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The Official Magazine of the E.nglish Table Tennis Association Issue No.298 Jan./Feb. 2004 Publisher English Table Tennis Association Ltd., Queensbury House, Havelock Road, Hastings, East Sussex TN34 IHF Telephone: 01424 722525 Fax: 01424 422103 email Events: [email protected] email Administration: [email protected] Admiral Lord Nelson School Website: www.etta.co.uk TTC's Chairman Brian Hall, Editor & Photographer received a double award on John EA. Wood behalf of his club, see page 13. 37 Duporth Road, Charlestown, St.Austell, Cornwall PL25 3NU Telephone/Fax: 01726 77527 email: [email protected] County Notes Lindsay Shipp ETTA Headquarters, Hastings Advertisements Richard Yule ETTA Headquarters, Hastings Subscription & Distribution Robert Sinclair ETTA Headquarters, Hastings Subscription Rates UK - £21, Europe - £33, Rest of the World - £38 Printer E.llenborough's JIMMY WALSH Printed in the UK by FRONT COVER MAIN PHOTOGRAPH battling to regain British League Nima Print & Design Services, JOANNA PARKER WHO HAS BECOME BOTH Premier Division status, page 22 91 a Ashford Road, Eastbourne, SENIOR AND JUNIOR No.1 East Sussex BN21 3TE Picture by John Wood Telephone: 01323 430036 Unsolicited articles are welcome for possible publication but the English Table Tennis Association will accept no responsibility for The ETTA would like to ~ the return of manuscripts and/or photographs. thank the following Whilst every effort is taken to ensure that reports and facts organisations for their are correct at the time of going to press no responsibility will support be accepted by the ETIA should errors be published. either for errors or matters arising as a result. S The views expressed in Table Tennis News are those of the contributors and are not necessarily official ETIA policy. Similarly TIN accepts advertisements in good faith, but cannot HAS MOVED accept responsibility for the goods or services described in advertisements. If you have any queries, these should be addressed directly to the advertiser. TO PAGES All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means. electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or 18 & 19 any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written consent of the publisher. CHATTERBOX compiled by John Wood (left to right) CHARLOTTE JENKINS (WAL), MARY FULLER (ENG), RACHEL GODFREY (WAL), MARTHA TRAVIS (ENG), NATASHA REES (WAL), and SARAH RUSSO (ENG) THREE young English Anette, has been playing table becoming an umpire. players had their first mini tennis for 3 years. Further details will be taste of international table Anette is wondering whether available shortly on the ETTA tennis in December, when there are any girls in her website www.etta.co.uk . they attended a training daughter's age group, In the meantime if you would camp in Cardiff, after an somewhere in the South/ like to register interest on how invitation from the TTVV. Southwest, who she could visit to get yourself on to the first Mary Fuller (under 12), and also whether there is a rung of the umpiring ladder, Martha Travis and Sarah Russo club she could train at during please contact Richard Scruton (both under II), who are their visit. (NURC Chairman) or Colin members of the ETTA's Youth Responses to Rob Sinclair at Clemett (NURC Secretary), Development squad, took part ETTA HQ in Hastings. both of their website in a two day camp. addresses are printed below. hopes to be fit to play in the This camp included a friendly ETTA LAUNCH Newcastle Grand Prix and the training match which was PUB PUNCH English Senior Nationals, in staged with the right level of UMPIRE THE table tennis career of Sheffield. informality by Alan Griffiths, to Matthew Kenny has been make it a great experience for RECRUITMENT threatened following a punch RETURN OF both sets of young girls. to his eye in a Sheffield pub, in Wales were represented by CAMPAIGN December. THE MACCABI two under 13 year old girls The ETTA National Umpires Kenny, who is a student at Rachel Godfrey and Charlotte and Referees Committee Grantham College, needed GB OPEN Godfrey, plus one under I I (NURC) is launching a two three hours of surgery to his THE MACCABI GB Table Natasha Rees. year national campaign in damaged eye. Tennis Open Championships The match score was a 7-2 February, to recruit more Following the operation has not been held for fou r victory to England, but the real Local and County Umpires. Matthew saw a specialist in years now and in its latter winner was the experience Setting the target of January, but will now have to years was not well attended. given to these young players. encouraging every Local wait for up to 6 