{"id":1243,"date":"2018-10-23T21:05:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2018-10-23T21:05:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:05:36","slug":"unbeaten-essex-third-after-first-round-of-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/23\/unbeaten-essex-third-after-first-round-of-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Unbeaten Essex Third After First round of Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The first round of County Junior Championship Division 1B matches organised by Buckinghamshire were\u00a0played at the BATTS Table Tennis Club, Harlow on Saturday 29 September 2018. Four crushing results for the\u00a0Surrey team and for the other seven teams some really close matches with seven draws in the twelve matches\u00a0between those teams.<\/div>\n
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With Table Tennis England requiring the Junior Registration Forms before the Essex Assessment Trials were held, County Secretary Arthur Clark only\u00a0had the then current TTE Ranking Lists on which to base the Essex ranking Lists for registration.<\/div>\n
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The loss of three of our four top ranked boys from last season meant there would be a very new look to the team. At\u00a0the Trials it became known that two of the top three boys would be unable to play in the first round of county matches. At the ranking trials discussions took place with players and\u00a0all agreed that the probable\u00a0three second team boys would play up for the First Team, by selecting three players it would mean they would still be eligible to\u00a0play in the second team.<\/div>\n
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Ranking Points of all the players are shown in brackets where known.<\/div>\n
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In the first round of matches the Essex 1 team recorded an 8-2 victory over Buckinghamshire. In the opening\u00a0matches Harry Keys (298) narrowly lost to James George (433) 7, -11, 9, 10 whilst on the adjacent table Daniel\u00a0Young (366) beat Pranav Gudipati (408) 9, 5, 10. Gracie Edwards (731) and Tiana Dennison (875) won their\u00a0matches 3-1 over Jemma Walker and Shristi Ghosh respectively and later on won the reverse fixtures both 3-0.\u00a0Jaden Aulakh (770) had a tough first match against Shae Thakker eventually winning -10, 4, 9, -9, 9 while on\u00a0the adjacent table Harry beat Pranav 3-0 to put Essex 5-1 up. In the final two matches Daniel lost to Shae 7,\u00a0-9, 8, 12 and for Jaden a narrow 7, -9, 12, 12, win over James. A good start in what was to become a very\u00a0competitive Division.<\/div>\n
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In the second round against Devon 2 Arran Hutchinson (367) played instead of Daniel. He lost his opening\u00a0match to Michael Hernandez 5, 6, -12, 3 as did Harry, also 3-1 to Oliver Cornish (523). Both girls matches went\u00a0to five games, Tiana winning game 3 in the decider with Lauren Loosemore (323) while Gracie lost -10, 5, -9,\u00a09, -6 to Emily Haskell (712). Jaden then beat Ben Edmunds 3-1 (577) but Harry lost 9 in the fourth game to\u00a0Michael. The return girls fixtures provided much easier wins and Jaden made the result a draw with a 3-0 win\u00a0over Oliver after Arran had lost 3-0 to Ben. Most unusually all eight teams in the Division already had a point\u00a0after only two rounds of matches, a fact that I cannot remember happening previously when there were eight\u00a0teams in a Division.<\/div>\n
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For the third round Essex faced Dorset 1 and pocket battler ten year old Sophie Barcsai. Essex lost the first\u00a0two matches, Harry in five games to Matt Stanfield and Daniel to Jamie Blair (819) 3-0. Gracie and Tiana then\u00a0had two tough matches, Gracie just getting the better of Katie Holt (905) -13, 10, -6, 9, 7 and Tiana winning 8,<\/div>\n
-7, 8, 9 against Sophie (201). The next two matches were just as tough, Jaden just getting the better of Ali\u00a0Malloch (583) 9, -8, 7,-5, 8 while on the other table Harry let a 10-8 lead in the third game slip to then lose -11,\u00a0-5, 16, 9, 9 to Jamie. Gracie was unable to prevent the winning shots from Sophie, losing 9, 7, 7 while Tiana\u00a0was taken the full distance by Katie before winning -4, 10, -10, 7, 2. With Daniel losing 3-1 to Ali it was left to\u00a0Jaden to get another final game win and another draw for the Team. The win was duly achieved over Matt -12,\u00a010, 7, 7.<\/div>\n
