Winter League
Winter League has started this week and will run through for 9 weeks to finish in early September. Matthew Ball has now taken the lead in A-Grade with 46 points, followed by Akshay Aneesh with 22 points and Cristin Batchelor on 20 points. Alvi Kabir has now dropped to the bottom of the standings on 6 points and in danger of relegation.
B Grade continues in its unpredicatble pattern, now led by Samuel Seaholme on 24 points, but Kai Tea and Landon Lau are also on 24 points, each, and only behind on their for-and against balances. Three more players are only just behind on 20 or more points. Kien Le on 8 points and Shane Gibson on 6 points are in greatest relegation trouble.
In C-Grade, Steve Clark has now surged into a good lead on 28 points, followed by five players with 20-22 points. Steve is clearly the current front runners but with the large list of challengers anything can happen. Koen Teoh-Hook is now the only player without any points to his name, and he will have a hard time avoiding relegation.
In D-Grade, Jonathan Giles has maintained his perfect start to the season, now leading with the theoretical maximu of 32 points and will be hard to be stopped from promotion.
Jonathan Giles also continues to lead the overall standings just ahead of Matthew Ball, with Steve Clark now moved up into their place. Henry Giles has now taken the lead in the Most-Improved category with a gain of 71 points, ahead of Shuhan Cao with a gain of 40 points and three more players with ratings gains in their 30s.
Final 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: 2025
Junior Holiday Programme
Next one in October. Details TBC
Players must be between 8-15 years of age. From 1-3 pm each day.
Junior Club - Term 3
July 14th - 15th September: 3:30 - 5:00pm Mondays
Starts Monday 14th July. There are 10 sessions in Term 3 with the last session on the 15th of September. Cost is $7 each time or can pay $70 for the term. 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 3, please let Matt know.
Intermediate and Secondary School Competitions
Our Intermediate and Secondary competitions are running again in Term 3. Primary will return in Term 2 next year. For more details can be found on our schools page under competitions.
Both sessions are held on Thursdays in the Barber Hall. Intermediate from 3:45-5:45 pm and Secondary from 6-8 pm. Teams of 3. Intermediate is Years 6-8. Secondary is Years 9-14.
Registrations at first point should be sent to Matt from the school. If you have any queries after doing this, please let Matt know.
Junior Coaching Term 3
Commences: July 16th & July 18th: 4:00 - 5:30pm Wednesdays & Fridays
Our 12 years and under session is on Wednesdays for Terms 2 & 3 with the school competitions taking place on Thursday. Invited juniors and players 13 and over continue on Fridays. Commences 16th July & 18th July. Cost is $12 each time. There are 10 sessions on Wednesdays and 9 sessions on Fridays. No session on Friday 19th September. Fine to pay per session or $120 for Wednesdays and $108 for Fridays for the term. If a player misses a session, they are not charged. Currently we have space for new players at both sessions. Please get in touch with Matt (details are below) know if your child would like to attend coaching in Term 3.
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
TTM 2025 Super 16 Competition
Third competition day: 14 June
Manawatu’s Premier Individual Table Tennis Competition. The 2025 edition of Manawatu's Premier Individual Table Tennis Competition has continued with rounds 5 and 6 played on Saturday, 14 June. As for the earlier competition rounds, Matthew Ball again won both rounds, with Manish Ahlawat coming second in the morning round, and Akshay Aneesh coming second in the afternoon round. Akshay Aneesh came third in the morning, and Pepe Mag-Abo came third in the afternoon round. The overall standings (counting results from players’ 5 best rounds) continue to be led by Matthew Ball (80 points), who now has an unbeatable lead for the overall season title. Akshay Aneesh (75 points) is in second place, followed by Manish Ahlawat (71 points), Miko Kirschbaum (50 points), Jim Brusola (49 points) and Cristin Batchelor (45 points).
The next two rounds are scheduled for 23 August.
Detailed results and progressive standings of this year’s Super 16 Competition are available here.
All-Stars/Drop-In League 2025
The fourth round of the 2025 All-Stras/ Drop-In League was played on 22 April. Matthew Ball won this round ahead of Miko Kirschbaum, Jim Brusola and Cristin Batchelor. The overall standings are now led by Jim Brusola (109 points) ahead of Alvi Kabir (107 points), Matthew Ball (90 points) and Miko Kirschbaum (88 points).
All-Stars/Drop-In League is now taking a break until later in the year. Progressive results and standings for the All-Stars / Drop-In League are available here.
Most-Improved Player in 2025
The race for this year’s Most-Improved player is developing more and more into a tight contest between Emma Chen and Lehan Feng, with Lehan, after a string or great recent results, having surged into a good lead. Henry Giles is in third place and Tao Feng in fourth. 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 Winter League.
Sal’s Pizza Players of the Week:
Shuhan Cao: 123 points
Players’ Rating Gains
Henry Giles 66 points
Samuel Seaholme 24 points
Angus Bilsland 21 points
Cristin Batchelor 21 points
Shuhan Cao 19 points
Changhee Cho 19 points
Lehan Feng 17 points
Emma Chen 17 points
Terry Southern 16 points
Samir Doley 16 points
Steve Clark 15 points
Kien Le 15 points
Elijah Raumati 15 points
Kai Tea 14 points
Players’ Doubles Rating Gains
Shuhan Cao 104 points
Samuel Seaholme 93 points
Kai Tea 61 points
Landon Lau 44 points
Tony McAllister 40 points
Oscar Lau 38 points
Cristin Batchelor 36 points
Matthew Ball 36 points
Lehan Feng 25 points
Akshay Aneesh 19 points
Maxwell Hansen 19 points
Changhee Cho 19 points
Order of Merit - New milestones
Matthew Ball 20,000 points
Changhee Cho 3000 points
Tim Seaholme 3000 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 is underway. Progressive results and standings are available here.
Spring League
October to November
Spring League 2024 has concluded. Final results and standings are available here.
Christmas League
December to February
Christmas League (2024/25) has concluded. Final results and standings are available here.
Super 16
Played on some Saturdays from March to September
Super 16 (2024) 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. Progressive results and standings are available here.
Schools' Competition
The 2024 Intermediate and Secondary Schools’ Competition is underway. Progressive results and standings are here.
