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2007-8

 

Results from County Junior Championships held on Saturday 16th. February 2008.

 

Held recently at the County Table Tennis Centre, Stowupland High School, these championships produced some quality attacking play none more so than from brother and sister, Martin & Rachel West (Stowmarket/Bury). Both have worked hard at their games and are becoming accomplished players, achieved in a very short time span.

 

In the Boys U13,   No.1 seed Rhys Davies (Haverhill), Alasdair Penman (Stowmarket), William Hall (Bury St. Edmunds) and Elliot Branton (Ipswich)  came through their groups to contest the semi-finals. A very close encounter between Rhys and Elliot saw Rhys coming through into the final to meet William Hall who won out over Elliot in 3 straight sets. In the Schools Championships 2 weeks previously both Rhys and William came through to contest an outstanding final with the attacking style of William just edging out defender, Rhys – this time the result was completely reversed with Rhys winning comfortably in 3 straight sets.

 

In the Girls U13, a round robin saw Rachel West (Stowmarket/Bury) comfortably beat off all opposition with newcomer Alice Leather (Bury) taking the runners-up spot.

 

The Boys U15 groups produced some tight finishes, with No 1 seed Martin West (Stowmarket/Bury, Aston Dowdy (Ipswich), No 2 seed George Kizis (Bury) and Rory Penman (Ipswich/Stowmarket) coming through to contest the semi-finals. The seedings

proved to be correct as Martin and George came through fairly comfortably to contest the final. Throwing caution to the wind both players went for all out attack producing some fine rallies. Martin, being a little more consistent came through to win in 4 engrossing sets.

 

In the Girls U15 event, only 2 entries were received so this went straight to a final between Becky MacIntyre (Stowmarket/Bury) and Rachel West (Stowmarket/Bury).

In what was an extremely close encounter with both girls liking to attack the ball Becky

came through to win in 4 tight sets.

 

The largest entry came in the Boys U18 although some players were playing up out of their age group. Both George Kizis (Bury) and William Vale (Bury) cruised through to win their group with runners-up Martin West (Stowmarket/Bury) and Aston Dowdy (Ipswich)  respectively. A gripping final followed which went right to the wire, 16-14

in the 5th. set to Martin having been 2-1 down and having lost comfortably to George in their group encounter. So a great day for the West family having captured both Boys U18 and U15 titles and Girls U13 – and it did not stop there as brother and sister combination came through 3 matches to clinch the Doubles title.

 

Final event was the Girls U18 – a round robin which saw County No 1 Sian Cook (Ipswich) dominating her group with measured use of attack and spin, winning all

her matches comfortably – runner-up was Becky MacIntyre. 

 

 

Results:-

 

 

Event                   Winner                          Runner-up.                     Score

 

Boys U13        Rhys Davies                      William Hall.          11-6 11-7 11-3

Girls U13        Rachel West                      Alice Leather.         11-3 11-3 11-1

           Boys U15        Martin West                      George Kizis           11-7 11-5 13-15 11-5

              Girls U15        Becky MacIntyre               Rachel West.          11-9 5-11 13-11 13-11.

                       Boys U18        Martin West                      George Kizis           11-9 12-14 8-11 11-5 16-14

 Girls U18         Sian Cook                         Becky MacIntyre    11-1  11-5 11-6.

 

       Doubles           M & R. West            Josh Pearson/William Vale 11-7 11-6 11-4.

 

 

 

COUNTY VETS TOURNAMENT 13/1/2008

Report by Andrew Dosher

 

Andrew Warner, Malcolm Collins, Clive Grimwood and John Seabrook were the success stories of this seasons Suffolk veteran table tennis championships reaching a number of finals to take silverware. 

 

The first event of the day the handicap singles, which pitches players of all standards together with a format of one game and first to 31, saw some tight matches and an eventual winner in Clive Grimwood from the Bury league over Ipswich's John Seabrook, Clive performing perhaps better than his handicap suggested. 

 

Seabrook though got his revenge by beating Grimwood in the final of the restricted singles 11-9 in the decider.

