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Table Tennis Manawatu would like to sincerely thank Eastern and Central Community Trust, The Lion Foundation and Pelorus Trust for grants received to assist us in hosting the North Island Individuals, North Island Teams and NZ Secondary School Champs this year. Your support is very much appreciated.

Autumn League

Autumn League is underway. Team, draws and progressive results can be found here. In a tight race, Wales (Nathan Watson and co.) and Korea (Miko Kirschbaum and co.) have built up a small lead at the top of the table, but it's all very tight, with 11:9 the most common result so far. Please, check the draw carefully as there will be 2 nights in the middle of the comp when the hall will be unavailable and there will be no play.

This week's Player of the Week is Jordan Miller with a ratings gain of 23 points. Other good gains were made by Wan Long Shi (17 points) and Ross Avery (14 points). Apart from that, it was another week without many surprises.

On the Order of Merit list, Matthew Ball has reached 6000 points, Terry Lee and Nathan Watson have reached 3000 points, Che Dixon and Richard Ammundsen have reached 2000 points, Wan Long Shi and Mike Ball have reached 1500 points, and Yi-Chern Lee has reached 500 points.

Summer League

Summer League has concluded. See here for all results. In a tightly fought final, the Tuis (Charly Talumepa, Malcolm Little, Allen Blackburn, Bev Astwood, Ross Avery and Aaron Su) edged out the Larks (Dean Lochhead, Kerry McGeehan, Terry Lee, Stephen Jourdain, Matthew Johansen and replacement George Baldwin) by a single game. Matches were tied 10:10, but the Tuis had the superior games balance by 38:37. In a similarly tight finish, the Budgies edged out the Bellbirds (10:10, 41:34) for third place, while the Keas had a more comfortable 12:8 win over the Woodpeckers for fifth place.

National Veterans' Championship

This year's National Veterans' Championships was held in Palmerston North over Easter (6-9 April). Relevant information can be found here. All team and individual-comp results are now listed.

This year's Super 16 starts on 17/18 May. This year it is being played in an A-League and B-League format for the top 16 and next-best 16 players, respectively. A-League Super-16 is played on Fridays and B-League on Thursdays of the same week.

Full details are available here. Last year's final standings are available here.

If you are interested to take part in this year's competition, contact Matthew Ball by 8 May. (b.ball@clear.net.nz; (06-3293560).

Summer League 2012 has concluded. Final results and standings are available here.

Autumn League is currently running. Teams, the draw and progressive results are available here.

Winter League 2011 has concluded. Final results and standings are available here.

Spring League 2011 has concluded. Final results results and standings are available here.

Christmas League 11/12 has concluded. Final results and standings are available here.

Super 16 (2011) has concluded. Further details and final 2011 standings as well as a flyer for the 2012 competition are available here.

Open Teams League
Played on some Friday nights from May to October - not held in 2011