News about Winchester League Juniors
2010-11
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South Wonston TT Club has achieved ETTA Premier Club status, making it the second Club in Winchester League, alongside Kings Club to achieve this status.
The Club will be training the Hampshire Youth Games table tennis teams for Winchester once again this year and is looking for Year 7 and Year 8 boys and girls who are interested in playing table tennis for the team.
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Junior Heats were held at South Wonston on Sunday 1st April 2012.
See the Under 18 round-robin results here - several very close and see-sawing matches! Only 2 entries for the Under-15s, so no playoffs were required.
As a result, the under 18 Final will be between Matt Byers and Morgan Smith and the under 15 Final will be between Alex Amies and Ben Cawston.
Adrian Reeves reports: "Some very entertaining and close matches; Tom Aldous lost three 5 setters, two of them from deuce!"
L to R: Tom Aldous, Matt Byers, Jenna Armitage, Adam Lee, Adrian Reeves, Morgan Smith, David Binns
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National Junior League (Hampshire area): report from David Binns (thanks!)
"After four hard fought Saturdays the Winchester team of Morgan Smith, Adam Lee, Ben Payne, Tom Aldous and Isaac Tallack finished runners up in the Second Division.
All the Juniors helped in picking us a silver medal after a strong finish, beating strong teams from Fareham and Bournemouth. The regular pair of Morgan Smith and Adam Lee have been the catalyst to the success with several key performances on each of the four days and with the perfect support from Tom, Ben and Isaac the future is looking very bright from Winchester Table Tennis. The photo is of Morgan Smith, Ben Payne and Adam Lee."
- Hampshire Youth Games 2011
Jenna Armitage reports: "Talented youngsters from across the County came together at the Aldershot Garrison Athletics Stadium for the Hampshire Youth Games of 2011 recently. Teams from the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and the New Forest met teams from Winchester, Test Valley and Havant to name but a few, all proudly wearing their team colours for the event.The young athletes joined together for a day of friendly multi-sport competition which began with a Welcoming Ceremony and Grand Parade. After the parade the young people began the serious business of the day, competing in their chosen sport. These included table tennis, athletics, canoeing, judo, swimming, cycling, new age kurling and many more sports.
Boys and girls selected to represent Winchester in the table tennis competition were trained by South Wonston Table Tennis Club. The boys’ competition began with group play and moved on to a knock out competition and a knock out consolation event. The girls played a round robin competition where all played all.
Winchester’s young table tennis team competed strongly and returned home with a gold medal (Ben Cawston) a silver medal (Adele Payne) and two bronze medals (Calvin Barlow and Nicholas Aldous).
We are very proud of Team Winchester, Well done!"
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On Saturday 26th March the team of Reuben Grimshaw , Morgan Smith and Adam Lee represented Winchester Table Tennis League at the South East regional final of the National Junior League.
After the first day's play on 29th January the team where placed in second position just behind Portsmouth A.
Here are the match scores:
Winchester 6 Andover 0
Winchester 4 Portsmouth B 2
Winchester 4 Brighton 2
Winchester 4 Southampton West B 2
Winchester 4 Portsmouth A 2
After winning all their games the team finished runners up to Portsmouth A in Division 2.
Thanks to David Binns for this report and picture. MBL East Yorkshire Junior Open
The weekend of May 28 29 30 2011 sees the return of the MBL East Yorkshire Junior Open tournament once again at the recently refurbished Spa Hall Bridlington. The event is supported by Mark Bates Ltd and the East Riding District Council and will run over three days. This facility allows the presentation of an extended schedule giving the participants maximum playing opportunity. The team event will be played to final positions, with the single events being played in three stages. There will also be a junior doubles event on the Sunday.
The facilities of this venue will serve to enhance a top class event which will be played on 12 Butterfly Tables. The main events have secured substantial cash prizes, with Butterfly equipment vouchers for the Trophy and Plate competitions.
East Riding District Council who are supporting and promoting the opportunity to bring back a three day junior tournament to Bridlington will also be offering the facility to book accommodation at a very competitive rate. For further detail e mail: Kieran.lawry@eastriding.gov.uk.
The entry form is available here .
- Young players tournament in Southampton, 26th March 2011 - entry forms here .