 

Peter Fordham won the over 60's event with victory over John Seabrook.

 

In the over 50's singles Malcom Collins faced Andrew Holmes and in a tight finish Collins saved five game points to take the match 3-1. 

 

In the over 40's singles there were groups first before the knockout stage.  In group one Phil Sinclair took a leg off number one seed Andy Warner, while Andrew Dosher was fortunate to beat Colin Baxter from 3-8 down in the decider.

 

In the quarter finals Malcolm Collins was a comfortable winner over David Gaught in their quarter final, while the main upset of the day was number two seed Dosher losing to Ken James, Dosher usually effective against combination bats was beaten in four sets.

 

Andy Holmes found Colin Baxter a handful in their encounter and just won deuce in the fifth, while Warner saw off Ken Lewis 3-1.

 

In the semi finals Warner won the first set easily against Holmes but found his opponent in the last three games much tougher, Warner won 3-1.

 

In the other semi Collins faced a stiff challenge from James but with the first four games shared it was Collins that showed some superb hitting to romp through the decider. 

 

The final was excellent as Collins continued his attacking form to take the first at 5, Warner responded with his own attacking game to equate also at 5, then two tight games shared at 9 saw a decider which see sawed until Warner got his nose in front from 6 all to eventually win the title 

 

Scores from the dome:

 

Men's over 40 quarter finals: A Warner beat K Lewis 7 9 -11 8 

                                          A Holmes beat C Baxter 10 9 -2 -11 10 

                                          M Collins beat D Gaught 3 6 8 

                                          K James beat   A Dosher -10 4 10 7 

 

                     Semi finals:   Warner beat Holmes 4 9 -8 9 

                                         Collins beat James 5 -6 -9 8 2  

 

                                        Final Warner beat Collins -5 5 9 -9 7 

 

  Men's over 50's final:       Collins beat Holmes 3-1 

 

  Men's over 60's singles    Peter Fordham beat John Seabrook 7 4 7 

 

  Handicap final                Grimwood beat Seabrook 31 - 15 

 

  Restricted final               Seabrook beat Grimwood -4 6 8 -10 9 

 

  Doubles final                 Warner / Collins beat Baxter / Sinclair 6 8 9


 

SUFFOLK CLOSED SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 11th November 2007

Report by Andrew Dosher

Ryan Collins confirmed his status as the best player in Suffolk at the weekend with a number of dazzling displays to take his first Suffolk singles title at Stowupland. 

In the woman’s singles in a round robin event that went to a count back it was Vicky Gray who took her fourth title on the trot.  

Unfortunately numbers were down again with just 16 male players and five woman players, this didn't deter a number of players in their attempt for silverware though.  

The handicap got the event underway which gives players from all standards the chance to compete, it is just one game up to 31 and one of the highlight matches was Gary Young's match with Nicola Doy, Young trailed 29-8 and looked to be out, however he staged a remarkable comeback to get to just 29-30 down only to lose the next point! Nicola eventually went on to take the title over Ryan Collins, Ryan did however start form -7 against a plus 22 score line!  

In the restricted singles Jason Annal in an early round came from 0-2 down against Ian Brown for a stunning win. Number one seed Malcolm Collins came through to the final to meet Mark Lewis, in a fluctuating game it was Lewis who showed some superb attacking shots to deserve his title. 

In the mixed doubles it was Aimee Sparkes and Richard Hutchinson who overcame Vicky Gray and Andrew Warner, the men’s doubles not surprisingly were won by Ryan and Jake Collins over Andy Warner and Malcolm Collins, while in the woman’s doubles Aimee Sparkes and Sian Cooke beat Vicky Gray and Sonja Talbot. 

In the woman’s singles round robin Sonja Talbot stunned number two seed Vicky Gray by recovering from 10-6 down in the fourth to save four match points and win the match, however other matches went Vicky’s way and she won her other games 3-0, Sian Cook also beat number one seed Aimee Sparkes, which meant that Sian finished as runner up. 

