37th Safir Open
The trip to Sweden proved to be an invaluable experience for our young Welsh team who competed at the 37th Safir International tournament over the weekend 20th – 22nd February.
Bridgend Table tennis star announces retirement after seven Paralympic Games
Multi-medal winning table tennis player Neil Robinson has this week announced his retirement from international competition following a Paralympic career spanning nearly 25 years.
Fifty-year-old Robinson made his Paralympic debut at the Stoke Mandeville 1984 Paralympics and has competed at every Games since with his last appearance at the Beijing Paralympics in 2008, making him one of Britain’s most experienced Paralympians.
Full results for the Team Championships of Wales Season 2008-09 are now available on the Team Championships of Wales page of this site (Competitions/Team Championship Of Wales/2008-09).
The page contains all results for all Divisions (Juniors Division 4 is on the same page, and below, those of Juniors Division 3).
Also included are the Team Position to date; all top ten players in each Division, and (below the match results) an alphabetical listing of all players in the Division and their personal average to date.
Stan Eastwood,
Membership Director.
22 February 2009
Cippenham Young Players’ New Year Festival (31.1-1.2.09)
The Cippenham Young Players’ New Year Festival brought players from far and wide, including the usual successful contingent from Wales, to Slough at the weekend. Almost 300 entries were received for this 1-star open tournament, played on 17 tables over two days in two halls at the Club’s Westgate School headquarters.
Ael-y-Bryn Table Tennis Club's Beth Roberts collected a generous cash prize and trophy last weekend for winning the under 13 girls event at the Uxbridge Junior Open held at Burton on Trent.
Due to problems getting a hall the Cardiff Grand Prix will not be held until the 27th and 28th February 2010
Congratulations to Jackie Williams of Wrexham who has been selected to umpire at the World Championships in Japan. This will be Jackie’s sixth World Championships, having done two senior and three junior championships in the past.
Entry forms can be found under competions: Welsh Closed entry form
ETTU TV (www.ettutv.com )will broadcast the main European Table Tennis events from January 2009 until December 2010. It will operate through a website ( www.neteyes.hu/ettutv ), which is created to serve the international interest and where their broadcastings and archive videos can be seen too. The live internet streaming will be done completely by their own staff with commentary in English.
The next event to be broadcast will be the LIEBHERR Europe TOP 12 from Düsseldorf (GER), 7-8 February 2009.
-- www.ettutv.com - is the website of NETEYES Ltd as the first official Web Television of Hungary, their live broadcast series provided to the European Table Tennis Union from January 2009 on.
Charlotte Takes a Hat trick of titles and Patrick a double in the West of Scotland
A party from Wales of 19 players travelled by bus to Glasgow for the tournament and had some great results throughout the weekend.