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Key Facts

Liam Meets PM

Senior Masters

Junior Masters

18 Letters

Team Handicap

5th-6th Division Cup

Liam Wins National

A Relegation Day Toast

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The two nearest photos are donated byDidier Garccedilon and so are al l photos and

videos inside that show the Junior Masters(PP 30-31) Wel l done Didier

AprilMay 2012

Divisional reportpage numbers

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ASSOCIATION

Editor DEREK WAVELL

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End of Season - Start of WhatHere be accounts of exciting final clashes in all divisions - illus-

trated with some sizzling photos and videos taken at the Senior andJunior Masters and the Impact Challenge Shield Final Incidentally ifyou are disappointed that your own photo never appears(as I would like too) - why not turn up for the occa-sions when these photos are taken The annualprize giving and the tournaments many of which givereal opportunities to players from all Divisions Toofew players enter at present

One season ends - what of the next The hot topic is- will the league continue its long shrinking processor can it expand again in this Olympics year Readingminds have been thinking about this at all levels - and now I hope youwill make your own comment by clicking on a yellow speech balloonon this Newsletter (It should work if you have the latest version ofAdobe Reader) You can look at 3 pages of ideas already givenSome of them sound odd But remember the minds that count arenot only ours but those outside the league - who wonrsquot be attracted inif we just go sailing along pleasing ourselves in the old way

So please speak up - and recruit more players yourself too Whynot take a bat on your next trip to the takeaway and bounce a ball inthe queue If you spot a wistful smile anywhere then thatrsquos someonewho is already interested

Have a good summer - and a fine next season

Derek

Announcements from our Chairman Nigel MaltbyAnnouncements from our Chairman Nigel Maltby1 The RDTTA Awards Presentation evening will be held at the Curzon Club in Oxford Road

Reading on Tuesday 8th May 2012 Parking will be in the Tescos car park off RichfieldAvenue We would ask that attenders arrive by 730pm with the presentations due to startshortly afterwards As well as all the winners and runners-up trophy presentations fromthe league and the Reading Closed there will also be the annual awards for the BestJunior Performance Most Improved Junior and the Harold Larcombe SportmanshipAward and many others All recipients of trophies are asked either to attend or at least senda representative to collect their award on their behalf

2 AGM - The RDTTA AGM will be held on Wednesday 6th June 2012 at OLOP starting at 730pmprompt Club Secretaries will be notified shortly All Clubs are reminded that they must send at least one repre-sentative to the AGM

3 Impact Challenge Shield - Our Lady of Peace lsquoArsquo made it a treble winning season as they added the ImpactChallenge Trophy to their Division 1 title and Team Handicap successes by defeating a two man Kingfisher lsquoArsquoside in the final - see more (with photos) on P4

Reading amp District Table Tennis Association Newsletter httpwwwrdttacouknewslettersphp April 2012 2

Liam plays with the PM at Downing Street ReceptionSixteen year old Waingels College student Liam McTiernan played table tennis with Prime Minister David Cameron at

Downing Street recently having been invited to take part in an Olympic GamesCelebration reception The event was also attended by Jacques Rogge andMembers of the IOC Princess Anne and Lord Coe He said afterwards that theexperience was one of the best in his life

Over the Easter holidays Liam took part in the ISF World Schoolsrsquo Table TennisChampionships in Cagliari Sardinia Playing in his first international tournamentand representing English Schools he shone in a four boy team which finished fifthoverall (out of seven countries)

Up against some of the best players in Europe and the Far East Liam won a high-ly creditable 7 out of 12 matches including fine victories over highly ranked DarioLoreto (Italy) Leo Perrin and Joe Seyfried (France) and further doubles against theTurkish and Greek national schools teams Four of these wins came in the decid-ing game

Liam couldnrsquot quite muster a win in the matches against very strong Chinese orChinese Taipei (Taiwan) teams but did take individual games and played excep-tionally well against world class opponents

Liam went on to compete in the English Schools Under 16 IndividualChampionships in Doncaster - which he won See report on page 32

PHOTOS ON FRONT COVER Top Left Josh Gallen (foreground) plays Ka Lo Chiu at the Reading Closed Middle right Chris Moses helps Michael Slingo at a Sunday morning coaching session at OLOP In the circle PM David Cameron with Liam McTiernan (see top of this page)

A Relegation Day Toastby a Team Captain

Thanks in advance for the sympathy and I suppose Ishould be feeling miserable about so many lost matchesbut honestly I have to confess I loved every fixtureLooking at the figures you wouldnrsquot know how we foughtwith what optimism and game plans in every match or howmuch we enjoyed every point Even the one match whichwe lost 10 ndash 0 was tightrope-walking stuff all the way Onlyby the fiercest of contests did our opponents beat us

Over the years Irsquove been in lots of teams Some whichwon everything ndash and then felt they had wasted a seasonbecause the opposition wasnrsquot up to scratch Some whereone strong man kept his team going single handed ndash eg a

defensive player who could never find scope to develop hisattack because his team mates needed every point he won

Maybe we were in the best position of all this yearAlthough we didnrsquot win matches we had excellent teams toplay against who were just a bit better than us all throughthe season ndash the ideal situation for improving our game

So Irsquoll drink to my team mates who never once lost heartor (barring injury) turned down an invitation to play alwaysgiving it their most brilliant shot Good health to them Athousand years And to our opponents too who playedsuperbly and always gave us such a good time Goodhealth to them too and a lot of it


Hari Gehlot won the ReadingSenior Masters tournament in aday of surprise results and

superbly entertain-ing table tennis atthe KingfisherClub last week-end Hari had ear-lier beaten MartinAdams 11-9 11-5 11-8 in his group wheredefeat would have

knocked him out of thecompetition after he hadpreviously lost to TonyReynolds 11-13 11-810-12 6-11 He thenrecovered from twogames to nil down in hissemi-final to beat MartinChodounsky 7-11 8-1111-7 12-10 11-7Adams meanwhileknocked out reigningchampion Daniel Mosesin their semi-final clash11-6 4-11 11-6 11-3Hari though capped asensational dayrsquos playwhen he came back

from two games to one and4-10 down in the final towin 11-8 9-11 7-11 12-1011-8

In the earlier groups HariMartin Adams and Tony

Reynolds had picked up threewins apiece with the top two

places decided on a games countback By taking a game in his 3 - 1

defeat to Tony Hari finished top withAdams finishing as runner-up after hehad opened the group with a 3 - 0defeat of Tony 11-2 11-6 11-5 Tonywas unlucky to miss out after his finewin against Hari had looked certain toput him through only for Hari to gainan unexpected 3 - 0 victory againstAdams Bradley King finished infourth place after he struggled to a 5-11 13-11 8-11 11-5 11-9 victory overDivision 2 representative Neil Bird

In Group 1 Daniel Moses and MartinChodounsky both qualified for thesemi-finals with Daniel topping the group after he defeated Chodounski13-11 11-4 12-10 Ian Cole manageda fine 11-6 10-12 7-11 11-6 11-9 victo-ry over Stuart Williams to finish infourth place while Krasi Ivanov was

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KRASI IVANOV (L) v MARTIN CHODOUNSKI

IAN COLE (R) BEATSTUART WILLIAMS

HARI GEHLOT

MARTIN ADAMS

4

third with some stylish play to beat both Stuart and Ian

indeed he almost pulled off a shock win against Danielbefore eventually losing out 11-3 9-11 8-11 11-6 7-11

Martin Adams played some of his best table tennis todefeat Daniel Moses in their semi final while in the othersemi final Martin Chodounsky played exceptionally well toopen up a two game lead over Hari Gehlot however Harihit back just holding his nerve in the fourth game to winthat 12-10 and wrapping up victory in the fifth gamedecider 11-7 Chodounski went on to finish in third placeoverall after winning a play-off with Daniel 11-3 11-9 11-9

The final was a very close affair Hari took the first 11-8 Adams hit back to win the next two games content tosit back mostly and block Harirsquos loop with his deft touchplay At 10-4 ahead in the next Adams looked to have thematch in the bag however somehow Hari clawed his way

back winning point after point as Adams visibly tensed upnear the end Hari won eight points in a

row to sensationally take the game 12-10 and set up a fifth game decider

Adams again led early on 5-3 howevergood play from Hari saw him level at 5-5 after the change of ends and he tookthe next two points as well to lead 7-5Adams responded well to put the matchback in the balance at 7-all but twoforehand errors by Adams gave Hari avital two point lead which he stretchedto three points at 10-7 ahead Hari thenserved off the end of the table to giveAdams a glimmer of hope at 10-8 but inthe next point Hari played a good lengthshot that Adams failed to deal withleaving Hari as the Masters Championfor 2012

Our Lady of Peace lsquoArsquo made it atreble winning season as theyadded the Impact ChallengeShield to their Division 1title and Team Handicapsuccesses by defeat-ing a two man

Kingfisher lsquoArsquo side in the final DanielMoses and Liam McTiernan bothmanaged victories over HariGehlot Daniel winning 11-612-10 8-11 14-12 and Liamwinning 6-11 11-7 11-3 11-6 Norman Swift alsogot in on the act byd e f e a t i n gK i n g f i s h e r rsquo sStuart Williams10-12 11-811-4 11-7

DANIEL MOSES

DAN

IEL

MEETS H

ARI

OLOP lsquoArsquo (FRONT ROW - NORMAN SWIFT LIAM McTIERNAN amp DANIEL MOSES)WON THE IMPACT CHALLENGE TROPHY FROM KINGFISHER lsquoArsquo (2ND ROW - HARI GEHLOT amp STUART WILLIAMS)

Reading amp District Table Tennis Association Newsletter httpwwwrdttacouknewslettersphp April 2012


W e are getting close to the magic 60 team markwhere we may drop to five divisionsCurrently we are running with a number of blanks

throughout the divisions A number of you have com-mented on the lack of games during the season as a resultof these blank teams You can all help by

1) Encouraging non-league players to come on board andplay in the lower divisions

2) Enlisting the support of our younger players to join a

team for experience in the lower divisions Support fromparents is crucial here perhaps having a 1900 starttime and allowing them to finish first is a way forward toget the younger players home at a reasonable hour

3) Asking all club secretaries to look at the size of teamsand where possible split larger teams into two

Reading is still one of the largest leagues in thecountry and with your help we can increase the num-ber of divisions not reduce

Ed In the Letters section of the February Newsletter Duncan Abbott sounded a warning for the future of League tabletennis Here is an endorsement to Duncanrsquos plea from Nigel Rowland of the RDTTA Committee

Ed Since February I have been experimenting with a mechanism by which readers can respond directly to points in aNewsletter by just clicking on a page and typing This method has already produced quite a lot of responses to the ques-tions A Should our League grow or dwindle B If it is to grow how can we encourage more players in Andthese responses in turn posed two more questions C How can we encourage more women to play in the Leagueand D Do you think we need to change our rules to bring about all the above - and if so how

There have been technical difficulties and only some people knew they were invited to contribute But anyway here iswhat everyone said so that you can see what is possible - and do feel free to chip in from now on Please be brief ifyou want to be read You will find ideas both sound and imaginative and some big and small names At the end Iinclude rather a full personal analysis of these topics by Bob Woodmansee

LLEETTTTEERRSS TTOO TTHHEE EEDDIITTOORR

TTHHEE CCHHAALLLLEENNGGEE by Nigel Rowland

A Do you think our League should grow or shrink

Derek Harrison Since I first started playing I have seen the number of clubs and

teams dwindle and in about 1974 there must have been about 60clubs and lots of teams Over the years I have spoken to manyplayers who told me they were packing it in at the end of that sea-son I asked why and they said that they were too old despite thefact they were younger than I am now so perhaps we should bemore persuasive in asking them to carry on playing Having saidthat we should also encourage people to join local clubs by arti-cles in the local newspaper

Mike Childs Perhaps smaller specific divisions run over three months might

socially encourage players without having to make a long com-mitment

For example - All divisions become 6 team and promotionrelegation hap-

pens at xmas - To address falling numbers and encourage players into the

main league smaller fun leagues should be tried Club affiliationshould be ignored

6-team Family Division (4 players including parents and chil-dren) (redefine format to include more doubles) Played over a 5week period at a central venue to improve social element)Encourage family time and increase number of children andwomen in leagues

6-team mixed (two men and two women)(redefine format toinclude more doubles) Played over a 5 week period at a centralvenue to improve social element)

Well thats my thoughts

B How can we get more League players

Ed Why is it that some clubs are growing and some shrinking Is

it just those clubs with practice sessions for everyone that expandwhile the others shrink

ABWhy dont we just try to recruit more players We can start

with people who come to our house - the gas man plumber milk-man etc Ive tried it You ask what sport do they do They replyby asking what sport do you do Table tennis And then prettyoften it turns out that their daughter in law or uncle or old matehas also played and wants to do some more And theyd be onlytoo pleased to introduce you

Duncan AbbottDespite the increase in alternative activities there are surpris-

ingly a good number of people keen on table tennis However afair number of them either dont realise there is a table tennisleague or dont think theyre good enough But when they do startplaying in the league quite a few of them are hooked on the adren-aline and excitement that comes with it

In order to reverse the recent trend of decline we need a visionWe need to do whatever we can to encourage newcomersPerhaps some of the long standing rules need to be changed toaccommodate this

But having a vision isnt an optional extra - its a necessity if thegame that we all love is to survive

Alistair RichardsonI think we can help the sport grow but I think we can do some

smaller things smarter to help ourselves This day and age is allabout convenience and availability of information

The RDTTA have a website itrsquos generally a good one content

Derek
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Derek
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is useful and valid However it doesnrsquot get out there Irsquom thinkingof rss feeds and popping up in google

Is there an element of social media Portfolio of services (onefor the clubs possibly more than the league)

The next trick will be converting initial interest into people whoactually engage enough to play regularly in a team ndash that is thepiece we struggle with a little

Geoff ChiversI have recently spoken to old playing colleagues (unfortu-

nately these meetings normally take place at funerals) Hasthe Management Committee ever thought of forming a leagueduring the daytime Although I donrsquot attend (due to golf) manyex players attend the 50-plus sessions on a Monday andFriday morning at the Rivermead Leisure Centre I appreci-ate finding venues may create a problem however I feel alarge number of people might be interested I might even con-sider coming out of retirement

C How could more ladies be persuaded to play

EdId say it is a high priority to attract more girls into TT An all-

male environment makes the sport less fun But what would thatinvolve

Duncan AbbottNot quite sure why the fascination with women - if its a

woman you need Im sure there are one or two dating agenciesthat could help )

Seriously Im quite happy to see more women in the game butrealistically they are likely to be encouraged to play by otherwomen - not sure why but thats the way it works

EdI dont think boy meets girl is ever much of a factor in table

tennis though the ladies are treated well I just think matchesare more fun with women taking part because the girls bringalong kindly and agreeable qualities which the men lack Andsometimes they bring along home-made cakes and biscuits too

Ed I dont know how the ladies will react - but why dont we have

an annual summer dance Ie a Table Tennis Ball -) I wouldguess the wives might like it as well as female players

Ka Lo (ldquoCarolrdquo) ChiuYou say ldquothe ladies are treated wellrdquo This may be usually true

but just occasionally a man who lost will turn angrily away andrefuse to shake your hand That can be very hurtful and evenmake one wonder if one wants to keep playing Also I donrsquotagree that ladies are at no disadvantage when they play againstmen

EdAs for differences in size and strength ndash you will I am sure

acknowledge that Chinese players are pre-eminent in table ten-nis ndash despite often being smaller than their foreign opponentsAnd a little slip like Megan Knowles has beaten a lot of Readingrsquostop male players

Ka Lo (ldquoCarolrdquo) Chiu lsquoTreated badly by other playersrsquo means only a few of them

most of them are still very friendlyFor the female against male thing I think the major difference

is the play style Female depends more on speed while maledepends more on Spin and Power Maybe this is only my per-sonal opinion However I used to play a lot in Hong Kong Whenbeing coached female and male always have different trainingprogrammes in order to emphasis our strengths In general

female is not as good as male In Hong Kong if the male can offera +6 handicap to a female they are considered as the same level

EdMaybe ladies should be given a standard handicap in our

League ndash to make the playing field more level But 6 sounds anawful lot ndash is that in the normal 11-up game

Ka Lo ChiuA standard handicap in the League for ladies seems attractive

to me but I am sure there would be many objections from themale players But this would make me more willing to playagainst men 6 points for an 11-up game is generally the stan-dard in Hong Kong when practising among teammates In theReading League I will suggest around 3 to 4 We could alwayshave a trial to see how it goes

Derek HarrisonLadies getting a start I do not think so Ladies like Carol

Chard Lisa Williams Jan Wright and Linda King could all giveme a start and i am sure their are a lot of players in their divisionswho will agree with me Also I am certain that any lady would notwant a start anyway

EdMaybe some of our ladies would like to comment on that per-

sonally And even more to the point what are the feelings of themuch greater number of girls who DONT play in the League butmight like to if things were different

Ka Lo your description of what happens in Hong Kong is inter-esting but I wonder how many people would take advice from anewcomer to the Sixth Division

Carol ChiuI know I havenrsquot been here long but I was the ladies table ten-

nis team captain of both University of Hong Kong and UniversityCollege London I can say I am quite experienced in coordinat-ing activities related to table tennis

EdSome snags in the handicapping system - what does one do

with under-15s and over-75s Logically if the ladies get a startshouldnt they get one too And how much I wonder if thisarose in Hong Kong

Carol ChiuIn Hong Kong the official competitions will have separate

ladies and mens match with all age groups However in somesmaller or local competitions ladies do have an advantageHowever with the age difference in Hong Kong those below 9and above 75 will have some advantages not below 15 Actuallythose players in between 9 and 16 are always the best among allnon-professional players They have fast reaction not nervousdo exactly what the coach teaches them More importantly theyhave more time to practice then all other people They may prac-tice 5-6 times a week while others can only practice on average2-3 times a week

Derek HarrisonI have been playing in the Reading league for 53 years and

have played at various levels and found the challenge of eithertrying to go up a level or trying to avoid a drop make it worthwhile So thats what it is all about without having to think abouthandicaps

D What changes in our rules would help

Duncan AbbotIn order to reverse the recent trend of decline we need a

vision We need to do whatever we can to encourage newcom-ers Perhaps some of the long standing rules need to be changedto accommodate this

(Exchange of views)

(Continued on next page)

Derek
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EdGood post I agree that we need a new vision as well as a

new attitude to rules (Even the ETTA which used to be so stuffyabout rules now has a video on its web site showing lots ofteenagers in ordinary clothes playing round-the-tableIncredible)

What do you think the new vision might include - and howwould you suggest we should adjust the rules

Duncan AbbottI was looking through the rule book recently and I came

across the rule which says no players can be transferred duringthe season unless special dispensation is given by the commit-tee My response was - why Are we still living in the dark agesAre we really so out of step with the rest of the world

A few years ago a new team formed playing in Div 6 but theirsquad soon shrunk to 3 players and one or two were finding it astruggle to play every game due to work commitments etc etcSome games were postponed other times only 2 players turnedout no doubt fines began to accumulate and half-way throughthe season the team folded

