Cathays Christmas Tournament

Thursday 16th December held the players Christmas Tournament at Cathays High School Table Tennis Academy.

Some great table tennis was played and all enjoyed the Christmas Tournament

Final Positions-
1. Inthrayut Kongchun
2.Tom Goodall
3. Manyonge M
4. Haneef F
5. Tshepo K
6. Kobe H
7. Gethin J
8. Lee B
9. Alex B
10. Ayman A
11. Mohammed O
12. Albaara A
13. Bizhr A
14. Omer G
15. Sahyb Al
16. Ben Mc

Greenhouse Super Series 1

Greenhouse Super Series 1 (Held at Tonypandy)
Charlotte Carey and Ryan Oyler were winners in their respective age categories at the first installment of a 5 series tournament. Each tournament will allow players to earn points and an overall 'Grand Prix' points system will decide the winner.

For more details please visit http://www.ttaw.co.uk/

Dragon Grand Prix Round 2

Round 2 Final Standings for Wales Dragon Grand Prix.
Places -

Under 11
1. Jack Cole
2. Niall Owen (Carmarthen)
3. Toby Johnston (Carmerthen)
4. Abbie Price
5. Harri Bryant (Carmarthen)
6. Bethany Brewer
7. Shelby Short
8. Britney Oran

Under 13
1. Ryan Lo
2. Callum Wescott
3. Huw Standen (Whitchurch Academy)
4. Kobe Hammouda (Cathays Academy)
5. Joseph Hurley
6. Josh Williams
7. Peter Morse (Penlan)
8. Macauley Morgan (Whitchuch Academy)
9. Manir Gailani (Cathays Academy)
10. Gethin Jones (Carmarthen)
11. Malachi Denton
12. Britney Oram
13. Jamie Walters
14. Tshepo Kegakametse (Cathays Academy)
15. Moy Trott
16. Ellis Kenealy
17. Keiron Lewis
18. Shelby Short
19. Nathan Marchant
20. Owen Pritchard
21. Abbie Price
22. Jordan Lewis (Whitchuch Academy)
23. Rhys Grant (Whitchuch Academy)

Under 15
1. Ryan Lo
2. Peter Morse (Penlan)
3. James Hughes (Cathays Academy)
4. Ben Evans
5. Lewis Steere (Whitchuch Academy)
6. Manir Gailani (Cathays Academy)
7. Kobe Hammouda (Cathays Academy)
8. George Nikolaou (Whitchuch Academy)

New UWIC Table Tennis Academy To Open

A new table tennis schools academy will be starting in February at UWIC to enhance the relationship the TTAW has with one of Britain's best Universities.

South Wales Regional Coach Simon Oyler will become the Head Coach at the New Academy which will see huge numbers of participants, Which will become the Third Table Tennis Academy to Open in the Capitol of Wales.
 
Sessions will run on Wednesday from 2nd February 2011
 
More details will follow soon!

Dragon Grand Prix Round 2 Preview

Sunday 28th November is the date for Round Two of the Dragon Grand Prix Series at the Sport Wales National Centre.

This sees 5 players from Cathay's Academy and 6 players from the New Whitchurch Academy take to the table to try and set their sights on the Grand Prix Series Titles.

Results will follow tomorrow!

Good Luck To All Taking Part.

New - Glamorgon Super League

A new Glamorgan superleague will take place at Nantymoel on the 5th December. It will cost £5 per person to enter and will offer table tennis of a high level which is essential for improvement. A "big" prize fund will be given out each night which will attract top players from not only Wales but maybe England also. Ideal opportunity to have a crack at some of the top players and show them what you can do!!


There are only 32 places available so please contact Dave Treharne to save a spot for you
daitree@uwclub.net

Bristol Grand Prix

Dan O’Connell had his best grand prix to date with a Q-Final spot in the men’s open singles. There he met Neil Charles who was on form and could have beat number 1 seed Gavin Rumgay in the S-Final. Rumgay eventually won that game 3-2 but lost to Ryan Jenkins in the final 0-3. It was Ryan’s second win against the number 1 Scottish International from Perth this season at the Grand Prix series.
Dan also reached the semi final of the band 1 losing to Alim Hirji 0-3 and won the band 2 event. Conor Edwards was a runner up in the band 4 event but had a good run in the U21 singles. He was also a semi finalist in band 5. Charlotte lost in the Q-Finals of both band 1 and women singles.
Angharad Phillips lost a close 1-3 to England number 3 Hannah Hicks in the women’s singles and the band 2 final to Yolanda King the previous day. Megan, who had 2 battles with her sister (won 1 lost 1), lost in the S-Final of the U21 singles today and lost in the Q-Final of band 1 yesterday. Meg was unfortunate not to beat Guernsey’s Alice Loveridge having had 3 match points.
Lewis Williams lost in the band 3 final to James Ward 0-3 and played very well the 2nd day with some fine wins throughout.
Other players to compete well from Wales were Dean and Scott Cundy, Nicole Hall, Stefan Jeczalik, Alex Prosser, Nathan Thomas, Julie Furber, Neil Wright, Ceri James, Alex O’Connell and Max Clews.

South Conference League

South Wales Conference League has come to the final matches in the first Session of the Season.

Cathay's Academy A are standing second in Division 3 and are looking to secure promotion back into Division 2, Cathay's C are standing joint top and have secured promotion into Division 3 with Cathay's B just behind in 3rd position.

Full Details will follow after the Last Matches of the First Session of 4

Team Championships of Wales Weekend 2 Preview

Cathays will be taking to the courts again on November 21st and will be itching to better themselves this time around, With both teams finding the going tough in the previous weekend on the Team Championships of Wales losing 6 out of 6 team matches the squad will be looking to get of the mark with wins and climb back up the table.

Tom Goodall showed some great stuff last time around coming away with some good wins, Beating Welsh players Ashley Perry, Liam Winders and Thomas Hayden and Narrowly losing to Max Clews 11-13 in the 5th Set.

Good Luck to them next Saturday at the Team Championships of Wales

New Academy Launched

Whitchurch High School have become the newest school in the Capitol to set up a Table Tennis Academy.
This was set up by the TTAW Development coach Simon Oyler, with the help of 5x60 officer at Whitchurch and National coach Ryan Jenkins. It is a huge School with over 2300 pupils attending.

Sessions have been running every week and have been producing huge numbers and is already showing some good potential. Last month 7 players from the school took part in the Dragon Grand Prix event run by TTAW at the Sport Wales National Centre.
On November 28th 8 players from wchitchurch will be taking part in the 2nd Dragon Grand Prix of the Season and are looking to gain some experiance to push on their levels of participation.

