Tonbridge & Tunbridge Wells Table Tennis League

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Veteran's League:
Tonbridge A survived relegation from Division Two in 7th place.

Tonbridge B finished 4th out of the 8 teams playing in Division Three - a very good debut in the Kent Vets league.

Click here to download the player statistics for the 2009/10 season.

Welcome to the Tonbridge & Tunbridge Wells Table Tennis League website. The League consists of two divisions (1 and 2) with 14 teams from 6 local clubs. Click to view Division League Tables.

In these matches, each player from each team will play 3 singles up to 11 points and best of 5 sets. As there are 3 members on one team, there are 9 singles in total. After these singles are played, one doubles is played. This means that during one match, a maximum of 10 points can be obtained.

There is also a Handicap Competition run by the league. In this, there are 13 teams from 5 clubs. The handicap ratings are derived from the performances in the 11-up league.

Matches are played during the Table Tennis Season (September - April) during weeknights. But not during the Christmas and New Year period. Other free weeks are reserved for postponements.

Each team has its own home night (e.g. Thursday) and will play all their home games on that particular night. Matches commence between 19:30 and 20:00 and usually finish between 22:00 and 23:30.

The Tonbridge and District Table Tennis League ran a Junior League competition for local clubs. The intention is to continue this as the Tonbridge & Tunbridge Wells District Table Tennis League. The format of these matches are different to the adult league as each match requires two team members instead of three.

Table Tennis: more important in Football than you might think...

Cristiano Ronaldo's free-kick technique has been revealed: he is so obsessed with learning to put effect on the ball that he even practises it playing table-tennis.

Leonel Pontes, his youth coach at Sporting Lisbon, claims "There was no beating him at table tennis, even when he was 13 or 14. He was the same at football. He was able to say that if you touch the ball in a certain way, it would gain that direction."

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

Arsenal's Robin van Persie has also tried his hand at Table Tennis. The Arsenal matchday programme arranged for Robin to spend an afternoon at Southall Sports Centre, home of leading British side London Progress, for an afternoon of coaching and competition with three-times Commonwealth champion Matthew Syed and 18-year-old prodigy Darius Knight.

Robin was put through his paces with a range of serving and returning drills before finishing with with two sets against Knight, the Under-21 national champion. Urging his opponent to operate at full throttle, Van Persie managed respectable defeats of 3-11 and 4-11, hitting clean winners for several of his points.

Source: Arsenal.com

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Site First Published 2nd November 2007.

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