At the same time an OLOP team in the same division had 10players in their squad including 2 or 3 newcomers who had beendirected to that club but who became frustrated at the lack ofopportunities to play

There was no solution for either set of players and as a result5 or 6 players were lost to the game

My question is - why not allow transfers or even loans to helpthese teams and players out Loans take place all the time infootball so why not table tennis Shouldnrsquot we be doing more toencourage new teams rather than putting obstacles in their wayI know for a fact that the Milestone C team this season wouldhave very much appreciated some outside help instead of beingleft to struggle on with their own resources

I think sometimes we need to realise that rules are there toserve the clubs and the players not the other way round

Richard FifieldChildren are the lifeblood of any sport The main activity of

table tennis is the league programme This is designed for adultswho want to start late (ie 730pm) and finish late (often 11pm)This is not an option for many youngsters

My own son loves the sport but there are far too few opportu-nities to just play regular competitive matches in a nice atmos-phere The Friday youth league is a good idea but feels too dis-organized and Fridays are not good for family life

How about running some lower divisions on a 2 person basiswhere each person plays two singles and a doubles and it fin-ishes by 930pm There could be additional competitions lowerdown to ensure matches are held every week so that 4 peopleregistered in a particular team could be assured of match partic-ipation every other week

Should the League Grow - or Dwindleby Robert Woodmansee

I read with interest Duncan Abbotts letter in the lastnewsletter about the reduced number of teams in theLeague and the consequent gaps in all divisions With 62teams spread over 6 divisions this gives in my opinion fartoo many gaps - in fact with 4 divisions having just 10teams it means that 40 of the 62 teams in the League arereally short changed to the extent of only getting 18 match-es a season instead of 22 (in fact many teams have had toput up with this for some time now)

During the course of a season I hear so many playerscomplaining about the number of gaps that one does haveto question whether the League is really acting in the bestinterests of - and in accordance with the preferences of - themajority of its members by continuing with this structurePersonally I think the League needs to adopt a slightlyharder approach to the problem and unless there is aninflux of at least 4 new teams bringing the League up to atleast 66 teams enabling there to be six divisions each with11 teams then it should cap the number of teams in theLeague to 60 (5 divisions of 12) - and find a way to lose twoteams (assuming that there are still 62 teams registering fornext season - or lose one team if there are 61 etc) Andby the way - I do not think Division 1 should get specialtreatment here - why should Division 1 have 12 teams andno gaps when other Divisions in the same League have 10teams and two gaps

Here are a few suggestions as to how the 60-team struc-ture might be achieved-

bull Invite the Club (or Clubs) with the most teams to with-draw one team - the larger Clubs could more easily absorbthe players from the withdrawn team into other teams with-in their Club pyramid than the smaller Clubs - indeed dont

many players from the larger Clubs play in other Leaguesas well as playing in Reading

bull Or - if no volunteer team(s) withdrawal is forthcomingthen make the above a League rule - and create a waitinglist for teams who want to play in the League - ie teamswho can step in if a Club withdraws a team from the Leagueat any time up to and including the first week of scheduledLeague matches

bull Or - fill Divisions 1 to 4 with 12 teams and re-jig theremaining teams into smaller Divisions 5 amp 6 - maybe play-ing each other more than twice - or just a big Division 5 of14 teams - maybe the extra fixtures could be squeezed intothe blank and cup weeks

bull Or - demote the team (or 2 teams) who finish bottom ofDivision 6 next season

bull Or - change the number of teams to make a League with8 divisions of 8 (or 7 divisions of 9 - or whatever works outbest) - with teams playing each other 3 times - surely some-one could re-do the fixtures grid to make this work out forthe home amp away fixtures scheduling

Now that the League website has an active forum for dis-cussion on this and other topics it would be interesting toread the views of the masses - this subject has been sucha regular topic of conversation at our matches in recentyears it would be both surprising and disappointing if no-oneshared their views

I know that this isnt an easy situation for the League todeal with - and whilst it seems unfair to deny players whowant to play League table-tennis the opportunity to do so Ido think that giving 60 teams a full programme of fixturesand just having to disappoint a couple of teams is much fair-er than the current situation where at least 40 teams arebeing treated unfairly

(Exchange of views)

NB - see reactions of John Freeman on P33


After the first three rounds had been completed before Christmas it was a long wait before the semi-finals which tookplace at Kingfisher club on Friday 30th March Favourites OLOP lsquoArsquo beat holders Sonning Common amp Peppard lsquoArsquo 5 - 0

whilst a Jean-Noel Thepaut treble was not enough to stop Div 2 strugglersTidmarsh lsquoBrsquo winning 5 - 4 and reaching the final at OLOP club

On Wednesday 4th April the final took place but thismatch was sadly an anti-climax with the OLOP lsquoArsquo

trio of Norman Swift Daniel Moses andMichael Childs strolling to a com-

fortable 5 - 0 win over BarryCarter Mike Aistrop and

Chris Webb ofTidmarsh lsquoBrsquo with

each set beingwon in two

games

TTeeaamm HHaannddiiccaapp CCoommppeett ii tt iioonn 22001111--1122organised by Duncan Abbott

OLOP lsquoArsquo 8Post Office lsquoArsquo 1

OLOP lsquoArsquo 6OLOP lsquoBrsquo 3

SC amp P lsquoArsquo 7Springfield 2

OLOP lsquoArsquo 5Tidmarsh lsquoArsquo 4

OLOP lsquoArsquo 5SC amp P lsquoArsquo 0

OLOP lsquoArsquo 5Tidmarsh lsquoBrsquo 0

Kingfisher lsquoKrsquo 4Tidmarsh lsquoBrsquo 5

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Curzon lsquoCrsquo 1Tidmarsh lsquoArsquo 8

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Springfieldbye

Kingfisher lsquoKrsquobye

Kingfisher lsquoJrsquo 4Tidmarsh lsquoDrsquo 5

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1Phew Thank god thatrsquos over with The season that had

it all and then some Never before in my time of watch-ing over this have we had a season full of so much con-

troversy incident fighting and pettiness And that was justme amp Ramesh Who said ping pong was dull hey Just when

you think yoursquore over one issue another threeor four come hurtling round the corner fasterthan an Andy Yon backhand Irsquoll be honestwith you I thought about quitting this Morethan thought about it to be fair and coupledwith the fact that Irsquom moving away it kind ofmakes sense to give somebody else a go If

there are any takers ndash let myself or Nigelknow On the table OLOP lsquoArsquo were crowned

champions albeit in somewhat controversial fashion andKingfisher lsquoDrsquo inevitably were the team to drop to D2 Inamongst the bad stuff therersquos been a lot of good stuff too ofcourse Ramesh moving away for one but some great enter-taining play at times and some big unexpected wins for morethan one or two of you Hope you all have a great summerWeatherrsquos looking good and will hopefully see you all againfor what will hopefully be a much quieter next season

Love amp Peace

Mark x

Congratulations then to OLOP lsquoArsquo who win their first title forwhat must be decades with a draw against a weakenedKingfisher lsquoArsquo side - fair enough and then (and this is the con-troversial bit) a 10-nil claim over YMCA lsquoArsquo (who were 2nd atthe time) Not sure that would happen in any other sport Butthe chances are they would have beaten them anyway andno hard feelings The real damage was done at the

Kingfisher Club with OLOP looking like they were going tohave to settle for second place but somehow Liam and Danielmanaed to pull off the doubles win of their lives with anehthralling win over Richard Andrews and Hari Super stufand if ever a league title was deserved on one performancealone then that was it Having said that as soon as Rameshsaid that he was leaving for warmer shores they must have

known at that stage that the title wastheirs Great play once again frompizza boy Daniel Played prettymuch every game and Richard ampTom aside only lost to me ndash Get Iner and wherersquos my tenner Liamtoo Had a fantastic match withRichard and is gonna be some play-er if he keeps on improving the wayhe has done this season BraveChilds So called not for his fightingspirit on the table but for being theonly guy in a women only keep fitclass on a Tuesday morning HahaWhat a sight Trust me and youthought he was a bad mover aroundthe table Some of those old sweatyladies were running rings round himYou just donrsquot know whorsquos gonna bewalking past do you MichaelExcellent Ian Cole has had a greatseason too Reading Vets champ ndashcanrsquot be bad Sean came in and dida great job when called upon andNorman as we know is a quality play-


DDDDIIIIVVVVIIIISSSSIIIIOOOONNNN OOOONNNNEEEE by Mark Banks

LIAM McTIERNAN

DANIEL MOSES MVP

1er who was somewhat blighted by injury but it didnrsquot matterwith the other great players in the team He can move downSouth happy at a job well done So well playedthen guys grrrrrrrr OK OK so you probably wouldhave beaten YM anyway and have a great sum-merMVP Daniel Moses

Fantastic effort from Kingfisher lsquoArsquo who werealways gonna be up against it when Rameshdecided he was gonna open a Fruit amp Veg stall onthe streets of Dubai Hari decided to take a mid-season 8 week break and then I got injured at theworst stage possible of the season And itrsquos stillbad now with no signs of recovery Gutted Webrought in Richard and Tom just to get through ndashnot to win it and we can hold our heads high at theeffort we made when everything that could havegone wrong did Not sure what the future holds forKingfisher lsquoArsquo Clearly wersquove proved that a 3 manteam is not enough and I may be even less avail-able next term Gonna need at least 1 probably 2extra players then so all change then for us and fornow watch this space By the way it wonrsquot get him the

MVP but fair play to Hari for winning The Masters At hisage too WOWMVP Mark Banks

Another side who had massive availability issues(grrrrrrrrr) were YMCA lsquoArsquo who lost their way somewhatafter Big Bad Bobrsquos relocation to Devon and ended upconceding not only to OLOP but to Polish too ShameAgain like us they find themselves with some questionsto be answered in the close season Will they be able tokeep together Irsquom not so sure Martin Chodounsky is sogood at table tennis that hersquos put that to one side andstarted playing proper tennis Bet hersquos great at that too Iunderstand that his children could be future buddingWimbledon Champions Letrsquos hope so The rest of themall did good Tony in particular whilst not playing as manymatches as he has in the past has certainly done wellwhen hersquos come in Beat Hari ndash top win Elson comesover from Oxford and is handy and Andy and Steve

havenrsquot been involved hardly at all Shame to see themfizzle out as it could have been interesting buthey ho have a good one in any caseMVP Martin Chodounsky

One side who did finish the season well were old favouritesPolish lsquoArsquo and if they can keep Ian Girdler in the side theneven at this early stage yoursquod have to make them favouritesfor next year Martin picked up an injury the weekend beforethe game with OLOP (yet another thing that went in theirfavour ndash haha Irsquom not bitter) but still plays that great game ofhis and whilst not quite at his best this year is still way toogood for most of the rest of us Ian as I say has come in aftera massive operation and hasnrsquot practised at all hardly but isdefinitely up there as one of the best 4 players in the Divisionndash Irsquoll let you work out who the other 3 are Ramesh ndash beforeyou ask ndash itrsquos not you OK Steve Dobbins ndash the marmite play-er Love him or hate him hersquos undoubtedly a good player ndash anoisy one granted God knows what happens when him andBarclay play each other And Richard has played well withoutalways getting the victories that his play has deservedHopefully Coach Nicky will be back to full fitness next seasonand if they wanted too I reckon they could give it a real go you


IAN COLE

MARTIN CHODOUNSKI

NORMAN SWIFT

1


know Itrsquos been way too long sincetheir last title some would say Not usthough Enjoy your summerMVP Martin Adams

Everybodyrsquos favourite veteransYMCA lsquoBrsquo have had their usual consis-tently good season No problems forthe big boys but rarely if ever lose tothe teams that they shouldnrsquot It bugsDavid but the stats say it all buddyNeil Hurford is the MVP Hersquos alwaysthe MVP If you want to settle it pri-vately then you could always have abest of 5 with him and see how you geton and let us all know but as far as thisgoes hersquos your number one The statsdonrsquot lie ndash unless your name isRamesh and insist on only ever play-ing KFD OLOP lsquoDrsquo or any other teamwith D at the end of their name SoNeil missed most of the second half ofthe season but still gets the MVP nod David will no doubt belooking to get his cricket bat out and smacking a few fours infrustration ndash the cricket season must have started ndash itrsquos rain-ing outside and new Vet Keith will still be wondering how hisbeloved Forest failed to stop Reading clinch promotion theother night but he does have the consolation offinding himself a much better tt team than he everhad with Fenwick Prady Peter and Dave greatguys Still doing OK at this level and have evenhad the odd win here and there themselves Whatyou see is what you get Always enjoy themselvesin victory or defeat Nice to see and have a greatsummer offMVP Neil Hurford (itrsquos true)

Great end to the season too for the Friday(boooo) night guys of Tidmarsh Integralis lsquoArsquoJackpotrsquos season was unfortunately over before itbegan but at least he had more time to study theform and plan his next touch Great signing withSander The Raymond Van Barneveld of pingpong and definitely one of the best there is MrBarclayrsquos picked up some notable wins Must havebeen incredibly lucky to win those hey John andDuncan too found some form in the closing match-es that improved his average no end Squirrel assteady as ever Flashes of his old brilliance Never in dan-

ger of going down Not sure what Leersquosplans for next year but if hersquos out for goodthen Irsquom sure you will all join me in wish-ing him well Have a good one guysMVP Sander De-Riemer

Interesting team then were OLOP lsquoBrsquoQuite brilliant on their day and with Krasiplaying more and Daniel improving bythe day yoursquod have to say that theyrsquoll cer-tainly be giving the big guns something tothink about if they all stay together nextseason and can avoid the availabilityissues that have plagued them and manyteams this season Bradley tooIncredibly keen to improve his game andhas had some notable results Good tosee Big John taking time out from his hol-idays to trouble the scorers too Raphseems over his injury and is back playingsome good stuff - as is the windmill JT

Quite a mixed bunch of characters thenbut when it clicks it clicks and a healthy mid-table positionmeans they can all be proud of their efforts this season Havea great summerMVP Daniel McTiernan

Relative newcomers (well some of them anyway)Kingfisher lsquoCrsquo have had a tidy time of it and have somethingto build on if they give it another go next season Keen crick-eter and marathon runner Keith Newell picked up an injury(therersquos a lot of it about) that kept him out for much of the 2ndhalf but from what we saw of him hersquos obviously good enoughto hold his own in this company Eric ndash has been up anddown by his standards You would think that giving up theKorfball would have helped but consistency has been anissue Hersquos doing some great work on the KF committeethough ndash a rising star in that respect Giving something backto the game Brilliant James and Richard have both hadtheir moments Each with their own unique but effectivestyles Good first season together guys and hope it contin-ues ndash have a good one

HARI GEHLOT

KRASI IVANOV

PL W D L F A PtsOLOP A 20 18 1 1 166 34 37Kingfisher A 20 15 4 1 157 43 34YMCA A 20 14 2 4 136 64 30Polish A 20 13 3 4 138 62 29YMCA B 20 10 1 9 109 91 21Tidmarsh A 20 9 2 9 87 113 20OLOP B 20 9 1 10 93 107 19Kingfisher C 20 8 1 11 81 119 17SCampP A 20 3 2 15 56 144 8Kingfisher B 20 2 1 17 39 161 5Kingfisher D 20 0 0 20 38 162 0

1


MVP Keith Newell

A massive 8 (yes 8) points then for SonningCommon amp Peppard lsquoArsquo who find themselves in adizzy 9th place in the League a position that easilycements their place in the Division for another seasonSuper stuff Much of their success must go down toSimon Berry who has been in inspired form this seasonand was always relied upon to do a job on the teamsimmediately around them This coupled with Jasonchipping in here and there with his usual solid winsmeant that the pressure was off Nigel and Jarv some-what and they could just pitch up and play And playvery well they did too OK so victories were few and farbetween for them but this is D1 ndash itrsquos as good as it getsand the fact that they both have wins to their name isgood stuff and I know they enjoy it up here Will be justas tough next season mind but if they can keep Simoninterested then they will be fine Enjoy your summerMVP Simon Berry

Not the best of seasons then for Kingfisher lsquoBrsquo butwith the announcement of only one team dropping theydid what they had to do to retain their D1 status ndash beatKingfisher lsquoDrsquo twice Tough season but some good individ-ual performances Geoff Civil ndash in all fairness probably in the

form of his life Regularly picking up 2s and 3s ndash just whatyou need when yoursquore fighting for survival He can have agreat summer on the golf course safe in the knowledge thathersquoll be playing D1 again The other guys in fairness havestruggled a bit ndash hence their lowly position Dave Cliff Colinyep and even Rog have all had wins but not enough of themIrsquom afraid I get the feeling that one or two would prefer D2(or D4 in Rogerrsquos case) but personally I think they still have apart to play and can all do a job on their day Have a greatsummerMVP Geoff Civil

Irsquom pretty sure that if I asked you all at the start of the sea-son who you thought would find themselves in the relegationspot then pretty much all of you (er including the players inKFD) would have said Kingfisher lsquoDrsquo and they didnrsquot disap-

point This gamersquos all about teamwork and whilst individualsuccesses are welcome itrsquos not so good if you do it on a nightwhen your team mates are struggling Points make prizesand unfortunately nil points means D2 tt Theyrsquove enjoyedthemselves once again though Ivor and Trevor have bothplayed some good matches and will have fond memories ofthe ones that they have won Johnny Morris will be more gut-ted about losing an FA Cup semi final to dreaded rivalsLiverpool than this and Dave unfortunately failed to get off themark this term Not sure how the division will be structurednext season so they may be back but realistically D1 is a lit-tle too tough and theyrsquod be the first to agree Have a goodone guysMVP Trevor Organ

Player Team PL W Andy Misseldine YMCA A 12 12 100Richard Andrews Kingfisher A 9 9 100Nicky Heaps Polish A 9 9 100Tom Maynard Kingfisher A 3 3 100Ramesh Gehlot Kingfisher A 21 20 9524Martin Adams Polish A 36 34 9444Daniel Moses OLOP A 54 50 9259Mark Banks Kingfisher A 36 33 9167Martin Chodounsky YMCA A 50 45 90Sean Pickin OLOP A 9 8 8889Hari Gehlot Kingfisher A 42 36 8571Daniel McTiernan OLOP B 14 12 8571Sander De Riemer Tidmarsh A 14 12 8571Tony Reynolds YMCA A 25 21 84Norman Swift OLOP A 33 27 8182Ian Cole OLOP A 15 12 80Bob Davis YMCA A 23 18 7826Liam McTiernan OLOP A 18 14 7778

LLEEAADDIINNGG AAVVEERRAAGGEESS

TONY REYNOLDS OF YMCA lsquoArsquo

BRADLEY KING

2Welcome to the final newsletter of the 20112012

season The closeness of the division meant thatpromotion and relegation werenrsquot confirmed until

the last week of the season OLOP lsquoDrsquo ended up as cham-pions as predicted in the last newsletter Sonning C amp P lsquoBrsquowere the surprise runners-up having in previous seasonsseen promotion snatched from their grasp so congratula-tions to those two At the bottom Sonning C amp P lsquoCrsquo were rel-egated even earlier than Wolves could be come thisweekend and they will potentially be joined in divisionthree by OLOP lsquoErsquo who lost their final two matches ofthe season to finish one point short of safety

