Sunday May 1st 2016 and four junior players made their debut to serious competition at the Jarvis 2* competition.

Saturday 16th April 2016

This weekend  Saturday 26th March 2016 saw the Russell Grant Cup competition played at our club. The competition is a Junior Inter-league Competition between Middlesex Leagues. Wembley and Harrow, North Middlesex, Staines, and the South and West Middlesex leagues were all invited to play. Unfortunately the Staines League were unable to field a team but Wembley and Harrow and North Middlesex were both able to field two teams while the South and West Middlesex League were represented by players from our club. It was both an honour and a  privilege to host the competition as our club is never utilised for Table Tennis England events, or for any other table tennis events apart from our own usage. I have to commend all the visiting players, parents and coaches on making the day a most enjoyable experience as the day progressed with a great spirit of competition but also sporting behaviour.

The size and strength of the opposing leagues was really quite formidable when compared to our league of one division and only two clubs having any junior players. So it was  quite commendable that our squad of Charlie  and Alex Rahbani, Alex Gough, Medha Verma and Hardeep Dhaliwal managed to finish in fourth place from the five teams. and perhaps the performance of the day was to lose 5-4 to the overall winners Wembley and Harrow 1 .

League	P	W	L	F	A	GF	GA	Pts
Wembley & Harrow 1	4	4	0	5	13	67	54	12
North Middlesex 1	4	3	1	23	10	64	41	9
Wembley & Harrow 2	4	2	2	8	16	66	61	6
South & West Middx	4	1	3	19	15	54	58	3
North Middlesex 2	4	0	4	19	20	23	60	0

 

 

Winners of Russell Grant Cup 2016

 

Twickenham Brunswick has gone through a successful era when we have produced over a dozen or more very talented players.

The players that have been successful have gradually moved on and gone on to university, or given up the game.

However the club does not now have the number of keen players who recognise how well they have progressed and have a desire to reach their potential.

Some players reach a good standard and know that to improve further, it will need effort, at which point they gradually play less, win less and therefore get little satisfaction through playing.

The club is constantly on the lookout for young players who want to do well at table tennis. If you have the desire and the will to succeed you will and that applies to everything.

If you want to try table tennis you do not have to be good, we will help you achieve that.

 

Medha  is now the new success story to come out of Twickenham Brunswick. We may not have the financial backing of sponsors or the coaching structure of centres of excellence, but Twickenham Brunswick still are able to produce classy table tennis players.

Medha started attending the club when she was quite young with her Dad and over the past 4-5 years she has worked hard at her game training within the club with her dad and gaining useful practice outside of the club at Table Tennis camps and with other players and coaches.

Medha has  a great attitude to learning and a willingness to listen and try. She has good self motivation and is constantly driving herself on to do better. She has played in National Junior League testing some out some very strong young men, and proving too strong for nearly all the boys in NCL

Here is a brief summary of 2015-2016 season for Medha:

 

Burton Uxbridge 2* Cadets : Runners up

 

Briber Plymouth 2* Cadets : Runners Up

 

Halifax 2 * Cadets: Winner

 

Halifax 2 * Juniors: Runners Up

 

TopSpin Fusion 2 * Cadets: Runners Up

 

Chandlers 4 * Band 2 Juniors Winner

 

Chippenham 4 * Cadets Consolation Winner

 

Winner: Regional Cadets Qualifier -London Region

 

Runners Up: JackPetchey West London Qualifiers

 

It was a great way to start the New Year. What would have been a very quiet morning at our Saturday session turned into a competitive but friendly event against a group of young aspiring players from Ashford. The morning's  event was out of necessity a little "random" as we had no idea how many would arrive. In the end we had a group of 15 players that we placed into three groups of five with a spread of abilities.

After the first round we ran a second group of matches reflecting their achievements in the first groups.

The top group saw George Long, Alex Gough and Luke Saunders play off for first, second and third places respectively

Fourth to sixth places were achieved by Giacomo Giarola, Amol Apte and Matt Palmer also in that order.

Places 7-15 Rahul, Ismail, Ellie, Ayush, Liam, Ben, Joseph, Resandu, Nathan.

Well done to all the players on making it a thoroughly enjoyable event with no tears, tantrums or gamesmanship.....

