Posts Tagged ‘ITTF’
WVT – It’s Now Live…
The 2019 ITTF World Veterans Tour is just around the corner! Six exciting events are lined up over the second half of 2019 across the globe and all of them are now open for you to register. You can be a part of table tennis history! This is the very first season of the ITTF World Veterans…
Read MoreITTF Croatia Open
Dean, Callum & Charlotte depart Slovenia today and drive an hour across the border to Croatia to compete in yet another ITTF competition starting tomorrow. The ITTF Croatia Challenger runs from 14-18th May in the city of Zagreb. You can follow the action here – https://www.ittf.com/tournament/5019/2019/ittf-challenge-croatia-open/ Draw: Charlotte Carey plays Ivana Tubikanec (CRO) & Jinnipa…
Read MoreMedals For The Boys
Josh adds a Bronze Team Medal to the Tally in Slovenia
Read MoreHigh Performance – Thailand
Anna Hursey has touched down in Bangkok for another elite ITTF performance camp with some of the best cadet and junior players in the world. The camp runs, under the guidance of ITTF head coach Massimo Costantini, from May 7-13th. From there the players move to Fashion Island for the ITTF cadet & junior ITTF…
Read MoreITTF Slovenia Open
The Slovenia Open comes to an end with Charlotte and Callum both losing earlier today (9/5/19). Charlotte lost to Nagyvardia 3 straight whilst Callum lost to Ahmadian in the closest of margins, 9/11 in the final set. Early in the morning Callum lost to Russian Sudomenko 3/0. Dean lost both qualifying matches yesterday. The players…
Read MoreSlovenia 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 MoreWorld Championships
Welsh participation ended this morning on Day 3 of the ITTF Liebherr World Championships 2019 as Charlotte Carey lost out, in the closest of matches, to Zion Lee of Korea 4/3 This was the last 128 round The Korean is ranked 73 to Charlottes 133 before the match started (Match Stats – Charlotte right side)…
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 MoreITTF World Tour
Charlotte Carey’s ITTF Hungarian Open came to an end on the evening of Wednesday 16th January as a result of losing to French pair Gasnier & Grundisch. In round one of the doubles event, Charlotte, who is partnered by England’s Maria Tsaptsinos, beat Natalia Bajor / Natalia Partyka of Poland 3/2 to progress. “We performed better as…
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