The New Milton Table Tennis Club’s teams could only muster three wins out of nine matches in the Bournemouth and District league last week, but one of them was a real humdinger from the K team in Div 5 as they trounced Winton YMCA G by 9-1 in their own back yard.

16 year old Lucy Craddock came up with her first ever hat-trick in the league as did promising new signing Alex Whitehead. Captain Fern Daish bagged a brace and then Lucy capped her evening by helping Fern to win the doubles.

The next best result came from the New Milton E team as they beat Lynwood C by 8-2 chez Lynwood. Captain Frank Handy led from the front with yet another hat-trick and was joined in his treble by 15 year old Peter Daish. Bobo Jiang had to be content with a brace for the second week running.

Other players worthy of a mention are Terry Jenvey (D team captain) who came up with his first hat-trick of the season and the H team’s Dave Strike who clocked up his second treble in a row. A very busy Richard Brockbank played up for the H team in Div 4 helping them to a 5-5 draw, and the following night helped his own L team to snatch a point in Div 5. New signing Richard Clampin also played his part in that by registering his first win in the league. Read the rest of this entry →

After failing to come up with a single win the previous week, the New Milton Club’s teams chalked up a very impressive six wins out of ten matches last week. The B team in Div 1 were gifted a 10-0 victory and four points as Lynwood A were sadly unable to put out a side. Five of Milton’s teams (C, D, E G & H) were relieved to get off the mark with their first wins of the season, and the K team were ascloseasthis in joining them in the pantheon of latter-day victors. Milton were 5-4 up going into the doubles when Lucy Craddock and Fern Daish took on the Bourne pairing of Jonathan Gibson and Adam Garraway. The ladies, buoyed up by their two singles wins each, were hitting very well and they were level pegging at 2-2 after the fourth set. Victory was not to be however as the fifth and final set just slipped from their grasp as they just lost by 9-11.

Fern Daish came up with two wins for her K team

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You would have to go all the way back to the 2009/2010 season to find the last time that the New Milton Club failed to win any of their matches in the Bournemouth and District Table Tennis league. And that’s when they only had eight teams instead of the eleven teams that they have now. The complete tally for last week was three draws, seven defeats and one bye.

The D team came the closest to victory as they only needed the doubles to beat Merton F in Div 2. The Milton pairing of Terry Jenvey (captain) and hat-trick hero Chris Pusey were 2-1 up after the third set and narrowly lost the fourth set by the tantalisingly close 10-12 scoreline. They ran out of steam a bit in the fifth and final set which they lost 4-11 to have to settle for the draw.

The only other Milton player to register a hat-trick was the E team captain Frank Handy whose side did very well to hold a very strong Bmth Sports F to a draw in their own back yard.

Captain Fantastic Frank Handy is in the middle

Full results are below:-

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The Bournemouth and District Table Tennis League got underway last week with more lows than highs for the New Milton Club who entered eleven teams this season. Their tally for the week was 2 wins, 5 defeats and 3 draws, one of the ties coming from the first of the club’s local derbies between the E and C teams in Div 3.

Lightening the gloom somewhat, there was a brilliant Premier league debut from the club’s new signing, 14 year old Ben Cawston who kicked off with a brilliant hat-trick for the A team. 15 year old Peter Daish (E team), one of the stars of the team who won Div 3 last season, marked his Div 2 debut with a stunning hat-trick over his club mates in the C team. The other treble makers were England Veteran Brian Bickell (B team), Ian Linney (F team) and Simon Golding from the G team.

                                                                 Hat-trick hero Peter Daish in action.

Another of the club’s up and coming youngsters, 12 year old Kai Major also distinguished himself by bagging a brace while playing up a division for the F team in Div 3. Read the rest of this entry →

Junior Coaching at Arnewood School will start again next Tuesday 10th September.  The session is from 7.30 until 8.30pm and will cost £2.

This term we have Matt Ware coming in to coach small groups, he is currently ranked No 8 in England, so it’s a great opportunity to take advantage of his amazing skill and talent.

Matt will be staying on after the session to do individual and small group coaching which costs £15 per hour and £20 respectively.  He is also prepared to take half hour sessions.  This coaching is available to any club member, regardless of age or ability.  At the moment the 10th and 17th September are fully booked but there are spaces later on in the term.  Please let me know (01425 614784) if you would like to book in for a session or two!

Looking forward to seeing you all next Tuesday.

Julie

PS Please note there will no coaching on Tuesday 24th September as Arnewood are using the hall/gym.

A FANTASTIC COACHING OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL MEMBERS!
We recently have been lucky enough to have been given some money towards club coaching. As a result we have been able to employ Matt Ware, an international player who is going to coach both juniors and any other player who would like a ‘boost’ to their game.

Matt will give higher level coaching to juniors at the weekly session at Arnewood School, starting on the 10th September 2013. This will be between 7.30 and 8.30pm. He will then stay on for a second hour and give coaching to individuals or a group of up to four adults.

Matt charges £15 an hour for his individual coaching, and £20 an hour for two or more players, so two players would pay £10 each, or a group of four players would all pay £5 each. We could also book half hour slots; there would be three available between 8.30 and 10pm.

The sessions will be organised on a ‘first come, first served’ basis and payment would be needed on the night.

If any member, of any standard, would like to take advantage of this coaching opportunity and book a session with Matt, or indeed need more information about the coaching, please contact me, Julie Smillie on 01425 614784, as I need to plan Matt’s schedule for the September term.

Once again, for those of you who don’t take the New Milton Advertiser, here is a clipping from last weekend’s edition, which hailed the first New Forest International Music Festival as a resounding success.  Helen and I went to see the Wu Quartet on the Saturday night which just blew our minds.  What a privilege to see such an internationally acclaimed String Quartet on our own doorstep here in New Milton.  Well done to our very own Phil Handy for pulling the whole three-day event together.  We are already looking forward to next year’s event!

QUICK QUESTION: DID ANYBODY SEE LUIS ROGRIGUEZ AND DAN WILLIAMS TOGETHER IN THE SAME ROOM?

For those of you who don’t take the Advertiser, here is a copy of the clipping from the Advertiser which came out today (Friday 12th July).  You may already be aware that the event takes place over three days, Friday 12th (Tango Volcano), Saturday 13th (Wu Quartet) and Sunday 14th (Gala Concert).  I hope that tonight’s performance went well and that there are good attendances at the next two, both of which take place in St Mary Magdalen Church, New Milton.

I’m taking Helen to see the Wu Quartet tomorrow (Saturday) and we are really looking forward to it.