OLOP lsquoDrsquo won their last five matches to clinchthe title the procession started with a 7 - 3 victoryover Tidmarsh lsquoBrsquo and finished with an 8 - 2 winover OLOP lsquoErsquo which consigned their oppo-nents to division three Neil Bird was missingfrom the win over Tidmarsh but two each fromSteve Purchase Clive Perry and RichardSkellett (up from division three runners up OLOP lsquoFrsquo) Neilreturned for the match against a two-man Wokingham teamand was pushed all the way by Martin Pugh but he eventu-ally ran out 9-11 8-11 11-9 11-7 11-9 They won 9 - 1against a two-lady Kingfisher lsquoFrsquo team that put one foot indivision one and it was confirmed after the 7 - 3 win overCurzon Club lsquoArsquo Congratulations to OLOP lsquoDrsquo on winningthe division and to what seems like an avid Reading fan inNeil enjoy the seasons you have in the top divisionsTeam Stat Were the only team unbeaten at home all seasonwinning seven drawing twoNeil Bird Won all eight of his sets that went to five games

Clive Perry Won the same amount of sets 3 - 1 and 3 - 2 as helost 1 - 3 and 2 - 3Steve Purchase Won the same amount of sets 3 - 0 and 3 - 1as he lost 0 - 3 and 1 - 3Doubles 67

Sonning Common and Peppard lsquoBrsquo have finally reachedthe promised land after several years of near-misses Notsure if they miscalculated the points tally but congratulations

to Keith Brian and Malcolm anyway They confirmedpromotion at the end of a great second half to theseason that saw them win eight and draw one oftheir last nine matches Since Keith lost to yourstruly the first week after Christmas (sorry couldnrsquotresist it) he won 24 sets in a row The countdown

to promotion began with an 8 - 2 win over Curzon ClublsquoArsquo then continued with another 8 - 2 win over

Kingfisher lsquoErsquo where Brian Meheux had a reallygood win over Daniel Grover in a tight five-gameset The third 8 - 2 win in succession came

against relegation threatened OLOP lsquoErsquo and the match thatclinched promotion was a 7 - 3 win over Post Office lsquoArsquowhere Keith won all three Brian two and Malcolm only a sin-gle win over Simon Hopkins Good luck in division oneguysTeam Stat At Christmas were one place above the relegationzone to becoming runners-up come the end of the season(sound familiar Royals fans)Keith Swain Best sequence of wins 24 amp won the most maxi-mums (11)Malcolm Gregory Won the most sets 3 - 1 on 15 occasionsBrian Meheux The only player in the division to play in all 18

matches and be involved in the most 3 - 1 1 - 3 sets (26)Doubles 72

Kingfisher lsquoFrsquos hopes of hitting the big time floun-dered in the run-in as they only picked up five pointsout of the last ten to finish in third The two victoriescame against teams that ended the season in thebottom three Niall McGrane won all three althoughlost an end to Jeremy Willis in the 7 - 3 win overSonning C amp P lsquoCrsquo Carole Chard had one of thelongest games of the season as she finally tri-umphed 18-16 in the fourth against Matt Stonewhilst Sharon Mitchell defeated Paul TreadgoldThe other victory came against Tidmarsh lsquoBrsquo whereNiall achieved his almost customary maximum butthis time it was Lisa Williams who got the brace asshe overcame Franccedilois Durand and Chris Webbthe end result was 7 - 3 Their promotion hopeswere dashed as they lost to the three teams that fin-ished as champions runners up and fourth If theyhad managed to pull at least one win from thosethree matches they would have been promoted Team Stat Won 7 - 3 on the most occasions 6 timesNiall McGrane Won the most sets 3 - 0 on 25 occa-

sions


NEIL BIRD

DDDDIIIIVVVVIIIISSSSIIIIOOOONNNN TTTTWWWWOOOO by Barry Carter

2

Carole Chard Whenever Carole won one set in an eveningLisa did the same Lisa Williams Only maximum came against Post Office lsquoArsquoSharon Mitchell Her run of results were 2 1 01 then a break of two before 2 1 0 1Doubles 72

Wokingham lsquoArsquos bid for promotion sufferedavailability problems which probably cost themfive points in the end with those five pointsthey would have ended up vying for the cham-pionship with OLOP lsquoDrsquo They narrowly lost 4- 6 at OLOP lsquoDrsquo when they turned up with twoplayers Brian Chinneck defeated Clive Perry12-10 11-9 12-10 and Martin Pugh followed itup with a brace with wins over Clive andSteve Purchase and was very close to snatch-ing a point for Wokingham but he lost 11-9 11-8 9-11 7-11 9-11 to Neil Bird They battledback from 0 - 1 down to overcome TidmarshlsquoBrsquo 9 - 1 with both Daryl Griffith and Jim Spencer winning allthree Jim and Brian both won two in the 5 - 5 draw withKingfisher lsquoFrsquo that effectively ended both sidesrsquo hopes ofpromotion and they finished the season with a 7 - 3 win overmid-table Curzon Club lsquoArsquoTeam Stat Had a better away record than when playing athome 11 points at home 12 awayBrian Chinneck Won 19 out of his 31 sets in three straightMartin Pugh Didnrsquot lose a set by the 1 - 3 scorelineJim Spencer All three maximums occurred in the second halfof the seasonDaryl Griffith Won all six of his encounters with Post Office lsquoArsquo(he can play you every week)Doubles 61

Kingfisher lsquoErsquo have sat in mid-table for all of the secondhalf of the season never really in with a shout of promotionor in danger of relegation They won two and lost two of thefinal four matches to finish in fifth place The two wins cameagainst what turned out to be the two relegated sides inOLOP lsquoErsquo where three from Peter Goatly his second maxi-mum of the season and one each from Allan Bruton andPeter Bennett saw them to a 6 - 4 scoreline and Sonning Camp P lsquoCrsquo where Peter Bennett took the honours with a maxi-mum that included wins over Paul Treadgold Matt Stoneand Ian Ayres Eric Holmes also contributed with an 11-811-9 7-11 11-5 victory over Ian The 2 - 8 defeat toSonning Common amp Peppard lsquoBrsquo seemed a little harsh look-ing at the scorecard as four of the ten matches went to fiveof which only Daniel Grover and Eric Holmes prosperedThe other match ended in a 3 - 7 defeat to Post Office lsquoArsquoTeam Stat Used the most players that played in 50 of thematches (5)Allan Bruton Both his ducks came against Wokingham lsquoArsquoand both his maximums were won at home for a more positiveoutlookPeter Bennett Of the 3 - 0 0 - 3 sets he only won one out of11Peter Goatly Won all six of the sets that went to fourEric Holmes Didnrsquot win a set by the 3 - 0 scoreline but man-aged to lose 12 0 - 3

Daniel Grover Won both of his maximums in the first half ofthe seasonDoubles 44

Before the bottom half report here are some general statsabout the league-

50 of the matches were home wins 34 away winsand 16 were draws

7 - 3 was the most popular score with 31 closely fol-lowed by 6 - 4 on 30

To underline the closeness of the division 46 of thematches ended either 6 - 4 or 5 - 5 with 54 being 10 - 09 - 1 8 - 2 or 7 - 3

Curzon Club lsquoArsquo only won once in the final lap of the sea-son but by then it didnrsquot really matter as they had alreadyassured themselves of finishing sixth at the worst The onlywin occurred at Sonning C amp P lsquoCrsquo where they routed thehome side 10 - 0 The performing trio that night were MickMaynard John Willcocks and Jon Willis Mick was taken tothe wire by Tim Raby before triumphing 11-2 in the fifth andJon Willis lived dangerously on two occasions as he wastaken to five by both Tim and Matt Stone before he won 11-2 and 11-6 respectively John Willcocks was the sole win-ner as he won two against Sonning C amp P lsquoBrsquo duo ofMalcolm Gregory and Brian Meheux although John Walkergave Keith Swain a little scare as he won the first endagainst him but in the end he lost 11-9 7-11 4-11 4-11 Itwas once again John Willcocks that gave them hopeagainst OLOP lsquoDrsquo as he beat both Steve Purchase andClive Perry the other winner was Jon Willis as he won 15-13 in the fifth against Steve It was all in vain as they lost 3- 7 The other match was a 3 - 7 defeat to Wokingham lsquoArsquowhere John Walker took the first end off of Martin Pugh butfinally succumbed 11-6 4-11 9-11 6-11Team Stat Won the most matches by the 10 - 0 scoreline 2occasionsJohn Willcocks Won the most braces in an evening 9 occa-sionsJon Willis Won 9 out of 12 sets that went to four endsMick Maynard Only won one set in an evening on 1 occasionthe rest he won 0 2 or 3John Walker Won both his sets by the 3 - 0 scorelineDoubles 61


PL W D L F A PtsOLOP D 18 13 2 3 115 65 28Sonning CampP B 18 11 3 4 109 71 25Kingfisher F 18 10 4 4 95 85 24Wokingham A 18 10 3 5 108 72 23Kingfisher E 18 8 3 7 91 89 19Curzon Club A 18 7 3 8 98 82 17Post Office A 18 7 2 9 76 104 16Tidmarsh B 18 5 3 10 85 95 13OLOP E 18 4 4 10 78 102 12Sonning CampP C 18 1 1 16 45 135 3

2Post Office lsquoArsquo looked destined for the trapdoor at

Christmas but some really good results in 2012 saw themclimb from 9th place to finish in 7th The highlight over thelast few weeks was a fantastic 6 - 4 victory over the cham-pions (albeit a slightly understrength team) OLOP lsquoDrsquo JohnSimmonds won all three against Steve Purchase HarryBrough and Richard Skellett although two were very closeand went to five games Simon Hopkins defeated StevePurchase and then Denise Weller beat Harry Brough 11-510-12 11-4 11-2 Johnrsquos second-half form was a major fac-tor in them avoiding relegation as he returned to the form ofa couple of seasons ago and won 14 out of his last 18 setsThe other win came against Kingfisher lsquoErsquo as both JohnSimmonds and Andrew Walker returned home with maxi-mums in a 7 - 3 win They made themselves mathematicallysafe with the 5 - 5 draw away to Tidmarsh lsquoBrsquo John tookboth Andy Stephens and Steve Ricks (part of the TidmarshlsquoCrsquo championship winning team) to five before he lost 11 - 8and 11 - 4 respectively The other match saw them lose 6 -4 to the eventual runners up Sonning C amp P lsquoBrsquoTeam Stat Lost 0 - 10 on the most occasions twiceJohn Simmonds Was involved in the most five-game sets 18winning 10 and losing 8Simon Hopkins Won 10 out of the 11 five-game sets he wasinvolved inDenise Weller Played in five of the seven victories that PostOffice lsquoArsquo wonDoubles 56

Tidmarsh lsquoBrsquo had a nightmare second half of the seasonas they managed to only pick up five points from a possibleeighteen In the end they needed to rely on other resultsgoing in their favour and they all did one of which was a sur-prise to say the least Mike Aistrop won all three of his setsin the 3 - 7 defeat to OLOP lsquoDrsquo as he had fine wins overSteve Purchase (11-8 6-11 12-10 7-11 11-4) Clive Perry(11-6 11-9 10-12 11-9) and Richard Skellett (11-5 11-511-6) The only victory in the last six matches proved to bethe most important as they came from 3 - 4 down to beattheir fellow strugglers OLOP lsquoErsquo 6 - 4 with Mike starting thecomeback with a 11-6 10-12 9-11 11-2 14-12 win overHanson Xu Steve Callidine made it 5 - 4 with a 11-9 5-1111-7 11-5 win over Andy Johnson before the win wassecured by Franccedilois Durandrsquos win over Pu Zhang 11-9 11-8 11-9 Chris Webb had a disappointing end to what start-ed out as a really good season as he failed to win any in his

last six sets after winning 4 out of 6 in the firsttwo in 2012 They suffered a heavy 1 - 9 defeatto a full strength Wokingham lsquoArsquo team whereonly Franccedilois was a winner with a five gamewin over Brian Chinneck Andy Stephens andSteve Ricks played up in the match againstPost Office lsquoArsquo and won three and two respec-tively as they held on to pick up a 5 - 5 drawTeam Stat Lost the joint most matches by the 4- 6 scoreline on 4 occasions Franccedilois Durand Won one set on an eveningseven timesMike Aistrop Won all six of his sets against thechampions OLOP lsquoDrsquoChris Webb Won at least one set against the

other 10 teams in the divisionDoubles 33

OLOP lsquoErsquo have to be kicking themselves for getting them-selves into the mess of relegation If they had all performedon the same evening then they wouldnrsquot have found them-selves in 9th place and possible relegation On the final lapof the season they lost four of their five matches with theonly victory coming against Post Office lsquoArsquo where both AndyJohnson and Hanson Xu won two each and then joinedforces to actually win the doubles as well The two of themboth defeated Denise Weller and Simon Hopkins and bothlost in five to John Simmonds as did Wendy Porter but shealso lost the other two The key match that sealed their fatewas at home to already relegated and winless Sonning C ampP lsquoCrsquo Wendy Porter was the lady of the match with twogood wins over Matt Stone and Paul Treadgold whilst shelost to Jeremy Willis At 4 - 4 it was still anyonersquos game butPu Zhang lost to Jeremy and when Andy lost 2 - 3 to Matt inthe final set of the evening it had become a 4 - 6 defeatwhich left them needing to beat the champions in the finalmatch to stay up Hanson Xu had a fine evening against thechampions as he overcame both Clive Perry and HarryBrough but unfortunately they were the only wins on thenight so it ended 2 - 8 and relegation was confirmed Theydid suffer two 4 - 6 defeats as well to both Tidmarsh lsquoBrsquo andKingfisher lsquoErsquo but in the end so near yet so farTeam Stat Picked up five of their 12 points against the top fourteams but they also were the only team to lose to Sonning C ampP lsquoCrsquoWendy Porter Won 3 out of the 4 sets in which Wendy wenthome with a braceAndy Johnson Both his maximums came at homeHanson Xu Won braces on seven occasionsPu Zhang Won a single set on the most occasions 9 timesDoubles 28

Sonning Common amp Peppard lsquoCrsquo have had a really dif-ficult season and were consigned to relegation followingtheir 3 - 7 defeat to Kingfisher lsquoFrsquo Jeremy Willis has per-formed really well and finished in the top ten in the averagesand he maintained that form as he won two on the nightagainst Sharon Mitchell and Carole Chard although he lostto Niall McGrane 6-11 14-12 6-11 5-11 The other winneron the night was Matt Stone who came from 1 - 2 down tobeat Sharon 11-4 9-11 6-11 12-10 11-7 Paul Treadgold


Player Team P W LNiall McGrane Kingfisher F 44 40 9091

Neil Bird OLOP D 46 40 8696

Keith Swain Sonning CampP B 51 43 8431

John Willcocks Curzon Club A 48 39 8125

Martin Pugh Wokingham A 27 20 7407

Jeremy Willis Sonning CampP C 33 23 697

Daryl Griffith Wokingham A 33 22 6667

Malcolm Gregory Sonning CampP B 48 31 6458

Mike Aistrop Tidmarsh B 42 27 6429


2

2Congratulations to Tidmarsh lsquoCrsquo who won all of their

matches throughout the season and areworthy Champions of Division 3 and to

OLOP lsquoFrsquo who are also promoted having lostjust one match Irsquom sure both teams will dowell in Division 2 next season if they can fieldtheir strongest teams - the only shame is thatthe outstanding match between these two teamscould not be played which has spoilt Tidmarshrsquos100 record for the season

Commiserations go to Pangbourne WMC andSonning Sports lsquoArsquo who finished in the relegation placesand will probably play their matches in Division 4 next sea-son Details on the last knockings of the season follow

Tidmarsh lsquoCrsquo completed their scheduled fixtures andplayed (most of) their outstanding matches in impressivestyle with seven more comprehensive wins In their tough-est match of this run Tidmarsh stormed to a 4 - 0 lead atOLOP lsquoFrsquo before completing an emphatic 7 - 3 win to takecontrol of the top of the table Barry Carter recorded animpressive maximum and Andy Stephens won twice butgave up his undefeated record as he lost to Harry Broughin five games Bizarrely described as their hardest matchof the season Tidmarsh had their biggest win with a cleansweep against Sonning Sports Four sets went to fivegames and four more to a fourth so the match score couldhave been a lot closer

Danny Ricks became their 10th different player whenhe won two against Springfield in his first appearance inthe Senior league and went on to show the rest of theteam how to do it as he won all three against KingfisherlsquoGrsquo In this run of matches Peter Galea won 66 whileAndy Stephens Barry Carter and Steve Ricks all hitthree more maximums to leave them on 92 87 and75 respectively Their doubles record was also best inthe Division losing just three times

OLOP lsquoFrsquo won four of their last five matches to clinchpromotion starting with a good 8 - 2 win over in-form

Milestone They fielded their strongest team for a while asRichard Skellett returned alongside Harry Brough amp

Sami Almabrok to win all three He was pushed all theway by John Tucker before finally winning 11-9 9-117-11 11-8 14-12 and was also taken to a decider byJohn Crosfield Facing only two opponents fromOLOP lsquoGrsquo they easily won 9 - 1 then confirmed pro-motion with an 8 - 2 win at Tilehurst Meths Samiwinning his three sets but Richard and Harry bothlosing out to Ian Cockling over five games

OLOP lsquoFrsquo lost their unbeaten record as they suffereda 3 - 7 reverse at home to Tidmarsh Sami Harry amp Richardwinning one each then finished the season with a 9 - 1 winover Kingfisher lsquoHrsquo although all three players were pushedto play at least one deciding game before Sami andRichard came away with maximums while Harry won two

At the other end of the table Pangbourne WMC had avery poor end to their season losing their last five match-es and only picking up 3 points over the second half Theylost 1 - 9 to Tidmarsh with Howard Taylor doing very wellto beat Barry Carter in 5 games But they crucially lost atSonning Sports despite Clive Taylor winning two Leroy oneand Roger battling hard before losing to Dave Chard in fivegames then to Bob W 15-17 in their decider They lost aclose contest at Kingfisher lsquoGrsquo in a match that had 6 sets goto a deciding game but only one of which they one PeteWelch upstaged his team-mates for the first time this sea-

took Carole Chard to five but he lost 3-11 in the fifth Pauland Matt both had victories over Eric Holmes and Ian Ayresrecorded his first victory of the season with a great 11-811-8 11-7 win over Peter Goatly in the 3 - 7 defeat Irsquoll savethe highlight of their season to last and that was their onlyvictory and it came at the eighteenth time of asking away toOLOP lsquoErsquo The 6 - 4 win was inspired by three from JeremyWillis as he defeated the OLOP trio of Andy JohnsonWendy Porter and Pu Zhang relatively easily to set them ontheir way Matt Stone was the only other winner on thenight as he beat both Pu and the all important 11-8 9-116-11 11-4 11-6 set ten victory over Andy Johnson whichgave them their only win of the season Team Stat Lost 3 - 7 on the most occasions 8Paul Treadgold Won all three of his sets at Peppard MemorialHall

