2024 2025 News

The signing of Violet-Lily Marquis to our B team makes her at just turned thirteen years old the youngest player ever to play for the club in the Premier Division. To cap that she took a maximum three games when making her debut last week (24/9/24). Violet-Lily is currently ranked No 2 at cadet level (age 15 and under) in England and under the watchful eye of mentor and captain Gabby Tankel who has vast experience at the top level should continue her progression nicely.
Below is a photo of Violet-Lily in action.

We are pleased to announce that club member Gabriela Tankel has been headhunted by the British League club Crawley Foresters to play in the Womens Veterans British League at Premier Division level. This is a great honour for Gabby and shows the improvement made over the last 12 months which now sees her England Ranked No 4 in the Womens Veteran ( over 40 ) ranking list. The photo below shows her with team mates Jurate Brazaityte from Lithuania (centre) and Kinga Oryl from Poland (right). Foresters currently lie in joint second place in the table but with their No 1 player Dorota Borkowska ( Poland) having been absent from the first round of matches but due to return for the remainder runners up spot should be the lowest finishing position for them.

Meanwhile in the North Herts local league and at the halfway stage our team standings are as follows. In the Premier Division (11 teams) our C team top the division with our B team in second place our A team are 4th and our D team 9th.
In Division One (12 teams) it is the E team that lead the way containing the only club member to have retained a 100.0 average.
In Division Two (12 teams) we are again in top spot with our H team 11 points ahead of their nearest rivals.
In Division Three (12 teams) our J team is currently 5th with our K team 6th.

Top averages read;
Premier
C team - Frederic Fourier 96%
B team - Gabriela Tankel 90%
A team - Tomasz Novakowski 86%
A team - Arron Beckett 85%
Division One
E team - Karl Albon 100%
E team - Barry Camis 80%
Division Two
H team - Danny Emery 88%
H team - Dan Weston 87%
Division Three
J team - Nigel Gibson-Birch 76%
K team - Oliver Dean 83%
K team - Paul Bryce 76%

From Roger Bowler

To All Members including our junior players

I thought you would like to know that the Warren Spring Table Tennis Club now has a National Champion in its ranks. The club offers its congratulations to club member Gabriela Tankel who along with her partner Jacek Koziarski from Poland won the VETTS National Championships Mixed Doubles title (photo below). The Championships were played last weekend (17th and 18th May) at the Aldersley Sports Village, Wolverhampton.

The pair won the final 3-0 but had to come from two sets down in the semi's to beat the current holders of the event Eli-Melech Baraty ( Israel) and Hurey Ahmetoglu ( Turkey) 7-11, 4-11, 13-11, 11-7, 11-5

Quote Baraty " they sneaked the third leg and then just got better and better and fully deserved to win".

To put the win into some context, every other singles and doubles event both in men's and women's were won by players from overseas.

From Roger Bowler:-

The 24/25 season is now over and what a season it has been for the club. In the premier division our B team captained by Gabby Tankel won the division with four points to spare from Settlement Skylarks. In division one it was our E team led by Eric Cawkill who took top spot as well as adding the McClaughlin Cup to their list of achievements. We also finished in first place in division two over our close rivals Bedwell D with our three top juniors Danny Emery, Dan Weston and Lucca Harvey-Manning all making above 85%. They finished in style by also taking the McClaughlin Inter Cup. Last but by no means least it was our youngsters making their first appearance in league competition in our K team but with the experienced veteran Paul Bryce as captain who managed to finish as runners-up in the Henderson Cup. Not a bad haul for one season.

From Roger Bowler:-

The club held its annual tournament on 10/11 March with 20 entries from division one, 16 from division two and 17 from division three. Unfortunately, the premier event had to be cancelled due to lack of numbers.
In division one, Adam Laskowski was the only seed to fall at the group stage. In division two the second seed Oscar Darkeish withdrew leaving Lucca Harvey-Manning as group winner whilst in division three the main surprise was Ananmay Gupta coming through in group one over the No 1 seed Martin Hodder. The other surprise here was to see Eric Morcombe in group 4 win at the expense of Zak Burn. All results from the quarter final onwards are shown on the Tournaments page

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