Archived League tables and results for 2010-11 season
Use your Browser's back button to return to the current season!
UPDATE! League structure for 2011-12: at present we seem likely to have 20 teams this season, compared with 18 last season.
South Wonston has 3 teams instead of 2, and Five Tees has 2 teams instead of 1. Provisionally, a single season will run from September to March.
On this basis,
Division 1 will have 10 teams, consisting of the entire 2010-11 Division 1, plus Castle A and Castle B from last season's Division 2.
Division 2 will have 10 teams, with the new teams from South Wonston and Five Tees teams being included.
The League start date is Monday 26th September.
This season, all players are required to register as members of the ETTA. The League will not do this for you, though your Club may.
You can register via the ETTA web pages
here , or call 0845 0500 388 - have your credit card number handy!
Amounts payable to the League by your Club
are reduced correspondingly.
ETTA membership includes free insurance cover. That's important to you - accidents do happen!
Hampshire Youth Games 2011
Jenna Armitage reports: "Talented youngsters from across the County came together at the Aldershot Garrison Athletics Stadium for the Hampshire Youth Games of 2011 recently. Teams from the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and the New Forest met teams from Winchester, Test Valley and Havant to name but a few, all proudly wearing their team colours for the event.
The young athletes joined together for a day of friendly multi-sport competition which began with a Welcoming Ceremony and Grand Parade. After the parade the young people began the serious business of the day, competing in their chosen sport. These included table tennis, athletics, canoeing, judo, swimming, cycling, new age kurling and many more sports.
Boys and girls selected to represent Winchester in the table tennis competition were trained by South Wonston Table Tennis Club. The boys’ competition began with group play and moved on to a knock out competition and a knock out consolation event. The girls played a round robin competition where all played all.
Winchester’s young table tennis team competed strongly and returned home with a gold medal (Ben Cawston) a silver medal (Adele Payne) and two bronze medals (Calvin Barlow and Nicholas Aldous).
Conder-Winnall Cup Final: Reg White reports "The Final was an enjoyable evening of table tennis, with
IBM C defeating Castle C 6 games to 3. Steve Buckmaster was the deciding factor, winning all three."
IBM A beat Kings C 9-0 in the Team Eliminator Final. This was no disgrace for Kings C - IBM A had won all its previous rounds 9-0 also!
Castle B will meet IBM C in the Conder-Winnall (handicap) Final.
Kings B beat Swanmore B 5-3 in the Plate Final. Bob Garlick 's match report is here .
On Saturday 26th March the team of Reuben Grimshaw , Morgan Smith and Adam Lee represented Winchester Table Tennis League at the South East regional final of the National Junior League.
After the first day's play on 29th January the team where placed in second position just behind Portsmouth A.
Here are the match scores:
Winchester 6 Andover 0
Winchester 4 Portsmouth B 2
Winchester 4 Brighton 2
Winchester 4 Southampton West B 2
Winchester 4 Portsmouth A 2
After winning all their games the team finished runners up to Portsmouth A in Division 2.
Thanks to David Binns for this report and picture.
League Latest:
Week beginning 21st March:
Division 1: Keith Hewitt helped Castle A reach a 5-5 draw with IBM C, winning all 3.
Five Tees snatched a couple of wins from highly-placed IBM B, but Katie Cleary and Andy Creighton each claimed 3.
When 2 points are taken off IBM A it's news, and when the team taking the 2 points are adrift at the bottom of the table,
it's close to sensational! Five Tees were the ones who took a bite at IBM A's ankles. IBM A 8, Five Tees 2, with Don Child and
Keith Charbit-Middleton scoring 3 each.
IBM C cemented their place as Runners-Up by beating IBM B 8-2. It may look one-sided, but 6 legs went to 5 games, and 4
of those ended 11-9 or 12-10! IBM C's Junior, Oliver Hack , was the only player to end up unbeaten.
IBM A beat South Wonston A (who were a player short) 10-0. Only one leg went as far as a 4th game, with
Julian Walton , Keith Charbit-Middleton and Matt Byers all winning their 2 available legs.
IBM C visited South Wonston A and came away with an 8-2 victory. Oliver Hack and Clive Hacker each won 3 for the visitors.
Division 2: Swanmore B heroically played 2 matches in consecutive nights, so Division 2 is now complete. They lost 1-9 to Castle B,
with Glenn Phur and John Hayman maximising for the visitors.
The night before, Castle A finished their season in style with a 9-1 hammering of Swanmore B. Allan Bransgrove and Steve Reed both won their 3, while
Kevin Sage made another of his last-ditch recoveries to gain Swanmore's consolation point.
Adrian Reeves and Ross Lingard contributed 3 each to Kings C's 6-4 defeat of Hursley C. Even at this late stage of
the season Ray Swan and Jill Wilson had enough energy left to battle out a 111-pointer and take their place on the
'most points in a Leg' chart.
Owslebury must have thought they had it made when they leaped into a 2-1 lead against Castle B, but their glee was shortlived as
Castle went on to snatch the next 7 legs. John Hayman took 3 for the victors.
Russell Durham gave his season's average a finishing sparkle in Winnall's final match, with 3 wins against South Wonston B, who won 7-3. Winnall
were a player short.
Kings B, helped with a 3 from Roy Bright , beat Swanmore 6-4, finishing strongly after the match stood at 4-4.