Matt Stone Seven of his ten wins were in five gamesJeremy Willis Didnrsquot record a duck all seasonTim Raby None of his three wins were in five gamesIan Ayres His only win was by the 3 - 0 scorelineDoubles 11

Well that is nearly the end of this marathon ramble hopeyoursquove enjoyed reading some of the information containedI have to admit some of the stats are a little tenuous but atleast I tried it All the best to the teams that won promotionto division one Irsquom sure yoursquoll have a ball Good luck to theteams heading through the trapdoor to division three seeyou in a couple of seasons Thanks to all team captains forthe prompt emailsposting of scorecards through the sea-son Have a good summer and herersquos to a fantasticLondon 2012 Olympic Gameshellip


DDDDIIIIVVVVIIIISSSSIIIIOOOONNNN TTTTHHHHRRRREEEEEEEE by Nick Lean

Team P W D L F A PtsTidmarsh lsquoCrsquo 18 17 1 0 143 37 35OLOP lsquoFrsquo 18 13 4 1 128 52 30OLOP lsquoGrsquo 18 10 2 6 101 79 22Milestone lsquoArsquo 18 7 5 6 92 88 19Kingfisher lsquoGrsquo 18 6 5 7 83 97 17Kingfisher lsquoHrsquo 18 7 2 9 81 99 16Tilehurst Meths lsquoArsquo 18 5 3 10 74 106 13Springfield lsquoArsquo 18 5 2 11 70 110 12Pangbourne WMC 18 2 4 12 65 115 8Sonning Sports lsquoArsquo18 3 2 13 63 117 8

3Reading amp District Table Tennis Association Newsletter httpwwwrdttacouknewslettersphp April 2012 17

son winning two while Leroy amp Roger could only win oneapiece Finally they lost 1 - 9 to OLOP lsquoGrsquo with Petedefeating Alex Fear for their only win of the eveningDespite some of their players actually doing better than lastseason Pangbourne didnrsquot have the fire-power to surviveanother season at this level so after 3 seasons may behappy to return to Division 4

The Sonning Sports lsquoArsquo players will be very disappointedto be relegated for the second season running having hada number of problems within their team They attempted alate comeback with wins over Pangbourne and Milestonebut in the end they narrowly lost the crucial matches withSpringfield and Tilehurst when better results could haveseen them safe

In their last few matches they lost to Kingfisher lsquoHrsquo -another night of woe as Caprsquon Bob was ill amp couldnrsquot playso had to field a reserve from Division 6 Ken Stevenswhile Nigel still out of action

Bob won two at Springfield but despite Nigel Goodmanreturning he and Dave Chard both lost out in tight sets and

could only win one each in another frustrating defeat Theypicked up their first win since November as they overcamePangbourne 7 - 3 as Dave Chard battled to his first maxi-mum of the season while Caprsquon Bob won two Sports hada stoke of luck as Milestone could only field two playersand took full advantage as Nigel won both his contests 3-straight Dave won one and they won the doubles to comeaway with a 7 - 3 win In this match Bob Snellgrove wasunlucky to lose twice in the deciding game They foughtand played well at Tidmarsh but with no reward whatsoev-er as Nigel and Dave both lost out in the deciding game ontwo occasions Tidmarsh commented ldquoIf they had playedlike that all season they wouldnt be in the relegationplacesrdquo

This left Sports with one last thread of a chance to stayup if they could win their last match but they narrowly lostat Tilehurst Meths losing out in 3 of the 4 sets that went toa deciding game as Bob won two while Nigel and Davecould only win one apiece

So to the remaining teams who will still be playing in thisDivision next season

OLOP lsquoGrsquo finished at the head of the chasing pack hav-ing won 3 of their last 7 matches They would have beensurprised to lose at Kingfisher lsquoGrsquo but they did as Dan West

and Alex Fear only won one each Then they could onlyfind two players to face their club-mates so started thematch 0 - 3 down and lost it 1 - 9 But they beat TilehurstMeths 8 - 2 with a maximum from Dan and two each forMark Kirton amp Chris West plus a marathon doubles whichwas won 18-16 in the 4th game They lost 4 - 6 atKingfisher lsquoGrsquo as Chris Dan amp Alex won one each thenstormed to a 5 - 0 lead over Springfield before beingpegged-back to a 6 - 4 win Dan had to retire before theend of the match through injury but Neil Havard who wasplaying up from Div 4 took an excellent maximum includ-ing the scalp of Phil Burke 13-11 in the fifth

At Pangbourne they came away with a 9 - 1 win as Chrisand Mark won three each then finished the season with adraw against Milestone thanks to a hard-fought maximumfrom Chris

Milestone lsquoArsquo did well to finished 4th and should be pleasedwith this position They fought well at OLOP lsquoFrsquo as fivesets went to a deciding game with Hugh beating Sami andJT beating Harry but three other contests were lost in thefifth as was the match 2 - 8 They lost by the same scoreat Tidmarsh although Hugh did well to beat Barry Carter in3 straight while JT came out on top in a five-gamer againstSteve Ricks 11-9 in the decider Hugh was taken ill beforetheir match with Sonning Sports and with just two playerswere unable to prevent a 3 - 7 defeat despite JT winningtwo The match with Kingfisher lsquoGrsquo was a bit of a muddlewith the opposition only fielding two players then one ofthose pulled out of the doubles and his final single but thematch was won 9 - 1 Milestonersquos season ended with anexcellent draw at OLOP lsquoGrsquo as Hugh and JT won two eachand teamed-up to win the doubles

Kingfisher lsquoGrsquo had a very good second half winning fourof their last six scheduled matches - only the two promotedteams won more points since Christmas They had a good7 - 3 win over OLOP lsquoGrsquo thanks mainly to reserve Leo Longwho hit a superb maximum plus two each for Allen Pack ampChris Pusey Dave Duncan amp Chris fought well to win threeeach as they won 9 - 1 at Tilehurst Meths then they sur-prised their club-mates in defeating Kingfisher H 6 - 4 fortheir third win in a row Allen Dave and Chris winning twoeach as they secured the points with two sets left to playIn this match Chris played well to beat Pat Burns havingbeen two games down At Springfield they might havecome away with more than a point as reserve MichaelHoughton won two including beating Phil Burke and Allendid the same They eventually won a tough battle withPangbourne thanks to Michael Houghton again winningtwo as did Allen while Chris won the crucial 10th setagainst Pete Welch 11-8 12-14 11-8 12-14 11-8 Turningup with two players at Milestone meant they had nochance and they finished the season at Tidmarsh wherereserve Leo Long showed what hersquos made of by defeatingAndy Stephens and Steve Ricks

Kingfisher lsquoHrsquo had a topsy-turvy end to the season withalternate wins amp defeats but a better second half meantthey finished comfortably mid-table They won at SonningSports thanks to maximums from Steve Woolnough amp PatBurns then lost out to 4 - 6 Kingfisher lsquoGrsquo despite two winsfor Pat Next they beat OLOP lsquoGrsquo 6 - 4 thanks to Pat win-

Player Team P W Peter Galea Tidmarsh lsquoCrsquo 15 14 933Andy Stephens Tidmarsh C 24 22 917Barry Carter Tidmarsh C 45 39 867Harry Brough OLOP F 50 42 840Richard Skellett OLOP F 26 21 808Sami Almabrok OLOP F 50 39 780Patrick Burns Kingfisher lsquoHrsquo 39 30 769Dave Reynolds Snr Tidmarsh C 21 16 762Phil Burke Springfield Arsquo 48 36 750Steve Ricks Tidmarsh C 24 18 750Chris West OLOP lsquoGrsquo 31 23 742


4

3


ning 3 Steve 2 and Carol Byers returning to win one butthen lost to a resurgent Tilehurst Meths as Steve and Carolcould only win one each Finally they finished the seasonwith a heavy defeat at the hands of promoted OLOP lsquoFrsquolosing 1 - 9 despite half the sets going to a deciding game- all of which they lost Pat had the only win beating HarryBrough in four games

Tilehurst Meths lsquoArsquo were in danger of being dragged intothe relegation scene as they had a poor second half whichincluded a run of 5 defeats on the trot They were wellbeaten by Kingfisher lsquoGrsquo and although five singles contestswent to the deciding game and the doubles too they lostthem all including Mel Lovegrove suffering this way for allthree of his sets They then lost at OLOP lsquoGrsquo as Phil Jonespicked up the only two wins of the evening although IanCockling did well to win long contests with both HarryBrough and Richard Skellett defeating both of them deucein the fifth and had the same result against OLOP lsquoFrsquo

The run of defeats was ended by a comprehensive winover Kingfisher lsquoHrsquo thanks to maximums from Ian and Phila result which effectively removed any relegation concernsThey were unlucky not to take something from their visit toSpringfield after leading 4 - 3 they lost the last three sin-gles but confirmed their safety with a 6 - 4 win overSonning Sports thanks to a maximum from Phil

Having been in the bottom two for much of the seasonSpringfield lsquoArsquo got themselves clear of relegation with twowins and a draw in their last five matches Unsurprisinglywell beaten by Tidmarsh with Phil Burke winning the onlyset they gave themselves a chance of avoiding relegationby defeating Sonning Sports 6 - 4 for a second time thisseason Des Hele won two including an 11-9 in the fifthover Nigel Goodman while Phil beat Dave Chard in thefinal end of the last set to complete his maximum and sealthe win They drew with Kingfisher lsquoGrsquo in a hard-foughtmatch they so nearly won as Des won two Ian one andPhil just the one as he was out-gunned in a topspin hittingbattle with Michael Houghton in the final set of the matchAfter a narrow 4 - 6 defeat at OLOP lsquoGrsquo despite 2 more winsfor Phil Burke and still needing a point from their last matchto be safe from relegation they took both points in a nip amptuck match with Tilehurst Meths At 4 - 4 Seth Martin beatJohn Virgo in five games to secure a point then Phil Burkecompleted his maximum with a 3-straight win over IanCockling to seal the win Good comments were madeabout the sportsmanship of the Tilehurst players followinga couple of dodgy calls during the match which is alwaysnice to hear

Finally thanks to all the team captains (and theirdeputies) for their help and comments throughout the sea-son

Before I start my final run in notes I will mention thetwo matches that were played just after the Febnotes

The Curzon derby was won 3 - 7 by the lsquoBrsquoteam thanks as ever to Geoff who won all threeNick weighed in with a double and I won onebesides teaming up with Geoff to win the dou-bles For the lsquoCrsquo team Linda played really welland beat Nick and myself over 5 games with an11-9 scoreline in the 5th game in both

Sonning then entertained Tidmarshand went down 4 - 6 with Jon gettinga nice double and Derek a single bybeating Terry For Tidmarsh DaveEdwards gained his first treblesince the 20092010 season and with Dave Smith winningtwo and Terry one this was enough for them to give them-selves some breathing space at the bottom

In the 1st vs 3rd battle Tilehurst Meths were held to adraw by OLOP Nigel Rowland and Richard Lownsbroughboth gained doubles and Chris Taylor got a very vital singleby beating Chris Moses Nigel was missing from theirimportant match at Wokingham and as a result they lost 6- 4 Nick won two and Chris and Richard both won one bybeating John Beardmore In the top of the table clash theyfaced a weakened Polish lsquoBrsquo side and romped home 8 - 2with Nick Barnes obtaining a three straight maximumNigel and Richard both won two each They then clinched

promotion by beating bottom side Sonning 0 - 10 withNigel Richard and Nick getting trebles Then by beating a

two man Kingfisher team 9 - 1 they clinched the cham-pionship so I congratulate Nigel and his boys on their

success They finished their season at Curzon lsquoBrsquowhere they gained a draw mainly thanks to Nigelwho obtained a great hat trick which included a 6-11 8-11 8-11 win over Geoff Richard and Chris both

won one each by beating Jim Seasonrsquos record

Nigel 47 53 = 8868 11 trebles best win GeoffJohnson

Richard 34 out of 50 = 68 4 trebles bestwin JacekMartin 6 out of 9 = 6667 1 treble best win

Terry SpiceChris 16 33 = 4848 1 treble best win Derek HarrisonNick 25 out of 32 = 7813 4 trebles best win JacekDoubles 15 out of 20 = 75Nigel and Nick had the best doubles record 8 out of 917 points first half 16 points second halfOne final comment - hope you are playing again nextseason Martin

Polish lsquoBrsquo continued to march towards promotion bybeating Curzon lsquoBrsquo 3 - 7 with Jacek winning all three Darekgaining a double and Marcin picking up a single Jacekand Darek showed no mercy in the doubles by beatingNick and Geoff 3-11 7-11 4-11 At home to Sonning they

DDDDIIIIVVVVIIIISSSSIIIIOOOONNNN FFFFOOOOUUUURRRR by Derek Harrison

4were given a hard game before winning 8 - 2 with Jacekagain winning all three Darek and Marcin both picked updoubles At Tilehurst Meths they were without Jacek and asa result lost 8 - 2 Darek won one by beating Richard andMarcin had a brilliant victory over Nigel They then drewwith Kingfisher with Jacek winning all three but it took a set10 win over George getting home 13-11 in the 5th endDarek won the other singles game by beating Michael Healso won the doubles with Jacek They then clinched pro-motion by beating their lsquoCrsquo team 9 - 1 with Jacek and Darekboth hitting trebles The skipper Marcin weighed in with adouble They finished their season by beating Curzon lsquoCrsquo 3- 7 with Jacek Darek and Marcin all gaining doublesSeasonrsquos recordJacek 48 57 = 842 12 trebles best win Neil HavardMarcin 22 60 = 367 6 doubles best win NigelRowlandDarek 42 60 = 700 5 trebles best win Tony EamesDoubles 13 out of 20 = 65016 points first half 15 points second half

Jacek and Darek had the best doubles record winning 10out of 14

OLOP gained a great draw at Tilehurst Meths thanksmainly to a brilliant treble from Dave Godfrey AlistairRichardson did well to win one and he also teamed up withDave to win the doubles three straight If only Neil hadbeen available they would have romped home They thenlost 3 - 7 to Kingfisher with Neil Alistair and Dave all beat-ing Diane Away to Curzon lsquoCrsquo they came away with a 2 - 8victory thanks to maximums from Dave and Neil who weresupported by Alistair who beat Oliver At home to Polish lsquoCrsquothey won 8 - 2 thanks to trebles from Alistair and Neil withDave getting a single Against Birch Copse they won 7 - 3with Neil and Dave winning all three For Neil they were allthree straightSeasonrsquos recordAlistair 25 48 = 5208 4 trebles best win Terry HardieDave 34 48 = 7083 6 trebles best win Nigel RowlandNeil 45 54 = 8333 10 trebles best win Geoff JohnsonChris 0 out of 18Doubles 11 out of 20 = 550

Dave amp Alistairrsquos doubles record was bestwith 8 out of 1313 points first half 14 points second half

Birch Copse had a good 4 - 6 win atCurzon lsquoCrsquo thanks to a great team perfor-mance with Jes Eassom and reserveGeorge Sandford both winning two eachMike Williams did his bit by picking up a vitalsingle besides teaming up with Jes to winthe doubles They then beat Polish lsquoCrsquo 7 -3 Richard won all three in straight gameswith Jes gaining a double Mike played hispart by beating Krys At home to Curzon lsquoBrsquoin a very good evening the match ended ina draw with Richard winning two and alsoteamed up with Jes to win the doubles whowon one as did Mike who both beat Jim Athome to Tidmarsh Richard gained a treblethree straight and with Jes winning two and

Mike one this helped them to a 7 - 3 victory Away to OLOPthey went down 7 - 3 with Mike Jes and Andras all winningone eachSeasonrsquos recordJes 26 out of 50 = 520 10 doubles best win RichardLownsbroughMike 19 out of 50 = 380 1 treble best win MichaelHoughtonRichard 36 out of 44 = 8182 8 trebles best win Leo LongDoubles 10 out of 20 = 500Mike and Richard had the best doubles record winning 4out of 711 points first half 13 points second half

Curzon lsquoBrsquo finally accepted that their promotion dreamwas over by going down 3 - 7 to Polish lsquoBrsquo Geoff won twoand Nick won one Nick was unlucky against Jacek onlygoing down 9-11 in the 5th end At home to Sonning webounced back by winning 9 - 1 with Geoff and Nick bothobtaining trebles I played my part by winning two At BirchCopse Geoff was again in top form by gaining a great max-imum and with Nick winning two this gave us a point Awayat Tidmarsh Geoff and Nick both won two each in a 6 - 4defeat We finished by holding the champions Tilehurst toa draw with Geoff and Derek winning two each and the twoof them won the doubles As a result of that point it meanswe have finished in 5th place for three seasons in a row Seasonrsquos recordGeoff 38 out of 45 = 8444 8 trebles best win NeilHavardNick 27 out of 42 = 6429 2 trebles best win Nick BarnesDerek 22 42 = 5238 10 doubles best win Neil HavardJim 11 out of 42 = 2619 3 doubles best win DarekDoubles 9 out of 19 = 470Derek amp Geoffrsquos doubles record was best with 5 out of 613 points first half 11 points second half

Wokingham won their second match in a row for the firsttime this season by beating Sonning 2 - 8 with Mike Shorewinning all three Richard Neville and John Beardmoreboth picked up doubles Mike was again in top form by win-ning all 3 three straight against Tilehurst Meths and also


Team P W D L F A PtsTilehurst Meths lsquoBrsquo 20 15 3 2 146 54 33

Polish lsquoBrsquo 20 14 3 3 125 75 31

OLOP lsquoHrsquo 20 12 3 5 119 81 27

Wokingham lsquoBrsquo 20 11 2 7 114 86 24

Curzon lsquoBrsquo 20 9 6 5 112 88 24

Birch Copse lsquoArsquo 20 10 4 6 105 95 24

Kingfisher lsquoIrsquo 20 6 4 10 91 109 16

Tidmarsh lsquoDrsquo 20 5 4 11 74 126 14

Curzon lsquoCrsquo 20 2 7 11 79 121 11

Polish lsquoCrsquo 20 3 3 14 66 134 9

SCampP lsquoDrsquo 20 2 3 15 69 131 7

4teaming up with Ken to win the doubles Ken did well toobtain a nice double At Kingfisher they lost 7 - 3 withRichard winning two and Ken one Next came Curzon lsquoCrsquowho they beat 9 - 1 Tony and Richard both gained tre-bles with Ken winning two In their final match of the sea-son they won 2 - 8 at Polish lsquoCrsquo with Tony winning all threeand Ken and John Beardmore both obtaining doubles Seasonrsquos record Tony 28 33 = 848 7 maximums best win Neil HavardMike 12 15 = 800 3 maximums best win NickBarnesRichard 25 33 = 758 5 trebles best win NigelRowlandKen 20 39 = 513 2 trebles best win Darek KaminskiJohn Beardmore 10 27 = 370 4 doubles best winAlistair RichardsonJohn Belcher 1 out of 18 = 56 best win Diane TaylorDoubles record 13 out of 19 = 68412 points first half 12 points second halfTony amp Richard had the best doubles record winning 6out of 7

