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Worksop & District Table Tennis Annual Closed Championships.

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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. 

Adriano Baldi, R. I. P.
We have heard the very sad news that Adriano, Spin Demons player, passed away earlier this week. Our thoughts are with Adriano's family and friends at this sad time.

Veterans 60+ Final

Congratulations to Dave Kelly who defeated Steve Fox in the final, on Thursday evening, to become the Vets 60+ champion for the 23-24 season.

Mike Tunningley Shield Final

Congratulations to the Manton Tigers team, Ron Firth, Bill Bateman and Dave Bowns who, last night, won the MTS by defeating Spin Generation 410:321.

Veterans 70+Final

Congratulations to Pete Eyre who won last night's final against Steve Lyon.