In the men’s singles there were four groups of four with all players seeded, the seedings proved accurate as all eight seeds came through to the knock out stage, there were a few close calls in the group stage as Mark Lewis took a leg off Jake Collins as did father Malcolm in group one and in group four Richard Ingle just went down in five sets to Andrew Dosher. 

This followed with the top four seeds also getting to the semis as Jake was too powerful for Gary Bloomfield, Andrew Warner beat Dosher in four sets, Richard Hutchinson took out Gary Young 3-0 and Ryan Collins beat Wayne Shaw 3-0.  

In the semi's the Ryan looked awesome against Hutchinson looping at will against some of the best returns using his serve to set himself up, despite a brave attempt by Hutchinson who took the third set Ryan cruised through in fourth to reach the final.  

The other semi was more even and exiting as Jake Collins played Andrew Warner, Jake took the first set but Warner got off to a good second leg which he won and then went 2-1 up, back came Jake to just take it to a decider but is seemed Andy was sharper on the exchanges as he led 8-4 and 9-7 however with some determined play much to the frustration of Warner it was Jake that made it through.  

So we had history being made as the first brothers to play in a Suffolk Closed singles final. Jake seeded one due to his national junior ranking found number two seed Ryan in super form, Ryan’s array of forehand and back hand shots put pressure on his brother throughout, though it wasn't all one way, there some good rallies and in the second set with Ryan leading 1-0 Jake put together some power shots to earn himself game point, this though spurred on Ryan to his trademark play and he dully saved game point and went on to take the next two sets for his first senior men’s title.  

Scores from Stowupland

 Men’s singles quarter final

 Jake Collins beat Gary Bloomfield 9 7 11

Andy Warner beat Andrew Dosher 5 9 -9 7

Richard Hutchinson beat Gary Young 13 6 7

Ryan Collins beat Wayne Shaw 5 9 7

 Semi finals

 Jake Collins beat Andy Warner 7 -4 -8 7 9

Ryan Collins beat Richard Hutchinson 9 7 -9 5

 Final - double header with U 21 singles

 Ryan Collins beat Jake Collins 8 12 9

 Woman’s singles round robin

 Vicky Gray winner,  Sian Cook runner up

 Handicap singles final

 Nicola Doy beat Ryan Collins 31 - 2

 Restricted singles final

 Mark Lewis beat Malcolm Collins -9 7 8 -5 6

 Mixed doubles final

 R Hutchinson and A Sparkes beat A Warner and V Gray -8 -5 5 9 9

 Woman’s doubles final

 A Sparkes and S Cooke beat V Gray and S Talbot 7 7 -6 6

 Men’s doubles final

 J and R Collins beat M Collins and A Warner 5 5 4

 

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2006-7

 

 

SUFFOLK SENIOR CLOSED CHAMPIONSHIPS 29th October 2006

(Report by Andrew Dosher)

 

This years Suffolk Senior closed table tennis championships were arguably the most exciting & hard fought in years, with many seeding upsets.

In the men’s singles of the eight top seeds only the winner made it past the quarter finals.

Defending champion Dave Cole was unwell & Wayne Shaw had family commitments, while second & fourth seeds Ryan & Jake Collins failed to qualify from their groups.

The main talking point was the play of new player Rohit Kumar who has only been playing in division one of the Ipswich league.

As no one knew his playing ability he was put in group two with Ryan Collins & Richard Hutchinson, he trailed Ryan 0-2 in their game but came back to win deuce in the fifth, he also took out Richard Hutchinson also in five games. This meant that who ever lost between Ryan & Richard would go out as it went last years runner up & number two seed Ryan went out losing 3-0.

 

In group four Gary Young played above is seeding with first time wins over Andrew Dosher & number four seed Jake Collins to leave the match between these players to determine who would join him, after a hard four set win it was Dosher that went through.

 

In the quarters Kumar continued his progress with a comfortable win over former champion Dosher, as Andrew Warner just missed out against Nigel Hodder 9 in the decider, Hutchinson won 3-0 against Young & Aaron Self  beat fellow Bury player Tony West 3-2.

