Nelson Open Report & local NZIS Tournament

Mark Nalder and Malcolm Wong

Malcolm Wong sent in a report on the Nelson Open that he went to earlier in the season. Malcolm reached 5 finals, winning the Over 50 Men’s Doubles (with Mark Nalder), and was runner up in the Second Grade Men’s Doubles and Over 40 Men’s Doubles, Over 50 Singles and Over 50 Mixed Doubles. This was Malcolm 11th Doubles title with Mark Nalder and his 19th Nelson title.

There were 34 players on the Saturday and 19 juniors on Sunday at Saxton Stadium in Stoke. The oldest competitor was Lionel Wells (91) who had won the NZ Over 45 Men’s Doubles twice (1967-68) with fellow Nelson player, Jack Hall. There was a story on Lionel in the newspaper last year.

Thanks to the tournament organisers, Donny Harris and Paul Op den Buysch. Also to Karen Holmes and her team (Jackie Blanchet, Lisa Op den Buysch and Noelene Wells), who ran the cafeteria.

Organisers Donny Harris and Paul Op den Buysch

Karen Holmes

Full results are here: 2012 Nelson Open Results.

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Robert Chung, Bethan Collings (Event Organiser), Malcolm Wong and Roger Watkin

Malcolm was also involved in an unusual event, he was contacted out of the blue on short notice to help come up with a few umpires to help umpire a table tennis tournament that NZIS was holding as part of a multi-sport competitive event between their various regions. It was held at the ASB Sports Centre in Kilbirnie, Wellington.

Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles and Mixed Doubles events were held as best of 5 sets, with Auckland winning all events. I hear that the Auckland contingent consisted of someone who had played table tennis at a club!

Thanks to Malcolm Wong for organising umpires at very short notice for the event. Well done to Chris Williams, Rob Chung, Roger Watkin and Paul Solt for assisting!

Winter Interclub Statistics after Week 6 (Premier)

Here are the complete team and individual statistics for the competition up to and including week 6 (June 19/20). Please pass on any corrections to Roger so that they can be incorporated for the following week.

2012 Winter Interclub stats Week 6 Teams
2012 Winter Interclub stats Week 6 Individuals
NB: The draws are here.

Roger is working on the updates Junior interclub results so I’ll update them here (watch this space).

Winter Interclub Statistics after Week 5 (Premier)

Here are the complete team and individual statistics for the competition up to and including week 5 (last week). Thanks to Roger Watkin for collating all the results! Please pass on any corrections to Roger so that they can be incorporated for the following week.

2012 Winter Interclub Teams (Week 5)
2012 Winter Interclub Individual (Week 5)

NB: The draws are here.

Junior results next…

A Travel Report: 2012 Marlborough Open

2012 Marlborough Open O50 Doubles winners

Malcolm Wong and Steve Craw won the Over 50 Doubles, which was their 6th title together. This was Malcolm’s 10th Marlborough title and 72 overall. Malcolm was the sole Wellington player at this tournament held at the Simcox Stadium (Blenheim). There were 57 players at the tournament. Thanks to the Marlborough Association Committee for all their hard work. As usual, Chris Hood and Debbie Stratford ran the tournament. Daryl Jones wrote out the certificates and was in charge of the prize money. Full results with a report on the tournament is here.

Thanks to Malcolm for submitting this info.

Anyone traveling to a tournament is welcome to submit a report and photos for the TTW blog, or for most any table tennis news topic for that matter! Email me or email secretary [at] ttwellington.org.nz for forwarding on. Or, to be able to post directly, see here.