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Claims mostly arise when teams confuse home nights. Home teams should contact away teams before each fixture to confirm they are aware of it. Claims may not be accepted if this is not done. Claim A is where opponents fail to appear without proper notice. Claim B is where opponents give notice of being unable to fulfil the fixture and concede the match. The claiming team inputs the scorecard, recording the reasons and whether contact was made before the fixture.
Postponements
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Fixture |
Div or cup |
Original date |
New date* |
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Brechin v Knights |
Cup (Cchal) |
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Claim B |
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Up4it v Brechin |
Cup (Stan) |
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Claim B |
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Brechin v Chieftains |
Cup |
09/10/25 |
Claim B |
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Buccaneers v Letham A |
Cup |
6/11/25 |
Claim B |
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Aces v Buccs |
Cup (Hcap) |
19/02/26 |
Claim B |
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Larick Liners v Missiles |
League |
13/10/25 |
Claim B |
* Note: please confirm the ‘New dates’ with the relevant team secretaries as
these may change without the Match Secretary knowing.
MATCH REPORTS
This page is reserved for DDTTA league and cup reports (most recent first). Other competitions are reported on the News page.
Season 2025/2026
League Report - Week Commencing 23rd of March (Week 21/21, final week of the season)
DIV.1 ROUND-UP
Villa V Barons
7 3
2-man Barons obviously understrength for the final fixture of the season away to Villa who called upon Rob McLean from Tigers to fill in for holidaying regulars.
Rob performed creditably just being edged out in five games in both the doubles and in the final match against Martin Klopper.
Otherwise it was a nice way to finish a challenging season for Villa who ended up finishing in the relegation position of 7th place.
Aces V 🏆Knights🏆(the league decider!)
5 5
So here it is folks, the one we've all waited for...
The 2 top teams in Dundee serve off against each other at Forthill Sports Centre with the league on the line!
Aces went into this final match needing an 8-2 victory over their counterparts to take the title of DDTTA champions so how did they fare???
After losing the 1st game of the match where, Andrew Nimmo beat Grant Williams, the match see-sawed where Aces kept equalising and Knight's kept taking the lead again.
During this see-saw of a title decider, in game #5, Davey "Haymaker" the little lightning bolt, beat Grant 11-8 in the 4th set to take the league title for the young Knights team!
Knights are becoming quite a famous team now in the history books of DDTTA with the amount of success they have racked up the past few years, fair play to them!
After retaining their title, Knights then relinquished their lead in the match as Aces fired some parting shots at their enemies to take a 5-4 lead in the match thanks to a gallant hat-trick display from player of the season, Mr. Danny Tibbetts! ( Aces controversial super-sub!)
However, performing like the champions they are, Knights had the final say in the league decider where their main-stay, Stuart Halliday, rallied from 2 sets down against Grant to win 14-12 in the deciding set of the season to square up the match.
The night ended with a sour taste in the mouths of Aces as there was a debate between both sides at the end of the match regarding Aces decision to relieve some of their other team players of their table duties in order to get #1 player of the season, Daniel to play in this important match instead.
My view of this situation as DDTTA match secretary is one of, Aces were well within their rights to bring Tibbetts to the table as he is a fellow club player and Knights should have just sucked it up and accepted that challenge.
Hopefully there will be no bad blood between both teams next season.
Well done to Knights 🏆🏓🏆
Swots V Defenders
6 4
With their relegation already confirmed going into this final match of the season, Defenders had their last opportunity to win a match this season.
St. Andrews team Swots though, would not be in a charitable mood as they inflicted yet another defeat to the Forthill team who astonishingly got relegated while having the league's best player, Daniel Tibbetts!
Daniel too strong for all of the Swots winning all his matches, including the doubles.
Two wins each for David Smith, sub, Howard Lee and Nick Shepherd of Swots.
Scott Thomson of Defenders was majorly affected by a back injury.
Brechin V Up4it
0 10
Last match of the season well won by Up4it against a Brechin team fielding 2 reserves.
Div. 1 Player Of The Week:
Daniel Tibbetts ♠️🏓♠️🔥♠️
So my fellow TT'ers, there we have it.
Our league champions of the 2025/26' season are as follows:
Div. 1 champs - Knights
Div. 2 champs - Lundin Lasers
Div. 3 champs - Prefects
I hope everyone has had an enjoyable, competitive season in DDTTA this season which has saw some great tt.
I hope everyone has enjoyed my match reports and sorry this final one has taken the longest to post!
It has been great to see more teams play in DDTTA this season where we are seeing a little growth of our sport in past couple of years compared to previous years, let's hope this trend continues into the 2026/27' season guys!
Please keep an eye out for our DDTTA Summer League being ran from my fellow DDTTA Joint Match Secretary, Shirley McKay starting this June at WRG.
Please also keep an eye out for my TTS sanctioned Dundee Summer Smash tournaments that I will be running again this August on Aug 8th & 9th at WRG.
If you can't come and play in the tournaments then please come and watch from the balcony to see some great Scottish tt action in our very own WRG!
Cheers again guys for all your competitive play/spirit and assistance in completing your own team's individual match reports through the course of the season, been a good help to me.
Cheers
Ryan Doc
DDTTA Joint Match Secretary
League Report - Week Commencing 16th of March (Week 20/21)
DIV.1 ROUND-UP
Villa V Up4it
4 6
Winning a tight doubles match helped secure a useful 4 points for relegation threatened Villa here.
Reserve Daniel Tibbetts was in great form for the hosts as per.
Defenders V Barons
5 5
Well well well folks, who would have thought it!
Daniel Tibbetts who has been unbeaten the whole season in the league finally succumbed to defeat with only 2 matches of the season to go!
Who accomplished this victory over Daniel... Mr. Tony Nelson!!
What a great victory for the young man in what has been a good debut season for the Barons hitman in DDTTA this year and he did it in straight sets! Wow!
Craig Smith followed up this exceptional 1st game victory in game#2 with an 11-9, 5th set thriller victory over Defenders' Sandie Bertie.
Scott Thomson had a good 5th set match with Craig where Scott won 11-9 in the 5th set to get Defenders level-pegging at 3-3.
Tony was indestructible on the night, winning all his matches in straight sets!
This definitely aided Barons in securing a draw in this match.
Not looking good for the Forthill based Defenders who are staring relegation in the face.
Knights V Swots
5 5
A match that seemed to be very straight forward before coming to life in the second half.
A big performance from Swots to take the doubles and looked to put a dent in Knights title charge, before super-sub Munro MacIntosh pulled off one of the results of the season after beating Nick Shepherd of Swots in straight sets! David Hay and Yubo Rasmussen then played a match of the highest quality that wouldn't have looked out of place at any national event.
The night finished with a blood, sweat and tears finale that Stuart Halliday looked to be taking control of, before Ryan Campbell forgot how to miss and forced Stuart to find bigger and bigger shots that eventually became impossible! Knights head into the final day showdown with Aces ahead of their Forthill rivals but certainly not over the line!
Young Munro has certainly had his say into who may end up as league champions of DDTTA!!
Brechin V Aces
1 9
Aces won easily against 2-man Brechin in the end with only Aaron Robertson taking a match beating Peter Aird.
Grant Williams and Matt Craig were too strong on the night winning all their matches in straight sets.
The doubles match was a close affair with Grant and Matt winning in 5.
Some great table tennis played tonight and Aces move on to the league decider match next week v Knights!
Div. 1 Player Of The Week:
Tony Nelson 🏓 🔥 🏓
DIV. 2 ROUND-UP
Duffers V 🏆Lundin Lasers🏆
6 4
With the league title already wrapped up for Lundin Lasers going into this final match of the season, they turned upto this match with only 2 players.
Andy Reid completed a hat-trick of wins on the night against the div. 2 champs to end Duffers season on a high after a struggling campaign for the Forthill based team.
Letham A V Chieftains
5 5
Quite a few very close games and some fantastic rallies.
Plamen Kostadinov winning his 3 matches helped Letham to a draw between the next best 2 sides in div. 2 after the champions, Lasers but with this fixture being irrelevant to the outcome of the league, it was more about the enjoyment of the game rather than winning or losing.
The matches were played in great spirit with a bit of banter thrown in.
A great evening of table tennis to finish off the season for both teams.
Truants V Tigers
7 3
The 2 middle of the road teams battled each other here in St. Andrews' Cosmos Community Centre.
Ian Smith showed good form in the last match of the season, winning all his games all in straight sets!
This meant that Truants closed the gap on Tigers however Tigers remained and finished the season in 4th place.
Lundin Lynxes V Buccaneers
4 6
Good end of the season match, played in good spirit.
Young Campbell Barr of East Fife team Lynxes, finished the campaign in great form, winning a hat-trick of games.
Unfortunately for him though, his team got relegated.
He will be one of our youngsters we have coming through at DDTTA to watch for next season as he finished his season with a 50% player average, a good effort for the young lad in a good competitive div. 2.
2 tables for the match meant that Buccaneers got an early journey back to Brechin.
Div. 2 Player Of The Week:
Ian Smith 🏓 🔥🏓
DIV. 3 ROUND-UP
Larick Liners V Sputniks
0 10
Unfortunately for the new Tayport side in DDTTA this season, they suffered a final league match whitewash defeat at home to an ever-improving Sputniks side from Forthill.
With this big win on the final day of the season, Sputniks finished very close to the runners-up spot.
Sputniks should be league contenders next season.
Missiles V 🏆Prefects🏆
3 7
Missiles' young gun, Nathan Bertie finished his own season off in style with a hat-trick of wins against the newly crowned div. 3 champs Prefects!
However, Prefects were to remain unperturbed by Nathan's final shot in the arm as the St. Andrews side, even with 2 reserves, showed their experience to seal the match and close out the season victorious!
Telecoms V Squires
4 6
Going into the doubles game in this match, the scoreline was all square at 3 a piece.
However, after this point in the match, Squires took the lead after winning the doubles with a great 2 sets to 0 comeback win by Rod Archibald & Scott Wishart and then winning the next 2 singles matches to win the match.
Graeme Elrick showed how good a season he has had by winning his 3 games but it was not enough for the div.3 runners-up.
Crickety V Letham B
0 10
Letham won easy in the end but it was a good fixture with lots of good rallies.
There were four 4 set games and a 5-set game where Bill Powrie came back from 2-0 down to beat Colin Reynolds, 12-10 in the 5th to secure the whitewash win for the Letham based team.
Scholars V Lairds
0 10
Scholars showed up to their final match of the season, sporting just a 2-man team so therefore it was always going to be an uphill battle for them.
Lairds showed no mercy and gave them a heavy defeat with another positive display from the fast-improving young player in their ranks, "Magic" Munro Macintosh!
Div. 3 Player Of The Week:
Nathan Bertie & Munro Macintosh 🏓🔥🏓
Cheers guys.
Stay tuned to see what happens in the league decider between Aces and Knights!
Ryan Doc
Joint DDTTA Match Secretary
League Report - Week Commencing 9th of March (Week 19/21)
DIV.1 ROUND-UP
Barons V Knights
3 7
Another good night for Tony Nelson of Barons, getting wins over Andrew Nimmo and Stuart Halliday for the 2nd week running!
Much needed points for 2-men Barons who were without Martin Klopper in the match.
Will these dropped points for Knights prove crucial in the title run-in?!
Villa V Defenders
10 0
The end score was probably a bit harsh to Defenders as most matches were well contested.
Welcome points however for Villa as they are in a relegation battle with their fellow club team, Defenders!
Swots V Brechin
2 8
Dominant win for Brechin, Callum Riddoch leading the way with 4 victories including a five set doubles.
Two wins each for Aaron Robertson & Derek Mitchell for Brechin.
Ryan Campbell won the only two points for Swots in this mid-table battle
Up4it V Aces
4 6
Aces started the match in determined fashion, hoping to fuel their title winning aspirations, with 11 successive set wins to lead 3-0 and Grant Williams 2 sets to nil up versus Gillian Edwards Thankfully, Gillian found some "Edward's inspiration" to win the next 3 sets to spark an Up4it comeback!
Ryan "The Doc" Docherty then stunned Matt Craig with a straight set masterclass to reduce the arrears further.
Iain Martin continued the fightback clawing his way to a gritty 5th win against Jos Berkout to level the match at 3-3.
Up4it were flying now - Iain and Ryan won the first 2 sets of the doubles against Grant and Matt, then squandered a match point at 12-11 in the 3rd.
The Aces pair made them pay the ultimate price by producing some silky shots to win 12-10 and 11-8 to claim the win.
