News Season 1999-00

4th Cippenham Veterans' Summer 2 Star Open 8.7.00

The large (40mm) ball made its debut in open tournaments and proved beneficial for Norman Swift as he won a Cippenham tournament for the first time beating previous winner Steve Davis two-straight in the final. Swift had never played with the large ball before knocking-up on the morning of the event! In the semis Swift saved a match point to overcome Cippenham's Mike Rhodes deuce in the third while Davis beat Trevor Campbell -19 in the third. Two storming semis! The Women's event was won by top seed Janet Brown while Cippenham members tasted success in the consolation events with Maurice Isaacs defeating Graham Trimming in the men's and Jan Chapman reaching the final of the women's.

 

Schools International 1-2.7.00

Cippenham's Gemma Chapman played superbly to gain two winners' medals in the Schools' Championships. Representing England U16 Gemma won both the team title and in the individual Girls' Singles title. Warren Brooks also made his international debut for England Schools in the same event.

 

2nd Cippenham Youth Players' Summer Festival (1 Star Open) 10-11.6.00

Cippenham players won four of the ten events at the 2nd running of this jamboree for the very young. The age group go down as far as under-8 in this popular 1 star tournament. The U13 Boys' Singles final was an all-Cippenham affair won by Tom Mitchell over David Hayes while Tom's young sister Stephanie won the U8 Girls' Singles. The Evans gamily took the other two titles: 7-years-old Gavin beat his brother Myles (aged 8) un the U8 Boys' Singles while Myles won the U9. Myles was the most successful players in the tournament getting to no less than 4 finals as he also was runner-up in the U10 to Darius Knight (Surrey) and in the U11 to Daniel Rees (Essex). Other winners were Sarah Brown (Essex - U13GS); Sarah Hall (Wales - U11GS); Melanie Farquhar (Berks - U10GS) and Rachel Jamieson (Essex - U9GS).

 

Cippenham TTC Annual General Meeting 31.5.00

All existing officers of the Club were re-elected at the AGM and Brian Furness was elected into the vacant position of Club Captain. Brian's duties will include co-ordination with all of the Club's team captains.

 

Slough League Annual General Meeting 30.5.00

Graham Trimming stepped down as Chairman of the Slough League after 19 years in the post but retains his position as Fixtures Secretary for the 26th year. Mike Rhodes also stepped down after 10 years as Inter-League Secretary and moves across to become Press Secretary. Peter Hillier remains as Treasurer.

 

World Veterans' Championships 21-27.5.00

Kai Milvek, the Cippenham member who lives in Estonia, won a bronze medal on the Over-40 Women's Doubles in Vancouver and also reached the quarter-final of the O40 Women's Singles. This follows her two bronzes and a gold (in the team event) last time the championships were held in 1998 - and Kai has played competitively only twice in the past twelve months!

 

National Under-10/11/12 Championships 27-28.5.00

Cippenham's Bradley Evans became the new English Under-11 Boys' Singles champion when he beat arch rival Harry Shahlaei in the final at Widnes. Having won the U10 title last year Bradley is on course for the treble next time round! Bradley also reached the final of the U12BS where he lost to Tim Yarnell. In the semi-final of this competition Bradley had beaten Cippenham team-mate David Hayes and together they reached the semi-final of the U12 Boys' Doubles. Other Cippenham players also reached semi-finals: Gavin Evans (who only recently turned 7 years of age!) in U10BS and Rebecca Tweedy in U10GS. Quarter-finalists: James Milton (U11BS); Myles Evans (U11BS); Sylvana Bielec (U11GS); Catherine Hayes (U10GS); Caroline Linz and Catherine Hayes (U12GD).

 

English National Senior Championships 13-14.5.00

Cippenham's Gareth Herbert retained his national Men's Doubles title with Alex Perry when they beat Maidenhead's Terry Young and Andrew Baggaley from Milton Keynes in three games in the final. Gareth also reached the quarter-finals of the Men's Singles before losing out to Baggaley.

 

3rd Cippenham Under-12 2 Star Open Championships 14.5.00

A field of over 90 players contested this popular event with the winners being Harry Shahlaei (Gloucs) and Anusha Seneviratne (Kent). Their final victims were David Hayes, a local boy from the Cippenham club, and Kelly Sibley (Warwicks). Other the other Cippenham players, Sylvana Bielec reached the semis of the girls' event while James Milton lost out to the eventual winner in the boys' quarter-final. The consolation events were won by Dorian Robinson (Somerset) and Natasha Lee (Essex).

