Generation 2 Table Tennis Club

Club News

Dec

2011

Amy Todd and Danny Burns represented a Portsmouth Football Club Team in London last weekend. Amy was part of the two lady team which lifted the national title winning all their matches. Danny Burns played really well in his first real competitive season to finish 4th in the boys individual event. Their combined results with the other team members gave Portsmouth Football Club a magnificent 4th place overall. Well done to the team!!!!

Dec

2011

British Senior League

Our Generation 2 team travelled all the way to St Neots in Cambridgeshire to do battle in Division 3 South & Midlands. The team consisting of club No1 Roger Hookey, Hampshire Under 23 Champion Ross Saxby, Portsmouth Senior Champion Billy Ho and County Veteran Mike Rhodes surpassed themselves and won all four matches over the weekend. Full results of these matches can be seen at:

www.tabletennis365.com/SBL/league/SBL_2011-12/Division_3_South_and_East

British League Team

Dec

2011

National Cadet League

The team of Vincent Cheung, Sam Larder, Jonny McMullan and Leo Long managed to avoid relegation from Division 1 at the Waterside club. Now they can play the rest of the season in the highest division locally which will prove a good test for this young team.

Without Jonny McMullan through injury the team was ably supported by Leo Long who weny unbeaten this Sunday. Hopefully with Jonny back fit for the 2nd half the team can make a go for the title.

Nov

2011

New UKCC Coach

Good news for Generation 2 this week as Ross Saxby passes his UKCC Level 1 coaching assessment at Cippenham TTC. Ross joins the Generation 2 team of coaches passsing on their skills and ecperience to all its members.

Sept 2011

Fantastic news for both Lois Peake and Letitia McMullan for the start of the season - they have BOTH been selected to train in the ETTA's International Youth Squad. Well done both of you!!!!!!!

For the rest of the club news see the "Club News" page.

Welcome BCA "Red" to the Generation 2 Club

Whilst the BCA club in the Portsmouth have had to fold due to venue problems their players have found alternative clubs to play for. Generation 2 welcome the complete Red team from BCA who will take their place as Generation 2 "Jacks" in Portsmouth Division 1 this season. The team comprises Andy Stagg, William George and Lee Mullett with John Gulvin and Clive Harris as reserves.

August 2011

ETTA Ranking List

The latest ETTA National Ranking List sees several of our young players achieve very high positions. Both Lois Peake and Letitia McMullan reach the Top 5 Cadets in the country with Lois leading the charge at No 3 and Letitia just below at No 5. Lois has already achived International honours at the recent 6 Nations in Dusseldorf.

In the Boys List Vincent Cheung starts the year at No 40 whilst Jonny McMullan races to the No 8 spot. These two will undoubtedly be seeking to rise even higher on the list this season.

Under 11 Ranked players - Vincent and Jonny

April 2011

National Under 11-14 Championships

Again the intrepid trio of Vincent Cheung, Letitia McMuillan and Jon McMullan made the long trip to Doncaster. Vincent faced tough opposition in his U11 group and finished a creditable 3rd place in his group. Jonny lost out in his difficult U12 group but finished runner-up in his U11 group. He then convincingly won his 1st round match and then narrowly lost to the No3 seed in the last 16 - great play for a 9 year old!!!!

Letitia made short work of her U14 group, first and 2nd round opponents to face the No2 seed who beat Tish in a straight sets battle. The U13 event saw Tish progress easily to the semi-final only to lose England no1 Cadet Tin Tin Ho who proved too strong for Letitia on the day.

April 2011

National Schools Championships & Regional Squad Championships

Sam Masson, Letitia McMuillan and Jon McMullan made the long trip to Doncaster to play in what is a very high standard competition. Only Letitia made it out of her group and then onto the semi-final of the Under 13 event where she narrowly lost to the Number 2 seed.

The following day the trio were joined by club mate Vincent Cheung to represent the Southern Region who came in 6th place after many hard fought inter region squad matches.

26th Mar 2011

National Junior League

Many club junior players have competed in this years four club teams. The last day of fixtures today saw the players of one of our Div 3 teams all have to play in Div 1. Jack Warwick, Jon McMullan and Will Jayne all played very well winning some matches in difficult matches for them.

Great performances from all of our players proved what technical progress they have all made this season.

Sam Masson, Letitia McMuillan, Luke Austen

Jo Austen, James Fuller, Bethany Wells

Owen Rogers, Jon McMullan, Jack Warwick, Will Jayne

Hoyin Cheung, Vincent Cheung, Sam Larder, Amy Todd, Kyle Goddard, Jordan Russell, Danny Burns, Jeffrey Ng

20th Mar 2011

Portsmouth Closed Championships

Billy Ho stormed through both Charlie Cihlds in the semis and Mike Rhodes in the final of the Mens Singles of the Portsmouth Closed Championships. He then teamed up wiith Charlie Chiilds who had already won the Veterans title to win the mens Doubles. Charlie then team up with Letitia McMullan to win the Mixed Doubles.

Letitia also added the Cadet and Junior Titles to her tally and just to top off the day for the club Letitia then won the Womens Singles title as well.

13th Mar 2011

Hampshire Senior Championships

Generation 2 had a great day winning many titles which is a credit to aill the players concerned.

Rod McMullan - Veterans runner-up

Charlie Childs / Billy Ho - Doubles Winners

Charlie Childs and Heatiher Knight - Mixed Doubles Winners

Heather Knight - Womens Singles Winner

Billy Ho - Mens Singles runner-up

Ross Saxby - Under 23 Winner

Mar 2011

Hampshire Schools Championships

Another good day for Generation 2

The annual schools championships resulted in 50% of the available titles going to Generation 2 players.

