Smash Table Tennis Kettering

Smash TTC Kettering individual league on tonight! 🏓
7:00pm-7:15pm arrival with a 7:30pm start.
4-8 matches usually on the night (depends on numbers)
Only £7.50 for the night.
League tables updated from last week.

Apologies for a late report. Our scheduled FB post didn't work unfortunately.

Individual League back on again tonight!🏓
Msg 07930 988965 if you'd like to play and get some challenging matches against some good players!💪
Starts at 7:30 with arrival from 7:00pm-7:15pm
£7.50 for the night and stay afterwards for a knock!🏓

See bellow the report for last week:

Another week of matches completed in our Individual league.

Only eight players participated this week however we had five players that were Premier Division Kettering League standard so there were some very good and incredibly close games played.

In the first stage of groups:
Alex Cochrane took first place after a tough battle against Henry Arthur.
Henry went 2nl up and 10-6 up in the 5th before narrowly loosing in duce 12-10 in the 5th.
This left Henry in second place after beating Corby Town Table Tennis Club player Jonathon Lane and Smash regular Marcus Singh.
Jonathon put in a good performance but Marcus remained consistent and as a result took third place leaving Jonathon 4th in group one.
Group 2 had another close match for first and second with Ashley Bennett narrowly beating Ben Aldrige after coming back from 2-1 down.
This left Ben in second place after beating Callum Donaldson and Ryan Adamson in his group.
Callum claimed third place after beating Ryan. Callum has put a lot of hard work into training recently and as a result his scores against the other players have greatly improved.

In the second round of matches the top two players and bottom two players of each group went into another group with each other.

Marcus played well and remained consistent in group two of the second stage and finished first winning his next three matches 3nl.
Callum claimed his first second place position defeating both Ryan and Jonathon.
Jonathon finished in 3rd leaving Ryan in 4th
Final Standings of group 2:
1)Marcus Singh 🥇2)Callum Donaldson🥈3)Jonathon Lane🥉 4) Ryan Adamson

In group one of the second stage Ashley Bennett had to unfortunatley withdraw .
Alex took first place after beating Ben Aldrige 3-1 and beating Hentlry in the rematch 3nl
Henry and Ben clashed for second place with Ben leading 2-0 amd 10-8 up in the 3rd however Henry remained calm a fought back to win 11-6 in the 5th
Final Standings of group 1
1) Alex Cochrane🥇 2) Henry Arthur🥈 3) Ben Aldrige🥉
Good luck to all those playing in the league tonight!👍🤞

Going into week 6 tonight of our Summer Individual league.🏓😁
Despite having lost 3 matches now Alex still holds first place with the most points. Marcus Singh still holds second place as narrowly behind Alex.
Come down for our next round of matches starting 7:30pm tonight!!!👊🏓

Two weeks since we posted this and we are now almost full!🏓
10/12 for the Saturday and 11/12 for the Sunday!😁
Both camps start at 10am and finish 4pm.
4:1 player to coach ratio as well!💪
Msg us now to get your spot!
Book via 07930 988965 or email [email protected]

Smash Individual league on tonight!!!🏓
All are welcome!
7:30pm start with a 7:00pm-7:15pm arrival.
Let us know if your coming along or would like to play so groups can be made quickly for an on time start😁🏓.
See you later 👋 and good luck to those playing! 🤞

We are pleased to announce our pre-season two day coaching camp!🏓

The camps will take place on Saturday 31 August and Sunday 1 September and will start at 10am and finish at 4pm.

We will be hosting our pre season camp at our six table Kettering venue so there will only be 12 spaces for each day, however it does mean that we have 1:4 coach to player ratio for those of you attending.
This camp will have Chris Doran , England No.6 Senior men's players , Toby Ellis, England No.11 Senior men's player/No.2 England U21's player and Smash TTC owner and joint head coach Alex Cochrane.
It's £60 for one day or £100 for both.
Book via email to [email protected] or alternatively WhatsApp msg on 07930 988965.
We look forward to seeing you guys and working with you!👋😁

Hi all,
See below the report for last weeks matches:
Week three of the Smash Individual Summer League was played last week Thursday. We had nine participants for the night so two stages of three groups of three were played giving each player four matches on the night. 🏓

In the first stage the three seeded players of the evening, Alex Cochrane, Ashley Bennett and Henry Arthur each won their respective groups to advance to the band one group of the second stage.🥇

Marcus Singh, Ben Aldridge and Steve Codrington all finished second in their respective groups to progress to band two in the second stage.🥈

James Lock, Bello Duafe and Mike Burrows finished third in their groups and so they played the second stage against each other in band three.🥉

For the first time this season all nine players ended up in the band there ranking would place them in making it very close for each band in the next round of groups matches.