 

National Team Finals 6-7.5.00

Teams from the Cippenham coaching scheme were once again successful at the National Team Finals. Slough's U14 boys'team (Thomas Mitchell; Bradley Evans; David Hayes) retained the Leach Cup - Slough's fourth win in this competition in the last five years. In second place, for the second successive year, were High Wycombe (Warren Brooks; Ross Drabble; Chris Hansell) who are also all coached at Cippenham. Maidenhead's U14 girls' team (Gemma Chapman; Joanna Parker; Sarah Weller) retained their Hammersley Cup title. Slough (Helen Smith; Francesca Parnell; Sylvana Bielec deputing for the injured Hannah Stone) came fourth after a three-way tie for positions 2 to 4. Cippenham's women's team (Samantha Marling; Claire Plumridge; Sue Hayes deputising for the unavailable Sue Collier) finished fourth in the Gainsford Cup. On the Sunday Maidenhead's U17 girls' team (Gemma Chapman; Joanna Parker; Emma Human) retained the Bromfield Trophy and High Wycombe's U17 boys' team (Warren Brooks; Robert Hansell; Duane Brooks) were runners-up in the Carter Cup. Altogether in four junior and cadet events Cippenham players formed the teams that won three of them and were runners-up in two.

 

Slough Masters Tournament 2.5.00

Cippenham's 17 years-old Martin Rule became a new winner of the Slough Masters tonight at Burnham. Martin beat holder and Slough Closed champion Mike Rhodes in the semi-final and then Maidenhead champion Tim Heaps in the final.

 

British League 30.4.00

Cippenham's 9-1 victory over KCD Stiga I in the British League was enough to claim the runners-up spot in Division 2 South. The team has performed consistently well throughout the season and congratulations are due to Wesley Bush-Harris, Martin Adams, Clive Payne, Graham Pointer, Mike Rhodes, Steve Joel and Robert Hansell.

 

British Primary Schools Championships 28-30.4.00

Cippenham TTC's Bradley Evans starred for England Under-11 Boys' team in the British Primary Schools Championships. Bradley helped England beat Scotland and Isle of Man both 10-0, Wales 8-2 and Ireland 6-4. Then came further success for Bradley as he beat Wales' Liam Thomas in the final of the U11 Boys' Singles.

 

Club Championships and Handicap Tournament 29.4.00

Gemma Chapman dominated her events at the annual Club Championships which attracted a record entry of 58 and lasted for eleven hours while 230 matches were staged. Gemma won Women's Singles, Girls' Singles, Cadet Singles and Junior Doubles with Gemma Hollett. The remaining titles were shared around with Paul Baker taking Men's Singles, Mike Rhodes the Veterans' Singles and Championship Doubles with Andrew Misseldine while Robert Hansell was successful in Boys' Singles, David Hayes in Under-12 Singles and Elroy Hull in Restricted Singles. There were also five handicapped events plus two for parents of children attending coaching at the Club.

 

Home Countries Internationals 26-27.4.00

Cippenham's Gemma Chapman and Joanna Parker were both unbeaten for England as their teams romped to the junior and cadet girls' team titles respectively in the Home Countries International Championships held at Largs (Scotland). Joanna went on to win the Cadet Girls' Singles championship. After winning her group, Gemma succumbed in the quarter-finals of the Junior Girls' Singles.

 

Dilger Cup Final 25.4.00

Cippenham Rogues (Brian Furness; Sue Hayes; David Hayes) beat off the challenge of Nomads to win the Slough League's team handicap knock-out cup by a margin of 28 points (392:364).

 

English Schools Individual Championships 15.4.00

Cippenham TTC's Bradley Evans became the English Schools Under-11 Boys' Singles champion at Stoke with a final victory over Daniel Rees. Cippenham also had three other players make the semi-finals - Gemma Chapman in the U16 Girls' and both Joanna Parker and Emily Tucker in the U13 Girls'.

