Table Tennis Wales

Sunday, 12 October 2014

Swansea League Week One

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beating Carmarthen 'B' 28-10 with Jason Peckham winning 9-0.</span></div>
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Penlan 'D' 28-12 thanks Marc Castro winning 9-1 and Tommy Heydon 9-4.</span></div>
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winning 27-15, Nigel Stopher winning 9-2 and Payman Mollai 9-5. Last years
runners up Penlan 'B' also secured a winning start beating Cam Gears 'B'
25-11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>with Craig Henton winning 9-3.
Penyrheol 'A' beat Penlan 'C' 23-15, Denis Bromage winning 8-3 and Paul Booth
7-4. Cam Gears 'A' scored a 21-13 victory over newly promoted Tata Port Talbot
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Llanelli beat Cam Gears 'C' 25-15 with Alan Pattle winning 9-1 and Derek
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Betws Rugby Club 'B' 21-14, Jeff Wood winning 9-0. Penlan 'F' beat Tata Port
Talbot 'B' 25-7 with Shankley Ismail winning 9-0. Carmarthen 'C' defeated
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started their campaign in Division Two with a 24-11 victory over the youngsters
of Penlan 'N', John Finnemore winning 9-2 and Rob Clayton 9-3, Tam Eastwood
showing good form in drawing 6-6 for Penlan. Penyrheol 'D' beat Penlan 'M'
22-16 with Mary Wilkins leading the victory winning 9-1, Scott Holmes won 6-4
for the losers. Penyrheol 'C' are the early leaders after an easy 30-0 victory
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Swansea League Week One

The first matches of the new season see Carmarthen 'A' and Penlan 'A' share top spot. Carmarthen 'A' beating Ca...

Monday, 6 October 2014

Lara Wins Cadet Title at Cardiff Open

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Lara Whitton came through a hard-fought five-set match against Jamie Lee Harley to secure the Cadet Girls crown at the Cardiff Juni...

Sunday, 21 September 2014

World Bronze for Paul Karabardak

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Paul Karabardak and <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Will Bayley</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">have taken a bronze medal in the men’s class 6-7 team event at the 2014 ITT Para Table Tennis World Championships in Beijing after a battling performance against Ukraine which they eventually lost 1-3.</span></div>
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Swansea-based Karabardak was first to play singles against world number one Maksym Nikolenko and after losing the first set he came back to take the second and pushed the Ukrainian all the way in a 1-3 loss. Bayley then levelled the tie with a 3-1 win over the European champion Mykhaylo Popov, recovering from the loss of the first set to take the next three 5, 9 and 6.</div>
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The doubles was always going to be crucial and Ukraine made the better start - taking the first two sets and seeming to be in control. However, the GB pair came back fighting and took the next two to level the match but despite some great play in the fifth they could not quite sustain their effort and Ukraine took the match 3-2 and a 2-1 lead in the tie.</div>
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It was then up to Bayley to keep British hopes alive by beating Nikolenko in a repeat of the singles final earlier in the week. After so many tough matches Bayley was clearly exhausted but fought hard all the way saving match points in the third set and when he took an 8-4 lead in the fourth it looked as if he might stage another remarkable comeback. But it was not to be as the tall Ukrainian used all his power to hit some fierce winners and took the set 11-8 and the match 3-1.</div>
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"To take them to the fifth in the doubles was a great effort and a great comeback - in the fifth set it didn’t quite work out for us but I’m sure one day we will beat them in doubles. We’re not far away."<cite style="border: 0px; color: black; display: block; font-family: normal, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Will Bayley</cite></div>
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“Popov is world number three and a real quality player,” said Bayley, “he medalled in the singles in 2012 and here so it was good to get that win. To take them to the fifth in the doubles was a great effort and a great comeback - in the fifth set it didn’t quite work out for us but I’m sure one day we will beat them in doubles. We’re not far away. </div>
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“It was nearly impossible to then come back and play Nikolenko. It was a real body blow to lose the doubles. Me and Paul both knew that the doubles was absolutely key - if we’ve any chance to win that match we’ve got to win the doubles and it’s very difficult to play another match when you’ve just lost the most crucial match of all. I tried to pick myself up. I didn’t start very well but it could have gone either way - it was very tight and at 8-4 up in the fourth I should finish that set off and then in the fifth I’d have fancied myself to win it but that’s table tennis and we’re proud of the effort we put in - we never gave up.</div>
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“I’m not going to complain - I’m world champion and I’m really proud to get a second medal in the team because I’m delighted for Paul. I’ve said all along that I really wanted to get a medal here with Paul in a World championship - it’s an amazing achievement and I still think we can improve as a doubles pair which I hope we’re going to work on in future.”</div>
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“I thought I played well against Nikolenko,” said Karabardak, “and I did myself better justice than when I played him in the singles as I didn’t really have a chance against him when I played him then. But to push him all the way and to make him work for the win was really good.</div>
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"I’ve won almost everything apart from a World medal and a Paralympic medal so just one more to go now and I’ve got the whole set.” <cite style="border: 0px; color: black; display: block; font-family: normal, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Paul Karabardak</cite></div>
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“I think it would have been hard to get silver or gold here - I think bronze was realistic although we could have done a bit better but I’m really pleased as this is my first World championship medal and it’s really special because I’ve won almost everything apart from a World medal and a Paralympic medal so just one more to go now and I’ve got the whole set.”</div>
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GB Performance Director was delighted with his team’s performance in Beijing. “I think these World Championships have been great for us - we were without Ross Wilson and Paul Davies here which would have made us stronger but the programme is not depending on one or two players - we have a lot of players in different classes who are medalling now. We have four medals - one gold, two silvers and a bronze.  After London I said I wanted to change the colour of the medals in Rio and we have done it even quicker in the World championships and I will always say it is more difficult to take a medal in the World championships than the Paralympics because you have more players here.  Also we have other players who didn’t medal but put up a great performance and have competed against the top players in the world who will be in Rio and I think with more training they could also be world class.”</div>