Huge congratulations to Medha Verma who this weekend won the Halifax 2* Open.19 December 2015

Friday evening eight juniors form our club travelled over to Ashford for a taster evening of competitive table tennis. Three of our players had already had a little experience of lower level competition in the National Cadet League and National Junior League for the other five it was their first introduction to competitive league play. Our players ranged in age from 10 -17 with the majority being 13 or under.Silas and Liam the older two players did well using their age and experience to help them win most of their matches. The younger players hardly won a game between them although the points in matches were pretty close. 

Redbridge 14-06-2015

 

In spite of efforts to encourage more participants to trial for the Richmond Borough team, the LYG Table Tennis event took place this weekend at Redbridge with just three boys representing the borough and unfortunately no girls team at all. Finlay Feil and Hardeep Dhaliwal, now experienced players, led the team supported by the up and coming Morgan Wilkins. 

The team were in a group containing Waltham Forest, Camden and Croyden. who were the seeded team.

It is always difficult to assess the strength needed to win a match, but we started the day playing Morgan and Hardeep as the two singles players against Waltham Forest. Morgan and Hardeep  beat both of their players and Finlay joined Hrdeep to win the doubles earning us a 5-0 victory.

 

Against Croyden things were different. Finlay joined Hardeep in the singles and after the singles matches the match stood at 2-2,  Reiss Vydelingum having won his two singles and showing why he is ranked 19 in the cadets. The doubles went the way of Croyden and we succumbed to a 2-3 defeat.

Our last match against Camden again Morgan played in the singles with Finlay wher both won their respective singles giving us a 4-0 lead and when Hardeep and Fnlay paired for the doubles again the match was won 5-0.

Well done to the team and Alex Gough for helping with the management.

 

  

 

Well done to all those from our club, who competed at the recent London Qualifiers for the National Championships Finlay and Ishaq found the competition tough finishing just outside the top two places in their groups, while Jules found the competition very hard in in the U.12's however none can be faulted on their effort.

Congratulations to Medha Verma and Morgan Wilkins on reaching the National Championships again this year. After a trying day of play Medha qualified in 4th place for the U.14 girls having won 3/5 matches while Morgan Wilkins qualified as an U.12 boy having won at least 11/12 matches.

Well done to Medha and Morgan for continuing the the clubs history of success in having members playing in the National Championships for the last five years.

Previous representatives have been D.Rahbani, A Egan, C. Rahbani, J.Corner, R.Folan, A.Rahbani, F. Feil, H. Dhaliwal, A. Rahbani, M. Verma, and M. Wilkins.

The qualifiers for the National Championships for cadets and juniors took place at Morpeth School earlier this month October 2014. Although few of our players entered those that did were great ambassadors for the club, winning, losing and generally competing in a good sporting spirit.  Although none of our players qualified outright there is a possibility that Rhiannon Folan might be called up as a reserve to represent London.

We would like to than Mark Roper for organizing this tournament during the holiday period.

Five players from Ashford/Twickenham Brunswick represented Middlesex/Surrey in the first round of this seasons junior county championship .
David Rahbani (Middx I) and Rhiannon Folan (Surrey I) both played in the premier Division ( the highest level in the competition).
David did exceptionally well winning 3/6 of his matches. He also went to 5 sets with Alec Ward ( ETTA rank 11) of Cleveland, a great achievement considering Alec beat Adam Harrison ( ETTA rank 3) the previous day. Rhiannon also did very well against very strong opposition, most of the other girls were ranked in the top 20 in England or top rank in Wales. She managed to win games off a couple of top 10 English juniors and beat the no 2 girl from Kent. A great debut to her county table tennis career.
Tony Egan (Middx II), Danielle Kelly ( Surrey II) and Medha Verma ( Surrey II) played in Div 1B hosted at Ashford .
Tony played very well to win 5/6 of his matches against Surrey II, Essex I and Essex II.
The girls found it very tough in their first outing at this level – 5 out of 6 of their opponents are ranked in the top 35 juniors. However Medha managed a win beating Essex II No 2 player Zoe Davies. Danielle did well too taking a set off Jane Li of Essex I, a great result considering Jane is ranked 21 in juniors. Both girls are still only 11 years old with at least another 6 years playing county table tennis, their time will come.

5/6 Oct 2013

At the recent London Qualifiers for the National Junior and Cadet Championships it was pleasing to see a number of our juniors entering and having a go...