 

Slough League Individual Handicap Finals 11.4.00

Cippenham players took all the titles at tonight's finals. Jeremy Bateman was successful twice, in singles when winning the Lynford Bowl and in the John Crane Handicap Doubles with team-mate Clive Perry. Sue Hayes denied Elza Lusher a hat-trick of wins in the final of the Wharton Vase.

 

National Cadet Masters 8-9.4.00

Cippenham had six players participating in the 32-strong field in this prestigious national event. The best performances came from Joanna Parker and Gemma Chapman who finished 4th and 5th respectively in the girls' event, and Bradley Evans (at just 10 years of age) and Thomas Mitchell who finished 8th and 9th in the boys'. Warren Brooks failed to complete the second day and Gemma Hollett did survive the cut from the first day. The events were won by Greg Baker (Warwicks) and Georgina Walker (Notts).

 

Cippenham Super League 2.4.00

At a meeting of the Club's Management Committee tonight it was decided to organise a Cippenham Super League next season for elite players on a similar basis to that which is proving very successful at BATTS. More details will follow shortly.

 

Slough League Youth Divisions (Woolwich Junior League) 2.4.00

Cippenham Strays (David Hayes with a number of other players) secured the Division 1 title while Cippenham Fugitives (Sylvana Bielec; Sebastian Bielec) won Division 2 and Cippenham Beggars (Matthew Tucher; Frazer Harper) Division 3. The Tunes Cup handicapped competition was won by Cippenham Urchins (Andrew Dickens; Jack Green).

 

National Junior League (Southern Region) 1.4.00

The fourth and final session concluded with Cippenham "C" (James Milton; Paul Zeun; Andrew Dickens) top of Boys' Division 2, Cippenham Girls "C" (Emily Tucker; Katherine Tweedy; Sylvana Bielec) runners-up in Girls' Division 1 and Cippenham "D" (Jasjote Grewal; Siobhan Carroll; Caroline Linz) runners-up in Division 2. The first divisions were won by High Wycombe "A" (Duane Brooks; Ross Drabble; Stuart Tweedy; Chris Hansell) and Challoner (K. Mead; R. Flint; M. Coe; Gemma Hollett). Over at Chesham the Cippenham "D" team (Gavin Evans; Myles Evans; Sebastian Bielec) won Boys' Division 4.

 

National Junior Masters 25/26.3.00

Cippenham players Gemma Chapman and Joanna Parker excelled to finish sixth and eighth respectively in the ETTA National Junior Masters played at Cippenham. The boys' event was won by Andrew Rushton (Lancs) and the girls' by Katy Parker (also Lancs).

 

Slough Sports Awards 24.3.00

For the third year running Cippenham Table Tennis Club picked up a club award at the Mayor of Slough's 1999 Sports Awards. This time it was Junior Club of the Year, last won in 1997, and was largely attributed to the number of recent national champions and international players produced by the club and the success of local teams in last season's Bromfield Trophy, Leach Cup and Hammersley Cup, all won by players from the Cippenham elite coaching squad.

 

Slough League 23.3.00

The Cippenham Pirates team (Chris Lusher; Martin Rule; Nick Wilson; Steve Joel; Martin Adams; Clive Payne) beat Chalfont "A" 7-3 to retain the Slough League championship. This is a record sixteenth title since 1978 for Cippenham and the seventh in succession.

 

Gainsford Cup 12.3.00

Cippenham's women's team of Sue Collier, Samantha Marling and Claire Plumridge just about qualified for the national team finals in this preliminary group of the Gainsford Cup - the first time that Cippenham has entered a team into this competition. After losing to Exiles (Barnets) 3-5, Cippenham beat Ellenborough (North Middlesex) also 5-3 to force a three way tie which saw Cippenham go through by one game.

 

Junior British League 11/12.3.00

Cippenham girls are the national champions - the first national championship won by the Cippenham club. Gemma Chapman, Emily Dearing and Joanna Parker eclipsed their opponents to win the Premier Division of the Junior British League at Stoke. It was a double celebration for Cippenham whose very young Boys' B team won Division 3A despite being rated only fifth in the division on their rankings. David Hayes remained unbeaten as his team won every match and he was well supported by Thomas Mitchell and Bradley Evans.

