MESC Table Tennis Club

Huge congratulations to 4 of our players who competed brilliantly at the Parkinson’s International Open in Scotland last week. Dawn Brown, Wendy Lee, Rob Dawson and Derek Aylett were all superb and everyone at our club is immensely proud of you.

Derek gained his first win in a national competition in the mixed doubles with Dawn and they eventually finished runners up in the plate.

Stand out performance was from Dawn who won a bronze in the ladies singles main draw, a great achievement. She then went on to win another bronze in the ladies doubles plate event.

I should make a special mention of Wendy who stepped up at the last minute from Class 3 to partner Rob in the mixed doubles in Class 1, a huge leap up the ability ladder. She performed unbelievably well against some of the best players in Parkinson's Table Tennis in Europe.

Rob was drawn in a group where there were two highly ranked German players (one was the eventual Class 1 winner). He then reached the semi finals of the plate losing to the eventual plate winner!

Overall a super performance from the team, and one they can all be proud of.

I’m sure all the team have benefitted from the support of everyone at our club & all the support at home & behind the scenes from those who have encouraged their training and followed them across the country.

Next up are the Parkinson’s World Table Tennis Championships in Germany in September, where Rob and Dawn are competing. Everyone at our club is 100% behind these inspirational players and we’re looking forward to following your success in Germany.

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Huge congratulations to three of our amazing MESC Cadets who performed brilliantly today at the Staffordshire County Championships.

Olivia is Staffordshire U13 champion, and was absolutely outstanding in both the U13 championship and also in the U13 open event losing in the final to Josh also from MESC. She will now be representing Staffordshire Cadets during the coming season- super well done Liv👏👏🏓.

Josh had an amazing day, and was unbeaten in the boys and open U13 events. The final against Olivia from our club was a brilliant match for the spectators and they both have a super bright future. Congratulations to Josh on becoming Staffordshire Under 13 Boys Champion👏👏🏓.

Also Sofie had an an amazing day, losing in the final of the Girls U13 event to Olivia. Sofie was outstanding today and gets better every time she competes. She also had some superb wins in the U15 open event and only lost to the eventual winner 11-9 in the 5th set.

We are super proud of these 3 very talented cadets, as they have also had brilliant success this season in the British Cadet Club League, and the Girls British Cadet Club League.

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Just wanted to send out huge congratulations to some of our female players competing at all levels during the last few weeks.

Dawn and Wendy competed in a Parkinson’s tournament at Brighton Table Tennis Club a few weeks ago and played super well. Both of our ladies are now picking up great experience and are competing in the Scottish open and World Parkinson’s Championships in Hamburg later in the year. Super proud of both of you. They will be joined by Rob and Derek in Scotland, and Rob is also competing in the World event. Good luck to all of you👏🏓.

This weekend, Olivia and Sofie competed in the second weekend of the Girls British Cadet Club League. They were unbeaten as a team in Division 2, Olivia was unbeaten and Sofie lost only one match. This was against some of the best cadets in the North West of England. They Sat top of Division 2 by Sunday evening, so this is a superb effort by two of our youngsters who were competing against much bigger clubs.

Final mention to Florence who came top of Band 6 at the recent Tamworth Cadet Ratings tournament. Unbelievable achievement as she is only 9 and will soon be pushing our older girls for a place in the BCCL teams.

Everyone at MESC is super proud of all of our players, but particularly proud of these 4 over the last 2 weeks. Brilliant effort🏓👏👏

Super proud of these 3 today. After last years promotion from Division 3 of the British Cadet Club League, they completed the 4th weekend of matches today. They finished third in the league and we’re considerably younger than most of their opponents.

Josh and Olivia have played all four weekends, and Reggie has played in 3. Unfortunately, Reggie was poorly today and so Sofie stepped up two Divisions and did brilliantly.

This super talented set of kids are the future of our club, and our sport in this area, and we are incredibly proud of them.

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Brilliant performances by cadets who train at MESC TTC on the second day of the Staffordshire Schools individual championship today.

In the final of the U11 girls Florence Ablewhite beat Sonya Masjakina in a thrilling 5 set match. The match could have gone either way and both girls are a credit to our club.

