Christmas League
Christmas Leagues is underway, with the first round played on 9 December. There will be one more round on 16 December before a two-week summer break. The next round after that will be played on 6 January and further rounds throughout January.
The first round was won by Matthew Ball, ahead of Maxwell Hansen, Changhee Cho and Chrys Podjursky. As that was the first competition round, the overall standings are identical to the results of the first week. We have a tight initial field for the most-improved category, led by Kien Le with a gain of 36 points, followed by Changhee Cho with 33 points gained, Maxwell Hansen with 31 points gained, Xiaoqian Cao with 30 points and Elijah Raumati with 28 points gained.
Results and standings are available here. The next round will be played on 16 December 2025.
Spring League
Spring League has concluded on 25 November after 7 rounds. The competition was won by the Leopards (Jae Lee, Tao Feng, Lehan Feng, Vanessa Millard, Koen Teoh-Hook, Michael Mylvaganam), followed by the Hyenas (Maxwell Hansen and co.), the Sharks (Tim Seaholme and co.) and the Bats (Cristin Batchelor and co.). Both Jae Lee and Akshay Aneesh finished their seasons with having lost only one single match, but Akshay Aneesh was awarded the Best-Player award for having been victorious in their clash against each other. They were followed by Novi Patterson and Terry Southern, Eric Diao and Lehan Feng. Henry Giles won the Most-Improved player category, followed by Eric Diao and Samir Doley. In the doubles standings, the Novi Patterson/ Elijah Raumati combination topped the standings, followed by Terry Southern/ Jonathan Giles and Jae Lee / Lehan Feng.
Results and standings are available here.
Recent Events: 2025
2025 Manawatu Residential Championships
Sunday 8th June (Age groups)
Tuesdays: 17th June to 8th July (Graded)
Age group events: Starts Sunday 8th June. In the juniors, events range from under 19 down to under 11 including a novice event for under 15 players. In the veteran age groups, we have over 40 and over 60 events. There is also the very popular Generation Doubles event where two family members can team up. One player must be a junior. Entries close on Tuesday 3rd June. Entries must be either given or emailed to mattb.tabletennis@gmail.com. Full details here.
Graded events have been played across the previous Tuesday nights from 17th to 1 July. The Residents’ Championship will conclude with the Finals’ Night on 8th July.
Full details here.
Junior Happenings: Term 1 2026
Junior Holiday Programme
20th-23rd January 2026
Players must be between 8-15 years of age. From 1-3 pm each day. Cost is $14 per day or $42 for all 4 days. Players can attend individual days. Please see here for more details
Junior Club
Starts 9th February: 3:30 - 5:00pm Mondays
Junior Summer League
Commences: 24th Feb
More details will be available in January.
Junior Coaching
Commences: Feb 12th & Feb 13th: 4:00 - 5:30pm Thursdays & Fridays
Our 11 years and under session is on Thursdays for Terms 1 & 4. Invited juniors and players 12 and over continue on Fridays. Commences 12th Feb & 13th Feb. Cost is $12 each time. Please get in touch with Matt (details are below) know if your child would like to attend coaching in Term 1.
Junior Summer Tournament - Sunday 1st March
This is our first seasonal tournament of 2026. It will run from 1-5/5:30 pm and cost $15 per player. Entries close on Wednesday 25th February with Matt
Other Manawatu Events from last year
Manawatu Open
Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd September 2024
This was our main event of the year, held in the Barber Hall & Waldegrave Lounge. Open and Graded events were held on Saturday. Age groups on Sunday. Age groups ranged from Under 11 up to Over 70.
We were also hosting the Inaugural Ping Pong Parkinson's NZ Tournament in conjunction with our Open this year.
All results are available via Tournament Software -
https://ttnz.tournamentsoftware.com/tournament/F428BC00-4901-41FE-83A3-120E345321F9.
Matthew Ball’s contact details
Matthew Ball, phone: 0273 412 246 or mattb.tabletennis@gmail.com.
