News Season 2008-09:
- Funeral of Alan Farral 17.11.08
- A huge gathering of about thirty people associated with Cippenham Table Tennis Club gave a fitting tribute to the passing of one of the Club's most popular figures. Alan was the Club's lead coach at the beginners' session for the last twelve years and possessed remarkable DIY skills which he used to the huge benefit of the Club. Aged just 56, Alan succumbed to cancer last week. He will be sorely missed. RIP.
- County Championships Senior Premier Division 15-16.11.08
- The Bucks senior team, playing for the first time in the Premier Division, had a successful weekend staged at the Cippenham venue, winning one, drawing one and losing the other of their three matches. The Bucks team consisted of five Cippenham members: Bradley Evans; David Hayes; Danny Baxter; Gemma Chapman and Caroline Linz.
- Cippenham Team 2-Star Open Championship 9.11.08
- The 3rd Cippenham Team Open was another great success with a full entry of 24 teams although one withdrew the day before. Top seeds Ware's the Butler? (Matt Ware and Mark Butler) won the event after a rousing final with Abdul Sports & Table Tennis Ltd (Abdul Wuraola and Ashley Stokes). Best local performance came from The Shawmeisters (Ashley and Oliver Shaw) who finished eighth.
- World Cadet Challenge 30.10-2.11.08
- Gavin Evans has picked up another prestigious title in his illustrious international career. The current European Cadet Singles champion was the leading member of the Europe team that won the World Cadet Challenge in Helsingborg, Sweden. Gavin showed remarkable form to remain unbeaten throughout the team event and with two French players beat Asia 3-0 in the final. This is the second time that Gavin has won this event: three years ago he was a member of the successful England team. When it became the turn of the individual events, Gavin won yet another gold medal when he won the Boys' Doubles with Simon Gauzy of France.
- ETTA Annual Volunteer and Coach Awards 1.1.08
- Cippenham members picked up another three awards at the English Table Tennis Association's annual bash. Two were for coaching as Sue Hayes won Female Coach of the Year for the second time while Steph Mitchell won Young Coach of the Year. This was Steph's second award in as many years as it was for Graham Trimming who picked up Press Officer of the Year.
- Veterans' British League 25-26.10.08
- The Cippenham veterans' men's team made a good start to their VBL campaign in Division 2A winning three of their five matches to lie in third place on six points. Charlie Childs won three of his four matches with Mike Rhodes and Paul Baker managed a 50% return from their eight matches.
- Grand Prix 17 21.10.08
- Oli Shaw was the runaway winner of GP17 and amassed 400 points allowing him to have the final week off!. Oli won three of the six weekly events while gavin Williams, who finished second overall, won one as did Terry Osborne and Elroy Hull.
- Junior British League 18-19.10.08
- A disappointing first weekend of the Junior British League sees the boys' team lying in fifth place in Division 2A with the girls rock bottom of Division 3.
- Cippenham Series 2 18-19.10.08
- Abdul Wuraola was the star of the tournament, winning events on both days. On Saturday he defeated Neil Wright to take maximum points from the Men's Singles event and then justified his England number one veterans' ranking by winning the Veterans' Men's Singles on Sunday. Jurate Brazaityte won the Women's Singles, as she did in Series 1, while there was a home winner of the Veterans' Women's Singles in Sue Hayes. Points leader of the men's event after Series 1, Neil Charles, reached only the quarter-final where he went down to Yasa Mauthoor. The other notable performance from a local came when Oli Shaw reached the final of the Men's Consolation.
- Annual Awards 16.10.08
- A large number of members and their families gathered at the Club to celebrate 12 years since the opening of Cippenham Table Tennis Centre and to honour the Club's volunteers and players of the year. Social Officer Jacquie Lovell organized the evening and spoke eloquently about all the Club's volunteers, each of who received a present as a small token of the Club's gratitude. Steve Munson and Angela Oetiker were honoured as the Club's senior and junior players of the year and the highlight of the evening was the presentation of the Karen Mitchell Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to Roy Linz. Roy was rewarded for many years assisting with the Club's elite coaching programme, his work with the Southern Region training squad based at Cippenham and his support to the general membership by acting as the Club's agent for kit and equipment with suppliers Bribar.
- British League 1st Weekend 20-21.9.08
- Cippenham made the customer slow start to the British League campaign although result picked up on Sunday. Team 1, playing in Division 1 South, won only one point while Team II in Division One South and Midlands won three points. In Division 3 South, Team III made four points, all on Sunday. Most successful players were Martin Adams and Eddie Mitchell with five wins each while Tony Stead marked his debut with four wins and 100%. Other good win ratios came from Danny Baxter, Martin Gray, Owen Clutterbuck, Steve Munson and Chris Hansell.
- Bucks Trials 13.9.08
- The Buckinghamshire county trials were held at Cippenham once again home club players tasted some success. Cippenham held the top two places in the junior boys’ event through Eddie Mitchell and Alex Polding while Steph Mitchell and Angela Oetiker were second and third respectively in the girls.
- Grand Prix 16 9.9.08
- Club Chairman Graham Trimming became the third member to win a second Grand Prix series even though he was away on holiday for the final week. Graham had amassed 270 points in his four previous weeks to be uncatchable. In the end, Paul Baker was runner-up after winning both of the weeks that he entered and Anthony Gardner was third. Graham won once, as did Tony Stead, Rafique Sarhadi and Alex Polding. The total number of players taking part, 48, equalled the record.
- Cippenham Series 1 30-31.8.08
- Cippenham's new Series got off to a flyer this weekend. This new grand-prix-style series of open tournaments began with the first senior and junior events. Neil Charles, Jurate Brazaityte, James Ward and Feifei Pei were the main beneficiaries of the first allocations of points and 134 entries meant a good start for organizers Steve Smith and Catherine Hayes with Mick Strode acting as Referee. Best local results came from Rafique Sarhadi, Eddie Mitchell and Salman Tanveer while Cippenham's new signing Owen Clutterbuck took Neil Charles all the way to deuce in the fifth of a fine Men's Singles final.
- New umpiring qualifications 30-31.8.08
- Following on from the training received a couple of months ago, 14 (yes, 14!) new County Umpires were qualified at Cippenham over the weekend. Practical assessments were conducted during the Cippenham Series opener. 7 of the successful candidates were Cippenham members: David Akehurst; Paul Baker; David Hayes; Sue Hayes; Alex Lovell; Jacquie Lovell; Steve Smith.