SUPER ROUND ROBIN – June 16 2024

GROUP ONE WINNER – ZAC GREENHOUGH with GARY WHYMAN

ZAC with runner up JACK FERGUSON

GROUP ONE – FINAL POSITIONS

1  Zac Greenhough  9 wins

2  Jack Ferguson  8 wins

3  Jamie Lupton  7 wins

4  Ryan Nassau  6 wins

5  Adam Watson  5 wins

6  Michael Young  5 wins

7  David Sherwood  3 wins

8  James Dale  2 wins

9  Aaron Christie  1 win

10  Shashwatt Saran

GROUP TWO WINNER DORIAN CHEUNG with GARY WHYMAN

DORIAN CHEUNG left – with JACK BUCKLEY – GROUP TWO RUNNER UP

GROUP TWO – FINAL POSITIONS

1  Dorian Cheung 8 wins

2   Jack Buckley 7 wins

3  Pat Clements 7 wins

4  Charlie Burnside 6 wins

5  Lewis Paton  6 wins

6  Phoebe O’brien 4 wins

7  Shane Iceton  3 wins

8  Euan Jack  2 wins

9  Harriet Goodwin 2 wins

10 Evie Main

ALIYA  ZHUZBAYEVE – GROUP THREE WINNER with GARY WHYMAN

GROUP THREE – FINAL POSITIONS

1  Aliya Zhuzbayeva  6 wins

2  Mila Gao  5 wins

3  Gary Dawson  5 wins

4  Mindy Goa  4 wins

5  Isabelle Graham  3 wins

6  Michael  Wright  3 wins

7  Niamh White  1 win

8  Neil Santon  1 win

9  Terry Bache

10 Ben Chambers

ALIYA with Group 3 runner up MILA GOA

The winners and Runners up in each group received £50 and £30 respectively.

Ormesby Super Round Robin

Butterfly Schools Team Finals 2024

Well done to the Under 11 Girls team from Bankfields Primary School, Eston.

The girls who are all coached at Ormesby Table Tennis Club in the Pathway Development Centre, finished in third place at the Butterfly Schools Team finals in Wolverhampton on Sunday 28 April

Malcolm Muldoon who coached the girls is pictured with them Evie Main and twins Mila and Mindy Gao.

All three girls will still be at Bankfields Primary School next year and will hopefully have another attempt to represent their school.

Middlesbrough League

As the Middlesbrough League moves into the final couple of weeks of the

2023/2024 season

Ormesby A are currently in top place and

Ormesby C Pirates are top of the handicap league.

 Both teams played each other last week.

The result – Ormesby A won 10-0 and the Pirates won the handicap league 8-1.

Ormesby girls runners in WBL

left to right Rebecca Savage, Karina Le Fevre, Ella Pashley and Mollie Paterson with their coach Alan Ransome OBE.

Congratulations to the team who finished in second place in the 2023/24

Women’s British League Premier Division

Christmas Party

Ormesby Juniors Christmas Party

The ‘Juniors Christmas Party’ was held at the Club yesterday.

All the children had a great time joining in the fun games which was followed by food and drinks – non alcoholic of course!

The Awards were presented by Club Chairman Alan Ransome OBE.

Two were presented for the most improved players.  Mindy Gao for the girls and Zac Greenhough for the boys.

Aaron Christie received his award for the ‘Junior Contribution’ to the club.

From left to right – Zac Greenhough, Aaron Christie, Alan Ransome and Mindy Gao.

Middlesbrough Primary Schools

Well done to Acklam Whin Primary School who won the Middlesbrough Primary Schools team competition held at the Ormesby club on Friday 8th December.

All the the Primary School teams had four boys and four girls in each team.

Three of the boys from the winning team are members of the Ormesby Hopes Squad. 
Thomas Workman centre is holding the trophy.

Cleveland County Matches

Ormesby Table Tennis Club are hosting four County Vets teams on Saturday December 2nd.

The four teams playing at Ormesby are Northumbria, Durham and the Cleveland 1st and 2nd teams.

The first round of matches begin at 10.00am, the second at 1.00pm and the third at 4.00pm.

All four teams will then play the other four teams at Leeds, Yorkshire, Northampton, Staffordshire and Lancashire. The final round of matches will be played in April 2024.

Spectators are welcome and there is no charge.

