The draws are today released for the Mark Bates Ltd Cadet, U17 & Junior Nationals in Nottingham next month. It is a first age group Nationals for Tianer Yu, who last month won the Under-21 Women’s Singles and reached the Women’s Singles semi-finals at the Mark Bates Ltd National Championships. Yu is top seed in the Junior Girls’ Singles, ahead of Sienna Jetha, and there will a new name on the trophy as Anaya Patel, who won the last two editions, is no longer eligible. In the Junior Boys, defending champion Connor Green, who also won the under-21 title last month, is the top seed ahead of ..read more

Almost 350,000 people play table tennis regularly, according to the latest Active Lives survey out this week. The Sport England survey found that 349,600 people had taken part in the sport at least twice in the last 28 days when the survey was carried out, in the period November 2022 to November 2023. This number is holding steady compared with last year’s Active Lives report (November 2021 – November 2022). Among the other key findings in the survey across the whole population and range of activities were: Longstanding inequalities remain, with women still less likely to be active – 65.9% o ..read more

Our New Performance Home Our new performance home at the EISS is really coming to life, with athletes starting their transition to training in Sheffield. I am delighted to hear of so many coaches from the community visiting Sheffield to see our GB performance programme in action too. It’s critical coaches with a passion for developing elite athletes spend time at the EISS and learn from one another and we will continue to offer more opportunities for coaches as our programme settles post Games. Carlo Agnello, our new national coach, joined us in March and is instrumental in leading our youth p ..read more

Ormesby will face Brighton TTC this weekend in a crunch SBL Premier Division tie. The winner will cement their place at the top of the mini league going into the final round of fixtures.  David McBeath is unavailable for the travelling side, a huge loss for Ormesby given his incredible form this season. Enio Mendes, Sam Mabey and Ben Piggot will represent the north-east side looking to go one better than last year and pick up the title. Watch every match in the SBL Premier Division live! BATTS will be hoping to get their title ambitions back on track when they face last year’s champions ..read more

The Yorkshire Table Tennis Association celebrated 100 years since its formation with a reception at the Hotel Met in Leeds on Tuesday 16th April. The president, Richard Scruton, welcomed more than 60 guests and the Table Tennis England president Jill Parker MBE proposed the toast to the Yorkshire Association. The Association chair Joshua Reynolds responded and announced the award of vice-presidencies to Janet Adams, Richard Crowther, Denis Neale, Sandra Rider, Linda Simpson, Granville Thornton, Margaret Welch and Sylvia Worth for their service to the county. Jill Parker was reunited with the ..read more

Tudor Eftinca from St Marys, Hull and Grantham College was the outright winner of the Under-19 boys’ singles in the Ormesby Junior 1 Star Championships which took place at the Teesside club on Sunday April 21. Eftinca (pictured above with Ormesby Chairman Alan Ransome OBE) won the title dropping only one game to the player who finished in fourth, Billy Lee.  In second place was Joshua Jackman from Durham while Aaron Christie from Ormesby was third. In the Under-15 boys’ singles the winner was Adam Watson from the NETTS club in Newcastle.  In second place was David Sherwood from Harr ..read more

Connor Green battled back from within a point of elimination in the last 64 to reach the quarter-finals of the WTT Youth Contender Spa in Belgium with two landmark victories. Green, currently ranked No 96 in the world junior rankings, defeated Slovakia’s Samuel Palusek (WR 48) 3-2 (11-7, 8-11, 5-11, 11-7, 11-9) in the last 32 of the Under-19 Boys’ Singles. He followed it up with an even better victory – 3-1 (11-9, 13-11, 3-11, 11-8) against world No 24 and third seed Celian Besnier of France. Connor Green in action in Spa That put him into the quarter-finals, where he faced No 33 Lee Hoyun of ..read more

Simon Heaps broke more new ground by winning three medals at an international para tournament for the first time. Heaps took Men’s Singles silver, plus bronze in both the Men’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles at the Jordan Para Open in Amman. Competing in the Class 4-5 category, Heaps won his two singles group matches 3-0 against Meiirbek Otepov of Kazakhstan and Ibrahim Sabra of Jordan. He then beat Trivendra Singh of India 3-1 (11-2, 11-9, 7-11, 11-6) in the semi-finals and Muntadher Al Sarraji of Iraq 3-0 (11-9, 11-7, 11-7) in the final. Both doubles were round-robin and, in the Men’s, Heaps &am ..read more

Week 31 saw division 2B’s Hutton Harriers and division 2C’s Chelmsford Panthers take the first two of four junior divisional titles on offer. Chelmsford Junior League division 2A The Hutton Hawks moved within touching distance of the division 2A title with a 4-1 home win over the Chelmsford Cougars. Charlie Ware was in dominating form as he won both of his matches 3-0 – dropping just 24 points over the six games. Ben Robinson earned the sole point for the visitors with a 3-1 win over Noah Middleton. The Chelmsford Eagles kept their hopes of catching leaders the Hutton Hawks alive with a 3-2 w ..read more

Today is World Table Tennis Day (WTTD) – celebrating the theme of Diversity and Inclusion to underscore the sport’s unifying power, where individuals from all backgrounds, cultures and abilities come together to share their passion.  Table Tennis England is committed to equality and diversity and our projects and programmes aim to remove the barriers that exist and prevent people accessing table tennis. Click here to read more about this. Through the Table Tennis United strategy, we are working to make table tennis a thriving community and a sport for everyone, with no barriers to t ..read more