It was a smaller than usual upper grid of matches for the Friday Matchplay at Collyer’s. Good to see Zak Bull back in action as part of it and impressing with four wins out of his six encounters and pushing star player Chris Goodier into a third and final set.
TTKidz is the new table tennis based product taking the country by storm and Horsham Table Tennis Club is planning another programme of it following the highly successful programme it ran at Greenway Academy in the autumn term which attracted 28 children to make it the most populous initial course in the country.
Two Horsham TTC connected teenagers have qualified for the National Colleges Table Tennis Finals. Ollie Thorne practices at the club on Sunday nights and Will Michell both practices and assists with junior coaching at Greenway.
Don’t mess with Aadrika Shibu. The Friday matchplay’s youngest player was there again at Collyer’s giving her all, keen to improve and taking on allcomers. She earned a win over Susie Rowbottom 22-20in a great game but couldn’t quite manage another one on the table. Notably however the Rowbottom family had to leave early on the night due to a commitment and for the two of them that the 8-year old hadn’t managed to play plus one other player who only stayed for the first 15 minutes the eight year old was the only player to write ‘forfeit’ on the scoresheet for unplayed games. Great initiative young lady, well done for your four successes on the night!
Horsham TTC player Adrian R made a spectacular debut at the Horsham District Primary Schools Table Tennis League Division A Individual Championships on Friday at Collyer's. The individual competition opened the way for year 5 North Heath School pupil to make his entry and he did so with a full house of six wins to come through as champion within the top Tier A, edging out the much fancied Chloe R (Southwater) 21-18 in the key match which proved to be one of the highest quality with some super rallies. Well done too to Jason Bourne (Southwater and HTTC) for a fine showing to secure third spot just in front of school colleague and HTTC teammate Zaib Rehman-Furs