Team East

The Gemau Cymru shirts have arrived

TEAM EAST

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

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

Full results of the event here

Please visit the Luxembourg website for all individual match reports

Luxembourg Website

Photo Gallery

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

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!!

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.

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

Glamorgan Closed Championships

The Glamorgan Closed Championships will be held next weekend of the 27th/28th April at the Cardiff City Table Tennis Club.

 

Today is the closing date for entries so get them in fast!!

 

 

UKCC Level 1 - Day Two

This weekend will see day two of the UKCC Level 1 course in Cardiff.

 

The course has 12 new coaches all looking to qualify and get their coaching certificates.

 

Good luck to all the coaches envolved!!

Butterfly Baltic Cup - Estonia

Good luck to Ryan Oyler and Charlotte Carey who will be competing in the Butterfly Baltic Cup in Estonia this weekend!!

Morgan Wins Rhondda Dragon

Macauley Morgan of Whitchurch High School Academy won the Rhondda Dragon on the weekend.

 

For the full story of the event please visit

http://ttaw.co.uk/news/2013/04/eupal-rhondda-dragon-tonyrefail

Joshua Stacey gets his call up

Joshua Stacey who attends Rumney high school took up table tennis in December 2011 after watching some of his friends enjoy a lunch club activity with regional coach Simon Oyler. Joshua then decided to give it a go and has never looked back since.

He now trains more than 10 hours per week and plays for his local club St.Mellons TTC. Josh is also part of the Cardiff Regional Squad.

In March he competed in his first Welsh National Championships and pulled of some great wins over players his age who have played table tennis for more than 3 years. The next step for Joshua was the Under 13's National Championships in which he lost to team mate Joseph Roberts in a thrilling semi-final match. Although he lost in the semi-finals Joshua had some great wins over Harry Langley and Cade Short who went onto win the tournament after losing to Josh in the group stage. Joshua then had some more great wins in the Junior Team Championships of Wales over Charlotte Slye and former Welsh player Ashley Perry, he also lost just lost out in the deciding set to a few other welsh players who are a few years older than him.

Joshua has been rewarded for his achievements by getting selected by Welsh National Coach Ryan Jenkins to represent his country at the Junior Luxembourg Open in June.

This is a massive event for Joshua and he will be looking forward to the experience and will look to improve and work hard leading up to the event.

 He will be accompanied by: Lydia John, Laura Edwards, Callum Evans, Nicole Hall, Ryan Oyler

UWIC TT Academy Easter Camp

On Thursday 4th and Friday 5th April, UWIC Table Tennis Academy ran a two day training camp at the Cyncoed Campus in Cardiff Met University.

 

The players who attended the two day training camp got some valuable coaching from Wiktor and Waldek Dzwonkowski who are UKCC qualified coaches and also high level players.

 

For more information on how to book up to join the UWIC Table Tennis Academy please visit

http://www3.uwic.ac.uk/english/aboutus/facilities/sport/childrens/development/pages/tabletennisacademy.aspx

 

Welsh Primary Schools Team Travel to Southampton

The Welsh Primary School's team travelled to Southampton today for a training camp and friendly matches with ex Welsh Coach Aled Howell and his South England Region.

Aled Howell who now as a post for ETTA as South Regional Coach of England ran the training camp with over 20 tables and 40 players.

After a two hour training session it was time for the match to take place.

The boys found the going tough and lost 13-3.
Joseph Roberts- won 2 lost 2
Cade Short - won 1 lost 3
Joshua Stacey - lost 4 (losing 3 matches 3/2)
Harry Langley - lost 4 (losing one match 3/2)

The girls however competed very well and lost out 9-7
Lydia John - won 3 lost 1
Jamie lee - won 3 lost 1
Bethany Brewer - lost 4
Anna Hursey - won 1 lost 3

All players gave a good account of themselves but found the South East region too strong.

A big thank you to Aled Howell for inviting the Welsh team to this fantastic training camp.

Well done to all the players and good luck for the International Primary Schools Championships this weekend in Dublin.

Macaluey Morgan invited to Germany

Macaulay Morgan of Whitchurch High School has been rewarded for all his hard work he has put into his training over the past year by being selected by Table Tennis Wales to attend a two week training camp in Hamburg, Germany from 19th July until 2nd August. He will join fellow countrymen Lawrence John and Liam Winder.

Congratulations!!