Keep a look out on the blog for more news on the New Academy!!

Team Championships of Wales

The First fixtures of the Team Championships of Wales takes place on Sunday 31st October.

This Season Cathays have entered two teams in the Championships and will be looking to follow up on a successful season last time around, Cathays A will have to up the game in order to compete in Division 2, Whilst Cathays B will be showing what they have got in Division 3.

Good Luck to all taking part in the Team Championships of Wales this weekend.

Whichurch High School Academy Lauches

Whitchurch High School is now the second school in the Capitol to have a set up Academy at their school.
There is Breakfast, Lunch and After School Sessions running regularly.

In the first Dragon Tournament of the season Whichurch had 7 players from the School participating and had some good results.

The School are very keen to support the project and hope to see some great success from some young talent at the school.

EuroKids Meet He Zhi Wen

Jac Jenkins and Laura Edwards had the benefit of learning serves from one of the best in the world today at the Eurokids camp in Spain. Hi Shi Wen taught the players from all over Europe his tactics and tricks when he has control on the white ball!!




..The most important part of the game...

Euro Kids - Sierra Nevada

Two of Wales best Mini Cadets players are currently out in Sierra Nevada training with some of Europes best at the EuroKids Training Camp as part of the ETTU Project.

Jac Jenkins and Laura Edwards are training well and going into the second day of the training camp today. Today they have a busy training schedule ahead of them with a morning session, Afternoon and Evening session with a top european player attending to demonstrate some good table tennis practises.

Tomorrow they will be taking time of traning and heading to Granada with the rest of the EuroKids from the morning, then will come back to Sierra Nevada to have a afternoon training session before they take to the table to play in the EuroKids Tournament.

Visit tomorrow to see more.

Commonwealth Gamoes- Delhi

Find out how Team Wales are getting on at the Commonwealth Games held in Delhi India.


For all information please visit http://www.ttaw.co.uk/ or Visit http://nationalcoachwales.blogspot.com/

Sports Wales Awards

Sport Wales Coach of the Year 2010 Awards


Wednesday 24th November 2010

Sport Wales National Center

Nominations are live - Visit http://www.sportwales.org.uk/news/coachoftheyear2010 to nominate now!

Coaches are at the heart of sport – whether it’s on the sidelines at the FA Cup Final or at Saturday morning five-a-side. And that’s why Sports Wales wants to recognise people at all levels – including the coach who works morning, noon and night at your local club.

Chair of Sports Wales, Professor Laura McAllister explains:

“Coaches are the lifeblood of Welsh sport, we can’t do without them. The calibre of coaches I come across on a regularly basis is absolutely outstanding. This is the public’s chance to show their appreciation for the people who put in hours and hours of work across the country.”

The award categories are:

Female Coach

Male Coach

Community Coach

Coach to disabled sportspeople

Young Coach/Leader

Elite Performance Coach

Volunteer of the year

Coach Educator of the Year

Lifetime Achievement

The deadline for nominations is Friday 1st October 2010 (with the exception of Elite Performance Coach which will be Friday 15th October).

European Championships - Ostrava

Visit the Table Tennis Association Website to see all up to date news on how the Welsh Team are doing out in Ostrava.

http://www.ttaw.co.uk/

News from the busy weekend

Please visit http://www.ttaw.co.uk/ for news on the following events over the busy weekend

-At the Sainsburys UK School Games the Welsh Team took home 3 Medals, One of which being GOLD.
-Naomi Owen makes it to the Quater Finals of the Flanders Open
-Steven Jenkins reaches the Quater Finals of Medways Grand Prix
-Owen Clutterbuck of Cardiff Wins the Glamorgan Closed Trials

For all the news in full please visit the TTAW Webpage

Sainsbury UK School Games

With the gruelling summer programme complete, the attention now turns to the Sainsbury UK School Games which will take place the weekend of 3-5 September in Newcastle, Gateshead and Sunderland. Once the bank holiday weekend has passed the players and coaches will meet at Sport Wales National Centre for a 2 day training camp before flying to Newcastle.

For more Information and to see the players that have been selected please visit the TTAW Webpage http://www.ttaw.co.uk/

Glamorgan County Closed Trials 2010

Nantymoel Boys and Girls Club will be hosting the Glamorgan County Trials 2010.

The Senior Event will be held on Saturday 4th September, Where as the Junior event is the following week on Saturday 11th September.
With the Winner and Highest places players will be put forward for selection to represent their county.

For entries please visit the TTAW Website http://www.ttaw.co.uk/

South Wales Conference League

Gwent & Glamorgan County Associations - in conjunction with TTAW - are pleased to announce that the SWC will be starting again probably the end of September (exact date to follow). Matches are played on a Sunday night; generally 4 sessions are played making a total of 20 Sundays over a season. Obviously this means it is not held every Sunday; there are occasional clashes with other events.
It is open to any pair within the region to enter. Entries may also (at management discretion) be accepted from a limited number outside the region

It is intended to cater for all ages - from under 9s to veterans! - and for all abilities - from beginners in the lower bands, to experts in the higher bands. There will be prize money awarded each 5 weeks for divisional winners. It is likely that 4 sessions will be completed over the season.

The competition can only happen, of course, if there is a sufficient number of teams’ entering therefore we would urge you to give consideration of combining with a friend, friends or even a family member to enter a team

South Wales Regional Conference- Main features

Teams of two players. Each player plays two singles & a doubles
Central venue at WIS, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff - weekly on Sunday evenings
Banded - 6 teams in each band (or division)
The lowest 2 (or 3 if there are enough players, normally the younger ones) bands start at 6pm and finish at 7.30pm
The top 2 (or 3) bands start at 7.30 to finish around 9pm or shortly after
Promotion & relegation possibilities each 5 weeks
Players may be “borrowed” from teams in lower bands in case of difficulty
There will be a £10 per player registration fee and each player to pay a match fee of £3.00 each week
towards the cost of the venue
Cash prizes for all the divisional winners and division 1 runners up, equipment or cash prizes for other divisional winners

Best Wishes

Neil Wright

Cathays Summer Festival 2010

Cathays Summer Festival held from 21st July to 23rd July saw over 30 different participants taking part in the 3 Day Event.

On the Friday the Tournament took place.

In the Primary Event it was a closly fought event with 13 participants taking part.

Frank Powell - Davies who attends Albany road primary and is in Year 3 showed some impressive stuff to take the top prize after beating his sister Menna Powell Davies who finished 3rd and Alans Bank Hannan Malik finishing Runner Up.

