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However, as always, the best part for us was meeting up with so many old friends - and making new ones. There seemed more people we knew this year and it was a special moment to meet up with Margaret and Dennis Calver who we hadn’t seen for several years. They attended the Championships as they had been nominated by Shaun Parsley for the Pride of Table Tennis Lifetime Achievement Award and won the category. It would be hard to find a more dedicated and delightful couple. Margaret and I had worked together as Umpires Managers on several occasions including English Opens, the Para Olympic Test event and National Championships. Dennis was always present as an umpire and earnt the moniker ‘Last Man Standing’ as he was the last umpire to leave any venue. Congratulations to them both on a welldeserved award. Margaret and Dennis Calver. Photo by Diane Webb Some More Shots Gavin Evans presenting the Mike Watts Achievement Awards to Ella Pashley and Ralph Pattison Photo by Mike Rhodes An emotional moment for Tom Jarvis with his Grandad Photo by Alan Man The Drinkhall family with the Men's Doubles Trophy Photo by Alan Man Two of our most famous players Jill Parker MBE and Desmond Douglas MBE Photo by Mike Rhodes TTT: Issue 30: Spring 2023 8
World Veteran Championships (WVC) Muscat, Oman: 15 th -21 st January 2023 All photos by Mike Rhodes It was nice to have this event back in the calendar as it hadn’t been run since 2018 when it was held in Las Vegas. The tournament in Bordeaux in 2021 was first postponed and then cancelled due to Covid-19. Oman was the first time that the WVC had run in the Middle East and also the first time that the ITTF had run it. The authority had been handed over to them from the Swaythling Club International who had run it since it’s inception in 1982. Entries were much lower than usual with a total of 1,181 and only 22 from England, three from Wales and one from Scotland. However, what they lost in quantity they made up for in quality with a good haul of medals. There were only nine home nation players – all men! There were many excellent performances including Lorestas Trumpauskas who was probably the star of the England players when he narrowly missed out on the gold medal in the O50 Men’s Singles to Dane, Henrik Vendelbo. Sandra Rider, too, came away with a silver medal in the O70 Women’s Singles losing to Japan’s Kazuko Horino. She got a second medal, a silver, in the O70 Women’s Doubles playing with Hildegard Georgi of Germany. Lorestas Trumpauskas and Sandra Rider Seasoned veteran player, Betty Bird, reached the semi-finals in the O85 Women’s Singles losing to her doubles partner, Mariann Blasberg and won gold in the O85 Women’s Doubles, to add to her considerable medal haul over the years. Roy Norton with Wales’s Dennis Bromage achieved a similar semi-final place in the O80 Men’s Doubles. A special mention must be made of Michael Marsden, who now plays under Wales colours, who won a gold in the O40 Men’s Doubles with Gregor Foerster of Germany. Betty Bird and Michael Marsden & Gregor Foerster TTT: Issue 30: Spring 2023 9
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Page 3 and 4: Unseeded Ella Pashley, still a cade
Page 5 and 6: The score in the final was 8, 6, -7
Page 7: Payet had two monumental matches to
Page 11 and 12: More Photos It was certainly a diff
Page 13 and 14: Back to the hall Thursday where the
Page 15 and 16: The whole of the tournament was to
Page 17 and 18: Which perhaps was not a bad thing?
Page 19 and 20: Europe Top 16 Cup 25 th -26 th Febr
Page 21 and 22: Victor Barna and David Creamer in N
Page 23 and 24: European Championships Qualifiers S
Page 25 and 26: Fairy Tale at the Palace By Neil Br
Page 27 and 28: World Championships: 22 nd -28 th M
Page 29 and 30: WTT Feeder, Amman, Jordan: 1 st -4
Page 31 and 32: All except Pitchford had to play in
Page 33 and 34: A Late Return - Table Tennis à la
Page 35 and 36: There were many exciting times duri
Page 37 and 38: Swaythling Club International: Engl
Page 39 and 40: ❖ The Halex Golden Rackets presen
Page 41 and 42: ❖ Charles Wyles, ETTA Chairman, w
Page 43 and 44: In Memoriam Erica Prean Erica Prean

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