Band three had several close matches but saw Bello Duafe come out on top after two best of fives against James Lock and Mike Burrows. Mike and James played for second with Mike coming out on top to take second place for band three. After struggling in previous weeks Bello did well to pick up his two wins on the night showing great improvement.🙌

Band two also had several close matches with Marcus Singh narrowly loosing to Ben Aldridge in five ends but beating Steve Codrington in the fifth. Steve and Ben also battled it out with Ben coming out on top, ultimately winning in the fourth for a 3-1 win. This was Bens first week playing the league but he’s had a good start and is currently sitting on a 75%-win average only losing to Alex Cochrane.👊

Band one followed suit by having two best of fives as well. Ashley Bennett, in his Smash Individual league debut, took out Smash Kettering coach Henry Arthur in 3-2 epic. Ashley then clashed with our other Smash Kettering coach, Alex Cochrane, for another close 3-2 battle however Cochrane proved just too much in the end winning 3-2. Cochrane and Arthur played and intriguing match both often swapping to their left hands. Clearly Cochrane was the better faux lefty on the night as he won 3-0nl.👏

I look forward to seeing those of you coming tonight. We start at 7:30pm with arrival from 7:00pm-7:15pm.
Let us know if you'd like to play!
Good luck to all playing this evening and well played to all who participated last week.👍🏓

Hi all,
See below the report for last weeks matches:

Last Thursday was the second week of our Individual Summer league and we once again had many great matches played on the night.🏓

As we had 11 players, we decided to have three groups consisting of two groups of four and one group of three. This meant we had three seeded players on the night who were Alex Cochrane, Ryan Gaveglia and Henry Arthur.

First stage:

In the first group Alex Cochrane finished first winning all three of his matches however it went to count back for the other players as Jon Dyson, Andy Parrott and Marcus Singh, all beat one another leaving each with an individual win. After count back Jon finished in second, Marcus in third and Andy in fourth🙌

In the second group Ryan Gaveglia took first, also winning all his matches with Tyler Hillery coming in second with two wins and Callum Donaldson and Bello Duafe taking third and fourth.💪

In the third group Steve Codrington took out third seed Henry Arthur in a very close match to come first-place in the group. Tor West-Ley had two very close games as well against Henry and Steve but an injury for Tor and Henry and Steve’s experience proved just too much for Tor on this occasion.👏

Second stage:

We had 3 groups for our final stage of the night.

In the third and fourth place group Marcus Singh took the win winning all three of his matches after a challenging night of intense games. Bello Duafe took second place after getting revenge on Callum 3nl and taking down Andy Parrott 3-1. Final Standing for the group was Marcus first🥇, Bello second🥈, Andy third and Callum fourth

In the second-place group there was a major upset when Jon Dyson found some much needed confidence in his attacking shots, particularly his backhand punch. He took down both Henry and Tyler to take first place in the group. Henry and Tyler took each other on with Tyler narrowly beating Henry 11-7 in the fourth for a 3-1 win. Final Standing for the group was Jon first🥇, Tyler second🥈 and Henry 3rd

In the first-place group Alex and Ryan clashed once again however were joined by Steve Codrington this time. Both Alex and Ryan took Steve down 3nl and 3-1 however Steve made sure it wasn’t easy and pulled out some great shots to keep them under pressure and to make it a challenging game. Cochrane and Gaveglia played again in an intense game that went to five ends. In the end, Alex took the win 11-7 in the 5th after going 2-0 up. The final Standing of the group was Alex first🥇, Ryan second 🥈and Steve third

Our next match night will be Thursday 18 July so be sure to join us for some great matches.🏓

Well played to all who took part on the night and good luck to all those that play in the future!

We love seeing Prithvi (and dad Vivek Menon) when they get a chance to pop back home to us here at Smash Table Tennis Kettering. We also love it when players from other clubs pop in for some additional coaching. And we also love seeing our adult Smashers training to be the best that they can be. We do love a lot of things!

Good luck Prithvi and Tor (and Andy D) tomorrow in the under 15 tournament at BATTS down in Harlow, Essex.

Smash TTC held its first of seven weeks, Individual Summer League last Thursday.
Below is the report for week one.🏓

Week 1 report:
Smash Kettering TTC held its first night for the new Individual Summer League last Thursday and it was a great evening with 25 matches played and each individual playing 5 matches each.

