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Success at Scottish Primaries

Congratulations to Holly McNamara (Ardrossan Academy), Chad Duncan (St Matthews), Patric Hollywood (St Matthews) & Jamie Johnson (Glencairn PS) competing in the Scottish Primary Schools Championships yesterday. Incredible day of results with all 4 players qualifying to represent Scotland at the British Primary Schools in Cardiff, April 2017.

Holly won the girls singles and went the full day without losing a single match with notable wins over Amelia Smolakek and Shannon Brown. Jamie was dominant and won the boys singles without losing a set, beating team mate Patric in the final. Chad and Patric showed great attitude throughout the competition, with Chad reaching the semi finals with no trouble, and Patric showing great fight to win an epic 3-2 match in the QF to qualify.

Pictures : https://www.facebook.com/northayrshiretabletennis/posts/1228949823839510

 

Success at Perth Grand Prix

Great day of results for North Ayrshire Table Tennis Club at the 3rd Scottish ranking competition of the season, Perth Grand Prix at Bells Sports Centre. 12 North Ayrshire players headed up to compete with a variety of age groups and events on offer to compete in.
The U13 Boys event seen 3 North Ayrshire players in the semi finals, with Patric Hollywood overcoming team mate Jamie Johnson, and Chad Duncan narrowly losing out to Glasgow’s Rayyan Khalid 3-2. St Matthews Academy pupil Patric Hollywood put in a fine performance in the final fighting back from 1-0 down and 2-1 down to level at 2 sets all, however, Rayyan kept his cool and won the deciding set 11-7 to claim the title.
Martin Johnson justified his top seeding in the U15 Boys event, winning the event without dropping a set. Fresh off the back of his winning British Premier League debut on Saturday, he swept aside no4 seed Harvey McDonald (South Ayrshire) in the semi finals 3-0, and beat Drumchapel Glasgows Zaid Khalid (no2 seed) 3-0 in the final to claim his first Scottish ranking event title of the season.
Other notable performances were from Andy Mapherson reached the Quarter Finals of the Mens Singles losing out to Polands Robert Toth 11-7 in the deciding set. 11 year old Jamie Johnson (Martins brother) reached the Quarter Finals of U15 Boys event and Robin Wilson worked his way to the Quarter Finals of the U18 Boys event, with fine wins over higher ranked Aberdeen duo of Joe Cranna and Andrew McCrae.
North Ayrshire TTC have just began their new weekly classes schedule starting after the October School Holidays, If anyone of any age is interested in starting or getting back into table tennis, please visit our Facebook Page or our website www.northayrshirettc.co.uk for more information.

First British Premier League Win

North Ayrshire got their first win in the British Premier League on Saturday, with a convincing 7-1 win versus Halton TTC. Newly signed Swedish player Viktor Gorman got North Ayrshire underway with a straight set win v Harry Watson, but Halton TTC’s no1 Richard Lighthowler levelled the scoring after a 3-0 win v Sean Doherty. The next 6 matches all went North Ayrshire’s way, Colin Dalgleish picking up two wins, Viktor & Sean winning their remaining singles match and Martin Johnson who made his British Premier League debut won his two matches in convincing style. We had a great turnout with plenty of club members and spectators coming into St Matthews to watch.

With this win, North Ayrshire move up to 4th place in the league table, with all results and future fixtures available to view on www.tabletennis365.com/sbl. Next match is at Home where we play Ormesby on Saturday Nov 5th.

Photos from the days match, courtesy of Ian Macpherson are available to view on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/northayrshiretabletennis.

Nominated for Community Sports Award

North Ayrshire TTC are delighted to announce that we have been nominated for ‘Team of the Year’ at the North Ayrshire Community Sports Awards 2016 on Friday 28th October. Martin Johnson has been nominated for ‘Junior Sports Personality of the Year’. A cracking achievement for the club and young Martin. The event will be held at the Waterside Hotel, West Kilbride.