Tidmarsh without Terry lost 8 - 2 at Kingfisher with thetwo Daves beating Derek Spicer At home to Curzon lsquoCrsquoin a very sporting evening the points were shared withTerry picking up a fine double besides winning the dou-bles with Dave E who won one as did Dave S In theirvital game at Polish lsquoCrsquo they were without Terry who waswatching Reading beat Portsmouth 1 - 0 however DaveEdwards did the business by winning all three and thenteaming up with Dave S to win the doubles Reserve PeteSinclair did well to pick up a single One big comment Imust make is on Daversquos loss 12-14 11-6 11- 411-8 toStephen You may wonder why I picked this out so I willtell you that Dave was 10-0 down in that first game Theythen went down 8 - 2 at Kingfisher with Dave E and DaveS winning one each At Birch Copse again without Terrythey went down 7 - 3 with Dave E winning two and DaveS one They then finished their season by beating CurzonlsquoBrsquo 6 - 4 with Terry on top form winning all three The twoDaversquos both won one each by beating Jim

By the way Dave thanks for your email with your kindcomments It is nice that my efforts are appreciatedSeasonrsquos recordTerry 24 39 = 6154 4 trebles best win Nigel RowlandDave E 27 60 = 450 2 trebles best win RichardLownsbroughDave S 9 out of 36 = 250 1 double best win JesEassomMick 2 out of 33 = 606 2 singles best win MarcinKolatDoubles 11 out of 20 = 550Best doubles record Terry amp Dave E 9 out of 128 points first half 6 points second half

One final comment I hope that your back gets betterMick and that you are able to play again next season Andas for you Bob I have missed playing against you and Ihope you also are able to play again

Kingfisher helped themselves to two points by beatingTidmarsh 8 - 2 Michael Houghton and George Dodd bothobtained maximums with Derek Spicer picking up a sin-gle They then won 3 - 7 at OLOP with Leo and Georgeboth winning all three and teaming up to win the doublesto beat Dave and Alistair At home to a two manWokingham they won 7 - 3 Leo won his two sets withGeorge winning one At Polish lsquoBrsquo Leo and George bothobtained doubles with Michael winning one which helpedthem share the points At home to Sonning they won 7 -3 with Michael and George both winning all three Derekdid well to beat Simon

At Tilehurst due to a lash-up they only had two playersand went down 9 - 1 Michael won the game by beatingRichardSeasonrsquos recordMichael 34 53 = 6415 5 trebles best win Nick BarnesLeo 15 17 = 8824 3 trebles best win Richard NevilleGeorge 29 f 44 = 6591 5 trebles best win RichardGreenDerek 4 out of 36 = 1111 4 singles best win JanPolnikDiane 0 out of 12Doubles 6 out of 20 = 300Best doubles record 3 out of 9 for Michael amp George3 points first half 13 points second half

Curzon lsquoCrsquo despite a great treble from Terry Spice wentdown 4 - 6 to Birch Copse Linda King won the othergame by beating Mike At Tidmarsh they gained a valu-able point with Terry obtaining a superb maximum Lindadid very well by winning two They then lost 2 - 8 to OLOPwith Terry and Linda both defeating Alistair They thenwent down 9 - 1 at a full strength Wokingham with Lindabeating Ken At home to Polish lsquoBrsquo Linda obtained a greatmaximum by beating Jacek 11-8 11-8 11-7 Darek 6-1112-10 11-5 5-11 11-7 and Marcin 8-11 11-5 11-9 11-5Well done Linda but sadly the side lost 3 - 7 At Sonning


Player Team P W

Nigel Rowland Tilehurst Meths lsquoBrsquo 53 47 887

Tony Eames Wokingham lsquoBrsquo 33 28 848

Geoff Johnson Curzon lsquoBrsquo 45 38 844

Jacek Krzyzanowski Polish lsquoBrsquo 57 48 842

Neil Havard OLOP lsquoHrsquo 54 45 833

Richard Green Birch Copse lsquoArsquo 44 36 818

Nick Barnes Tilehurst Meths lsquoBrsquo 32 25 781

Richard Neville Wokingham lsquoBrsquo 33 25 758

Dave Godfrey OLOP lsquoHrsquo 48 34 708

Darek Kaminski Polish lsquoBrsquo 60 42 700

Richard Lownsbrough Tilehurst Meths lsquoBrsquo 50 34 680

George Dodd Kingfisher lsquoIrsquo 44 29 659

Nick Lean Curzon Club B 42 27 643

Michael Houghton Kingfisher lsquoIrsquo 53 34 642

Terry Hardie Tidmarsh lsquoDrsquo 39 24 615

DDIIVV 44 LLEEAADDIINNGG AAVVEERRAAGGEESS

Wersquove finally come to the end of another sea-son and itrsquos time to sum up the triumphsdisasters and the downright quirky things

that happened during the 2011-12 season

Triumphant is certainly the word to sum up theseason for Tilehurst Methodists lsquoCrsquo Having fin-ished the previous season in mid-table they lostthe services of prolific scorer Martin Wetherell tothe lsquoBrsquo team and captain Chas Dean and RyanArch to the newly formed lsquoDrsquo team Mal Collismoved down from the lsquoBrsquo team to take over as cap-tain and was initially joined by his team-mate Chris TaylorHowever Chris was off after one match having been recalledto the lsquoBrsquo team and was replaced by Catherine Venning wholast played in Division 5 about 5 years previously (it might bemore but my memory isnrsquot as good as it used to be)

On paper they seemed to be weaker this time aroundbut in reality Malrsquos team stormed the division BobWinter was in irrepressible form throughout the sea-son and upped his previous seasonrsquos average byover 10 to nearly 90 overall However the realsuccess story was Catherine who was an instanthit scoring trebles with amazing consistency andalmost matching Bobrsquos illustrious figures With Bob

and Catherine playing together (which happenedfor every match bar two) victory was almost cer-

tainly assured And just to make sure No3 playerDave Jones upped his average by over 10 to 52

despite well into his 80s A superb all-round effort and welldone indeed On the down side Mal failed to repeat the formof previous years and amazingly managed to win only oneset all season Part of the problem of course was the superbform of his colleagues which meant he found it hard to justi-

4


DDDDIIIIVVVVIIIISSSSIIIIOOOONNNN FFFFIIIIVVVVEEEE by Duncan Abbott

in their final match they gained a draw thanks to a verygood maximum from Terry and a good double from LindaSeasonrsquos recordLinda 30 out of 57 = 5263 3 trebles best win JacekTerry 39 60 = 650 9 trebles best win Nigel RowlandMike 2 27 = 741 2 singles best win John BeardmoreOliver 2 out of 36 = 556 best win Chris MosesDoubles 6 out of 20 = 30 with Linda amp Terry playing in19 of them8 points first half 3 points second halfOne final comment for Oli I hope you will not be toupset about your first season and hope you will practiceduring the summer with Mike Maynard to give you agood start next season

Polish lsquoCrsquo went to Birch Copse and went down 7 - 3 withGrant Wheatley winning two by beating Jes and MikeStephen won the other set by beating Mike At home toTidmarsh they gained a draw with Stephen and Grant bothwinning two each and Krys getting that important singleThey then lost 8 - 2 at OLOP with Stephen and Grant bothbeating Dave In their match with their lsquoBrsquo team Grant beatMarcin in a 9 - 1 defeat At home to Wokingham in theirfinal match they lost 2 - 8 with Krys and Stephen both pick-ing up singles As a result they are relegatedSeasonrsquos recordJan 2 out of 24 = 83 2 singles best win Oliver ListerStephen 25 f 60 = 417 8 doubles best win NickBarnesKrys 9 45 = 200 1 double best win Derek HarrisonGrant 24 o 51 = 471 9 doubles best win Terry SpiceDoubles 6 out of 20 = 3003 points first half 6 points second halfStephen amp Grant had the best doubles record winning 5out of 17

Sonning at home to Wokingham lost 2 - 8 with Jon Abbottbeating Richard and Derek Wavell beating John

Beardmore At Polish lsquoBrsquo they again lost 8 - 2 and hereDerek beat Darek and Jon beat Marcin At Curzon lsquoBrsquo ittook a set 10 win for Derek against me to save a whitewash Sadly the following week they were whitewashed byTilehurst I wonrsquot say who played lads At Kingfisher theywent down 7 - 3 with Derek and Jon both beating Derekwhich now means they are relegated Against Curzon lsquoCrsquo agood team performance gave them a point Derek won twoand Jon and Jim both picked up singles Derek and Jonalso won the doubles by beating Linda and TerrySeasonrsquos recordDerek 16 out of 48 = 3333 3 doubles best win DarekMark 11 out of 15 = 7333 2 trebles best win JacekJim 3 out of 24 = 125 3 singles best win JanAnthony 8 27 = 2963 1 double best win Terry HardieJon 20 out of 48 = 4167 1 treble best win Neil HavardSimon 1 out of 15 = 667 best win Dave EdwardsDoubles 9 out of 20Derek amp Anthony had the best doubles record winning 2out of 36 points first half 1 second half

One final comment I have to say that if Mark had not beeninjured for most of the season they would not have gonedown I hope you will be fit soon Mark and be playing againnext season

One extra stat Only five players played in every matchThey were Marcin Darek and Stephen (all of Polish) andDave E from Tidmarsh and Terry Spice from Curzon lsquoCrsquo

Finally I would like to thank Derek for his great newsletterwhich goes from strength to strength and to Nigel for thegreat press coverage I hope you will stay on not only asthe press officer but to continue as the Chairman And toNick for all of his help and advice regarding my TT spread-sheet

Thatrsquos it see you next season

Derek

5

fy selecting himself

The team suffered only two defeats all season atSpringfield lsquoBrsquo early in the season when Catherine wasunavailable and at home to a very powerful Kingfisher lsquoKrsquoside Coincidentally these were the only two occasionswhen they lost the doublesBiggest win 9 - 1 v Kingfisher lsquoKrsquo (away) TidmarshlsquoErsquo (home amp away) and Kingfisher lsquoJrsquo (away)Biggest defeat 4 - 6 v Springfield (away) andKingfisher lsquoKrsquo (home)

It was also an amazing season for last yearrsquos Division 6champions Kingfisher lsquoKrsquo who followed last seasonrsquossuccess with a second promotion (assuming the leagueset up stays the same) and a highly impressive runners-up spot After taking 15 points from a possible 16 in mid-sea-son they threatened to mount a serious challenge for titleHowever two defeats at the business end of the season hand-ed the title to their rivals

I sincerely hope that Jean-Noel Thepaut has enjoyed histable tennis over the last two seasons He is the best player Ihave ever witnessed playing regularly at this level by muchmore than the proverbial country mile No opponent cameeven remotely near to defeating him although a special men-tion has to go to Sonning Commonrsquos Phil Turton who was theonly player this season to take a game off him Well donePhil yoursquoll have to share your secret with me some time

However even without Jean-Noel this team would have heldtheir own in this division Nils Wedi looked a bit rusty at firstbut once he got into his stride he became a very formidableopponent as his average of 80 testifies Gabor Radnoti(58) also had his moments including a 4-match spell wherehe won 10 sets out of a possible 12 ndash but his lack of consis-tency sometimes let him down Joaquin Munoz-Sabater hada handful of matches but his best performance was his braceat Birch Copse lsquoBrsquo which helped secure the points in a verytight match Stuart Mitchell won one set against club rivalsKingfisher lsquoJrsquo and although captain Didier Garccedilon failed totrouble the scorers the scorecards suggested that with a littlebit more luck and maybe a few more matches he wouldalmost certainly have broken his duck Didier did team up forsome doubles successes and did some clever team selec-tions which were confirmed by the number of close victoriesBiggest win 10 - 0 v Springfield lsquoBrsquo (home)Biggest defeat 1 - 9 v Tilehurst Methodists lsquoCrsquo (home)

Post Office lsquoBrsquo occupied one of the relegation places lastseason but earned a reprieve over the summer This eventu-ally proved justified as the team finished in the dizzy heightsof third place The experienced Feliks Ziemba was added tothe squad which lost John Gatward and Pat Davis to retire-ment and Ted Cripps replaced Barbara Gatward as captain

After taking just one point from their opening 4 matchesanother season of struggle looked likely However from thenon the team really hit form and despite injury problems toFeliks (which ruled him out of the second half of the season)and Linda Davis they lost only 2 of their remaining matchesaway to eventual champions Tilehurst Methodists lsquoCrsquo andbang-in-form Tidmarsh lsquoErsquo at the end of the season when therewas only pride to play for

Ted was the catalyst to their revival upping has average by25 from last season to an impressive 71 Mick Granthamcontinued last seasonrsquos excellent form winning 2 out of every3 his best performance being a maximum at TilehurstMethodists lsquoCrsquo Both Feliks (58) and Linda (44) produceddogged performances throughout the season and Barbarabattled hard but without any success The doubles was onceagain a strong point in particular the TedMick partnershipWho knows what this team could have achieved had Feliksand Linda remained injury freeThe team also reached the Div56 KO Cup final afterthumping a Birch Copse lsquoBrsquo side that was badly hit byinjury and availability issues In the cup final they lost toKingfisher lsquoKrsquo - a team they had beaten twice in theleague thus ending Kingfisherrsquos league title hopesBiggest win 8 - 2 v Kingfisher lsquoJrsquo (away) 8 - 2 vKingfisher lsquoKrsquo (away) and Springfield lsquoBrsquo (away)Biggest defeat 3 - 7 v Milestone lsquoBrsquo (home) OLOP lsquoIrsquo(away) Tilehurst Methodists lsquoCrsquo (away) and TidmarshlsquoErsquo(away)

Last seasonrsquos other relegation place was taken bySpringfield lsquoBrsquo who finished comfortably adrift at the foot ofthe Div 5 table Personally I was expecting them to competein Div 6 this season but they strengthened their squad duringthe summer and won a reprieve Out went captain ColinJones and replacing him at the helm was Paul Jenkins whoplayed in Div 6 last season However their most notable addi-tion was the vastly experienced John Burke and all of a sud-den they had a much more solid look about them

They came out of the traps like the proverbial train with fourstraight wins and shot to the top of the pile Despite a trio ofdefeats against in-form teams they carried on their winningways and by the start of February had a formidable record of10 wins out of 13 and at this stage the title race looked to bea three horse race between Springfield lsquoBrsquo TilehurstMethodists lsquoCrsquo and Kingfisher lsquoKrsquo An exciting end of the sea-son beckoned for this re-vamped team but then disasterstruck

Title rivals Kingfisher lsquoKrsquo showed no mercy and sent themfrom Woodley with their tails between their legs and a 10 - 0hiding Sadly the Twyford outfit never recovered from this andtheir season ended with four further defeats and a mid-tableposition although admittedly three of these were by a 6 - 4margin


Team P W D L F A PtsTilehurst Meths C 18 15 1 2 130 50 31Kingfisher K 18 13 1 4 108 72 27Post Office B 18 9 4 5 102 78 22Springfield B 18 10 0 8 93 87 20Milestone B 18 9 2 7 91 89 20OLOP I 18 7 5 6 91 89 19Tidmarsh E 18 6 2 10 74 106 14Birch Copse B 18 5 3 10 83 97 13Sonning CampP E 18 4 3 11 76 104 11Kingfisher J 18 0 3 15 52 128 3

5However despite their end-of-season nosedive they can look

back on the season with pride Johnrsquos 88 average was thethird best in the division although he admits that he playedmore matches than he really wanted to Chris Speightrsquos 52average was an improvement on last season but after startingthe season with two maximums one might have hoped thatthings would turn out even better Dan Mortimerrsquos 39 includ-ed a full score at Tidmarsh lsquoErsquo and Paulrsquos 36 included fivebraces the most impressive being at OLOP lsquoIrsquo in an impressive6 - 4 win Biggest win 8 - 2 v Kingfisher lsquoJrsquo (home amp away) andTidmarsh lsquoErsquo(home)Biggest defeat 0 - 10 v Kingfisher lsquoKrsquo (away)

After their struggles in the previous season Milestone lsquoBrsquowere much brighter this time around Having lost PratikKothari to the newly formed lsquoCrsquo team and Geoff Gygi to retire-ment (in the Swiss Alps so I am told) they were left to soldieron through the whole season with three players ndash captainGerard Thorp Oliver Bonser and John Simpson The fact thatthese three players played in all 18 league fixtures is a rareaccolade in these days of unavoidable absences and squadrotation systems so well done to Gerard Oliver and John forachieving this feat

The team had a particularly fruitful spell in February andearly March when they won five games on the bounce (the firstfour by a 6 - 4 margin) which took them to the fringes of the pro-motion picture but were never going to be enough for them tomount a serious challenge

Oliverrsquos game has improved noticeably (apart from one blip)so much so that his average from last season improved bynearly 20 to 75 as he established himself as one of theleading players in this division Although he was fairly consis-tent throughout the season Gerard (51) surprisingly failed towin all three on any occasion although he picked up two winson several occasions John also had his moments his bestbeing a treble in the 9 - 1 demolition of Kingfisher lsquoJrsquo inWoodley Their doubles form was patchy but that was animprovement on last seasonrsquos consistently bad showingHowever against Birch Copse lsquoBrsquo they won both doubles sets3-straight which well and truly put me in my place for previouscommentsBiggest win 9 - 1 v Kingfisher lsquoJrsquo (away)Biggest defeat 1 - 9 v Kingfisher lsquoKrsquo (away)

OLOP lsquoIrsquo finished last season as runners-up in Division 6 andimproved this time around as one would expect from a youngside They never threatened to make a push for the title butat the same time were never in danger of finishing near thebottom They took over the mantle of draw specialists withfive of their 18 fixtures ending in a tie

Pick of the youngsters was Siad Cole (82) whoimpressed throughout the season with his vast array ofattacking shots Mac DeGuzman (75) was an addition tothe squad and featured regularly in the first half of the sea-son For some reason however he played only twice in2012 and perhaps this was a factor in them not making apush towards the top Phil Saunders (54) made a steadyimprovement throughout the season although somewhatsurprisingly he failed to register a full score in any matchFor captain Daniel Thorne this was a season of struggle and

he went through a particularly difficult spell from October toFebruary when he recorded only one set win in 7 league fix-tures However he did much better towards the end of the sea-son which bodes well for the future ndash his best score was abrace in the 8 - 2 win over Kingfisher lsquoJrsquoBiggest win 8 - 2 v Tidmarsh lsquoErsquo (home) and Kingfisher lsquoJrsquo(away)Biggest defeat 2 - 8 v Tilehurst Methodists lsquoCrsquo (away)

If ever there was a season of two halves this was it forTidmarsh lsquoErsquo ndash and boy what a contrast Only one point fromthe first half of the season and another defeat at the start ofJanuary things were looking particularly grim for BobSunertonrsquos boys Personally I always thought they were in afalse position and when one opposition captain (I wonrsquot revealhis identity) told me they were relegation certainties he lookedshocked when I told him I thought they would survive But Ididnrsquot expect them to win 6 of their last 8 matches and it mustbe testament to their resilience that they pulled off the motherof all escape acts and finish in a very comfortable 7th placeThe turning point came in a home match against SonningCommon amp Peppard lsquoErsquo and a slightly fortuitous first win of theseason courtesy of an untimely injury to an opponent But youhave to make the most of the luck you do get and Tidmarsh lsquoErsquocertainly did that Perhaps their most impressive win was a 6- 4 triumph over title-chasing Kingfisher lsquoKrsquo despite the pres-ence of Jean-Noel Thepaut in the opposition camp

