Reports to follow for both days

North Wales Regional Camps

Every 3 months the National Coach will hold a North Wales Regional Camp to help improve the players from Denbigh & Wrexham who have shown great improvements recently

The first camp - Q1 - will take place on the 4th February in Denbigh and the second date - Q2 - scheduled for 19th May in Wrexham

Letters to the chosen players will arrive in due course

TTAW Leaders Award

There are a few spaces still left on the Table Tennis Leaders course this Saturday at Bridgend YMCA

Please contact tutor Simon Oyler (simon_oyler_1@hotmail.com) to secure a spot

Details:
£15 per candidate
9am-1pm

Bridgend YMCA
Angel Street
Bridgend
Mid Glamorgan
CF31 4AD
01656 654 613

England Camps @ Sheffield

Ryan Oyler, fresh from his double win at the Glamorgan Champs in Nantymoel today, along with runner up Chris Griffiths and Lewis Williams will attend a 3 day camp in Sheffield with the England junior squad 14-16th January

The ladies camp, which is 2 weeks later, will see Angharad Phillips, Megan Phillips and Chloe Thomas attend with the top English females

Selected:
Chris Griffiths, Ryan Oyler, Lewis Williams (Coach Ryan Jenkins)

Angharad Phillips, Chloe Thomas, Megan Phillips (Coach TBA)