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Juniors have their day at South Wonston
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The Heats of the League's Junior Championships took place on Sunday 20th February at South Wonston, featuring 11 Under-15s and 4 Under-18s. The overall standard was really impressive. Most of the Under-15s hadn't played table tennis at all until 6 months ago, but they were keen, competitive, and had obviously been well coached. This says a lot for the South Wonston and Kings clubs, as well as for Westgate School, all of which now offer coaching and excellent facilities for table tennis. The Under-15 and Under-18 Finals will both be held at the League's Finals Night on Saturday 30th April at Itchen Abbas & Avington Village Hall. Ben Payne and Isaac Tallack made it through (after some close struggles) to the Under-15 Final, while Reuben Grimshaw and Ross Lingard will contest the Under-18 Final. Everyone was a winner in the Under-15s - they all passed the ETTA Junior Umpire test, supervised by ETTA official Martyn Reeves , in between matches!
See detailed results here .
- Not currently playing in our League, but still a Winchester resident, Tressa Armitage was recently presented with the prestigious Mike Watts Award. The annual award is presented to the most improved player within all categories of the ETTA ranking system.
- Tressa Armitage reached 3 Finals at the recent English National Junior Championships - see here .
#new Watch a video of the Junior Singles Final here. - Winchester Juniors in National League David Binns reports from Totton: "The team of Ben Payne, George Buley and Oliver Brown were entering their first tournament after their introduction to table tennis at the Hampshire Youth Games. The National Cadet League (Hampshire area) is two divisions each of four teams. Winchester were entered into the second division. The day started well with the team performing well against a young team from Southampton Waterside, Winchester winning the game by 8-1 with Oliver dropping the only game. Next up was a girls team from Bournemouth. Once again Winchester triumphed 8-1 after many of the games went the full 5 sets. In the final match of the day Winchester had to play Portsmouth who were also undefeated for the chance of the second division title. After several hard fought games Winchester eventually triumphed running out winners 8-1. Superb performances from Ben Payne, George Buley and Oliver Brown secured the promotion to the first division."
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GB Olympic TT player Alison Gordon (now Broe) has been giving England Junior Tressa Armitage one-on-one coaching at IBM Hursley. It looks like very hard work as well as fun! League matches going on at the other end of the hall seem a bit easygoing by comparison.
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Hampshire Youth Games 2010
Jenna Armitage reports: A group of enthusiastic young people from Winchester travelled to Aldershot for the Hampshire Youth Games on Saturday 19th June 2010. The table tennis team, made up of year 7 and 8 boys and girls, was trained by South Wonston Table Tennis Club - many of them had only been playing table tennis for a matter of weeks but all were keen to put their new found skills to the test in their first competitive tournament. We hope it will be the first of many for these talented young people.
Seven boys and three girls were selected to represent Winchester in the Hampshire Youth Games’ table tennis event and the team, with coaches and supporters (David and Jenna), first attended the Opening Ceremony at the Athletics Stadium at Aldershot. Children from all parts of Hampshire filled the stadium with colour and noise and with Winchester in their orange shirts, New Forest in dark green, Portsmouth in purple and Andover in sky blue (to name but a few) the "rainbow nation" had come to Hampshire!
After the HipHop Dance exhibition and the Parade of Games it was down to business. The boys’ table tennis team began their tournament in groups and faced youngsters from all over Hampshire. They battled hard and fought to move forward to the first round of the main tournament. Some of our youngsters enjoyed success in the consolation tournament also, but Ben Payne reached the semi final of the main tournament and won the bronze medal.
What a fantastic achievement for Ben’s first event!!
Meanwhile the Winchester girls played a round robin event against a more experienced team from Portsmouth. Many of our young girls had their first taste of success and Adele Payne (Ben’s sister) came third, receiving a bronze medal too. The girls showed a wonderful spirit of determination to fight on under strong competition and we hope to see more of them all next season. What a wonderful opportunity for Hampshire youngsters to experience sport in a friendly, but competitive environment at the Hampshire Youth Games 2010. Congratulations to Team Winchester and very well done all of you!
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Tressa Armitage continues her winning ways!
See here for a full report from the recent Bribar East Midlands Junior 4 star event.
Chrissie Slot also gets an honourable mention.
Tressa recently won the MBL East Yorkshire Cadet Girls Open - see here . Tressa is currently ranked 5th in England as a Cadet: three of the four higher-ranked players were also playing in the Bridlington event, so this was a remarkable achievement for the South Wonston club player!England Cadet Girls, of which Tressa Armitage was a member, won the international team event in Venice in January 2010. Tressa was a beaten semi finalist losing to an Italian girl who went onto win the Cadet Girls Individual event. A medal and Eur 50 prize money was secured for the weekend's work! 