Congratulations go to Alex Gough and Alex Rahbani who will have gained some valuable experience playing in tough group matches in the junior and cadet age groups respectively.

Well done too, to the girls

Medha Verma who finished fifth in the Cadets Girls finishing as second reserve.  

And Rhiannon Folan  who came fifth in the  Junior Girls to  finish overall as second reserve

However the more outstanding performances came from

David Rahbani who qualified in third place for the Junior Boys and

James Corner who qualified in third place for the  Cadet Boys 

Well done! We look forward to following their progress in the National Championships next month

 

Ashford 4 Club Tournament

On Saturday 6th July there will be a club tournament for junior members.

10 am Under 13's / 1pm U.15's and at 4pm U.18's

 It was a shame that more players did not take the opportunity to take part in the club tournament, but for those who came there was a full morning of competition for the U.13's.

There was also no lack of talent as all the six players at U.13 were ranked inside the top 200 in the ETTA Rankings. The format for the tournament was a round robin with the top three players performing up to expectation. James Corner (25) finished top, having completed his matches unbeaten, Michal Papior (58) overcame all his opponents apart from James which included a narrow victory in five over Finlay Feil (62).

Positions 4, 5 and 6 though did not follow to form. Matthew Hazell (195) who has been training hard recently, finished fourth  beating Alex Rahbani (70) and Tyrell Soleyn (132) with Alex finishing fifth and Tyrell sixth.

The arrival of  Jack Richards,  Alexander Gough and John Barman meant that the U.15's tournament went ahead with eight players. The format was two groups of four which saw James, Michal, Finlay and Jack qualify for the final stage, but after the initial groups the weather and other commitments saw a couple of players make an early exit.

The final groups were therefore a play off between the U.13 top three and Alex Gough, Matthew Hazell and John Barman for third, fourth and fifth place.

The outcome was the same as previously with James beating both Michal and Finlay, and Michal again defeating Finlay in a close 5 set match.

Congratulations to all James Corner on winning the U.15's tournament and to all the players on turning up and making the competition worthwhile.  

18/03/13

Congratulations to the Rahbani brothers and Anthony Egan on a successful trip to Dulwich

The 2 star Dulwich tournaments was a huge success for David Rahbani as he reached the final to then face James Denyer. He played outstandingly well but was not able to win it. He took second place with his first financial win of £30 and a medal. Anthony Egan also played very well to finish in fourth place losing to Musa who had to play David in the semi-finals. This was a huge achievement for both players. Charlie Rahbani did well to get through the group stages but lost in the knock out stages. On the other hand Alex Rahbani did brilliantly getting through his group stage and then having a great win against Michael Tunubu. Then in the semi-finals he faced James Smith and did fantastically to get a set of him. Overall it was a fantastic day.

U18s:
James Denyer (E) beat David Rahbani (Mi) 3-0 (11-8, 11-2, 11-6) in the final

 

report by C.R>

Saturday 27th October saw another great achievement for the club

when a group of five players travelled up to Milton Keynes for an

U.13's 2* Tournament. With a 7.30am early start and arriving dead

on 9am, there was littletime for the players to knock before being

thrown in to fierce competition.James Corner got straight down to

business winning his first two group matches, while Michael Papior

and Finlay Feil both started a little slower losing one match each in

their opening group. In the second round of matches James continued his winning

streak with two more convincing successes.

Finlay and Michael also won both of their second round matches

while Tyrell and Medha fought well but to no avail. 

In a clash of home players Finlay Feil

and Michael Papior competed in a play off match that saw Finlay

triumph  both had some good wins against higher ranked players.

But the day belonged to James Corner who defeated Artur V Caltabiano

in a close final contest, ending the day victorious and undefeated.

WELL DONE JAMES!

Another great landmark for the club as 16 players from our club represented Hounslow and

Richmond Boroughs in the Balfour Beatty London Youth Games.

Richmond Boys Came third in their group one place better than last year, a great achievement

as there were only two boys over the age of thirteen out of the squad of 6.

Jack Richards and Alexander Gough13 and 14 respectively were supported by John Barman 12,

Hardeep Dhaliwal 12, James corner 12 and Finlay Feil 10  

The girls also came third out of a group of 5. Rhiannon Folan, Caroline Cooper and Medha Verma

all did their part in picking up games against all but the highest ranked players.

