North Ayrshire Open Schedule

Saturday 21st Nov – Playing Schedule
9.00am – Open Doubles
10.00am – Mens Singles & Ladies Singles
12.00pm – Ladies Singles & Vets
1.30pm – Band 1 & Over 55’s
3.00pm – Band 2

Sunday 22nd Nov – Playing Schedule
9.00am – Junior Open Doubles
10.00am – U11’s, U15 boys & U15 Girls
12.00pm – U13 Boys & U13 Girls
1.00pm – Under 18 Boys & U18 Girls

These times are all approx start times, so please make sure you are there 30 mins before the scheduled start time.

Start Time
Due to this high number of entries this year we are moving the start time from 9.30am to 9am. Senior Open Doubles Groups will begin at 9am on Saturday & Junior Open Doubles Groups will begin at 9am on Sunday. Could all players please check in when they arrive and make sure you have paid before you play. Hall will be open from 8.15am with play starting at 9am sharp.

Players List
Player’s list for this years event is attached below, if your name is not on the list please let us know. North Ayrshire Open 2015 – players list.

Follow North Ayrshire Open Online
We will be posting live results from both days of play on our Twitter page (@NorthAyrshireTT). Mens & Ladies Singles latter stages will be available to watch LIVE on our Periscope.tv channel too. Tea, coffee, sandwiches, filled rolls & soft drinks will be available.

We are looking forward to seeing you all at the weekend & hope everyone is prepared for a busy day with a record number of matches being played. 

WoS Junior League

Very impressive start and performance from our junior league players at Drumchapel for the first day of the West of Scotland Junior League. As you can see below, we have 7 teams competing this season with the majority our players proggessing and moving up a division. Thanks to all the parents who took their time out of their day to be on driving duties and special thanks to Bruce McLellan who did his best coaching as many players as possible. Next date of WoS JL is scheduled to be the 17th January at Drumchapel High School.

Div 1
Robin Wilson / Ryan Henry / Jamie Johnson
Owen Wilson / Derrin Lynch / Kayer Collins

View tables & players averages on the West of Scotland website – http://goo.gl/SY8S4q

GoGetFunding Page

The first few months of the 2015 – 2016 season have been the busiest North Ayrshire Table Tennis Club have seen since it was founded just over 10 years ago. We have more members & teams than ever, classes that run 5 nights per week & have ran a number of successful national & international events over the past couple of seasons.

North Ayrshire TTC are looking to increase our fundraising this season to help with the costs of these activities. We are asking everyone who would like to support our club to donate and get behind NATTC. This is to ensure that we can continue doing what we are doing and keep achieving locally & on the national stage.

For more and to donate please visit – http://gogetfunding.com/north-ayrshire-table-tennis-club/. 

Weekly Classes 2015 – 2016

Classes for this term have been updated on our classes page which is available at the bottom of this page. Wednesday nights will alternate with league matches one week and training the next. Everyone who has a weekly or fortnightly 1 to 1 session will be contacted this week to confirm times. We will be using St Curthbert’s Church hall, Saltcoats once per week for 1 to 1 sessions and all relevant players will be contacted. If anyone has any questions about classes or is unsure of anything please contact info@northayrshirettc.co.uk.

We have got coaches working on our Direct Club Investment programme which see’s us in 4 schools per week working with pupils for 8 week block. We are currently running classes in 4 secondary schools as we are working towards Secondary school festival which is at the end of October.

https://northayrshirettc.co.uk/weekly-classes/

Chris Main – Interview with Expert TT

Chris Main was on episode 18 of the Expert Table Tennis Podcast where he was interviewed by Ben Larcombe to discuss & chat about North Ayrshire TTC and table tennis in general. It is a an interesting listen to anyone who has or is involved in table tennis and can be listened to here – www.experttabletennis.com/chris-main-bringing-international-tt-to-saltcoats/.

