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Tournaments TOURNAMENT WINNERS AND RUNNERS UP 9/4/11
HADDENHAM PLAYERS SHINE Haddenham Table Tennis Club took 7 of the 10 Trophies up for grabs at The Vale's Annual Tournament that took place at Stoke Mandeville Stadium on 9 April. Andy Misseldine won three events, taking the Men's Title for the fourth year running and The Veterans Title for the third year. In both events he had a fairly tranquil path to the final, only being stretched by Alan Cherry in the Veterans Semi Final. But he faced his Haddenham team mate, Mark Scott in both finals. Mark took one leg in losing the Men's Title but in the Veterans he held a two leg lead over Andy before letting the tie slip away in the last three sets. A truly emphatic performance from the players representing this year's league champions was capped with them teaming up to take the Men's Doubles event, overcoming Alan Cherry and Craig Brown from the Bierton club. There were notable contributions in the main event this year from Jon Abungan who beat Dave Wackrill to reach the quarter finals and Tim Cheek who was eliminated by Mark Scott at the Semi Final stage. Not to be outdone, Dawn Pearce from the Bucks club, took the Ladies Title for the third year in succession, beating Cynthia Kunschke in the semi final and then the improving Lianne Fisher in a four set final. Aaron Taylor and Joe Gerrans raised the flag for the youngsters. Joe used his handicap advantage to the full to get to the final only to be beaten by the experience of Mark Penn from Haddenham. Mark played strong table tennis throughout the tournament, beating Paul O'Connell (Bucks) for the Division One Trophy. Aaron has shown considerable improvement all season, taking the Bucks County under 13, Riddell and Junior Titles and he upset his Division Two opponents to reach the final. Clive Westbury from Sports possessed too much ability this time for Aaron, winning in three sets. The Division Three Trophy had a fiercely competitive nature right from the first round. The semi finalists were Dave Stevens, Brian Whitehead, Ed Lock and Sankar Balan. Dave edged past Brian in five close sets, 11 – 9 in the fifth, whilst Sankar won in three against Ed, but by the closest margin in each set. With the contrasting styles of Dave and Sankar an interesting final produced a win for the calm and patient Dave Stevens. Haddenham produced the mixed doubles winners in Cynthia Kunschke and Lee Mallick who had a creditable win in 5 sets, coming back from an early fifth set deficit, against Dave Wackrill and Dawn Pearce. Cynthia partnered Lianne Fisher from Sports to inflict another defeat on Dawn and partner Joyce Witney (Sports) in the Ladies Doubles. This was an enjoyable day of Table Tennis for which we must thank the Organiser, David Ballard.
TOURNAMENT WINNERS AND RUNNERS UP 6/3/2010
ANDY AND DAWN WIN AGAIN 8/3/2010 Andy Misseldine from Haddenham Table Tennis Club and Dawn Pearce from Bucks County Council Table Tennis Club took the honours for the second year running in the Men's and Ladies singles events at Stoke Mandeville Stadium last Saturday. In fact Andy's win was the third in a row and he also won the Veteran's (Over 40) Title for the second year as well as the Men's Doubles with club partner, Mark Scott beating Sports' doubles partnership, Nick Hansell and Chris Haines. Dawn was equally competitive winning the Mixed Doubles for the second year with Michael Wilkins from the Bierton Club and the Ladies Doubles with Jan Crompton also from Bucks. After the round robin group games sixteen Premier League players battled against each other in a highly competitive first round in the Men's event. Dave Wackrill, from Sports, took 5 sets to fend off the challenge of Bucks' Wilf Crompton only to capitulate to an aggressive Mike Atkinson in the semi final. In the other half Bellingdon's Lee Rogerson lost out to Alan Cherry from Bierton who then had a tough semi final match with Andy Misseldine. Andy had previously dug deep to overcome his club mate, Darren Palmer in 5 sets and had to do it all again to beat Alan. Meeting Mike Atkinson in the final, Andy adapted his game to take the title in 4 sets. Whilst Dawn Pearce was busy winning her Mixed and Ladies Doubles' Titles, she was pushed all the way by Haddenham's Cynthia Kunschke who took one leg off her in the Ladies Singles Final and partnered Susana Hansell as runners up in the Ladies Doubles. Lianne Fisher from Aylesbury Sports completed a strong championship partnering Haddenham's Jon Abungan as runners up to Dawn and Michael Wilkins in the Doubles event. In other events Nick Hansell beat his Sports team mate, Mike Atkinson to win the over 55, Super Veterans Title, Andy Misseldine overcame Alan Cherry for a second time in the Veterans event, Craig Brown from Bierton took the handicap trophy beating Bellingdon's Bassam Mocharrafie, Cynthia Kunschke won the Division One event from David Bradbury and Brian Whitehead from Bucks won the Division Two Title from Quainton's Paul Unwin. Many thanks must go to the Organiser, David Ballard, for a highly enjoyable day of table tennis.
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