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Wednesday 24 October 2012

Half Term Programmes

Table Tennis will be taking place during the half term at the Cardiff City Table Tennis Club.

We have Primary, Secondary, Senior and Regional Development Squad sessions running during the half term period.

Please visit www.cardiffcitytabletennisclub.com for all details of the half term programme

Primary School Projects

Three new primary school programmes started in September and has shown signs on promise for the near future.

There has been over 150 new primary school children taking part in table tennis activity. Players are now looking to club feeders and will be attending half term programmes at the Cardiff City Table Tennis Club.

The next push will now be able getting the primary schools players into Welsh Dragon events and building teams for the Welsh Primary School Championships held in April 2013.

Monday 8 October 2012

Team Championships of Wales

Cardiff City are the outright leaders after the first weekend in Division 1. Brothers Wiktor & Waldemar stole the show remaining unbeaten all weekend. Yongbo Zhang also has the 100% match stat to protect.

In division 2, Llanelli star Jason Peckham makes it to the top of the pile with Alex O'Connell and David Lloyd on his heels. Ael y Bryn B top the division as it is.

Division 3 has St.Mellons on top but player of the weekend was Thomas Heydon with a 100% record as was Peymen Mollaei who helped his team to top place going into the final weekend in 2013

Selection for Team Wales

The following players will represent Wales shortly:

Namur, Belgium
Joseph Roberts, Lydia John, Thomas Heydon, Charlotte Slye, Chris Griffiths, Laura Edwards

Stockton Junior Open
Nicole Hall, Lewis Williams, Conor Edwards, Ryan Oyler, Callum Evans, Kate Roberts, Soffi Jenkins

Hungary Junior Open, Tata
Lewis Williams, Ryan Oyler, Conor Edwards
Megan Phillips, Chloe Thomas, Charlotte Carey

Home Nations - Guernsey
Angharad Phillips & Nicole Hall
Dean Cundy & Dan O'Connell

Friday 5 October 2012

South Conference League

The South Conference League is to get underway druing October.

Teams of two player will play each week at Sport Wales National Centre on a sunday night.

Division 3 and 4 will start at 6.00pm-7.30pm
Division 1 and 2 will then play from 7.30-9.00pm

It is a league for all abilities and ages.

There are cash prizes up for grabs

Div 1 winner: £100
Div 1 runner up: £50
Div 2 winner: £40
Div 3 winner: £30
Div 4 winner: £20

If you would like to play please contaact Neil Wright at neil_wright5@msn.com

Cardiff Junior League

The Cardiff Junior League kicks off on Tuesday 9th October at the Cardiff City Table Tennis Club.

There will be two divisions with 8 teams in each division. A two man team is required each week to play 2 singles matches each and a doubles match.
Starting times are
Division 2 - 5.30pm-7.00pm
Division 1 - 7.00pm-8.30pm

The league will be at a cost of £2.50 per player each week.

If you would like to join the league or would like more information please contact Nathan Thomas at cardiffcityttc@gmail.com

Monday 1 October 2012

Cardiff Junior & Cadet Open Results

The Cardiff Junior Open held at St.Mellons Table Tennis Club proved to be a great success with over 50 entries across 5 events.

The first event of the day saw the best of the Welsh cadet players take to the table, 16 boys and 10 girls battled it out for the title.
It was Jac Jenkins who repeated his win from the Welsh Cadet Master over Callum Evans in the final of the boys event. Laura Edwards also added the cadet title to her Welsh Master title she won earlier in the month by beating Soffi Jenkins in the Final.

Up next was the junior boys and girls event followed by the under 13's dragon.
There was a double winner with Laura Edwards taking the junior title after beating Welsh ranked number 1 junior girl Nicole Hall 3-1 in the final. In a strong junior boys event it was Lewis Williams who took the first junior title of the year beating Chris Griffiths 3-1 in the final.

The Dragon event saw another win for the 9 year old Joseph Roberts beating local player Joshua Stacey in the final group, Joshua Stacey finished 2nd after beating another cardiff based player Dafydd James. The top 4 was completed by Cardiff City/Cathays Academy player Advait Nair.

Final positions for the Dragon Event

1st Joseph Roberts
2nd Joshua Stacey
3rd Dafydd James
4th Advait Nair
5th Raja Gulum
6th Bethany Brewer
7th Jack Mullins
8th Jamie Lee Harley
9th Abhishek Bathula
10th Benedict Watson
11th Anna Hursey
12th Lara Whitton
13th David Avery
14th Lauren Stacey

Please check out www.ttaw.co.uk for the full tournament results