International
Champions League
The Girbau Vic TT, featuring Welsh Champion Charlotte Carey, had a special night this Friday, October 25th, as they debuted successfully in front of their fans in the ECLW. Spanish club beat 2016 ETTU Cup winner Lyssois Lille Métropole 3:1 in Round 3 of Group A. The match has coincided with the celebration of the…
Read MoreITTF Polish Open
Charlotte Carey reached the last 64 of the most recent World Series event in the Polish city of Wladyslawowo Clearing through qualification with wins against Molero (ARG) & Grigelova (SVK) it was a last 64 meeting with world number 32 Gorgina Pota of Hungary. The match went the way of the higher ranked player 4/1…
Read MoreOnce In A Lifetime Opportunity
World Vets ITTF Circuit14/15th December 2019 Entry Linkhttps://www.ittf.com/tournament/5106/2019/wvt-cardiff/ Some of you have entered to support the first World Ranking Veterans event to take place in the UK and Europe. I would ask if you could all consider entering this event to show the ITTF that Veterans Table Tennis in Wales is serious about hosting such…
Read MoreStacey Adds Gold in Finland
Finland Para Open 2019 (updated) Josh Stacey has won a Silver medal at the Finland Para Open today. Josh fought back from 2-1 down to beat Kusnanto from Indonesia 3-2 and then beat the World silver medallist Iurii Nozdrunov from Russia 3-1. He secured top place in his group and a bye into the semi-finals…
Read MoreLatest Para Rankings
On October 1st the latest ITTF Para World rankings were released Welsh interest lies with the rise in Class 1 of both European Champion Rob Davies (up to number 2) and Tom Matthews (who goes to number 6). Paul Davies is now at number 15 in the same class. Paul Karabardak comes in at number…
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The ITTF Swedish Open started today in Stockholm and Charlotte Carey, the Welsh number 1 and world number 137, was in singles and doubles action. In the first match of the day Charlotte was up against Italian Giorgia Piccolin (WR 103). Winning the first 11/2 it looked very good, but losing by 2 points in…
Read MoreIceland Glory
An exchange with our friends in Iceland took place this weekend after we hosted them back in January at the Welsh Euro Challenge. There were more winners today after we won in 3 different categories in Friday’s matches Team winners Rhys Hetherton & Sasha Lewis Jacob Young & Lauren Stacey Marc Castro & Lydia John…
Read MoreMalta (Updated)
There were some great results in the team competition as 3 medals will be returning to Wales. Lara Whitton and Ruby Elliott won Silver in the cadet girls event after losing out narrowly to Lebanon 3/1 in the final. The Junior Girls was even closer as Beth & Grace lost 3/2 to Ireland in a…
Read MoreITTF Czech Open
Another World Tour event is about to start and Welsh number 1 Charlotte Carey is in Olomouc to try and get more wins to push her up the World Rankings. To do that Charlotte will have to beat Japan’s Narumoto who is currently at 290 on the latest list. That match takes place tomorrow at…
Read MoreLowri on the podium
The 30th Borussia Dusseldorf Andro Kids competition took place this week and Wales’ Lowri Hurd was participating. Lowri won all her matches in her group and then proceeded to play a Polish opponent who she beat 12-10 in the 5th. She then played a German opponent and once again it was another 5 set battle…
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