Corby Smash TTC Superleague Report

Here is a short report from the first SuperLeague event held at Corby Smash Table Tennis Centre. Some high calibre players entered ensuring a great evening of table tennis.

Ryan Smashes All!

Ryan Jenkins, Welsh senior table tennis international aged 39, deservedly took the inaugural Corby Smash Butterfly Superleague title and the £250 prize money. The Welshman, rated at No.5 on the Table Tennis England rating list took the title beating England No. 7 Chris Doran in a fantastic high quality final at the brand new Corby Smash Table Tennis Centre, avenging his London Grand Prix defeat from just two weeks earlier. Ryan was imperious throughout the evening with 3rd placed Adam Nutlandthe only man to take an end off the currentGrand Prix Champion in the semi final.

The quality of the field was amazing with England no.11 Michael O'Driscoll in 4th place. 5th place went to AdeoyeAdewale with local Northamptonshire star and England No.17 Alex Ramsden in 6th, AlimHirji(7th) and IsmailaAkinyidethe 5th seed finishing in 8th. It was great to see our lovely new Corby Smash Table Tennis Centre buzzing with fantastic matches on all eight tables and we would like to thank all 32 players for supporting our first table tennis England Ranking Event and it was great to see Ryan and Chris staying after the late finish to give some of our young spectators some practice.

Final positions:

1) Ryan Jenkins...
2) Chris Doran
3) Adam Nutland
4) Mike O'Driscoll
5) Adeoye Adewala
6) Alex Ramsden
7) Alim Hirji
8) Ismaila Akindiya
9) Ethan Walsh
10) Luke Walsh
11) Zolton Hosszu
12) Rory Scott
13) Jimmy Walsh
14) Tony West
15) Alan Cherry
16) Stuart Laws
17) Dan Appanna
18) Dan Smalley
19) Chis Cockburn
20) Henry Arthur
21) Alex Aston
22) Minesh Pitember
23) Pete Bannister
24) Ian Johnston
25) Elroy Edwards
26) Helmuth Osbourne
27) Jiten Pitember
28) Adam Wilson
29) Luke Manning
30) Paul Nicol
31) Wictor Delimat
32) Vitalij Borovskij

This will be the first of many tournaments being hosted here and the next Superleague event will be taking place on Friday September 16th. The next ranking event at Corby Smash is an Over 40's ratings event with more than 30 players from all over the country and one flying in from Ghana to take part! And following on closely after that, we are running a 1* Junior Table Tennis England Ranking event with categories including under 11's, under 13's, under 15's and under 18's on Sunday July 24th.

Please contact Tony West at [email protected] if you would like to enter this or the next Superleague or just to find out more about Corby Smash Table Tennis Centre.

Ryan and Chris were both showed some class by staying after the event had finished to have photos with some of the kids that had stayed to the very end (midnight finish almost) and also play a little bit of table tennis with them and have chat. You could see what it meant to these kids and how it inspired them. Top class from both the winner and runner-up. Well done chaps.

vvk1 said:

@corbytoffee - thank you and Tony for organizing these tournaments.

I've attended the over 40's rating event last Sunday, and it was a great experience. Very good venue, no problems parking, spacious, with good lighting, and last, but not least, a sizeable lounge area with a bar for snacks and drinks. Fruits were free!

There were 4 groups of 8 or 7 players. The top group included some of the same people who entered in the earlier superleague tournament (imho, almost everyone in that group was at least inside top 100 over 40's in UK). I was in the second group. The group included played rated in 200-400 range, but nevertheless most of the matches were pretty close and hard-fought. Managed to win 5 out of 7 matches, and went home in a very good mood

Will definitely return to the next over 40's event!

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Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the glowing reference of this brand new table tennis centre. The report for the veteran's competition and pictures are now on the Corby Smash Facebook page.

Report from the Corby Smash TTC Veteran's rating event:

A terrific performance from Jeremy Banks saw him top Group 1 in the inaugural veteran's ratings event at Corby Smash Table Tennis Centre. Jeremy, from Middlesex won all seven of his matches with only Martin Gunn from Avon and Tony West of Suffolk taking him to five sets. Second place went to Martin Gray of Cambridge with six wins and apart from his defeat against Jeremy, Martin lost just one set all day and took a well deserved second place. Martin Gunn took third place in a count back with Tony West 4th and Steve Silk (Northants) 5th.

Group 2 saw a fine victory for Toby Eckly from Hereford, with just one loss in a tight match and a great game with Vadym Krevs of Hertfordshire in five sets. Alex Aston took second place in the group with five top wins and finishing ahead of Vadym in a countback with Steven Fox (Notts) in 4th place. Jason Onyameh flew in from Ghana to take part! The no.3 veteran in Ghana is a great character and after lots of tight games finished in 6th place with two wins. Hopefully Jason will return soon.

Group 3 saw lots of surprises with the number 7 seed Martin Hall (Northants) winning all his matches. Local Corby player Henry Arthur came through some tough 5 setters to take second place ahead of Nigel Metcalfe (Northants) on countback. Duc Phu Nguyen finished in 4th place and the top seed Ken Lewis(Suffolk) down in 7th.

Group 4 was a mixed group with Carrie Cope (Cambs)and Geraldine Morle (Hants) flying the flag for womens veterans table tennis. Carrie won the group in a countback with Fahed Sacoor (Leicester) and her only defeat coming against Geraldine, who finished in 4th place behind Phil Morris (Cambs)

Many thanks to everyone who played and we hope that the next veterans ratings event will be on the 27th August. If you would like to play in this event or would like any further information about Corby Smash Table Tennis Centre please contact Tony West on [email protected]

Photos from the day are now on the Corby Smash Facebook page. We will be running Superleague, Veteran's rating event, and Junior 1 star events on a regular basis throughout the year with our first junior event being held on Sunday July 24th.

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