International
ITTF Czech Youth Open
Anna Hursey finished a successful ITTF Czech Youth Open with a Silver & 2 Bronze medals The Silver came in the Junior Doubles where she teamed up with Irish friend Sophie Earley to astonish everyone in the event as two 13 year olds reaching the U18 final. They lost out to a fired up Italian/Belarus…
Read MoreITTF Spanish Open
Marc Castro, Callum Evans & Charlotte Carey are in action this week in Granada at the ITTF Spanish Open (Challenger series) Draw can be found here: https://www.ittf.com/tournament/5158/2020/ittf-challenge-spanish-open/ Marc is in U21, Men’s & Doubles action, Callum in Men singles and Men doubles and Charlotte is seeded 25th in the women’s so has no need to…
Read MoreEuropean Matches Come to Cardiff
Our capital will showcase European action in April as Wales Men face Malta, Faroe Islands and Iceland on April 25/26th in Group C of the European Team Qualification. The top 2 teams will head to Group B in October. The women will be playing away in their Group C challenge on the same dates… Come…
Read MoreITTF German Open
Defeat for Welsh Champion Charlotte Carey at the ITTF German Open yesterday, which is being held at the Ge-Tec arena in Magdeburg Full website – https://www.ittf.com/tournament/5139/2020-ittf-world-tour-platinum-german-open/#information Carey, ranked currently at number 159 on the ITTF world rankings lost 4/1 to the higher ranked Hungarian Dora Madarasz (who is at number 64) https://results.ittf.com/ittf-web-results/html/TTE5139/results.html#/profile/113587 The scores were…
Read MoreFinland Open 2019
The following players competed at the Finland Open 2019 which ended yesterday. After 3 full days, plus several best of 7s, the players settled for a final position which is below. Callum Evans made the Q-Finals but with losses in the playoffs ended up in 11th spot. A great result for the Welsh number 1.…
Read MoreITTF Austria Open
ITTF Austria Open – Linz Charlotte Carey plays LEE Ho Ching of Hong Kong in Rd 2 today at 15:30 The Hong Player is ranked at number 38 in the world – 121 places higher than the Welsh Champion, so it will be a tough battle http://results.ittf.bornan.net/ittf-web-results/html/TTE5012/results.html#/knock-outs
Read MoreHome Nations 2019
Isle of Man are hosts to the biannual Home Nations this weekend in Douglas The players selected for Wales are Callum Evans, Dean Cundy, Lauren Stacey, Danielle Kelly, Grace Clement, Benedict Watson, Beth Richards, Louie Evans, Joseph Roberts, Lara Whitton, Rhys Hetherton and Ruby Elliott Results link – IOM Facebook page https://facebook.com/events/270913243806971/?ti=wa
Read MoreSilver Lining…
Paul Karabardak took silver in the men’s class 6 singles at the PTT Dutch Open in Stadskanaal today while Tom Matthews (men’s class 1), David Wetherill (men’s class 6) and World champion Ross Wilson (men’s class 8) all took bronze in their respective events after very close semi-final defeats. Karabardak began with a 3-0 win…
Read MoreEuropean Adventure
The draw has been concluded for the 2020/2021 European QualifiersWales start in Div C in both events having not participated in the previous campaign Men: Wales, Iceland, Malta & Faroe Islands Women: Wales, Kosovo, Ireland, Malta, Iceland & Faroe Islands Play takes place in April 2020
Read MoreDutch Courage
World bronze medallist Tom Matthews heads a squad of seven athletes from the British Para Table Tennis Team that will compete in the PTT Dutch Open in Stadskanaal from November 1-3. Mathews is currently world ranked number six in men’s class 1 and together with European bronze medallist David Wetherill (world number four in men’s…
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