International
Slovenia Para Open
British Para Table Tennis Performance Director Gorazd Vecko is expecting one of the toughest challenges for his team ahead of the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo at next week’s PTT Slovenia Open in Lasko (May 8-11). “It will be the biggest tournament in Para table tennis history with more than 450 players from 48 countries,”…
Read MoreITTF World Tour
Players such as Charlotte Carey & Callum Evans regularly enter events around the world on the ITTF circuit ITTF Events – https://www.ittf.com/ittf-world-tour/2019-ittf-world-tour/events/ other players such as Anna Hursey & Lara Whitton navigate through the World Junior Circuit programme to try and qualify for the end of year World Junior Championships or World Cadet Challenge See…
Read MoreOut At the Q-Finals
Anna Hursey and Lara Whitton made it through to the Q-Finals of the Cadet Girls Team today losing to the mixed team of Croatia & Hungary. Both opponents rank inside the top 10 in Europe (Number 2 & 4) and are seeded number 2 in Metz this week. Anna was unbeaten throughout the day with…
Read MoreITTF French Youth Open
Day 1 of the French Open started in Metz and it was very much a learning experience for our players against some of the World’s Youngest elite stars. Beth Richards beat her French opponent in match 1 but couldn’t progress due to losses against Russian & English opponents. Lydia had a good chances but couldn’t…
Read MoreRuby Double Winner!
International Primary School Championships 2019 (Belfast) Team Event: The Girls team, consisting of Ruby Elliott, Sasha Lewis, Seren Jones & Lily Elliott, come away with a bronze medals losing out to strong teams from England and Ireland The Boys team finished in 5th place on count back which was very close. Eli’s O’Connor, Toby Harwood,…
Read MoreWorld Uni Games
Chloe Thomas has been selected by the Great Britain University Association to represent their team for a second time this July in Italy. Following on from 2018 where the team competed in Taiwan, the GB team in 2019 will consist of Chloe Thomas (WAL), Tin Tin Ho (ENG), Emily Bolton (ENG), Colin Dalgliesh (SCO), Josh…
Read MoreSelection News
International Primary Schools Selections Announced Congratulations to those selected for the competition this April. Wales are sending 8 strong players to Belfast to compete against the other Home Nations in the annual International Schools event. Boys – Evan Williams, Elis O’Connor, Toby Harwood & Harri Palfrey Girls – Ruby Elliott, Sasha Lewis, Seren Jones…
Read MoreFinland Open
Callum Evans starts his Finland Open campaign today. The Welsh number 1 teams up with Jordan Wykes of Jersey before starting the individuals tomorrow until Sunday. Callum will be looking to recapture his European Championship form in Alicante last September. There he reached the last 64. Follow up on this link: http://www.sptl.fi/sptl_uudet/?p=13157 Live Feed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLvhH_XuhW8
Read MoreSilver for Josh in Spain
Josh Stacey has won another International medal, this time a Silver medal at the Spanish Para Open Josh, World number 15, beat Kats (13th in world of UKR) 3:0 in the Semi Finals, but lost the same score line in the final to former European medalist and current world ranked 11th Bereczki (HUN) More great…
Read MoreNamur Open
A team of 6 players and 3 coaches headed to Belgium his week to compete at the Namur International Open. Lara Whitton, Joseph Roberts, Lowri Hurd, Rhys Hetherton, Sasha Lewis and Toby Harwood we’re selected. Excluding Lara and Joseph, players were playing for Wales for the first time in a major competition. Final Results (all…
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