Category Archives: Essex Schools

Chelmsford hosts first 1* tournament for cadets and juniors

On Saturday 3 September, Chelmsford is holding its first official computer ranked 1* junior and cadet tournament. It is at a great venue at Mildmay Sports Hall at Anglia Ruskin University with 8 good tables and large 5m by 10m courts. There is free parking, changing rooms with showers and lockers and we will have some refreshments for the players and parents. Spectators are welcome!  

The great thing about computer ranked tournaments is that players earn national ranking points and will be included in the England & Wales national rankings list each month so they can see where they fit in the national context and try to get a higher ranking than their friends. Another great thing about 1* tournaments is that players get to play new people from different places and that can help them develop as players. The Chelmsford 1* aims to be generous – there will be prizes for the best junior, best cadet best female junior, best female cadet, best U13, best U11 as well as some consolation prizes for others that do well. If we get a full entry of 48 players, the total prize fund will be £300. Above all, our tournaments should be fun events for players to compete with friends and make new friends. 

The entry form is online and there are lots more details about the tournament on it. It is £20 to enter, and the day will start around 9:30 am and finish in the late afternoon, probably around 4:30pm to 5:30pm – the closing date for entries is Monday 29 August after which the draw will be made – entries after this date are possible but there is a surcharge and no guarantee of entry.  

Date: Saturday 3rd September 2022 

Times: 9:30am to 5:30pm
Venue: Mildmay Hall, Anglia Ruskin University, Alan Cherry Drive, CM1 1QT
Closing Date: Monday, 29 August 2022 

Events: Cadet (U15) competition / Junior (U19) competition
Entry Fee: £20 

Please find the entry form here: https://forms.gle/B8nVQXpgco5Psbhj7. Email me or call me if you need any help or information.  

Players will need to have Table Tennis England ‘Compete’ membership which they will also need to play local league and other competitions. Please ensure it is up to date by visiting TTE Compete Membership 

All the best! 

David Gatheral 

CDTTL Coaching Officer 

07857 718351 

Essex Junior Assessment Trials

ECTTA – Essex Junior Assessment Trials – 2021/22

Details of this year’s trials are detailed below provided as usual by Arthur Clark

 

Arthur. C. Clark, 2 Top Road, Woodham Walter, Nr. Maldon, Essex, CM9 6RQ;Please reply to:

Tel. 01245 225688

email: arthurcclark@btinternet.com

on behalf of Kieran Skeggs, Junior Match Secretary.

 

21 June 2021

Dear Junior League Match Secretary/League Secretary/Coaching Officer.

 

ESSEX JUNIOR ASSESSMENT TRIALS 2021/22

 

Table Tennis England have issued dates for matches to be played for County Junior and Cadet fixtures for the 2021/2022 season. The Essex Junior Premier Team are scheduled to play their first matches on the weekend of 11/12 December 2021 while the Essex second team are due to play on 3 October and 20 November 2021. The Essex Cadet Team is due to play on 23 January 2022 and 26 February 2022.  Dates could be changed as the June 21 lifting of lockdown restrictions has been delayed.

Essex County will host the Junior Assessment Trials on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 September at BATTS, Harlow. The address of the BATTS Club is the Norman Booth Centre, Elderfield, Mulberry Green, Old Harlow, CM17 0EY. Trials will commence on Saturday 18 September at 0930am with the U19 Boys event. NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS AN U19 EVENT INSTEAD OF A NORMAL U18 EVENT. All other events: U15, U13, U11 Boys and all Girls events (U19, U15, U13 and U11) will be held on Sunday as we normally require ten tables for these events. Depending on entries, the U11 events may have to be merged into the U13 events as has happened in recent years.

 

The purpose of the event is to provide information upon which the Essex Junior Ranking Lists for the season will be based. These trials will also enable the County Junior Committee to select the teams to represent Essex in County Championship and other matches during the coming season and assess the future potential of other players. If you wish to be considered but are unable to play on the appropriate trials day please let me know with a brief explanation.

 

As stated above, the Boys U19 event will be played on the Saturday 18 September, and it is hoped that all other events will be played on Sunday 19th September. This may depend on the number of entrants for each event, particularly the Girls events. As a rough guide I anticipate that the Boys U13 and Girls U19 events will start at 0900 Sunday with the Boys U15 about 1300. As in previous years I will endeavour to organise the U11 entrants to all play one another during the course of the U13 events. For the Girls remaining events I will have to juggle the event times depending upon how many Girls enter each event.

