AUTUMN NEWSLETTER 2

VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2 NOVEMBER 2010

SPECIAL POINTS OF —TT REVIEW INTEREST: I was fortunate enough to ’s face when pairs. Andrew Baggaley & Commonwealth Silver for watch some of the very few playing Sharath Achanta. It won a England matches in that was dramatic—he was not bronze medal in the men’s was broadcast. only playing against Sharath doubles. Paul Drinkhall & 2 bronze medals in the but had the home support- Joanna Parker won the Individual competitions Thankfully there were ers to contend with and he bronze in the Mixed Dou- some really good matches somehow silenced the bles. that I got to see. One was crowd with his aggressive the exciting encounter in INSIDE THIS ISSUE play. the Men’s team event Tony Dias Junior National Champi- where England played the In the finals England had onships—front & back home nation India. England the perfect start with Liam pages did not start that well, Pitchford causing an upset Liam Pitchford lost in 3 beating highly ranked Gao Igor Double – 2 straight games to Sharath Ning. However, the Singa- Kamal Achanta. They drew poreans won the next 3 and Tin-Tin excels—2 level with an inspirational the title. A Good Silver for fight back from Paul Drink- the English team. Twickenham Bruns- hall who first beat Anthony wick—3 In the Women’s event the Amalraj and then India’s English Women finished top player Sharath Achanta. 4th after losing to India in Andrew Baggaley added the the semis and then to Ma- Sponsors Wanted!! scalp of Subhajit Saha and laysia in the 3rd place play the result was 3-1 to Eng- If you wish to off. land. My most vivid mem- sponsor the ory of the match was the Individually there was some sheer determination on success for the English MTTA, please contact any of our Committee mem- bers. See back JUNIOR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS page. The county was well rep- the group stages without nor Neenan all departed in resented in the Junior Boys dropping a set, as did Igor. the 1st round , whilst Wil- Singles, with Zak Zilesnick Ryan Maynard had a liam Morais lost to Lewis SPECIAL POINTS OF seed 4, Igor Morais seeded slightly more difficult time Gray of Kent in the last 16. INTEREST: 7, brother William Morais with a 5 set win over Jack Zak & Igor successfully seeded 13, Ryan Maynard Bennett and a 4 set win negotiated their passage Middlesex girl ousts top Seeded 19, Connor over Tom Punter. In the into the quarter-finals. seed Neenan seeded 25 and a knock-out phases, Tyrone Zak went on to win his host of other players par- Wells, Mikael Papanto- Runners-Up spot for Zak quarte r-final match Zilesnick ticipating. Zak qualified in niou, Vincent Stacey, Con- ……...contd. on back PAGE 2 AUTUMN NEWSLETTER 2

IGOR DOUBLE AT CADET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS In the recently concluded Of these, Senyo Owusu, with ease and in what was National Cadet Champion- Charlie Austen, Vincent described as a ―pulsating ships, Igor Morais claimed a Stacey & Tyrone Wells pro- encounter‖ he triumphed double. He won both the gressed to the last 16 . over Helshan in 5 sets 11-8, Singles and Doubles titles. In 10-12, 10-12, 12-10, 11-6. Senyo lost to Paul Smith the group stages, he was IGOR MORAIS from Cleveland in the quar- Partnering Helshan in the never seriously troubled. ter-finals. Charlie Austen doubles they progressed to Other players to qualify lost to Igor, Vincent to the final where they beat from the group stages were Danny Lawrence from Kent, Jared Patel & Alex Holland - Tyrone Wells, Vincent and Tyron to Helshan from Essex, 11-4, 9-11, 11- Stacey, Senyo Owusu, David Weerasinghe the number 2 7, 11-7. Rahbani, Daniel Wright, seed from Sussex. Well done Igor.!!!! Khassal Omar, Charlie Aus- All in all a pretty decent “WHAT DOES ten, Ryan Gaveglia, Zachary showing by our cadet boys. THE FUTURE Bull, Erick Fuentes, Jamie Igor proceeded to the final HOLD FOR Dignum, Charlie Rahbani. THESE 2 TALENTED AND TIN-TIN HO EXCELS EXCITING PLAYERS?” Another magnificent show- 4 seed and also the ing by Tin-Tin ho in the number 2 seed Girls events in the Cadet Emma Torkington National Championships. from Sussex. Tin- Tint-Tin won her group Tin had a comfort- matches with extreme ease. able 3 straight set victory over Maria, In the knock-out stages Tin- 11-8, 11-4, 11-8. Tin eliminated Ella Patel and Emily Bolton to face Maria Partnering Emma Cumbria and Lincolnshire Tsaptsinos from Berkshire. Torkington she went on to respectively. Maria had sensationally de- win the Cadet Girls Doubles feated Megan Knowles also title with victory over Emily Congratulations Tin-Tin! from Berkshire, the number Bolton and Hanna Nouch of

