Bedfordshire's Leading Table Tennis Club
The next round of the Smith Cup competition and the first round of the Plate competition take place week commencing 1st December. The draw is: Home Team Away Team Home Start Away Start Home Venue Home Night Smith Cup St Neots C v Revolution A 126 0 St Neots Tue BCTTC A v Revolution C 0 144 Bedford Academy Wed The Plate Revolution B v BCTTC E 0 162 Church Lane Tue Civil Service C v Revolution D 0 153 St Neots Wed
Congratulations to Josh Hallam, who plays for Revolution TTC’s C team, for confirming his No. 1 seeding position at the county cadet ranking trials at the weekend. He had an unblemished record over 13 matches but was pushed all the way in the final match against Luke Manning, just nicking it 11-9 in the third. Josh’s team mate Ben Baguley finished a credible 6th whilst Revolution’s D team players Ram Dinekar and Kyle Aston finished 9th and 12th respectively. County Rankings Josh Hallam 1 Luke Manning 2 Har-Saivak Singh 3 Oliver Horswell 4 Lewis Bisby 5 Ben Baguley 6 Kieran Harris 7 Ben Almond 8 Ram Dinekar 9 Farhan Kayani 10 Joel Ametume 11 Kyle Aston 12 Gabriel Bechtle 13 read more …
This week is the Smith Cup competition and the draw is: Home Team Away Team Home Start Away Start Home Venue Home Night Revolution B v BCTCC C 0 126 Church Lane Tue Revolution C v Elstow E 63 0 Church Lane Tue Revolution D v Southill A 189 0 Church Lane Tue Civil Service C v Revolution A 198 0 St Neots Wed
All the season’s fixtures have now been published so just click on Fixtures and you can see all the club’s fixtures or just your team’s fixtures.
We are four weeks into the new season and what a fantastic start for Revolution TTC club. The more experienced A, B and C teams are all top of their respective divisions and the relatively inexperienced D team is competing well in all of their matches and will soon start to win some of their closer matches. Well done to Usman Subhani for maintaining a 100% record in the C team closely followed by Josh Hallam who has only lost one match so far. Ian Baldock in the B team lost his 100% record this week when he played county veteran 1st team player Colin Luscombe from St Neots D who only a few seasons ago was top of the read more …
The club is available to members to practice free of charge on Tuesday evenings when there are no matches on. Time on the table is limited to 20 minutes if there are other people waiting. Non-members are welcome to play for a charge of £4 but the 20 minute rule still applies.
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Could all players ensure they have renewed their ETTA Membership for this season. Playing competitive table tennis without a valid membership is against ETTA regulations and also means that you are playing without insurance cover should you injure someone.
One of the most important concepts behind table tennis is the ability to spin the ball. With the latest table tennis rubbers, a table tennis ball can rotate at anything up to 200 revolutions/sec. The ability to vary spin is a function of attack angle, grip against rubber and power. This 20 year old research article explains some of the physics behind generating spin. Revolution Table Tennis Club took its name from one of the most important components of playing table tennis.
It’s important to have a good club logo and I’m sure there are plenty of people out there that have some good artistic skills that could help in this area. So would someone like to come up with some ideas?