 

Players (girls and boys in separate age lists) should be nominated for the following age categories:

U19 – players must be 18 years of age or under on 31 December 2021.

U15 – players must be 14 years of age or under on 31 December 2021.

U13 – players must be 12 years of age or under on 31 December 2021.

U11 – players must be 10 years of age or under on 31 December 2021.

 

Players may be nominated to play in more than one age category. Fees payable are £5.50 per player per age category entered. U11/U13 will be considered a single Entry. Please send Entry Forms to me no later than Monday 9 August 2021 together with a cheque(s) in respect of the total fee made out to ECTTA. Alternately payment may be made electronically to the Essex Account No. 70350346 , Sort Code 20-72-89. Please use the word *Trials” and the surname of the first player on the form as payment reference.

 

Please inform your nominees that normal table tennis clothing must be worn at the Trials, i.e., no white shirts or shorts, no tracksuit trousers when playing matches, no headwear (other than on religious grounds), and all footwear to have rubber soles. All to note that as this is a Closed event the time out provisions DO NOT APPLY.  Some Covid restrictions may still apply.

 

Refreshments, both hot and cold, may be purchased in the BATTS Canteen.

 

Please note that I require for each player nominated their Christian and surnames, address and postcode, date of birth, telephone number and affiliated main league or ETTA affiliation in the format of the attached Entry Form. Also, parents E-mail address in the E-mail column should I need to contact them during the season to advise players/parents of other events that may take place (but see below).

 

Also, Player or Player Member Licence number (i.e., last season’s Licence number or the previous year’s or as a new player this season’s new Licence number). Note that, assuming that there are no Table Tennis England changes from those of last season, a Player Member licence is required to play in local Leagues, One Star Tournaments carrying National Ranking points and National Cadet and Junior Tournaments and a Player licence is required to play in Junior British League and 2 Star and above Tournaments. Payment for these Licences must be made to Table Tennis England before players are permitted to play in any of these competitions.

 

Please let me know if you require a map showing the location of the BATTS Norman Booth Centre which I can enclose in due course with event times confirmation information.

 

If you think there is somebody that I have missed out from the circulation list on this page to Leagues, Coaches or you know that they have changed their E-mail address or your League contact has changed please either let me know so that I can forward a copy to them or forward them a copy yourself. I will send a copy of the Entry Form to every Parent/Junior that I have E-mail addresses for as a reminder in due course. I would prefer Entry Forms to be forwarded to me on block from clubs or leagues but I know this will not always be the case.

 

Note that under the latest Data Protection Regulations I cannot list the E-mail addresses of those players/parents that I send circular E-mails to. I will assume that I can still send E-mails to you on Essex County Table Tennis matters unless I receive an E-mail from you stating that you, or any parent of a player, do not wish to receive communications from me in the future.

 

 

ESSEX SCHOOLS INDIVIDUAL TOURNAMENT

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The Essex Schools Tournament was held at BATTS on Friday 17 January 2014. For the previous two years the Individual Schools submitted their entries to Essex County Council Sports Organisers and with just under 200 entries received in total each year, (players can only enter their particular Age event), numbers needed to be reduced to manageable proportions with the event having a scheduled start and finish time. For this season the format was changed and each School District (there are 14 of them including Southend and Thurrock) held District qualifying events for each gender and age with the top two qualifying for the Essex Finals.

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As usual the Closing date was the Friday before Christmas and some Schools were submitting entries right up to three days before the event. Active Essex Organisers and I agreed to accept these.  Altogether there were 86 entries. Five players did not turn up on the day and we accepted the two players who turned up having not been notified previously.

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To fit in with timing schedule all matches were best of three games and winners and runners up were:

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WINNER, RUNNER UP

U11 Boys Ethan Silvester (Southend) Zach Harrington (Southend)

U13 Boys Casey Mansfield (Harlow) Sam Fullick (Castle Point & Rochford)

U16 Boys Sam Hume (Tendring) James Knudsen (Harlow)

U19 Boys Jared Patel Brentwood) Kieran Skeggs (Southend)

U11 Girls Emma Knudsen )Harlow) Alana Mansfield (Harlow)

U13 Girls Gracie Firkins (Tendring) Emily Smith (Southend)

U16 Girls Ella Patel (Brentwood) Stephanie Cross (Brentwood)

U19 Girls Emily Godfrey (Southend) Lucy Carrington (Chelmsford)

 

Arthur C. Clark
Essex Junior Match Secretary
19 January 2014