In the first stage of the night, we had two groups of five battle it out to get as many wins as possible.

Alex Cochrane won his group undefeated🥇 by beating Andy Logan, Jon Dyson, Marcus Singh and James Lock

Ryan Gaveglia won his group, also undefeated🥇, by beating Andy Parrott, Andy Deathridge, Mike Burrows and Cosmin Cotnareanu

After the first stage of groups, we headed into the second stage of groups for the night and as there were only two groups in the first round we had 5 play offs between the players.

Alex Cochrane and Ryan Gaveglia battled for first and second place with Cochrane taking the win over Gaveglia 11-8 in the fourth for a 3-1 win🥇🥈

Marcus Singh and Andy Parrott both finished second in their groups and played off for third and fourth place with Marcus taking the win 11-8 in the fourth for another 3-1 win 🥉

Andy Logan and Andy Deathridge played off for fifth and sixth place after both finishing third in their groups. Andy Logan had a strong performance winning 3nl, 11-2 in the last end.💪

Jon Dyson and Cosmin Cotnareanu played for seventh and eighth with Jon narrowly scrapping by 12-10 in the 5th with the previous four ends finishing 11-9 in each.👏

James Lock and Mike Burrows played off for ninth and tenth after both finished last in their groups with some close games. Mike played well and managed to take the win 3nl to end the night.🙌

Our next night for the league will be tomorrow evening Thursday 27 June. All are welcome to play, Smash and non-Smash players. Arrive before 7:15pm for a 7:30pm start, ideally let me know your attendance before hand by msg on Facebook or email but walk in’s before 7:15pm are allowed as well.

Well played to everyone on the night 👍 and good luck to all who play in the future 🤞.

Best of luck to Ryan Gaveglia and Alex Cochrane who are both competing in the Gloucester GP this weekend. And also to young Mia who is attending a girls' talent I.D. day in Nottingham. Great to see Smashers getting out and about 🏓🏓🏓

After another long night of matches, we have finally completed all of our Smash TTC end of season club competitions.
Tonight was the Mystery doubles and Sand paper bat singles.🏓
Six teams battled it our for 1st place, however it was mystery doubles pairing Ryan Gaveglia and Andy Logan that took the win, beating Colin Wilson and Andy Deathridge(Glen Deathridge) in the final
Results:
1st Ryan Gaveglia and Andy Logan 🥇🥇
2nd Colin Wilson and Andy Deathridge🥈🥈
3rd Steve Codrington and Andy Parrott
4th Tyler Hillery and Jon Dyson
5th Mike Burrows and Gary Pells
6th Alfie Chacksfield and Cosmin Cotnareanu
In the Sand paper bat Sam Wilson took the gold beating Ryan Gaveglia in the final.
Ryan fought hard to get there, beating Alex Cochrane 2nl, who'd taken out top seed Colin in his previous round, and beat Steve Codrington 2-1 in the quarters.
Sam won all of his matches 2nl tonight, even the first end against Ryan. Despite being 14-9 down he came back to win 14-15
Results:
1st Sam Wilson🥇
2nd Ryan Gaveglia🥈
3rd Tyler Hillery
4th Alex Cochrane
Well played all!🙌🙌

Alex Cochrane and Ryan Gaveglia putting in a bit of time together this evening ahead of playing in the Gloucester Grand Prix this weekend.

Last night was the Kettering league presentation evening and once again it was a great night for Smash TTC.🏓
This year our junior team, Smash F, got to the final of the Borough Trophy and despite loosing 5-4 in matches the boys did a great job getting there! 👍
Smash C (Andy Parrott) won the 1st division this year and will be joining Smash A and B in the prem division.🥇
Smash A were once again runners up of the Prem division only loosing by a few points once again. As usual the team put in a great performance this season.
Smash Junior Andy Deathridge (Glen Deathridge) took home a R/U doubles title for U15's, a R/U title for mystery doubles and a R/U title for Div 2 handicap singles. Well done Andy!🥈🥈🥈
The dream team of Colin Wilson and Ashley Bennett took home several R/U doubles titles this year. Well done for getting to the men's doubles and veteran doubles final!🙌🙌
Colin also won the over 40's singles this year aswell.🥈🥈🥇
Smash Junior Lucas Turnbull-Stubbs, in the final year of his junior career, came R/U in the junior boy singles and won the Junior boy doubles with teammate Liam Constable 🥈🥇
Smash coach Alex Cochrane won the open singles this year after fighting hard to get to the final. He also came R/U in the 19-39 singles, narrowly loosing 14-12 in the 5th.🥇🥈
Well done to all of our Smash players for a great season and well played to all the teams this year. Thanks to all those that helped organise. It was a great night.🙌🙌
Looking forward to our next one!🏓🏓

