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Monday, 24 June 2013

Team East

The Gemau Cymru shirts have arrived


TEAM EAST


Thursday, 20 June 2013

Helping to beat cancer


On August 19th Pink Pong will be in Cardiff to celebrate table tennis whilst raising money for cancer patients.You can donate here http://www.justgiving.com/pinkpongwales

Also people can text WALE50 £1,£2,£3,£4,£5,£6,£7,£8,£9,£10 to 70071 on your mobile phones

Anytime you want to set up a page for a charity event in your clubs, set up as Cancer Research UK and then link to pink pong team via - https://www.justgiving.com/teams/PinkPongUK

Monday, 17 June 2013

Luxembourg Junior Open


The team of Joshua Stacey, Lydia John, Jac Jenkins, Soffi Jenkins, Ryan Oyler and Nicole Hall represented Wales at this season's Luxembourg Open from 14-16 June
Wales finished the team in 17th spot and the link below shows the individual places
Please visit the Luxembourg website for all individual match reports

Cardiff City TTC Grand Prix

Final positions for Grand Prix number 5 which took play on Sunday 16th June 2013


U - 11 1 Joseph Roberts 2 Lauren Stacey 3 Anna Hursey 4 Suyash Agarwal 5 Kavin Durai

U-13 1 Joseph Roberts 2 Raja Gulim 3 Joe Williams 4 Advait Nair 5 Anna Hursey 6 Thomas Hunter 7 Mohammed Kadir 7 Alex Doughty 9 Shaili Kadambande

U-15 1 Marc Castro 2 Huw Standen 3 Macauley Morgan 4 Pouyan Javanmard 5 Martin Alldrick

U-18 1 Macauley Morgan 2 Tom Goodall 3 Peyman Mollaei 4 Huw Standen 5 Pouyan Javanmard 6 Martin Alldrick

Tuesday, 11 June 2013

French Training Camp, Lyon

Young regional talent Joseph Roberts has been selected to attend a training camp in Lyon, France from 7th - 14th July 2013.

Joseph has attended two EuroKids training camps, Croatia in 2012 and Slovakia in 2013, which he was spotted by the ETTU Development Manager Lila de Soysa and has been invited to attend a training camp with the best french players of his age group.

Welsh coach Greg Price will attend the training camp with Joseph.

Well done and good luck Joseph!!

Monday, 10 June 2013

Burton Uxbridge 1* Star Open

On Saturday 8th June four regional players from Cardiff made the trip to Burton for the 1* Star Open, They where accompanied by other welsh players such as Cade Short, Louie Evans, Mithun Abhan and Anna Hursey.

After the over night stay in Derby on Saturday the team travelled onto Burton to compete against some tough English opponents.

Sunday 9th June saw the tournament get underway.
Up first was the Cadet Open, In a tough group Joshua Stacey upset all the odds to win his group beating some tough opponents on the way, Macauley also qualified through his group whilst Huw Standen lost out in the 3 way tie for first place. In the next round Macauley lost out to the runner up in Joshua Stacey's group whilst Joshua progressed through to the Quarter-finals where he lost out 3-1 to a strong english opponent. Joseph Roberts progressed through his under 11's group without dropping a set and continued his form up to the semi finals where he lost out to T W Chen 3-1.

For Macauley and Huw it was the junior event up next where they both had some good results, both players qualified to the quarter finals where they lost out to the eventual finalist. The under 13's was next up for Joshua and Joseph, both players qualified through their groups. Joshua Stacey upsetting all the odds again by beating TW Chen and Charlie Hendrix in his group 3-0. Joseph Roberts brushed passed his opponents without losing a set. Both players won their first and second round matches which set up a Quarter Final showdown where they had to play each other, Joshua Stacey took the 1st set 11-6 but Joseph quickly found his way back into the game winning the next 11-4, from this point on there was no looking back for Joseph as he seemed to go through the gears and control the match, eventually running out a 3-1 winner over team match Joshua Stacey. Joseph then went up against Joey Chen, who in the previous round had beaten fellow Welshman Cade Short. Joseph gave all he could but in each set at 8-8 found Joey to strong and lost 11-8 11-9 12-10 to the eventual winner.

In the girls under 13's Anna Hursey gave a great account of herself by reaching the Semi-finals, which at 6 years old is a great achievement. Anna Hursey has also just moved into the South Region and will be looking to be part of the South Regional Squads for next season.

All the welsh players gave good accounts of themselves and showed just how much they are improving along with their hard work and determination to succeed.




Monday, 3 June 2013

Gemau Cymru Selection

Gemau Cymru teams have been announced

Team East 

Macauley Morgan
Huw Standen
Joshua Stacey
Buddug James
Lauren Stacey

Jordan Rees (NPC)


Team South

Liam Winder
Jonathan Bisp
Dylan Lewis
Carys Webster
Charlotte Slye

Nicole Hall (NPC)


Team West

Lawrence John
Marc Castro
Steffan Griffiths
Lydia John
Anna Hursey

Dennis Bromage (NPC)


Team North

Jack Kupski
Tom Jenkins
Joshua Powell
Emma Kupski
Jamie Lee Harley

Wiktor Dzwonkowski (NPC)

Gemau Cymru will take place at the Cardiff City Table Tennis Club from the 5th - 7th July 2013