The Year 7-9 event was played out and was won by Welsh Under 13s player Ryan Oyler. It was a closly fought match betwenn two players from Pontypridd High School Academy for Runner Up spot, Which was won by Ben Griffiths after beating Team Mate Jonathan Bisp 3-2.

Inthrayut proved to strong in the Year 10+ Event by beating Sadia Ahmad to top Spot. Nabila Ahmed finshing 3rd place.

Well Done to all participants at the Festival which proved to be a good event.

Cathays Summer Festival

Cathays Table Tennis Summer Festival will be ran in the first week of the summer holidays.
Open to all pupils attending a Cardiff School

Dates:

Wednesday 21st June - Training Camp- 9.30am-12.00pm
Thursday 22nd June - Training Camp - 9.30am-12.00pm

Friday 23rd June - Tournament Starting at 10.00am

- Primary School Event
- Year 7-9 event
- Year 10 +

For more details and how to apply for the Summer Festival please contact

Festival Organiser
Simon Oyler at simon_oyler_1@hotmail.com

Hereford Grand Prix Report

Wales players flying in Hereford GP
Day 1 - Wales have 4 winners....

Women’s Band 2
Gosia Muda (Mi) beat Claire Ford (WAL) 11-8, 11-6, 11-7

Women’s Band 3
Round Robin won by Nicole Hall (WAL) and runner up Ann Barnes (Gs)

Men’s Band 3
Dan O’Connell (WAL) beat Dean Cundy (WAL) 6-11, 12-10, 11-3, 11-9

Men’s Band 4
Simon Oyler (WAL) beat Josh Jenkins (WAL) 11-6, 15-13, 10-12, 11-6

Men’s Band 5
Simon Oyler (WAL) beat Mike White (Sx) 11-9, 11-7, 11-6

Day 2
There were some great matches involving Dan O'Connell and Dean Cundy but our only winner on the Sunday was Naomi Owen

Women’s Open. Naomi Owen (WAL) beat Lauren Spink 11-4, 11-8, 6-11, 11-8

Luxembourg Junior Open

Luxembourg Junior Open
Six players from Wales made the long trip to Luxembourg for the 26th Luxembourg International Youth Table Tennis Championships.

Please visit the Table Tennis Association Of Wales webpage to find out how the players got on

http://www.ttaw.co.uk/

South Africa Visit Cathays High Academy

South Africa may be at the centre of the football world at the moment, but pupils at a Cardiff school have been pitting their wits against some of the country’s other top sporting stars.

Number one Shane Overmayer and his team-mates took a break from a Test series against Wales to visit Cathays High’s table tennis academy.

Take a full look at the story on the link below

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sports/parklife/2010/06/16/table-tennis-cathays-pupils-dine-out-at-the-top-table-91466-26656510/

5 Minutes With National Coach ...

Ryan Jenkins, 31, from the Rhondda Valleys is the Table Tennis Association of Wales (TTAW) National Coach. Still playing at the highest level, after a glittering career as a top ranked international player, Jenkins took some time out from his busy schedule for some table time with Sport Wales to give his spin on what’s happening in the world of Welsh Table Tennis.

Click on the link below for full details

http://www.sportwales.org.uk/26091?diablo.lang=eng

South Africa Visit Cathays Table Tennis Academy

On Thursday 10th June the South Afircan Table Tennis Squad will Visit Cathays High School Table Tennis Academy.
They are Currently in Wales playing test matches against the Welsh Squad in their preparation for the Commonwealth Games.
They will be putting on an Exhibition, practising with the young players from the Academy, and also giving them some tips and guidence for the future of our young stars.

This will be taking place at Lunchtime in the School Gymnasium.

Please come along and see some Top Players preparing for the Commonwealth Games 2010 in India

Wales Vs South Africa First Test Match!

The First Test Match Between Wales and South Africa was played today Wednesday 9th June at the Sport Wales National Centre.

With Wales having their top players away it was up to Welsh Number 2 and National coach Ryan Jenkins, Patrick Thomas and Simon Oyler to produce the goods for the Welsh Team.

Ryan got Wales of to a great start beating South African Number 2 Theo Cogill 3-1.
Patrick then went up against the Springbox Number 1 Shane Overmayer and lost in 3 close games 11-7,11-8,11-7, making the match 1-1.
Simon Oyler then stepped up against Luke Abrahams, After being 9-7 up in the first Luke pulled it back to win 11-9. The second game proved to be even closer, with the score tied at 10-10 Luke held on to win 12-10, and grew in confidence to take the next set 11-5.
Ryan then stepped up and took down the Number 1 Shane Overmayer 3-0.
This tied the game at 2-2, so it was down to the last match between Patrick Thomas and Theo Cogill,
Theo took the first game 11-6, Then Patrick stepped up his game and took the 2nd 11-5 after playing some great table tennis, in the 3rd it was a closely fought match but the South African stepped up his game to take the 3rd and then the 4th after playing some outstanding shots.
This ment the first Test Match went to South Africa.

Final Score Wales 2-3 South Africa

The Second Test will be played Tomorrow Thursday 10th June.

Half Term Training Camps

Through the half term Cathays Academy Head Coach Simon Oyler is running a Two Day Training Camp for players from across South Wales to attend.
Training will include, Bat Skills, Exercises and Fun Games.

Open to all Junior Players Across Cardiff, Bridgend and Rhondda Valleys

Why not take this opportunity to practise and improve your table tennis skills!!

Information:
Venue: Cathays High School (Lower Hall & Gymnasium)
Dates: Wednesday 2nd June, Thursday 3rd June 2010
Time:  9.30am- 12.00pm
The session will cost £2 Per Day
(Cathays Academy players attend for free)

Hope to see you there!!

I Am A EuroKid !!

Laura Edwards and Jac Jenkins have completed their week long training at the Olympic centre in Lugnano, Italy at the EuroKids Camp with 70 other players.

Laura won the consolation singles at the Friday tournament, finishing 13th. Jac finished 18th beating Irish and Malta opponents.

The camp was taken by Croatian coach Branka Batinic

Visit:
http://www.ettu.org/public/Image/Eurokids_Lignano.pdf

http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story1.asp?ID=21116&Category=general&Competition_ID

Cathays Academy In Local Press

After winning the Team Championships of Wales Division 4 Cathays Table Tennis Academy made the local press. The South Wales Echo published a piece on the Academy and how they are building and making great strides forward.