 

In the semi’s Hutchinson over came Hodder in four sets, while Self gave a good account of himself losing 3-1 to Kumar.

 

In the final Kumar was looking to become a winner from an unseeded position, where as Hutchinson was looking to avenge his earlier group loss & become champion for the fourth time.

 

Kumar just did enough to take the first set, but the game was set as a cat & mouse encounter with neither player totally comfortable against the other, Kumar looping & smashing against the defensive grit of Hutchinson. The next three sets were all tight as Hutchinson used all his experience in defence & attack, one particular rally saw Hutchinson at the edge of the arena chop an unbelievable shot from Kumer & then race in to play an impossible backhand winner from the tightest of angles. Hutchinson eventually won his fourth men’s singles title in seven years & after Suffolk legends John Kitchener & Stuart Palmer become the third most successful men’s singles winner in county history.

 

Amazingly enough in the restricted singles which excludes the highest seeded players, Kumar lost at the first hurdle to former premier player Rex Manning 3-2.

Manning made it all the way to the final where he was beaten by another new player to the league Nitan Shrivastrava.

 

In the woman’s singles Vicky Gray once again lifted the title for the umpteenth time in a round robin group, Sian Cook showed her improvement with a win over Suffolk number three lady Clare Emmerson to get the runners up spot.

 

In the handicap & under 21 singles Ryan Collins beat father Malcolm & Aaron Self respectively.

 

Clare Emmerson & Sian Cook beat Vicky Gray & Sonja Talbot for the womans doubles, while it was another success for Hutchinson & Bloomfield & Warner & Gray in the men’s & mixed doubles respectively.

 

RESULTS

 

Men’s Singles Quarter finals

Hodder beat Warner 5 12 -6 -6 9

Hutchinson beat Young 6 9 4

Self beat West -7 7 5 -4 6

Kumar beat Dosher 1 6 5

 

Semi Finals

Hutchinson beat Hodder   10 12 -7 9

Kumar beat Self   10 7 -7 5

 

Final

Hutchinson beat Kumar -9 9 9 9

 

Womens Singles

Round robin – winner Gray   runner up  Cook

 

Restricted Singles Final

Nitan Shrivastrava beat Rex Manning 6 5 4

 

Handicap Singles Final

Ryan Collins beat Malcolm Collins  31 – 29

 

Under 21 Final

Ryan  Collins beat Aaron Self  3 7 -7 6

 

Mens Doubles Final

Hutchinson & Bloomfield  beat R & J Collins -9 8 10 8

 

Women’s Doubles Final

Emmerson & Cook beat Gray & Talbot  8 -8 6 9

 

Mixed Doubles Final

Warner & Gray beat J Collins & Cook 8 5 8

 

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2005-6

SUFFOLK CLOSED JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 22nd JANUARY 2006(Report by Geoff Brook)

JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 22nd JANUARY 2006

Event

Winner

Runner Up

Score

Boys Under 18

Lee Barnes

Ryan Collins

7,-4,-10,10,6

Girls Under 18

Chelsea Bennett

Gemma Butler

Round Robin

Girls Under 15

Stacey Howard

Alice Carroll

Round Robin

Boys Under 15

Jake Collins

Josh Broadbent

3,10,5

Girls Under 13

Stacey Howard

Alice Carroll

Round Robin

Boys Under 13

Josh Broadbent

Aston Dowdy

7,2,4

Junior Doubles

Ryan Collins/Jake Collins

Chelsea Bennett/Lee Barnes

7,8,9

 

 

In the Junior event 43 players participated with 6 players from Capel St. Mary making their presence felt.

 

In the under 18 boys singles Lok Wong from Bury came through to the semi finals & was unseeded, a terrific effort but he wasn't able to halt Champion Lee Barnes & went down in straight sets. In the other semi final brothers Ryan & Jake played with Ryan winning 3-1

 

The final was much looked forword to as this season Ryan & Lee have played a number of times Ryan beating Lee at the Ipswich top 12 & the Suffolk senior championships, while Lee won their league encounter.

