Cardiff Junior & Cadet Open

For the second year in a row St.Mellons Table Tennis Club hosted the Cardiff Junior Cadet Open. This proved to be yet another successful Welsh ranking tournament with over 40 participants competing across three different categories for boy and girls.

Up first was the Cadet boys and girls. In the boys event 16 players participated and it came down to a final between the number 1 seed Jac Jenkins who beat Joshua Stacey in the semi final, against Marc Castro who got past the young Joseph Roberts in the second semi final. It was last years winner Jac Jenkins, who defended his title and took the glory by beating Marc 3-1 in a close and well fought final.  In the Cadet girls it was Victoria Brookes who managed to take the title by beating Bethany Brewer in a close fought match.

The Under 13s event came next. In the boys category it was a repeat of the Glamorgan Closed final, with Cade Short getting the better of Joseph Roberts for the second time in as many weeks. In the girls event there were some very close matches. Lauren Stacey overcame a tough semi final match against Bethany Brewer winning 3-2 whilst Jamie Lee Harley won her semi final against Lara Whitton. Lara Whitton managed to overcome Anna Hursey in her group to advance to the Semi Finals. This set up a final match between the local talent  Lauren Stacey going up against Jamie Lee Harley. In a match that had a lot of twists and turns. It was Jamie Lee Harley who came out on top 3-2 to claim top prize.

The Junior event was up next, with all the best Welsh players on show it was time for the older guys to battle it out.  In the boys event it was the local boy Ryan Oyler who took the glory and the prize money after beating Chris Griffiths in a high standard final match 3-1. Chris Griffiths caused a small upset in the semi finals beating Welsh Junior number 1 Conor Edwards 3-1, whilst Ryan overcame a good effort from Jac Jenkins.

In the Junior Girls event Charlotte Carey won her group with Kate Roberts going through as runner up, whilst in the second group it was Beth Roberts who overcame Laura Edwards to qualify top of the group on count- back followed by Soffi Jenkins as runner up. This set up the semi final matches where Charlotte overcame Soffi 3-0 and Beth took the same score line against Kate Roberts. The final saw Charlottes experience and high level of table tennis come through again Beth Roberts and ran out to win 3-0 and claim the top prize.

Well done to all the winners and also to all the players who took part in the Cardiff Junior Cadet Open.

 We now turn our efforts to the North Gwent Junior and Cadet Open. Get your entry forms in!