World Bronze for Paul Karabardak

Paul Karabardak and Will Bayley have taken a bronze medal in the men’s class 6-7 team event at the 2014 ITT Para Table Tennis World ...

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New Regional Director Appointed

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Steve Heydon was appointed to the Board of Table Tennis Wales (TTW) as Regional Director for West Wales.

He was nominated for the position by the Swansea League, following their AGM held in July, and was formally appointed to the Board at the TTW AGM held on Thursday 11 September 2014.<br />
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New Regional Director Appointed

Steve Heydon was appointed to the Board of Table Tennis Wales (TTW) as Regional Director for West Wales. He was nominated for the posi...

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Tuesday, 9 September 2014

TTW Annual Awards 2013

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to both players who have worked very hard this season.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Report. Due to holidays I was absent for the tournament Larry Hursey and Dennis
Bromage took the lead with the team, I would like to thank them for they’re
support on what was a successful event for the young players.  Overall in the team event we finished third
so it was a Bronze Medal for us. Lots of feedback from Dennis and Larry on what
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successful in winning gold in the singles event, Marc Castro winning joint Bronze
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busy summer with Training and Competition Camps throughout.  Her hard work and determination is proving
successful and we are hoping for more successes from in the new season.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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summer training in Hamburg with 2 other welsh players, Lawrence enjoyed the
experience and is currently away in Slovenia at the moment, so no break this
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with training on a weekly basis in Swansea, we have also had a camp in Mumbles
where Aled Howell brought players from over the bridge to train with us.  This was an enjoyable experience with our
warm ups along the promenade.  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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along with Lydia John they represented Wales in the European Mini Championship,
which was held in France this is the first time Wales has entered teams and I
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proved successful through the summer months with lots of players attending to
keep the focus, Mumbles has also continued to run its Summer Girls Club with
the addition of Brothers of the girls who also fancied they’re chances against
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set to re start with the assistance of a LAPA Grant being approved by Swansea
City Council, meetings to discuss this are being held over the next few weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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City Football Club have also chosen Table Tennis to run a programme for
Secondary School Children in Swansea to feed our local clubs with new talent,
details of this are currently in the processing stages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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organized by Dennis Bromage has been successful with our top youngsters
competing again our top Premier League Players current standings are 1st Josh
Jenkins, 2nd Dave Lloyd, 3rd Dennis Bromage, 4<sup>th</sup> Marc Castro, 5th
Paul Karabadak, 6<sup>th</sup> Scott Cundy, 7<sup>th</sup> Jason Peckham 8<sup>th</sup>
Lawrence John 9<sup>th</sup> James Lobb, 10<sup>th</sup> Steffan
Griffiths.  Great to see our young talent
competing and gaining experience from these games.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">On
the 21<sup>st</sup> July Lara Whitton and Grace Clement competed in the Eupal
Dragon Tournament in Ael y Bryn Club, Lara won the under 9’s event and came in
a close 2<sup>nd</sup> place in the under 11’s. 
Grace not far behind with her 5<sup>th</sup> place in both events. Well
done to both players.<o:p></o:p></span></div>

TTW Annual Awards 2013

Lydia John was awarded the TTW Young Player of the Year at the TTW Annual Awards 2013. Marc Castro was the winner of the TTW W...

Monday, 8 September 2014

Swansea League

Swansea League

The Swansea League gets underway from the second week in October.