Matt then defeated Gillian in 4 before Grant dispatched Iain in brutal fashion in game 9.
Up4it got some consolation when Ryan beat Jos in a brilliant final game!
Div.1 Player Of The Week :
Jim Dyson 🏓🔥🏓
DIV. 2 ROUND-UP
Comets V Lundin Lynxes
8 2
Fun and games at Forthill with 3 matches squeezed in the hall!!
This match was closer than the score suggests and the final result should see Comets avoiding relegation but puts the visitors in real relegation trouble going into the final week of the season.
The games were not played in the correct order! It was a good match played in a friendly but competitive atmosphere:
Fraser Smith was unbeaten again in all his matches for the home side and Campbell Barr gave the home side lots of problems but only won one match; easily defeating Comets captain Ian McLagan
In the battle of the Doug's in the last game the visitors' Douglas Dewar edged a win in three tight games to try and put some respectability on the final scoreline.
Chieftains V Truants
9 1
Match was closer than the score suggests with three matches going to 5 sets but Chieftains won all three with Bill Beattie winning 2 of these 5 set battles.
Lundin Lasers V Letham A
🏆6🏆 4
Very tight fixture from the top two teams in the league as expected with Lasers just doing enough to get over the line and confirm they are now league champions! 🏆
Well done to Adam Sitko for winning all his games for Lasers and in the process, taking Ian Farquhar's long standing (for nearly 2 years!!) 100% player average!
A special mention to Theo Chirica for grabbing two solid wins against Nat Forno and Roman Nydza as well as he was playing up as a reserve in this top of the table clash.
Well done to the East Fife team of Lundin Lasers!
See uz in 1st Division again next season guys!
Buccaneers V Duffers
7 3
Both Steve Stranock & Murray Johnstone were in fine form in this match played at The Crickety in Brechin, both winning 3/3 of their games played each.
Bucs took command of this match from game#6 to game#9 in which they won all of these games.
Div. 2 Player Of The Week:
Mr. Adam Sitko 🏓🔥🏓
DIV. 3 ROUND-UP
Sputniks V Scholars
10 0
Very entertaining fixture and tough on Scholars not to win any matches.
Lachlann Henderson against Knut Radmer was a complete toss-up and went to deuce in the 5th with Lachlann taking it.
Callum Mowat went very close against Lachlann and also against Jack Oughton.
Even the doubles game went Sputniks way after Jack and Lachlann looked like a poor team for two sets before suddenly discovering how to play with each other and winning the next three sets.
Letham B V Larick Liners
10 0
Match claim type B on behalf of Letham B.
Squires V Crickety
9 1
The Brechin players of Crickety continue to improve and they battled hard throughout.
They got their reward in the 9th game when Lewis Cameron came from 2-1 down to win the 4th and 5th sets 12-10 against Winnie Stein - saving match points in the process!
Well played young "Squire"!!
Prefects V Telecoms
🏆7🏆 3
A Cosmos Cracker was served up at St Andrews where the hosts justified their table topping position.
Their were still stirring performances from each of the Telecoms team ensuring each of the visitors left with a point under their belt but this could not stop the punishing Prefects from showing their superiority over the course of this season in div. 3 as they are crowned div. 3 champions!!
Well done to the Prefects! 🏆🏓🏆
Lairds V Missiles
9 1
Strong win for Lairds in the end but some very good play by Missiles who were a bit unlucky not to get another win or two.
2 hat-trick displays on show here from the experienced Andy Hughes & the young hot-shot of the 2025/26' season, "MMM", Magic Munro Macintosh!
Div. 3 Player Of The Week:
Ms. Jie Guo 🏓🔥🏓
So that's the div.2 & div.3 leagues settled for the 2025/26' DDTTA season. Big congratulations to our div. 2 champions, Lundin Lasers who will be back in the top division only 1 year after being relegated!
Also, congratulations to Prefects who won div. 3 this season. Well played guys! 🏓🏆🏓
Stay tuned to see the outcome of our div.1 league race and the relegation battle aswell!
Cheers guys
Ryan Doc
Joint DDTTA Match Secretary
League Report - Week Commencing 23rd of February (Week 18/21)
DIV.1 ROUND-UP
Defenders V Up4it
4 6
Again, bottom side Defenders would not make life plain sailing to their opponents in this evening's match, Up4it, as they had player of the season, Daniel Tibbetts in superior form again in his debut season in DDTTA.
With a hat-trick of wins for the young Aberdonian, Defenders stayed in the match all the way to the end of this match.
Up4it's experienced campaigners however, shared all of their wins equally throughout their team of Paul Monteith, Gillian Edwards and Iain Martin, all with 2 wins each in the match.
Paul and Iain closed out the show with 2 wins against Richard Tough & Scott Thomson respectively to take the away win at Forthill.
Knights V Villa
10 0
League toppers, Knights secured a whitewash victory here at Ward Road Gym against an experienced Villa team which may prove pivotal in their chances of retaining their league title.
Stuart Halliday, Andrew Nimmo & Davey Hay all with 100% evening's play here.
One note to take from the match was 2 "granny" sets for the imperious Haymaker!
Brechin V Barons
4 6
Barons travelled to Brechin looking for some valuable points in the league for their fight for survival in div.1 and took the match 6-4.
Tony Nelson won his 3 although he was pushed all the way by Aaron Robertson eventually coming out on top in 5 games after being 2 sets to 0 down.
He then teamed up with Craig Smith in the doubles to beat Aaron and Derek Mitchell 3-1.
Unfortunately, in the second 5 setter of the day Martin Klopper narrowly beat reserve, Murray Johnstone the 5th game.
Derek and Aaron beat Martin and Craig with the Barons duo beating reserve Murray.
Enjoyable and tight match however the spoils go to Barons.
Aces V Swots
4 6
Was this the night in the season where Aces ruined their title hopes???
A surprise result some might say this season as Aces have been ahead of the pack for the majority of the season but on this night, where Swots' Yubo Rasmussen won all of his matches, maybe this was where cracks started to appear in Aces' season.
Aces knew they were in a tough night from the off as Grant Williams of Aces had to come from 2 sets down against an impressive Ryan Campbell to win the 1st match of the night in a close encounter.
Yubo was very impressive against the league leaders here with all of his 3 wins coming in straight sets!
The match result was on the line in the last match where Nick Shepherd of Swots excelled himself against Grant to beat him in 3 straight sets and secure the victory for the St. Andrews team!
Div. 1 Player Of The Week:
Yubo Rasmussen 🏓🔥🏓
DIV.2 ROUND-UP
Comets V Tigers
3 7
A friendly and fast paced match between club mates.
The match was much closer than the overall score with 16 of the individual games being won by just 2 points.
Rob McLean again in great form for Tigers with a hat-trick of wins.
Letham A V Buccaneers
9 1
Buccaneers were at an immediate disadvantage as they only had 2 players.
Unfortunately for them, they also came up against a Letham team with all 3 players playing very well.
Glyn Pritchard managed to avoid the whitewash with a win in an epic 5th set tie-break against John McDuff.
Truants V Lundin Lasers
3 7
In this Fife derby, Lasers were never behind in this match, thanks to Adam Sitko and Nat Forno's two hat-tricks.
Roman Nydza of Lundin will go home spewing after this match after losing all of his matches to the Truants trio in 5 sets!
Lundin Lynxes V Duffers
3 7
After going 2-0 down in the match, Duffers rallied to steer themselves into a commanding 6-2 lead.
Ping Xu of Duffers was the man of the match with his hat-trick of wins.
Div. 2 Player Of The Week:
Nat Forno 🏓🔥🏓
DIV.3 ROUND-UP
Larick Liners V Squires
0 10
Another uphill task for DDTTA's new team this season from across the water in Tayport as they could not win a set in their defeat to Squires.
Sputniks V Letham B
3 7
Letham B brought out their big guns and earned a good win.
Theo Chirica won all his matches without dropping a set and was only taken to deuce once (by Richard Bellis).
It was tough on Tony Cook not to win a match. He won a set against set against both Jack Oughton and Lachlann Henderson and was two sets up and then 8-2 up in the 5th vs Richard but Richard finished off a great come-back.
On the other hand, Jack got 2 sets up on Peter Cassidy in his last match, only for Peter to produce his own spectacular recovery.
Well played Letham B!
Telecoms V Lairds
4 6
Stewart Clark for Telecoms versus Steve Wilson (reserve for Lairds) was a very tight match, Stewart going 2 sets up then losing 6-11, 10-12 and 9-11.
Young Munro Macintosh was unlucky against high-flying Graeme Elrick with Graeme winning games 4 and 5 11-9, 11-9!
Graeme with another hat-trick display in this match however not enough to get the victory that Telecoms really needed if they had any chance of toppling their St. Andrews nemeses, Prefects off top spot in div. 3.
Crickety V Prefects
2 8
Entertaining match with some great rallies with Prefects coming out on top and Sandy Pearson Vinit Khurana with a 100% record with 3 singles each and teaming up for the doubles win in the match.
Stewart Ferguson and Lewis Cameron both won against reserve Gus San Roman in 5 games for the Crickety points.
Gus beating Colin Reynolds made an 8-2 win for top of Division 3 champions!
Scholars V Missiles
4 6
This was a closely contested match in the end however it looked like Missiles were cruising to victory here in the early stages of the match as they got off to a flyer, winning the 1st 4 games.
Then Scholars won the next 4 matches to equalise in the match!
However, Scott Xu and Nathan Bertie closed out the match in Missiles favour and Scott Xu remained unbeaten in the match.
Div.3 Player Of The Week:
Graeme Elrick 🏓 🔥🏓
Cheers
Ryan Docherty
DDTTA Joint Match Secretary
League Report - Week Commencing 9th of February (Week 17/21)
DIV. 1 ROUND-UP
Barons V Aces
3 7
Another important victory here for the high-flying Aces at WRG.
Although Aces won 7-3, the match was closer than the scoreline suggests as Barons lost two 5 set games including the doubles and game #8 where Peter Aird survived a scare against Barons' Martin Klopper.
There was another impressive display from Tony Nelson of Barons, who won all his games against the league leaders, all in straight sets which is no mean feat!
Defenders V Knights
3 7
Knights matched the league leaders result this week with this away performance against the team that are bottom of div. 1.
A good result but Mr. Daniel Tibbetts of Defenders, although playing for the bottom side is still flying high at the top of the league's player averages with yet another 100% evening's play, chopping and counter-hitting against 2 of Dundee's best players!
Up4it V Swots
5 5
Brilliant match up!
An excellent evening for Ryan Campbell of Swots, who won all three of his singles matches, beating Paul Monteith & Ryan Docherty in 5 sets from 2-1 down on both occasions!!
Paul got some revenge with a great win over Zubo Rasmussen.
Iain Martin and Ryan Doc played an excellent doubles game to pip Ryan C. and Zubo in a really close encounter.
Vinit Khurana played up for Swots and produced a very encouraging performance, despite not winning any sets.
He came close with a 12-14 reverse to Ryan in set 3.
Div. 1 Player Of The Week:
Daniel Tibbetts 🏓 💯🏓
DIV. 2 ROUND-UP
Tigers V Lundin Lynxes
9 1
Some excellent rallies and games in this encounter at F.S.C.
With the score sitting at 3-1 to Tigers, this is the point in the match where Tigers dug their claws into their opponents by winning the next 2 games in 5 sets where in game #4, Kenny McLaren won 11-8 in the 5th against Chris Sayer.
Both Rob McLean & Ken Head both had a hat-trick each in this match.
Chieftains V Comets
5 5
"Both sides were evenly matched and a draw was a fair result" says Chieftains' Bill Beattie who secured a hat-trick of wins on the night.
Bill actually secured the draw in the end for Chieftains with a straight sets win over Ian McLagan.
Buccaneers V Truants
8 2
2 hat-trick displays by Bucs duo Steve Stranock & Murray Johnstone helped the Brechin side claim victory in this match.
Duffers V Letham A
5 5
A missed opportunity here for 2nd placed Letham A to do a bit of catch-up on top of the division Lundin Lasers.
This was probably not helped by the fact that Letham had to call up a reserve for the match which hampered their chances of winning the match.
Ian Farquhar was still in his imperious form though, winning all his games again where he secured at least a point for Letham with his win over Rich McLaren.
Div. 2 Player Of The Week:
Murray Johnstone 🏓 🔥 🏓
DIV. 3 ROUND-UP
Letham B V Scholars
6 4
In this mid-table clash at the village hall, the home side took a commanding lead in the match by going 4-0 up in the early stages.
