Roberts takes Silver at British Primaries

A young team from Wales travelled to Jersey this weekend to compete in the International Primary School Championships.

At the end of the team event, both boys and girls teams found themselves finishing just outside the medals in 4th place after losing to England, Ireland and Scotland.

It was the singles event up next, Wales had four players to qualify through their group and in to the main draw, the young 7 year old Anna Hursey and 10 year old Lauren Stacey made it to the quarter final where they both lost out to strong opponents from Scotland and Ireland.

In the boys singles event it was Joseph Roberts who found himself the only player left in the main draw after fellow Welshman Louie Evans lost out in the last 16 to Thomas Joyce of Ireland. Joseph went on to beat Kai Ghazi-Timms of England in the Quarter Finals and then went onto beat Jamie Liu of England in the Semi Finals 3-0. Joseph's fine run came to and end in the final of the boys singles where he lost to Irishman Owen Cathcart who beat Joseph 12-10.11-8,11-6. Joseph Roberts finished the competition with a silver medal and will now look forward to next years primary school champs.

In the consolation Cardiff based Jack ODuffy got to the final of the boys singles and lost out to Irelands David Taylor, whilst mithun lost out to the same player in the quarters of the consolation.


In the girls it was Lara Whitton of Swansea who went onto win the Gold after beating fellow Welsh team mate Beth Richards in a close semi finals, Lara then went onto beat guernsey player Marli Barker in the final 3-1.

Win of the weekend - Lauren beating England's No 1 under 11 Katie Holt 3-0.

British Champion

Ryan Oyler of St.Mellons TTC and a member of the Welsh Squad, crowned Under 18s British Champion.

Ryan represented Wales at the Six Nations Championships in Guernsey on the weekend of March 14^th-16^th. Ryan played some great table tennis over the weekend and found himself playing his team mate Callum Evans in the Quarter Finals after qualifying through his group of the Under 18’s singles, Ryan took a 3-0 win over his team mate, that was followed by a 3-2 win over England’s Jared Patel in the Semi Finals. Irish Junior Number 1 Ryan Ferrell now stood in Oyler’s way of becoming British Champion. Ryan Oyler took the challenge and put in a great performance and came away with a 3-0 win to secure the gold medal.

Ryan Oyler also took a Silver medal in the team event with his Welsh team mate Callum Evans.

The 16-year-old British Champion’s attentions will now turn to the European Youth Championship held in Italy. Ryan who will be an ambassador at this years Gemau Cymru 2014, will look to better his performance from last year and will push to try and be in the latter stages of the singles competition as well as helping his Welsh team mates out to finish in a higher position than last year in the team event.

Cardiff had another representative at the Six Nations Championships. This was 14-year-old Joshua Stacey of St.Mellons TTC who teamed up with Rhondda’s Jac Jenkins to take a bronze medal in the cadet team event.

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