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Congratulations to Goodbye Mr Winton who won the Summer League Final on Tuesday night.
They defeated The Grand Dad's 11-4 in the first semi-final and went on to beat The Odd Bats 8-7 in the final.
A big thank you to Kay and Alan Wilson who ran the Summer League this year and did a superb job of it.
Thank you to everyone who took part, it's been a great competition.

The League are looking at promoting Table Tennis in the work place. If you are currently employed in the Worksop Area and you want to get your fellow colleagues to have a go at our sport. There is an opportunity for your league to provide you and your organisation some equipment. We may supply you with a pull out net, four bats and some balls to get you started. The idea is that for example you put some desks together in your work place to form a makeshift table and use the pull out net.

Andy Lee has used this principle with his employer in Sheffield and has 20 colleagues regularly taking part and has held a tournament in the Work Place. The employer is now looking at getting a full size table on to the premises. This has been a great success and if the colleagues had lived nearer to Worksop some of them had indicated they would have joined our clubs.

On the back of this we want to try this principle in the Worksop Area. All we ask that who ever applies for some equipment let us know who their employer is, promotes our sport and provides regular feedback to the committee on how it is going.

The end game is to try and get more people coming to our clubs and ultimately playing in our league.

So apply now if you would like to help promote our sport by e-mailing [email protected]

The League are looking at promoting Table Tennis in the work place. If you are currently employed in the Worksop Area and you want to get your fellow colleagues to have a go at our sport. There is an opportunity for your league to provide you and your organisation some equipment. We may supply you with a pull out net, four bats and some balls to get you started. The idea is that for example you put some desks together in your work place to form a makeshift table and use the pull out net.

Andy Lee has used this principle with his employer in Sheffield and has 20 colleagues regularly taking part and has held a tournament in the Work Place. The employer is now looking at getting a full size table on to the premises. This has been a great success and if the colleagues had lived nearer to Worksop some of them had indicated they would have joined our clubs.

On the back of this we want to try this principle in the Worksop Area. All we ask that who ever applies for some equipment let us know who their employer is, promotes our sport and provides regular feedback to the committee on how it is going.

The end game is to try and get more people coming to our clubs and ultimately playing in our league.

So apply now if you would like to help promote our sport by e-mailing [email protected]

Next Tuesday's Summer League semi-finals line up at Worksop Leisure Centre will be as follows:
Goodbye Mr Winton v The Grand Dad's
Paddletastic v The Odd Bats
Spectators welcome.

As the new season is only a few weeks away can I remind ALL players that they will have to have their Table Tennis England player licence in place PLUS have paid their Worksop League registration fee BEFORE they play a match in the Worksop League.
In addition to the above, their team MUST have also paid their fines from last season.
Any player that plays a match but hasn't met all of the above criteria will have their games scrubbed and if he/she also plays in the doubles then that will be scrubbed as well and this may affect the match score.
It is each individual players responsibility to ensure that they have everything in place before they play and may I also add that if you do not have a valid Table Tennis England licence then you are not covered by their insurance if you have an accident whilst playing.
It is each each players/teams own responsibility to ensure al of the above criteria has been met.
The above also applies to the Hard Bat Competition on Tuesday the 4th of September.

The amount of players using Worksop Leisure Centre on Saturday mornings has now dropped to a level were the facilities are almost becoming non viable.
The situation has now got to the point that we either 'use it' or 'lose it' so can I please encourage as many people as possible to practice there on a Saturday morning.
Starting from Saturday the 25th of August Kay Wilson is going to introduce sessions with the leagues robot practice machine.
There will be two slots available on a Saturday morning, 8.45am to 10.00am and 10.00am to 11.15 with each session costing just £4.00 and will need to be booked with Kay on a first come first served basis.
Remember you can also book a table from 8.45am until 11.15am on Saturday mornings for just £7.00 per table which would be ideal for 4 players playing round robin matches and doubles against each other but if you don't wish to do that then the prices are £2.00 for Juniors and Senior Citizens and £3.00 for Adults for general practice.
Please do try to support the practice sessions as we would hate to lose it.

This year's Hard Bat Competition will take place on Tuesday the 4th of September at Worksop Leisure Centre with a 7.00pm start.
The competition is free to enter and all you have to do to enter is e-mail [email protected]
Please note that to be eligible to play you MUST have paid your league registration fee, have all fines from last season paid and have a valid Table Tennis England player licence.
The competition is open to any player registered with the league and the closing date for entries is Saturday the 25th of August at 5.00pm.