Ben Larcombe has been involved in several table tennis related things over the past year or so, he was the coach in “Guy Plays Table Tennis Every Day for a Year” which went viral and has over 1.5 million views (www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y21uwFUgkE) and is the driving force behind Eastfield Co which is a brand new table tennis company with rubbers, blades and batcases being released very soon. www.eastfieldco.com.

Excerpt from Expert Table Tennis website
Chris Main is the head coach of North Ayrshire Table Tennis Club, a thriving club located on the West Coast of Scotland in Saltcoats. Saltcoats is a small town about 45 minutes away from Glasgow but Chris is on a mission to transform it into a hub of table tennis activity.

The club has won the Scottish National League four years in a row, is home to a number of top junior and senior Scottish players, and recently hosted the first round of the prestigious ETTU Cup (which is basically the UEFA Europa League of table tennis). On top of that they have a professional website and logo, host the North Ayrshire Open each year, and have managed to secure funding from Sport Scotland and the local council. Basically, they are doing everything right!

With so much going on at the club I thought it would be a great idea to get Chris on the show and find out a little more about his story and his plans for the future of the club, and Scottish table tennis in general. We talk about a whole range of different topics so there is something for everyone in this interview whether you are a player, a coach, or someone involved in running a club and promoting the sport of table tennis in your area.

In this episode you’ll learn:

• How Chris first got into table tennis.
• What he did to improve so quickly as a relative late-starter.
• Chris’s views on talent vs practice and what he looks for in a player.
• Why it is so difficult to improve your table tennis as an adult.
• How table tennis is organised differently in Belgium.
• All about the ETTU Cup and how North Ayrshire got on.
• How Chris manages to coach and play at the same time.
• What Chris believes is most important for beginners to understand.
• Chris’s top tip for table tennis players.
• The future plans for the club.

British League Results

North Ayrshire TTC have 2 teams in this seasons British Senior League both looking to get finish high up in both divisions. Division 1 team of Colin Dalgleish, Chris Main, Richard Main & Andy Macpherson started the season well finishing weekend 1 with 3 wins out of 4. Wins over OCA TTC, Draycott & Drumchapel secured 6 points from 8 which leaves them in 3rd place behind Rotherham & Halton. Our division 4 team of Ethan Chapman, Martin Johnson, Chris Barclay & Harvey McDonald finished the weekend on 4 points, 2 wins from 4 matches. 7-3 win over Drumchapel and a 8-2 win over Ormesby leaves the team in 5th place. Next weekend of BSL is Oct 31/Nov 1 where division 1 is played at Halton & division 4 is played at York. Full results, player averages are available to view on www.tabletennis365.com/britishleague

North Ayrshire Open 2015

The North Ayrshire Open 2015 will be held on Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd of November at our club venue, St Matthews Academy, Saltcoats. Senior events on the Saturday and Junior events on the Sunday with over £500 in prize money & £500 in vouchers, gifts & prizes to be won. Closing date is Saturday 14th November, however, please ensure that you get your entry in as soon as you can, as this year we will be limiting a number of events if numbers are too high. We will operate on a last in, first out basis.

We encourage players of all standards to enter with plenty of local league players competing in the banded events & doubles. We would like to thank our sponsors and partners North Ayrshire Council, Stanley Morrison Trust, Hillhouse Quarry & Bribar TT without the support from these organisations then the North Ayrshire Open could not go ahead.

Saturday Events 
Mens Singles, Ladies Singles, Open Band 1, Open Band 2, Open Vets, Open Over 55’s & Open Doubles.

Sunday Events
Junior Boys, Junior Girls, Cadet Boys, Cadet Girls, Minor Boys, Minor Girls, U11s Mixed & Open Doubles.

North Ayrshire Open 2015 (entry)

TTS Development Squad

Patric Hollywood, Jamie Johnson & Chad Duncan are currently involved in Table Tennis Scotland’s Development Squad where they get the chance to train with 20 of the most promising under 13 players in our country. This entitles them to 15 weekends of top quality training throughout the season from Chinese born, Scottish national coach Li Chao.

