Table Tennis Wales (TTW)

Visit the South Wales Table Tennis Blog and view the report of the Euokids Training camp in Malinska with Joseph Roberts and Victoria Brookes.

www.southwalestt.blogspot.com

Saturday the 2nd and Sunday the 3rd June sees the opening of the new table tennis academy which is Cardiff City Table Tennis Club CCTTC will hold a 2 day opening weekend which is free for players to sample

Check out this Wheel Chair Spectacular at the NIAC, Cardiff Metropoliton (UWIC), Cyncoed Campus, Cardiff, CF23 6XD

Men
Steve Jenkins, Dan O'Connell, Dean Cundy, Martin Gunn, Wiktor Dzwonkowski, Yongbo Zhang, Ceri James, Lewis Williams, Mike Marsden, Neil Wright

Women
Naomi Owen, Louise Islip, Regina Grech, Megan Phillips, Nicole Hall, Hannah Avery, Sharlene Williams, Charlotte Carey, Beth Roberts, Angharad Phillips

Above are the names qualified by ranking for the welsh top 10 on the 1st September in Cardiff

Selection

The TTAW selection committee have decided to send 4 junior girls to the European Youth Champs in July. The championships will be held in the newly opened Werner Schlager academy in Schwechat, near Vienna

Players selected:

Charlotte Carey
Nicole Hall
Angharad Phillips
Megan Phillips

If you want the latest news in Wales take the following steps:

Visit this website for weekly updates on things happening in Welsh table tennis, from events to rankings to International news reports and much more

Follow the TTAW on twitter - https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/walestt
Here you'll have up to the minute news live at events and key reminders on what to look out for each week

The National coaches blog - www.nationalcoachwales.blogspot.com will offer additional news that may not make it onto the TTAW site
Here you can insert your email address in the box and every time he updates his blog news you will get an email straight to your inbox

Matthew Francis (Swansea), Jac Jenkins (Pontypridd), Lydia John (Swansea) and Charlotte Slye (Ferndale) were the young winners at the Welsh Championships today in Cardiff.

Matthew beat fellow squad player Harry Langley in a tight U11 boy's final with both players playing good table tennis. Lydia beat Ael y Bryn's Bethany Brewer in the U11 girl's final round robin match.

26th May - Welsh Cadet team go to Uxbridge
27th May - Development Camp in Cardiff (5yrs-12yrs)
28th May - TTAW Leaders Award

2-3rd June - Tipton Grand Prix
6th & 7th June - Half Term Camp with Ireland
9th June - Welsh Secondary Schools Finals
15-17th June - Luxembourg Junior Open
22-24th June - Internationla Senior Schools in Guernsey
27th June - TTAW Festival

13-19 July - European Youth Championships
20th July - 3rd TTAW Awards

27th July - 12 August - Olympic Games

There were no medals this time at the School Games for our young Welsh team

Charlotte Carey, Nicole Hall, Laura Edwards and Beth Roberts finished 4th. It was unfortunate that Nicole picked up an illness to limit her competition but all the girls played to a high level.
Lewis Williams, Conor Edwards, Ryan Oyler and Alex Prosser had 2 of the best teams in their initial group so was always going to find it tough to get to the semi finals. The 5/6 playoff match should have brought better fortunes but after losing that it was Ireland for a lowly 7th spot which they won.
Cellan Hall, Kiran Parry and Ashley Wray should feel proud after their round robin competition in the disability event saw them finish a very respectable 4th place. It was Ashley's first event which is a great achievement.

Angharad Phillips took the band 1 title with a nice 3-0 win against Essex player Evie Collier. Angharad made it back from 2-0 down to team mate Nicole Hall in the QF and then beat sister Megan 3-0 in the semis.