 

This game didn't dissapoint as the players played in front of a large crowd, Barnes took the first set but was pegged back in the next & just lost the third at duce, in the fourth Ryan had two match points at 10-8 but Barnes showed his mettle saving a match point with a spectacular shot & eventually took the fourth, in the fifth Ryan led 6-5 & then didn't score another point as Barnes retained his title.

 

In the under 18 girls Chelsea Bennett was a clear winner winning all three of her games in this round robin event, in a count back Gemma Butler was the runner up.

 

It was good to see a number of new juniors coming through & in the girls under 15 & under 13 singles Stacey Howard beat Alice Carroll for top spot to runner up in a round robin event.

 

Josh Broadbent gave Jake Collins a difficult second set but went down 3-0 in the final of the under 15 boys singles, Josh though got some silverware by winning the under 13 boys singles.

 

Suffolk county chairman Geoff Brook was particularly pleased with the attendance & performance of some of the newer players & praised Ron & Reine Clark for their help with the junior event.

 

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SUFFOLK CLOSED VETERANS CHAMPIONSHIPS 22nd JANUARY 2006(Report by Andrew Dosher)

 

VETTS CHAMPIONSHIPS 22nd JANUARY 2006

Event

Winner

Runner Up

Score

Over 40’s

Fred Dove

Nigel Hodder

9,8,-8,5

Over 50’s

Fred Dove

Dave Halliday

10,9,9

Over 60’s

Dave Halliday

Peter Fordham

Round Robin

Restricted

Malcolm Collins

Ian Brown

8,-7,10,-6,10

Handicap

Dave Halliday

Fred Dove

2, 0

Doubles

Andy Warner/Fred Dove

Dave Halliday/John Tallent

13,7,-8,5

 

In the Veterans event's Fred Dove in the early part of the day swiftly got to the final of the over 50's events beating Clive Grimwood & Phil Sinclair on route, he was joined by Dave Halliday who had come from 0-2 to beat Ian Brown in the semi's.

In the final Dove ran out a 3-0 with all games being close.

 

Dove & Halliday again played in the handicap final but as Halliday isn't ranked in Suffolk he was given a good handicap that Dove wasn't able to catch, Halliday ran out a 2-0 winner.

 

In the restricted final Ian Brown just lost out in a thriller with Malcolm Collins deuce in the fifth.

 

In the mens doubles Hallday & Tallent knocked out number two seeds Dosher & Fulcher & then went down to Warner & Dove in the final

3-1.

 

Paul Packwood, Peter Fordham & Dave Halliday played a round robin to determine the over 60's singles champion, Hallday won beating the other players.

 

In the main event the over 40's men's singles there were four groups with the top two players going through to the knockout stage.

 

Both the top two seeds Fred Dove & Andrew Dosher won all their games to go through as winners, but in group 3 Warner went down to Andrew Holmes & finished second, while Dave Halliday beat Nigel Hodder to be the group winner there.

 

At the semi final stage all top four seeds still came through, Warner beat Dosher 3-0 & saved game points in both the first two games, while Dove came through 3-1 against Hodder.

 

In the final the first two sets were shared, but Warner was playing at his best & even though Dove was struggling with an injury & conceded later in the fourth set found it hard to contain his opponents backhand, Warner a deserved winner.

 

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SUFFOLK CLOSED SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 23rd OCTOBER 2005(report by Andrew Dosher)

 

SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 23rd OCTOBER 2005

Event

Wnr/R/up

Names

Score

Mens Singles

Winner

 Runner – Up

Dave Cole

Ryan Collins

11/9,3/11,9/11,11/1

18/16

Ladies Singles 

Winner

 Runner – Up       

Vicky Gray

Aimee Sparkes

11/8, 12/10, 11/5

Handicap Singles

 Winner    

 Runner – Up        

Ryan Collins

Dave Cole

21/16, 21/9

Restricted Singles

Winner

 Runner – Up               

Tony West

Ian Brown

13/11, 11/5, 11/4

Under 21 Singles

Winner 

Runner – Up