Ilford TTL - News Articles 2011/12

The following articles are as submitted to the Ilford Recorder. (Not necessarily as published!)

10 May 2012
In the Ilford League Open Singles event, last year’s runner-up Clive Carthy went one better this year by beating Roland Zaunmayr 3-0 in the final. On his way to the final, Carthy defeated Darek Zurowski, who was aiming to equal Brian Brumwell’s record of five consecutive wins.

Zaunmayr played brilliantly up until the final, beating number 4 seed Euan Liddle, Essex Veteran champion Peter Radford and number one seed Didier Ngoma in the semi-final.

In the final, he met a man who was not to be denied and found himself 8-1 down in the first game. Carthy’s powerful forehand drive was devastating and played at such an acute angle that Zaunmayr was often left flat-footed. Carthy eventually won 11-6, 12-10, 11-8.

In the Veterans’ Singles final, top seed Peter Radford defeated Paul Martindill 3-1.

03 May 2012
The first four events in the Ilford league tournament were held this week.

In the Open Doubles, Darek Zurowski and Klaudia Szadkowska won for the fourth consecutive year, beating Maciej Nakielski and Gavin West 11-6, 11-9, 11-8 in the final.

In the Veterans Doubles, top seeds Phil Walker and Paul Martindill got revenge for the defeat they suffered in last year’s semi final by beating holders Sal Ahmed and Ray Brown in the final 11-7, 8-11, 15-13, 11-2.

In the Division 2&3 Singles, Armagan Huseyin beat Cecil Almeida 11-9, 10-12, 7-11, 11-3, 11-3. After losing the third game, Huseyin’s head dropped and he looked consigned to defeat. However, his mentor had a quiet word with him and he was suddenly a different player as he won the last two games easily.

In the Division 3 final, number one seed Richard Feder beat David Adeleye 11-6, 11-8, 11-9

19 April 2012
In the Ilford Handicap cup final, Mossford 3 from division 1 met Langdon 5 from div 3, who had a 230 points start. This, however, proved insufficient as the Mossford team of Naveed Chaudhry, Mohammad Owadally and Laikram Persaud were much too consistent and accurate for the Langdon trio of Damanjeet Singh, Chris Seymour and Akram Bhuyan, winning by 16 points (426 to 410).

Langdon’s best effort was by Singh, who only lost 8-11, 8-11, 4-11, 3-11 to Chaudhry but otherwise each Langdon player failed to reach more than 18 points from their four individual games compared to Mossford’s maximum 44 points.

Mossford’s win prevented a clean sweep by the Langdon club as they won each of the three divisional cups.

02 Feb 2012
In the Ilford division 1, Langdon 1 hosted Woodford Wells 1. Langdon’s top player was league individual champion Darek Zurowski, who won his first two singles. In his final match he met Phil Walker of Wells, who had lost his first match 3-0 to Luca Mariano then beat Rohit Kumar 11-9 in the fifth game of his second match.

Zurowski won the first game 14-12, Walker won the second 12-10, Zurowski the third 11-5 and Walker the fourth 11-9. The fifth and deciding game was very close and the match reached deuce at 10-10. Walker finally won 13-11 to record probably his best win of the season.

He then combined with Roland Zaunmayr to win the doubles against Kumar and Mariano to give Wells a creditable 5-5 draw.

26 Jan 2012
Usually matches in Table Tennis provide either an unbeaten player or a player who fails to win any individual match. In the Ilford league div 3 match between Heathcote 5 and Mossford 7, nobody won all their three singles and nobody lost all three.

The three Heathcote players, David Adeleye, Sulrata Mukherjee and Alex Zandavas, each won two singles but each lost a singles to a different player. Mossford, in fact, won the opening three matches; Rohit Sood beat Adeleye, Sunil Jindal beat Mukherjee and Sacha Spence beat Zandavas.

After that, Heathcote won the remaining six singles to go 6-3 ahead before Mossford won the doubles to give Heathcote a 6-4 victory.

19 Jan 2012
In the Ilford league, the Langdon club has unearthed yet another junior in Kleber Silva, who won all three of his singles in their division 2 match against Redbridge 1.

With a consistent backhand topspin and a devastating forehand topspin, often hit down the opponent’s backhand, Silva was in sparkling form, helping his team to a 6-4 victory. He was well supported by Paul Miller who added two wins and Kwaku Ampofu with one.

However, the best match of the night was the doubles in which Silva and Miller combined to play Redbridge’s Ray Brown and Alan Rosenfeld. The Langdon pair seemed well on the way to victory by winning both the first two games 11-6.

The Redbridge pair won the next two games 11-9, 11-5 but in the fifth and deciding game, the teams changed ends with Langdon leading 5-1. Redbridge never panicked and drew level at 9-9 before gaining victory 11-9.

15 Dec 2011

Captain Scarlett is the hero

In the Ilford League Division 2, Heathcote 4 entertained Redbridge 1, with only one place separating both teams in the league table.

Heathcote began in the best possible way, winning the first five singles matches for a 5-0 lead. Heathcote captain, Patrick Scarlett, was involved in an unusual match against Ray Brown. After each player had won one game, Scarlett went into an 8-0 lead in the third game, which he extended to 10-2. Brown then won eight points in a row to draw level at 10-10.

After four more shared points, Scarlett won 14-12. Brown won the fourth game and in the fifth and deciding game, the players changed ends with Scarlett leading 5-0, a lead which proved crucial as Scarlett won 11-7.

After two more matches, Heathcote extended their overall lead to 6-1 and a rout was on the cards. However, Brown then beat Hamza Hussain and Redbridge’s Alan Rosenfeld then had a fantastic win against Armagan Huseyin to bring the scores closer at 6-3.

The doubles was an extremely close affair, but after five exciting games, Brown and Rosenfeld gave Redbridge another win to make the final score 6-4 to Heathcote. The only unbeaten player was Heathcote captain, Scarlett.

8 Dec 2011
In the Ilford League Division 3, leaders Rhodium entertained 3^rd-placed Redbridge 2. The first match of the evening was between Rhodium’s Rod Cadywould, who had played every match for a 92% average and Andy Petrou, who had only lost once out of three league matches.

This match would eventually determine the result of the league points; Petrou won the first two games, 11-7,11-6 but Cadywould showed real character to win the next two 12-10, 11-8. The fifth and deciding game was close before Petrou finally scraped home 12-10.

Petrou certainly got his money’s-worth as his next match also went to a deciding game. His match against Gary Pettifer was a classic with Petrou again going into a 2-game lead but this time it was by the closer scores of 11-9, 17-15. Pettifer won the next two 11-9, 11-6 but then ran out of steam as Petrou won the decider 11-2.

Redbridge gained six league points with a 6-4 win.

18 Nov 2011
In the Ilford League Handicap Cup, Mossford 6 from division 2 entertained division 1 Heathcote 1. The hosts were given a start of 160 points in the 9-set match but unfortunately lost by 3 points. The critical matches were Heathcote’s Ralph Munkoh beating Navdeep Panesar 11-1, 11-3, 11-5, 11-6 and Sujay Jagannathan’s victory over Hitesh Magudia 11-2, 11-5, 11-6, 11-3.