Check out the link below for the piece in the local paper

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sports/parklife/2010/05/19/table-tennis-cathays-high-at-the-top-table-in-division-four-91466-26471867/

Welsh Secondary Schools Championships

Lee Morgan and Charlotte Carey confirmed their places for the Welsh team in the UK School Games in September as they won the boys and girls singles respectively today at the Sport Wales National Centre.

Having got through his group unscathed, Lee played Steve Fawkes (3-1) in round 1, Ashley Stravakis (3-1) in round 2 and then Matt Lancey in the semi finals (3-1). Conor Edwards meanwhile was making way in the other half of the draw with 5 set battles against Stefan Jeczalik in round 1, and Chris Griffiths in the Q final. Chris had two match points in the 5th end. Conor then faced number 1 seed Josh Jenkins in his semi final. Conor managed to stay close to the table and exchange spins with Josh that forced too many errors from the Swansea player and Conor moved into the final winning 3-2.

In the final Conor had plenty of chances but failed to put away the high balls he was given. Lee upped the quality in the 4th and 5th sets to win the event and book his place to Gateshead for the School Games.

Other notable wins was from Ryan Oyler against Jared Parsons in round 1.

Charlotte won the girls competition against Hannah Avery 3-0 in their final. Hannah beat Nicole Hall 3-2 in the semi final whilst Charlotte beat Sadie Edwards 3-0. Nicole had a chance in the group against Charlotte at 2-2 in sets, but the Ebbw Vale star found extra motivation to win the 5th set comfortably.

Nantymoel’s Sharlene Williams beat Greenhouse girl Naomi James 3-1 in the girls’ consolation event. Cathays High player Inthrayut Kongchun was victorious against 11 year old Callum Evans of Tonyrefail 3-1 in the boy’s consolation final.

RESULTS:
Open Singles

Charlotte Carey bt Hannah Avery 3-0 [10,8,10]

Lee Morgan bt Conor Edwards 3-2 [-8,13,-14,2,5]

Consolation

Sharlene Williams bt Naomi James 3-1 [9,-11,6,10]

Inthrayut Kongchun bt Callum Evans 3-1 [-4,,9,6,11]

Cathays Table Tennis Academy had 7 entries for the Secondary schools tournament, all the players gained valuable experiances from this tournament and Kongchun came away with the consolation event prize!

O2 Sponsor Cathays Academy

Cathays Table Tennis Academy recieved grant from O2 'Its Your Community'

This will support Cathays an will be put towards new eqiupment for the club.

A Big Thank You to the O2 Community Team.

Welsh Under 13's Championships

Congratulations to Both Beth Roberts and Chris Griffiths for becoming Welsh Under 13's Champions

Ferndale Based Chris Griffiths had a great tournament and played some brilliant table tennis on route to taking the title, he has won 3 Under 13's tournaments in England and now he won his first Welsh title andthe biggest one of the Season by beating Ashley Perry in the final,

Beth Roberts took her Second Under 13's Welsh title after regaining it for the second year by beating Caitlin Williams in the final,

Callum Evans and Soffi Jenkins won Consulation events

Team Championships of Wales

Bridgend A regained their Welsh Team titles again in the top Junior and Senior Divisions, with Greenhouse TTK taking Runners up Spots in both team events.
In Division 2 of Juniors TTK Greenhouse took the top 3 spots with Tonyrefial taking 1st place, 2nd place going to Tonypandy and Ferndale finishing in 3rd place.
TTk Greenhouse took the top 3 Spots again in Division 3 of the Junior Chanmpionships with Cardiff Centre of Excellence Squad members Liam Winders and Ethan Lewis along with Steven Fawkes taking the title back to Ferndale for the B Team, Tonyrefail claimed Runners Up spot with Ferndale C gaining a valuable 3rd spot.
Division 4 of the Team Chamnpionships of Wales went to Cardiff based Cathays Academy after they piped TTK Greenhouse Tonypandy B to the title in the Final match going to Cathays 4-3.

This has been a great and successful season for Clubs in the South Wales Area.

For more details on the Team Championships of Wales go to http://www.ttaw.co.uk/

Cathays Crowned Champions!!

Cathays High School Academy where crowned Champions of Division 4 of the Team Championships of Wales 2010.

Cathays Cardiff team consisting of Tom Goodall, Inthrayut Kongchun, Emmanuel Olaoye and Kian Emadi played well all season and have now been rewarded for their hard work. This is a great achievement for Cathays Table Tennis Academy in their first season of the competition.

It all came down to the final day with Tonypandy tied at the top of the table with Cathays.

Cathays High beat local rivals Radyr 'A' 4-3 and sweeped aside North Gwent 'B' 7-0.

Tonypandy beat North Gwent 6-1 and fought back from 3-1 down to beat Radyr 'A' 4-3.

Cathays then faced Tonypandy to see who would be crowned Champions. It was Cathays who raced to a 2-0 lead with Tom Goodall and Inthrayut Kongchun winning there opening games, Tonypandy then pulled a game back with Rob Tyler of Tonypandy beating Kian Emadi to make it 2-1, Cathays then won the Doubles to make the score 3-1 in favour of Cathays. This ment one more win would hand the title to Cathays, Tom Goodall had a tough match against Naomi James and went down in a closely fought game to take away Tom Goodalls unbeaten record. Inthrayut Kongchun then Stepped up his game to beat Rob Tyler 3-0 to hand the title to Cathays Academy, Callum Evans pulled a consolation point back for Tonypandy to make the final score 4-3 to Cathays.

Tom Goodall also finished top of the Individual standings winning 19 Matches out of 20!

Congratulations to Cathays High School Academy!!

Team Championships of Wales

The coming weekend host the Final showdown for the Team Championships of Wales.

Please visit the Table Tennis Association Of Wales webpage http://www.ttaw.co.uk/ for full details

British Priamry School Championships

Check out the British Primary Championships held at Guernsey on Youtube

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5lgyzyndUk

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SU6a9jrGgo&feature=related

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yLTlJPLCNI&feature=related

National Championships

Please visit http://www.ttaw.co.uk/ for the entry form for

Welsh Championships Under 11's and 13's and Veterans events which are held at Wales National Sports Centre on 8th May 2010

West Wales Open 2010

Carmarthen hosted the West Wales Open on the weekend which proved to be a great tournament.

