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09/08/09	Entry Form for the York Gardens Lambeth 2 Star Tournament on 29 August 2009 added.  Please note the closing date is 17 August 2009.
29/06/09	The Fusion TTC Table Tennis Tournament has been changed please see the following important note from Fusion. "Due to communication problems with the ETTA we have had to amend the format of our tournament at the last minute and the tournament will now only take place on Saturday, 4th July ‘2009 as we have had to cancel the Sunday, apologies for the late advice on this but this has been caused by the ETTA’s Tournament team giving out the incorrect information to ourselves..!!!
04/06/09	Lewis Gray regains England Cadet number one spot and breaks into Junior top ten.  Report from Ken Muhr also covering other items.
04/06/09	Once again Fusion TTC are putting on a spectacular Table Tennis Tournament this summer at their venue In Grove Park and they are hoping to attract a very strong entry from this country and abroad, they have had verbal interest from the following top English players (Paul Drinkhall, Darius Knight and Alex Perry), they also hoping for contingents of top Polish, Hungarian, and French players to come over for the weekend, Additionally they are also hoping to have two top Chinese players who played last season, and managed to get to the semi final stage. As the prize fund has been substantially increased this season i.e. £1200.00 to the winner they are expecting some excellent Table Tennis over this weekend, please note that all spectators are welcome and entry to the Venue will be free. Hot food, sandwiches, snacks and drinks will be available on both days come along for a feast of Table Tennis. Entry Form with details of the event
04/06/09	Report from Ken Muhr on Lewis Gray at the European 6 Nations Cadet Tournament
04/06/09	Report from Gary Howes on success for the Byng Hall ladies at the Cippenham 2 Star Grand Prix series
04/06/09	Report from Ken Muhr on the English Junior Masters.
04/06/09	Lewis Gray wins English Cadets Masters.  Report from Ken Muhr including details of all the Kent players involved.
11/05/09	Report on the Kent Senior Closed, Main Results and more detailed results
11/05/09	Report on the Kent Junior Closed, Main Results and more detailed results
11/05/09	Kent League Veterans reports. league tables and averages as at the end of the season added thanks to David Cue.
10/05/09	Lewis Gray won the Under 16 English Schools Table Tennis title.  Full report form Ken Muhr.
10/05/09	A superb performance from Ross Wilson who won the Mens Band 4 event at tha Barnsley Grand Prix.  Read report and full story of the tournament.
22/04/09	Lewis Gray has been selected to represent England at Stiga Cadet 6 (European) Nations Tournament.  Report from Ken Muhr
21/04/09	Draw for the Kent Junior Closed and the Kent Senior Closed added
14/04/09	Lewis Gray won the Cadet Doubles and lost in a very tight Cadet Boys singles final at the Cadet National Championships.  There was also a good preformance from Ross Wilson who reached the quarter final of the Cadet Boys singles wher he lost to Lewis.  Report from Ken Muhr.
13/04/09	Jasmin Ould and Chloe Whyte were losing finalists in the Cadet National championships girls doubles. The pair put out the number two seeds in the semi finals, Yolanda King and Tin Tin Ho 6 13 -2 10, Jasmin and Chloe were beaten by the number one seeds Lucy Davis and Emily Batesin the final an excellent performance by the couple, who had not previously played together, against the England pairing of the winner of the cadet open Lucy and the junior winner Emily.   See a picture of them with Alex Murdoch, ETTA Chairman, in the General section of the Gallery.
11/04/09	Oliver Gunns, a member of the Kemnal Table Tennis Club won his first National Singles Title when he took part in the BATTS 1 Star Open Tournament at Harlow, defeating Christian Gibson (Essex) in the Final, 12-10, 8–11, 8–11, 11-9, 11-5. Twelve year old Daniel Chen, Kemnal’s only other competitor at the tournament, did well, reaching the Quarter-finals of the Cadet Singles, before going down to Mayur Taylor (Essex), 11-4,11-8, 11-6.
08/04/09	Report from Ken Muhr on the Cotswold 4 star Junior Open in which Lewis Gray was runner up in the Cadet Boys Singles.
06/04/09	Lewis Gray received the second instalemnt of his P&O sponsorship from double Olympic gold medalist Sarah Webb.  Read the details and see a picture in the General section of the Gallery
06/04/09	Report from Gary Howes on success for the Byng Hall ladies at the Cippenham Grand Prix series.  See also pictures in the General section of the  Gallery
05/04/09	Congratulations to our Junior first team on gaining promotion to the Premier Division of the County Championship.  Report from Sally Wilson
31/03/09	Report from Gary Howes on the North Herts Satellite Grand Prix which saw another good performance from  Jurate Brazaityte.