Last night was the Smash TTC open singles.
It was a great night with 16 players playing a group stage before a knock out and consolation event.
Group 1: Colin Wilson 1st, Steve Codrington 2nd
Group 2: Alex Cochrane 1st, Andy Logan 2nd
Group 3: Ryan Gaveglia 1st, Liam Constable 2nd
Group 4: Dawid Przybysz 1st, Scott Dixon 2nd
From here the knockout took place with Colin beating Scott, Alex beating Steve, Ryan beating Andy Logan and Dawid beating Liam.
In the semi finals Colin cruised past Ryan despite loosing against Gaveglia in the Kettering league tournament.
Dawid battled it out against Alex but just scraped by and beat Cochrane 3-1
Alex and Ryan played for 3rd and 4th with Gaveglia just sneaking the win past Cochrane 11-9 in the 5th.
Colin took on Dawid in the final and showed why he's won this event every year by winning 3nl and I believe went without dropping an end all night.
Congratulations Colin!🥇🏓👍
In the consolation Andy Parrott took on Marcus Singh and won claiming 1st in the consolation.
Final standings:
1st Colin Wilson 🥇
2nd Dawid Przybysz 🥈
3rd Ryan Gaveglia
4th Alex Cochrane
Consolation 1st Andy Parrott🥇
Consolation 2nd Marcus Singh🥈
Well played all.👍
On to Sand paper singles and mystery doubles next week!

Great to see Lauren Ainsworth back in the sports rehab business. Smashers used to use Lauren regularly back in our old full-time centre in Corby. Please give L.A Sports Rehab a like, follow and maybe even a share to support this small business, and a fellow local league TT player.

L.A Sports Rehab is back with a brand new purpose built Clinic in Corby, Northamptonshire due to be opening soon🙌🏻

Clinic owner Lauren Ainsworth graduated from the University of Northampton in 2016 with a BSc (Hons) in Sports Therapy. She has experience within private clinical practices and is a member of the Federation of Holistic Therapists (FHT).

What do we offer?
- Injury Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment.
- Sports Massage
- Sports Therapy
- Electrotherapy (Ultrasound)
- Cupping Therapy
- Kinesio Taping
- Exercise Prescription
- Hot Stone Massage

With the treatments above along with personalised rehabilitation plans we aim to ensure all our clients get back to doing what they love in no time, minus the aches and pains ✔️

Keep your eye’s peeled for our official opening date, how to book and a few special offer’s that you won’t want to miss 💪🏻

Last night was Smash Kettering TTC open doubles tournament. We had seven pairings battling it out for 1st place with several strong pairings entered.
1st Sam Wilson and Tyler Hillery 🥇🥇
2nd Dawid Przybysz and Colin Wilson 🥈🥈
3rd Ryan Gaveglia and Alex Cochrane 🥉🥉
4th Mike Burrows and Andy Parrott
5th Scott Dixon and Andy Logan
6th Jon Dyson and Paul Martin
7th Andy Deathridge and Alfie Chacksfield
Two weeks ago we also played our handicap singles with Alex Cochrane taking 1st place 🥇 and Marcus Singh taking 2nd place 🥈
Well played to everyone thats participated so far👍
Singles event next week, 7:00pm open, 7:30pm start.

Smash TTC Intermediate/Advanced coaching sessions are back on!
Tuesday nights 7:30-9:30pm.
A session for those looking to improve their game!
Bookable online: https://smashketteringtabletennis.ttclubs.co.uk/sessions

Smash TTC will be closed this Thursday due to the upcoming elections as our venue is being used as a polling station.
🚨Also Smash TTC 2v2 Summer league is now available to enter on our website.🚨
This year entry's are open to any of the surrounding clubs and their members aswell as our own members.
Entries close May 16 2024.
https://smashketteringtabletennis.ttclubs.co.uk/article/smash

Encouragement and opportunities for girls and women in sport...yes! Get your TT bat and get down to Burgess Hill! (including male helpers - officials, administrators, umpires).

Sussex Women and Girls Summer 2* Singles (inc para events) - Table Tennis England SCHEDULE: 9.00am-1.45pm: Girls U13, Girls U15, Girls U19s, Restricted Women 19-39, Women 40 and over 10am–noon: Para Class 1-5 and Para Class 6-10 1.45-7pm: Women