Four players from Cathays Table Tennis Academy made the trip to Carmarthen along with Cardiff Centre Of Excellence squad players.
Tom Goodall played well in the Junior and Cadet event by making the last 16 of both events. Inthrayut Kongchun was drawn in a tough group and almost came away with a good win losing out to Ashley Perry 3-2. James Hughes qualified into the Second group in the Under 15's Dragon Event after beating Team-Mate Areen Mahmood in the first group stage. Areen then played in the 3rd group.
Ryan Oyler lost out in his Junior Group to Both Ashley Perry 3-2 and Matthew Lancey 3-2, but regathered some respect by making the Semi Finals of the Cadet Boys Event losing out to Conor Edwards 3-1.
Jac Jenkins finishing Runner-Up on the Under 15's Dragon. Dylan Bruford kept up his great determination to come away with the Under 13's Dragon Title by beating the Winner of the Under 15's event Thomas Hayden

Cardiff Centre Of Excellence Squad members also in attandance were Caitlin Williams, Romy Killick, Naomi James, Laura Edwards, Soffi Jenkins, Liam Winders, Ethan Lewis, Ashley Stavrakis.

Other News

Conor Edwards made both the Cadets and Junior Finals losing out to Lee Morgan on both occasions, But beat some good players on route, Chris Griffiths played some outstanding table tennis in the Semi Finals of the Cadets Boys narrowly losing out to Lee morgan in the 5th.
Nicole Hall had a great win against Irish Senior Womens Champion Ashley Givan.
Charlotte Carey continued her fine form an won both Junior and Cadet Girls Titles.

Wales take Medals at British Primary Championships

The boy's primary schools team of Stefan Jeczalik, Ashley Perry, Alex Francis and Ryan Oyler won silver medals at the British Primary schools competition in Guernsey.
The girl's team of Laura Edwards, Soffi Jenkins, Jess Neck and Caitlin Williams finished 4th overall; which was great for relativley inexperienced youngsters.

Laura then got to the final of the singles competition where she lost to Tin Tin Ho, and won Wales a second silver medal.
Caitlin won a Bronze Medal in the girls singles, whilst Ryan Oyler lost in the Semi Final of the boys singles to claim another bronze for Wales.

Full report of all the weekend's action can be see on:
http://www.gtta.org.uk/2010%20PrimarySchools.htm

TTAW Selection

The following players have been chosen to represent Wales at the forthcoming events:

French Junior Open:
Angharad Phillips, Lee Morgan, Lewis Williams, Chloe Thomas, Charlotte Carey, Megan Phillips and Nicole Hall.

BATTS London 1*
Chris Griffiths, Alex Prosser, Conor Edwards, Ashley Stavrakis, Jac Jenkins and Thomas Heydon.

EuroKids Training Camp - Italy
Jac Jenkins and Laura Edwrads

Luxembourg Junior Open
Charlotte Carey
Daniel O'Connell
Nicole Hall
Lee Morgan
Caitlin Williams
Ryan Oyler

World Championships - Moscow
Adam Robertson, Ryan Jenkins and Stephen Jenkins

Cathays Travel To Tonypandy

On Wednesday 24th March Seven players from Cathays High Table Tennis Academy made the trip with Head Coach Simon Oyler to Tonypandy Community College to play the return fixture they played in December 2009 which ended with Tonypandy taking a 14-6 Win. This time Cathays were ready and looking to turn things around from the previous game.

The seven players who mad the trip from Cathays where:
James Hughes, Areen Mahmood, Haneef Faithal, Manyonge Muliro, Akram Seimi, Munir Gailani and Adam Price

With both teams playing well and showing great spirit the match swung one way then the other. in the end it was Cathays High Academy who came out on top with a brilliant 38-34 Win.

This is a great achievement for Cathays Academy considering Tonypandy TTK have been running full time for 5 years.

Cathays Player Standings

James Hughes Won 9 Lost 2
Areen Mahmood Won 9 Lost 2
Manyonge Muliro Won 6 Lost 4
Haneef Faithal Won 5 Lost 5
Munir Gailani Won 4 Lost 6
Akram Seimi Won 3 Lost 7
Adam Price Won 2 Lost 8

Final Score
Cathays High Academy 38-34 Tonypandy TTK

Player of the day was Areen Mahmood, being rewarded with some great wins from his hard work and determination to try and succeed!
Well Done to everybody involved, This proved to be a great match and everyone enjoyed taking part!

Centre of Excellence Series Match

Welsh Institute of Sport will be hosting the second Centre Of Excellence squads match on Monday 29th March 2010 in the Jubilee Hall. Commencing at 5.30pm.

Cardiff COE took the last match by beating Swansea COE squad 16-2.

Gwent COE Squad and Greenhouse Elite Squad will be joining in the series match and making it a four way match. Three players from each Squad will be selected by the coach to represent their region with the matches being played in Welsh League format. Games will be played best of 3 games to 11 points

Order of play

Cardiff COE V Swansea COE
Greenhouse V Gwent COE

Swansea COE V Greenhouse
Cardiff COE V Gwent COE


Gwent COE V Swansea COE
Cardiff COE V Greenhouse

Cardiff Centre Of Excellence Squad will be announced on the blog shortly

Good Luck to all players

Table Tennis Proves To Be Big Hit Across Wales

Table Tennis is proving to be growing in Wales with over 4,200 people taking part in Table Tennis Across Wales last term and has become one of the most popular 5x60 Activities in Wales!

Take a look at the link below for more information

http://www.5x60.org.uk/features/activities/1649

Centre Of Excellence

Congratulations to Callum Thomas of Greenhouse Tonypandy and Dylan Bruford of Greenhouse Ferndale for being invited to the Centre Of Excellence Squad due to there hard work over the past few months.

They will be joining the rest of the squad to train at Welsh Institue of Sport.

Well Done Boys!!

Welsh Closed Championships on Youtube

Take a look at the following link on youtube. Some great Table Tennis was played at the Welsh Championships with the Mens Single final Between National Coach and 9 Times Welsh Champion Ryan Jenkins and Welsh Number 1 Adam Robertson

Welsh Closed - 7th March 2010 - Welsh Institute of Sport, Cardiff


Men's Final:
Adam Robertson (3) V Ryan Jenkins (2)
1st Leg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5VTukwgF_0

2nd Leg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-bJ_e5zcUk

3rd Leg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX7cxxMgB3U

4th Leg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gygPZKzGSqU

5th Leg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duMoB2YTsRc

Men's Semi Final (part):

Aled Howells V Ryan Jenkins -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfWrXVuBC

Veterans Final
Knock-up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaNdjhffXvw

1st Leg
WCMar10-1stLegVeteransFinal.mp4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou_TDem42kU

Six Nations Event - Glasgow

Wales won 2 silver and a bronze medal at the 6 nation team championships in Largs, Glasgow today.