Slough Closed Championships (senior events) 20.2.00

Cippenham players again won nearly every event at the Slough League's annual championships. Mike Rhodes was the popular winner of the Men's Singles, for the first time, and Andy Misseldine and Kevin Rowe captured the Men's Doubles. For Gemma Chapman is was "all three" as she won Ladies' Singles, Ladies' Doubles with Sue Hayes plus the Mixed Doubles. 11 years old David Hayes won the Division 2 Singles and the Handicap Singles while Armando Borges lifted Division 4 Singles.

 

Slough Closed Championships (junior events) 19.2.00

There were three star performers at the Slough Closed junior events. Thomas Mitchell retained his Junior Boys' Singles title and captured the Junior Doubles with Gemma Chapman. Gemma won the Junior Girls' Singles and beat all the boys to win the Cadet Singles while Bradley Evans won the U12 Singles, Youth Division Singles and Youth Division Handicap Singles titles.

 

Veterans' British League 2nd weekend 5/6.2.00

A magnificent display by the Cippenham team which won every match over the weekend saw the Veterans' British League Division 3 championship come to the Slough club. Cippenham dropped only one point over the two sessions and finished five points ahead of their nearest rivals. Cippenham's number one, Clive Payne went through the two weekends unbeaten in 20 matches while Mike Rhodes scored 15 and Paul Baker 10.

 

Women's British League 2nd weekend 29/30.1.00

Cippenham's first team, still without the services of both Sue Collier and Kai Milvek, did enough to finish runners-up in Division 2 thus ensuring promotion to Division 1 for next season. This was a good all round team performance from Gemma Chapman, Claire Plumridge and Sue Hayes. Gemma and Sue (14/20) finished joint third in the division's averages. The second team also picked up two wins to move up to fourth place in Division 3. Joanna Parker (16/20) finished fourth in the averages.

 

Ormesby Cup Stage 1 29.1.00

An understrength Cippenham team crashed out at the first stage of the Ormesby Cup, suffering defeats at the hands of Exiles (Barnets) 5-2 and Vagabonds (Wembley/Harrow) 5-0. One bright spot for Cippenham - two good wins for 15 years old Robert Hansell.

 

5th Cippenham 2 Star Open Championships (Grand Prix) 23.1.00

Jerome Jonah, seeded 8, came through a field of 75 players to win the Men's Singles title at the senior Open, beating Surrey colleague Chris Beckley in the final. Jonah had earlier knocked out top seed Simon Rockall 19 in the third in the semi while Beckley had got the better of veteran Steve Davis. Cippenham's own Gemma Chapman beat Amanda Alabaster to win the Women's Singles after defeating top seed Sarah Horsnell in the semi.

 

Cancellation of Cippenham Cadet Open

Cippenham TTC regrets to announce that the annual Cippenham Cadet 3 Star Open Championships has been cancelled. The event, which has successfully attracted a maximum entry of 108 each of the last two years has fallen victim to the shambolic scheduling of the ETTA events department who, having failed to book a hall for the Junior British League, have now switched the latter event to clash with the Cadet Open on 11th March. And, oh yes, the Cadet was previously switched from 26th March when the ETTA moved their Junior Masters onto that date! Incredible - sounds familiar doesn't it!

 

4th Cippenham Veterans' 2 Star Open Championships 16.1.00

Two unseeded players came through to take the main honours at the annual veterans' bash. In the Men's Singles Ian Girdler, a "young" veteran with a super fast game and obviously extremely under-ranked on the ETTA computer, came through to defeat fifth seed Tom Carr in the final. Top seed Steve Davis had lost to second seed Dave Crowley in the quarters (Crowley had lost a match in his group!) while fourth seed Derek Holman went out to Gerry Hawkins and third seed Mike Rhodes was a victim of Carr. In the women's event Shirley Carroll defeated local player Jackie Thomas in the final.

 

ETTA Junior/Cadet Trials 8-9.1.00

Three Cippenham players qualified for the National Junior/Cadet Masters tournaments by virtue of their performances in the Trials at Cheltenham - and two made it through in both events. Gemma Chapman and national under-12 champion Jo Parker reached both the Junior and the Cadet championships while Warren Brooks was also successful in the Cadet Boys'. The Masters tournaments will be held at Cippenham in March and April.

 

4th Cippenham Junior 3 Star Open Championships 2.1.00

Cippenham's Gemma Chapman retained her Girls' Singles title at the Cippenham Junior Open and her club colleague Warren Brooks made it a double victory for the host club in the Boys' Singles. Another great day at Cippenham Table Tennis Centre as it hosted the first open tournament in England of the new millennium.