There were no stars in the Tidmarsh camp but the experi-ence in the squad ultimately proved decisive Top player wasJohn Harland (58) who played only 8 matches but featuredstrongly in the revival scoring an impressive maximum in a 6 -4 win at Birch Copse lsquoBrsquo Captain Bob (47) made a very poorstart by his standards but stepped up to the mark when it mat-tered Steve Andrews (41) didnrsquot win a single game until theclash at Kingfisher lsquoJrsquo on October 31st a match which wasremembered more for an allegation by home captain DerekCrombie against Tidmarshrsquos Dave Humphrey for use of an ille-gal bat an issue which has yet to be resolved Apart from abrace at Sonning Common amp Peppard lsquoErsquo Dave struggledthroughout the season and if he was using an illegal bat it wascertainly doing him few favours The other squad player MikeBundy (37) had some sprightly performances and on his dayis very difficult to beatBiggest win 7 - 3 v Milestone lsquoBrsquo (away) and Post OfficelsquoBrsquo (away)


Player Team P W Jean-Noel Thepaut Kingfisher K 36 36 100Bob Winter Tilehurst Meths C 54 48 8889John Burke Springfield B 33 29 8788Catherine Venning Tilehurst Meths C 48 40 8333Siad Cole OLOP I 39 32 8205Nils Wedi Kingfisher K 30 24 80Oliver Bonser Milestone B 53 40 7547Mac deGuzman OLOP I 24 18 75Ted Cripps Post Office B 42 30 7143Duncan Abbott Birch Copse B 48 34 7083Mick Grantham Post Office B 39 26 6667



5Biggest defeat 1 - 9 v Tilehurst Methodists lsquoCrsquo (home ampaway)

At the start of the season I had Birch Copse lsquoBrsquo down asone of the relegation favourites No disrespect to the playersbut this was a new team and the initial set of players were lack-ing in experience at this level Neither captain Melanie Griffithsnor son Jack had any previous experience in Div 5 DuncanAbbott was a bit-part player in the lsquoArsquo teamrsquos title winning sea-son and George Sandford was not available for most match-es due to his involvement in the Newbury League

After opening defeats against the leaguersquos eventual champi-ons and runners-up wins away to Post Office lsquoBrsquo and TidmarshlsquoErsquo proved very timely In the first both Duncan and Georgeplayed Duncan netting a treble and in the second the experi-enced Roy Hull played up and hit a maximum However thenext five matches before Christmas produced only two drawsIn the first of these rookie Andras Ardanhazi played up from Div6 and produced a stunning maximum Andrasrsquo next appear-ance followed his re-registration to the lsquoBrsquo team and was in theother draw at Kingfisher lsquoJrsquo

The second half of the season started with identical scoresto the initial matches against the top two then a draw againstPost Office lsquoBrsquo gave them hope but a decisive defeat at hometo Tidmarsh lsquoErsquo pushed them into the bottom two Even a 6 - 4win at Sonning Common amp Peppard lsquoErsquo couldnrsquot lift them outand further defeats against Milestone lsquoBrsquo and at OLOP lsquoIrsquo leftthings looking very grim indeed However the team received atimely boost with the availability of George for the last twogames and they took full advantage A maximum for Duncanand braces for George and Andras gave them a storming 8 - 2win at Springfield lsquoBrsquo in what was their best performance of theseason They repeated the dose against bottom clubKingfisher lsquoJrsquo (amazingly their only home win of the season)courtesy of a full score from George and safety had beensecured

Duncan finished with a very creditable 71 from 16 match-es performing very consistently throughout the seasonHowever Andras was without doubt the success story of theseason ndash discovered by Duncan playing in a church hall in thesummer he was drafted into the lsquoCrsquo team at the start of theseason Impressive performances saw him promoted to the lsquoBrsquoteam in December and his final average of 45 in Div 5 (notto mention his aggressive hitting style) made him a very popu-lar player with his team mates as well as remarkable successfor someone who had never played competitive table tennisbefore Melanie played well in the first half of the season herhighlight being a brace in the 5 - 5 draw against SonningCommon amp Peppard lsquoErsquo However in the second half she man-aged to win only one set in the 6 fixtures she played in Jackshowed promise scoring 4 singles in the 7 fixtures he played inup to the end of November but after being dropped heappeared to lose heart and didnrsquot play another fixture Theexperienced Peter Sheppard played one match scoring a sin-gle in the 3 - 7 defeat at Milestone lsquoBrsquo

Doubles play showed a big improvement the pairings ofAndrasMelanie and AndrasDuncan were very successful win-ning 7 out of the last 8 the only loss coming naturally againstthose aristocrats of the doubles game Milestone lsquoBrsquoBiggest win 8 - 2 v Springfield lsquoBrsquo (away) and Kingfisher

lsquoJrsquo (home)Biggest defeat 2 - 8 v Tilehurst Methodists lsquoCrsquo (home ampaway)

At the mid-season stage Sonning Common amp Peppard lsquoErsquowere comfortably sitting in mid-table having won 3 drawn 3and lost 3 and last seasonrsquos draw specialists seemed to be liv-ing up to their previous reputation From last season they hadgained an additional player in Phil Turton who moved downfrom Div 4 although injury effectively ruled out captain PeterHarman for the entire season Wins had come against the bot-tom two teams at the time and defeats were against the topthree in the early stages they won the local derby againstMilestone lsquoBrsquo and the rest were drawn

Everything seemed normal in this part of South Oxfordshireand no-one could have foreseen the disaster that was to followespecially as Tony House was playing well and following thisfull score against Milestone lsquoBrsquo with another one at TidmarshlsquoErsquo who at the time were sitting at the bottom with only 1league point Unfortunately things went against them in thisfixture Phil had to pull out of his last game with injury and thematch was lost Worse was to follow and the next 4 matcheswere all lost the last one crucially at home against strugglingBirch Copse lsquoBrsquo who as a result drew level on points althoughPetersquos side were still out of the bottom two on points differenceVictory at bottom club Kingfisher lsquoJrsquo gave them a brief respitebut further defeats in the last three matches left them hopingfor similar results for Birch Copse lsquoBrsquo to let them off the hookUnfortunately the Tilehurst outfit found their form when it mat-tered and this consigned Sonning Common amp Peppard lsquoErsquo to aplace in the dreaded bottom two

Tony and Dave Aust both finished with a respectable 59Dave played in all matches bar one and Tony in only half ofthem Perhaps if Tony had played more matches the abovescenario would have been avoided Dave surprisingly failed torecord a maximum a feat Tony managed twice at MilestonelsquoBrsquo and Tidmarsh lsquoErsquo I notice Tony played in only one homematch in the entire season and that was the opening one ndashsomething of a surprise as I know he normally enjoys playingon home soil Phil also hit the jackpot twice at home toTidmarsh lsquoErsquo and away to Kingfisher lsquoKrsquo but his final averageof 42 was a bit lower than might have been expected Asmentioned above he was the only player to take a game fromJean-Noel Thepaut Mike Casserley had his moments thebest being a brace in the 5 - 5 draw with OLOP lsquoIrsquo and DerekMaltby had late season wins against Melanie Griffiths andDave Jones

Personally I donrsquot expect to see them playing in Division 6even if there is one but this seasonrsquos experience shows howeven an experienced side can hit the buffersBiggest win 7 - 3 v Kingfisher lsquoJrsquo (home amp away)Biggest defeat 2 - 8 v Tilehurst Methodists lsquoCrsquo (away) andKingfisher lsquoKrsquo (away)

What can be said about the season Kingfisher lsquoJrsquo have justendured Their captain Derek Crombie told me it was the firsttime any of his teams had gone through an entire season with-out winning a single match although I confessed I myself hadboth seen and experienced worse The fact they gained 3league points through draws (against Tidmarsh lsquoErsquo OLOP lsquoIrsquoand Birch Copse lsquoBrsquo) means they will miss out on an unwant-

KO

5


ed place in the Guinness Book of Records However allthose results came in the first half of the season so the factthat there was no improvement throughout the season willIrsquom sure disappoint Derek

Last season they escaped relegation right at the deathand during the summer they lost their No2 MaureenAllchurch who was replaced by Gill Bennett and HelenSparkes who competed in Division 6 last season so in onesense the writing was on the wall before the season started

Andrew Talaga was once again top dog finishing with acool 64 average The highlight of his season was a highlyimpressive maximum at OLOP lsquoIrsquo including wins over Siad

Cole and Mac DeGuzman and he also hit full scores in thetwo matches against Tidmarsh lsquoErsquo

Sadly all other squad members finished with averages ofbelow 25 and this was really the reason for their plightDerek hit a brace in the draw with Birch Copse lsquoBrsquo just beforeChristmas Phil Cunnington did the same at home to clubrivals Kingfisher lsquoKrsquo and at Post Office lsquoBrsquo Helen hit a bracein the home match against Tidmarsh lsquoErsquo and Gill had winsagainst Mal Collis and Stuart Mitchell (twice)Biggest win None ndash draws as mentioned aboveBiggest defeat 1 - 9 v Milestone lsquoBrsquo (home) andTilehurst Methodists lsquoCrsquo (home)

Titanic Tussles (last six weeks)Melanie Griffiths (B Copse lsquoBrsquo) v Bob Sunerton (Tid lsquoErsquo) 8-119-1111-812-109-11

Dave Jones (Tile Meths lsquoCrsquo) v Linda Davis (Post Off lsquoBrsquo) 8-1111-711-75-1112-10Dave Jones (Tile Meths lsquoCrsquo) v Ted Cripps (Post Off lsquoBrsquo) 8-1111-85-1111-911-9

Paul Jenkins (Spring lsquoBrsquo) v John Simpson (Mile lsquoBrsquo) 7-115-1111-811-69-11Gerard Thorp (Mile lsquoBrsquo) v Phil Saunders (OLOP lsquoIrsquo) 9-1112-+1011-98-1111-9

Chris Speight (Spring lsquoBrsquo) v Siad Cole (OLOP lsquoIrsquo) 11-911-73-1110-1210-12Gerard Thorp (Mile lsquoBrsquo) v Derek Crombie (King lsquoJrsquo) 11-27-119-1111-916-14

Ted Cripps (Post Off lsquoBrsquo) v John Burke (Spring lsquoBrsquo) 8-1111-811-711-1312-10Paul Jenkins (Spring lsquoBrsquo) v Andras Ardanhazi (B Copse lsquoBrsquo) 11-99-1111-76-1111-9

Paul Jenkins (Spring lsquoBrsquo) v Duncan Abbott (B Copse lsquoBrsquo) 3-1111-410-1211-710-12Dan Mortimer (Spring lsquoBrsquo) v Andras Ardanhazi (B Copse lsquoBrsquo) 11-56-117-1111-610-12

Dave Jones (Tile Meths lsquoCrsquo) v John Simpson (Mile lsquoBrsquo) 5-1113-1114-127-1111-9George Sandford (B Copse lsquoBrsquo) v Derek Crombie (King lsquoJrsquo) 6-1111-614-129-1115-13

DDDDIIIIVVVV 5555----6666 KKKKOOOO CCCCUUUUPPPP by Duncan Abbott

For the first time ever this took the form of a doublescompetition There was a further change in format withgroups of three or four teams and the winners pro-

gressing to the semi-finals And to maintain interest in allgroup matches points were awarded for each set won ratherthan two league points for a match win

This last regulation had an impact in Group A where Div 6side OLOP lsquoJrsquo failed to progress despite winning both theirgroup matches Honours went to Post Office lsquoBrsquo who pro-gressed courtesy of a thumping 7 - 2 win over Tidmarsh lsquoErsquoAs a result OLOP lsquoJrsquos two 5-4 wins (including one over theeventual group winners) were not quite enough

The matches in Group B were not completed due toMilestone lsquoCrsquos team problems However the one team thatdid play them Kingfisher lsquoKrsquo had amassed enough points todeem that even maximum points for OLOP lsquoIrsquo and SCampP lsquoFrsquoagainst Milestone lsquoCrsquo would not have been enough to seeeither team claim top spot

In Group C two Div 5 teams Birch Copse lsquoBrsquo and SCampP lsquoErsquofinished level on 22 points each SCampP won their group clash5 - 4 but crucially Birch Copse outscored them on games by12 to 11 Birch Copse won both their matches against Div 6opponents Sonning Sports and Springfield lsquoCrsquo by 9 sets to 0If SCampP had matched their scores they would have pro-gressed but in the last match Sonning Sports nicked a set offthem so Birch Copse progressed on number of games won

Finally in Group D Milestone lsquoBrsquo amassed 26 points out ofa possible 27 finishing 10 points clear of Div 5 rivalsKingfisher lsquoJrsquo with Div 6 sides Springfield lsquoDrsquo and Birch CopselsquoCrsquo finishing well adrift

In the first of the semi-finals Post Office lsquoBrsquo had a thumping8 - 1 win against a Birch Copse lsquoBrsquo team hit badly by injuryand unavailability of players And in the other one KingfisherlsquoKrsquo walloped Milestone lsquoBrsquo 9-0 to set up a mouth-wateringfinal

The final itself took place on Tuesday 3rd April at OLOPclub Post Office lsquoBrsquo put out their strongest available trio inTed Cripps Mick Grantham and Linda Davis whilst forKingfisher lsquoKrsquo their French aristocrat Jean-Noel Thepaut wasaccompanied by their two weakest players (on paper any-way) Stuart Mitchell and Didier Garccedilon

Now Jean-Noel had not experienced defeat of any kind thisseason and he teamed up with Didier to thrash Ted amp Lindain the opening set Then came a shock to the system whenTed amp Mick defeated Jean-Noel and Stuart to level things upThe next six sets went according to form with DidierStuartlosing their sets and Jean-Noel winning the sets he wasinvolved in to set up a dramatic finale Could Ted partnerLinda to victory over Jean-Noel and Stuart like he did withMick Sadly for his team the answer was no and Didierrsquosteam had snatched a dramatic last gasp victory

6

Congratulations to both OLOP lsquoJrsquo aschampions and Polish lsquoDrsquo who are alsopromoted

Commiserations go to Tilehurst MethodistslsquoDrsquo who just miss out on promotion havingremained with the chasing pack until the finalweek Birch Copse lsquoCrsquo and BBC were alsoin with a shout but fell away just weeks fromthe end of the season

At the other end of the table Sonning Sports lsquoBrsquo kept onplugging away but were unable to pick up any furtherpoints apart from a conceded match Milestone lsquoCrsquo suf-fered badly as a result of injuries to their squad despite alate player addition

Then came two teams intent on getting one over oneach other Springfield lsquoCrsquo followed by rivals SpringfieldlsquoDrsquo SCampP lsquoFrsquo finish a comfortable mid table their finalresults of the season showed they can take points of thetop teams of the division

The team with the best doubles record goes to BirchCopse lsquoCrsquo losing only 3 sets the whole season

On an individual basis I should like to congratulate RoyHull and Reza Amini who finished at the top of the indi-vidual table based on sets played Alexandre Mihalciucfinished the season unbeaten in six sets

OLOP lsquoJrsquo finished strongly to take the title by one pointbut did not get all their own way on the season run inThey had a scare losing 3 - 7 against BBC Chris gettinga double and Kamran a single Then came a 9 - 1 winagainst Springfield lsquoCrsquo Joshua and Nigel returning to theteam with trebles and a double from Chris Then came a10 - 0 win over Sonning Sports lsquoBrsquo Joshua Nigel andChris all getting trebles Trebles from Joshua and Nigelalong with a double from Chris saw off Springfield lsquoDrsquo 9 -1 Trebles from Joshua Nigel and a double from Kamrangave a stunning 9 - 1 win over promotion hopefulsTilehurst Meths lsquoDrsquo to win the title in the final match of theseason Joshua Gallen 4651 including 12 treblesKamran Samdani 2439 including 4 trebles LorcanGallen 19 Sonia Gallen 012 Nigel Antell 2933 includ-ing 7 trebles Chris Bunn 1318 including 2 treblesDoubles 1318

Polish lsquoDrsquo just managed to hang onto second spot butcould have run away with the title had they not concededtwo matches Jakub and Alexandr got trebles along witha single from Szymon K to see off the promotion chal-lenge from BBC by defeating them 8 - 2 Trebles fromAlexandr Szymon K and Eddy defeated Sonning SportslsquoBrsquo 10 - 0 Then followed another 10 - 0 win overSpringfield lsquoDrsquo thanks to trebles from Szymon S Jakuband Szymon K Milestone lsquoCrsquo were the next victim of the10 - 0 score lines Szymon S Piotr and Szymon K scor-ing trebles In the final match of the season they came

across a determined SCampP lsquoFrsquo trying to spoil the promo-tion party by forcing a draw Alexandr had his work cutout to score an amazing treble the key wins wereagainst Danny Dockree and a five game thriller againstKa Lo Chiu winning 11-9 in the fifth Szymon S got animportant single along with a key doubles win to snatch apoint Szymon Szor 2032 including 3 trebles Piotr

Wilczak 711 including 1 treble Grzegorz Romek915 Maciej Sianos 711 including 1 treble Alexandr

Mihalciuc 1818 including 6 trebles Szymon Kubinski1523 including 4 trebles Jakub Langowski 1924 includ-ing 4 trebles Eddy Holweger 46 including 1 trebleDoubles 1116

Tilehurst Methodists lsquoDrsquo came a very creditable thirdjust missing out on promotion They started with a close

5 - 5 draw against Birch Copse lsquoCrsquo Patrick and Tim withdoubles and Chas an important single Then came a wellearned 7 - 3 win over SCampP lsquoFrsquo Patrick scored a goodtreble with Tim a double and Chas a single Patrick andRyan won doubles and Chas a single to come away witha point against BBC Unfortunately they took a batteringlosing 1 - 9 to champions OLOP lsquoJrsquo in the final match ofthe season Patrick saving the blushes with the only winof the evening They also were credited with two con-ceded matches Patrick OrsquoSullivan 3848 including 9 tre-bles Tim Kendall 1736 including 2 trebles Chas Dean1136 Ryan Arch 518 Doubles 916

Birch Copse lsquoCrsquo came in fourth having been promotioncontenders for most of the season They had a closematch against Tilehurst Meths lsquoDrsquo Roy with a trebleElizabeth an important single and teaming up together toget a doubles win to secure a draw A further drawresulted against Milestone lsquoCrsquo once again Roy a trebleand singles from Elizabeth and Trevor They surprising-ly lost 3 - 7 to Springfield lsquoCrsquo Roy getting his usual trebleIn the final game of the season they lost 4 - 6 to SCampPlsquoFrsquo Roy with a treble and a close doubles win They hadone conceded win Roy Hull 4748 including 15 treblesAndras Ardanhazi 1521 including 2 trebles Chris