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For the final round of matches Essex had to play Sussex 2 who were a girl short and like Essex had\u00a0drawn two of their matches. Like the previous two rounds Essex lost the first two matches. Arron to Jacob\u00a0Evans (835) 3-0 and Daniel to Will Michell 3-1. Gracie and Tiana both beat Jodie Morris (677) 3-0. Jaden lost\u00a0his first match of the day to defender Charlie Graham-Adams (905) 3-1 and Daniel lost 3-0 to Jacob. With\u00a0Arran losing 3-0 to Charlie, it looked at one time that Arran might win the second game, it was left to Jaden to\u00a0win his last match and gain another draw for his team. Losing the first game to Will 8 and winning the next two\u00a0games 4 and 8 a win was looking likely. Not so, Jaden lost the next game to 8 and that set up a titanic final\u00a0game. Both players had match points until the score reached 15-14 and Jaden got the winning point, thus a\u00a0draw and three draws for each team on the day.<\/div>\n
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Reviewing the day\u2019s matches Surrey 1 were the outstanding team of the day losing only three matches all day\u00a0and barring a disastrous second round of matches would be worthy champions. They are due to play current second place Dorset 2 in the first round of matches at Cippenham on Sunday 31 March 2019. For the\u00a0other six teams none of them are clear of relegation. Robert Pelc (Sy) is the only boy to have won all his\u00a0matches with Jamie Blair (Do), Jaden Aulakh (E), William Poulter (Ha) and Jamie Nordin (Sy) each losing\u00a0once.<\/div>\n
For the girls Danielle Kelly, Federica Bonato (both Sy) and Tiana Dennison (E) won all their matches.\u00a0Jaden Aulakh 7 out of 8, Daniel Young 1 out of 6, Harry Keys 1 out of 6, Arran Hutchinson 0 out of 4, Tiana\u00a0Dennison 7 out of 7 and Gracie Edwards 5 out of 7.<\/div>\n
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An outstanding day for Jaden Aulakh in his matches against the top two boys of each team. For Arran\u00a0Hutchinson and Harry Keys a tough initiation against players ranked higher than themselves in their last\u00a0season as juniors and for Daniel Young three seasons at a higher level to look forward to. They should find\u00a0matches easier to win when they play for the Second Team in a month\u2019s time. This is also Tiana Dennison\u2019s\u00a0last season as a junior player.<\/div>\n
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COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS 2018\/2019<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
JUNIOR DIVISION 1B<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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TEAM<\/strong><\/td>\nP<\/strong><\/td>\nW<\/strong><\/td>\nD<\/strong><\/td>\nL<\/strong><\/td>\nGAMES F<\/strong><\/td>\nGAMES A<\/strong><\/td>\nSETS F<\/strong><\/td>\nSETS A<\/strong><\/td>\nPt<\/strong>s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SURREY 1<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n114<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n37<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEVON 2<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n89<\/td>\n64<\/td>\n25<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ESSEX 1<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n82<\/td>\n71<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DORSET 1<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n85<\/td>\n71<\/td>\n21<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SUSSEX 2<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n83<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MIDDLESEX 2<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n58<\/td>\n92<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n27<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n57<\/td>\n92<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMPSHIRE<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n48<\/td>\n94<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n27<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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Arthur C. Clark<\/div>\n
Essex Junior Match Secretary<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first round of County Junior Championship Division 1B matches organised by Buckinghamshire were\u00a0played at the BATTS Table Tennis Club, Harlow on Saturday 29 September 2018. Four crushing results for the\u00a0Surrey team and for the other seven teams some really close matches with seven draws in the twelve matches\u00a0between those teams. With Table Tennis England […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.essextabletennis.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}