Match Reports

Sparken Hill Falcons got their Division Three title challenge back on course this week with a convincing home win against Worksop Owls. The Falcons trio of Mick Potter, Neil Penny and Luke Barraclough were just too strong for the improving Owls outfit of Harry Beer, Finlay Coburn and Jasper Turner but they did make the Falcons work hard for their victory despite the 10-0 scoreline suggesting otherwise. The win puts the Falcons 8 points ahead of their main rivals DTH Redlands Demolition Men, but they do have 3 games in hand on the Falcons.
Second placed Worksop Welfare Harriers kept themselves in the hunt with a hard fought 7-3 win over mid table Sparken Hill Hawks. One stand out feature of the match was that all 10 games were unusually won in straight sets! For the Harriers Dan Saul continued his good form with another hat trick recording wins…full report »

This year’s Worksop and District Annual Closed Championships had it’s latest finish in recent history with the last ball being hit at 8.12pm on Sunday evening!
56 Players entered this years tournament battling it out in 16 different competitions which saw some great table tennis played over 11 gruelling hours.
The Open Singles threw up a couple of surprises in the second round as Mick Bell knocked out Orestas Riauba with even bigger surprises coming when Alan Wilson from Division Two played really well to beat Steve Johnson from Division One 3-1 as did Mark Sansom, again from Division Two in beating Division One’s Steve Lyon by the same scoreline. But there were to be no more surprises as the Open Singles competition unfolded with Ernest Mpundu defeating Helmuth Osborne to go through to the final where he will meet Valentinas Riauba who beat Jack Kirkland in the…full report »

56 players entered this year's Worksop and District Annual Closed Championships with some great table tennis being played from start to a very late finish at 8.12pm!
The players who entered this years tournament battled it out in 16 different competitions which saw some fabulous matched played over 11 gruelling hours.
This year’s Open Singles Final will be contested by Ernest Mpundu and Valentinas Riauba who both played well to book their place in the final.
Kartik Lakhani and Steve Elkin did well to progress to the semi-finals of the Open Doubles before eventually falling to Valentinas and Orestas Riauba who will play Chris Cattell & Farrell Anthony who beat Rick Harris & Ernest Mpundu in the other semi-final.
Second seed Mark Sansom was dumped out of the Division Two Singles competition by George Makrakis who made it to the semi-finals before losing to Rob Vaughan…full report »

The top two sides in Division Two met this week with vital promotion points up for grabs. Worksop Welfare Snipers had Sparken Hill Vultures firmly in their sites as they eyed up a victory that would enable them to leapfrog their title rivals and propel them to the top of the division. The night didn’t start well for the Snipers as they soon found themselves 3-0 down after Jim Westwood lost to James Wormwell, Pete Hodgson lost to Rob Vaughan with Russ Webster then losing to Steve Elkin. Hodgson pulled one back for the Snipers when he defeated Wormwell, but they then found themselves 4-1 behind after Elkin beat Westwood in straight sets. In the next game Vaughan managed to come back from 2-0 down to beat Webster 3-2 to leave the Vultures 5-1 up and on the verge of victory. However, the Snipers wouldn’t lie down and fought back…full report »

There’s a three battle between DTH Redlands sides for the Division One title with the outcome too close to call. All three of the sides were in action this week and all recorded vital victories in their quest to lift the title. First up were DTH Redlands Monsters who currently occupy top spot and who are the team that the others have to chase down and this week they were up against mid table Sparken Hill Buzzards who on their day can cause the top sides plenty of trouble but despite running the Monsters close in many of the games they slipped to an 8-2 defeat. For the Monsters Valentinas Riauba was the player in top form as he beat all three Buzzards in Terry Emmerson, Kartik Lakhani and Steve Lyon with his siblings Orestas and Martynas both adding row wins each with Orestas losing out to Lakhani and Martynas…full report »