- There's a recent (September 2009) Hampshire Chronicle article about Tressa here
2008-9
- Tressa Armitage is selected to play for England Cadet Girls in the Cadet 6 Nations Tournament in Kopping
near Stockholm from 22-24 May 2009.
She will be competing against the top under 15 players of France, Sweden, Germany, Holland and Denmark. Her international debut for England! - April: Chrissie Slot is now ranked 2 in England U-12. Tressa Armitage is ranked 5 in England U-14.
Tressa Armitage has received a further £1,000 financial support towards coaching and
other costs from Asda / Sports Aid. This brings the total amount received
over the last 12 months to £1,500 from Asda / Sports Aid. She was presented
with the latest award by Chris Huhne, the MP for Eastleigh, and the Mayor of
Eastleigh, Councillor Derek Pretty, at Asda's Chandlers Ford superstore
recently.
Ed Slot and his sister Chrissie (the Winchester Junior Runner-Up, 2008) won the Andover Junior and Cadet titles recently.Here's a report from Lionel Whyton:
The new Andover Junior Table Tennis champion is Edwin Slot, from the South Wonston club and the Cadet champion is Edwin's sister, Chrissie. On Thursday night at the John Hanson School they swept all opposition aside to complete a unique double. Chrissie got through to the final by beating both Morgan Smith & Ray Lockington in straight sets. The final seemed to be a formality as she once again took little time in defeating Reuben Grimshaw 11-7, 11-5, 11-5 to secure the title.
Edwin saw off Grimshaw, 5-11, 11-7, 11-8, 14-12 in the quarter-finals and Morgan Smith in the Semi's to set up a final against Pierce Stretch. Slot began well taking the first set 11-4 with some powerful hitting, but Stretch came back strongly to win the second 11-7. The two players have similar styles of play and entertained the spectators with an awesome display of attacking shots, before Slot just emerged 11-9 winner to go 2 sets to one up. Stretch got off to a bad start in the fourth and was quickly four points adrift, but fought back well to 8-8. At 9-10 down, Slot had to pull out his best shots to level once again and from there went on to take the championship 13-11.
- South Wonston also has Hampshire Schools Individual Champions too!
Lewis Creighton won the Under 19s - Boys
Tressa Armitage won the Under 16s - Girls
Chrissie Slot won the Under 13s - Girls
All will go on to the National Finals in Doncaster in April. - The Hampshire Schools Team Competition took place on Friday 14th November 2008 in a number of different locations.
Peter Symonds College entered a team in the Under 19s Boys event and travelled to Taunton's College in Southampton.
Winchester juniors Francis, Lewis and Oliver and Josh, from Andover, formed the team. After a hard fought battle the Peter Symonds
team won 15 out of their 16 matches and won this event. They will now
travel to Ernest Bevin College in London to take part in the zone finals.
Congratulations and good luck in the next stage.
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HAMPSHIRE YOUTH GAMES 2008
South Wonston Table Tennis Club was again privileged to have been invited by Winchester City Council to coach its table tennis squad and select its team for the Hampshire Youth Games 2008 held at Aldershot. All the teams were required to comprise 4 players from school years 7 and 8 only and must include at least one girl.
On arrival, it was found that ten table tennis teams had been entered, including four from Portsmouth, the 2007 champions. The teams were divided into two Groups of 5 teams which played each other. Winchester's team was runner up in its Group and played Test Valley in a semi-final, losing a very close, drawn match against Test Valley by only one point. Test Valley went on to lose in the final against new champions Fareham. Meanwhile, the two losing semi-finalists played each other with Winchester beating Basingstoke & Deane by just 5 points in another very close, drawn match.
All the squad members seemed to enjoy the coaching sessions. Team players, Reuben, Charlotte, Ryan and Morgan all performed to the very best of their abilities in the Games and were rewarded by being able to proudly display Bronze medals, as can be seen in the accompanying photograph taken by John Johnston.
Dennis Thomson - Team Manager
Tressa Armitage gets support from
Joola and Asda .
Tressa was nominated by the English Table Tennis Association for a Sports Aid Grant. She was accepted by the Sports Aid Scheme, and Asda, a scheme sponsor, duly agreed to financially support her with an initial grant of £500 for 2008. Tressa has also entered into a sponsorship deal with Bribar Sports whereby she will use and promote Joola clothing and equipment.
- Great results from the ETTA National Finals in Norwich, including a win by
Tressa
Armitage over the Under 14 National Champion, Emily Bates! See here for more information.
