English National Championships 2017 - LIVE NOW!

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PG Mutual English National Championships, 03rd Mar 2017 - 05th Mar 2017, University of Nottingham, England

The English National Table Tennis Championships sponsored by PG Mutual has commenced! The 32 best players in England including Olympians, Paralympians and Commonwealth Games Medalists will battle for a place to glory in various events: The Men's Singles, Women's Singles, U21 Men's Singles, U21 Women's Singles, Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles, Mixed Doubles, Para and Men's Team titles are all up for grabs!

The FINAL is now LIVE on theSportsBible Facebook page. Stream embedded below:

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Many countries National Championships begin this weekend, therefore TableTennisDaily will set up the English National Championships topic here. If you would like to create a discussion about your National Championships please feel free to do so

Men Singles Seedings

Paul Drinkhall enters the tournament as the #1 seed - Photo by: TTE

01) Paul Drinkhall
02) Liam Pitchford
03) Sam Walker
04) Andrew Baggaley
05) David McBeath
06) Chris Doran
07) Danny Reed
08) Darius Knight


Women Singles Seedings

Kelly Sibley enters the tournament as the #1 seed - Photo by: TTE

01) Kelly Sibley
02) Tin-Tin Ho
03) Karina Le Fevre
04) Maria Tsaptsinos
05) Hannah Hicks
06) Emma Vickers
07) Yolanda King
08) Lois Peake


We can use this thread as a means to display all the latest results, videos and news from this spectacular National Championships! What are your predictions from each event.

Draw for events

 

[TableTennisDaily]

Today's Schedule Last 16

Mens

Begin 10.15am Local time

Paul Drinkhall vs Adam Harrison
Helshan Weerasinghe vs Emran Hussain
Daniel Reed (CV) vs Matt Ware
Tom Jarvis vs David McBeath

Sam Walker vs Craig Bryant
Michael O'Driscoll vs Darius Knight
Chris Doran vs Josh Bennett
Kim Daybell vs Liam Pitchford

Womens

Begin 9.30am Local time

Kelly Sibley vs Abbie Milwain
Evie Collier vs Hannah Hicks
Lois Peake vs Emily Bolton
Letitia McMullan vs Maria Tsaptsinos

Karina Le Fevre vs Denise Payet
Cherith Graham vs Yolanda King
Emma Vickers vs Zahna Hall
Bethany Farnworth vs Tin-Tin Ho

 

[TableTennisDaily]

theSPORTSBible are going LIVE now! Tune in TableTennisDaily's Dan will be commentating alongside Collin Wilson of Corby TTC!

 

[vvk1]

I really wish they continued the live streaming on Youtube. It was smooth glitch-free full HD after all, unlike FB video which only goes up to 720p and seemed to stall everyonce in a while. Also there was close to a 1000 people watching the live stream on YT, well more than the total actually present in the tournament hall - why on earth would you forcibly cut them off ...

 

[Badger]

Who won?

 

[vvk1]

Paul Drinkhall and Tin Tin Ho.

 

[TableTennisDaily]

Paul Drinkhall the men's singles champion!

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[NextLevel]

Sam Walker beat Liam Pitchford again? This triangle matchup is not cool at all - they should have a final 3 all play all to see who wins among the top 3.

 

[NextLevel]

I really wish they continued the live streaming on Youtube. It was smooth glitch-free full HD after all, unlike FB video which only goes up to 720p and seemed to stall everyonce in a while. Also there was close to a 1000 people watching the live stream on YT, well more than the total actually present in the tournament hall - why on earth would you forcibly cut them off ...

I dislike Facebook streaming vs Youtube.

 

[Makelele]

Go Paul! One of the european players that has improved the most.

edit: or "has most improved"? Which is gramatically correct?

 

[vvk1]

Sam Walker beat Liam Pitchford again? This triangle matchup is not cool at all - they should have a final 3 all play all to see who wins among the top 3.

What's even more interesting is that Paul Drinkhall almost lost to Helshan Weerasinghe in the quarter-finals. Helshan was 3:1 up and 10:10 in the 5th, but could not clinch it - final score was 4:3 to Drinkhall (6-11, 9-11, 11-4, 1-11, 12-10, 11-6, 11-4).