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3rd place finish for North Ayrshire at the SBL Premier Cup 🥉
We were honored to be selected to host the annual Senior British Premier League Cup this season, and send our thanks to Table Tennis England & British League for selecting us to host.
Well done to all the players, coaches, officials, umpires and spectators who helped making the event a good one 🤜🏻🤛🏼
Club coach, player and volunteer Andre Sonnet visited the top table tennis center in Europe, Borussia Düsseldorf for a full weeks coaching course. The course which ran Monday to Friday and lasted 6 hours a day touched on all aspects of coaching where Andre is picking up plenty of new training and coaching ideas to bring back to some of our club sessions.
Andre currently coaches at Argyll Centre session every Thursday 11am-1pm and helps out at our Junior session which runs every Monday 6-7.15pm.
Pictured below from left to right – Andre at Borrussia Dusseldorf TT Centre. Andre coaching u15 girls Scottish team in January at the Scotland v Ireland friendly match.
C H A M P 1 0 N S – Celebrating 10 SNL Division 1 titles
Congratulations to the North Ayrshire team of Hugo Torngren, Martin Johnson, Jamie Johnson & Chris Main on beating Stirling and Murrayfield today to clinch their 10 Scottish National League title.
North Ayrshire team finished the SNL season with 7 wins from 7 on 14 points, 2 points ahead of second place team JK Carnbo and 4 points ahead of third place Murrayfield A.
North Ayrshire B team of Nathan Hogg, Ryan Henry and David Hay finished on 8 points in fourth place.
Aria – Ayrshire Rural & Island Fund
West Kilbride TT Club continue to grow as our classes increase from 1 a week to 3 a week and we welcome funding from Aria Fund to purchase a range of new equipment including 8 brand new tables.
Funding from the Ayrshire Rural & Island Fund allowed us to purchase brand new tables, barriers, nets, balls and bats which look great and give our players and members new and the best equipment to play on. The new equipment will mean West Kilbride TT Club have great equipment now and for the future where we are increasing participation, growing the membership and the number of classes.
See below of our classes and information on our club
Our club committee would like to thank the Aria Fund for their support.
Results from both days of our flagship annual event, North Ayrshire Open 2024. Pictures, videos and interviews are available on our Facebook page – Facebook
Mens Singles
Colin Dalgleish
Martin Johnson
SF – Danny Bajwa, Chris Main
Women’s Singles Emily FlynnGrace Looney
SF – Joy Daniels, Shannon Brown
Open Doubles Dalgleish / Yuan Johnson / Bajwa
Band 1 Keiran Walker Joe Sheard
Band 2 Jackson Macfarlane Junior Close
Band 3 Euan Hanna Conor Smith
Band 4 Lilly Smith Callum Quinn
Over 55s Derek Lundie Brian Irvine
U19 BoysGavin Yuan Joe Mulhern
U19 Girls Grace Looney Amelia Smolarek
Open Junior Doubles Tibbetts / Blackhall Walker / Schogger
U15 Boys Joe Mulhern Rory Thomson
U15 Girls Nichole Lee Eimear Hutchinson
U13 Boys Bohao Chen Karsten Close
U13 Girls Alexandra Hart Eimear Hutchinson
Banded Doubles Pentleton / Fediai Murray / Murray
Banded Singles Issac Ishmael Joe Murray
West of Scotland Junior League kicked off last month with our club entering 4 teams in the league. This season the WoS JL is held at our club with teams travelling from all over the region to compete in the 2 divisions of 8 teams. We have 14 players signed up for the league with a number of them playing their first competitive matches which the players are all enjoying.
Team of Padma, Tama and Ben are sitting top of Division 1 so far with two rounds of matches left.
A team – Padma Unnam, Tama Martin, Ben Lee
B team – Adam McNab, Lucy Pentleton, Ryan Wilson & Mason Wilson
C team – Dmytro Fediai, Alfie Booth, Kenzie McCormack & Fransisco Mendez
West Kilbride team – Alfie Mills, Ben Ascough, Campbell Gray
Link to all results, player averages and future fixtures – Results Archive – Leagues Index for West of Scotland Table Tennis League (tabletennis365.com)
Next fixtures of WoS Junior League will be on April 28th at St Matthews Academy.
North Ayrshire Open 2024 draw is available to view on the link below. We would like to thank all entrants, clubs and leagues for their support of our event and we are sure there will be some fantastic matches over the weekend.
Over 160 players are competing on Saturday and Sunday and we will have 18 match tables in total with 15 tables in main hall and 3 tables in the small gym hall. The hall will be opened from 8.20am with play starting at 9am. A general let will be called at 8.55am to announce the first groups so please sign in at the top table once you arrive to let us know you arrived.
