National Championships

Umpires Course September 2022

Ormesby v Archway Peterborough

Cleveland County Over 60’s

SBL at Ormesby

Cleveland County Vets

The reformed Cleveland County Vets team made the long journey to St Neots and came away with 2 wins and a draw.

British Premier League

Sam Maybe – Player Of the Match

Ormesby moved to the top of the British Table Tennis League on Friday evening with a 4-3 victory over the Northern Ireland team, Ormeau, in Belfast.

Ormesby’s 4 wins were scored by Sam Mabey and Ryan Jenkins who both won their two singles.  Mabey was nominated as Man of the Match after he beat Ashley Robinson 3-0 in his first singles and then beat Zack Wilson by the same score in this second match.  Jenkins had more difficulty.  In the opener he beat Wilson by 12-10 in the fourth game and was also taken to four games in his second set against James Skelton where Ryan won 11-8, 11-5 in the third and fourth games.

Ormeau’s three sets were recorded in the surprise doubles win when Wilson and Robinson beat Jenkins and Mabey in straight games.  Ormesby’s third player, Ben Piggott lost his two sets against Skelton and Robinson.

Ormesby are now top of the table with a maximum 9 points from the 3 matches played so far.  Ormeau are second with 7 points from 3.  Third is Archway Peterborough who have 6 points from 2 matches.  Ormesby entertain Archway in their next match on the 23^rd January 2022.

British Premier League

Thomas Rayner

Ormesby are amongst the leaders at the top of the Premier Division of the British Table Tennis League after their 5-2 victory against the Essex Club BATTS in Harlow on Saturday 30^th October.

The match was closer than the score line suggests.  Ormesby’s Sam Mabey was the most successful player winning both his singles and combining with Helshan Weerasinghe to win the doubles.  Thomas Rayner made his contribution with a 14-12 victory in his second singles over Jack Bennett who is ranked 28 places above Rayner in the England Senior Rankings List.

The match started with the first two singles when Bennett, against expectations, secured at 11-9 in the deciding game victory over Ormesby number 1, Helshan Weerasinghe.  Mabey won his first match 11-8 in the decider against Shayan Siraj.

With the score at 1-1, Weerasinghe and Mabey won comfortably in the doubles.

In the next two singles Ethan Walsh for BATTS beat Rayner in straight games and Weerasinghe won 11-7 in the fifth against Siraj.

This meant that Ormesby had to win one of the two remaining sets to clinch the victory but at one stage this looked in jeopardy as both Mabey and Rayner were 2 games to 1 down in their singles, but Mabey recovered to win the fourth at 11-7 against Walsh and the decider 11-4 whilst Rayner produced an excellent result to beat Bennett at 14-12 in the 5^th game.

This victory puts Ormesby in second place in the League table behind Archway Peterborough on sets difference as both teams have maximum of 6 points from the opening two fixtures.

Ormesby’s next fixture is away in Northern Ireland to Ormeau on the 26^th November.

Alan Ransome-Chairman

TT KIDZ at Ormesby TTC

British League Premier 2021/2022

Ryan Jenkins

The fixtures for the Premier Division of the British League have been announced this week.

This year playing for our First Team are Helshan Weerasinghe plus Ryan Jenkins, the former Welsh Champion who signed last year but there were no matches played, and Sam Mabey who is the current England no. 9.

We are also looking to include our top juniors in the team including Ben Piggott, Thomas Rayner, Josh Weatherby and David Gofton who are all in our Championship DivThe first away match of the new season for the Ormesby 1 team is away to Ormeau 1 in Ireland.ision team with Denis Neale as the non-playing Captain.

Ormesby’s first match of the new season is away to Ormeau in Ireland on Saturday 18 September.

Ormesby’s first home match in the 2021/2022 British League Premier season is on October 2 when they play North Ayrshire of Scotland at the Ormesby Club.

Ormesby at Ormesby Hall

National U10-U13’s

At the University of Warwick, on the 3rd and 4th of July the Mark Bates Ltd. U10-U13 National Championships take place and three young Ormesby players are really looking forward to the event.

Tom Wardell and Ella Pashley who are both 12 will be playing on Saturday and 11 year old Jack Hodgson will play on Sunday.

