Match Reports

This week's Carnation Cup threw up some intriguing matches and none more so than the ongoing battle to be top dog in the Mcintosh house! Brothers Tom and Kyle were paired against each other in the semi finals of the Carnation Cup pairs competition with their respective partners after Tom and Clive Eden had come through a tough quarter final against John Hallgarth and Mark Bloomer by a 3-2 scoreline. In the semi final Tom and Clive Eden came up against Kyle and Andy Kirkland and a close game ensued. In the first match Tom managed to squeeze past Kirkland just edging him out in the decider 23-21 but not to be outdone by his brother, Kyle managed to beat Clive Eden to leave the match all square. Eden then beat Kirkland in three sets which meant that the game between Tom and Kyle not only would determine who had…full report »

Global Marble pulled off probably the shock result of the season so far by beating title contenders Zygabytes and in doing so threw the Division One title race wide open. The star player on the night was Global's Kerry Radford who registered a fabulous hat trick against a team that many had tipped as one of the favourites to win this year's Division One Championship. Steve Lyon and Kartik Lakhani both chipped in with a win each over Zygabyte's Bob Hume before Radford finished her evening off on a high by teaming up with Lyon to win the doubles. For the Zygabyte's Joe Zygadlo and Dave Kelly both won two games each but it wasn't enough to stop Global recording a 6-4 win and in doing so moving up into 2nd place in the table.
Whilst the Zygabyte's were slipping up, their nearest rivals DTH Redlands Fluffy Toys were taking…full report »

Andy Lee and Alex Olliffe have won the DTH Senior Doubles competition after a fabulous night of table tennis at Ryton Park School. Lee and Olliffe who were paired together on the night after the seedings had been completed remained unbeaten in the group stages winning all their four matches. They reached the semi finals by comfortably topping Group B ahead of Runners Up Peter Eyre and Mark Bloomer who also joined them in the semi finals . In Group A it was a much tighter affair and although Terry Curran and Jeff Reay won all of their group games they only just managed to pip Steve Elkin and Clive Eden by two points to win the group with both pairings going through the semi final stage.
Both semi finals were close affairs with Curran and Reay finally managing to overcome Eyre and Bloomer by a 31-29 score line to…full report »

The season took another break from league action this week to make way for The Carnation Cup which is the only pairs competition that the league holds. This year's competition started off with two preliminary round matches to see who would reach the quarter final stages. Dave Hodgkin and Jack Tarr were unfortunate to come up against two players who are bang in form in their respective divisions in Tom McIntosh and Clive Eden who both proved just too good on the night and comfortably eased their way into the next round with a 5-0 victory. In the next round they will meet John Hallgarth and Mark Bloomer who managed to overcome Peter Eyre and Daniel Cutts in a match that was much closer than the 4-1 score line suggests. Because of their preliminary round matches they were unable to complete their quarter final match which will now be concluded…full report »

This week saw a break in league matches as the first round of the Handicap Shield took over with some fabulous close matches made even closer by the awarding of handicap points to the lower placed teams. One such team were Division Three outfit DTH Redlands Tarr Babies who despite being in the division below their more illustrious opponents Stanley Street 'B', they didn't even require the 100 handicap points allotted to them at the end of the match to go through to the next round!
The Tarr Babies trio of Antony Coupe, Lewis Comley and Matthew Mudd pulled of the win of the first round by actually beating Stanley Street 'B' by 32 points before the handicap points were added at the end of the match and with all three players hitting top form at the same time it left Stanley Street's Jack Kirkland, Matthew Williams and  Andy Kirkland…full report »