Any questions, queries or last minute call offs please contact Billy@nattc.co.uk or Jordan@nattc.co.uk
Estimated playing times are below, please arrived at least half hour before your first event of the day.
Saturday
9am – Men’s Singles & Women’s Singles
11.30am – Open Doubles
1pm – Band 2, Band 3 and Band 4
3.30pm – Band 1 & Over 55s
Sunday
9am – Open Junior Doubles
9.30am – U19 Girls, U13 Girls, U13 Boys
10am – U19 Boys
1pm – U15 Boys, U15 Girls, Banded Singles
Venue
St Matthews Academy, Saltcoats, KA21 5NT
We are looking forward to this weekend’s North Ayrshire Open. A bumper entry for both days of competition with a Scotland v Ulster Friendly International on the Friday evening too. Club volunteers and the organising committee are working hard this week getting everything ready for the event which will no doubt be a great weekend of table tennis.
Start times of the events below and the draw will be out tomorrow evening, Wednesday 24th January.
Saturday
9am – Men’s Singles & Women’s Singles
11.30am – Open Doubles
1pm – Band 2, Band 3 and Band 4
3.30pm – Band 1 & Over 55s
Sunday
9am – Open Junior Doubles
9.30am – U19 Girls, U13 Girls, U13 Boys
10am – U19 Boys
1pm – U15 Boys, U15 Girls, Banded Singles
-Hall will be opened from 8.25am both days and we will be doing a canteen with drinks and snacks
-All start times above are estimated and could be slightly earlier or later
-Butterfly r40 balls will be used in all events
-Live stream of the latter stages of Men’s & Women’s event will be livestreamed on Ayrshire Film Co Youtube Channel
-Draw will be online the evening of Wednesday 24th January
-Friendly International match between Scotland and Ireland on the Friday evening will start at 6pm, full info on TTS —Website – Scotland v Ulster – Table Tennis Scotland
-All info and enquiries regarding NA Open – Billy@nattc.co.uk or Jordan@nattc.co.uk
We have the last week or two of clubs and sessions running, see times below of when the clubs finish for Christmas break and start again in the new year.
North Ayrshire at St Matthew’s
Last session is next Monday 18th 7-9pm and restarts on 8th January.
Largs TT Club
Last session is this Wednesday 13th 7-9pm and restarts on 10th January.
Argyll Bat & Chat
Last session was last Thursday 7th 11am-1pm and restarts on 18th January.
Performance session
Last session is this Thursday 7-9pm and will restart back on 18th January.
Over 50s at St Peter’s
Last session is this Friday 15th 1-3pm and restarts on 12th January.
West Kilbride TT Club
Last session is this Friday 15th 7-9pm and restarts on 5th January.
We are delighted to announce that we have been successful in securing funding from the first round of The UK Prosperity Fund.
This funding is to enhance our current club structure and by setting up North Ayrshire Table Tennis Centre at our main base, St Matthew’s Academy, Saltcoats.
This long term plan is now coming to fruition where we will have new top of range equipment at St Matthews for our members and the general public to use. We will also be delivering more table tennis sessions and activities alongside our partners KA Leisure, TT Scotland and Active Schools.
This project is funded by UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, The Department for Levelling Up of Housing & Communities and North Ayrshire Council. We would like to send our thanks to all the above who main aim is the improve pride, place and increase life chances across the UK by investing in communities by supporting local clubs, businesses, people and skills.
Our club has been awarded £10200 for new club equipment such as tables, barriers, bats and balls to ensure we attract top level players and competitions to the area. On top of our weekly sessions and league matches we have events and additional training opportunities in the calendar for 23-24 season. Our flagship event The North Ayrshire Open is now confirmed for January 27th & 28th 2024.
The Centre and sessions will be run by our development officer, Chris Main and the team of coaches at our club. This is an exciting project for us where we will continue to create more opportunities to play an indoor sport and to keep fit in our local community.
Email : chris@nattc.co.uk
Facebook – northayrshiretabletennis
Twitter – @NorthAyrshireTT
Instagram – @NorthAyrshireTT
North Ayrshire TTC run classes and sessions for all age groups and abilities 5 days per week in numerous venues across Ardrossan, Saltcoats & Stevenston. No need to book in advance, just turn up and play away. If you require any more information, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Weekly ClassesWe were delighted to win the Local Club of the Year Award at 2013 Sportscotland Scottish Sports Awards at Thistle Hotel, Glasgow. This is a great achievement for the club which rewards everyone for their constant hard work promoting table tennis in our local area and wider community.
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