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Men’s Singles

Semi Finals – Ashley Robinson beat Zac Wilson (9,4,8 5); Gavin Maguire beat Ryan Farrell (3,5,10,-3,4)

Final: Gavin Maguire beat Ashley Robinson (13,9,4,-10,5)

Women’s Singles – Mia O’Rahilly Egan beat Pravesha Ragi (-8,6,-8,4,9,9)

U21 Men’s Singles – Tom Davis beat Alan Pattison (-13,5,2,-6,3)

U21 Women’s Singles – Claire Heller beat Mia O’Rahilly Egan (-7,3,6,9)

Restricted Singles – Philip Jamison beat Kevin Mackey (7,8,9)

Veterans Singles – Tibor Pofok beat Brian Devereux -8,8,-10,9,8)

Men’s Doubles – Gavin Maguire/Ashley Robinson beat Peter Graham/Daryl Strong (9,8,4)

Mixed Doubles – Gavin Maguire/Mia O’Rahilly Egan beat Tibor Pofok/Sabina Devereux (-11,8,6,-7,8)

U18 Boy’s Singles – Art McLoughlin beat Alan Pattison (6,5,-4,6)

U18 Boy’s Consolation – James Hamilton beat David Irwin

U15 Boy’s Singles – Art McLoughlin beat James Skelton (7,-9,8,7)

U15 Boy’s Consolation – Isaac Leahy beat Tom Irwin

U13 Boy’s Singles – Max Skelton beat Jonathan Mooney (-6,3,9,9)

U13 Boy’s Consolation – Troy Lucas beat Niall Lane

U18 Girl’s Singles – Mia O’Rahilly Egan beat Zofia Wawrzyniak (-4,-11,7,7,3)

U18 Girl’s Consolation – Silke Heinen beat Nora O’Sullivan

U15 Girl’s Singles – Pravesha Ragi beat Silke Heinen (5,6,8)

U15 Girl’s Consolation – Lela Lecap beat Lucy McIvor

U13 Girl’s Singles – Isabelle O’Sullivan beat Anna Kelly(7,5,-10,8)

U13 Girl’s Consolation – Ruta Mihute beat Alice Looney

U15 Girl’s Doubles –  Pravesha Ragi/Silke Heinen beat Nicole Scott/Nicole Lamour

U18 Girl’s Doubles – Nicole Scott/Thuy Linh Cashman beat Mia O’Rahilly Egan/Zofia Wawrzyniak

U15 Boy’s Doubles – Art McLoughlin/Dillon Byrne beat James Skelton/Julian Kelly

U18 Boy’s Doubles – Joey Nelson/Alan Pattison beat David Taylor/Kristijonas Dapkus

Para Final – Paddy Vaughan beat Colin Judge (11,10,-8,8)

Para Class 11 – Matthew Collins beat Niamh Cafferky

Para Class 11 Consolation – Craig Cleary beat Aoife Kelly

Referees – Con O’Ceadaigh, Tony Martin

All Ireland Primary Schools Championships 2018 – Results

All Ireland  Secondary Schools Championships 2018 – Results

The TTI Board regrets any confusion or inconvenience, and has reluctantly decided to postpone the 2017/18 National Championships (Junior & Senior) to a date in September/October 2018, and the winners will be known as National Champions for this current season. The entry fees already submitted can be held over to this new date, while those who wish to receive a refund may contact the TTI Office at [email protected] or [email protected]”

Seventy entrants, 259 games and over 10 hours of top class table tennis at the Ulster Closed in Lisburn Racquets on Saturday 24th March. Congratulations to all participants and officials on a successful day. Special mention to two titanic five set tussles with Daryl Strong edging past Allen Robson in five long and hard fought sets; and Rebecca Finn’s extraordinary fight back against the extremely talented Sophie Earley,  taking the fifth and deciding set 12.10 having lost the first two sets. 

The winners and runners up of each event are as follows:

Masters Event:

Winner – Phil Wallace; 
Runner Up – Mark McAllister.        

Masters Plate:
Winner – Roy Coats;
Runner Up – Des Flanagan.

Women’s Singles: 
Winner – Rebecca Finn;
Runner Up – Sophie Earley.

Round Robin event so no Plate.

Men’s Singles: 
Winner – Zak Earley;
Runner Up – Thomas Earley.

Men’s Plate:
Winner – Max Skelton;
Runner Up – Pawel Sulkowski.

U-21 Open:
Winner – Zak Earley;
Runner Up – Conor Nugent.

U-21 Plate:
Winner – Lucy Craig;
Runner Up – Connor Smith.

U-18 Girls:
Winner – Lucy Craig;
Runner Up – Lucy Johnston.
Round Robin event so no Plate.

U-18 Boys:

Winner – Max Skelton;
Runner Up – Matthew Cherry.

U-18 Boys Plate:
Winner – Tom Colvin;
Runner Up – Julian Kelly.

U-15 Girls:
Winner – Lucy Johnston;
Runner Up – Lucy McIvor.

U-15 Girls Plate:
Winner: Abbie Wylie;
Runner Up – Lily Smith.

