The Winchester Tournament Heats will be held at IBM Hursley Sports Hall on Sunday 4th March 2012.
Finals Night will be at Itchen Abbas and Avington Village Hall on Saturday 21st April 2012.
League Latest:
Week beginning 30th January:
Division 1:
Comment from Peter Whitmarsh :"I felt it was a very competitive entertaining match played in the good spirit of the game."
Good to know! Mark Waughman won his 3.
On paper this looked a likely bet for Kings A, but South Wonston A's musketeers found only John deWind could resist their assault.
John took home 3 scalps ... not enough to prevent an upset overall.
IBM A have a couple of injury worries, but nothing seems to stop their progress away from the rest of the
field at the top of Division 1. Keith Charbit-Middleton and Julian Walton added to their collection of 3s.
Division 2:
South Wonston C could only muster 2 players, which was unfortunate for both sides, but David Binns (3) and
Ben Payne (2) came out on top anyway. If South Wonston C's 2 'missing players' this season had won their 6 points
(against the Division's two bottom teams), their
team could have been in a 3-horse race at the top of the table! Hopefully they still can.
Malcolm Davis hasn't lost a game yet, let alone a leg, for Hursley B, and he demonstrated very clearly
to IBM D why this is so: a combination of wicked serves and perhaps the hardest smashes south of the top Division 1 teams.
He had us yelping and ducking for cover in the course of a match which ended finely balanced at 5-5.
Junior champion Ross Lingard is proving very hard to beat these days, and he did most of the damage for
Kings B with 3 wins.
St Denys Tournament Organised by Barry Dobson , this is being held on Sunday 26th February 2012 at Testwood College, Totton.
Contact Barry on 02380 329019 or 07721 631086 for an entry form.
The tournament is in its 22nd year and is open to any players playing in Division 2 in Winchester, along with players of a similar standard in Southampton.
The doors open at 0900 with play commencing at 0930.
The format is a Level Singles Tournament in groups then knock out. The players that do not qualify for the knock out stages go into a Plate Event.
This is followed by a Handicap Tournament, again in groups then knock out.
And finally a Doubles Tournament. Pairings are drawn on the day for the Doubles. This is just knock out.
The cost is £15 for the day.
This is a friendly tournament aimed at players of all standards with the exception of those playing in teams at the
top of Winchester Division 1 (or equivalent).
The Draw for the next round of the Conder-Winnall handicap Cup is here
At Thursday's Winchester District Sports Awards ceremony, held at Winchester Guildhall,
Mick Bryant was awarded the final trophy of the night by the Deputy Mayor for Service to Sport.
Over the years Mick has done a huge amount for table tennis in Winchester and is currently working hard as the
President of Kings Table Tennis Club, and this award is very well deserved.
Martyn Davey of South Wonston was third in the Senior Coach of the Year category and congratulations go to Martyn for this achievement.
Tressa Armitage of South Wonston club won the Junior Sportswoman of the Year award, a remarkable result. Tressa is currently ranked 4 in
England Junior Girls and 10 in England Senior Women.
Tressa has played for England Juniors several times this year (France, Sweden, Portugal and Russia)
and also had her first Senior Selection as well.
She won her first National title at the Junior Nationals in November becoming the Junior Mixed Doubles National Champion
with her partner Sam Walker.
The late John Colborne I'm very sorry to tell you that John Colborne, of Five Tees, has recently died.
Here is an appreciation of John by Steve Buckmaster:
"It is with the greatest sadness that I write to inform you of the passing of John Colborne on 4th January 2012.
It is believed that John suffered a heart attack and despite the best efforts of us and the ambulance team, John did not recover.
We do know that John passed without suffering and was among his friends and team mates.
We have given our sympathy to John's family on everyone's behalf.
John was a great friend and team mate in Southampton West Table Tennis Club.
John loved table tennis always playing as a true sportsman and always willing to help and support everyone.
He will be sorely missed by us all."
The funeral will be on Thursday 19th January. Details here.
2 player(s) in the League on 3 Feb 2012 is/are not known to be Winchester League ETTA member(s). If you're one of the missing, get enrolled now, nominate WINCHESTER as your 'Organisation', and send your ETTA Member number to
.
All League players are required to register as members of the ETTA. The League will not do this for you, though your Club may.
You can register via the ETTA web pages
here , or call 0845 0500 388 - have your credit card number handy!
Amounts payable to the League by your Club
are reduced correspondingly.
ETTA membership includes free insurance cover. That's important to you - accidents do happen!
Kings TT Club (near Winchester)
offers friendly, informal table tennis for all, from 7:15 pm to 10:15 pm. Bring £3.00
and you can play for the whole evening! See here for more details.
Mouse over the scores to see the scorecard in the League grids below!
If 'points' are equal, 'wins' are considered next,
then head-to-head results between the 'equal' teams.
Cells coloured like this indicate matches that may have been re-scheduled. No scorecard has been received yet, anyway!
At Thursday's Winchester District Sports Awards ceremony, held at Winchester Guildhall,
Mick Bryant was awarded the final trophy of the night by the Deputy Mayor for Service to Sport.
Over the years Mick has done a huge amount for table tennis in Winchester and is currently working hard as the
President of Kings Table Tennis Club, and this award is very well deserved.