Table Tennis for KIDS

Ormesby Senior Open 2star June 11 2023

Ben Piggott winner of Group 1

All pictures by Karl Shaw

Ben Piggott was the winner of the top group in the first Ormesby Senior Open 2 Star Tournament which was played at the club on Teesside on Sunday 11^th June.  Ben’s toughest match was against his Ormesby team mate, Thomas Rayner, where Piggott won by 3 games to 1.

Tom Rayner who finished second in Group 1 with Alan Ransome presenting Tom with his prize money.

This tournament was run on a large group basis with the top group being for 8 players.  Ben Piggott won the rest of his matches in straight games.  Thomas Rayner was first challenged by fast improving cadet, Zac Greenhough who was leading 2-1 before Rayner recovered to win the last two games 11 – 8 and 11 – 5.  Rayner also had a five set match with Karina le Fevre which he won 11 – 6 in the decider.

GROUP 1 positions

1. Ben Piggott,
2. Tom Rayner
3. Karina Lefevre
4. Martin Lowe
5. Zac Greenhough
6. Jamie Lupton
7. Rebecca Savage
8. Martin Perry

Karina finished who finished 3rd in group one.

Martin Lowe from Scarborough finishing in 4^th place.

 The competition was played on a ranking group basis with 8 or 9 players in each of the 5 groups.  Although the event was mixed singles, there was a prize for the top lady player and this was won by Karina le Fevre who beat her Ormesby team mate, Rebecca Savage by 3 games to nil.

Winner of Group 2 Janet Adams

Group 2 was won by Yorkshire’s Janet Adams who finished equal top with Ormesby’s Ryan Nassau, but Adams was declared the winner on the basis of the head to head match which was won by Janet at 11-8 in the the fifth in the first match of the day.   Adams only defeat was to Louis Fell by 3 games to 1.  As Nassau won all the rest of his games despite losing the opening set to Adams.

GROUP 2 positions

1. Janet Adams
2. Ryan Nassau
3. Michael Young
4. Louis Fell
5. Wesley Burrough
6. Helmuth Osborne
7. Jamie Collins
8. Joseph Allen.

Jamal Mohamed who was runner up in Group 3

Group 3’s winner was Leo Conn after a count back.

In the game between Jamal and Leo, Jemal beat Leo 11-9 in the fifth end

GROUP 3 positions

1. Leo Conn
2. Jemal Mohamed
3. Ryan Morton
4. Glenn Hodgson
5. Ewan Williams
6. Aaron Christie
7. Pat Clements
8. Shane Iceton

The fourth group was split into two sections A and B with James Bradbury first and Rafael Duarte second in Group 4b

GROUP 4apositions

1. James Bradbury
2. Rafael Duarte
3. Howard McCain
4. Philip Hansom
5. Adam Watson
6. Nigel Green
7. Barbara Dumphy
8. Euan Jack

Gareth Pearson Group 4b winner

Group 4b group was won by Northumberland’s Gareth Pearson who beat Michael Yip by 3 games to 1

GROUP 4b positions

1. Gareth Pearson
2. Michael Yip
3. James Moore
4. Shahwat Saran
5. Alan Brown
6. Paul Conn
7. David Brown
8. Charl Myburgh

 The event ran very well on 9 tables and produced a format which proved very popular with the participants with a model system to be repeated in future events at the club.

Ormesby Crowdfunder

I am pleased to announce that we have launched our Crowdfunder programme in order to raise funds to support the development plan that I sent to you recently including the refurbishment of some aspects of the Club.

The Crowdfunder programme is a project in conjunction with Sport England.  If we can raise £10,000 in donations then Sport England will match this figure with a further £10,000, therefore, raising £20,000 for the club.

The funding from this Crowdfunder is to partly increase participation in sections of the community including the 50+, disability, schools and senior groups as well as to upgrade the facility for all users.

We will increase the number of people who play the sport and the number of sessions we run every week.

The funding will be also used towards the upgrade of the club. The current facilities of the club are largely based on the former school sports hall and whilst they have worked well for the 17 years that the club has been operating an upgrade of the facilities is really needed.  This will include a new specialist ITTF approved floor to replace the one that was in place when we took over the sports hall and to improve the changing facilities and toilets to bring them up to modern standards. Improve the presentation of the exterior of the club as some aspects are becoming tired including the signage and the facia boards around the top of the building.  Replace the table tennis tables which worked very well for the club over the period but do need to be renewed and new tables will clearly provide a playing improvement.

We need to have 100 people donating and there is no limit to the level of donation, so it could just be a £5 donation with no upper limit.