West of Scotland Junior League

West of Scotland Junior League kicked off on Sunday 9th October at the usual Drumchapel High School. North Ayrshire TTC has 20+ strong squad for this seasons junior league with a number of players progressing and moving up a division. Next weekend of the WoS JL will take place on Sunday 6th November with matches starting at 11am. Full results will be online soon on www.wosttl.org.uk

Division 1
A – Jamie Johnson, Jacque Clapham & Patric Hollywood
B – Owen Wilson, Chad Duncan, Grant McLellan & Martin Krus

Division 2
C – Naomi Provan, Holly McNamara & Adam Nicol
D – Alex Gracie, Emmanuel Sonnet & Nathan Hogg

Division 3
E – Jess Hogg, Murray Anderson & Jason Lambert

Division 4
F – Liam McCann, Blair Blythe & Fergus Anderson

‘Attack hasn’t halted Main objective’

Great article in Glasgow Herald about North Ayrshire’s promotion to the newly formatted British Premier League and words on our first match of the season v Drumchapel Glasgow.

Full article available on Herald website : https://goo.gl/3gyJ3R

Thanks to Herald’s Sports Writer Kevin Ferrie.

Holly McNamara wins in Aberdeen

12 year old Holly McNamara was a sole representative of NATTC at the North of Scotland Open where she competed in the U13 Girls and U15 GIrls event.  Holly performed brilliantly in Aberdeen, picking up her first national competition win as she won the U13 Girls event, notably beating Aberdeen girls on her way to victory.

Holly who currently trains 3 – 4 times per week is enjoying her first season as part of the Table Tennis Scotland Development Squad and now is receiving Strength and Conditioning sessions at local gym Maximum Potential.

North Ayrshire Open : Re-scheduled

North Ayrshire TTC’s annual Scottish ranking tournament, North Ayrshire Open, will not be held on Nov 19th / 20th and will be rescheduled to April / May 2017. We have recently been given the opportunity to hold the North Ayrshire Open at the brand new National Sports Centre, Inverclyde which is currently undergoing a £12m redevelopment. Inverclyde is due to open at the start of April which gives us the opportunity to hold it at Largs as one the opening events at the new centre. We will publish  the new confirmed date of the North Ayrshire Open in the following weeks.

http://www.nationalcentreinverclyde.org.uk/

Table Tennis : 2016 – 2017

North Ayrshire TTC are currently finalising teams for the 2016 – 2017 season and are asking for all members and players who are available to play this season to let our club coaches know. Email info@northayrshirettc.co.uk or speak to one of our coaches at a club session.

British League : 2 teams – Premier & National 4 (C).

National Senior League : 3 teams – 1st Div, 2nd Div & 4th Div.

West of Scotland Senior League : 4 teams – 1st Div, 2nd Div & 2 teams in 4th Div.

West of Scotland Junior League : 6 teams – 2 teams in 1st Div, 2 teams in Div 2, 1 team in Div 3 & 1 team in Development Div.

Please visit our Weekly Classes page ( https://northayrshirettc.co.uk/weekly-classes/ ) to view classes & sessions from August to December. We have introduced a ‘Development Squad’ & ‘Performance Squad’ which all relevant players will receive a letter next week. Our beginners after school class has changed from a Tuesday to a Thursday, 3.45-5pm.

K:A Leisure have started a new class which will run every Saturday 1pm – 3pm which is a racket sport drop in session. Cost will £2 per person and can play table tennis for the full 2 hours or chop and change and try out Badminton & short tennis as well.

1-1 sessions are available on every Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday. To book contact a club coach or email info@northayrshirettc.co.uk. Memberships forms will be available to pick up at the club from next week.

Competition Calendar is out and available to view on here – TTSeason-Calendar-NATTC. There is still several dates to add in and to confirm.

Sports Hub Open Night

Jacks Road Community Sports Hub Open Night will be held at K:A Campus St Matthews on Wednesday August 31st. From 6.30pm – 8.30pm everyone is welcome to come and try a variety of sports with free come & try sessions delivered by ourselves and all the clubs of the NEW Jacks Road Community Sports Hub. North Ayrshire TTC, North Ayrshire Athletics Club, Ardrossan Accies RFC, Tass Thistle Football Club, KA Leisure, Ardrossan Ladies Hockey Club & Argyll Ladies Hockey Club are the local sports club involved.

All Community Sport Hubs work to the following five principles:

  • Growth in participation
  • Engage the local community
  • Promote community leadership
  • Offer a range of sporting opportunities
  • Bring all appropriate (key) partners/ groups/people together