Gustavo San Roman got a point on the board for the St. Andrews team in game#5 against experienced Tony Cook followed by teammate Knut Radmer's win against Peter Cassidy in a 5 set showdown!
Letham B were not to be perturbed though as they regained their commanding lead to go 6-2 up thanks to a hat-trick for the impressive Theo Chirica.
Squires V Sputniks
2 8
Sputniks stormed into WRG from enemy lines up the road at Forthill to cause some misery for a mid-table Squires team.
Sputniks raced into a quick 4-0 lead with all games decided in straight sets!
Rod Archibald was the only scorer on the night for Squires, winning 2/3 of his games but this would not stop the Sputniks invasion on the Ward Road outfit.
Lachlann Henderson played a stormer winning all his 3 games in straight sets, ably backed up by his veteran teammates, Eric Brown and Lee Nixon.
Sputniks remain in a solid 3rd position.
Prefects V Larick Liners
10 0
A valiant effort by the improving Tayport side, Liners, who struggled with the return of spinny serves from the experienced Prefects.
Facing a brace of dynamic and accurate penholders proved problematic but no doubt addressing these topics will prove beneficial during coaching sessions at Larick.
Prefects didn't drop a game and none went to deuce, thereby confirming a comfortable evening's work for the trio.
Lairds V Crickety
9 1
Another enjoyable match with Crickety for Lairds who showed no remorse really in this match against the league's new young Brechin boys.
Laird's own young gun, Munro Macintosh, shone in the match with a hat-trick of straight sets wins which was equalled by his teammate, Shirley McKay.
One bit of solace, Crickety can take from the match is that Colin Reynolds managed a 4 set victory over Heather Gunn to get a consolation point in the match.
Missiles V Telecoms
1 9
Graeme Elrick and Stewart Clark both remained unbeaten on the night and Missiles' Krishnan Martin got Missiles only point on the night with his victory over Rob Fotheringham.
Telecoms remain in 2nd position in div.3.
Div. 3 Player Of The Week:
Lachlann Henderson 🏓🔥🏓
Cheers guys!
Ryan Docherty
DDTTA Joint Match Secretary
League Report - Week Commencing 2nd of February (Week 16/21)
DIV. 1 ROUND-UP
Brechin V Defenders
6 4
Rearranged from Thursday 5/02/26
Brechin were never ahead until match 7, the doubles.
As expected, Daniel Tibbetts of Defenders won his 3 with little resistance although Aaron Robertson put on a good show taking a game from him.
Derek Mitchell and Aaron won 2 a piece and teamed up to win the doubles in a 5 set match against Daniel and Sandy Bertie.
Murray Johnstone(res) against Sandy was the only other 5 set game with Murray pipping him on a deuce.
Scott Thomson won his match with Murray.
Some great rallies and table tennis played and Brechin edged it on the night.
Aces V Villa
10 0
Derby night here at Forthill Sports Centre and could Villa upset league leaders Aces in the Ferry?!
Answer... an emphatic no!!
Aces dished out a hammering to Villa where the very 1st game of the match, Jos Berkout V Jimmy Dyson was the closest Villa came to getting a notch on the scoresheet, however Jos clung on to his early 2 sets to 0 lead to overcome Jim in the 5th set.
Barons V Swots
5 5
A long night of hard-fought matches with a fair result in the end.
6/10 of the games in the match went the 5 sets distance with the 1st 4 games all decided in a 5th set!
The battle of the Smiths, Craig of Barons and David of Swots was an incredibly close match where 4 of their 5 sets were decided by just 2 points with the last 3 sets being 17-15, 10-12 & 15-17, going the way of David Smith!
Tony Nelson was the starman of the night, taking 3 wins out of 3, continuing his fine form in his debut season in DDTTA.
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Up4it V Knights
1 9
A last-minute emergency robbed Up4it of the services of the in-form Iain Martin.
Paul Monteith and Ryan Docherty dug deep to try to get something from the game.
Paul saw off Stuart Halliday in game one, coming from behind to win in 5.
Ryan produced some stunning fightbacks of his own against Andrew Nimmo - fighting back from 5-10 down in the 3rd set to triumph 12-10 to take a 2-1 set lead.
Could Up4it make the perfect start and go 2-0 up?
No!!
Despite Ryan's best efforts, The Nimrod sneaked the final two sets 11-9 to square the match at 1-1.
It was already 20:45 after 2 games!!
From there on in Knights dominated.
Stuart got some solace after losing to Paul by beating Ryan in 5 sets.
Andrew and David Hay hoovered up the remaining games despite some typically gutsy scrapping from the hosts.
Div. 1 Player Of The Week:
Tony Nelson 🏓 🔥 🏓
DIV. 2 ROUND-UP
Comets V Lundin Lasers
3 7
Comets expected to be beaten by the top team in Divison 2, Lundin Lasers tonight but there were some close games and 2 unexpected wins for Jill Milne who is currently sitting at the tail end of the averages in Division 2.
She beat Arthur Duncan in a very tight 5 setter which could have gone either way and then beat Roman Nydza in 4.
Fraser Smith won the third game for Comets also beating Roman.
Adam Sitko won his three but had some close ends with Jill and Fraser who took the very first set of the night 16-14.
Well done Lasers who are sitting pretty at the summit of Div. 2!
Tigers V Chieftains
6 4
A close match with a lot of long rallies.
Rui Yang Na did well to win 3 close matches, ably supported by Mr Lobby (Rob McLean!)
Rui's 5th set victory over Bill Beattie in game #9 secured match victory for Tigers.
Jim Tawse and Bill made a great recovery to win the doubles after losing the third game 11-0!
Truants V Duffers
8 2
Truants had to call on a reserve for this match in the form of Jie Guo.
Jie performed well though, winning 2/3 games which helped Truants cruise to a victory.
Ian Smith was the star of the show winning 3/3 games with 1 game in particular catching the eye, where in game #5 he demolished veteran player Rich McLaren who didn't have a bad night himself!
Lundin Lynxes V Letham A
0 10
A match played in good spirit even if it was an uphill battle for the East Fife lot, Lynxes.
Letham A called on reserve player for the night, Theo Chirica, who was not out of place in this div. 2 encounter, claiming a hat-trick of wins.
Ian Farquhar & John McDuff remained unbeaten also with Farquhar keeping his league 100% average intact.
Div. 2 Player Of The Week:
Theo Chirica 🏓🔥🏓
DIV. 3 ROUND-UP
Larick Liners V Lairds
0 10
A trouncing for the league's new team here in Tayport where Lairds with their combination of youth and experience shone through and it was good to see young Munro Macintosh winning his 3 games in straight sets, showing his improvement over the course of the season.
Letham B V Squires
8 2
It was a good evening with some games being very close and some very nice points from all players.
Theo Chirica starred for the 2nd time this week, this time for his own Letham side, winning another hat-trick of games in this mid-table clash!
Crickety V Missiles
1 9
Missiles dominated the match with the only loss when Krishnan Martin lost to Lewis Cameron. There were some close matches in the doubles where Lewis and Salaar Qudrat lost to Krishnan and Nathan Bertie in 5 games and Salaar losing to Krishnan in match 10 in 5.
Good to see 2 teams full of youngsters playing competitive tt in DDTTA!
Scholars V Telecoms
3 7
An interesting match here in St. Andrews where the lead changed hands during the 1st half of the match.
The turning point came in game #8 where Gustavo San Roman looked like he was about to beat whiley old vet, Stewart Clark after taking a 2 sets to 0 lead and make the match score even at 4-4.
However, Clarky rallied to take the game in 5 sets, 11-7 in the 5th!
From then on, Telecoms closed out the show in straight sets with Graeme Elrick having another 100% evening's play.
Crucial win for Telecoms to keep them in sight of the div. 3 leaders Prefects.
Div. 3 Player Of The Week:
Theo Chirica on the double! 🏓 🔥 🏓
Cheers
Ryan Docherty
DDTTA Joint Match Secretary
League Report - Week Commencing 19th of January (Week 15/21)
DIV. 1 ROUND-UP
Barons V Up4it
2 8
A disappointing night for the Barons, three 5 setters without picking up a point.
Tony Nelson played some fantastic table tennis to start, picking up wins over Iain Martin and Paul Monteith, but Ryan Doc was able to disrupt him enough to take the win in the final match of the night with some great rallies in the pairs' match.
Swots V Villa
8 2
Good match with some close matches.
David Smith on form winning his 3 comfortably and comfortable doubles win alongside Ryan Campbell for Swots.
Both Jim Dyson and Gary Lowson pushed Ryan all the way in tight 5 set matches.
Special mention for Martin Turnbull playing up and coming from 2-0 down to beat Jim 3-2! Bizarrely all sets were won 11-8 in this match!
Defenders V Aces
3 7
Yet again, Mr. Daniel Tibbetts winning his 3 games to maintain his league 100% player average in this match.
Tibbetts done his best to keep bottom side Defenders on the coat-tails of the league leaders, Aces but it proved too hard a challenge.
A weird occurrence in this match, where every single game was decided in straight sets!!
Knights V Brechin
8 2
Brechin were making this an interesting spectacle in the early stages of this match with their new signing, former Knight, Callum Riddoch, now pitting his wits against his former teammates.
Both Callum and his new teammate, Derek Mitchell, beat Stuart Halliday early on in the match to bring the score to 2-2.
However, this was as good as it got for Brechin as Knights got their act together and won all remaining matches with Andrew Nimmo and Davey Hay both winning all their games.
DIv. 1 Players Of The Week:
Daniel "100%" Tibbetts 🏓💯🏓 & David Smith🏓🔥🏓
DIV. 2 ROUND-UP
Chieftains V Lundin Lynxes
10 0
A whitewash for the Ward Road outfit, Chieftains.
Douglas Dewar came close to saving the whitewash but just came up short against Jim Tawse in a 5 set loss.
Lundin Lasers V Tigers
10 0
Another good win for div. 2 leaders Lasers although there were two very tight matches that the Lasers just got over the line.
Kenny McLaren played the shot of the night with a blistering return from four yards off the end of the table!
Buccaneers V Comets
2 8
Comets came away from Brechin with a convincing victory in the end in this match however, the final scoreline does not reflect how close the match really was.
Comets won 3/4 of the 5 setters during the match which were shared between all of their players.
Good team effort from Comets with star men, Ian McLagan & Fraser Smith coming away with a hat-trick each to keep the Ferry team above Bucs in the table.
Letham A V Truants
8 2
This was a very good win for Letham against their closest rivals for second place in the league.
Some great rallies and good table tennis for all the players involved.
Ian "100%" Farquhuar & Plamen Kostadinov tearing Truants apart with a hat-trick a piece!
Will Ian Farquhar ever be beaten again?!!!
Div. 2 Player Of The Week:
Ian Farquhar 🏓💯🏓
DIV.3 ROUND-UP
Squires V Scholars
7 3
A fair result on the night.
"While there was some good table tennis there were also some scrappy ends with a few of us not hitting our usual standard" says Steve Wilson of Squires.
Steve & Rod Archibald both got hat-tricks in the match.
Prefects V Letham B
9 1
Prefects justified their table topping position with a comprehensive victory over a spirited performance from the far travelling Letham B team.
Both Vinit Khurana & Sandy Pearson got hat-tricks.
Lairds V Sputniks
6 4
An enjoyable match, with some very close and hard-fought matches.
An important period in the match for Lairds came at the very 1st stages of the match where they won the 1st 3 games all in 5 sets to give them a 3-0 lead.
Stalwart, Andy Hughes won all his games in the match.
Missiles V Larick Liners
9 1
A bottom of the league clash here at Forthill Sports Centre in which Forthill based team, Missiles gave out a thrashing to the league's new team from Tayport!
Nathan Bertie & Robbie Miller both had 100% evening's play, winning all their games.
Div. 3 Player Of The Week:
Andy Hughes 🏓 🔥 🏓
Cheers
Ryan Doc
Joint DDTTA Match Secretary
League Report - Week Commencing 12th of January (Week 14/21)
DIV. 1 ROUND-UP
Barons V Villa
3 7
Barons were gutted to see 100% man, Daniel Tibbetts showing up as reserve for Villa in what was an important match for the bottom of the league.
Tony Nelson and Daniel had a tremendous match with excellent long rallies and great winners, but Daniel too strong in the end, completing yet another hat-trick for the season!
An important victory here for Villa if they are to stave off relegation!
Defenders V Swots
3 7
Tibbetts playing his 2nd league match of the week here for his own team this time, Defenders, produced another emphatic hat-trick over the travelling St. Andrews side.
However, the Swots trio of Ryan Campbell, David Smith & Nick Shepherd all came away from Forthill with 2 wins each to claim the match victory.