Our programme is also eligible for Gift Aid, so if a donor is a UK taxpayer the Club could benefit from an additional 25% of the value of the donation.

To encourage support, we have been able to secure a number of incentives which we hope you will find attractive.  These rewards are:

• Family photograph shoot from our Deputy Chairman, Karl Shaw, who is a professional photographer and runs a design studio.

• £30. Voucher from Morrison’s supermarket

• 4 x 30 minute coaching sessions on a 1-to-1 or group basis with Carole Moore.

In addition to this, our equipment sponsors, Tees Sport, have provided 50 boxes of 12 Butterfly R40 3* table tennis balls.

Your donations need to be registered with Crowdfunder by following the linkhttps://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/ormesby-ttc-community-development-programme

The Crowdfunder programme is just one part of our new activities which include a number of other developments and fund-raising schemes, as detailed in the Development Plan that was sent to you recently.

One of the incentives that we have discussed with regard to the new programme is to host more tournaments at the Ormesby Club.  An initiative from Richard Scruton is to run an Ormesby Open Tournament as a 2* and this has been agreed with Table Tennis England for the 10^th June.  This will be an Open Tournament with mixed singles, so both men and women can enter, and we organise on a ranking basis so that 8 players of a similar standard play each other.

Your support for our Crowdfunding programme would be greatly appreciated.

Alan Ransome

National Cadet and Junior League 2022/23

Arrangements are in hand for the National Junior League and the National Cadet League

to run in the North East for next season.

The dates are:

NJL – Saturdays

15^th October 2022

19^th November 2022

21^st January 2023

25^th February 2023

NCL – Sundays

6^th November 2022

27^th November 2022

8^th January 2023

12^th March 2023

The venue is Ormesby TTC.

Entry forms are available on the TTE website and can be downloaded.

https://www.tabletennisengland.co.uk/competitions/national-cadet-and-junior-league/

Double Celebration

Latest results from the European Trophy women – Region A

Karina Le Fevre

FIRST ROUND OF MATCHES

Joola Plymouth TTC 0 – 3 Fusion TTC

Evie Collier v Elena Todirca 11-9, 7-11, 10-12, 7-11

Rachel Trevorrow v Sanne De Hoop 11-8, 11-9, 4-11, 3-11, (1 – 6)

Gemma Kerr v Danielle Kelly 4-11, 4-11, 8-11

Draycott & Long Eaton TTC 3 – 0 St Neots TTC

Sophie Earley v Steffi Popa 11-3, 11-5, 11-2

Erin Green v Lorissa Titiarskaja 11-6, 11-5, 11-5

Megan Jones v Ella Barnard 11-9, 8-11, 11-1, 11-6

Ormesby TTC 3 – 1 Murrayfield TTC

Karina Le Fevre v Meijun Qu 15 -13, 11-3. 8- 11, 11- 8

Rebecca Savage v Mae Ng 13-15, 6-11, 3-11

Charlotte Weatherby v Yuxi Ren 11-5, 11-4, 12-14, 12-10

Karina Le Fevre v Mae Ng 14- 12, 10-12, 11-8, 8-11,  (6-4)

SECOND ROUND OF MATCHES

St Neots TTC 1 – 3 Murrayfield TTC

Larisa Titieuskaja v Mae Ng 5-11, 5-11, 8-11

Ella Bardard v Meijun Qu 7-11, 7-11, 7-11

Lowri Hurd v Yuxi Ren 11-8, 9-11, 7-11, 13-11,  (6-0)

Larisa Titieuskaja v Meijun Qu 7-11, 11-6, 11-7, 6-11 (1-6)

Fusion TTC 1 – 3 Ormesby TTC

Elena Todirca v Charlotte Weatherby 7-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-6

Sanne De Hoop v Karina Le Fevre 11-7, 10-12, 4-11, 6-11

Tiana Dennison v Rebecca Savage 9-11, 11-5, 9-11, 11-4, (5-6)

Danielle Kelly v Karina Le Fevre 4-11, 16-14, 10-12, 6-11

Joola Plymouth TTC 0 – 3 Draycott & Long Eaton TTC

Rachel Trevorrow v Megan Jones 4-11, 9-11, 7-11

Evie Collier v Sophie Earley 7-11, 10-12, 3-11

Gemma Kerr v Anna Green 11-13, 11-2, 9-11, 5

THIRD ROUND OF MATCHES

Draycott & Long Eaton TTC 3 – 1 Ormesby TTC

Sophie Earley v Rebecca Savage 11-3, 11-2, 11-5

Erin Green v Karina Le Fevre 7-11, 6-11, 12-10, 6-11

Anna Green v Charlotte Weatherby 11-6, 5-11, 11-2, 11-9

Sophie Earley v Karina Le Fevre 6-11, 11-6, 11-4, 11-5

MurrayField TTC 1 – 3 Fusion TTC

Mae Ng v Danielle Kelly 9-11, 11-9, 8-11, 12-14

Maejun Qu v Elena Todirca 5-11, 11-3, 7-11, 11-5, (6-2)