There's another report here , including news of Winchester Junior runner-up Chrissie Slot. - Winchester juniors excelled at the English Schools Individual Championships
in Doncaster on 26th April. Garth Kinlocke and David McBeath,
who both played in our League in the 2006-7 season, met in the Under 16 Semi-Final.
Garth beat David, and then went on to win the Final!
Tressa
Armitage very narrowly missed the Under 13 Girls Semi-Final, while
Chrissie Slot took equal 3rd place in the Under 11 Girls. You can see a report featuring
these players
on the Waterside club website at
http://watersidettc.co.uk/content/view/136/2/ , and full results at
http://www.estta.org.uk/indchamps.htm .
ETTA Rankings/Ratings charts are at http://www.englishtabletennis.org.uk/dyncat.cfm?catid=27044 . - The Winchester Tournament takes place on Sunday 6th April (Heats) and Saturday 19th April (Finals Night). Enter now - the entry forms can be downloaded via this link . Both of last year's Junior Finalists (Garth Kinlocke and Ruihao Zhang) have moved on, so who's going to take their place? It could be you! And don't miss the other events - the Handicap gives everyone an equal chance, and there are other Doubles and Singles events as well. Any Junior affliliated to a Winchester League club can enter the Junior Singles this year - you don't need to have played any League matches.
- Where are they now? Last season Garth Kinlocke was helping Winnall A win Division 1, and winning the Closed Tournament Singles for himself. Now he's playing and winning in Sweden, when he's not at his new home in Bristol! See here for more.
- News item from Waterside TT Club (Southampton) about Tressa Armitage of South Wonston club - see here.
- Loyi Leung plays well for Andover - see here! Loyi, who plays for Kings A in the Winchester League, earned this accolade: "This young lady has made a big difference to the team by playing a big part in the day's Mixed Doubles games, enabling Andover to win four out of a possible six"
- Winchester
players shine at Hampshire Junior Closed Tournament: report
by Jenna Armitage.
The Hampshire Junior Closed Tournament took place at Redbridge Community School on Sunday 11th November and was well attended by Juniors from all over the County.Tressa Armitage from South Wonston and Southampton West Clubs swept all before her to retain her U13 Singles title and win the U15 Singles and U15 Doubles titles. She then came within a whisker of taking the U18 Singles title as well. However the more experienced Fareham and Gosport player Annabelle Morle was strong enough to beat off her challenge and took the U18 title.Tressa's doubles partner for the U15 category was Jonathan Evans from Basingstoke and Waterside Club, who also put in a strong performance taking the U15 Boys Singles and Doubles with Tressa and challenged strongly in the U18 category.Someone else who performed strongly was 10 year old Chrissie Slot who took the silver position in the U13 category, and continues to make her mark.Francis Armitage faced Garth Kinlocke in the semi-finals of the Under 18 Boys group but Garth proved too strong for him and went on to beat Ruihao Zhang in the final to take the title. The Under 18 Open Doubles final was won by Becky House and Annabelle Morle with Francis Armitage and Jonathan Evans as runners up.It was good to see a strong challenge from the Isle of Wight in the U13 boys category and George Downing returned to the Island with a winner's trophy.
(Ed: Garth Kinlocke and Ruihao Zhang both played in the Winchester League last season. Many of us will remember their pulsating Junior Final at the Winchester Civil Service Club in May (see report here) )
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Chrissie
Slot performs at Cirencester: report
by Edwin Slot.
On Sunday 21st October, Chrissie Slot travelled to Cirencester to play in the 1-star under 11 championships.
She started in the tournament with 0 points and was unseeded in the event.
She progressed through her group beating Nicole Cleminson, Katie Wilson, Lydia Anslow and only losing in five to Holly Van Haver. Chrissie and Nicole came out as the two highest in their group as they had both won 3 matches and lost one. However, Chrissie had won more games overall so she was declared the winner of the group.
This meant she was through to the semi final to play the runner up of the other group, Francesca Barnes. Chrissie, being completely unseeded in the event would have only been expected to get through to the consolation. Chrissie lost the first two games 8-11 8-11. After she thought about what she was doing - she came back 11-7 and 11-8 to level it out to 2-2. The 5th game was very close and at the change of ends, she was 5-4 up. Chrissie just found that bit extra to take the final set 11-6 and the match.
Chrissie was now through to play Esther Hoskin, a very experienced player, in the finals. Chrissie knew that even if she lost this, she'd have a trophy, so she was more relaxed about this match. She started very well and built up a 9-7 lead over Esther only to lose 12-10 with Esther having to raise her game. Chrissie built up the same 9-7 lead in the 2nd game, this time Chrissie won 11-7. In the 3rd game the score went to 10-10 and Chrissie managed to win 12-10. Chrissie was now 2-1 ahead and now believed she had a chance of winning. However, Esther showed her experience, fighting for every point to take the next two games and the U11's title.