DDDDIIIIVVVVIIIISSSSIIIIOOOONNNN SSSSIIIIXXXX by Nigel Rowland

Team P W D L F A Pts

OLOP J 18 12 3 3 126 54 27

Polish D 18 11 4 3 113 67 26

Tilehurst Meths D 18 10 4 4 100 80 24

Birch Copse C 18 9 4 5 101 79 22

Sonning CampP F 18 9 3 6 101 79 21

BBC Club 18 8 4 6 100 80 20

Springfield D 18 7 1 10 84 96 15

Springfield C 18 5 3 10 76 104 13

Milestone C 18 2 3 13 52 128 7

Sonning Sports B 18 2 1 15 47 133 5

6Dummett 520 Elizabeth Hull 630 Trevor Stanter 424Jason Taylor 06 Paula Smith 03 Doubles 1417

SCampP lsquoFrsquo showed themselves to be the lsquoend of seasonrsquoform team Trebles from Michael Danny and Ka Locrushed Sonning Sports lsquoBrsquo 9 - 1 and then a week laterwent one better 10 - 0 A close 6 - 4 win againstSpringfield lsquoDrsquo resulted with a Danny treble Ka Lo doubleand single from Steve Danny had a colossal five gameset against Alan Gould just winning 11-3 6-1111-717-1914-12 Then came a 9 - 1 win over Milestone lsquoCrsquo Dannyand Ka Lo with trebles and a double from Steve Thenfollowed a good 6 - 4 win over Birch Copse lsquoCrsquo MichaelSteve and Albert all sharing two sets apiece They fin-ished the season with a well earned draw against promot-ed Polish lsquoDrsquo with doubles from Danny and Ka Lo and animportant single from Michael Both Danny and Ka Lo justlost out in epic five game sets with Alexandr MihalciucSteve Knott 730 Michael Legg 2443 including 3 treblesDanny Dockree 2940 including 6 trebles Richard Legg12 Albert Shephard 412 Ka Lo Chiu 2329 including 5trebles Doubles 718

BBC Caversham finished the season mid table Theylost heavily 2 - 8 against promoted Polish lsquoDrsquo David andJohn with a single apiece Then they had a stunning 7 - 3win over champions OLOP lsquoJrsquo thanks to a Reza trebleKyrill double and John S single Sonning Sports lsquoBrsquo wereshown no mercy with trebles from Jack David and Rezato win 10 - 0 Then followed a 2 - 8 loss againstSpringfield lsquoDrsquo John S and John L getting singles Thegame against Tilehurst Meths lsquoDrsquo resulted in a draw thanksto a treble from David and a single from Gordon Theyhad one conceded win Reza Amini 2021 including 6 tre-bles Kyrill Dissanayke 1121 including 2 trebles JohnLancashire 415 Phil Peat 39 Dave Pearson 1927including 2 trebles Gordon Ayres 521 John Scott 1118Jack Mitchell 824 Doubles 917

Springfield lsquoDrsquo found it difficult to pick up pointsduring the run in to the end of the season They suf-fered a close 4 - 6 loss against SCampP lsquoFrsquo David get-ting a double and a notable win over Ka Lo Chiu anda single from Alan They then took a 0 - 10 hammer-ing from Polish lsquoDrsquo Bob getting the closest to a winwith a five game set against Szymon Kubinski Theyreturned to form with a good 8 - 2 win over BBCDavid with a treble and doubles from Bob and AlanIn their final match of the season they suffered a 1 -9 loss against champions OLOP lsquoJrsquo Tom getting thesingle They had one conceded win Alan Gould2141 including 1 treble Bob Sibun 1936 including 1treble David French 1829 including 4 trebles PeterGreatorex 03 Derek Edney 321 Tom Berryman318 Doubles 717

Springfield lsquoCrsquo finished the season with a flurry ofwins They had an amazing 7 - 3 win over BirchCopse lsquoCrsquo Colin Ashley and Nigel all with doublesThen came a 1 - 9 hammering from championsOLOP lsquoIrsquo Colin saving the blushes Then followed a

good 8 - 2 win over Milestone lsquoCrsquo Nigel with a treble dou-bles from Colin and Adam Finally a good 8 - 2 win overSonning Sports lsquoBrsquo thanks to trebles from Colin and Ashleywith a single from Adam Colin Jones 3254 including 4trebles Tim Carr 415 Ashley Jones 1224 including 1 tre-ble Nigel Outhwaite 1339 including 1 treble Adam Sheen831 Doubles 718

Milestone lsquoCrsquo continued to have problems fielding ateam due to player injuries despite the emergency signingof Vivek Pandey to replace John Evans Very soon afterthey also lost Pratik to injury They managed a very cred-itable 5 - 5 draw against Birch Copse lsquoCrsquo Pratik and Vivekwith two apiece and an important doubles win Then fol-lowed a collapse losing 1 - 9 against SCampP lsquoFrsquo Vivek withthe single In what turned out to be their final game of theseason they had a 2 - 8 loss against Springfield lsquoCrsquo Vivekwith a double Four matches were conceded John Evans2427 including 6 trebles Pratik Kothan 1524 including 2trebles Sean Samashee 239 Santram Samashee 121Vivek Pandey 512 Doubles 514

Sonning Sports lsquoBrsquo continued with their bad run of formhaving not picked up a point since November That doesnot take away their determination and team spirit Theylost 1 - 9 against SCampP lsquoFrsquo a rare Tom and Derek doubleswin Tom and Derek fought hard but just lost out in fivegame sets In the return match they got hammered 0 - 10Then they lost 0 - 10 against BBC Ken came closest justlosing out in a five game set against Jack MitchellAnother 0 - 10 against Polish lsquoDrsquo Sue came closest with afive game loss against Szymon Kubinski Yet another 0 -10 loss followed against OLOP lsquoJrsquo In the final match ofthe season they lost 2 - 8 against Springfield lsquoCrsquo Tom andSue finally getting on the score sheet They had one con-ceded win Suzanne Brownhill 527 Dave West 636Derek Somerville 424 Tom Gordon 1231 including 1 tre-ble Ken Stevens 830 Doubles 217


Player Team P W Alexandre MihalciucPolish D 18 18 100Roy Hull Birch Copse C 48 47 9792Reza Amini BBC Club 21 20 9524John Evans Milestone C 52 46 8846Nigel Antell OLOP J 33 29 8788Joshua Gallen OLOP J 39 34 8718Ka Lo Chiu Sonning CampP F 29 23 7931Patrick O Sullivan Tilehurst Meths D 48 38 7917Jakub Langowski Polish D 24 19 7917Danny Dockree Sonning CampP F 40 29 725Chris Bunn OLOP J 18 13 7222Andras Ardanhazi Birch Copse C 21 15 7143David Pearson BBC Club 27 19 7037Eddy Holweger Polish D 6 4 6667Szymon Kubinski Polish D 23 15 6522Maciej Sianos Polish D 11 7 6364


Y

So the John Cunningham youth division has come toan end for this year and itrsquos been a thoroughly enter-taining season for the future stars of

Reading table tennis We have seen theemergence of many new players as wellas the continued participation of someslightly more experienced faces

Division 1

Congratulations go out to OLOPAttackers winners of the Division 1 titleThey had a superb season in which theyremained unbeaten throughout winning9 out of 10 matches and finishing on 19points Siad Cole was their star manwinning 1819 of his games This was asuperb effort from a player who hasimproved immensely over the past 12months the only match he lost was againstSam Ricks who finished at the top of the averages Also ontop form was the experienced Phillip Saunders winning 18of his 21 matches Attackerrsquos third player Mike McAllistercontributed well winning 9 of his 18 matches Since the lastnewsletter Attackersrsquo most impressive win was perhaps the8 - 2 victory over third placed OLOP Strikers Siad grabbeda hat-trick with Phil and Mike taking two apiece and the dou-bles

Predictably finishing up in 2nd place are the SCP TigersThey were unable to keep pace with runaway winnersOLOP Attackers but did well to maintain the 4 point gapbetween themselves and third place All three players con-tributed well to their season and with a bit more consisten-cy could have made it even closer They remained remark-ably close in the averages throughout all of them finishingaround the 70 mark Jonny Abbot Danny Dockree andMax Sweetman can be incredibly proud of their effort thisseason

Third place goes to OLOP Strikers They have managedto leapfrog fellow OLOP team Trojans to finish up on 12points not troubling the leaders but nowhere near the bot-tom The key game was in the final round of fixtures when

they played their closest rivals Trojans who were hoping todraw level on points with them Sam Ricks wasnrsquot available

on the night or the result may havebeen different As it was howeverStrikers held on to third place with acomfortable 7 - 2 win Gus Thomisand Chris Johnson taking maxi-mums and finishing up on 64 and59 respectively Strikers sufferedwithout a consistent third player asRafael Thorne struggled to copewith the standard of Division 1 andfinished the season still looking forhis first win

OLOP Trojans take 4th spot beat-ing Kingfisher Knights on game dif-ference Despite their lowly posi-

tion in the league Trojans do boast theplayer at the top of the averages Clearly vigorous trainingand constant encouragement from his big bro has provedbeneficial for Sam Ricks as he finishes on 1313 includingbeing the only person to defeat Siad Cole If Sam had beenavailable more often Trojans would undoubtedly have beenfurther up the league We have also seen the emergence ofwhat will surely be a future star of Reading table tennis inSam Liu Clearly a player to keep an eye on he took 10wins from his 18 matches in this his first competitive sea-son Saif Maher isanother player whostruggled to com-pete in Division 1and was unable torecord a win in his21 starts

K i n g f i s h e rKnights finish inthe penultimateposition in theleague althoughwell clear of 6th


JJJJoooohhhhnnnn CCCCuuuunnnnnnnniiiinnnngggghhhhaaaammmm YYYYoooouuuutttthhhh DDDDiiiivvvviiiissssiiiioooonnnnby Danny (son of Steve) Ricks

DANNY RICKS

GUS THOMIS

Team P W L D F A Pts

OLOPAttackers 10 9 0 1 73 22 19

SCP Tigers 10 7 2 1 62 35 15

OLOP Strikers 10 5 5 0 51 44 12

OLOP Trojans 10 3 5 2 50 47 8

Kingfisher Knights10 4 6 0 39 59 8

OLOP Avengers 10 0 10 0 12 84 0

DDIIVV 11 TTAABBLLEEP W

S Ricks 13 13 100S Cole 19 18 95P Saunders 21 18 86D Dockree 22 16 73J Abbott 18 13 72

DDIIVV 11 AAVVEERRAAGGEESS

Yplaced OLOP Avengers By far the largest team in the league the Knights had the luxury of alternating between playerssomething that no other team had Although no one player finished on more than 33 they shared enough wins around

between them to stay 8 points clear of bottom spot This team com-prised Tom Snape Isaac Farnworth David Fifield Gideon Lewis TimKenyon Alex Leeming and Joe Barraclough

OLOP Avengers bring up the rear in Division 1 They really strug-gled to pull a team together every week and could not be expectedto win games with only one consistent player Credit must go out toJim McAllister for his tremendous maximum against KingfisherKnights as he alone went down 3 - 7 despite winning all his match-es He finishes up with 5 wins from his 18 games

Division 2

Division 2 as it turns out was a terrifically competitive league thisyear with only 3 points separating first and third place It was SCPRaiders that took the title however winning 6 of their 9 matches tofinish up on 12 points Adam Fearnside will be looking to play in divi-sion 1 next year after he proved his ability by winning all 14 of hismatches Liam Ruiz has found the going a lot easier than he did ear-lier in the year and finishes on 50 (714)

OLOP Eagles missed out on top spot by just a single point endingon 11 Much like his brother Jamie Liu has improved vastly over theyear and is without doubt one of the big prospects for the future Hefinishes up with 64 James Bridger and Jamie Filby have con-

tributed well finishing on 40 and 33 respectively

Taking third spot are the Sonning Spartans Richard Lego finished second in the averages with an impressive 12 winsout of 13 games Daniel Jordan has found the second half of the season a lot easier than the first and won 6 out of 18

OLOP Lions finish up in fourth place and some way off the pace of the three leadersKieran Morfill remained their most consistent player and took an impressive 61 Histeam-mates Austin Ellerton (12) and Hassin Khan(10) have continued to struggletowards the end of the season and take just three victories between them

So that brings an end to this yearrsquos John Cunningham Youth Division Congratulationsagain to OLOP Attackers and SCP Raiders for taking their respective divisional leaguetitles Itrsquos important for young players to continue practising over the summer even withthe lack of competitive play so you can maintain your current levels and continue toimprove To this end make sure you all get out to your local clubs and get some goodhard practice in all ready for more competitive play next season

Another big thank you goes out to Wendy Porter and Jade Fudge for taking the time outof their day to run the youth division They do a terrific job and it often gets overlookedjust how much effort they have to put in Thanks as well to Steve Ricks and Ian Cole forlending a hand whenever available

Thank you to everyone that has participated this year have a great summer and wersquollsee you all again for the start of next season



SCP Raiders 9 6 3 0 47 31 12

OLOP Eagles 9 5 3 1 46 31 11

Sonning Spartans 9 4 4 1 33 41 9

OLOP Lions 9 1 6 2 36 49 4


A Fearnside 14 14 100R Lego 13 12 92J Liu 14 9 64K Morfill 18 11 61


JAMIE LIU

SAM LIU


Liam McTiernan has won thisseasonrsquos most prestigiouslocal junior tournament ndash the

Reading amp District JuniorMasters

He last won the title as a 13 yearold in 2009 but has been unableto enter in the last two years dueto clashes with the nationalschools finals

The annual event was againsponsored by local player AndyYon who was on hand to con-gratulate the top four players andaward them prize money totallingpound105 Trophies will be presentedat the annual presentation

evening next month

In the finaltop seed Liambeat defendingchampion SamRicks 3-0 (12-10 11-5 11-9)

Sam who has helped Tidmarsh lsquoCrsquo win the ReadingDivision 3 title this season earlier produced the resultof the day in an enthralling semi final in which he cameback from 2 - 1 down to beat second seed DanielMcTiernan (11-8 8-11 5-11 11-5 11-7)

JJUUNNIIOORR MMAASSTTEERRSS TTOOUURRNNAAMMEENNTT Adam McTiernan

LIAM THE CHAMPION RECEIVES HIS PRIZE MONEY FROM ANDY YON

CLICK HERE FORVIDEO OF THE FINAL

RUNNER UP SAM RICKS (UMPIRE LEO LONG)

DANIEL McTIERNAN


Liam beat Danny Ricks in theother semi final 3 - 0 (11-5 11-411-7)

In the battle between the two Danrsquos for third place(see left) Daniel McTiernan beat Danny Ricks byanother 3 - 0 scoreline (11-6 11-4 11-7)

Leo Long and Siad Cole eachwon one of their three matchesin their respective groups -against Joshua Gallen andHanson Xu respectively

DANNY RICKS

SIAD COLE

LEO LONG

CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO OF THE

DAN-DAN DENOUEMENT


Liam McTiernan Wins National SchoolsChampionships

Liam McTiernan won the Boys Under 16 title at the 39thEnglish Schoolsrsquo Table Tennis Association Butterfly IndividualChampionships held at the Dome in Doncaster on 21 April

Representing Berkshire Schools Liam was top seed in theUnder 16 event (for pupils in years 9-11) but with 42 other coun-ty representatives it was always going to be a stern test of hisability and so it proved

After he negotiated his six player groupwithout losing a set his real test started inthe Last 16 knock out round where heunexpectedly faced third seed and lastyearrsquos semi- finalist Tyrone Wells (LondonWest) He raced into a two game lead butwas then pegged back before emerging a3 - 1 winner after a tense fourth game

In the quarter final his opponent was thefast improving Joseph Langham-Ferreira(London Central) Liam was outplayed inthe first game and down in the second butsomehow found the inspiration to stage aspirited and ultimately successful fightback closing out a high quality encounterin the fourth game for another 3 - 1 win

The semi finals pitched Liam against oneof his Our Lady of Peace TTC Junior BritishLeague team mates Miles Chan(Northampton) Miles started the brighter

and quickly took a one game lead Again Liam was strugglingto match his opponentrsquos free flowing style He needed a time-out to compose himself before adopting a tighter style of playwhich began to pay off as he took a close second game in whichhe survived a game point Liam was now fully focused onreaching the final and finished the match off in some style in thefourth game for yet another 3 - 1 victory

In the final he faced the second seed and England team matefrom the recent World Schools Championships Adam HarrisonThe Lincolnshire schoolsrsquo champion had progressed through theknock-outs without drama winning all three matches in straightgames In contrast Liam was battle-hardened and after a seriesof blistering shots he took the first game Harrison came backstrongly in the second though and it became a battle after thatwith both players going toe to toe and every winning shotaccompanied by a loud roar

Liam took the third set with the steely determination that hehad displayed throughout the day He took an early lead in thefourth set and never let it slip until at 10-7 up he suddenly lookednervous again losing two points in quick succession With thetension mounting and a deciding set looking likely Liam servedwide and with his opponent out of position managed to close thegame out to take a hard fought and well deserved first evernational title

The Waingels College year 11 pupil described the achieve-ment as the best of his career to date and dedicated it to his longtime mentor Alan Dines who passed away earlier this year

Liamrsquos younger brother Daniel McTiernan who also attendsWaingels College finished third in the Boys Under 13 event

This far exceeded expectations as Daniel wasnrsquot seeded thisyear but nonetheless promptly won his group beating two high-er ranked players in the process ndash James Hobson (WestYorkshire) and Joshua Bennett (East Sussex)

In the Last 16 round he recorded a comfortable 3 - 0 winagainst Will Bell (Humberside) which took him into a quarterfinal with Surreyrsquos Liam Grant the conqueror of top seed Alec

Ward (Cleveland) in the quarters Daniel twicecame from a long way behind to win the first twogames the first from 9-3 down With his oppo-nent wondering what he had to do to win it waslittle surprise that Daniel quickly wrapped thingsup in the third game for a gutsy 3 - 0 win

In the semi-final he faced the in-form fourth seedLuke Savill (Kent) Daniel was looking to go onebetter than he had in the last two years and makehis first English Schools Final He started wellwinning the first game but was then outfoxed byhis opponentrsquos uncanny knack of switching playand after some great rallies he succumbed hav-ing failed to take a game point to make it two all

This was a solid performance from Daniel and hisbest of the season to date

One other local player Katie Shepherd madeher debut at the Championships in the Under 11Girls event She enjoyed the experience and willbenefit a great deal from the matches she played

LIAM RECEIVES HIS AWARD FROM ESTTA CHAIRMAN JOHN BLACKBAND

DANIEL McTIERNAN

MMOORREE YYOOUUTTHH HHIIGGHHLLIIGGHHTTSS


STOP PRESSAdditional comment by John Freeman on ideas

expressed on the letters pageI will not comment on the letters suggesting changes

except to say that I doubt whether many of our memberswould accept some of them

I would however like to respond to a question raised byDuncan Abbott which reads ldquoI was looking through the rulebook recently and I came across the rule which says noplayers can be transferred during the season unless spe-cial dispensation is given by the committee My responsewas - why Are we still living in the dark ages Are wereally so out of step with the rest of the worldrdquo It is onething to make suggestions regarding changes giving rea-sons but quite another to ask questions implying thatthere is no answer Anyone involved for a long time inReading table tennis administration and most playerswho have been playing for a long time in Reading willknow very well that all of our lsquorestrictiversquo Rules haveevolved and been adopted by General Meetings to com-bat considerable abuse forcefully complained about by ourmembers most of which wish to play on a level playingfield and not on one which meets the immediate purposeof the odd one or two to the detriment of the others In anyevent the reason for the particular Rule mentioned isexplained on the ldquoHistoryrdquo page to be found on our web-site