Castle A cannot now be caught following their 9-1 thrashing of IBM D, who live humbly in the last house at
the unfashionable end of the Division. Barry Dobson and Steve Reed each won 3.
The Senior Tournament Heats took place on Sunday 27th February.
See all of the detailed results here , thanks to Adrian Reeves , who ran the event!
Adrian has also kindly supplied the fine pictures. Singles Glenn Phur knocked very good Junior Matt Byers out in the preliminary round, and was then narrowly beaten in the
5th game of the first round proper by Katie Cleary . Julian Walton beat Katie in the Semi, and will meet Andy Prince in the Final.
Division 2 Ross Lingard , a Juniors Finalist, beat Barry Dobson in the 5th game to reach the Final, where
he will meet Allan Bransgrove , who had earlier beaten James Stewart . A betting man might have backed both Barry and James
to reach this Final.
Veterans (Over 40) Barry Dobson may have lost to Ross Lingard in the Division 2 event, but he showed he's still a
power in the land by beating Andy Prince , a Veterans finalist last year. Barry will play Keith Charbit-Middleton in the Final.
Doubles
The number 1 and number 3 seeded pairs will meet in the Final: Katie Cleary and Julian Walton on one side of the net, and Steve Buckmaster and Andy Creighton
on the other. Keith Charbit-Middleton and Matt Byers were the number 2 seeds but lost to Steve and Andy in the Semis . Katie, Steve and Andy are all new to the Winchester League this season, and we look forward to seeing how they
deal with the special pressures of Finals Night!
Handicap Matt Byers was prevented by holiday arrangements from competing in the Juniors, but you'll be able to admire his skills in the
Handicap Final, where he'll be opposed by Steve Buckmaster .
Juniors have their day at South Wonston Mouse over the picture to see it bigger! The Heats of the League's Junior Championships took place on Sunday 20th February at South Wonston, featuring 11 Under-15s and
4 Under-18s.
The overall standard was really impressive. Most of the Under-15s hadn't played table tennis at all until 6 months ago,
but they were keen, competitive,
and had obviously been well coached. This says a lot for the South Wonston and Kings clubs, as well as for Westgate School, all of which
now offer coaching and excellent facilities for table tennis. The Under-15 and Under-18 Finals will both be held at the League's Finals Night on
Saturday 30th April at Itchen Abbas & Avington Village Hall. Ben Payne and Isaac Tallack made it through (after some close struggles)
to the Under-15 Final, while Reuben Grimshaw and Ross Lingard will contest the Under-18 Final. Everyone was a winner in the Under-15s -
they all passed the ETTA Junior Umpire test, supervised by ETTA official Martyn Reeves , in between matches!
See detailed results here .
Not currently playing in our League, but still a Winchester resident, Tressa Armitage was
recently presented with the prestigious Mike Watts Award. The annual award is presented to the most improved player within
all categories of the ETTA ranking system.
Congratulations to Kings TTC on gaining
Sport England's Clubmark accreditation
and ETTA's PremierClub status.
So now it's official - Kings is a great table tennis club! Why not go along and see for yourself, any Monday
from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm?
Enjoy this: see Michael Bublé (he's a world famous singer, as everyone knows!)
playing TT with Darius Knight and Paul Drinkhall
here .
The Laws of Table Tennis have changed recently - see here .
The most interesting change is that a 'double hit' is now to be ignored, as long as it's accidental.
Also, "A racket cannot be changed during the course of an individual match unless it becomes accidentally damaged so badly that it is unusable."
The full Laws of Table Tennis are
here .
Cliff Chevis has lent me a Programme from the great Winchester League Finals Night in the Guildhall,
1951! See it here !
Mick Bryant's address in the Handbook should read 136 Longfield Road, SO23 0NU, and his
phone number is (01962) 865713, not as published. You can see the Handbook online
here or
via the 'League' drop-down menu.
At the recent Commonwealth Games a player was faulted for an illegal serve when leading 5-0 in the deciding game, went on to lose the match,
and his team was eliminated instead of progressing to the Final. The umpire decided he wan't throwing the ball up "near vertically".
Mutterings about serves are often heard in the Winchester League, too! Make sure no-one's muttering about you - see
here for the full Laws of Table Tennis.
ETTA Individual Membership (registration) online here
You can see how pictures improve these web pages! Please send your best TT pictures to
for possible use here. If you have some related to your team or club, let me add them to your club's pages.
Weekly Schedules
(unless rearranged)
Mouse over to see more!
Mouse over the scores to see the scorecard in the League grids below!
If 'points' are equal, 'wins' are considered next,
then head-to-head results between the 'equal' teams.
Cells coloured like this indicate matches that may have been re-scheduled. No scorecard has been received yet, anyway!
Tree Felling
- Coppicing Ground
Clearance by
local NPTC-certified chainsaw operator no
job too small (try me!) Graham Long -
01962-712476 Winchester - Romsey -EastleighChandlers
Ford
- Alresford
Interested
in Russia? history,
politics, art, music? The
Winchester Russian Circle Meets
every 2-3 weeks at
Winchester College. talks
(in English!) concerts
Also, "A racket cannot be changed during the course of an individual match unless it becomes accidentally damaged so badly that it is unusable."