For more details please visit http://www.ttaw.co.uk/

South Conference Table Tennis League

Cathays Cardiff A have been promoted to Division 2 after gaining promotion from Division 3 last session.
Tom Goodall and Inthrayut Kongchun have Won Division 4 and Runner Up in Division 3, Now they are looking to try to push on and challenge some of the top teams.

Fixtures for Week 1
Division One
Barry No Mates v Fairwater Guys
Gladiators v Class Act
Macs Melons v Slap & Tickle

Division Two
FTF Blaengar v Cathays Cardiff A
Vale Academy v TT Turbo
Bargoed 999 A v Mack Attack

Divisions 3 and 4 to be confirmed on the night!

Cathays High Academy Vs Pontypridd High School

Six players made the trip with Head Coach Simon Oyler to Pontypridd High School On Wednesday 10th March 2010.
Players selected for the trip where :-
-Kian Emadi, James Hughes, Haneef Faithal, Manyonge Muliro, Areen Mahmood and Akram Seimi.
Ponty players selected by Head Coach Jonathan Gregory Where
-Kyle Adams, Sam Adams, Ben Griffiths, Ben Davies, Jon Bisp and Peter Briscombe.

Round One

Kian Emadi beat Ben Griffiths 3-0

James Hughes beat Sam Adams 3-0

Haneef Faithal lost to Kyle Adams 2-3
Manyonge Muliro beat Peter Briscombe 3-1
Areen Mahmood beat Jon Bisp 3-0
Akram Seimi lost to Ben Davies 1-3

Cathays Academy 4-2 Pontypridd High

Round Two

Kian Emadi beat Sam Adams 3-0

James Hughes lost to Kyle Adams 0-3

Haneef Faithal beat Ben Griffiths 3-2

Manyonge Muliro beat Jon Bisp 3-0

Areen Mahmood beat Peter Briscombe 3-1

Akram Seimi lost to Ben Davies 0-3

Cathays Academy 8-4 Pontypridd High

Round Three

Kian Emadi beat Kyle Adams 3-1

James Hughes beat Ben Griffiths 3-2
Haneef Faithal beat Sam Adams 3-1
Manyonge Muliro beat Peter Briscombe 3-1
Areen Mahmood beat Ben Davies 3-1

Akram Seimi lost to Jon Bisp 0-3

Final Score

Cathays High Academy 13-5 Pontypridd High School

Well Done to everybody involved. This proved to be a very fun day for everybody and players gain some valuable experience.

Welsh National Championships 2010

Adam Robertson & Naomi Owen were winners today at the Welsh Championships in Cardiff. Adam, who is based in Karlsruhe, Germany, won his 5th men's title beating Ryan Jenkins 3-2. Adam went 2-0 up and with 3 match points at 10-7 thought it was all over. Ryan fought hard and came back in the match to win both set 3 and 4 before going 7-4 up in the 5th set. Adam then showed his experience to win all remaining points and win 11-7.

Naomi swept all aside to claim the women's crown and showed her superiority. Naomi, who is based in Sheffield with the BTTF squad, beat Angharad Phillips in the semi final she managed to remain in charge to beat Regina Donovan 3-0 in the final. Regina beat Megan Phillips in the other semi final.

For more details and all results of the Welsh National Championships go to http://www.ttaw.co.uk/

Welsh Rankings

Visit http://www.ttaw.co.uk/ for the latest Welsh Rankings

Welsh Closed Championships 2010

The Welsh Closed Championships will be held at the Welsh Institute of Sport over the Weekend of the 6th/7th March

Junior Events Saturday and Senior Event Sunday.

In what looks to be a strong entry for a few years. Adam Robertson and Ryan Jenkins Both in the Draw will look to battle it out for yet another Welsh Title. Also in the Mens Draw in Steve Jenkins, Patrick Thomas and Steven Gertsen who will all bee looking to get to the later stages.

Naomi Owen looks to be Favourite for the Womens Title with Welsh Youngster playing it out to get a final showdown with the Welsh Number One Women.

Welsh Junior Number One Daniel OConnell is looking for his First Welsh Title being number One seed in the Junior Event but must fend off Lewis Williams, Lee Morgan, Josh Jenkins and Cameron Thomas to take the title.

Its an Open Draw for the Junior Girls Event with one of 8 girls could take the Title, Hannah Avery is Number One seed for the girls event.

Come along and watch the Top Welsh Players in Action This Weekend

For more details and Groups for the Weekend please visit http://www.ttaw.co.uk/

Cardiff Host Top Tournaments

For the next two weekends the Welsh Institute of Wales in Cardiff will be hosting two of the Top Tournaments in Wales.


On 27th/28th February the British Grand Prix season comes to Cardiff for the Travel City Cardiff Satelite Open. Irelands Paul McCreery enters as Number 1 Seed for the Mens Open with Welsh number 3 Stephen Jenkins entering as number 2 Seed, Some Top welsh players are also in the mix with Patrick Thomas, Steven Gertsen and Nathan Thomas looking to cause some upsets in the tournament. Wales Chinese practise partner Yongbe Zhang is also in the mix roaming around with a dummy ranking.
In the Womens Open Naomi Owen leads the way for Wales as Number 1 Seed followed by Irelands Number 1 Na Liu looking to take the Women Title. Ireland Amanda Mogey and England Emma Vickers complete the top four seedings for the Womens Event.


Saturday 6th March
The Welsh Junior Closed takes place at the Welsh Institue of Sport. Welsh Junior Number one Daniel OConnell leads the field in the Junior boys event with Lewis Williams, Lee Morgan, Josh Jenkins and Cameron Thomas looking to capture the Welsh Junior Title.
The Junior girls event is the more open event where the winner could come from a number of welsh talented players, with Chloe Thomas, Charlotte Carey, Megan and Angharad Phillips, Hannah Avery, Natasha Rees and Nicole Hall all looking to take the Welsh Girls Junior Crown.


Sunday 7th March
The Main Events take place, Welsh Number 1 Adam Robertson will be strong favourite to take the Mens Title with Stephen Jenkins and Patrick Thomas looking to make a final showdown with the Welsh Number 1.
In the Womens event Naomi Owen looks strong favouritte to capture yet another Welsh title in a feild packed with Junior Welsh talent.


Why not come along to the Welsh Institute of Sport and watch some top British Players in action in these top Welsh Tournaments.


For more Information please visit http://www.ttaw.co.uk/

St.Mellons Table Tennis Festival

St.Mellons Table Tennis Club are linking up with Sport.Cardiff 5x60 Programme to run a Table Tennis Festival for local schools to come to the Table Tennis Club and take part in the fun filled sport.