Aces V Knights
4 6
The challengers Aces faced off against defending champions Knights for their second league meeting of the season, this time in the familiar but unforgiving cold of Forthill.
On nights like these, legends are tested.
As the old saying goes, “Can you do it on a cold night in Stoke?” — and for the Knights, this was another chance to prove their title credentials and push their league campaign forward.
Match 1 set the tone for the evening.
David Hay came out firing for Knights, his shots purring as he surged into a commanding two-set lead.
But Grant Williams refused to fold.
Adjusting his patterns and finding extra bite, he clawed his way back in a gripping five-set battle to steal the win.
Was this shaping up to be the Aces’ night?
In Match 2, Peter Aird started brightly, finding his rhythm early.
However, niggling errors crept in at crucial moments, allowing Stuart Halliday to seize control.
Stuart grew in confidence as the match progressed, capitalising on every opportunity to secure a 3–1 victory.
Match 3 saw Matt Craig in fine form.
Calm, controlled, and relentless, he frustrated Andrew Nimmo throughout the contest, dictating the tempo and sealing a deserved 3–1 win.
David returned for Match 4 and once again exploded out of the blocks, racing into another two-set lead.
This time Peter dug deep, tightening the rallies and snatching the third set.
However, David held his nerve in a tight fourth to close out a 3–1 victory.
In Match 5, Grant faced a determined Andrew who was in no mood to compromise.
Strong serving and devastating third-ball attacks shut down Grant’s options, and although the third set saw a late rally, Andrew cruised to a confident 3–0 win.
At the halfway point, the Knights edged ahead 3–2.
Match 6 was a fascinating duel between Matt and Stuart.
The opening two sets were tight, with Matt just managing to stay ahead while containing Stuart’s tricky serve.
By the third, the momentum had shifted completely.
Matt relaxed, found his fluid attacking game, and powered through to a straight-sets victory.
The pressure intensified in Match 7, the doubles showdown.
Grant and Matt went toe-to-toe with David and Andrew in a tense, high-quality encounter dominated by sharp service play and fast exchanges.
Locked at 2 sets apiece, it all came down to the decider — but here the Knights found another gear, pulling away to take the fifth 11–5.
The score now stood at 4–3 Knights, finely poised.
Match 8 saw Peter battling hard against Andrew. Andrew’s attacks proved difficult to contain in the opener, but Peter fought back bravely to steal the second.
Despite the resistance, Andrew’s consistency prevailed, earning a 3–1 win that was closer than the scoreline suggested.
In Match 9, Matt took on David, who once again burst out of the stalls with relentless first and third-ball attacks.
Matt battled hard to protect his record, but David was in no mood for compromise, sealing a commanding 3–0 victory.
Everything rested on Match 10.
Grant versus Stuart.
Grant managed to keep Stuart’s serves in check and edged ahead, though Stuart pushed relentlessly — especially in a dramatic third set. At 13–13, Grant finally snatched it 15–13, letting out a visible sigh of relief.
The final score read 6–4 to the Knights — a hard-fought, high-quality contest that once again showed why they remain champions in waiting. On a cold night at Forthill, the Knights stood firm, proved their mettle, and took another decisive step toward reclaiming their title. 🏓🔥
Brechin V Up4it
5 5
Up4it travelled to Brechin for the first fixture of 2026 and also to complete the second-round robin of fixtures for the league.
Callum Riddoch was also available for this match for his new Brechin side which meant a very close match was expected and that is how it turned out.
The lead changed several times throughout the evening and some of the table tennis played was exceptional with long rallies and phenomenal winners.
Callum and Aaron Robertson won both their matches against Iain Martin and Ryan Docherty and again teamed up against each other in the doubles where Iain and Ryan won in 4 games.
Paul Monteith was the star man tonight and his table tennis style was shining as was his display with 3 excellent wins.
Ryan beat Derek Mitchell in 4.
Derek overcame Iain in the last match of the night in 4 to secure the draw.
What a match!
Div. 1 Players Of The Week:
Daniel Tibbetts 🏓 💯🏓 & Paul Monteith 🏓🔥🏓
DIV. 2 ROUND-UP
Comets V Duffers
5 5
Comets were sadly out of form and not helped by Ping Xu's unfortunate luck with nets and edges!!
A draw was a fair result that really helps neither team in their struggle to stay in Division 2.
Ping won his 3 matches here.
Tigers V Buccaneers
7 3
Mr. Rob McLean was at it again here, with a good hat-trick of wins for Tigers and Rui finely backed him up with 2 wins of his own which definitely helped Tigers get the win.
Steve Stranock & Murray Johnstone claimed the last 2 games in the match to make the scoreline more respectable for Bucs.
Chieftains V Lundin Lasers
5 5
A close encounter here, where Adam Sitko of Lasers won his 3 matches however this was not to deter the experienced side of Chieftains.
Lasers got into a 4-2 and then a 5-4 lead in this match.
A great 5 set win for Roman Nydza over Jim Tawse, 11-9 in the 5th gave Lasers an early 2 game lead.
Going into the final match however, everything was to play for with Fiona Kinloch going up against Roman.
Fiona won impressively in 4 sets to secure the draw for Cheiftains against the Div. 2 leaders.
Lundin Lynxes V Truants
2 8
Played in good spirit and competitive.
Has to be said that net-cords and edges favoured Truants more than Lynxes!
Ian Smith with a hat-trick of wins in the match for Truants.
Div. 2 Player Of The Week:
Rob McLean 🏓 🔥 🏓
DIV. 3 ROUND-UP
Larick Liners V Telecoms
2 8
Experience told in this match on the south side of the River Tay, in which Telecoms drove into a 6-0 lead.
Graeme Elrick & Stewart Clark both had hat-trick performances here against the league's newest team.
Vladimir Janjic helped the Tayport team get some respectability to the final scoreline.
Sputniks V Missiles
10 0
Scoreline is not a fair reflection of the match.
All three of the Missiles youngsters played extremely good shots but probably threw away a few too many points.
Scott Xu was a bit rusty having not had time for practice recently but had he won 4th set against Eric Brown it might have been different.
Then he seemed to be cruising against Lee Nixon but from the 3rd set Lee transformed himself, as he does once or twice a season, blocking and counter-hitting brilliantly against Scott's strong topspin attacks.
You would really have to have seen it to believe it!
The doubles was also a high standard match and closer than the score suggests with a win for Jack and Lee against Jingxi and Scott.
Letham B V Lairds
5 5
It was a very close match tonight with a few very close games that could have gone either way.
Andy Hughes of Lairds was the star man on the night winning his 3 games and winning the final game of the night against Peter Cassidy to secure the draw for Lairds.
Squires V Prefects
1 9
Prefects deserved their big victory but Squires gave them a tough match, particularly at the beginning when Prefects had a few edges and nets go their way.
Key to the victory was the 8 of 10 deuce sets claimed by Prefects!
Match of the night was Jie Guo's 5 set comeback victory over Steve Wilson saving a number of match points in set 3, set 4 and set 5!
Wow!
Scholars V Crickety
10 0
Always going to be a tough task for the young Brechin team, Crickety, turning up to this fixture with only 2 players.
The experienced St. Andrews side showed no signs of sympathy however for their young counterparts by producing a whitewash display.
Lewis Cameron gave Gustavo San Roman a scare in game#6 though by taking him to 5 sets with a 16-14 defeat in the 5th.
Div. 3 Player Of The Week:
Andy Hughes 🏓 🔥 🏓
Cheers
Ryan Doc
Joint DDTTA Match Secretary
League Report - Week Commencing 15th of December (Week 13/21)
DIV. 1 ROUND-UP
Barons V Defenders
8 2
Continuing some fine form in his debut season in DDTTA in this match at WRG was Mr. Tony Nelson, who completed a hat-trick of wins on the night against Div.1 bottom side, Defenders.
Tony was ably assisted with 2 wins each from teammates, Craig Smith & Martin Klopper.
One win of note though for Defenders, was from their reserve player on the night, Rob McLean who has also had an impressive debut season in Div. 2.
He re-produced his good Div. 2 form into this match as he beat Martin Klopper, deuce in the 5th!
Aces V Brechin
6 4
"Anyone fancy doing the match report tonight?”
Grant Williams asked his teammates to a deafening silence.
No?
…OK then, I’ll do it I guess 😉
Forthill Sports Club | Two tables | Plenty drama
On a mild winter’s evening, Brechin TTC welcomed season debutant Callum “The Silent Knight” Riddoch for a tough test against league pace-setters Aces (on matches played only). Callum almost proved to be Brechin’s man in shining armour, but an enthralling fifth-set battle went the way of Aces’ own “Ma-TT Long” Craig, Matt Craig, helping secure a narrow 6–4 victory overall for the hosts.
Matt was in fine form throughout the night, claiming all three singles wins.
However, Aces’ long-standing doubles run finally came to an end as the new Brechin pairing of Callum and Aaron Robertson combined impressively on their first outing together, dispatching Grant and Matt in a fairly routine straight-sets win.
“The Flying Dutchman” Jos Berkout produced an eye-catching display, unleashing some stunning backhand winners.
He pushed Derek Mitchell all the way to five sets before narrowly missing out, but bounced back superbly with a deserved fifth-set victory over Aaron — more flying backhands very much included.
Grant couldn’t quite settle in the opener, falling in straight sets to an impressive Callum, but showed good resilience to recover with solid wins over both Aaron and Derek, who on their day are more than capable and always cunning opponents.
Overall, this was a highly competitive fixture that could easily have gone either way.
Aces will be grateful to sign off for Christmas with the points, having been pushed all the way by a strong Brechin side — further proof of just how competitive the league is shaping up to be this season.
Swots V Knights
4 6
Enjoyable and closely contested match taking place @ Cosmos Community Centre in St. Andrews
Andrew Nimmo was too strong for all his opponents, including pairing-up with Stuart Halliday to win a pivotal doubles match that secured at least a draw for a Knights team who had to play up a reserve player in this match by way of Martin Klopper.
Two singles wins each for Stuart and Ryan Campbell.
This close win with a reserve could play a pivotal role in their quest to retain their league title come the end of the season.
Div.1 Player Of The Week:
"Ma-TT Long" Craig!! 🏓🔥🏓
Cheers
Ryan Doc
Joint DDTTA Match Secretary
League Report - Week Commencing 8th of December (Week 12/21)
DIV.1 ROUND-UP
Defenders V Villa
5 5
Derby night here between the 2 Forthill sides where the spoils were shared.
The match wavered to and fro as both teams held the lead at different stages.
After Jim Dyson's 5 set battle with Glenn Christie, with the game going the Villa man's way, it made the match score 4-4.
Gary Lowson then beat Sandy Bertie in straight sets but the league's best player so far this season, Daniel Tibbetts secured the draw for Defenders with his win over Simmy and with that, kept his 100% player average intact.
Brechin V Swots
6 4
Two-man Swots made the trip to Brechin and what an entertaining match it turned out to be. Brechin had brought in a reserve Murray Johnstone for his first taste of Div 1 this season and in his 2 matches although he lost them both lost 4 deuce games.
Ryan Campbell won all his singles with a particularly close match against Aaron Robertson, winning 3-2 however beat the other 2 in straight sets.
Nick Shepherd overcame Murray in 4 with some very close sets 3-1 and losing to Aaron and Derek Mitchell in 4.
Derek and Aaron teamed up for the doubles and from 2-1 down beat Ryan and Nick 3-2.
Very tough and enjoyable match with some great rallies however it was always going to be difficult for Swots starting 3-0 down
Aces V Up4it
7 3
Good evening folks!
It was a proper slobber-knocker here live from Forthill Sports Club, Broughty Ferry, Dundee (WWE fans will know 😉).
In the home corner, resplendent in green, stood Aces.
In the away corner, clad in red and hunting revenge after the earlier season encounter, were Up4it.
This fixture has a reputation for five-set thrillers, raw emotion, and swings of momentum—and once again, it delivered.
Match 1 set the tone immediately.
Ryan Docherty staged a remarkable comeback from two sets down to topple in-form Matt Craig in a titanic five-setter.
The match only concluded at 7:45pm, coinciding perfectly with Grant Williams surprise late arrival (parents’ evening duties!).
Up4it struck first.
In Match 2, Paul Monteith showed his experience and composure to overcome fellow veteran Peter Aird.
Peter struggled to find his rhythm, while Paul stayed solid throughout, edging three close sets to put Up4it 2–0 ahead.
Match 3 saw Grant and Iain Martin locked in another five-set battle.
