Christmas League
Christmas Leagues is underway, with the sixth and second-last round played on 27 January. Christmas League will run for one more round with the last round on 3 February. Summer League will follow after that. More on that will be published soon.
The fourth round of Christmas League was won by Matthew Ball, ahead of Tim Seaholme, Akshay Aneesh and Stuart Seaholme. Matthew Ball continues to lead the overall standings with 123.9 points ahead of Tim Seaholme with 119.8 points, Jim Brusola with 111.1 points and Stuart Seaholme with 110.9 points. Kaleb Wood leads the contest for most improved player with an incredible points gain of 324 points, followed by Novi Patterson with 150 points gained and Daniel Glen Wood with 119 points gained.
Results and standings are available here. The next round will be played on 3 February 2026.
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 Club is a great session for new players with a good mix of game play, coaching. skill based games and challenges. If your child is keen to attend in Term 1, please let Matt know.
There are 8 sessions in Term 1 with the last session on the 30th of March. Cost is $7 each time or can pay $56 for the term.
Junior Summer League
Commences: 24th Feb
The format is flexible allowing players to join at any time during the league. Players must arrive before the cut off time to play each week. Latest arrival time is 4:20 pm. Finish time will be 6 pm each day at the latest. Please let Matt know if your child is interested in playing this league. More details are available here
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) 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. More details can be found here. 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 2026
With the 2026 season now under way, the new year’s race to be the Most-Improved player has started. Kaleb Wood has further extended his remarkable early lead, followed by Novi Patterson and Daniel Glenn Wood. At this stage, it is too early to speak of favourites, but the race is underway. 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 (second week in a row):
Kaleb Wood: 137 points
Players’ Rating Gains
Kaleb Wood 137 points
Novi Patterson 58 points
Shuhan Cao 37 points
Daniel Glenn Wood 37 points
Tony McAllister 36 points
Changhee Cho 30 points
Yunyan Liu 27 points
Shalom Big-Asan 25 points
Xiaoqian Cao 21 points
Tao Feng 21 points
Tim Seaholme 19 points
Graeme Mackay 18 points
Samuel Seaholme 16 points
Terry Lee 13 points
Stuart Seaholme 12 points
Players’ Doubles Rating Gains
No matches played this week
Order of Merit - New milestones
Matthew Ball 5000 points
Daniel Glenn Wood 2000 points
Chrys Podjursky 2000 points
Samuel Seaholme 1000 points
Xiaoqian Cao 1000 points
Terry Lee 500 points
Tao Feng 500 points
Shuhan Cao 500 points
Cristin Batchelor 500 points
Landon Lau 500 points
Akshay Aneesh 250 points
Khang Le 250 points
Tony McAllister 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.