Locals schools such as Rumney High, Llanrumney and St.Illtyds will be making the trip on Wednesday 3rd March at 4.00pm down to St.Mellons Community Centre and will have the chance to see Table Tennis played at a high level with South Wales Development Coach Simon Oyler leading the Festival accompanied by Wales National Coach an 9 Times Welsh Champion Ryan Jenkins.

On the day Simon and Ryan will be putting on an Exhibition and showing how table tennis is played, also there will be a bat skills workshop, structured coaching session, and small Competitions running for all participants to enjoy the competitive side of the sport.


The aim for this is to create a exit route and community link with the schools in order to give children in the local area the opportunity to take part in sport and create opportunities for them.

Cardiff Closed Championships

Cardiff and District Table Tennis League are going to be running their Cardiff Closed
Championships at the Welsh Institute Of Sport on Saturday 27th March 2010 in the Jubilee Hall.

Competitions on the day are-

Junior Championship - 9.30am
Veterans (over 40) - 9.30am
Veterans (over 55's) - 9.30am
Womens Championship - 9.30am
Open Championship - 1.00pm
Division 2/3 Open - 3.00pm
Handicap Competition - 3.00pm

Raining Champion Owen Clutterbuck is looking to win his 9th Cardiff Senior Title in what could be the strongest entry for year with players such as Nathan Thomas, Neil Wright, Nick Brown, Simon Oyler, Ceri James, Scott Cundy looking to spoil the party for the raining champion

There will also be a Hard Bat event held at the Welsh Institute of Sport on Thursday 15th April at 7.00pm

This event held some great matches last season with Nick Brown beating Owen Clutterbuck and Simon Oyler taking down Hard Bat King Neil Wright, Setting up an exciting final where Nick Brown took the title winning 31-26

For information and entry form please contact
Roy Gibson at roygibson@ntlworld.com or Chris Davies at sarah_chris.davies@ntlworld.com

TTAW Roadshow

A series of Table Tennis Roadshows will take place the week of the 19th April 2010 to bring table tennis to the people of Wales.
Dates:
Monday 19th & Tuesday 20th [Mid/North Wales]
Wednesday 21st - Welsh Primary Schools Championships
Thursday 22nd & Friday 23rd [South East/West Wales]

The national coach, plus the 3 regional coaches, will take a van with a table tennis table around primary and secondary schools, plus clubs in Wales to show people what real table tennis is all about.

If we are near you - come and visit

Half Term Training Camps

Cathays Table Tennis Academy Head Coach Simon Oyler will be holding training camps during the half term break. They are being held at Cathays High School for School pupils and academy players to attend.

These camps are held on Wednesday 17th February and Friday 19th February from 10am-2pm,
There will be 8 tables at the training camps so we have plenty of space for you all, so please feel
free to attend and get some extra practise in over the half term break.

On Saturday 20th February Cathays are holding their Community Club from 10am-12pm

National Coach Ryan Jenkins will be in attendance along with South Wales Development coach Simon
Oyler and Welsh Squad players, so please feel free to come along and practise with these players learn
new skills and improve your game to the next level.

Talent ID Open day

For those who run clubs around Wales and have talent that may not get recognised as you would like, National Coach Ryan Jenkins has decided to run 3 'Open nights' so that all clubs have the chance to showcase their talented youngsters for the future.

The players you bring along should not be in a current TTAW run session [COE, TTAW squads] or in a TTAW run competition [Team Championships of Wales]. Players age limit is 15 years old.

May 4th - South East Wales [Welsh Institute of Sport] 5-8pm
May 5th - North Wales [Clywedog] 6-9pm
May 6th - South West Wales [Carmarthen] 7-10pm

No registration is needed - just turn up and play.....

Please feel free to send this to any TTAW affiliated club

Newport Junior Open 2010

The Newport Junior Open took place at the Newport Velodrome Sports Complex on Sunday 7th February 2010

Under 13's
Boys Event. After losing his first match to the growing talent of Chris Griffiths in a closley fought 5 set match, Ryan Oyler bounced back to take down Stefan Jaczalik 3-0, followed by Chris going down to Stefan 3-0, this ment that Ryan and Stefan went through on count back.
Ryan got through some close 5 set matches to reach the final where he faced Centre of Excellence squad mate Liam Winders, both players played some good stuff but it was Ryan who came out on top in the 5th set to regain his Newport Under 13's Title for the 2nd Year.

Girls Event. Beth Roberts won the Under 13's event beating Cardiff Centre of Excellence Squad member Laura Edwards in close sets.

Cadets
Lee Morgan Beat Lewis Williams
Nicole Hall Beat Beth Roberts

Juniors
Lee Morgan Beat Josh Jenkins
Natasha Rees Beat Nicole Hall

Clean Sweep At Welsh Dragon Grand Prix

In the 5th and last round of the Welsh Dragon Grand prix event it was Jac and Soffi Jenkins who took home the titles.

Soffi Jenkins took the Under 11's title by beating Ferndale Primary Star Charlotte Slye to take the last Under 11's event of the season.

In the Under 15's event there was some great table tennis played, but it was Jac Jenkins who came out on top to win the title by beating Tom Goodall and Dylan Bruford in the final group, with Tom Goodall of Cathays Academy finishing 2nd and Dylan Bruford the talented youngster from Ferndale TTk finishing in 3rd position. Cardiff Centre of Excellence squad member Catlin Williams took the highest girls spot finishing 4th.

In the Under 13's it was Jac Jenkins and Dylan Bruford reaching the top group to battle it out for top spot, after a nervous match which swung both ways, it was Jac Jenkins who took his second title of the day by winning 11-9 in the 5th set. Dylan Bruford took 2nd place followed by Ferndale Team mate Dylan Lewis finishing 3rd. Caitlin also took the highest girls spot in the Under 13's finishing 7th with Under 11's Champion Soffi Jenkins taking 8th spot.

There was also some great results for Cathays Academy players to take home, with Haneef Faithal finishing highest in the Under 13's

Cathays Academy Players Final Positions

Under 13's
9th - Haneef Faithal
16th - Kian Emadi

19th - Manyonge Muliro

24th - Munir Gailani

For all final positions please visit http://www.ttaw.co.uk/

Under 11's Winner Soffi Jenkins (left)

Under 11's Runner Up Charlotte Slye (right)

with Wales National Coach Ryan Jenkins

Under 15's Winner Jac Jenkins (left)

Under 15's Runner Up Tom Goodall (right)

with West Wales Regional Coach Aled Howell

Under 13's Winner Jac Jenkins (left)

Under 13's Runner Up Dylan Bruford (right)

with West Wales Regional Coach Aled Howell

Cathays Take Victory At Team Championships of Wales

On Saturday 6th February Cathays Table Tennis Academy took to the courts for the 3rd round of the Team Championships of Wales at the Welsh Institute of Sport.

