NEWSLETTER #4
March 2015
Big T’s Intro!
Drumchapel Table Tennis Club’s
Newsletter!
Hi everyone! Welcome to the March edition of the
Newsletter. It has been a busy month for our club
and there are lots more to come over the next
month or so. I would like to wish Corinna the best
of luck when she is out in China representing
Scotland at the World Championships. Our
junior development is running great and they are
all doing so well.
Summary:
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What’s New?
What’s Next?
Easter Camp
Player of the Month
Disability
Schools League
Development
What’s New?
Senior British League
We had 3 teams at Senior British League on the weekend of
28th March. Drumchapel 4 managed to stay up while
Drumchapel 3 got relegated from Division 3. Drumchapel 2
secured victory in division 1. Congratulations to the team of
Andy McFadyen, Colin Dalgliesh, Sepehr Bidari and Chris
Main on winning the titles.
Junior 6 Nations
Yaser Razouk teamed up with Chris Wheeler in the Junior 6
Nations in Wales. Yaser and Chris were seeded 2nd in the
team event but managed to secure the title with wins over
England, Ireland, Guernsey and Isle of Man. Lucy Elliott
teamed up with Rebecca Plaistow and the girls lost on count
back for 2nd in the team event and finished 3rd. In the singles
event, Yaser reached the quarter final losing out to Wales Ryan
Oyler and Lucy reached the semi final losing out to England's
Kate Cheer in a close 3-2 match.
Junior League
Aaron, Fergus and Liam got relegation in the 1st division after
fighting hard, however it was good experience for them.
Elliott, Paula, Isaac, Eilidh won division 2 by one game,
winning over North Ayrshire in order for them to win the
division. Congratulations to all players.
Premier British League
At the start of March in the British Premier Division,
Drumchapel Glasgow I finished 3rd in this division and
qualified for Europe for their 5th time.
Inter League
In Inter League, Paula Callaghan and Eilidh Milligan teamed up
for the West of Scotland Minor girls B team and finished in a
great 2nd place defeating the West of Scotland Minor girls A
team 5-0. They lost to the winners Edinburgh 4-1 but was a
close match.
All reports can be found on the website.
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What’s Next?
Coming up in April:
Easter Holiday
Camp
Easter Camp:
When?
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Tuesday 7th April
Thursday 9th April
Tuesday 14th April
Thursday 16th April
Easter Holidays
Where?
Each day will have 2 sessions: The first
session is 10am – 12pm. The second
session is: 1pm – 3pm.
Drumchapel TTC
Days?
Blackpool GP:
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Tuesday’s & Thursday’s
11th & 12th April
Times?
World Championships, China:
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10am – 12pm & 1pm – 3pm
26th April – 3rd May
Cost?
Corinna Whitaker is representing
Scotland at the Worlds, so best of luck to
her and the rest of team!
FREE
1-1sessions with TTS National
Coach, Li Chao available. (1-1
sessions will not be free)
What you can expect:
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NO TABLE TENNIS EXPERIENCE
NEEDED!
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Multi-ball sessions
Serving practice
Fitness
Exercise progression
PLAYER OF THE MONTH!
Elliott has had an excellent month of table
tennis. At the junior league he was part of the
team who won Division 2, he also won the
Division 2 singles and was named top player of
Division 2 winning the most matches. He also
was part of the Minor boy’s B team at Inter
league, where Elliott won most of his matches.
Elliott has also been named as one of the
players to be selected into the Table Tennis
Scotland Development Squad.
Disability
Schools League
Drumchapel Table Tennis Club held their
second day of the Drumchapel and West
Development Schools League on Friday 27th
March. The club coaches in over 15 schools in
the west area and select players from each
school to compete in a schools league one
Friday a month.
This month, Martin Perry travelled to
Sheffield for training; he then went
on to Bristol for the BTTAD Michael
Hawkesworth National
Championships. In this competition
Martin came 2nd his highest ever
finish!
With 12 school teams competing we had an
action packed day with 3 matches being played
and the leaders being St Clare’s Primary A and
St Andrews Primary A who are both on 12
points. We have teams from Our lady of Loretto
in Dalmuir competing along with St Andrews
Primary in Bearsden and St Brendans in
Knightswood and others.
From there, Martin travelled to
Lignano Sabbiadoro in Italy to
compete in the Italian Open. Up
against some of the best in the
world Martin was unable to get out
his Singles group but managed to
come 4th in the Team Event with
fellow GB teammate Paul
Karabardak from Swansea.
It has been a great success so far, all the children
are enjoying competing and making friends with
children from other schools. The league will run
until the end of June when we will have our
winners.
Martin is now in training for the
Slovenian Open & Slovakian Open
back to back in May.
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And Finally…
If you have any suggestions or ideas for this newsletter, we would love to
hear them, as we would like to make this newsletter a success. We will do
this on a monthly basis. If you would like to guest write a column or intro
then let either Corinna or Stephanie know. If you would like to email in
suggestions/ideas etc, please do so at: [email protected]