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Nicola ENGLAND RANKINGS MEN 1 Chen Xinhua (Yorkshire) Deaton's 2 Desmond Douglas (Wshire) 3 Carl Frean (LOW.) 4 Matthew Syed (Berkshire £700 5 Alan Cooke (Derbyshire) WOMEN 1 Lisa Lomas (Bedfordshire) Tampax 2 Alison Gordon (Berkshire) 3 Andrea Holt (Lancashire) 4 Nicola Deaton (Derbyshire) award 5 Katherine Goodall (Yorkshire) DERBYSHIRE'S young interna­ New Director tional player Nicola Deaton CONGRATULATIONStororm~ reached the final of the National junior international Paul Judd 'Tampax Sport for Women' (Birmingham and Warwickshire) award. on his appointment as the new At the London Park Lane Director of Coaching for British Hotel. she received a cheque for Columbia (Canada). £700 and was the only table tennis player from over 60 Euro 94 applicants to reach the national As part of the Euro 94 initiative finals. and during the run up to the The £5,000 first prize went to championships a tournament for a young international gymnast all non league players is being currently training in Bulgaria. staged at 20 leisure centres Nicola is this season spon­ throughout Birmingham - and sored by Butterfly Grove Table space has been allocated to play Tennis Club. Nicola Deaton the finals on 2nd April 1994 in the main hall at the NIA. Douglas £1000 prize CITY OF DERBY and Gordon FRIENDLY HOTELS British League champions BFL Grove, overtake from Market Drayton, Shrop­ SELECT JUNIOR champions shire, have won a £1000 prize at THE two English national the Foundation for Sport and OPEN champions, Carl Frean and the Arts Club of the Year Andrea Holt, have been over­ Awards. taken by older players, in the Grove finished joint third in latest English Ranking List, the inaugural competition, Saturday 12th and published on Friday 12th organised by the C.C.P.R. Sunday 13th March 1994 November 1993. (Central Council for Physical Desmond Douglas, 38, from Recreation). Moorways Sports Centre Walsall and Glasgow-based Governing bodies from over Alison Gordon, 30, have risen 100 different sports selected a Moor Lane, Derby from NO.3 to NO.2 on the lists. club to enter the competition, They replace the current totalling 175 clubs. English champions Frean, 26, Grove's prize was collected New Format for 1994 and 23 year old Holt, from Bury, by the club manager Ian Lancashire, who have each Marshall, a French teacher at Banded Events fallen a place. the Grove School, Market Only the naturalised former Drayton, home of the table Groups of Four For All Chinese player Chen Xinhua tennis club. (Yorkshire) is ahead of Douglas Singles Events on the new list. T.T. VIDEOS SYD FRYER Over £1000 in Prizes Gordon, a former English 8 Clevelllnd KOlId, Hale, Albtncham, champion, is behind the Euro­ Cheshire WA15 lAY - 081-980 8110 pean silver medallist Lisa Lomas GOTHENBURG 93 • TAPE NO.1· Coaching Tape: Featuring III leading players (except (Luton), who has held the Swedes), commentary and analysis by Donald DETAILS England NO.1 place for two years. Parker. TAPE NO 2.• Swedish Mens Team Matches vFrances, N. Korea (Group &SemQ, 17 year old Nicola Deaton Germany, Belgium and China (Final). Last Mike Payne: (0332) 557162 from Chesterfield is listed in the game from each set played a presentation top four for the first time, having ceremony. Camera: Syd Fryer, commentary Robert Collins: (0332) 833164 and analysis Donald Parker. Priced £15.00 gone one place ahead of each inc. p&p, lull three hour tapes. PAGE 4 CHAIRMAN'S REPORT~~~~~~~~byAlan Ransom~ European successes ENGLAND women enjoyed their best participating national associations. The victory to date in the European League event is made larger still by the change of Super Division when they defeated Hungary system for the womens team event. In the at Crewe by four sets to one last month. past the womens team event has been Lisa Lomas played some of her best table played on the Corbillon Cup two a side tennis, equivalent to her performance when system, but at the last ETrU Congress in she won the silver medal in the European Stuttgart a proposal to change to the same Championships in Stuttgart two years ago. system as the men, three a side with seven Both her singles as well as combining with sets, was adopted and this in itself will Andrea Holt to win the doubles. Her best increase the number of women participants victory was over the former European in Birmingham. So far entries have been Champion Csilla Batorfi. Lisa was supported received from 215 men and 173 women. by Alison Gordon who is now also back to Whilst the Euro Executive Committee her best form. Alison defeated Vivien Ello. are concentrating on the organisation of the This victory moves the England girls up Championships, it is the Association's the league table and away from the relega­ Development Department that is working tion zone. In the European League this year hard to ensure that our member leagues three teams are to be relegated to bring the and clubs throughout the country are ready number of participating nations down from to take advantage of the additional interest ten to eight. This result, added to the win Alan Ransome in the sport generated by the Champion­ secured over Sweden in September, virtually to be finalised. The womens tour has been ships. When the last championship of this assures England of a Super Division place arranged at the request of the Japanese size, the World Championship in Birming­ for next season. An away victory over Association at short notice. ham in 1977 was played, the interest in France on 14th December would make this The Commonwealth Championships are table tennis immediately afterwards was certain and could, dependant on results to be played in Hyderabad, India from 25 enormous, but unfortunately the Associa­ between other teams in our group, place January to 1 February. The Commonwealth tion and its members were not fully pre­ our girls in the league finals. always gives our players the opportunity of pared for the upsurge. As reported in the last issue of Table winning medals, although the competition This time the Development Department, Tennis News, the England mens team are is becoming stronger particularly as a including our ten full time Regional Devel­ through to the semi final of the Super number of former Chinese players are now opment Officers, will be encouraging our Division of the Mens European League and eligible to represent a number of Common­ member leagues and clubs to be ready for are playing a two leg fixture against wealth countries. In particular Canada are the increase in interest. One major initiative Belgium. The first match will be in Belgium strong with Johnny Huang and Lijuan Geng will be the formation of junior leagues on either the 14th or 15th December and within their squad. The Commonwealth will throughout the country in conjunction with the return leg on the 15th February in provide good publicity for table tennis in the our own local leagues, sponsored by the Mansfield. With the three-a-side, seven set run up to the European Championships. Woolwich Building Society. system, the two sides are very evenly Other events to be played in the New In the main these leagues will com­ balanced.