Match Reports

Congratulations go to Worksop Welfare Snipers ‘B’ who secured the Division Two title this week in emphatic fashion with a 9-1 trouncing of Sparken Hill Eagles. The Snipers trio of George Makrakis, Mitchell Radford and Paul Linfield all remained unbeaten against the Eagles trio of Keith Swift, Lewis Linacre and Kathy McIntyre and even though both Linacre and McIntyre were both playing up from Division Three they still caused the Snipers team plenty of problems, especially McIntyre who took Linfield to a deciding game and was unlucky not to beat him. Swift also took Linfield to a deciding game with Linfield coming from 2-1 down to hit back to win it in the deciding 5^th game. The only joy the Eagles got came via the doubles with Swift and McIntyre upsetting the odds by defeating Linfield and Makrakis in straight sets. Team Captain Nigel Stent who wasn’t playing in the…full report »

DTH Redlands Rovers and Sparken Hill Nightingales both came through their respective semi-finals to get through to the final of The Mike Tunningley Handicap Shield. DTH Redlands of Division Three played well to overcome the current Division Two leaders Worksop Welfare Snipers ‘B’ in their semi-final match with Roman Rosser, Keith Bloomfield and Adam Pinches all contributing to their teams points total with Pinches having a particularly good night as he ended up being level on 40 points each with Paul Linfield over the two games played. For the Snipers both George Makrakis and Mitchell Radford won all of their games which helped the Snipers to get to 376 points won on the table to the Rovers 221 and the outcome of the match would ultimately come down to the number of handicap points given to DTH Redlands Rovers and when the sealed envelope was opened it revealed that 175…full report »

As we start to get closer to the business end of the league season DTH Redlands Monsters are slowly but surely creeping towards their first ever Division One title. This week saw them overcome a potential banana skin in Worksop Miners Welfare with a narrow 6-4 win, this despite a hat trick from Welfare’s Richard Element. Element defeated all three Riauba brothers in Orestas, Valentinas and Martynas to give his side a chance of getting a result against the league leaders but in the end, it was all in vain as the Riauba brothers just did enough to get all three points. Valentinas and Orestas both defeated Chris Cattell and Dave Marsh with Martynas chipping in with a win over Marsh. As ever the doubles proved to be an important game to win and so it proved to be as Valentinas and Orestas beat Element and Cattell in straight sets…full report »

With over 60 players contesting 16 different competitions the Annual Championships were always going to be a long day and so it proved to be with a finish time of 7.20pm!
The day kicked off with the Open Doubles and it was a great sight to see 48 players across 12 tables playing some cracking table tennis.
The pre-tournament favourites for the Open Doubles Richard Element and John Davies made progress through the early rounds without too many issues winning their games in straight sets but when they reached the semi-final stage it was a different matter altogether. Farrell Anthony and Chris Cattell gave them a real scare before Element and Davies finally made it through to the final but had to do it the hard way by winning the deciding set in a 3-2 victory.
In the other half of the draw Rick Harris and Ernest Mpundu were mirroring…full report »

With Worksop Welfare Snipers ‘B’ having a blank week in Division Two this week it gave the teams trailing in their wake a chance to close the gap and apply a little bit of pressure on the current Division Two leaders. Stanley Street ‘B’ are the team in second place at the moment and they took full advantage of the Snipers not playing by beating Sparken Hill Falcons to close the gap to just 3 points. Mark Sansom and Ralph Rodda led the way for Stanley Street with a hat-trick of singles wins each over Luke Barraclough, Neil Penny and Mick Potter. Sansom and Rodda well supported by Andy Kirkland who added two wins, losing out to Penny, Kirkland then teamed up with Sansom to beat Barraclough and Penny to take the doubles and to complete a 9-1 win.
Third placed Manton Sports also had the chance to close…full report »