Night 1 of Blitz Table Tennis Club Championships
Night 1 of Blitz Table Tennis Club Championships
Last night (Monday 25th April) marked the first night of Blitz Table Tennis Club Championships. The 2 competitions for the night were: Veteran Singles (Over 40’s) and Intermediate Singles (20–39-year-olds).
Both events were played out for position meaning there was lots of matches for all involved.
Finishing positions for veterans’ singles were as followed:
1st = Jeff Reay
2nd = Phil Dowd
3rd = Phill Dixon
4th Simon Br...
Club Championships
As the super league season is drawing to a close it is time to start looking at our club championships. Our club championships are open to anyone who is a member of the club, you can enter as many events as you wish, as long as the category applies to you. You can only enter 1 event per night. The cost of each event will be the usual match fee of £5, if you enter the handicap competition you will automatically be entered into the 1 point shootout competition at no extra cost. The ...
Blitz Junior League
Blitz Table Tennis Club will be hosting a Junior League at Redlands Primary School, Worksop. The format of the league, where possible will be divisions of 5-7 players, ensuring all players have a minimum of 4 singles matches per day. Each match will consist of playing 3 sets where a point is awarded for each set won. After each days play, players will be promoted or relegated depending on points won in that round.
This is a fantastic opportunity for young players to get lots of c...
Inter Regionals
On Saturday 19th March, 12 of our Junior Players attended the Under 15 Inter Regional Qualifications Competition at Draycott Table Tennis Club. This was a competitive event with players aiming to qualify to represent East Midlands in the Regional Finals.
Players from Blitz Table Tennis Club were:
Under 11 Boys: Naveen Sanghi
Under 11 Girls: Willow Dukes
Under 13 Boys: Micah Smith, Levi Weaver, Ethan Houghton
Under 13 Girls: Martha Wild
Under 15 Boys: Joel Smith, Teddy Heathe...
Junior Training Day (14/04/22)
Over Easter Blitz Table Tennis Club will be hosting a Junior Training Day on Thursday 14th April at Redlands Primary School, Crown Street, Worksop, S80 1TH. The training day will run from 9.30am -15.00pm. This is an opportunity for junior players to get some extra hours training in whilst our other club sessions have been cancelled due to half term.
If you are currently paying monthly for your coaching sessions, this training day is included in your monthly payment. If you pay as...
National Cadet League Day 4
This season Blitz Table Tennis Club entered 2 teams into The National Cadet League at Ackworth Table Tennis Club. With a nervous start to the competition our players soon came out fighting and some great matches were played over the four weekends.
Players representing Blitz Table Tennis Club were:
Blitz A
Micah Smith, Will Short, Josh Taylor
Blitz B
Martha Wild, Harry Hollingsworth, David Melling
After the 4 weekends of play and some close matches the final finishing po...
Junior British League Weekend 2
Over the weekend of Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th February was the second weekend of the Junior British League. Players representing Blitz were: Abraham Sellado, Joel Smith, Luke Hyde and Teddy Heather.
Once again it was a great weekend for our players, with a high team spirit and gaining more confidence from the first weekend, our team showed good fight and determination in their games resulting in some close matches.
The first match of the weekend was against BATTS Table Tenni...
National Cadet League Day 1
On Sunday 21st November we took 2 teams from Blitz Table Tennis club to compete in the National Cadet League at Ackworth table tennis club.
Blitz Blades
Blitz Blades were in division 1 and consisted of Micah Smith, Will Short and Josh Taylor. The team would play against 3 other teams throughout the day with the format of everyone plays everyone.
The first match of the day was against Ackworth Table Tennis Club. The day got off to a great start for Blades, with the team winning ...
Junior British League Weekend 1
On the 6th and 7th November, Blitz table tennis club took a team of 4 players to compete in the Junior British League at Derby Arena.
The players representing Blitz Table Tennis Club were Luke Hyde, Teddy Heather, Joel Smith and Abraham Sellado.
The Blitz boys had a tough first match against Draycott table tennis club, loosing 1 – 5 overall. There were a few nerves to start off with, but some great table tennis came through within their matches as our players settled into the ev...
Cadet County Championships
On Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st October the Cadet County Championships took place. Players from blitz table tennis club made up 3 out of the 5 players in the Lincolnshire Cadet County Championships Team. There were some very tough matches for our players who held their own and fought hard for their team. Our players came back from the competition on a high, ready to put into practice what they had learnt from the weekend.
Harry takes a silver medal at his second Grand Prix!
On Saturday 23rd October Harry Hollingsworth played in the Chippenham para table tennis grand prix. The competition had some strong players and once again harry showed great determination and fight within the competition. Harry won 2 out of his 4 matches in the band C event meaning he placed runner up in his competition.
Harry even got to meet British bronze medal winning Paralympian, Aaron McKibbin who was also attending the competition. We are all really proud of Harry and are ...
Stockton 4 Star
Micah and Joel Smith were out in force again, this time playing in the Stockton 4-star table tennis tournament.
Joel partnered with Noah Vanhoorebeak for the team event, they both played well and gained some good wins taking them through to the semi-final where they unfortunately lost 1-3.
Stockton was Micah’s first 4-star tournament, the tournament was a great learning experience for Micah giving him some good match practice at a high level.
Senior British League Weekend One
On the weekend of the 25th/26th of September Blitz Senior players travelled to Halton Table Tennis Club in Widnes, where they competed in the Senior British League National C1 Division. The players representing the team were Peter Cowburn, Steve Johnson, and Steve Fox. Unfortunately, Joel Smith was unable to attend due to injury.
With starting 2-0 down in every match, it was always going to be a difficult weekend for the team, nevertheless the team showed great fighting spirit an...
Success at the Hull 1 Star
On Sunday 10th October 4 of our players from Blitz TTC travelled to Hull where they competed in the Hull 1 one-star competition. Players in attendance were Joel Smith, Micah Smith, Martha Wild and David Melling who was making his competition debut.
The day proved to be a successful day with Joel Smith winning the under 15 boys and Martha Wild coming runner up in the under 13 girls. Micah Smith had some close matches making it into two semi-finals, where he was knocked out by his ...