TIN-TIN HO COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS—SENIOR, JUNIOR & CADETS

The county Senior 1st team 3 and drew with Cleveland 5 and away matches through out the started the defense of their -5. season. Only two Leagues en- title in the Premier Division tered and they were only able to George Walsh. with 3 wins. enter one team each. The provisional plans are to “ARE WE GOING They beat Devon, Yorkshire organise all four Inter League TO HAVE A & Berkshire with identical competitions Victor Barna MIDDLESEX INTER- (Men) , Norman Pegg (Women) , REPEAT OF LAST scores of 6-4. Well done. LEAGUE COMPETITIONS Ted Connell (Veterans) and YEARS’ The Junior 1st team won 2 Russell Grant (Juniors) during SUCCESSES?” the week end of 19/20 and drew one in the Junior March. Entry Forms will be sent Premier Division, again de- Unfortunately it was not possible to to Leagues as soon as possible organise the Ted Connell competition after arrangement have been fending their title. They beat in the traditional system of home Hertfordshire & Yorkshire 7- finalized. VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2 PAGE 3

IS THIS THE START OF A REVIVAL? The Wembley & Harrow status quo in terms of num- teams participating. The Table Tennis League has in ber of teams. clubs who have entered the recent past had some teams are Eastcote, Hilling However, in an effort to give experienced an increase in don, Lowlands, Vagabonds & some of these youngsters a the number of younger play- newcomers Oshwal NW. taste of competitive table ers taking up table tennis tennis without the stress of The committee are hoping through the attendance of playing league matches, the that this will help regenerate youngsters at their coaching committee have revived their interest in table tennis and sessions, those run by the Cup Competition for Jun- will be the start of an in- league and those run by indi- iors—The Olympus Shield. creased participation in vidual coaches. league matches by young- This competition was last “OSHWAL NW IS Nevertheless, when it came sters. They also anticipate played in the 1994-1995 sea- A COMMUNITY to actual league play, participation from established son, with Sudbury Hill being CLUB BASED AT strangely these numbers did clubs—DHS G Progress, the last club to win the title. THE HARROW not convert to additional Maccabi, Sudbury Hill. LEISURE CENTRE” teams or maintaining the This season, there are 12

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS—VETS The County Vets 1st team started well in Division 1b. ing the county to contact won one and drew one of They beat Kent 2, Herts 2 me, so that I can gauge the their matches in Div 1b. and Berkshire 2 to top the availability of people and the The ETTA website table.Dave Crowley, Alan number of teams to enter. The 4tn team won one and still shows the laws Boyle & Ian Mablin did not lost one in Div 4C. They At the start of this season, for 2009/2010. It has lose any of their singles en- beat Berkshire 6 9-1 and lost we agreed that there was not been updated for counters, Paolo Cheng won to Herefordshire 2 2-8 limited availability what with 2010/2011. Please 5 of the 6 he played. Good the struggles the 3rd team note that 2 addi- The 3rd and 4theam have yet start!!!! had and so we entered 4 tional laws regarding to play any match, the first As the county vets secretary, teams, only to find people approved rubbers session being on 11th De- I am appealing to all those grumbling that there was a and bat changing cember. vets - especially ladies who lack of opportunity to play. have been included The Over 60’s team have are interested in represent- Please respond asap. Tony for 2010/2011.

TWICKENHAM BRUNSWICK

Twickenham Brunswick many established clubs, lack name a few. If you have an interesting Club was established for of volunteers has had an im- The membership fees are article, or would like young people, with a view to pact in the club’s ability to reasonably priced in this day your club’s activities to be encouraging their participa- attract more people. and age and the clubs ability promoted, please contact tion in sport. The club has Nevertheless, since 2008, to maintain their member- the editor. both an ABA Boxing section when their membership was ship levels is a testimony to as well as being an ETTA around 35-40, they can now the hard work of the volun- Premier Table Tennis Club. boast around 140 members. teers who help run it. It caters for boys and girls between 8 and 21 years. The club has many talented Unfortunately, I do not have players, the Rahbani broth- their full names, but suffice All activities are co-ordinate ers—Alex, David & Charlie, to say a big thank you for through volunteers. Like Tony Egan, James Corner to your devotion. Sponsors of the M.T.T.A.