Iain produced spells of almost unstoppable attacking play, but Grant just managed to steal it at the death, clearly relieved to get Aces on the board.
Up4it still led 2–1.
Drama continued in Match 4 as Peter faced Ryan.
Long rallies, nets, edges, and plenty of frayed nerves kept everyone guessing.
Yet again it went the distance, and this time the pimples prevailed as Peter edged the decider to level the match at 2–2.
Momentum swung in Match 5, where Iain impressed with huge forehand winners. However, Matt absorbed the pressure brilliantly, showing his attacking finesse at the key moments to take the match in four sets.
Aces moved ahead 3–2.
Match 6 was surprisingly swift by comparison. Grant controlled proceedings superbly against Paul, neutralising the anti-spin and even quieter despairing screams to claim a straight-sets victory.
Aces now led 4–2 heading into the doubles.
The doubles (Match 7)—Grant/Matt vs Paul/Ryan—did not disappoint.
Scintillating rallies, momentum swings, and yet another deciding set followed.
Ultimately, Grant and Matt maintained their unbeaten partnership to clinch the fifth and stretch the lead to 5–2.
In Match 8, Peter fought hard despite not being at his best, but couldn’t quite contain Iain’s flying forehand on the night.
Iain took the win to make it 5–3 overall.
Match 9 featured Grant against Ryan.
Grant settled quickly, applying consistent pressure to force errors and take the first two sets. The third was closer, but Grant held his nerve at the business end to secure a straight-sets win and seal the overall victory for Aces at 6–3.
Match 10 saw Matt face Paul.
Matt played with patience and poise, controlling the rallies and closing out the match comfortably in straight sets.
Final score: Aces 7 – 3 Up4it.
A special mention for Grant, who completed a clean sweep—winning all three of his matches—for the first time in a top-team clash in quite some time.
A night full of drama, quality, and table tennis at its very best.
Iain Martin attacking against Matt Craig When Grant Williams is in this mood…stand well back
Div. 1 Player Of The Week:
Grant Williams 🏓🔥🏓
Cheers
Ryan Doc
Joint DDTTA Match Secretary
League Report - Week Commencing 1st of December (Week 11/21)
DIV.1 ROUND-UP
Barons V Brechin
3 7
A rescheduled fixture where Barons gave thanks to Fiona Kinloch for playing up for them.
Brechin sported their usual under-handed pairing of players in Aaron Robertson & Derek Mitchell in which both players won all of their games.
Swots V Aces
0 10
Aces too strong for an under-strength Swots team.
Clean sweep of victories for Aces.
Swots won a few sets but failed to trouble the scorers.
Up4it V Defenders
10 0
Up4it took advantage of a Tibbetts-less Defenders team by winning all 10 games.
Defenders showed flashes of quality but came up short on the night.
Div. 1 Player Of The Week:
Derek Mitchell 🏓🔥🏓
DIV.2 ROUND-UP
Duffers V Tigers
3 7
This match was close all the way up until game#8 after the doubles.
With the match score sitting at 4-3 to Tigers, Rob McLean of Tigers completed his hat-trick on the night by defeating Andy Reid in 4 sets.
Ken Head and Rui Yang Na then completed the match victory for Tigers.
Letham A V Comets
8 2
The first match of 2026 for both teams resulted in a good win for Letham.
A few contrasting styles produced some interesting matches.
Unfortunately for Comets, Ian Farquhar and Plamen Kostadinov continued their good form from last year, winning all their singles and the doubles.
Even John MacDuff managed to start the year with a win.
Lundin Lynxes V Lundin Lasers
0 10
Derby night in East Fife here where top of the table team, Lasers showed their gulf in class between both Lundin teams with a comprehensive whitewash!
Div. 2 Player Of The Week:
Rob McLean 🏓🔥🏓
DIV.3 ROUND-UP
Lairds V Squires
8 2
There were some very close 5 set matches, the first between Munro Macintosh and Rod Archibald with Rod taking the match.
The next between Shirley McKay and Scott Wishart, with Shirley taking the match.
In the doubles Shirley and Munro lost the first two sets, won the next two, then Scott and Rod moved up a gear to take the final set.
Munro had a 5 set tussle against Scott, and this time took the match.
Andy was solid until the final match against Rod, where Rod played steadily until the last set, where Andy found his A game and surged ahead. The 8-2 result doesn't reflect how close some of the matches were.
Rod Archibald: sheer concentration and determination Shirley just leans across and knocks it back to Scott
Missiles V Letham B
3 7
Missiles could only muster up 2 players for this match so were up against it from the off and so it proved.
Letham B raced into a 5-1 lead in the match.
Missiles staged a mini comeback by winning the doubles and Krishnan Martin beating Callan McKenna in game#8.
However, Letham B took the last 2 games with Bill Powrie completing his hat-trick on the night by beating Chen Xinwei in a close 5 set battle.
Telecoms V Sputniks
6 4
This match was a close fight all the way throughout but Telecoms were never behind in the match proving too strong in the end for Sputniks.
Once again, Graeme Elrick of Telecoms produced a hat-trick display of wins, with his straight sets game#9 win over Eric Brown securing victory for Telecoms.
Fast backhand from Richard Rob dancing his way to a good win
Crickety V Larick Liners
7 3
Two man Larick Liners made the trip to Brechin looking for a win and although Colin Stark won all his singles for Liners it wasn’t enough to secure victory as they lost all other games to the Brechin youngsters.
Salaar Quadrat, Lewis Cameron and Colin Reynolds won their singles match against Graeme Mudie and Lewis and Salaar teamed up to win the doubles match against Colin and Graeme.
Scholars V Prefects
0 10
As Charlie Ross says about this St. Andrews derby tie, "A good old thrashing for the underdogs!".
Div. 3 Player Of The Week:
Graeme Elrick 🏓 🔥🏓
Cheers
Ryan Doc
Joint DDTTA Match Secretary
League Report - Week Commencing 24th of November (Week 10/21)
DIV.1 ROUND-UP
Knights V Defenders
6 4
Knights had to call up a reserve for this match against Div.1 bottom team Defenders, in the shape of Tony Nelson, who played his part in securing victory for the reigning Dundee champions with all Knights players winning 2 matches each.
However, the league's best player this season, Daniel Tibbetts, once again kept his 100% player league average by winning all of his matches.
Sometimes Daniel hits it back fast… and sometimes he hits it back slowly… but he almost always hits it back.
Brechin V Villa
6 4
A close match with some really entertaining play by both teams.
Brechin came out on top with a 6-4 win with star man Aaron Robertson winning all his matches.
With the match hanging in the balance going into the final game of the night, Derek Mitchell managed to come out on top against Gary Lowson, 11-4 in the 5th set to secure the match victory for Brechin.
Aces V Barons
7 3
Unfortunately Barons were forced to play with just two tonight so starting 3-0 down was always going to be an uphill task.
Martin Klopper played some good stuff but unfortunately came away empty handed.
Tony Nelson was the player of the match getting his 3 singles wins against top of the league Aces. In game 8 Matt Craig tried his best to upset Tony’s night but he was not for giving in.
Matt was 10-6 down in the fifth pulled it back to 10-10 but Tony prevailed in the next two points!
Swots V Up4it
6 4
Truncated match with Up4It one player short.
Clean sweep of singles wins for Ryan Campbell.
The final match had everything riding on it where Ryan took on Iain Martin.
Ryan secured the victory for Swots with a tight 4 set win.
Div.1 Player Of The Week:
Tony Nelson 🏓 🔥 🏓
DIV.2 ROUND-UP
Comets V Truants
6 4
Comets were dealt a blow when Fraser Smith pulled out of the line up and was replaced by Ian McLagan.
Truants raced to a 4-1 lead with Ian Smith beating Ian McLagan from a 0-2 deficit, but all was soon to change;
Ian McL and Dougal Ogilvie won the doubles in a five game match, winning the last game rather easily.
This sparked a remarkable turnaround as Comets won the remaining 3 games to win 6-4.
A good pre-cup final game & one of the comebacks of the season!!
Tigers V Letham A (match was actually played back on 2nd October)
3 7
Both teams had reserves playing for them in this fixture with Eric Brown playing for Tigers and Peter Cassidy playing for Letham A.
Eric managed 1 victory with a straight sets win over John McDuff but the other reserve pulled out all the stops with a 100% evening along with teammate Ian Farquhar to cement the victory.
Chieftains V Duffers
6 4
Chieftains got off to a good start, going 3-0 up but Duffers clawed their way back but lost the last game that could have given them a draw as the "Battle of the Bill's" went the way of Bill Beattie to win the match for Chieftains
Lundin Lasers V Buccaneers
9 1
Lasers were dominant in this match with Adam Sitko and Roman Nydza both producing hat-trick's, ably assisted by Arthur Duncan.
Bucs consolation point came via a deuce in the 5th set win by Murray Johnstone over Arthur.
Div.2 Player Of The Week:
Peter Cassidy 🏓🔥🏓
DIV.3 ROUND-UP
Larick Liners V Scholars
2 8
A very nice table tennis evening in Larick Centre in Tayport, where Larick Liners faced Scholars. Many close games, but Scholars proved to be too strong and won 8-2 in the end including a hat-trick for Charlie Ross
Sputniks V Crickety
10 0
The Brechin boys, Crickety, are improving steadily but the experience of Sputniks proved too much for them tonight.
All three are playing good shots and Lewis Cameron could have made it very difficult for Jack Oughton in the last match after winning the first set and getting to 9-9 in the second.
But the confidence evaporated!!!
Letham B V Telecoms
7 3
Entertaining match played in good spirit as always against Telecoms.
A few games could easily have gone the other way and resulted in a different scoreline.
Peter Cassidy was the star man on the night with a hat-trick against high flying Telecoms!
Squires V Missiles
8 2
All players contributed to some close games and many great rallies although the final score looks rather one sided.
Both Rod Archibald and Scott Wishart remained unbeaten on the night.
Prefects V Lairds
7 3
Vinit Khurana was Prefects hat trick hero on an evening of tumbling 100% records.
In the first match he broke Andy Hughes' impressive run of victories.
Andy did get a form of revenge in the doubles, with Shirley McKay, when they defeated Vinit and Sandy Pearson thereby upsetting Prefects 100% league doubles wins.
Heather Gunn soldiered on for Lairds, despite a cold and Jie Guo showed further improvement returning 2 wins and taking Andy Hughes to 10-12 in the 5th set.
Div.3 Player Of The Week:
Vinit Khurana 🏓🔥🏓
Cheers
Ryan Doc
Joint DDTTA Match Secretary
League Report - Week Commencing 17th of November (Week 9)
DIV.1 ROUND-UP
Swots V Barons
5 5
Closely contested and enjoyable match.
Star player was Eloise Tan for Barons, winning all 3 singles, including a very close final match against Ryan Campbell 12-10 in the 5th set to capture the draw for Barons in the decider!
Two singles wins along with a doubles victory for Ryan Campbell and David Smith
Villa V Aces
0 10
A tough night for Villa despite best efforts. Only glimmers of hope came when Gary Lowson took a set off Matt Craig while David Sim and Jos Berkhout went to a 5th end.
Aces look a strong unit this season challenging for their 1st league title in years!
Defenders V Brechin
3 7
Breaching showed up to this match sporting a new reserve player in their team called Kazimierz Kulinski.
Unfortunately for him, he did not register a win on the table for Brechin however, the 2 stalwarts that are Derek Mitchell & Aaron Robertson did do a good job in winning 3/3 of their matches as well as the doubles to secure victory in the away ground.
Knights V Up4it
6 4
This tie has been the top 2 sides in DDTTA in recent years however Up4it seem to be falling down the pecking order this season and this result did not help their chances of capturing their 1st league title.
I think minds were on a certain game at Hampden Park during the course of this match though as celebrations were going on courtside not related to the tt on show!! (🏴⚽️🏴)
Ryan Doc even stopped his match against Andrew Nimmo to see the Scotland goals go in against Denmark as Stuart Halliday had it on his phone courtside!!
Anyway back to the action on the table and Nimmo won his 3 games and Knight's reserve on the night, Craig Smith, won a match 12-10 in the 5th set against Iain Martin!
This put Knights 4-2 up in the match and definitely played a pivotal role in Knights victory in the match.
Nimmo's victory against Doc secured the victory for Knights.
Who cares, Scotland made it to the World Cup!!! 🏴⚽️🏴
Div.1 Player Of The Week:
Andrew Nimmo 🏓 🔥 🏓
DIV.2 ROUND-UP
Tigers V Truants
5 5
A close match, but Truants a bit unlucky. Graham Wood losing the first game 11-9 in the 5th against Ken Head and Howard Lee had to concede his last game against Ken with the match score sitting at 4-5 to Truants at that point!