months before This year however it will be Mary Fuller and Martha Travis League and Premier Club to he knows his situation. different, they are now holding both won three each, whilst qualify just one person over the tournament in a new and Sarah Russo won one. the two year period, the ETTA LEG ONTHE modern venue on 10-12 tables is looking to vastly increase the and have advertised the event ELINA NEEDS numbers of umpires.Whether MEND well among the Jewish umpiring at a club or league BRADLEY BILLINGTON who community. OUR HELP tournament, or having the had an operation in December The tournament on Sunday ELINA GLADH from Sweden, ambition to become the to repair varicose veins, is now 29th February 2004, at a venue who is I3 years old, will be Pierluigi Collina of the table on the mend. in the London area, is expected visiting our country this tennis world, there are many Brad started playing table to attract 200 or more and summer with her mother rewarding benefits to tennis aga.in in January, and he will include many nationally ranked (and former nationally PLEASE NO"'E RICHARD SCRU...ON'S WEBSI...E ADDRESS: ranked) players some being in the top 100.What with family rjchard@ljonhea"785 i .freeserYe.co.uk and friends it will probably be COLIN CLEME......'S WEBSI...E ADDRESS: a full house. coljn@clemei:i:.demon.co.uk Further information 020 84572333. STRAIGHT TALK by Alex Murdoch I hope you had a G·reat Christmas and New Year, may 2004 be Our man on the computer a successful and happy one for you all. MALCOLM Val and I enjoyed our break from work and Table Tennis, MACFARLANE which we spent with our family. 2003 was a busy year with pictured left our two eldest boys getting married, seeing our rust at the World Singles' in grandchild reaching his rust birthday and of course becoming Paris last Chairman of the ETTA! 2004 will see another grandchild and I summer shall have the big 60 to celebrate in June, presents most welcome but a Zimmer frame is not required yet. The start of 2004 will be the end of n1Y first 6 n10nths in office, which has proved interesting and enlightening to say the least. Despite many problems and obstacles, my enthusiasn1, and that of my team, has not been impacted and our determination to turn our sport around remains solid and focused. We have continued with our process of meeting players, parents and officials at various meetings and events across England and despite all of this I still have found time to play in local leagues, county matches and at a number of tournaments. This has given members an opportunity to talk to me and in many cases play and beat me on the table, I expected son1e quarter but none has been given. Anyway let me try to give you some update on what has been happening and what the future will bring. TTN Details of the funding we shall receive for the next twelve months The magazine improvement programme continues and we are looking will be known soon and I shall advise you of the actual money during at providing 2 free copies to each league, which will be sent to the the first quarter. Chairman, Hon Sec/League Representative member and also a free Although we have not been included in the top 20 sports, primarily copy to the County Member because of our World Status and medal achievements, we are still in a Increasing circulation by way of new subscriptions is critical for all of small band of sports which are recognised by the Government and us, please complete a subscription form and send it to the office. Sport England as being very important from a development Articles from the members are always most welcome, due to space perspective and meet the government agenda of Sport for All. This limitations we cannot guarantee all will be included but will do our means we will still receive significant funding and in many case more best to use them, so why not send one in about your club, league or than sports in the top 20. any item which you believe TT players would be interested to read. In future National Governing Bodies like us will have to subn1it Whole Sports Plans to deliver the strategy of Start, Stay and Succeed AFFILIATI0N and the funding streams have been reduced from 75 to just 2 namely The returns, to date, which have been received from the leagues with community and national funding. All future funding will be with the 4 affiliation fees and registered teams, shows for the season 2003/4 that year Olympic Cycle starting in 2005. we have 7370 teams against 7606 last seasons. This decline is, regrettably, in line with the reductions in members which we have WEBSITE seen for many years, albeit the ETTA does not have details of The new website will be up and running in the next 60days.