Yuxi Ren v Tiana Dennison 11-9, 6-11, 11-7, 8-11, (4-6)

Mae Ng v Sanne De Hoop 8-11, 3-11, 7-11,

Joola Plymouth 3 – 0 St Neots TTC

Evie Collier v Ella Bernard 11-9, 11-7, 11-7

Rachel Trevorrow c Steffi Popa 11-5, 11-8, 12-10

Gemma Kerr v Lowri Hurd 12-10, 14-12, 11-9

EUROPEAN TROPHY – Women Section

This weekend the club are hosting the most important competition for many years, as we have been asked to conduct the qualification tournament for the European Women’s Trophy by the European Table Tennis Union.

This event will take place over this weekend.  There will be 6 teams in the event.

1.  Joola Plymouth TTC
2.  Fushion TTC – London
3.  Draycott & Long Eaton TTC – Derby
4.  St, Neots Table Tennis Club
5.  Ormesby Table Tennis Club (host)
6.  Murrayfield TTC – Edinburgh

There will be three matches with the first match at 11:00am on Saturday morning and two matches on Sunday starting at 10:30am.  The winners of the competition will qualify for the European Trophy Finals.

This competition sees a return of our most successful female player for many years, Karina Lefevre.  Karina retired from international play 2 or 3 years ago but is coming back to represent the club in this competition and is likely to be representing the club in more competitions next season.  We are pleased to welcome Karina back.  She won many important junior titles within her successful career which spanned almost 10 years, and she represented England in many competitions including the Senior World, European and Commonwealth competitions.  Also, included in the Ormesby team are Rebecca Savage and Charlotte Weatherby.

British Premier League

Results for all British League matches – league tables – players averages etc.

can be viewed on the

Sport 80 Table Tennis England Website

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Ormesby’s next match of the Premier Division of the British League is at home to Fusion on Saturday 19^th February with a 2:00pm start.  Fusion are a mid-table team who can provide strong opposition.

The Fusion team is headed by the number 1 veteran player, Lorestas Trumpauskas, who is currently ranked number 10 in the senior list.  He is supported by two fast improving young players who have jumped up the ranking this season, Joshua Bruce and Robert Pelc.

The Ormesby team has also got a youthful element to it.  Sam Mabey, who is close to the averages for the British League with 5 wins from 6 matches.  He is supported by two players from our Championship team who are placed second in their division, Thomas Rayner and David Gofton.  Please find attached a poster for the match and please bring along family and friends.

Junior British League

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The three Ormesby Junior Teams with their coaches

Back row left to right Jake Haygarth. Sina Gharraie, Tom Rayner, Denis Neale coach, David Gofton. Josh Weatherby and Alan Ransome coach.

Front Row left to right Tom Wardell, Eve Witterick, Ella Pashley, Jyothi Ghanta and Ben Piggott.

picture by Chris Rayner

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THThe Club teams performed well in the Junior British League last weekend, in particular the boys first team who won silver medals finishing in second position behind Draycott, who’s team includes two prominent guest players.  Ormesby did well to win two matches, drew two and the only loss was to Draycott.  The percentage over the season for the players are; Ben Piggott 75%, Josh Weatherby 55.5%, Thomas Rayner 46% and David Gofton 44%.

The Ormesby junior girls’ team who were in the second division, achieved silver medal position in their competition, finishing behind the team from Cippenham with whom they drew on Sunday.  The Ormesby team included Ella Pashley and Eve Witterick including guest player Jyothi Ghanta.  The averages for the season are; Ella Pashley 85%, Eve Witterick 50% and Jyothi Ghanta 65%.

This weekend the team drew two matches with Cippenham which included the top Jersey player Hannah Silcock who was unbeaten the whole season.  We also played a draw with Sophia Gardens, the team from Cardiff who are basically the Welsh team.  Ormesby won their remaining three fixtures.

National Championships

Umpires Course September 2022

Ormesby v Archway Peterborough