Rob McLean was in top form again for Tigers, winning his three all in straight sets.
I have to say I am impressed by Rob this season and his passion and camaraderie he has shown not just at matches but also at practice and coaching sessions, a pleasant addition to our league.
Lundin Lasers V Duffers
9 1
Another comprehensive victory for the Div. 2 leaders where Adam Sitko & Nat Forno both had 100% evenings.
Rich McLaren got Duffers solitary game with a 4 set win over Roman Nydza
Lasers will be hoping of an immediate return to Div.1 after being relegated last season.
Div. 2 Player Of The Week:
Rob McLean 🏓🔥🏓
DIV.3 ROUND-UP
Sputniks V Larick Liners
10 0
A thrashing was handed out to the league's new guys here courtesy of a strong Sputniks performance!
Sputniks are pushing themselves closer to 2nd spot in the division.
Letham B V Crickety
9 1
Theo Chirica and Tony Cook showed age matters here against one of the youngest teams in the league, both winning 3/3 games each to cement victory for the Letham side.
Salar Qudrat got the solitary game for Crickety with a come from behind 5th set victory over Callan McKenna.
Squires V Telecoms
4 6
A very competitive fixture with 4 matches going to the 5th set. Telecoms might have won by a bigger margin but for Squires’ purple patch (matches 6 -8) during which they won all 3 matches, each of them in the 5th set. Graeme Elrick was the top performer with three singles wins even though he and Rob were beaten by Steve and Scott in the doubles match.
Prefects V Missiles
10 0
Top V bottom here in St. Andrews.
Another Perfect 10 from Prefects!
Big improvements from Nathan Bertie and Krishnan Martin , the 2 available
Missiles players. The former now hitting well on both wings and the latter
developing some tricky serves.
Given time, coaching, and practice they should both be able to bring more consistency into open play.
Prefects looking for promotion to Div. 2 this season!
Lairds V Scholars
7 3
A mid table battle here but Scholars travelled over the Tay Road Bridge with only 2 players unfortunately so it was going to prove to be an uphill struggle for them.
And so it proved, as both Andy Hughes and the young gun, Munro Macintosh both won their 3 individual matches. After going 5-0 down however, Scholars rallied as both Charlie Ross & Callum Mowat both beat Heather Gunn to give the final scoreline some respectability.
Div.3 Player Of The Week:
Munro Macintosh 🏓🔥🏓
Cheers
Ryan Doc, DDTTA Joint Match Secretary
League Report- Week Commencing 10th Nov. (Week 8)
DIV. 1 ROUND-UP
Brechin V Knights
0 10
Knights were too strong for Brechin with only Derek Mitchell taking a game from David Hay and Aaron Robertson and Derek taking a game against David and Andrew Nimmo in the doubles.
An impressive hat-trick of wins for reserve Eloise Tan in this match aswell
Aces V Defenders
6 4
Due to a 3 match pile up last Thursday at FSC, in what would have been a real squash and a squeeze, but both sides wisely agreed to reschedule the derby for the following week.
The occasion quickly came around and it turned out to be quite the cold and close encounter for Aces.
In what could easily have turned on its head, if not for the difference of a couple of deuce games on an ice edge, a crucial doubles match and two extraordinary comebacks from each side which deserve special mentions.
Jos Berkhout dug deep from the icy trenches, a 2-0 deficit to a 3-2 comeback win against Glenn Christie in the fifth set.
And Sandy Bertie, with a simply stunning 2-0 deficit comeback win, against Grant Williams 3-2, who struggled to deal with the pressure the “Sand man” heaped on him in the final set to produce an outrageous 11-1 fifth set win.
But it was Defender Daniel Tibbetts fresh from his home nations exploits, who was the real “Dee-ice man” on night, unbeaten once again without dropping a single game or single bead of sweat for that matter.
Congrats to all Plebeians on another great battle of ice and…. fire? Till next time. ❄️🥶🔥
Villa V Swots
6 4
St. Andrews side, Swots, travelled over the Tay to Forthill sporting a reserve player in Ian Smith in this fixture.
Although Ian was competitive in the match against all of his Villa opponents he could not muster up a victory in the match.
Ryan Campbell on the other hand played a great match with a hat-trick of wins against the Villa.
His hat-trick however, could not stop Villa from taking the match victory with David Sim "Simmy" closing out the victory against Nick Shepherd in the final match in 4 sets.
Up4it V Barons
6 4
A narrow win for Up4it despite a brilliant performance from Tony Nelson.
Tony won his 3 singles games (including a brilliant comeback win against Gillian in game 2).
Tony and Craig Smith added the doubles to Barons account with a gritty 14-12 5th set win against Iain Martin and Gillian Edwards.
Craig and Eloise Tan narrowly failed to win a singles between them with two 5 set losses, Eloise against Gillian and Craig against Iain.
A win in either tie could have given the visitors a draw on the night.
Div.1 Player Of The Week:
Tony Nelson 🏓🔥🏓
DIV. 2 ROUND-UP
Duffers V Buccaneers
7 3
Brechin side Buccaneers travelled to Forthill to take on the experienced side of Duffers a man down in this fixture so they were facing an uphill struggle from the start.
Although going into a 2-0 lead, the home side Duffers responded well by taking the next 6 matches in a row.
Murray Johnstone played well in the match for Bucs winning 2/3 matches but could not prevent Duffers from winning the match.
Letham A V Lundin Lasers
7 3
A fantastic, and very surprising, win for Letham A against the runaway division leaders.
Ian Farquhar managed to maintain his 100% season record despite the best efforts of a very determined Arthur Duncan and Plamen Kostadinov played his best table tennis of the season to win all three of his matches too.
Even John MacDuff managed to win a set!
Truants V Chieftains
4 6
A friendly but competitive fixture here where Chieftains were always in the lead in the match courtesy of a good hat-trick of wins on the night by Fiona Kinloch who is showing to be 1 of the top performers in Div. 2 this season.
She sealed the match in game #9 with a great 5 set battle against Ian Smith
Lundin Lynxes V Comets
6 4
A 1st league win of the season here for the Lynxes!
Campbell Barr and Douglas Dewar made sure of the victory in the last 2 matches and with these 2 victories, they won 3/3 matches each on the night!
Div. 2 Player Of The Week:
Plamen Kostadinov 🏓🔥🏓
DIV. 3 ROUND-UP
Larick Liners V Letham B
1 9
The league's new team took the 1st game of the night with Nigel McLean beating Bill Powrie in 5 sets.
Letham hit back though taking all the remaining games with Peter Cassidy and Tony Cook taking control of the match both with hat-trick evening's play.
Missiles V Lairds
1 9
The ladies of Lairds showed the way to the boys in tonight’s match with both Shirley McKay and Heather Gunn winning all 3 of their games in the match.
They were ably assisted by the new young gun on the scene, Munro Macintosh who won 2/3 of his games.
Telecoms V Prefects
6 4
Davey Monteith had a hat-trick of wins in this match which helped Telecoms stretch into a 6-2 lead in the match.
St. Andrews side Prefects though, managed to claw back into the match, with Sandy Pearson having a good 5 set win over Graeme Elrick and then Vinit Khurana beating Rob Fotheringham in straight sets in the final match.
Crickety V Squires
0 10
The Crickety youngsters were well beaten in the end but can count themselves a little unlucky only winning one set in the doubles, as there were a few deuces on the night.
Scholars V Sputniks
3 7
A close match here where there were five 5-setters in the match.
Sputniks won 3/5 of these 5 setters and Sputniks’ Jack Oughton was the star man on the night winning his 3 games to help Sputniks secure the victory.
Div. 3 Player Of The Week:
Davey Monteith 🏓 🔥 🏓
Cheers,
Ryan Doc, Joint DDTTA Match Secretary
League Report- Week Commencing 3rd Nov. (Week 7)
DIV. 1 ROUND-UP
Barons V Villa
7 3
A good night for Tony Nelson and Eloise Tan both winning all of their matches including the doubles.
Hard lines to Martin Klopper losing in the 5th set to Sandy Bertie who was filling in for Villa.
Well done to Barons here as it creates a little gap between themselves and bottom side Defenders.
Knights V Aces
6 4
An early season top of the league clash here between these 2 strong teams.
Knights went 2-0 up in the match thanks to a strong performance from Stuart Halliday against Grant Williams with a straight sets victory, Stuart showing good form this season considering he had a year's injury layoff off with a dislocated shoulder!
Matt Craig has shown tremendous form in the early part of this season and he showed it again here by getting Aces on the scoreboard to make it 2-1 in the match courtesy of a straight sets win over the ex 100% man of last season, Davey Hay!
Knights however, never let this lead slip throughout the match, going 5-3 up in the match in game #8 thanks to an on form Andrew Nimmo who beat Matt, 11-9 in a 5th set!
This proved to be crucial in helping Knights to the victory, Andrew coughing his guts up along the way!!
Davey Hay secured match victory in game #9 against Grant in straight sets.
This result puts Knights top of the league.
Swots V Defenders
10 0
A whitewash victory here for Swots who are showing a good improvement in their performances this season after being promoted to Div. 1 two years ago, with their 2 new recruits playing this match, namely, David Smith and Yubo Rasmussen.
These 2 signings are making Swots hang onto the coat-tails of the top 3 teams in the league.
Up4it V Brechin
9 1
Brilliant match between 2 man Brechin and Up4it.
Five of the seven games played were decided in the 5th set - unfortunately for Brechin, Up4it won 4 of them!!
Brechin's only success was a comeback win in the doubles tie.
Gillian Edwards played some exceptional TT for the hosts.
Div. 1 Player Of The Week:
Andrew Nimmo 🏓🔥🏓
DIV. 2 ROUND-UP
Tigers V Comets
4 6
Some great rallies and close games in this mid-table fixture at Forthill Sports Centre.
Comets got into a 5-1 lead however it could have been oh so different had game# 4 & 5 not went the way of Comets after both games went the distance with the Comets pair of Dougal Ogilvie & Fraser Smith both winning their respective matches at duece in the 5th!
Tigers "clawed" back at Comets lead with a spirited performance from Rob McLean in the doubles and his singles match victory in game#8 however, the star performer of the night, Dougal Ogilvie made sure of Comets victory in game#9 against wily old vet, Ken Head and with that he secured his hat-trick of wins!
Lundin Lasers V Truants
9 1
A Fife derby here where top of the table side Lasers faced 3rd placed St. Andrews side Truants.
Again, Lundin's starman of the season, Adam Sitko helped his side romp to victory here with a hat-trick of wins as did Roman Nydza.
They were ably supported by Arthur Duncan who had 2 wins on the night and with this large margin victory, it creates a healthy looking gap between themselves and 3rd placed Truants.
Buccaneers V Letham A
5 5
Letham A were always ahead in this match thanks again to the imperious 100% man, Ian Farquhar winning all his matches yet again!
He did have a scare though as Murray Johnstone came back from 2 sets down against him I'm game #4 but Ian showed his class by winning the 5th set 11-5.
With Ian beating Glyn Pritchard in game #9 to put Letham A ahead in the match 5-4, this meant there was a deciding final game between Steve Stranock of Buccaneers and John McDuff of Letham A.
Steve won this in straight sets to fork out the draw for the Brechin based Bucs.
Duffers V Lundin Lynxes
5 5
A bottom of the division clash here at Forthill where Campbell Barr of Lundin Lynxes had a superb night, winning his 3 matches against an experienced Duffers trio.
These 3 wins were crucial to bottom side Lynxes sharing the spoils in this encounter and also Douglas Dewar chipped in to assist Campbell with 2 wins of his own, not least the decider match win against Billy Liddle in straight sets to secure the draw.
This result keeps the Lundin side in the scrap for fighting off relegation.
Div. 2 Player Of The Week:
Adam Sitko 🏓🔥💯
DIV. 3 ROUND-UP
Prefects V Crickety
10 0
A valiant effort from the Brechin boys, Crickety but Prefects were perfect and didn't drop a game in this top V bottom clash.
Lairds V Telecoms
3 7
Good competitive and enjoyable matches, Telecoms proved too strong for Lairds tonight. Match of the night was the doubles with Munro Macintosh and Shirley McKay coming back to win from two sets down against Graeme Elrick and Davey Monteith.
Stewart Clark also pointed out the 66 year age gap between him and Munro however, Munro showed that Stewart's experience counted for nothing as he produced a good display to beat him in 4 sets!
