Great match with Cleeve Park Juniors last week! Losing out in a close encounter 43 – 32. We had several players playing for the club for the first time showing our strength coming into the club – well done all. Everyone played well and enjoyed the friendly interclub competition. We look forward to the return match!
The Maidstone club competed in a very strong Cadet British Club League Division 3 last weekend after promotion last time and played very well overall. Losing 2 close matches 5-4 and 6-3 and then 9-0 to the top team. All 3 players competed well and won matches individually. We hope to bounce back next time in Division 4 at the next event.
Well done to the team!
Maidstone TTC had great success recently at the Cadet British Club League with three team wins out of three in the 4th Division – winning 9-0, 8-1 and 7-2.
Well done to Flynn (9/9), Raffaele (8/9) and Harry (7/9) for a brilliant day of games – you did MTTC very proud!
Delyth North, Maidstone Table Tennis Champion and founder member of the New Maidstone Table Tennis Club was excited to be selected to represent Wales at the Veterans Home Nations tournament in Nottingham last weekend 5th – 7th September 2025.
Expressing her delight at being selected she said “It’s about 25 years or more since I represented Wales last … I’ll be playing in the Home Nations again but this time in the VETTS Team”.
Since her selection Delyth has been training hard at the new Maidstone Table Tennis Club and her hard work paid off with Wales getting Bronze in the team event and with teammate Catherine Jones a silver medal in the Doubles. Delyth commented that it was 30 years ago that she and Catherine last played together for Wales then in the Junior Home Nations.
Returning to the Maidstone club last evening to fulfil her weekly junior coaching duties she thanked everyone for their support and said “I played the best I’ve ever played! Practice obviously works!”.
Delyth is particularly keen for more girls to join the Maidstone club and hopefully follow in her footsteps.
Catherine Jones and Delyth North with their doubles silver medals.
The August holiday competition was completed on Tuesday 2nd September with the winner being presented with the Alan Woollven Shield, in honour of his contribution to junior coaching over many years.
Play had taken place over the August holidays to rank the players into groups for the finals.
Group 1 winner was Flynn Kemp and the runner up Raffaele Andreatta.
The trophies were presented by Alan Woollven’s son Paul, and daughter Rachel.
All results:
Group 1 winner was Flynn Kemp and the runner up Raffaele Andreatta.
Group 2 winner – Luke Burgess Clements
Group 3 winner – Antonio Haralambie
Non-league winner – Billy Woodams
Summer League finalists with coaches Adrian Moore and Delyth North.
In the centre, league organiser Johann Le (in the cap)
The club had all 15 table in action for the first Junior Closed Championships held at the club over the first two Tuesdays in May 2025.
Despite the club only being open for just over four months the success of the coaching evenings was evident in the standard of play achieved.
A selection of comments from parents “Just wanted to say a big thank you for hosting the competition tonight,” the boys are absolutely buzzing,” “I can see he’s improved a lot,” “what a great experience for them all.”
The boy’s final was a classic attack against defence with long rallies and some excellent retrieving by Flynn Kemp but it was the consistent attack of Raffaele Andreatta that won the day 13-11, 8-11, 11-8, 14-12.
Ava Gillivan fresh from representing Kent Primary Schools at the national school’s finals proved too strong in the Girls final beating Elsie Monder 11-5, 11-6, 11-5.
In a hard-fought attacking battle Felix Adam beat Harry Lawes in the Consolation final 11-9, 6-11, 4-11, 11-5, 11-6.
The trophies were presented by Shevon McDonald who sponsored the junior Club Shirts.