In the final of the Girls U13’s, the winner was Olivia Ablewhite, who was a class above any other girl and won her final to match her sisters achievement.

In the boys U13 event the final was again contested by two boys who train at MESC. Josh Smith was the winner and he beat Leo Colclough in the final. Great effort again by Josh, and well done Leo in his first Staffordshire event.

Great effort by some our other players also, who made quarter and semi finals, but just missed out on a medal place.

So after two days of competition, cadets and juniors who train at MESC TTC have achieved the following:

Boys U19 Winner - Ellis Roberts
Boys U19 Runner Up - Momin Khan
Boys U16 Winner - Charlie Ma
Boys U13 Winner - Josh Smith
Boys U13 Runner Up - Leo Colclough
Girls U13 Winner - Olivia Ablewhite
Girls U11 Winner - Florence Ablewhite
Girls U11 Runner Up - Sonya Masjakina

We wish all the winners the very best of luck as they will now represent Staffordshire in the National Finals in March.

Also, a big thanks to all of the coaching staff who have worked really hard with these kids to make them some of the best cadet and junior players in the County.

Finally, thanks to parents and supporters, who give up hours of their time getting lots of our junior and cadet players to training and tournaments etc. without you they wouldn’t be making the progress they are.

Huge congratulations to 3 MESC junior players at the Staffordshire schools individual finals today.

Ellis Roberts won the under 19’s boys singles and runner up was Momin Khan.

Charlie Ma won the Boys under 16 event, and Kai Wright was also the losing semi finalist.

Ellis and Charlie will now go on to represent Staffordshire in the English Schools finals later in the year. Fantastic achievement.

On Thursday we have players in both the boys and girls U13 and U11 events and are very hopeful of success there also.

Good luck to Rob Dawson this week competing in the Parkinson’s World Table Tennis Championships in Italy.

Rob is a brilliant ambassador for MESC Table Tennis Club, and we hope you have a brilliant week and inspire more players with Parkinson’s disease to take up the sport.

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Superb performances today at the cadet and junior competition in Tamworth. We had 18 kids there, and it was a long day for those who started at 9.30am and finished at 5pm!

Wonderful success for Ellis Roberts who won Group 1 against some very good players without losing a match (fantastic). Good luck next week representing the County in the Junior County Championships👍

Josh Smith was runner up in Group 2 and was absolutely outstanding all day, beating many players who were much older and more experienced than him. Olivia Ablewhite also finished an excellent 4th in Group 2, again beating much older players

Moosa Khan, was runner up in the Group 3 consolation event, and played superbly all day. Worked his socks off for all of his wins.

Sam Ford, was runner up in the Group 4 consolation event, and gets better every time he plays. Very young lad who competed really well again against older players. (Sorry Sam, I messed up your photo getting your medal).

Harry Hickin playing in his first tournament was runner up in the Group 5 consolation and should be incredibly proud of how he played.

Finally, a huge well done to all of our other players who have worked very hard to be there today, MESC TTC is very proud of you all.

Incredible performance from the MESC Parkinson’s team in the Parkinson’s Scottish International Open in Largs.

Competition has just finished and all the medals handed out.
Derek and Bob played each other in the Men's Plate, Derek won and went on to lose in the Qtr Final.
Bob played very well but unfortunately lost.
Dawn went into the Ladies Plate and won comfortably in the final.
Wendy managed to get to the Main Draw Final but couldn't quite get to grips with her opponent. A *magnificent* effort to reach a final in your first ever competition!!!!
They have done us proud and thoroughly enjoyed the experience and atmosphere, and made some friends as well. All are keen to do it again.
Rob finished off with a R/Up medal in the Mixed Doubles Plate.

Needless to say I am absolutely thrilled for all 5 of the MESC Parkinson’s team. It started 12 months ago with “do you think we’ll win any points”, to now bringing home 3 medals from an International competition. For once in my life, I’m lost for words.

Brilliant effort everyone - Malc👏👏🏓🏓

Huge good luck to the 5 MESC TTC players competing in the Parkinson’s International Open in Largs Scotland this weekend. Hoping all of you have a great time.

All 5 of you are a genuine inspiration to everyone at our club.

Good luck Rob, Bob, Derek, Dawn and Wendy.

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