Banking details: 02-0628-0189072-00
Fourth (and final) competition day: 23 August
Manawatu’s Premier Individual Table Tennis Competition. The 2025 edition of Manawatu's Premier Individual Table Tennis Competition has concluded with the final rounds 7 and 8 played on Saturday, 23 August. As for the earlier competition rounds, Matthew Ball again won both rounds, with Pepe Mag-Abo coming second in the morning round, followed by Akshay Aneesh and Kui Chen. Akshay Aneesh came second in the afternoon, followed by Pepe Mag-Abo and Larn Sweeney. The overall standings (based on players’ 5 best rounds) was won by Matthew Ball with the perfect score of 80 points, followed by Akshay Aneesh (75 points), Manish Ahlawat (71 points), Larn Sweeney (60 points), Pepe Mag-Abo (56 points) and Cristin Batchelor and Jim Brusola (53 points, each).
This concludes Super 16 for the 2025 season.
Detailed results and final standings of this year’s Super 16 Competition are available here.
All-Stars/Drop-In League 2025
The latest round of the 2025 All-Stars/ Drop-In League was played on 7 October. Akshay Aneesh won that round ahead of Matthew Ball, Tim Seaholme and Jae Lee. Jim Brusola (204.6 points) won the overall standings for the year ahead of Matthew Ball (166.9 points), Miko Kirschbaum (161.4 points) and Kien Le (147.2 points)
Progressive results and standings for the All-Stars / Drop-In League are available here.
Most-Improved Player in 2025 (FINAL)
In the end, this year’s race for this year’s Most-Improved player came down to a tight contest beween Lehan Feng and Henry Giles. While Lehan’s had built up an impressive lead just weeks ago, Henry then had a string of impressive results to come close to haling in Lehan’s lead. But in the end, it was not quite enough, and Lehan Feng won the Most-Improved player award with a rating gain over the year of 974 points, followed by Henry Giles with a gain of 925 points. Emma Chen has remained in third place with a gain of 812 points, and Tao Feng came fourth with a gain of 609 points. A graph with this year’s players’ rating gains is here.
Ratings adjustments and progress in the Order of Merit standings are based on results from this week’s round of Christmas League.
Sal’s Pizza Player of the Week:
Kien Le: 36 points
Players’ Rating Gains
Kien Le 36 points
Changhee Cho 33 points
Novi Patterson 31 points
Maxwell Hansen 31 points
Xiaoqian Cao 30 points
Elijah Raumati 28 points
Shalom Big-Asan 26 points
Henry Giles 23 points
Khang Le 15 points
Players’ Doubles Rating Gains
No matches played this week
Order of Merit - New milestones
Matthew Ball 500 points
Maxwell Hansen 500 points
Xiaoqian Cao 250 points
Novi Patterson 250 points
Chrys Podjursky 250 points
Shalom Big-Asan 250 points
Changhee Cho 250 points
Kien Le 250 points
Lehan Feng 250 points
Jim Brusola 100 points
Kelvin Tosland 100 points
Henry Giles 100 points
Samir Doley 100 points
Summer League
February to April
Summer League 2025 has concluded. Final results and standings can be found here.
Autumn League
April to June
Autumn League 2025 has concluded. Final results and standings are available here.
Winter League
July to September
Winter League 2025 has concluded. Final results and standings are available here.
Spring League
October to November
Spring League 2025 has concluded. Final results and standings are available here.
Christmas League
December to February
Christmas League (2025/26) is underway. Progressive results and standings are available here.
Super 16
Played on some Saturdays from March to August
Super 16 (2025) has concluded. Final results and standings are available here.
All-Stars / Drop-In League
Played in the period between the main comps on some Tuesdays throughout the year. Final results and standings are available here.
Schools' Competition
The 2024 Intermediate and Secondary Schools’ Competition is underway. Progressive results and standings are here.