31/03/09	Report from Ken Muhr on the success of Lewis Gray at the Cadet Home Six Nations Championship and also on the Derby 4 Star Junior Open.  Pictures of Lewis are in the General section of the Gallery.
30/03/09	Kent League Veterans reports. league tables and averages as at 1 March 2009 added thanks to David Cue.
30/03/09	Medway A retained their Kent League Team Tournament title.  Full report from David Cue.  Pictures of the teams involved are available in the Kent League section of the Gallery thanks to Martin Harris for making these available.
11/03/09	Report from Ken Muhr on the National Senior Championships particularly in relation to Lewis Gray playing at the tournament for the first time.
10/03/09	Dan Lawrence from Tonbridge won his first open tournament singles title at the Horsham 1 Star Junior Open Championships. Report from Ken Muhr on the tournament.
03/03/09	The Kent Closed will be run at the Howard Table Tennis Centre with the Junior event on Saturday 2 May and the Senior event on Sunday 3 May. Junior Entry Form                      Senior Entry Form Please note: Due to limited space, 12 tables will be used across two sites, eight in the Centre and four in an adjacent hall. Some events may have restricted numbers. It is anticipated that matches may go on well into the evening.
26/02/09	Report from Claire Moore the Kent Schools Table Tennis Association Secretary on the very successful Kent and Medway Schools tournaments on 11 February 2009 at the Howard Centre.  Congratulations to Claire and her team on such a good entry.
19/02/09	Report from Ken Muhr on the Kent Schools Individual Championships held at Howard Table Tennis Centre.
12/02/09	Report from Ken Muhr on the Junior British League.
05/02/09	Kent League Veterans reports. league tables and averages as at 1 February 2009 added thanks to David Cue.
04/02/09	Report from Jurate Brazaityte On Byng Hall's Women's British League team's promotion.  Also see a picture of the team with ETTA Chairman Alex Murdoch in the Gallery
04/02/09	Report from Ken Muhr on Dan Lawrence's performance at the Cippenham Junior 1 Star and on Diccon Gray at the Veteran's British League.
04/02/09	Promotional leaflet for Eurpoean matches at Sheffield on 24 February.
01/02/09	Minutes of the KCTTA commitee meeting on 1 December 2008 added.
01/02/09	The ETTA have made available an introductory letter from the Chairman and a Consultation Paper on Individual Affiliation.  If you would like to comment please email info@kctta.net so that Ken Muhr our National Councillor can comment at a National Council meeting.
01/02/09	Lewis Gray has been selected to represent England at the Home Countries Junior 6 Nations Championships. Report from Ken Muhr
25/01/09	Reports from Gary Howes and Ken Muhr on the Grantham Junior 4 Star Open.  The tournament saw another excellent performance from Jasmin Ould and a surprise win in the junior boys singles by Ross Wilson over Lewis Gray.  Lewis was the losing finalist in the Cadet boys singles.
25/01/09	Reports from Sally Wilson on Kent senior team matches played on 13 December 2008 and 10 January 2009 added.  The team ended up second in Division 2D to Sussex.
11/01/09	If you want to petition the Prime Minister over the funding for those sports, including Table Tennis, for which funding has not yet been confirmed for the 2012 Olympics please vist this link.
11/01/09	Ken Muhr expresses his personal view on the potential funding cuts for Table Tennis and the 2012 Olympics.  Read more.
15/12/08	Report from Ken Muhr on Lewis Gray's selection for the England Cadet squad plus commentary on county matches and the National Cadet League.
11/12/08	More details on Jasmin Ould and the London Grand Prix from Jurate Brazaityte
11/12/08	Kent League Veterans reports. league tables and averages added thanks to David Cue.
10/12/08	Lewis Gray has been selected to represent England in the Portugal Youth Open Championships.  Read a report from Ken Muhr including details of a recent practice session with the legendary Desmond Douglas.
08/12/08	Jasmin Ould set a new record at the London Grand Prix when she became the first person to win the Player of the Tournament twice.  A fantastic achievement as her two awards were at successive tournaments.  Very well done Jas! Jas was runner up in the Women's Band 3 Singles and lost in the semi final of the Women's Band 2 Singles.  In both events she lost to Klaudia Szadkowska from Poland and Jas was the only player to take a game from her. Her best performance came in the Women's Open Singles open where she qualied for the main event, and eventually losing to Sarah Wang after defeating Melissa Wright (the England Junior no.4, senior no.41) a defender 11-1 in the forth. The ETTA website contains details from both days for a report on the Saturday events click here and for the Sunday events here.
03/12/08	Update from Ken Muhr on England Junior Rankings of local players
03/12/08	Link to new Isle of Wight website added.
02/12/08	Report from Sally Wilson on Kent Cadet matches played on 25 October 2008.