U-15 Boys:
Winner: Tom Colvin;
Runner Up – Max Skelton.

U-15 Boys Plate:
Winner – Tom Irwin;
Runner Up – Chris Minnis.

U-13 Girls:
Winner – Lucy McIvor;
Runner Up – Kia McCartney.

U-13 Girls Plate:
Winner: Lily Smith;

Runner Up – Alice Looney.

U-13 Boys:
Winner – Jonathan Mooney;
Runner Up – Joel Smith.

U-13 Boys Plate:
Winner – Matthew Mooney;
Runner Up – Aedan McGivern.

U-11 Girls:
WINNER – Alice Looney;
Runner Up – Grace Looney.
Round Robin event so no Plate.

U-11 Boys:
Winner – Daniel McFaul;
Runner Up – Aedan McGovern.

U-11 Boys Plate:
Winner – Harry Leavesley;
Runner Up – Peader Sheridan

Congratulations again to all competitors and for all the juniors remember the Secondary Schools individual championships in U12, U14, U16 and U19 takes place on the 18th April at Lisburn Racquets Club. Entry forms available through Norman McBride Ulster Schools TT Secretary. All schools must also be affiliated to Ulster Schools. Email n5mcb@btinternet for more information. Closing date for entries 16th April.

Also three regional Primary School events in April and May. Contact USTTA TT Secretary for more details at n5mcb@btinternet.

Norman McBride

The colour was blue at the Intervarsity Championships hosted by Trinity College in their city centre hall on 16/17 February 2018, as the Dublin colleges took the titles on offer at the event, with UCD Mens 1st team extending their incredible 18 year run in the competition.

In the Ladies team event, it had been 10 years since the title was last taken outside Dublin or Cork, with UCD and UCC sharing the spoils since DCU took their sole team title in 2008.  However, it was surprise package NUI Galway who brought the main challenge to UCD on this occasion, lead by Connacht Interprovincial Amanda Taylor.  UCD were just too strong at this event, with a team lead by Senior International players Nga Nguyen and Hannah Lynch Dawson, as the Belfield girls bossed every match, taking the title ahead of NUI Galway on an 8-0 scoreline.

In the Ladies Individuals, the class at the top of the seeding told, as it was again Nguyen and Lynch Dawson in control of proceedings, coming through against Taylor and UCD’s Meadhbh Slattery, with Lynch Dawson taking her first title on a 3-2 scoreline.  This was the highest ladies entry in the Championships for many years, with many 1st Years taking part for the first time, spread across six different colleges – hopefully a mark of things to come.

In the Mens team event, there were scholarship athletes on display from three different colleges – Ryan Farrell from DCU; Alan Walsh from UCC; and Tom Davis, Alex Gillen and Charlie FitzGerald from UCD.  All eyes were also on the UCD team to see if they could rise to the occasion as the red hot favourites for the Mens Team title, after such an incredible final in 2017 between UCD and UCC.  Chasing a record extending 19th consecutive title in the Mens competition for the Hubert Wine Cup, UCD boasted a team including four Irish Internationals and two Leinster Interprovincials, and unfortunately for everyone else at the Championships brought their A game to the team event, securing all their group matches on a 12-0 scoreline, followed by defeats of DCU in the semi-final and UCC in the final, both on 8-0 scorelines.  Earlier, UCC had topped their group and come past NUI Galway in the semi-finals.  UCD 2nd team weren’t to be left out, as an exciting Team Plate final between UCD B and RCSI went all the way to the last doubles, with UCD taking an 8-7 win.

In the Mens Individuals, from an entry of 52 players, the quarter final lineups were strong enough to grace any senior ranking event, with the UCD quintet of Davis, FitzGerald, Gillen, Luke Dempsey and Thorsten Schwickwrath joined by UCC’s Walsh and Declan O’Brien, and DCU’s Farrell.  Proceeding as seeded, the semi-final line up of Gillen/Walsh and Farrell/Davis brought a final of the top two seeds, Farrell and Gillen, where Ryan Farrell got sweet revenge for his losses to Gillen in the team event, as well as the recent Munster Open, to take the title at his first attempt, on a 3-1 scoreline.

Click here for Men’s singles group results

Click here for Women’s singles group results

Click here for Men’s singles KO results

Click here for Women’s singles KO results

Click Here for Junior and u21 events results

Click here for restricted singles group results

Click here for restricted singles KO results

Sophie Earley & Paul McCreery , Men’s and Women’s Singles winners at the Connacht Junior & Senior Open. 

Sophie had a very successful weekend being a treble winner, 

also winning the Under 15 & Under 19 Singles with Ken Strong

TTI President.

Owen Cathcart, Runner Up in Men’s Singles receiving his Runners Up

prize from TTI President Ken Strong after an exciting final against

National Champion, Paul McCreery.

Click here for results of Men’s singles groups, Women’s singles groups and Class 2 groups

Click here for the results from the knockout rounds of the Men’s singles competition, Women’s singles Competition and Class 2 competition

Click here for placing positions of all junior events and U21 event