Visit from Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald

Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald visited Ormesby Table Tennis Club this morning during one of the club’s 50plus sessions.

With the club still being reduced to 9 tables instead of the usual 15 due to the current Covid restrictions, there was still a really good atmosphere.

Club Chairman with Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald

MP Andy enjoyed a few minutes on the robot leading to the suggestion that perhaps we should sign him up for one of the Ormesby Teams!!!!

Chairman’s Newsletter

Dear Members,

As I am sure most of you will be aware the announcement from Boris Johnson on Monday means a further delay in the Club being able to return to the normal programme after the pandemic.

We are, therefore, needing to keep the current arrangements in place until further notice from the Government which is expected towards the end of July.

Generally the Club sessions are going well, even with the restrictions and the majority of our objectives are being met.

One of the these is to help our top juniors to perform well in National competitions.  This weekend is the English National Cup and of the thirteen selected boys, no less than five have come through the Ormesby Club, Josh Weatherby, Thomas Rayner, Ben Piggott, David Gofton and Joe Cope.  Unfortunately, Thomas has had to withdraw due to an injury.  Their progress can be followed on the TTE Facebook page over the weekend.

We had a meeting of the Trustees on Sunday and we are planning to go ahead with two initiatives which are targeted at helping the Club’s finances.  We are launching a Sport England Crowdfunder project shortly which can result in a £10,000 automatic award from Sport England provided we meet our targets.  This is likely to be launched as soon as the full return is confirmed by the Government and all Club members assistance with this would be greatly appreciated.

Further details will be issued shortly.

Finally, by joining together Top Squad coaches including Denis Neale and Carole Moore and our Community Coach, Malcolm Muldoon, we are looking to launch a new Hopes programme which is targeting primary schools children.

After the lockdown has been lifted we are looking to promote a “Find the Next Star” day which will be widely publicised and invites parents to bring their youngsters to the Club for effectively, a trial.

We are also planning to increase the number of primary schools that we will be working with in the next school term in order to generate more interest from talented youngsters in our catchment area.

If you know of any parents and youngsters who may be interested in coming along to the “Find the Next Star” day then please let them know that this is coming up and that they would have an opportunity to participate on the day.

I will keep you advised of the Clubs progress as the Governments timetable progresses.

Best Wishes

Alan Ransome OBE

European Youths for Ben

European Youths

Ormesby Top Squad player Ben Piggott has been selected for the Junior (under 19’s) England Squad.

Ben will travel to Varazdin in Croatia to compete in the European Youths Championships.

The junior event runs from July 18th until the 24th.

Almost there – now its the seniors turn to play

Dear Members,

Following the Government’s announcement on Monday, I am pleased to be able to advise all of our members that we are able to invite everyone to participate in the Club’s programmes from next Monday 17^th May.

The restrictions due to the Covid virus have not been fully lifted, we are still in a restricted mode, which means that we can only use 9 tables and all of the requirements regarding masks and other procedures, remain in place but nevertheless this does allow everyone to participate in the Club’s sessions.  Social distancing, face masks and good hygiene needs to be maintained at all times.

The U18’s, both with Top Squad and the Hopes groups, have been able to operate from 12^th April.  With regard to the Top Squad, it means that the senior players who are members of the Top Squad are also able to participate from Monday.

This will also mean that parents will be able to wait in the lounge during sessions, however, the same principal of masks and social distancing must be observed.

For the Top Squad, bookings are still required with Carole Moore

50+, Hopes and Open sessions are to be booked with Brenda Stephenson brenda_stephenson@hotmail.com  Mobile: 07803 137285.

Once the session is full i.e. 18 players, then no more will be allowed into that session, so if you book late there is a chance you may not be included in that particular session.

With regards to the cafe opening, the date for this is under consideration but will not be from the start of this return.  We will keep you informed of the progress which is being made with this facility.

The programme is therefore:

Top Squad – keep training

Ben Piggott gets ready to serve

Covid-19 has proved to be a challenging time for the Junior Top Squad players at Ormesby although they have still been practicing when and wherever possible.

Zoom practice sessions have proved popular and TT robots have come in very useful.

Edward Adams left and Spencer Wardell 

Some of the Under 18’s have enjoyed playing with the England Junior and Cadet players at Ormesby TTC in combined training camps.

Juniors return to play