Friday, 18 October 2013

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">This course is suitable for anyone wanting to learn about the sport of table tennis for the first time. It is mainly
a practical course with some theory which provides an introduction to starter table tennis skills. The aims of
the course are to: Enable participants to organise safe, enjoyable and purposeful table tennis activities;
Inform participants about the basic skills required at the starter level; Inform participants about further
opportunities to take part in table tennis in the community as officials, umpires and coaches through further
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial,Bold'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">Date: </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">Sunday 24th November 2013<br />
</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial,Bold'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">Venue: </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">Penlan Leisure Centre, </span><span style="color: rgb(13.300000%, 13.300000%, 13.300000%); font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">Heol Gwyrosydd, Penlan, Swansea SA5 7BU
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TTW Leaders Award This course is suitable for anyone wanting to learn about the sport of table tennis for the first time. It is mainly a ...

Saturday, 21 September 2013

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Lydia in China

Lydia in China

Junior Doubles Final Welsh Championships 2014

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Wednesday, 18 September 2013

SAINSBURY'S SCHOOL GAMES 2013 LAWRENCE BRINGS HOME THE GOLD FROM SHEFFIELD!

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<i><b><span style="color: orange;">Gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze medals for the Welsh team in Sheffield this weekend</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: orange;">Lawrence John beat all before him in the team and singles, whilst Conor Edwards got an individual silver losing to Helshan Weerasinghe. Cellan Hall and Ashley Wray took team silver with Lawrence and individual bronzes themselves. The boys team took a bronze on Friday/Saturday after some impressive wins. The girls fought hard to get 5th spot in their event</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: orange;">GOLD LAWRENCE JOHN STANDING DISABILITY<br />SILVER CONNOR EDWARDS INDIVIDUAL BOYS<br />SLIVER DISABILITY TEAM<br />BRONZE BOYS TEAM<br />BRONZE LEARNING DISABILITY ASHLEY WRAY<br />BRONZE WHEELCHAIR DISABILITY CELLAN HALL</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: orange;">There were 3 categories Standing Learning and Wheelchair, Lawrence John Standing, Ashley Wray Learning and Cellan Hall Wheelchair. Each Team Match consisted of 3 individual matches best of 5 games. Order of play Standing Learning and then Wheelchair Disability.</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: orange;">Lawrence John was the star of the show not losing a game throughout the event which showed great determination for his first School Games. He certainly made his mark amongst his opposition. His only 1 set dropped was against England South West's Billy Shilton who was fired up for the game but Lawrence secured defeat 11-7 11-7 8-11 11-9. Lawrence was to meet Billy in the final of the individual event which he secured his 2nd medal of the competition.<br />The decider for Gold or Silver was a match against England Midland. Lawrence opened the book with a convincing win 11-6 11-6 11-2 over Craig Allen. Ashley feeling the pressure of the crowd unfortunately went down 11-7 11-4 11-8. It was then down to Cellan Hall to win the Gold for Wales against a tough competitor and fellow friend Daniel Bullen, The first game went to Daniel 11-8, Cellan pulled back with a 15-13 win in the second. Daniel then won a close third game battle 13-11. The crowd were behind both teams and it was a great atmosphere but unfortunately for Wales Cellan lost the fourth 11-5. A great team performance throughout but we couldn't quite step up to the occasion. It was a great game to watch but Wales had to settle for Silver.</span></b></i></div>
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SAINSBURY'S SCHOOL GAMES 2013 LAWRENCE BRINGS HOME THE GOLD FROM SHEFFIELD!

Gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze medals for the Welsh team in Sheffield this weekend Lawrence John beat all before him in the team and single...

Monday, 9 September 2013

SWANSEA CLOSED TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS

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ENTRY FORMS FROM Mary Wilkins <a href="mailto:marywilkins2001@hotmail.com" target="_blank">marywilkins2001@hotmail.com</a> or <a href="mailto:judewhitton@googlemail.com" target="_blank">judewhitton@googlemail.com</a></div>
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NEW SEASON STARTS

NEW SEASON STARTS

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Swansea League Week One

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Lara Wins Cadet Title at Cardiff Open

Sunday, 21 September 2014

World Bronze for Paul Karabardak

Extra Funding

New Regional Director Appointed

Butterfly Team Championships of Wales -

Monday, 15 September 2014

Sainsburys Games

Regional Squad

Tuesday, 9 September 2014

TTW Annual Awards 2013

Monday, 8 September 2014

Swansea League

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test 3 features

Lydia in China

Junior Doubles Final Welsh Championships 2014

Wednesday, 18 September 2013

SAINSBURY'S SCHOOL GAMES 2013 LAWRENCE BRINGS HOME THE GOLD FROM SHEFFIELD!

Monday, 9 September 2013

SWANSEA CLOSED TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS

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