 

Award for Kai

Cippenham's Kai Milvek has been voted the third best female player of the century in her native Estonia. Kai has 23 national titles in singles and doubles, has captained her country at the World Championships and is the current World Over-40 Team Champion.

 

National Junior League 4.12.99

Cippenham Girls C team lead the way in the National Junior League (Southern Region) at the half way stage. Despite suffering their first defeat in the last match to Challoner, Cippenham remain three points clear of their rivals. The competition now splits into two halves for the third series of matches in February.

 

Southern Region Trials 28.11.99

The second half of the SR Trials was held at Cippenham with Warren Brooks coming out top overall of the U17 boys. Runner-up was another Cippenham player John Camilleri while Tom Mitchell, unbeaten on the day including a win over Brooks finished fourth and Robert Hansell sixth. These four qualify for the National Ranking Finals in January. In the Cadet Girls' trial Hannah Stone had her best results yet and won the event including a win over second placed Gemma Chapman. Hannah's only reverse came against fellow Cippenham star Francesca Parnell who finished fourth.

 

Bucks Junior Closed Championships 27.11.99

Cippenham players swept all before them at the Bucks Junior Closed played at Cippenham. For the fourth year running all titles were won by the host club's players. Robert Hansell showed what an improved player he is by winning all three U17 titles - Boys' Singles, Boys' Doubles with Thomas Mitchell and Mixed Doubles with Emma Human. Warren Brooks won U14BS while David Hayes was successful in U12BS. On the girls' side Francesca Parnell capitalised on her recent improvement by capturing U17GS while Emily Tucker and Sylvana Bielec won U14GS and U12GS respectively. Francesca and Emily combined to win U17GD.

 

St. Ives Annual Junior Team Competition 13-14.11.99

Cippenham teams swept the board at the annual and well supported (72 teams) St. Ives Inter-Club Team Tournament winning all three age categories. Last season's performance of winning the U12 and U14 titles was supplemented by the addition of U17. This was the first time in the 15 year history of the competition that all titles had gone to the same club. For good measure the Cippenham "B" teams were runners-up in U12 and third in U14 while the third cadet (U14) team came fifth.

 

Veterans' British League 13-14.11.99

Cippenham lie top of the Veterans' British League Division 3 after the first weekend of matches at Stratford-upon-Avon. Only a draw with bottom team Trident Blinds stopped a 100% record. Star of the show was Clive Payne, making his debut in this competition, who won all of his ten matches. Mike Rhodes won seven and Paul Baker three.

 

Bradley's debut for England 1-5.11.99

Cippenham's 10-years old Bradley Evans, the England U10BS champion, made his debut for England in France at an international invitation event. Bradley was a member of the England U12 boys' team which won the team event and he then finished 5th in the individual singles after finishing third in his group (the top three all lost two matches but Bradley lost out on the opportunity to play for positions 1 to 4).

 

Maidenhead Charity Handicap Tournament 31.10.99

The Maidenhead & DTTA held an event for the first time at Cippenham TTC. There was a home winner in Cippenham's Mike Rhodes, the most heavily handicapped player in the event, and more good news was that £550 was raised for the Stroke Association.

 

Slough Hard Bat Tournament 27.10.99

Cippenham's Mike Rhodes retained his Singles and Doubles titles at the Slough Hard Bat Tournament played at Cippenham tonight. His doubles partner (drawn) was Ian Hayden (Burnham TTC) while Cippenham's Sue Hayes was successful in the Handicap Singles event.

 

2nd Cippenham Under-9/10/11 1 Star Open Championships 24.10.99

James Milton provided a home win for Cippenham in the top event, the Under-9 Boys' Singles by convincingly beating Kent's Nick Chatfield in the final. The girls' final, an all Kent affair, was a storming match won by Anusha Seneveratne who had to save five match points in the second game to Gemma Yarnley. Nick Chatfield won U10BS, Sarra Wong U10GS, Joe Misseldine U9BS and Laura Yarnley U9GS. Perhaps the star of the show, however, was Cippenham's own Gavin Evans. Gavin reached the final of U10BS and the semis of the U9BS and, incredibly the U11BS. Nothing special about that? - Gavin is just 6 years old!!