Hounslow repeated their success of last year by making it through to the finals at Crystal Palace.

Unfortunately the new format saw them drawn against a strong Hillingdon team who went on to

 lose in the final against wandsworth after rthey only just crept through  with a 3-2 win over our

Hounslow boys.  

Congratulations and well done to David and Charlie Rahbani, Anthony Egan and Michael Papior

who went to the groups stage as a very patient reserve...   

The Richmond Squad June 2012

Congratulations to David Rahbani on winning the U.18's Junior Tournament last weekend. It is the best result the club has achieved and was sweetened further by the fact that in the Final he over came Anthony Egan another player from our Club. Anthony ranked  (231) had reched the final by beating much higher ranked players such as Andre Dunkley (98) and Charlie Austen (89) and is equally deserving of recognition.

Twickenham players finished as champion and runner up

Well done too to Rhiannon Folan  who reached the semi-final of the girls u.15 age group.In her group she lost to Katie Cheer, and in the semi-final she was defeated by Evie Forster, But both the higher ranked girls were aware they were in a battle although Rhiannon lost 3-0 and 3-0 the games were close as Rhiannon made them work for every point.

Well done to the whole squad who again were a credit to the club

David Rahbani, Anthony Egan, Charlie Rahbani, Rhiannon Folan, Jack Richards, Alex Rahbani and Finlay Feil 

Last wednesday we took nine players over to Ashford for an afternoon team competition.

The players were split into three fairly equal teams to play each of the opposing teams.

For some of our players it was business as usual but for four of our players it was their

first introduction to real competitive play. Karim, Josh, Gerhard and David are relatively

inexperienced players ranging in age from 9-11 but that did not stop them giving their all.

Although competitive the whole afternoon was played out in a really good spirit and I for

one enjoyed the afternoon 

Well done to all the players it is good to see a new crop of players developing for next

season.

Thank you to Ashford for the invitation....

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This weekend 22/23 October 2011 sees a new milestone for the club.The club will be sending some of its players to play in the first round of Junior British League.

The Ernest Bevin 2*  Table Tennis Tournament

Saturday 4^th December 2010

 

 Twickenham Brunswick Take Two Table Tennis Titles

Twickenham Brunswick took a strong squad of young table tennis players to the Ernest Bevin 2* Tournament this weekend and demonstrated for all to see why they have every right to be proud of the young players they have developed.

With three players ranked in the top 20 in England it was no surprise that two made it through their groups to the last eight in the knockout stage. Alex Rahbani lost to Tyreek Edwards in the last eight of the knockout, but team mate James Corner, No.6 in England came through his group to beat T.J. Stewart No. 10 in England thenTyreek Edwards No.17 in England.. In the final he met Bejay Arjan the England No.18 whom he beat  with a steady controlled performance that earned him the U.11 title.

Not to be outdone Charlie Rahbani, ranked 14 in England in the U.13 age group, competing in a large entry of  forty eight players coasted through his group making his way through to the semi final where he met Omar Khassal ranked 17 in England. In a hard fought game Charlie came through winning 3-2 in games only to meet the England Number 11 Oliver Gunns. In another closely contested match Charlie Rahbani showed that he was that little bit more tactically aware and crept through to win the U.13 age group final with another 3-2 victory.

Well done to all the squad, David rahbani who lost in the last eight of the U.15's, Jack Tubby and Anthony Egan who won some games against very strong opposition, and John Barman, Finlay Feil Joseph Farren and Hardeep Dhaliwal who continue to show why they are ranked amongst some of Englands top younger players.

 

U11s: James Corner (Mi) beat Bejay Arjan (Sy) 11-9, 11-6, 7-11, 4-11, 11-4

U13s: Charlie Rahbani (Mi) beat Ollie Gunns (K) 11-6, 5-11, 11-5, 12-10.

U15s: Danny Lawrence (K) beat Lobsang Lama (Sy) 11-2, 11-5, 6-11, 7-11, 11-8.

U18s: Bradley Tuttle (He) beat Danny Lawrence (K) 5-11, 11-4, 11-7, 11-7.

Girls: Round Robin: 1st Eda Aydin (Mi), 2nd: Denise Payet (Mi), 3rd: Tiana Dennison.