Great to see young Munro trying his heart out on the table again against the wily old cobblers of Telecoms, a good experience for the young lad.
Graeme & David both had a hat-trick of wins on the night, this time showing their experience counts.
Missiles V Scholars
2 8
Missiles only had a 2 man team in this match so they were up against it from the serve off.
Nathan Bertie tried his best to salvage some kind of result for Missiles with his 2 wins on the night however it proved a step too far for the disadvantaged Missiles.
Knut Radmer won all his matches for Scholars and with this victory it keeps Scholars in 3rd place in Div. 3
Div. 3 Player Of The Week:
Graeme Elrick 🏓🔥🏓
Thats a wrap for another week of DDTTA league action with all 3 divisions beginning to take shape now after the 1st round of fixtures completed in the season.
Our Ward Road Warriors - Dundee, Senior British League team were playing round 2/4 fixtures down at Draycott TTC last weekend.
Please see the following link to see how our premier tt Dundee team are fairing in this season's SBL.
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They have been promoted into Div. B4 this season, their 3rd season in SBL so harder matches for our lads.
Cheers
Ryan Doc
Joint DDTTA Match Secretary
League Report- Week Commencing 27th Oct. (Week 6)
DIV. 1 ROUND-UP
Brechin V Aces
2 8
Match Scheduled for Thursday 30/10/25.
2-man Brechin were always going to find it tough against in form Aces and so it proved.
Both Grant Williams and Matthew Craig won all their games with Aaron Robertson managing to get a game from Matthew.
Derek Mitchell and Aaron both beat Jos Berkout with him taking a set off Derek.
The doubles was very close however Grant and Matthew came out on top in 5 games.
Some outstanding rallies tonight however Aces deserved their comprehensive win in the end.
Up4it V Villa
6 4
As Halloween approaches, Up4it seem haunted by the spectre of Daniel Tibbetts!
The hosts faced the young superstar for the third time this season (already!!!) and have still failed to register a singles win against him! (like the rest of the league!)
Ryan Doc gave him a seasonal scare in game six by winning the third set, but Daniel hit back hard, completing his hatrick of wins with an 11-7, 4th set triumph with some mouth-watering attack v defense rallies!
Villa's other victory saw Peter Dixon and Daniel come back from 0-2 down to win in 5 against Paul Monteith and Iain Martin in the doubles tie.
Great to see Peter back playing after a 10 year hiatus (and playing well!) - given a few more games under his belt (and a change of rubber!), Peter will prove to be a stern test for many Div 1 players!
Up4it won the other 6 singles games, dropping only 2 sets along the way.
Up4it
Defenders V Barons
4 6
Barons were never behind in this match despite another hat-trick of wins on the night by the league's best player at the moment, Mr. Daniel Tibbetts who is playing a lot of tt in Div. 1 as he has the luxury of playing up for another 2 Forthill teams as well as his own Defenders.
Eloise Tan impressed on her league debut for Barons with 2 wins alongside her teammate, Tony Nelson who also came away with 2 wins.
As Eloise made the match scoreline 4-4, the match was all to play for going into the 2 final games.
Tony and Craig Smith managed to close out the show for Barons to win the match.
Knights V Swots
6 4
Knights had to call up a reserve for this match in the form of Craig Smith from their other club's team, Barons.
Yubo Rasmussen of Swots was putting his 100% record on the line in this match, would he be able to keep it???
Well, Knights took a 2-0 early advantage in the match and within these 1st 2 games, Yubo lost to Andrew Nimmo in a 5 set battle and therefore, lost his 100% record.
Nick Shepherd managed to get the St. Andrews team on the board with a game#3 win against Craig.
From then on in, Knights showed why they are reigning league champs stretching into a 6-2 lead.
Ryan Campbell and Yubo won the final 2 games of the match however to give a close final scoreline.
Div. 1 Player Of The Week:
Daniel Tibbetts 🏓🔥💯
DIV. 2 ROUND-UP
Comets V Chieftains
The vital game in this match was the game# between Dougal Ogilvie & Stewart Mason which was won by Stewart in four tight games to make the match score 3-1 to Chieftains.
Dougal could not get to grips with his awkward style!
Bill Beattie nearly beat Ian McLagan but Ian kept on winning points from almost impossible scores!!
This made the match score 4-2 to Chieftains.
Fiona Kinloch made sure of the victory for Chieftains by completing another hat-trick of wins in her victory over Dougal.
Roll on the cup semi between these two sides in December!!
Letham A V Duffers
8 2
A very friendly evening of table tennis, with contrasting styles of play making for some interesting matches.
John McDuff of Letham would like to make a public apology to Billy Liddle for the, quite frankly, embarrassing number of net cords he got in their match, particularly in the first set.
Ian Farquhar and Plamen Kostadinov remained unbeaten on the night to preserve both of their season's 100 personal averages.
An important wide-margin victory here for Letham A as they hang onto the coat-tails of Div. 2 leaders Lundin Links.
Truants V Buccaneers
9 1
Good victory for Truants but not all as it seems. Unfortunately, Murray Johnstone of Buccaneers was unwell which affected his play and had to concede his last match.
Great comeback by reserve, Martin Turnbull, for Truants against Steve Stranock but the most competitive and nail-biting match was the doubles with Steve and Glyn Pritchard beating Martin and Graham Wood 3-2.
First 4 games all won by 2 points and the 5th by 3.
2 hat-tricks here for Martin Turnbull & Ian Smith
Lundin Lynxes V Tigers
3 7
In the battle of the big cats on the North East coast of Lundin Links, Tigers were never behind in this match and from game# 5 after Rob McLean of Tigers beat Douglas Dewar in 4 sets, Tigers stretched their lead from then on in.
Neil Mowatt did manage to get 1 more win in the match for the Lynxes after beating Kenny McLaren 11-7 in 5th set.
Rui Yang Na closed out the show though with a 4-set victory over Douglas and with that, secured a personal hat-trick of match wins on the night just like his teammate, Rob.
Div.2 Player Of The Week:
Fiona Kinloch 🏓 🔥 🏓
DIV.3 ROUND-UP
Larick Liners V Prefects
0 10
A whitewash result here for Prefects in this Fife derby played at the Larick Centre in Tayport cementing Prefects spot at the top of Div. 3.
Sputniks V Squires
6 4
This was a close match played at Forthill between the division's 3rd & 4th placed teams.
Rod Archibald of Squires will go home disappointed after this match after losing 2 games both in close 5 set battles, firstly to Lee Nixon in game#3 and then to Jack Oughton in game#5.
These two 5 set wins for the Sputniks kept them in the lead in the match.
All of Sputniks players all won 2 matches on the night enabling them to win the match however it went down to the wire as Scott Wishart of Squires had a hat-trick of wins on the night which meant the final match had the match riding on it between Jack and Winnie Stein.
Jack won this match in 4 sets to take the match for Sputniks!
Telecoms V Missiles
10 0
A strong performance here from the high flying Telecoms who showed no mercy to their Forthill counterparts at Ward Road Gym.
Good result which will keep Telecoms in the title race with St. Andrews team, Prefects.
Crickety V Lairds
1 9
Lairds were in control winning every match in straight games until match 8 where Lewis Cameron of Crickety came from 2-1 down to beat Munro Macintosh in a great 5 set battle between the 2 youngsters!
Great to see 2 young lads bursting onto the Dundee tt scene and going at it against each other, something we have sorely missed for a few years.
With the right coaching and guidance let's hope they can go on to become great players and hopefully they can make a young Dundee Scottish Interleague team at the end of this season!
Well done kids!
Scholars V Letham B
4 6
Some well fought games here everybody contributed.
Theo Chirica of Letham B was the standout player on the night winning all 3 of his matches!
For the home side, veteran player, Charlie Ross had a good night's work, winning 2 out of 3 with all of his games going the distance in 5 sets!
Charlie's performance assisted from his teammates, Callum Mowat & Knut Radmer meant that the final game in the match had everything to play for!
Peter Cassidy duly closed the show
though for the away team and won the match for Letham B!
"Thanks for the good company of Letham TT club" says Charlie Ross of
Scholars.
Div. 3 Player Of The Week:
Theo Chirica 🏓🔥🏓
That wraps up another week's Dundee & District tt action folks! 🏓👻🏓
Ryan Doc
DDTTA Joint Match Secretary
League Report- Week Commencing 20th Oct. (Week 5)
DIV. 1 ROUND-UP
Barons V Knights
3 7
The reigning champs Knights were missing Stuart Halliday for this match but managed to win all their other matches fairly comfortably anyway and take the victory with a man disadvantage.
A predictable scoreline with both Andrew Nimmo and David Hay remaining undefeated on the "KNIGHT!"
See what I done there folks!! 😄
Villa V Defenders
5 5
Daniel Tibbetts won all his games with a degree of comfort however it was not enough to force a win over a resilient Villa.
A good hard fought Forthill derby here where after Defenders got into a 5-3 lead, victory was in sight.
However, the Villa duo of the experienced David Sim and Gary Lowson managed to win their last 2 singles matches against Sandy Bertie & Richard Tough respectively in straight sets to claw out the draw.
Up4it V Aces
2 8
A great night for Aces and a horrible experience for Up4it!
Aces pulverised their hosts, winning the first 8 matches in succession!
Up4it were unlucky to lose the doubles match - Gillian Edwards and Paul Monteith losing out in 5 sets (9-11 in sets 4 and 5!!) to Matt Craig and Grant Williams.
Up4it managed to restore a modicum of pride (but not a lot!) when Ryan Doc beat Grant Williams in game 9 and Paul got the better of Peter Aird(just!!) in game 10.
Matt was the standout player winning all his games.
New team shirts and high quality TT on display in this match….
Swots V Brechin
5 5
Closely fought contest here, played in great spirit.
Star player was Ryan Campbell of Swots, winning all three of his singles matches including a great match win against Aaron Robertson in game #5 with a 13-11 victory in the 5th set!
Two wins each in singles for Aaron Robertson and Derek Mitchell, who also combined to win a five set doubles helped secure a draw for Brechin.
Div. 1 Player Of The Week :
Super Matt Craig! 🏓🔥🏓
DIV. 2 ROUND-UP
Chieftains V Tigers
6 4
Match was in the balance until the last game. With six sets going to 10-10 it could easily have been a draw.
Well done both teams.
Fiona Kinloch being the standout performer in this match completing the victory in the final match for Chieftains and indeed her hat-trick on the night by defeating Kenny McLaren in 3 close sets!
Lundin Lasers V Comets
9 1
Two very close games were had in the match with each team coming up trumps, firstly Roman Nydza winning his last game against Jill Milne 11-4 for Lasers and Dougal Ogilvie getting revenge for Comets beating Nat Forno 12-10 in a very tight encounter near the end of the match.
The Lasers enjoyed another strong win overall.
Another two 100% evenings here for Adam Sitko & Roman of Lasers who are proving to be a dominant pairing in Div. 2 this season!
Duffers V Truants
2 8
St. Andrews team, Truants got into a 4-1 lead in this match courtesy of a strong showing from Graham Wood.
Graham would continue his good form in the match by winning his 3 individual matches and also partnering their reserve on the night, Sandy Pearson in a doubles victory also.
Good result for Truants which puts them in joint 2nd place with Letham A.
Letham A V Lundin Lynxes
9 1
With only three of the matches going beyond three sets, it was a fairly convincing win for Letham A.
Campbell Barr managed to stop a whitewash with a comprehensive win against John McDuff.
2 good evening's work for Letham pair, Ian Farquhar & Plamen Kostadinov here.
Div. 2 Player Of The Week:
Fiona Kinloch 🏓 🔥 🏓
DIV. 3 ROUND-UP
Squires V Letham B
5 5
Letham B were ahead in this match up until game #6 where Rod Archibald got Squires back on level terms with a great 5 set match victory over an impressive Theo Chirica, 11-8 in the 5th.
Rod continued this good form in the match by making it a 100% night for himself, winning his 3.
Thro however, won the final match against the returning Winnie Stein to secure the draw for Letham B.
Prefects V Sputniks
8 2
Each game was keenly contested and many were closer than the scores suggest.
The match business was conducted without a hitch until unfortunately one of the visitors left their phone behind!
This was a big win here for Prefects as Sputniks have had a strong start to the season pushing both Prefects and Telecoms at the top of the table however this win gives Prefects breathing space between themselves and Sputniks now.
A great 3 individual wins here for Jie Guo, the only female in the match!
Girl Power Jie!!
Lairds V Larick Liners
9 1
Some great play by one of the D3 rookies Larick. But Lairds were just too strong in the end.
