Well done all the Regional players who attended Cardiff City Table Tennis
Club held the second Community Club Junior Grand Prix Tournament on Sunday December
2nd. The entry for the tournament was 1 up on the last event with 68 entrants
competing in all four age categories. Although players were mainly from the
Cardiff area the tournament did manage to attract players from Swansea,
Ael-Y-Bryn and Ferndale.
In the Under 11's Joseph
Roberts cemented his place at the top of the points list with a victory over
Benedict Watson. Benedict managed to get some revenge for the last tournament
against Jack O'Duffy with a 2-1 in the semis, again these 2 boys produced one
of the matches of the day! The 1 set Consolation event was won by Ael-Y-Bryn's Ellis
Burgess.
The Under 13's saw a
repeat of November's final with the same result. Joseph beat Harry Langley of
Swansea 2-0 to make it a double again. Benedict Watson came close to making it
a repeat of the earlier final but lost out 2-1 in a tight affair. The
Consolation event was won by Joe Williams.
In the Under 15's the
competition was again fierce but Chris Griffiths of Ferndale took the title
without losing a set. Macauley Morgan and Elliot Weinburg did well to reach the
Semis but both Chris and Lawrence John were too strong on this occasion. The
final, although the scoreline was 3-0 was a close match with both the first
sets being decided by just 2 points. Bethany Brewer took the Consolation title
with a 1-0 victory over Pouyan Javanmard.
The Under 18's again saw
a lot of the Under 15's competing with each other with a couple of older
players joining them. The semi-final line up was Chris Griffiths v Jordan Rees
and Lawrence John v Macauley Morgan. Chris managed to tame Jordan's unique
penhold serves that proved difficult to others in the earlier group and won
3-0. Lawrence John also managed to win 3-0 against Macauley who was appearing
in his second semi final of the day. The final was a repeat of the Under 15's
final but the match was a much tighter affair. Lawrence held a 2-1 lead in sets
and also had match point at 10-9 in the 5th but it was Chris's day as he
managed to win 3-2 and take home his second title of the day. Lydia John took
the Consolation title beating Elliot Weinburg in a 1 set final.
