Chepstow Qualify More Leaders

Chepstow Table Tennis Club held their second Table Tennis Leaders Award course on Tuesday 28th October 2013.

12 new table tennis leaders where given more knowledge and ideas of the games and will now look to assist at their local schools and clubs to gain more expeirence in their coaching and leading activities.

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!

Junior TCW This Weekend

The Junior Team Championships of Wales comes to Cardiff this weekend.

Players and teams will travel from all across Wales to do battle on the court in order to see who will be the best team in Wales.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!

Follow us on twitter to keep up to date with the results 

@walesTT

EUpal Dragon Events

The EUpal Dragon competitions are coming to your area.

The next 5 Dragon Events:

Sunday 6th October - Cardiff Dragon 

Sunday 3rd November - Cardiff Dragon

Saturday 30th November - Vale Dragon

Sunday 1st December - Chepstow Dragon

Sunday 15th December - Cardiff Dragon

Please visit the link below for entry forms

http://ttaw.co.uk/competitions/entry-forms

Medals Galore for Wales at School Games

Wales won 6 medals at this years School Games which was held in the City of Sheffield.

These medals included - 1 Gold, 2 Silver and 3 Bronze.

For the full story please visit

http://ttaw.co.uk/news/2013/09/uk-school-games

Roberts wins at Burton Uxbridge 1*Star

Today saw yet another victory for Joseph Roberts at Burton Uxbridge 1*Star Open.

The 10 year old Cardiff talent won the under 11's event in the morning, later in the afternoon he went onto reach the semi finals of the under 13's where he lost to the eventual winner.

This is another great achievement for the young Cardiff based player and he is surely going to produce more results in the future.

New Season - New Aims

As the start of the season begins, there are new plans to create even more clubs, develop/strengthen school and club links, increase primary and girl participation and also help our coaches develop to higher levels by increasing their knowledge of the game.

New clubs will start in Cardiff, Newport and Chepstow to add to the already fast growing club structures we have across the south.

Keep an eye on this as we grow and develop!!

Cardiff Summer Camp

The Cardiff Summer Camp got underway yesterday with 20 players attending St.Mellons Table Tennis Club for a training camp with regional coach Simon Oyler. Former West Wales Regional coach Aled Rhys Howell was also in attendance with players from his South England Region.

Players came from around Cardiff, Bridgend, Chepstow and South England to take part in a 4 hour training camp.

The work rate of all the players was fantastic as well as the never give up attitude. The camp was based on footwork exercise, technique, multi ball and fitness. After a few weeks off, some of the players still looked shape and pushed themselves hard.
Players got the chance to have multi ball from Chinese coach Yongbo Zhang and practise with Delhi 2010 Commonwealth player Patrick Thomas.



Well done to all the players who attended. The next session will follow next Monday 19th August

TTW Awards 2013

The TTW awards were held yesterday in Bridgend and the following people were recognised:

TTW Young Coach of the Year - Nicole Hall

TTW Volunteer of the Year - Claire Flannagan

TTW Club of the Year - Rhondda TTC

Cardiff Regional Squad POY - Joshua Stacey
Rhondda Regional Squad POY - Callum Evans
Swansea Regional POY - Marc Castro

TTW Young Player of the Year - Lydia John

TTW Player of the Year - Charlotte Carey

TTW Coach of the Year - Nathan Thomas

TTW Life Time Award - George Evans

Well Done to all the Winners!!

Joshua Roberts trains with Zhang Yining

Last week the annual French Identification camp for children aged 8-11 took place in Fontaines near Lyon. The camp was mostly made up of the best French talent for this age group. The remainder of the participants were selected through the EuroKids programme and included players from Belgium, Czech Republic, Cyprus and Wales. Joseph Roberts was the participant selected to represent Wales at the training camp who travelled with coach Greg Price

Training commenced on Day 1 with the emphasis on improving techniques and maintaining a high level of consistency. The following day saw the arrival of two times Olympic and World Champion Zhang Yining. Day 2 focused on service practice and match preparation in readiness for the competition the following day

On Day 3 the competitions for each age category commenced with Zhang Yining observing the matches. Joseph Roberts participated in the boys’ 2003 age category. The standard of competition was very high. Joseph performed well throughout the day and finished 6th out of 8 players. However, this final position does not reflect how well he played on the day. Joseph had a number of very close battles including narrowly losing in three five set matches. On another day, Joseph might have finished in the top three positions

For the last three days of the camp, it was back to the hard work of training. On Day 4, each player was given the opportunity to have a 20 minute multiball session whilst receiving expert coaching analysis from Zhang Yining. This experience was invaluable to Joseph’s development. Zhang Yining assessed Joseph’s techniques and gave detailed feedback on areas in which Joseph can improve

On the last two days of the camp, players were given the opportunity to work on specific areas to develop identified by Zhang Yining. Specific multiball exercises were set by the coaches to work on improving these identified areas of each player’s game. Joseph Roberts worked hard in training to improve and work on the coaching tips given by Zhang Yining.
Overall, an excellent training camp and a worthwhile experience for the development of Joseph and Welsh table tennis.

Gemau Cymru - GOLD for East

The second day on Gemau Cymru brought a Gold and Bronze medal in the singles event for the East.


Macauley Morgan provided an upset in the boy singles. He overcame some tough matches and qualified through to the semi finals where he went up against Marc Castro. This game went the way of the Whitchurch player which sent him into the final. Liam Winders was the player waiting for him after he beat Macauley's east team mate Huw Standen in the other semi final.
In the final Liam raced to a 2-0 lead and found himself at match point up at 10-9, however Macauley continued to fight hard and eventually turned the set around to win 14-12. This seemed to give Macauley the edge as he took the 4th set 11-9. In the deciding 5th set Liam found himself up again at 8-6, but Macauley had other ideas and kept the pressure on to level at 8-8 with his two serves to come. Winning two big rallies, the Whitchurch player found himself 10-8 up with gold medal point. Unfortunately Liam served of which gave Macauley the match and the Gold medal. Huw Standen took the bronze medal whilst Joshua Stacey ended his very impressive weekend losing in the quarter finals to Liam Winder. Josh lost just three matches out of 12 during the course of the weekend.

In the girls singles, Buddog James gave a great account of herself as did her team mate, 9 year old Lauren Stacey who showed just how much she has improved over the past 6 months, Lauren is one to watch in the future.

The east team ended with 3 medals:

1 x Gold (Boys Singles)
1 x Silver (Team Event)
1 x Bronze (Boys Singles)

Well Done to all the competitors

Gemau Cymru Team Event

Day One of Gemau Cymru got underway today at the Cardiff City Table Tennis Club.

The East team consisting of Macauley Morgan, Huw Standen, Joshua Stacey, Buddog James and Lauren Stacey took a silver medal in the team event losing out to a strong South team.

Final Team Positions

Gold Medalists - South

Silver Medalists - East

Bronze Medalists - West

4th place - North

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

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