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DTH Engineering Sponsored Annual Championships First Finals Evening

Last evening 18 players, aged under 19 to 60+, competed in seven finals from this season’s Worksop and District Table Tennis League’s DTH Annual Championships.

The first match to the table saw two of the League’s brightest stars, Will Short and Sam Batty, compete for the Junior Singles title. Both players are members of Blitz Redlands Avengers who look to be odds on favourites to win the Division 1 title, so it was not surprising that they produced a quality match in front of a good crowd of spectators. In an incredibly close match Will came out on top to take the title, winning 3 games to 0 (13:11, 11:9, 13:11).

The second match saw the youngest player in this year’s finals, Elliott Houghton, who only turned 11 last week!, compete against a player several years his senior, Kevin Whiteley. Elliott showed no signs of nerves, displaying a range of quality shots and taking the 3^rd Division Singles title by 3 games to 0 (11:5, 11:5, 11:6). Clearly, Elliott has a very bright future ahead of him in the game.

The third match was the first of the evening’s doubles. Mark Bloomer & Ray Sutton played Harry Clarke & Greg Snape in the 2^nd Division Doubles final. Mark and Ray took the first two games (11:7, 11:8), but Harry and Greg hit back taking the next two games (11:8, 11:7). In the final end it looked as if Mark and Ray were going to run out easy winners. However, a fight back by Harry and Greg provided a tense finish, but in the end Mark and Ray held their nerve to take the final game 11:9.

Marcus Batkin and Jeff Reay were next to the table to compete for the Handicap Singles title. Marcus had to overcome a 6 point handicap deficit and reached the change of ends slightly ahead. He continued to build a lead, and although Jeff fought back to close the gap on a number of occasions , Marcus was too strong in the end, taking the title by 31points to 26.

The Veterans 40+ match was between husband and wife Mark and Sarah Short. Spectators were treated to a very high quality match with outstanding play by both Mark and Sarah. Games were very close with the lead constantly changing but, in the end, Mark proved to be too strong, taking the match 3 games to 0 (11:9, 11:8, 11:8)

The penultimate match of the evening was between Mark Bloomer and Ray Sutton who, earlier in the evening, together,  had won the 2^nd Division Doubles title. Ray took the first game (11:7) only for Mark to hit back taking the second (15:13). The fourth game was as close as the previous one, but this time it was Ray winning out (13:11). Ray then went on to win the fourth game (11:4) and take the title by 3 games to 1.

The final game of the evening was the Open Doubles, played between the pairings of Sam Batty & Marcus Batkin and Steve Johnson & Adam Gittings. Sam and Marcus took the first game comfortably 11:4 and then just held on to take a much closer second game 12:10. In the third game, Steve and Adam hit back with a 11:9 win. The fourth game was incredibly close with neither pairing able to take command. In the end Sam and Marcus squeezed out a 13:11 win to take the title 3 games to 1.

Congratulations to all the finalists who produced sparkling table tennis and provided excellent entertainment for the spectators.

Many thanks too, to Pete Eyre and Stanley Street Sports & Social Club for providing the venue and, of course, to our sponsors DTH Engineering, without whose support table tennis in Worksop and District would not be as strong as it currently is with over 100 players aged from 10 to 70+ competing in 31 teams across three divisions.

We look forward to the second finals evening on Tuesday 8^th April.

Divisional Handicap Cup Finals Results

Congratulations to Manton Tigers who defeated Blitz Thunder and Lightning 433 to 411 points to win the 2^nd Division Reg Wilcox Trophy.

Congratulations also, to Spin Diamond Dragons who defeated Spin Zodiacs 476 to 469 points to become 3^rd Division Cup winners.

The David Hooton Trophy, for 1^st  Division teams, will be contested by Welfare AB and Stanley Street A at a later date.

The first of this season's Annual Championships Finals Evening is being held on Tuesday 18th March at Stanley Street Sports & Social Club, Worksop.

Everyone is welcome to come along to support the finalists and enjoy what is always a great evening of table tennis.