Chad, Patric & Jamie all reached latter stages of u11’s events last year, with Chad reaching the semi finals of Wongs Youth Open, Patric reaching semi finals of u11’s at North Ayrshire Open and Jamie winning South of Scotland Open u11’s event a couple of weeks ago. All boys currently train 4 nights per week which includes 1-1 slots with club coaches. The boys compete in national ranking competitions and West of Scotland Junior League.

Picture from Left to Right – Patric Hollywood, Jamie Johnson & Chad Duncan.

West of Scotland Senior League

North Ayrshire have 4 teams in this year’s West of Scotland Senior League which starts this week (WC 21/09/15). Our D team will be playing on a Monday night when at home and our A, B & C team will play on a Wednesday evening. We wish all our teams the very best of luck and you can find league tables, match schedules & results on WoSTTL website – www.wosttl.org.uk.

Division 1 team
Chris Barclay, Andy Macpherson, Andy Bogle, Martin Johnson.

Division 3 team
Jill Taylor, Robin Wilson, Ryan Henry, Des Bogle, Stephen Smith.

Division 4 team
Bruce McLellan, Phil Greenham, Conor McAdam, Billy Main.

Division 4 team
Kayser Collins, Jamie Johnson, Owen Wilson, Ross Macpherson, Joshua Griffiths.

South of Scotland Open Results

First national competition of the season was the South of Scotland Open, which was held at David Keswick Centre, Dumfries on September 12th & 13th. We had over 15 NATTC players competing in the 2 days of play, where numerous players posted wins over higher ranked players. Below are some of the notable results from our players;

Chris Main
Seeded 2 in the Mens Singles, he justified his seeding by reaching the final losing to Scottish no1 Gavin Rumgay. Chris had wins over Martin Perry, John Hannah, Andy Macpherson & Sean Doherty. Chris paired up with Andy Macpherson in the Open Doubles where they reached the semi finals, losing to eventual winners Colin Dalgleish / Sean Doherty.

Andy Macpherson
Reached the Quarter Finals of the Mens Singles with hard fought wins over Peter Cameron, Charlie Ellis & Ethan Chapman. Andy paired up with Chris Main in the Open Doubles where they reached the semi finals, losing to eventual winners Colin Dalgleish / Sean Doherty.

Chris Barclay
Reached the Quarter Finals of the Open Doubles with Dylan De Silva where they lost to no1 seeds Rumgay / Ross. Chris secured a great win over Zaid Khalid in his mens singles group to qualify into the last 16 where he lost out to Sean Doherty.

Martin Johnson
Winner of the Band 2 event on the Saturday with wins over James Forrest, Harvey McDonald, Renee Ho. Winner of u13 boys event on Sunday with wins over Gutam Kukar & Charlie Morton. Semi Finalist in Junior Doubles with partner Danny Bajwa, losing to eventual winner Morton / Morrison.

Robin Wilson
Partnered with Ryan Henry, they scored a great win over Ethan Chapman & Jennie Yang in Open Doubles. Robin his way to last 16 of  Mixed Band 2 and last 16 of junior boys with notable wins in both events. Robin partnered with Joe Cranna reached the QF of junior doubles on the Sunday.

Ryan Henry
Ryan reached last 16 of Mens Band 2 on the Saturday with a 3-2 hard fought win over Alisha Khalid. Great experience for Ryan to be drawn in the same group as Scottish Senior no1 Gavin Rumgay. Partnered with Robin Wilson, they scored a great win over Ethan Chapman & Jennie Yang in Open Doubles.

Jamie Johnson
Jamie started his u11’s season well, winning U11’s mixed event without any hiccups. Jamie will be looking to be dominant in this age group this season as well as challenging the top u13 players.

Chad Duncan, Patric Hollywood, Kayser Collins, Owen Wilson, Grant McLellan, Holly McNamara scores still to be updated.

Pictures – https://goo.gl/J9us7D