02/12/08	Minutes of KCTTA committee meetings in May and October 2008 added to General Information section.
01/12/08	Results from the London and South East Regional trials.  Congratulations to Katie Wilson who won the Girls Under 11 event and Lauren Beaumont who won the Girls Under 13 event.
30/11/08	Apologies for the considerable delay in updating www.kctta.net in recent months.  The following updates have been waiting to be posted for some time and I apologise if the dates are not quite correct.  Regular updating will now start again.  Particular apologies to Jasmin Ould and Lewis Gray both of whom have put in excellent performances over this period.
17/11/08	Lewis Gray lifted two titles at the Stockton on Tees Junior 4 start winning both the Cadet Boys Singles and the team event in which he was representing England. Report from Ken Muhr
12/11/08	Ken Muhr reports on Lewis Gray's performance at the Slovak Cadet Open.
07/11/08	Neil Le Milliere thought some of you may be interested in this. You had to see it to believe it! Darius and Drinkwall on the Paul O'Grady show as Joan Collins hosts it. According to Joan Table Tennis is her favourite game [outside the bedroom] at home and so she set Paris Hilton and Paul a challenge to play with the English champions. From the ETTA website: "7th November By James Cornford What do a former drag artist, an American socialite and the top two English table tennis players have in common? Well they are all on Channel 4 this afternoon as Paul O'Grady hosts Paris Hilton, Paul Drinkhall and Darius Knight at 5pm. Tune in to see them play and discuss being Olympic hopefuls for the London 2012 games." For those with a PC that's capable you can see it via this link
04/11/08	Jasmin Ould of Byng Hall had spectacular success at the Bristol Grand Prix. Jasmin won the player of the weekend award and beat Welsh international Naoimi Wilson in the Women's Open Singles.  Report from Gary Howes and details of the event on the ETTA website.  Another excellent performance Jas.
03/11/08	Lewis Gray has lost his England number one ranling to Zak Zilesnick from Middlesex.  However Lewis continues to achieve excellent results and we hope he can soon get back to the top.  Details from Ken Muhr.
28/10/08	Report on the Veterans British League from Ken Muhr.  For once it is Diccon Gray rather than his son Lewis hitting the headlines!
26/10/08	The Kent Junior 1st team got of to a good start in the County Championships. Report from Sally Wilson.
21/10/08	Lewis Gray selected to represent England at the Slovak Cadet Open.  Report from Ken Muhr which also covers Kent players at Junior British League and the Newcastle Open.
21/10/08	Jurate Brazaityte won the Women's Singles at the second Cippenham Grand Prix Series event to put her in a dominant position in the overall event. Report from Gary Howes.
19/10/08	Details of the evens being run for Kent Schools.  The team events are on 26 November 2008 and the individual events on 11 February 2009 Brochure for team events             Entry Form for team events Brochure for individual events        Entry Form for individual events
13/10/08	Lewis Gray has been selected to represent England in the prestigious Stockton on Tees 4 Star Junior Open Championships on 15th and 16th November.  Details from Ken Muhr
13/10/08	Jasmin Ould from the Byng Hall club in Tunbridge Wells was the star of the show on day one of the Newcastle Open, the second main Butterfly Grand Prix event of the series, held in the eighteen table venue of the Eldon Square Leisure Centre, over the weekend of 11th-12th October. Jasmin played extremely well in only her fourth Grand Prix of her short career to take the Women’s Band Three title and runner-up in the Women’s Band Two. It was a magnificent achievement for one so young. Details of the event on the ETTA website.  Well done Jas Report from Gary Howes
07/10/08	Lewis Gray won the Cadet Boys Singles at the at the City of Liverpool Junior 4 star Open Championships. Report from Ken Muhr.
01/10/08	The Byng Hall club got off to a good start in the Women's British League at Hinkley.  Report from Gary Howes.
07/09/08	Fusion TTC have movied to new state of the art premises at HAKA School in Grove Park this is due to the club’s current premises becoming too small for the amount of people that wish to play and practice at the club. They are now open on Monday/Tuesday/Thursday evenings from 7pm to 10pm and on Saturdays from 1pm to 6pm, the Club has also purchased 11 new tables so now have a total of 16 tables. The club will be able to offer a 16 table venue on Monday evenings and on Saturdays, and on Tuesdays and Thursday they will have either 8/10 tables available. Details of the new venue
02/09/08	Kirsty Wilson just missed out on a bronze medal at the UK Schools Games. Report from Ken Muhr.
01/09/08	Jurate Brazaityte and Jasmin Ould of the Byng Hall Club in Tunbridge Wells were winner and runner up respectively in the Women's Singles at the inaugral events of the Cippenham series.  Jasmin was also runner up in the Girls' Singles.  Details of the event on the ETTA website and Report from Gary Howes.

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