Posts Tagged ‘Anna Hursey’
Sports Personality Of The Year
Anna in the Running For Award Wales’ table tennis prodigy Anna Hursey is in the running to be named BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year. The youngster is among the 10 nominees for the award as she looks to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Ellie Simmonds, Wayne Rooney, Tom Daley, Andy…
Read MoreDragons Descend On London
It was a successful weekend for Wales at London’s Greenhouse 4* Open. The Junior Girls team consisting of Anna Hursey, Beth Richards and Grace Clement claimed Gold against Grantham College 4/1. Danielle Kelly was part of the Grantham team that won Silver medals. There were 3 more medals with Anna winning the Junior Girls title…
Read MoreTop 10 Report
Anna Hursey, at the tender age of 12, finished a credible 9th position at the European Youth Top 10 event in Vila Real, Portugal. Anna has 3 more years in this age category and 3 more years in this event so with many players being too old next time around it could be a completely…
Read MoreEuro Top 10
Anna Hursey has qualified for the European Youth Top 10 in Portugal next month. The Cardiff youngster, who is currently in China preparing, will play the 9 other elite players in a round robin system over 3 days. The event is the 7-9th September and results will be available all weekend via our social media…
Read MoreOn A High to Shanghai
In October 8 players and 2 coaches spend another period at the famous Chinese Table Tennis College in Shanghai. Following on from the 2017 experience, TTW is continuing it’s relationship with the ITTF HotSpot centre once again. Beth Richards, Grace Clement, Anna Hursey, Ruby Elliott, Evan Williams, Evan O’Connor, Oscar Marriott & Ben Allen…
Read MoreMore International Events Approaching
Keeping involved on the World Tour is essential for our Elite players and Anna, Charlotte and Callum will continue to battle it out with the World’s best in a variety of challenges Anna, who is currently in Beijing training, will compete at the ITTF Hong Kong Cadet/Junior Open which takes place 1-5th August at…
Read MoreA League Of Their Own
Anna Hursey will feature on the hit Sky 1 show ‘A League Of Their Own’ in the Autumn. The highly popular game show hosted by James Corden was filmed yesterday at Elstree Studios in North London. Anna first took on our Director of Coaching, Ryan Jenkins, before challenging former England & Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshire.…
Read MoreCommonwealth Legacy
How Does She Do That???? By Ryan Jenkins, Director of Coaching – Table Tennis Wales I’ve actually lost count of the times people ask me ‘did you see that young girl in Australia’? This is of course when we get onto the topic of table tennis and my job‘– ‘Did I see her?’ I…
Read MoreTrans World Sport – Anna Hursey
Check out Anna on Trans World Sport before she departed for Australia
Read MoreEuropean Championships
Day 5 proved to be the hardest of them all as both teams lost out in tight matches 3/2. The men lost to Norway 3/2 after defeating Kosovo in the morning 3/0. Josh, Callum and Dean won the 3 matches there. Against Norway, Callum picked up both his singles but Dan and Josh were unable…
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