2023 2024 News

The club Tournament for the 2023/2024 season will take place on Saturday 10th February and Sunday 11th February at the Great Wymondley Village Hall.

This year there will be a cash price for the Premier Division Singles of £40 for the winner and £25 for the runner up. As always there will be Knockout singles for each of Div 1 , 2 and 3. There will be no handicap competition this year.

The closing date for entry forms to Roger Bowler is Friday 20th January.

It has been a busy few months for club member Gabriela Tankel.
In that time she has managed to maintain her 100% record playing for Hertfordshire in the County Championships as well as beating the England No 12 (on rating points countback) and the no 1 Polish woman playing in England Ewelina Sychta.
Her run of good form continued as she took the Cippenham Open Women's title in January beating England Ranked Ridhi Rohit in a thrilling five setter which Gabriela won 12-10 in the fifth set.
This series of fantastic performances sees Gabriela enter the England Women's Senior Ranking list for February at number 20.
The club wishes "Gabby" as she is known all the very best and hopes that she will continue her great run of success.

Below is a photo of Club star Gabriela on her way to winning the Women's Open Singles at Cippenham.

Sunday 17th March saw club member Gabriela Tankel win the Band 1 event at the Birminghan Academy 1* Open where she once again defeated her close rival Ewilina Sychta from Poland.
Next up for Gabby will be the Sheffield Women's Open and Under 21 and Over 21 event which takes place at the Sheffield Institute of Sport on Saturday 6th May.

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SUNDAY 6th APRIL SHEFFIELD WOMENS OPEN

Alas no silverware for Gabby on this occasion. The day did not begin well as she was beaten in the groups of the Band 1 competition by Nottingham's Kerry Harvey who played well above her England No 54 ranking. This put Gabby through as group R/U and into the more difficult half of the draw. The loss certainly shook Gabby up as she then first defeated Emily Shone and in the quarter finals an inspired performance against the England No 2 veteran Joanne Keighley a match Gabby won 3-2. A semi final match then awaited with the number 1 seed and England No 15 Bethany O'Connell from Lancashire. An outstanding performance from Gabby saw the match poised at 2-2 and 9-9 before just losing out 11-9.

The open event in the afternoon saw Gabby take revenge for her morning defeat as she beat Kerry Harvey 3-1 on her way to another semi final this time against another top veteran in Janet Adams (England No 4). Unfortunately, there was to be no repeat of the mornings good work as Gabby crashed out to Janet in straight sets without ever being able to find an answer to Janet's awesome hitting power.

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NOTTINGHAM WOMENS 1*

No problems in the earlier stages for Gabby her toughest match being against Amber Zygadlo the former England No 34 now making a comeback after a number of years away from the game. However a real shock came later as Gabby went down 3-2 to an inspired performance from Poland's Monika Tomaszak. However she still made the cut and managing to avoid Monika and finally took her place in the semis where she met and defeated England junior Chloe Evans who had won the U/21 competition in the morning.This set up a final against Gabby's big rival Ewelina Sychta .This was their fifth meeting in four months with the score at two wins apiece. Unfortunately on this occasion Gabby was unable to contain the big hitting Polish player and went down 3-0 having to be content on the day with the R/Up spot.

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ENGLISH COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS

Congratulations to Hertfordshire 2 (photo below) on winning promotion to Division One of the Veterans Counties League. The successful team which included two members of the Warren Spring Club, Gabriela Tankel and Steve Buck needed to defeat nearest rivals Essex to top the division which they did 6-4 to finish just two points ahead.

Individual averages: Gabriela 100%, Steve 86%, Stuart Seaholme 62% and Gary Morgan 57%.

Gabby also played for Herts 1 in the Senior County Division One where she finished with 78% losing just three of her singles matches.

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HERTS CLOSED CHAMPIONSHIPS

Again congratulations to Gabby Tankel on winning the ladies singles at the County Closed Championships and the doubles final with partner Thamal Udamulla (photos below).
Gabby's opponent in the singles final was county junior Emilie Fray.
Whilst in the doubles Gabby and Thamal beat Tomek Novakowski and David Beddall in a thrilling contest 16-14 in the fifth leg.

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