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE County Ranking list (Top 5 based on ETTA ratings) Sr Men. Sr Women Veteran Men Chairman: Michael Close Deputy Chairman: Mrs. Doreen Stannard 1 ZAK ZILESNICK 1 EGLE ADOMELYTE 1 C PANATONIOU Hon, Secretary: Michael Close Treasurer: Charles Ho 2 TOM CUTLER 2 KLAUDIA SZADKOWSKA 2 F RASUL Coaching Secretary: Nick McKoy 3 NEIL CHARLES 3 TIN-TIN HO 3 L MIDDLETON County Match Secretary (Senior, Junior & Cadet): George Walsh 4 DANIEL BASTERFIELD 4 BARBARA IZYK 4 J SENORIN County Match Secretary ( Veterans & Over 60s): 5 IGOR MORAIS 5 SARAH HORSNELL 5 C PICKARD Tony Dias Umpires Secretary: Russell Sutcliffe Jr Boys Jr Girls Veteran Women Tournaments Secretary: Mrs. Doreen Stannard 1 ZAK ZILESNICK 1 TIN-TIN HO 1 RACHEL SMITH Handbook Secretary: Vacant Press Secretary: Tony Dias 2 IGOR MORAIS 2 CHARLEIGH KIRBY 2 SUE PLAISTOW

League Representatives: 3 PING HO 3 MAJADA YASMIN 3 SUE WILLSON North Middlesex— Nick McKoy 4 WILLIAM MORAIS 4 SALLY HOANG Willesden—Ron Boucher Wembley & Harrow—George Walsh 5 RYAN MAYNARD 5 SAYEEDA MIAH

Organisational Representative Cadet Boys Cadet Girls TTK—Andreas Pienaar 1 IGOR MORAIS 1 TIN-TIN HO Editor—Tony Dias, 7 North Way, Uxbridge, 2 TYRONE WELLS 2 EDA AYDIN Middlesex, UB10 9NG. [email protected] 3 VINCENT STACEY 3 TRACEY SIMPSON

4 SENYO OWUSU 4 SAMANTH LAI V ISIT THE MTTA WEBSITE AT 5 DANIEL WRIGHT 5 RAYNA BAGCHI HTTP:// WWW. MIDDLESEXTTA . ORG. UK/

JUNIOR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS—CONTINUED and defeated the number 2 the first round of the knock- Walker and Lewis Gray 11- seed Sean Cullen in the out phase and lost in 3 9, 7-11, 3-11, 5-11. semi-final. straight sets. Charleigh went In the girls doubles, Char- on to reach the semi-final Alas, he was not able to leigh Smith partnering stage where she lost to repeat this feat against the Vicky Smith, and Tin-Tin Tressa Armitage from number 1 seed—Gavin Ho partnering Yolanda ZAK ZILESNICK Hampshire. Evan to whom he lost 8-11, King, both reached the semi 6-11 and –8-11. All the Tin-Tin sensationally de- -finals where they lost . same, it was a creditable feated the number 1 seed The performance of our performance by this young Karina Le Fevre in the quar- young players at these major man. ter-finals 8-11,11-9,11-2,11 events is very encouraging -9. Unfortunately she was In the girls event, Tin-Tin and bodes well for the fu- unable to overcome the 4th Ho was seeded 7 and others ture of table tennis in our seeded Chloe Whyte from included Charleigh Kirby, county. Cleveland who went on to Sally Hoang, Tracey Simp- win the title. Well done to all our play- son, Sayeeda Miah and Ma- ers, successful or not. You jada Yasmin. In the doubles events, Igor The Middlesex TTA is look- have done yourselves proud continued his partnership ing for sponsors for newslet- Sayeeda Miah had the mis- and I’m sure that you will with Helshan Weerasinghe ter and our website. Please fortune of playing against need little encouragement who he played with in the contact the editor if you her higher ranked county to continue to shine and know of anyone who would Cadet doubles, and they lost colleague Charleigh Kirby in give your very best. like to become a sponsor. in the semi-finals to Sam