Teams for Season 24-25

As the table tennis season begins, we have seen most of our players competing for their teams in regional, national & british league. We have entered teams into WoS SL, WoS JL, SNL, BSL & BPL. Changes to last seasons entries are an additional WoS SL team in Division 5 and our Junior British League team being pulled out.

For the 2024 – 2025 season we have the following teams entered

5 x West of Scotland Senior League teams
4 x Scottish National League teams
2 x British Senior League teams
4 x West of Scotland Junior League teams

West of Scotland Senior League
The WoS League kicked off WC 16th September where we will have teams in Division 1, Division 2, two teams in Division 4 and one in Division 5. Our B, D, & E team will continue to hold their matches on a Monday night but our A & C team will hold their matches on a Thursday night at St Matthews. Time for matches is 7.20pm start.

Scottish National League
We have 4 teams in this seasons SNL, two teams in Division 1, one team in Division 5 and one team in Division 6. The first round of SNL was held at Bathgate Academy on October 12/13th. We have got a big pool of players for the league this year and hoping to keep up our good records in the SNL.

The A team will be hoping to defend their title after winning a record 10th title last season, the B team will be aiming to build on their 4rd position finish and the C & D team will no doubt be pushing for promotion in their respective divisions.

British League
We will have our British Premier team competing in the home and away format, with our first match of the season was away to last seasons league champions Brighton which resulted in a tough 7-0 loss. Our first home match of the season is against BATTS on Saturday 30th November. Our Premier League team finished 5th out of 8 last season, but with only 6 teams competing in it this year we hope to finish higher.

Our B team will compete in the A division at Halton this season after a credible 3rd place finish last season in a strong league. We have a big pool of players in this team this season and hoping to finish higher after our players gaining experience of playing in the division last season.

West of Scotland Junior League
Great to see the WoS Junior League being held at St Matthews last year and will be held between St Matthews and Dunlop this coming season. This is an important league for the development of our young players and was beneficial for all our players who took part in it. North Ayrshire had 4 teams competing in it with our A team finishing second and our C team finishing in third place in Division 2.

TT Classes – Where & When

List below of table tennis classes and sessions that are on in and around North Ayrshire. A range of clubs available in different venues across the area for all ages and abilities. Please see contact details for each club or class and if you are interested in any of the clubs below, get in touch with the relevant contact.

All the classes below will be running weekly from start of September 2024 until June 2025.

Monday
North Ayrshire TT Club
7.10pm – 9.10pm : Club Night at St Matthews Academy, Saltcoats
Contact details – billy@nattc.co.uk

Tuesday
Irvine TT Club
7pm-9pm at Portal Irvine, Irvine
Contact details – irvinettclub@gmail.com

Wednesday
Largs TT Club
7-9pm at National Sports Centre Inverclyde, Largs
Contact details – largsttc@gmail.com

Thursday
Argyll TT Club – Bat & Chat
11am-1pm at Argyll Community Centre
Contact details – billy@nattc.co.uk

Social Bat & Chat – Adults Only
1pm – 3pm at West Kilbride Community Centre
Contact details – jurieduvenage@gmail.com

1-1 coaching sessions
3-7pm at St Matthews Academy
Contact details – chris@nattc.co.uk

Performance Session OR League matches
7pm – 9pm at St Matthews Academy, Saltcoats
Contact details – chris@nattc.co.uk

Friday
Over 50s class – Bat & Chat
1pm -3pm at St Peters Church Hall, Ardrossan
Contact details – chris@nattc.co.uk

West Kilbride TT Club
7pm – 9pm at West K Community Centre
Contact details – billy@nattc.co.uk

Johnson Brothers Selected for Senior & Junior European Championships

Brothers from Stevenston Martin & Jamie Johnson continue to compete and win nationally, and in result both have been selected to represent Scotland in two major European Championships.

Martin, was selected to represent Scotland last week at his first European individual championships which was held in Linz, Austria. As part as a 4 player Scotland team, Martin was selected to play in Men’s Singles, Men’s Doubles with partner Danny Bajwa, and Mixed Doubles with partner Alisa Khalid.