Bethany Wells winning the U19 Girls

Jon McMullan winning the U11 Boys

Sam Masson winning the U16 Boys

Letitia McMullan winning the U13 Girls

Feb 2011

Hampshire Closed Tournament

What a day for Generation 2 at the Hampshire Senior Championships. Club players showed some ouitstanding Table Tennis and came away with a box of trophiies.

The roll of honour:

Ross Saxby - Intermediate Singles Winner

Heather Knight - Womens Singles Winner

Charlie Childs & Billy Ho - Mens Doubles Winner

Charlie Childs & Heather Knight - Mixed Doubles Winners

Billy Ho - Mens Singles Runner up

Rod McMullan - Veteran Singles Runner up

Jan

2011

Letitia McMullan wins East Midlands 4 Star title

12 year old Letitia stormed to the under 13 title beating Emily Bolton and Jayden Budworth the No1 and 2 seeds to record her first event win at a 4 Star tournament. Not content with that she then fought her way to the Under 15 Quarter final where she narrowly lost to Isobel Ashley the England No 2 Cadet.

June 2010

World Veterans Championships

Mike on a Mongolian horse Charlie just before he got hammered by the No2 seed

Club members Mike Rhodes and Charlie Childs made the long trek (by plane) to play in the World Veterans Chamionships in Hohhot (Mongolia). Both players progressed to the 2nd round after qualifying from their groups in their age bands Over 50's and Over 60's.

May 2010

Twinning Visit

This years annual twinning proved to be agreat success and 3 teams from AJK in Vannes (Brittany) made the trip to Fareham. For further pictures of the visit visit the Twinning page.

April 2010

Gosport & Fareham Closed Championships


Hannah & Andrea Taggerty R/Up & Winner Women's	Keiran Wells & Graham Turner Doubles R/Up	Keiran Wells R/Up Junior Singles

James Fuller R/Up Handicap & Paul Watson Winner	Tom Chamberlain Winner Junior Singles	James Fuller Winner Cadet Singles & Johnny McMullen R/Up Cadet

3rd March 2010

Generation 2 is proud to announce the employment of Heather Knight as our new ETTA Coaching & Support Officer. This role is for 2 years and sees Heather coach in local affiliated schools in the Gosport and Fareham area in order to create quality school club links. This will give more young people the opportunity to play Table Tennis and then develop greater skills at Generation 2. Another major aspect to the role is the development of an even higher quality coaching system at the club. Generation has a good reputation for coaching the sport and we seek to become an even better coaching club.

2nd March 2010

Club member Letitia McMullan has been selected to represent England Schools in a weekend of International matches in Guernsey in April. This is a great honour for Letitia who takes part in the Under 11 section of the England team. The last club member who had this honour was club coach Heather Knight several years ago.

2nd February 2010

Hampshire Schools Championships The club had a good day at these championships held at Testwood Community School in Southampton. 8 year old Jon McMullan came a creditable 4th in the Under 11 Boys category. Sister Letitia saw off all competitors to sweep the title for the Under 11 Girls. Sam Masson just lost in the final of the Under 13 Boys coming second. Bethany Wells after a 12 month layoff came back to get 3rd place in the Under 16 Girls. Tom Chamberlain worked hard and achieved a great 4th place in the Under 19 Boys with Keiran Wells seeing off Hants Junior No1 (Lewis Creighton) to win the title. Keiran and Letitia will now go to Doncaster in April to play in the National Finals.

Keiran Wells Letitia McMullan

21st December 2009

Party time... The club closed for Christmas on Friday 18th with a small party held at the club. Fancy dress was the order of the night with several notable costumes being shown by the younger members of the club.

14th December 2009

Change at the top

Generation 2 TTC have a new Chairman. Charlie Childs who has been Chairman for many years has made way for a younger man - Tim Manhire, to take over this very important role at the club. Tim brings a wealth of knowledge of running successful clubs and a great deal of business knowlege. Tim's arrival further increases the significant volunteer workforce at the club in what is a time of great change. We wish him well in his new role.

26th October 2009

National Junior League
16 teams for Generation 2 for the forthcoming season.

Saturday 14th November 2009
Saturday 28th November 2009
Sunday 17th January 2010
Saturday 6th March 2010

22nd Aug 2009

Birth On13th August ex club coach Eric Duduc's partner Birgit gave birth to a bouncing baby boy - they have named him Tao and mother and baby are doing well.

13th Aug2009

RIP and Vive la Jumelage

It is with great sadness that I report the passing away of Geofff Coppock. Geoff was an integral part of the clubs 30 year association with the AJK table Tennis club in Vannes, Fareham's twin town in France.

He will be sadly missed by all who knew him and especially by the many members of Generation 2 TTC who shared some great twinning experiences. Geoff will be cremated at Portchester Crematorium at 10am on Friday 21st August 2009.

20th June 2009

Hampshire Youth Games Generation 2 again provided a team of players for these games which this year were focussed at players who have only played for a short while and not played in a regular competition. So we sent Will Jayne, Matthew Kildea and Jack Warwick to do battle in their first real competition. An excellent performance from the trio saw them all progress from the group stages with Will and Jack as winners and Matthew as runner - up. Matthew then lost in the quarter final and Will losing out in the semi final. Jack then fought his way to the final only to lose at the final hurdle. For all three it was a good days performance to build on.