I also have to respond to the suggestion by Ka LoThere seems to be a misunderstanding of the structure ofTable Tennis in Reading and no doubt throughout ENG-LAND Our structure enables female players to playleague table tennis on an equal footing with male playersof the same standard A female player playing in a Divisionof her own standard will win some and lose some asindeed will male players What exactly would be the point

of a female who was of Division 3 standard receiving 6points start to enable her to win matches in Division 1 Wehave young girls who are able to beat many Division 1male players A long time ago we had two LadiesDivisions in Reading each full with 12 teams The LadiesDivisions were dropped as the ladies of the day indicatedthey would rather play with men I donrsquot see what style hasto do with it Everyone has an own style The physical dif-ference is taken care of by the standard of the Divisionand is recognised in our Closed Championships wherefemale players have their own events I expect that such aprovision of handicapping would be contrary to the sexualdiscrimination laws which we now have in ENGLAND Inany event allowing a handicap in a League match in ENG-LAND is not permitted in the ETTA ldquoApproved Laws ofTable Tennisrdquo which are mandatory for everyone in ENG-LAND whether aged young male or female so therecannot be any trial The ETTA has given a specific dis-pensation for an ldquoadditional competitionrdquo which allows forour Individual Handicap Competition and our TeamHandicap Competition The ETTA Approved Laws followITTF ldquoThe Laws of Table Tennisrdquo and it is not for me tospeculate how these are not applied in HONG KONG

A suggestion of my own There is a understandably adesire for team matches to end earlier The main sugges-tion seems to be to play with a two man team which doesnot seem to find much favour As I have suggested to ourChairman I think we should consider changing to a lsquobestof threersquo match (which our Rules define as a set) All play-ers in the team would still have their three singles match-es (sets) but the team match would finish at the very leastan hour earlier and many considerably more There wouldbe a huge advantage for the Reading ClosedChampionships I have not done a mock Schedule (noinclination) but I feel confident that the full tournamentcould be played on one day something I know theCommittee has desired for some time

Ab

A Ed We are really keen to hear ideas on how we can attract more players into the league - quickly Please give your thoughts and suggestions The guidelines are be brief and dont flame other debaters131313From Sandra Shepherd (mother of Katie S)13I have been thinking quite a bit about why are there so few girls in table tennis and for that matter how can more girls could be encouraged to play But in many ways I donrsquot think tt is too different to any other sport Katie has played lots of competitive tennis and again there is probably 1 girl to every 6-8 boys playing competitively at her age (11yrs) However she also plays for CAFC girls U12 football and there does not seem to be a shortage of girls playing13 The issue is the same for all sports trying to attract girls ndash low profile of women sports personalities per se It is a huge problem from top to bottom for women When I walk past a park now I am looking for girls playing games and there are none Only good sporty girls like Katie regularly go to the park to play footie with the boys as she is treated as one of them ndash and she usually is the only one13Table tennis is just not seen as lsquocoolrsquo by youngsters If again we compare this to tennis ndash professional players have a certain amount of lsquocoolnessrsquo and so do the coaches who are by the way all coaching as a profession so it costs a fortune TT therefore needs to try and improve this image and catch the imagination of youngsters at a much earlier level eg at pre-school age It needs to be easily accessible and local People need to be aware that you can play anywhere with these new easy nets that can attach to any table Why is table tennis not played in every school1313Ed13Probably time to sum up Thanks to everybody for so many suggestions - and please dont stop It doesnt matter if an idea is impractical or even illegal This is not Syria where calls to change the system are met with tanks and machine guns The system too can be changed if change is really due and there is massive support But donrsquot worry about that in advance ndash just spin your magic and let others enjoy it13And everyone please write to support ideas you like There are so many new ones Playing best-of-three sets in the league to make matches end early Having a daytime league 6-team divisions 2-player teams And so many other invaluable suggestions13It seems that the idea of giving female players a start when playing against men would need all sorts of rule changes to get anywhere ndash and most people I have spoken to are not going to support it ldquoDoesnrsquot seem fairrdquo A pity 13At least it now seems to be politically possible to say what has always been obvious ndash that men are not physically the same as women And women are struggling to hang on in our league We hardly attract any ndash and may soon lose them We have only 19 females among 301 players ndash that is 6 Only one female played in Division One last year ndash she only played two matches in the season and won a total of two sets And only 3 of our 19 women players achieved an average of over 50 last year We should salute them But how many other girls are going to follow them into the league against such fearsome odds1313Sandra Shepherd (Need for Info)13As a starter one of the biggest problems I have found with Katie starting up in tt is lack of information about how the whole tt world works For example up until recently I did not know when the tt season was etc ndash so the major problem is communication at an early level13Are the newsletters always 33 pages long (I had difficulty finding things)13Also how many matches do you play in the league where and when etc How many players in a team What does a match consist of How long does it last For a new player coming into TT in the Reading area I think the information is poor and that I think is the root of the problem ndash there may be quite a few would-be players out there but unless they actually meet someone who plays the sport they are probably reluctant to take the plunge as they donrsquot know how13Even at Kingfisher when you join up you donrsquot really get any specific info about how the club is run who the key people are to talk to etc ndash it needs to be much more encouraging and easier to find out how the whole of the tt world in Reading works Choice is what you need to give people so they can make decisions which suit them1313

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Announcements from our Chairman Nigel MaltbyAnnouncements from our Chairman Nigel Maltby1 The RDTTA Awards Presentation evening will be held at the Curzon Club in Oxford Road

Reading on Tuesday 8th May 2012 Parking will be in the Tescos car park off RichfieldAvenue We would ask that attenders arrive by 730pm with the presentations due to startshortly afterwards As well as all the winners and runners-up trophy presentations fromthe league and the Reading Closed there will also be the annual awards for the BestJunior Performance Most Improved Junior and the Harold Larcombe SportmanshipAward and many others All recipients of trophies are asked either to attend or at least senda representative to collect their award on their behalf

2 AGM - The RDTTA AGM will be held on Wednesday 6th June 2012 at OLOP starting at 730pmprompt Club Secretaries will be notified shortly All Clubs are reminded that they must send at least one repre-sentative to the AGM

3 Impact Challenge Shield - Our Lady of Peace lsquoArsquo made it a treble winning season as they added the ImpactChallenge Trophy to their Division 1 title and Team Handicap successes by defeating a two man Kingfisher lsquoArsquoside in the final - see more (with photos) on P4


Liam plays with the PM at Downing Street ReceptionSixteen year old Waingels College student Liam McTiernan played table tennis with Prime Minister David Cameron at

Downing Street recently having been invited to take part in an Olympic GamesCelebration reception The event was also attended by Jacques Rogge andMembers of the IOC Princess Anne and Lord Coe He said afterwards that theexperience was one of the best in his life

Over the Easter holidays Liam took part in the ISF World Schoolsrsquo Table TennisChampionships in Cagliari Sardinia Playing in his first international tournamentand representing English Schools he shone in a four boy team which finished fifthoverall (out of seven countries)

Up against some of the best players in Europe and the Far East Liam won a high-ly creditable 7 out of 12 matches including fine victories over highly ranked DarioLoreto (Italy) Leo Perrin and Joe Seyfried (France) and further doubles against theTurkish and Greek national schools teams Four of these wins came in the decid-ing game

Liam couldnrsquot quite muster a win in the matches against very strong Chinese orChinese Taipei (Taiwan) teams but did take individual games and played excep-tionally well against world class opponents

Liam went on to compete in the English Schools Under 16 IndividualChampionships in Doncaster - which he won See report on page 32

PHOTOS ON FRONT COVER Top Left Josh Gallen (foreground) plays Ka Lo Chiu at the Reading Closed Middle right Chris Moses helps Michael Slingo at a Sunday morning coaching session at OLOP In the circle PM David Cameron with Liam McTiernan (see top of this page)

A Relegation Day Toastby a Team Captain

Thanks in advance for the sympathy and I suppose Ishould be feeling miserable about so many lost matchesbut honestly I have to confess I loved every fixtureLooking at the figures you wouldnrsquot know how we foughtwith what optimism and game plans in every match or howmuch we enjoyed every point Even the one match whichwe lost 10 ndash 0 was tightrope-walking stuff all the way Onlyby the fiercest of contests did our opponents beat us

Over the years Irsquove been in lots of teams Some whichwon everything ndash and then felt they had wasted a seasonbecause the opposition wasnrsquot up to scratch Some whereone strong man kept his team going single handed ndash eg a

defensive player who could never find scope to develop hisattack because his team mates needed every point he won

Maybe we were in the best position of all this yearAlthough we didnrsquot win matches we had excellent teams toplay against who were just a bit better than us all throughthe season ndash the ideal situation for improving our game

So Irsquoll drink to my team mates who never once lost heartor (barring injury) turned down an invitation to play alwaysgiving it their most brilliant shot Good health to them Athousand years And to our opponents too who playedsuperbly and always gave us such a good time Goodhealth to them too and a lot of it














HARI GEHLOT

MARTIN ADAMS

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DAN

IEL

MEETS H

ARI







































Derek
Highlight
Derek
Highlight













































(Exchange of views)


Derek
Highlight
Derek
Highlight





























(Exchange of views)










games
























Springfieldbye















Love amp Peace

Mark x






LIAM McTIERNAN

DANIEL MOSES MVP








IAN COLE

MARTIN CHODOUNSKI

NORMAN SWIFT

1









HARI GEHLOT

KRASI IVANOV


1


MVP Keith Newell









BRADLEY KING













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NEIL BIRD


2






























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4

3
















































Player Team P W
























4











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5








































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5
























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OLOP J 18 12 3 3 126 54 27

Polish D 18 11 4 3 113 67 26


Birch Copse C 18 9 4 5 101 79 22

Sonning CampP F 18 9 3 6 101 79 21

BBC Club 18 8 4 6 100 80 20

Springfield D 18 7 1 10 84 96 15

Springfield C 18 5 3 10 76 104 13

Milestone C 18 2 3 13 52 128 7













Y



Division 1











DANNY RICKS

GUS THOMIS



SCP Tigers 10 7 2 1 62 35 15

OLOP Strikers 10 5 5 0 51 44 12

OLOP Trojans 10 3 5 2 50 47 8


OLOP Avengers 10 0 10 0 12 84 0







Division 2











SCP Raiders 9 6 3 0 47 31 12

OLOP Eagles 9 5 3 1 46 31 11


OLOP Lions 9 1 6 2 36 49 4




JAMIE LIU

SAM LIU






evening next month







DANIEL McTIERNAN





DANNY RICKS

SIAD COLE

LEO LONG


DAN-DAN DENOUEMENT




















DANIEL McTIERNAN










Ab


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TIDY














HARI GEHLOT

MARTIN ADAMS

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DANIEL MOSES

DAN

IEL

MEETS H

ARI







































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Highlight
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Highlight













































(Exchange of views)


Derek
Highlight
Derek
Highlight





























(Exchange of views)










games
























Springfieldbye















Love amp Peace

Mark x






LIAM McTIERNAN

DANIEL MOSES MVP








IAN COLE

MARTIN CHODOUNSKI

NORMAN SWIFT

1









HARI GEHLOT

KRASI IVANOV


1


MVP Keith Newell









BRADLEY KING













sions


NEIL BIRD


2






























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3
















































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4











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5
























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OLOP J 18 12 3 3 126 54 27

Polish D 18 11 4 3 113 67 26


Birch Copse C 18 9 4 5 101 79 22

Sonning CampP F 18 9 3 6 101 79 21

BBC Club 18 8 4 6 100 80 20

Springfield D 18 7 1 10 84 96 15

Springfield C 18 5 3 10 76 104 13

Milestone C 18 2 3 13 52 128 7













Y



Division 1











DANNY RICKS

GUS THOMIS



SCP Tigers 10 7 2 1 62 35 15

OLOP Strikers 10 5 5 0 51 44 12

OLOP Trojans 10 3 5 2 50 47 8


OLOP Avengers 10 0 10 0 12 84 0







Division 2











SCP Raiders 9 6 3 0 47 31 12

OLOP Eagles 9 5 3 1 46 31 11


OLOP Lions 9 1 6 2 36 49 4




JAMIE LIU

SAM LIU






evening next month







DANIEL McTIERNAN





DANNY RICKS

SIAD COLE

LEO LONG


DAN-DAN DENOUEMENT




















DANIEL McTIERNAN










Ab


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TIDY

4










DANIEL MOSES

DAN

IEL

MEETS H

ARI







































Derek
Highlight
Derek
Highlight













































(Exchange of views)


Derek
Highlight
Derek
Highlight





























(Exchange of views)










games
























Springfieldbye















Love amp Peace

Mark x






LIAM McTIERNAN

DANIEL MOSES MVP








IAN COLE

MARTIN CHODOUNSKI

NORMAN SWIFT

1









HARI GEHLOT

KRASI IVANOV


1


MVP Keith Newell









BRADLEY KING













sions


NEIL BIRD


2






























2


































4

3
















































Player Team P W
























4











Derek

5








































KO

5
























6


















OLOP J 18 12 3 3 126 54 27

Polish D 18 11 4 3 113 67 26


Birch Copse C 18 9 4 5 101 79 22

Sonning CampP F 18 9 3 6 101 79 21

BBC Club 18 8 4 6 100 80 20

Springfield D 18 7 1 10 84 96 15

Springfield C 18 5 3 10 76 104 13

Milestone C 18 2 3 13 52 128 7













Y



Division 1











DANNY RICKS

GUS THOMIS



SCP Tigers 10 7 2 1 62 35 15

OLOP Strikers 10 5 5 0 51 44 12

OLOP Trojans 10 3 5 2 50 47 8


OLOP Avengers 10 0 10 0 12 84 0







Division 2











SCP Raiders 9 6 3 0 47 31 12

OLOP Eagles 9 5 3 1 46 31 11


OLOP Lions 9 1 6 2 36 49 4




JAMIE LIU

SAM LIU






evening next month







DANIEL McTIERNAN





DANNY RICKS

SIAD COLE

LEO LONG


DAN-DAN DENOUEMENT




















DANIEL McTIERNAN










Ab


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Sonning CampP F 18 9 3 6 101 79 21

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Springfield D 18 7 1 10 84 96 15

Springfield C 18 5 3 10 76 104 13

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Springfield D 18 7 1 10 84 96 15

Springfield C 18 5 3 10 76 104 13

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Springfield C 18 5 3 10 76 104 13

Milestone C 18 2 3 13 52 128 7













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Sonning CampP F 18 9 3 6 101 79 21

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Springfield D 18 7 1 10 84 96 15

Springfield C 18 5 3 10 76 104 13

Milestone C 18 2 3 13 52 128 7













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OLOP Strikers 10 5 5 0 51 44 12

OLOP Trojans 10 3 5 2 50 47 8


OLOP Avengers 10 0 10 0 12 84 0







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Springfield C 18 5 3 10 76 104 13

Milestone C 18 2 3 13 52 128 7













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Sonning CampP F 18 9 3 6 101 79 21

BBC Club 18 8 4 6 100 80 20

Springfield D 18 7 1 10 84 96 15

Springfield C 18 5 3 10 76 104 13

Milestone C 18 2 3 13 52 128 7













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OLOP Strikers 10 5 5 0 51 44 12

OLOP Trojans 10 3 5 2 50 47 8


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Sonning CampP F 18 9 3 6 101 79 21

BBC Club 18 8 4 6 100 80 20

Springfield D 18 7 1 10 84 96 15

Springfield C 18 5 3 10 76 104 13

Milestone C 18 2 3 13 52 128 7













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OLOP Strikers 10 5 5 0 51 44 12

OLOP Trojans 10 3 5 2 50 47 8


OLOP Avengers 10 0 10 0 12 84 0







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Sonning CampP F 18 9 3 6 101 79 21

BBC Club 18 8 4 6 100 80 20

Springfield D 18 7 1 10 84 96 15

Springfield C 18 5 3 10 76 104 13

Milestone C 18 2 3 13 52 128 7













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OLOP Strikers 10 5 5 0 51 44 12

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Sonning CampP F 18 9 3 6 101 79 21

BBC Club 18 8 4 6 100 80 20

Springfield D 18 7 1 10 84 96 15

Springfield C 18 5 3 10 76 104 13

Milestone C 18 2 3 13 52 128 7













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OLOP Strikers 10 5 5 0 51 44 12

OLOP Trojans 10 3 5 2 50 47 8


OLOP Avengers 10 0 10 0 12 84 0







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Sonning CampP F 18 9 3 6 101 79 21

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Springfield D 18 7 1 10 84 96 15

Springfield C 18 5 3 10 76 104 13

Milestone C 18 2 3 13 52 128 7













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OLOP Strikers 10 5 5 0 51 44 12

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Sonning CampP F 18 9 3 6 101 79 21

BBC Club 18 8 4 6 100 80 20

Springfield D 18 7 1 10 84 96 15

Springfield C 18 5 3 10 76 104 13

Milestone C 18 2 3 13 52 128 7













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Polish D 18 11 4 3 113 67 26


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Sonning CampP F 18 9 3 6 101 79 21

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Springfield D 18 7 1 10 84 96 15

Springfield C 18 5 3 10 76 104 13

Milestone C 18 2 3 13 52 128 7













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OLOP Strikers 10 5 5 0 51 44 12

OLOP Trojans 10 3 5 2 50 47 8


OLOP Avengers 10 0 10 0 12 84 0







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SCP Raiders 9 6 3 0 47 31 12

OLOP Eagles 9 5 3 1 46 31 11


OLOP Lions 9 1 6 2 36 49 4




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Polish D 18 11 4 3 113 67 26


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Sonning CampP F 18 9 3 6 101 79 21

BBC Club 18 8 4 6 100 80 20

Springfield D 18 7 1 10 84 96 15

Springfield C 18 5 3 10 76 104 13

Milestone C 18 2 3 13 52 128 7













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OLOP Strikers 10 5 5 0 51 44 12

OLOP Trojans 10 3 5 2 50 47 8


OLOP Avengers 10 0 10 0 12 84 0







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OLOP Eagles 9 5 3 1 46 31 11


OLOP Lions 9 1 6 2 36 49 4




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Polish D 18 11 4 3 113 67 26


Birch Copse C 18 9 4 5 101 79 22

Sonning CampP F 18 9 3 6 101 79 21

BBC Club 18 8 4 6 100 80 20

Springfield D 18 7 1 10 84 96 15

Springfield C 18 5 3 10 76 104 13

Milestone C 18 2 3 13 52 128 7













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OLOP Strikers 10 5 5 0 51 44 12

OLOP Trojans 10 3 5 2 50 47 8


OLOP Avengers 10 0 10 0 12 84 0







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OLOP Eagles 9 5 3 1 46 31 11


OLOP Lions 9 1 6 2 36 49 4




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OLOP Lions 9 1 6 2 36 49 4




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OLOP Lions 9 1 6 2 36 49 4




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