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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.

West Kilbride TT – Aria Fund

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

  • West Kilbride TT Club on every Friday 7-9pm – Open to all
  • Bat and Chat Adult Only session every Thursday 1-3pm
  • Wednesday Night Drop In 7-9pm
  • West Kilbride Team in West of Scotland Junior League this season for first time
  • West Kilbride team will be entered into the newly formed Ayrshire TT League
  • New qualified coaches in club, passing their L1 course, First Aid & Child Protection
  • People of all ages and abilities playing
  • Leaving a legacy for West Kilbride with equipment the public can use for many years to come

Our club committee would like to thank the Aria Fund for their support.

West of Scotland Junior League Round Up

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 – Draw

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.

North-Ayrshire-Open-2024-DrawDownload

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

North Ayrshire Open – Start Times & Info

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