In the First match of the day Cathays went up against Greenhouse Tonypandy in the top of the table clash,
it was Cathays that came out flying with Kongchun beating an injuried Naomi James in four games, Cathays
Number one then took on Rob Tyler and gave Cathays a 2-0 lead. Callum pulled a game back for
Tonypandy by beating Kian Emadi. The doubles was a closely fought match but Cathays came out on top in
4 games. Tom Goodall then rapped up the win for Cathays by beating Naomi. Tonypandy won the last two
matches to make the final score 4-3 to Cathays Academy,

Cathays then faced Newport and proved to be to strong with Tom Goodall and Inthyarayat Kongchun
winning both of their two their singles matches, Emmanuel found the going tough and lost his two games in close sets.
Tom teamed up with Kian in the doubles an took victory in 5 close sets. Cahtyas coming out on top winning 5-2.

Cathays are now sitting equal top with Tonypandy with points difference keeping the two team apart.

Cathays Academy players will be looking to take there form into the Dragon event held at the
Welsh Institute of Sport on Sunday 7th February with 4 players entered in under 13s and 1 entry in the
Under 15's Catergory

TTAW Updates

For the following updates please visit http://www.ttaw.co.uk/

Latest Welsh Rankings
Change of Dates for Team Championships for Junior and Senior Leauges
Cardiff Grand Prix Entry Form
Welsh Closed Championships Entry Form

Welsh Players impress at Cippenham Festival

Some great results from Welsh players at the Cippenham tournament this weekend. Chris Griffiths won the U14 event beating Vince from London 3-0 in the final. Vince happened to beat another Welsh star (who has just been selected for the 6 nations in Scotland) Conor Edwards 1-3 in the semi final.

Other notable results of Welsh players:
Steve Fawkes lost to Chris in semi final U14
Soffi Jenkins 4th U12 girls
Naomi James 3rd U14 girls
Jac Jenkins semi finals of U12 boys

Welsh Primary Selection

British Primary Schools - Guernsey
Well Done to the following players selected for the British Primary Schools Championships
which will be played from 9th-11th April 2010 in Guernsey

Boys: Ryan Oyler, Ashley Perry, Stefan Jeczalik, Alex Francis,
Girls: Laura Edwards, Caitlin Williams, Soffi Jenkins and Jessica Neck

Up and Coming Events

Saturday 30th January - Cathays Community Club - At Cathays High School
Saturday 6th February - Welsh Team Championships of Wales - At WIS
Sunday 7th February - Welsh Dragon Grand Prix - At WIS
Sunday 7th February - Newport Junior and Cadet Open - At Newport Velodrome
Saturday 20th February - Cathays Community Club - At Cathays High School
Sat/Sun 27th/28th February - Cardiff Satelite Grand Prix - At WIS
Saturday 6th March - Welsh Junior Closed - At WIS
Sunday 7th March - Welsh Senoir Closed - At WIS

Table Tennis Proving To Be A Big Hit At Cathays High School

After school training for selected academy players at Cathays High School Academy. Table tennis at cathays is rapidly growing with over 50 participants a week taking part, With lunch clubs and after school clubs running from monday to thursday students of all ages at the school are taking advantage of having table tennis in the school. Academy players are know playing in Welsh Dragon events, South Conference league, with the academies top team winning Division 4 in the first session. Junior Team Championships of Wales, Friendly Matches against Greenhouse TTK and West Wales Schools.

Cathays High Academy Player of the Month

JANUARY 2010
PLAYER OF THE MONTH

Haneef Faithal

Haneef has been regularly attending lunch and after school clubs and his hard work is starting to show. Haneef has great determination to work hard and improve his performance on the table. Haneef will be playing in the Welsh Dragon Grand prix along with other team mates from the Academy. He will be looking forward to make his hard work pay off and finish in a high position. Keep up the great hard work and good luck to all academy players at the 5th Welsh Dragon Grand Prix.
 
WELL DONE!

Welsh Primary School Trails

Primary Schools Trials


Ryan Oyler and Laura Edwards claimed their automatic places for the trip to Guernsey in April at the primary school trials held over the weekend which brought Welsh talent together at the WIS.

Boys group A – Winner Ryan Oyler, R/up Stefan Jones
Boys group B – Winner Ashley Perry, R/up Tyler Wasley
Boys group C – Winner Stefan Jeczalik, R/up Dylan Bruford
Boys group D – Winner Alex Francis, R/up Ryan James

Q-Final: Ryan beat Tyler 3-0, Alex beat Dylan 3-0, Stefan Jeczalik beat Ryan 3-0, and Ashley beat Stefan Jones 3-0.

S-Final: Ryan Oyler bt Alex Francis 3-1; Ashley Perry bt Stefan Jeczalik 3-1

Final: Ryan Oyler bt Ashley Perry 3-0.
Girls group A – Winner Laura Edwards, R/up Kate Roberts, and 3rd Jess Neck.
Girls group B – Winner Caitlin Williams, R/up Faye Evans, and 3rd Soffi Jenkins.

Q-Final: Laura/Caitlin had byes; Jess bt Faye; Soffi bt Kate.

S-Final: Laura Edwards beat Jess Neck 3-0; Caitlin beat Soffi 3-0.

Final: Laura Edwards beat Caitlin 3-0.
Consolation Event –

Boys Final: Jac Jenkins beat Matthew Francis 3-0.
Girls Final: Charlotte Slye beat Victoria Brookes 3-0.

Centre Of Excellence Selection 2010

Congratulations to Ethan Lewis and Caitlin Williams for their hard work in 2009, they have know been invited to join the Centre Of Excellence Squad in Cardiff.

They will be joining:

Ashley Stavrakis, Ryan Oyler, Liam Winders, Steven Fawkes, Jac Jenkins, Tom Goodall, Laura Edwards, Naomi James, Abi Sayce, Romy Killick

After the Christmas Break the squad will know be preparing for 2010 and will be training hard in order of up and coming events.

Blaenau Gwent Junior and Cadet - 24th January
Newport Open - 7th February
Cardiff Satalite Grand Prix - 27th & 28th February
Welsh National Championships - 6th March

Good luck for the up and coming year!!