The events and order of play are as follows:

ORDER OF PLAY

7:00pm Junior Singles

S Batty  v  W Short

7:20pm 3^rd Division Singles

E Houghton  v  K Whiteley

7:40pm 2^nd Division Doubles

M Bloomer & R Sutton  v   H Clarke & G Snape

8:00pmHandicap Singles

M Batkin  v  J Reay

8:20pmVets 40+ Singles

M Short  v  S Short

8:40 pm 2^nd Division Singles

M Bloomer  v  R Sutton

9:00pm Open Doubles

M Batkin & S Batty  v  S Johnson & A Gittings

Worksop & District Table Tennis Annual Closed Championships.

Sponsored by DTH Engineering

Over the last two weekends of January WDTTL Annual Closed Championships were held at Redlands TTC, including a separate afternoon for the growing number of under 19 players in the league.

The finalists, who will compete in each event on one of two Finals Evenings on 18^th March and 8^th April, are shown below:

Open Singles

T Emmerson  v  M Short

18 – 40 Singles

M Batkin  v  T Emmerson

Junior Singles

S Batty  v  W Short

Vets 40+ Singles

M Short  v  S Short

Vets 50+ Singles

S Fox  v  D Kelly

Vets 60+ Singles

P Eyre  v  S Fox

Vets 70+ Singles

P Eyre  v  S Lyon

Plate Singles

P Dixon  v  A Lee

Handicap Singles

M Batkin  v  J Reay

Open Doubles

M Batkins & S Batty  v  S Johnson & A Gittings

Draw Doubles

S Batty, D Kelly, M Sansom, W. Short (pairings drawn on the evening of the final)

2^nd Division Singles

M Bloomer  v  R Sutton

2^nd Division Doubles

M Bloomer & R Sutton  v   H Clarke & G Snape

3^rd Division Singles

E Houghton  v  K Whiteley

3^rd Division Doubles

J Collins & T Ogley  v  O Makarenko & V Makarenko

Congratulations to all who competed in the many events across 2 days of excellent, competitive, table tennis, played in very good spirit. Special congratulations to the finalists who we look forward to watching on the two Finals Evenings in March and April.

Under 19 Closed Championships

This season a separate event was held for our younger players, some of whom also played in the main events against senior players

Five events were played with the finals of four of these being played at the conclusion to what was a competitive afternoon of table tennis. The final of the Open Junior Singles will be played at one of the two Finals Evenings mentioned above.

The results of events were as follows:

Open Singles

S Batty  v  W Short – final to be played on either 18^th March or 8^th April

Event                          Winner                                      Runner Up

Cadet Singles               T Bezoari-Oldfield                       E Houghton

U13 Singles                  E Houghton                               O Makarenko

Open Doubles              S Batty & J Taylor                       T Bezoari-Oldfied & W Short

Handicap Singles          E Houghton                                T Bezoari-Oldfield

Young Player Achievements

Earlier this season Will Short was accepted onto the Government funded Diploma in Sporting Excellence (DiSE) Programme and in April will travel to Austria to play in the Linz international Junior Open. He has played County Junior Premier Division, and won the top band at the Nottingham 2 star under 19 open.

Sam Batty has played County Juniors Premier Division in his first year in the junior age group.

Anna Wong has been selected to play for the County Cadets Team in the Nottinghamshire Premier Division.

Theo Bezoari Oldfield won the Nottinghamshire Schools Under 13s event without dropping an end, winning the right to play in the National Schools Finals in a few months time. Theo has also been picked for the County Cadet Premier Division Team.

Elliott Houghton won the Nottinghamshire Schools Under 11 event, also winning a place in the National Schools Finals. Elliott has also been picked for the County Cadet Premier Division team. This team is for under 15s and Elliot is under 11 – an  amazing achievement!

Josh Taylor has recently represented Lincolnshire in the County Junior Championships.

Congratulations to all of the above and we look forward to more successes from them and other younger over the coming months and years ahead..

Funeral Arrnagements for Phil Hall.

Phil's funeral will take place on Wednesday 18th December at 10:00am in St Ann’s Church, Worksop.

Phil Hall, R. I. P.

We have heard the very sad news that Phil, a Manton player for over 40 years, passed away earlier this week. Our thoughts are with Phil’s family and friends at this sad time.

As soon as we have details of Phil’s funeral, these will be made known to everyone.

Update: 

The 2023- 24 Roll of Honor has now been updated.