 

National Junior League (Southern Region) 23.10.99

Cippenham "C" (Emily Tucker, Katherine Tweedy, Sylvana Bielec) lead the way in the girls' division after the first series of matches played at Cippenham Table Tennis Centre. The boys "E" team (Harjote Grewal, Sebastian Bielec, Jack Green) also won all of its matches in the second division played at Chesham High School.

 

Junior British League (Under-17) 9/10.10.99

Cippenham Girls "A" lead the way at the top of the national Premier Division at the half way mark of the season. A brilliant effort by 12-years old Joanna Parker, who won 9 out of 10 to head the division's averages, was well supported by Emily Dearing and Gemma Chapman. A very young Cippenham Boys "B" team of Thomas Mitchell (aged 12), David Hayes (11) and Bradley Evans (10) also excelled in topping Boys Division 3A while the Boys "B" team (Robert Hansell, John Camilleri, Warren Brooks) lie second in Division 1. The Girls "B" team lie 5th in Division 2 although they are only one point away from the third placed team.

 

Sue Hayes gets Outstanding Contribution Award 30.9.99

At the Club's Anniversary Party (3 years since the opening of Cippenham Table Tennis Centre) the Outstanding Contribution Award for 1998-9 was made to Sue Hayes for her work with the coaching scheme which is now recognised as one of the best in England.

 

Southern Region Preliminary Trials 26.9.99

The Cippenham quartet of Warren Brooks, Tom Mitchell, Bradley Evans and Ross Drabble qualified from the SR cadet boys' trials, held at Cippenham, for the national trials later in the season. Gemma Chapman and Hannah Stone also qualified in the junior girls'. The junior boys are half-way through and will play further matches alongside the cadet girls in November.

 

Women's British League 11-12.9.99

Cippenham I lie in second place after the first weekend of matches in the Women's British League Division 2 with eight points out of ten. This puts them two points behind leaders Scottish Ladies at the half-way stage and a healthy three points clear of the third placed team. This was a good team performance from Sue Hayes (80% - top of the division's averages), Gemma Chapman (70%) and Claire Plumridge (60%). This result was better than anticipated as the team's two star players, Sue Collier and Kai Milvek were both unavailable. The second team are in fifth position in Division 3 with four points after good performances from Jo Parker (80%) and Emma Human (50%).

 

Bucks county junior trials 11.9.99

Cippenham players once again dominated the Buckinghamshire county junior and cadet trials held at Cippenham today. Warren Brooks beat off 37 other competitors to win the boys' event from Robert Hansell while, in the absence of Gemma Chapman and Emma Human (away with the Cippenham teams at the Women's British League) Helen Smith and Emily Tucker claimed the top two places in the girls'. Runner-up to Warren Brooks in the cadet boys' was Thomas Mitchell.

 

New coaching squads commence 8.9.99

The structure of the Cippenham coaching scheme was enhanced today with the introduction of a squad system. Augmenting the already highly successful advanced coaching structure on Monday and Friday evenings, three squads of eight players each have been selected for additional training on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Players are selected by virtue of their position on the ETTA ranking lists. The squads are coached by Sue Hayes (U17), Ken Phillips (U14) and Rhys Evans (U12).

 

Ken is ETTA Coach of the Year 4.9.99

Ken Phillips, Cippenham TTC Chairman and Coaching Officer was today named as the ETTA Coach of the Year. The award was presented at the dinner midway through the 1999 Coaching Conference at Lilleshall. This is just reward for the man who has masterminded Cippenham's successful coaching structure, which has gained success with many national age group champions and the fantastic achievement of producing all twelve of the players who contested the finals of the U14 national team championships in June when Slough beat High Wycombe in the Leach Cup and Maidenhead beat Slough in the Hammersley Cup. Ken's presentation to the Conference about the Cippenham set-up received great acclaim and in his summing up ETTA Chairman Alan Ransome said that what English table tennis needs is 50 Cippenhams! Praise indeed! At the same event Cippenham member Bob Plumridge was awarded the ETTA Disabled Coach of the Year for his work with the British paraplegic squad.

 

Slough Summer League 8.99

Cippenham Alpha, the father and son team on Nick and Robert Hansell, clinched the first division title of the Slough League's summer competition.

 

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