Chrissie did very well to get 2nd place.
- Inter-town match: Good performances by Winchester in recent group matches:
- Recent news about Tressa Armitage:
- ETTA 2007 National Finals –
- Bronze medal for third place in the Under 12 Girls finals.
- Quarterfinalist in the Under 13 Girls competition.
- Attended the Under 12 England National Training Squad held at Lilleshall on 30/6 to 1/7. Highlight of the weekend was 30 minutes 1 on 1 training with Desmond Douglas.
- Hampshire Juniors, featuring Winchester League players Garth Kinlocke, David McBeath and Hannah Hicks, have won the Premier Division of the ETTA Junior County Championships. They were undefeated all season. This followed wins in Division 2 and Division 1 in successive seasons. See http://www.englishtabletennis.org.uk/nlstory.cfm?ID=23137&NLID=3153 for details, including honourable mentions for both Hannah and Garth! Here's the team:
- Tressa
Armitage was
pictured
recently on the back page of the Winchester Extra newspaper
- Chrissie Slot joins Tressa Armitage as a Hampshire table tennis Champion - with Edwina Kinlocke as a Runner-Up - see here for more!
- Winchester tops Division 2 of the Hants Junior Inter-Town. The first of two sets of block matches in the Hants Junior Inter-Town League were held on Sunday 5 November 2006 at Redbridge Community School. Winchester heads the standings in Division 2 after victories over Andover, 8:2 and Portsmouth 6:4. The victory over Andover was relatively straightforward but against Portsmouth it was nailbiting stuff for the final match where Jason Lam was eventual winner 11:9 in the fifth. Team members were: Garth Kinlocke, Jason Lam, Oliver Cox and Katy Bradford.
- Garth Kinlocke (of Winnall TTC, but playing for DFS London Progress B) ) was named 'Boy Player of the Weekend' at the Bribar Junior British League meeting at Stoke on Trent, 15th October. More details here.
- News of Garth Kinlocke and David McBeath from The ETTA National Championships and an international event in France - click here and here
- Photos from Nationals and Nantes here
- The Hampshire junior team members Garth Kinlocke and David McBeath from Winchester TTL, and Matt Ware from Bournemouth TTL, were all selected to take part in the recently-held National Cadet Masters. This is a tournament for the country's top 16 cadets. All performed well. In particular, Matt placed 2nd overall. This basically makes him the 2nd best cadet in the country. Cadets were born after 31st December 1990.
- Winnall gets another top cadet! Hannah Hicks, 14 years old from Stockbridge, was selected for the Cadet Masters for girls and placed 4th overall. She will be playing for Winnall next season. Hannah also won the Women's Band 2 event at the Cheltenham Grand Prix recently.
- In the National Team Competition for Cadets, the Johnny Leach Cup, Matt, David and Garth have reached the finals after defeating Sunderland, Birmingham and Cippenham. The finals will be held at Loughborough University this coming weekend (20-21 May). Here they will fight it out with Plymouth, Reading and Grantham for the Leach Cup title. Unfortunately, they are playing as London and not Winchester!
- On the weekend of 3/4/5 June, Garth, Matt and Hannah will be representing London again at the big French Regional Tournament for cadets to be held in Nantes.
- Matt and David have been
selected to represent England
at the 6
nations tournament in Europe next month.
- Garth Kinlocke wins both Winchester Junior and Open Singles events - click here to see the Results , and here to see a Report of the Finals
Winchester's Inter-town team consisted of Francis Armitage, Gengshi Chen (as a boy) and Oliver Cox with Tressa Armitage as the girl. The Winchester team played in the First Division.
The Winchester team's first opponents were Bournemouth and all players played well but lost 6-4 (despite the fact that Bournemouth did not have a girl). Bournemouth then went on to beat their next opponents (Fareham & Gosport)
Then it was Winchester's turn to play Fareham & Gosport. Francis won both his singles matches, Gengshi won one boys singles match and Tressa went on to beat Bethany Wells in the girls singles. Francis and Tressa were successful in the first mixed doubles match which meant that it was crucial for Oliver and Tressa to win their final mixed doubles match. Playing the siblings Bethany and Kieran Wells, Oliver and Tressa triumphed giving Winchester the win. Winchester ended the day in second place behind Bournemouth.
Unusually, all of Winchester's players live in the city!
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