Jamie, the younger of the two was selected to compete in the European Youth Championships over the summer in Malmo, Sweden. Jamie was part of the U19 Boys team, alongside Kieran Walker, Gavin Yuan & Harry Blackhall.

Martin is currently ranked no3 in Scotland and Jamie who was ranked no1 junior last year, moves up to the senior game this season where he is ranked just outside the top 10.

Both of the players continue to train hard week in week out and represent North Ayrshire TTC in the Scottish and British League.

Positive Start at SNL

A team – M Johnson, V Gorman, S Chen, C Main, J Johnson
B team – N Hogg, D Hay, H Blackhall, R Henry
C team – I Macpherson, C Duncan, A Attia
D team – P Walker, A Hughes, P Unnam, T Martin

North Ayrshire A team for the first two matches were Viktor Gorman, Sung Meng Chen, & Jamie Johnson. Injuries for Martin Johnson and Chris Main made way for Viktor and Sung who filled in brilliantly as expected. A 5-1 win v Dumfries in the morning match with Danny Bajwa defeating Sung 3-2 was the only match we lost. Convincing 6-0 win v Glasgow South A where our 3 players played well.

North Ayrshire B team was Nathan Hogg, David Hay and Ryan Henry who finished in 4th place last season. The team started well a 5-1 win over a weaker than normal Drumchapel A, and a 3-3 draw v Dumfries A in a hard fought match which could’ve went either way.

North Ayrshire C team of Ian Macpherson, Chad Duncan and Paul Walker won two matches from two to start their promotion campaign off to a good start. Paul was playing up in place for an injured Adam Attia but held his own winning 3 out of 4 matches. Ian won 3/4 singles matches and Chad won 4/4.

North Ayrshire D team of Alec Hughes, Padma Unnam and Tama Martin lost their matches to two strong teams but the matches much closer than it looks on paper. The team play Edinburgh Uni C, Dumfries C & Inverness in the next day of matches. Great opportunity for juniors Padma and Tama to compete in the SNL against experienced senior players which will give them plenty of chances for some big wins.

Tables, Fixtures and Results available to view on SNL website – Scottish National League

Alec Hughes Selected for V6N

Congratulations to our club chairman Alexander Hughes on his selection to compete for Scotland in the Veterans Home Nations. Alex alongside the Scottish team will be heading to Guernsey for the prestigious event.

Alec has been training hard for this event and will be playing from Friday 13th – Sunday 15th at Guernsey TT Centre in the Mens Over 75’s event alongside team mate Ian McLagan. Good luck Alex and team Scotland.

East Ayrshire Open Success

First Scottish ranking tournament of the season last weekend which seen a good squad from our club compete in the inaugural East Ayrshire Open on Saturday & Sunday at Rose Riley SC, Stewarton

Well done to all who played which saw some great performances from our senior and junior players

Jamie Johnson – Runners Up in Men’s Singles

Padma Unnam – Runners Up in U15 Girls

Tamara Martin – 3rd place in U15 Girls

Ben Ascough – Winner of Junior Banded event and 3rd place in U13 Boys

Alfie Mills – Runner up of Junior Banded event

Alfie Booth – QF of Banded & QF of U13 Boys

Thanks to Dunlop Table Tennis for running a great event

WoS Division 1 League & Cup Winners

Congratulations is in order for our Division 1 West of Scotland Senior League team of Ian, Martin, Chris, Jamie & Nathan who won the double this year, winning the WoS Division 1 title last month and the Divisional Cup last week

The players would like to thank team captain Ian Macpherson for organising the team week in week out and playing & winning when he managed to get a game … Ian has played and captained the North Ayrshire WoS Division 1 team for over 10 years and is delighted to win the league and cup double

Full results of the season – West of Scotland Table Tennis League

British Premier Cup Comes to North Ayrshire

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 🤜🏻🤛🏼

Andre Sonnet visits Borussia Dusseldorf

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.

Scottish National League Champions

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.