Matthew Daish recently won the Hampshire Schools U13 Individual Competition at Waterside Table Tennis Club. About 60 children from all over Hampshire met at Waterside for the event. Players were competing in the Under-11, Under-13 and Under-16, boys and girls, categories for a place in the National Schools Finals which will be played in Doncaster in April. Matthew’s coach Phil Handy was also present to give Matthew encouragement throughout the day and reported that ‘Matthew dominated the final’ beating his opponent Artur Caltabiano 3-0.

Please see below the open  invite to attend the Development Squad Camp which is being run by Aled Howell, the ETTA’s Southern Regional Coach.  If you would like to attend the camp, please book your place by emailing  Aled (ahowell@etta.co.uk) with the details required on the Reply Slip at the foot of the invite.  The closing date for applications is Friday 15th February.  If anybody has any queries, please contact James Lewis directly.

The New Milton Table Tennis Club’s teams drew five out of their eight matches in the Bournemouth and District league and won the other three, this being the first time this season that they haven’t lost any of their matches.

The F team tied with the G team in their Div 3 local derby, having lost to them in the first round. The G’s cause wasn’t helped by them turning up a player short.

Strangely enough, the other three draws all came in matches against Lynwood teams. The A team did particularly well to hold Lynwood A to a draw in the Premier as they had to call up two players from Div 1 mainly due to holiday absences. Alan Gordon and 12 year old Matthew Daish gave good accounts of themselves by winning one each, and dependable regular Phil Handy notched up yet another Premier hat-trick.

Phil Handy remains unbeaten in the Premier league this year. Read the rest of this entry →

New Milton Table Tennis Club didn’t have a very good week in the Annual Times & Directory Handicap Cup competition as they only won two out of their seven matches. The two victories came in Round 2 of the Cup proper as the A and B teams battled their way into Round 3. The J and K teams lost their first round “Plate” matches, so the only Milton team to proceed to Round 2 of the Plate is the E team who had a “bye”.

The A team, who were runners-up in the past two seasons, did exceptionally well to scrape through 5-4 as they were a player short (just Steve Hemmings & Alan Gordon). The C team (Martin Jerome, Max De Kment & James Lewis) looked to be joining their B team (Julie Smillie, Matthew Daish & Zoltan Karib-Barath) in Round 3 as they went 4-2 up, needing just the one to take them through. It was not to be however as Bourne’s Dave Pang turned up late and beat the Milton trio.  Afterwards Max summed it all up by saying that they had been well and truly “Pangcaked”!  Full results are below:-

Times & Directory Handicap Cup – Round 2

Bmth Sports M (Div 3) 4, New Milton A (Premier) 5

New Milton B (Div 1) 5, Merton F (Div 3) 4

New Milton C (Div 1) 4, Bmth Sports N (Div 3) 5

Merton A (Premier) 8, New Milton D (Div 2) 1

Bmth Sports F (Div 1) 6, New Milton F (Div 3) 3

Times & Directory Plate (Consolation) – Round 1

New Milton J (Div 5) 1, Merton H (Div 4) 8

New Milton K (Div 5) 2, Winton YMCA F (Div 5) 7

New Milton E have a “Bye” to Round 2 of the Plate competition.

The latest Bournemouth & District league tables show that two of the New Milton Club’s teams are sitting pretty at the top of their respective divisions. The J team captained by Malcolm Douglas took over the top spot in Div 5 a couple of weeks ago, but hot on their heels are Bmth Sports T who are only one point away from the Jays. The G team captained by Frank Handy, who has only dropped one match all season, are riding high at the top of Div 3, lording it over their clubmates in the E and F teams.

The H team are knocking at the door for second place in Div 4, but need to make up space on second-placed Bmth Sports R who currently have a five point advantage.

That’s the good news; unfortunately the B team are struggling to keep their heads above water in Div 1, and with 17 points are only 2 points away from the relegation zone. Basement boys Bransgore are rock bottom on 2 points and are beyond redemption, second from bottom Lynwood B are on 15 points, so Milton quickly need to put some more blue sky between themselves and Lynwood.

The D team are third from bottom in Div 2 and are clustered with two other teams on 15 points. They are currently only clear of the drop zone courtesy of a superior games difference.

The full league tables appear below:-

Further to Julie’s post of 22nd Jan, the article below appeared in this weekend’s New Milton Advertiser alongside the New Milton TTC report.  Well done to Elliot Marx and her fellow volunteers for giving this boost to local Table Tennis!

The New Milton Table Tennis Club could only muster three wins out of their seven league matches, but all three were maximum four-pointers from impressive 9-1 scorelines.

The G and J teams piled on the pressure at the top of their respective Divs 3 & 5, and the H team (Div 4) remain within touching distance of second-placed Bmth Sports R who also won 9-1.

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Next Monday, 28th January 2013 at 12.30pm, the Mayor of Christchurch, Peter Hall, will be at Druitt Hall to open an U3A table tennis club.  Our chairman, Shaun Newcomb, will also be there to officially launch the new club.  One of our members, Elliot Marks, has worked really hard and obtained a table from the ETTA’s Ping Project to set up this club.

If you can spare half an hour or so to attend and show your support for Elliot and the club it would be much appreciated, hopefully see you next Monday!  The Druitt Hall is in the centre of Christchurch, just behind the library in the High Street.

PS Sybil has pointed out that this is not a U3A club, but something organised for local residents, thanks for pointing that out Sybil.

NEW MILTON TABLE TENNIS CLUB                  Web: www.newmiltonttc.com

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