Merry Christmas!!

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas!!

Junior Team Championships of Wales

All focus this week turns to the first weekend of Junior Team Championships of Wales.

Teams will battle it out this weekend to see who will be heading into the final weekend on top of the table and in with a shout of becoming Champions!!!

Good Luck to All!!!!

Glamorgan at County Chanmpionships

Junior Division 1b Results: Devon1 7 Glamorgan 3 A win each from the 3 boys

 

Glam 4 Sussex 2 6 (A win each for Callum,Liam,Charlotte & Lydia)

 

Dorset 7 Glamorgan 3 (A win each for Callum,Jac & Lydia)

Up and Coming Welsh Tournaments

Please visit http://ttaw.co.uk/competitions/entry-forms for entry forms to:

Cardiff City TTC Grand Prix Event - Sunday 11th November 2012

Dragon event in Cardiff - Sunday 18th November 2012

Blaenau Gwent Junior and Cadet Open - Sunday 24th November 2012

Swansea Junior and Cadet Open - Sunday 9th December 2012

Glamorgan Senior Open - Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th January 2013

Get your entry forms in before its to late!!!!!!!!

Table Tennis Wales Leaders Coaching Courses

The Next Table Tennis Leaders Award in Cardiff

Venue : Cardiff City TTC
Date: Saturday 15th December 2012
Time: 3.00pm-5.00pm
Contact Simon Oyler at simon_oyler_1@hotmail.com to register your place on the course

Cost is £15 per person

Please apply quickly as these spaces fill fast

Glamorgan Senior Open

The Glamorgan Senior Open takes place in Brakla on the 5th & 6th of January 2013

Check the link - http://www.ttaw.co.uk/competitions/entry-forms

Get your entry forms in now!!!

Team Wales Travel to Hungarian Junior Open

Chloe Thomas, Charlotte Carey, Megan Phillips, Ryan Oyler, Conor Edwards and Lewis Williams are on Welsh duty this week in Tata for the Hungarian Open

Follow their progress over the next few days
http://www.ittf.com/competitions/competitions2.asp?Competition_ID=2185&category=WJC

Good Luck to the Welsh Team

Wales Prevail at Burton 1*Star

On Sunday 4th November the Cardiff Regional Squad travelled to Burton Uxbridge to compete in the 1*star Junior and Cadet Open.

Leaving at 5am in the morning it was always going to be a long day but the regional players really stepped up to the plate and performed extremely well.

The six players to make the trip where Huw Standen, Macauley Morgan, Alasdair Wier, Elliot Wienburg, Joshua Stacey and Joseph Roberts who had only got back home from the Namur Open In Belgium on Friday. These players where join by fellow Welsh contingents Lawrence John, Cade Short and 5 year old Anna Hursey.

All the players had some great results, with the pick of the bunch being Joseph Roberts finishing in 2nd place in the Under 11's and winning the Under 13's consolation after losing in a title battle in his group. Elliot also won the Cadet consolation beating team mate Huw Standen in the final whilst
Macauley Morgan qualified through his group but lost in the quarter finals of the main event.
In his first English tournament experience Joshua Stacey played some great table tennis and put up a great fight against more experienced opposition. Joshua Stacey has been playing for 8 months but already he is showing signs of becoming a very good young prospect for table tennis in Cardiff and Wales.

It was the same story in the Junior Event with Macauley qualifying through his group, this time he was followed by Elliot Wienburg, whilst Huw Standen lost out in 3rd position along with Alasdair Weir. In the Under 13;s event Joshua Stacey lost out in his group and then lost out in his group but took his first victory, he entered into the consolation event and was joined by team mate Joseph Roberts who went onto win.

 

Lawrence John was the man to steel the show after winning the Cadet Event he went onto win the Junior event also beating fellow welsh men Macauley Morgan and Elliot Wienburg on route to his titles.

Well Done to all players!!

Our attentions now turn to the Cardiff City TTC Grand Prix on Sunday 11th Novermber and then to the Junior Team Championships of Wales on the weekend of 17th/18th November.

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.

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

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

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