Another convincing nights 100% work here for the hard to beat Andy Hughes, ably assisted by reserve for the night, Scott Wishart also with 3 individual wins in the match.
Missiles V Crickety
9 1
A lot of young guys playing against each another in this match which is great and refreshing to see in our DDTTA league!
This was a bottom of the league clash played out at Forthill Sports Centre this week where Missiles put in a strong showing against the young Brechin kids on their home patch.
This leaves Crickety bottom of the pile.
(I feel ur pain this week being a Rangers fan!! 😏 )
Both Krishnan Martin & Nathan Bertie managed to get 100% night's performances with the match of the night coming in the very 1st game where Krishnan had a come from behind 5 set victory over Lewis Cameron, 11-9 in the 5th!
Telecoms V Scholars
8 2
Compared to the previously reported match, this match was at the other end of the age spectrum with some old faces on show in this WRG match-up where 3 of the players from both teams, namely, Stewart Clark of Telecoms and both Knut Radmer & Charlie Ross of Scholars giving a total age of nearly 250!! (Also great to see these guys giving it their all on the table after so many years of competition between them!)
One of the "younger" players from Telecoms had a good night's work winning 100% of his individual matches in the form of Davey Monteith.
His brother Paul played on the very next table to him on the night for Up4it, always good to see the Monteith's in the same hall playing tt!
This was a big win for Telecoms over the 2-man Scholars as it means they can now leapfrog Prefects at the top of the division.
Div. 3 Player Of The Week:
Jie Guo 🏓🔥🏓
That wraps up another week's DDTTA league action folks!!
Keep they bats in good condition now, the league is heating up!!
Good luck to our competing Dundee Vets players playing at the Scottish Vets Assessment this Sunday at Bathgate Academy, myself included!!
Cmonnnn!!!! 🏓
Cheers,
Ryan Doc (Joint DDTTA Match Secretary)
League Report- Week Commencing 13th Oct. (Week 4)
DIV. 1 ROUND-UP
Defenders V Up4it
3 7
Every match-up in this match was a straight sets victory for each team except for the match of the night between Daniel Tibbetts of Defenders who remains on 100% for this season against Ryan Docherty of Up4it in match #4.
Daniel took control of this match by going 2 sets up however Doc managed to sway the match by some strong looping against Daniel's demon chopping off his pimples.
It was to no avail however as Mr. Tibbetts managed to win the 4th set 13-11.
The onlooking team members were amazed at some of the long rallies between the 2 lads.
Scott Thomson doing his best to live with a couple of Up4It hotshots. But where are the photos of Tibbetts vs Docherty which we’ve just read so much about?? (the photographer was busy looping I suppose)
Aces V Swots
4 6
Aces were without duo Jos Berkhout and Peter Aird, who were on their travels to Malaysia and Romania respectively, so required to play up a reserve in the form of the ready and willing Sandy Bertie (many thanks) and who duly played particularly well in a number of games and impressive 5 setter against Ryan Campbell.
It was however a superb win tonight for a strong visiting team, who certainly took the game to the home side, racing to a commanding 5-0 lead, before Aces could catch their breaths and eventually Matt Craig getting a score on the board for Aces which would lead the mini comeback.
It was not to be and Yubo Rasmussen made sure of it in match 8 with a solid 3-0 win against Sandy Bertie completing his hat-trick on the night and keeping his 100% player average for the season.
An entertaining match played on two tables, in good spirits and with some great rallies, and with the ‘odd’ net and edge in the humid hall but it was to Swots took any advantages gained and sealed the 6-4 win.
Congratulations to them.
Brechin V Barons
5 5
Entertaining fixture with some long exciting rallies and with six 4 setters - Brechin were never ahead and always chasing the match.
Tony Nelson of Barons was the star of the night winning his 3 singles although he did drop 1 game each to Aaron Robertson and Derek Mitchell
From 4-2 down Brechin won game 7 and 8 and lost game 9. Derek played Craig Smith in the decider and the former came out on top with a 3-0 win.
Dick Bird stepped into reserve for Brechin and can count himself a little unlucky against Martin Klopper where he lost 2 deuce games.
Barons very close to winning their 1st match of the season since being promoted but old stalwart Deekzer stopped them at the final hurdle!
Knights V Villa
10 0
A plain-sailing night's work here for the reigning DDTTA champs even with a reserve in their line-up in the shape of the impressive Tony Nelson of Barons playing up for Knights in this fixture.
Div.1 Player Of The Week :
Tony Nelson 🏓🔥🏓
DIV. 2 ROUND-UP
Comets V Buccaneers
3 7
Both teams called up a reserve to play for their teams in this match in Richard Bellis for Comets and Stewart Ferguson for Bucs.
Both of these players managed a solitary win each in the match.
Murray Johnstone & Glyn Pritchard both remained unbeaten on the evening's play with Glyn having 2 mammoth 5 set battles with Jill Milne and Richard winning by 2 points in both 5 set victories!
This match could have easily have been a draw had Glyn not pulled these 2 big victories out of the bag!
Lundin Lynxes V Chieftains
1 9
Lynxes hampered with just two players but managed to win one match and also had a very close five set match between Chris Sayer of Lynxes and Stewart Mason of Chieftains.
Well done to the Chieftains with Bill Beattie and Jim Tawse managing maximum points including a win in the doubles.
This looks like this can be a long tough season for the Lundin side who have only managed to get 2 points so far from their opening 4 matches.
Letham A V Tigers
4 6
Tigers got the result by winning both the 5 sets matches on a tie-break.
Over the course of the evening they probably deserved the win.
This would be both Tigers & Letham A's 1st of 2 matches they will play this week.
Tigers V Lundin Lasers
2 8
A fairly comfortable win for the Lasers, but a lot of close games on the way.
Graham (Rob!) McLean had a busy night, playing 19 games - including an 11-9 fifth game win in the doubles and a 13-11 fifth game loss in the final game to Roman Nydza.
Both Roman and Adam Sitko have 100% night's play here.
Truants V Letham A
3 7
Good win for Letham A with both Ian Farquhar and Peter Cassidy winning their 3 matches.
Despite Ian winning his quite convincingly, player of the night was Peter as he won some very tight matches.
After Letham A taking a 4-1 lead in this match, Truants managed to claw back to 4-3 with Howard Lee beating John McDuff and a doubles win.
Letham A would not be thwarted though as they won the remaining singles matches.
Div.2 Player Of The Week :
Ian Farquhar 🏓🔥💯
DIV. 3 ROUND-UP
Sputniks V Lairds
3 7
"I'd like to say that Sputniks were robbed, but we weren't" says Eric Brown of Sputniks.
Andy Hughes wasn't troubled by any of Sputniks in this match, Shirley McKay eked out a crafty win against Jack Oughton and even though Jack did the same to Heather Gunn, Heather was already basking in the glow of victory against (occasionally) big-hitting Lee Nixon :)
A good early season away win for Lairds here against early season title bidders, Sputniks.
Letham B V Prefects
1 9
A nice match between Prefects and Letham B with the former trying to put up a fight but to no avail.
"Even all the nets and edges going our way couldn’t help" says Theo Chirica of the home side.
Prefects are showing good early season form and looking like the side to catch in this season's Div. 3 title race.
Martin Turnbull and Sandy Pearson both churning out hat-trick's in this week's match.
Scholars V Squires
4 6
After Squires stretched to a 5-1 lead in this match it looked like they were cruising to a commanding victory here.
However, Scholars screwed their nuts to make a fist of a match.
In game#9, we saw the game of the match as well as the doubles, where wily veteran Charlie Ross of Scholars came from 2 sets down against Scott Wishart to take the next 3 sets, 16,9 & 9.
This set up Callum Mowat in the final game of the evening to make the final scoreline closer where he duly obliged with a straight sets victory over Winnie Stein.
On a side-note to this match, I would like to say how good it is to see Winnie back playing and winning after her recent health issues.
Div.3 Player Of The Week :
Andy Hughes 🏓🔥💯
Cheers
Ryan Doc (Joint DDTTA Match Secretary)
League Report- Week Commencing 29th Sept. (Week 3)
DIV. 1 ROUND-UP
Barons V Aces
1 9
A big comeback win for Tony Nelson against Grant Williams, 2-0 down to win 3-2.
That was all there was to really celebrate this evening for Barons.
Solid performance from Aces, and Daniel Tibbetts filling in was too good.
Villa V Brechin
5 5
Villa took an early lead in this match against a Brechin side who had Steve Stranock from Brechin's 2nd Div. team Buccaneers, playing as a reserve for their injured player John Anderson who is struggling with sciatica.
Brechin staged a comeback though with Aaron Robertson winning his 1st 2 matches in 5 sets against David Sim in match#3 and Gary Lowson in match#5.
Aaron, the starman on the night secured a point in match#8 with a straight sets win against Jim Dyson.
However, Simmy had a great comeback from behind 5 set victory over Derek Mitchell and Gary backed Simmy up winning the final match against Steve Stranock including a granny set to secure the draw for Villa.
Defenders V Knights
3 7
Knights were always ahead in this match however; this should not detract from the fact that Daniel Tibbetts (new recruit to DDTTA) kept the final scoreline respectable for newly promoted Defenders by winning his 3!
A great performance considering he beat top league individual performers from recent seasons, David Hay and Andrew Nimmo.
The doubles in this match was a really close 5 set battle where every set was decided by 2 points!
Nimmo and Stuart Halliday won the battle and from there on in, Knights ran out victors.
Up4it V Swots
6 4
A fantastic early season close encounter - Yubo Rasmussen debuting (and starring) for Swots.
Oddly, there were no 4 set games on the night in an "all or nothing" kind of fashion!
The first 6 games were shared with alternating victories after Paul beat Ryan C in an epic 5 set opener. The following 5 singles matches were all won in straight sets to leave the scoreline poised at 3-3.
As ever, the doubles match proved pivotal in the tie - Paul and Ryan Doc winning a cliffhanger 12-10 in the 5th, after surrendering a two set lead and almost fluffing their lines when 9-5 up in the decider!
That win moved Up4it 4-3 ahead.
Iain's victory against Nick gave Up4it some breathing space at 5-3 before the 2 Ryans fought out another 5 set classic with the Doc prevailing after Ryan C had been 2-1 up.
Yubo was pushed hard by Paul in the final game before coming through relatively comfortably in another 5 set battle.
Div. 1 Player Of The Week:
Daniel Tibbetts 🏓🔥🏓
DIV. 2 ROUND-UP
Lundin Lasers V Chieftains
10 0
Convincing win by Lasers with no games going to five sets. All the matches played in good spirit with home advantage telling in the end.
Duffers V Comets
4 6
After going 2-0 up in this match, Comets never relinquished their lead with the help of Fraser Smith winning his 3 matches.
2 of Fraser's wins were 5 set victories over Ping Xu and Andy Reid.
From 5-1 down however, Duffers nearly scrambled a draw out of the match, getting back to 5-4 down!
Andy's 5 set win over Ian McLagan meant there was going to be a match#10 decider between Billy Liddle and Fraser!
Fraser took care of Billy tho rather convincingly to settle the match in Comets favour.
Truants V Lundin Lynxes
10 0
A whitewash victory here for the St. Andrews based side where they were rarely threatened with 4 matches going 4 sets and all the rest won in straight sets.
Div. 2 Player Of The Week:
Fraser Smith 🏓🔥🏓
DIV. 3 ROUND-UP
Prefects V Squires
9 1
The match score doesn’t fairly reflect the closeness of many of the games.
Scott was particularly unfortunate in losing his five set matches.
As always the games were played in a very good spirit with a number of skillful and entertaining rallies.
Missiles V Sputniks
1 9
A Forthill derby match here where Sputniks continued their good early season form with a trouncing of Missiles here.
After going 2-0 up, Krishnan Martin managed to get Missiles only point of the match by beating Lee Nixon in 3 close sets.
After that, Sputniks asserted their dominance by winning all the rest of the matches relatively easy except for Nathan Bertie taking Lee Nixon to 5 sets.
Richard Bellis and Jack Oughton both remaining undefeated on the night.
Telecoms V Larick Liners
10 0
An easy night's work here for the experienced Telecoms against the league's newcomers from Tayport.
It was refreshing to see a junior girl playing in the ranks of Liners though which we don't see much of in the Dundee tt scene.
Also good to hear that young Sophie Robertson is keen to come to WRG for coaching as well.
Telecoms showed no mercy however on this night!
Crickety V Scholars
0 10
Scholars of St Andrews were too strong for the youngsters from Brechin winning all the matches however Lewis and Colin put up some resistance with Lewis taking Gus to 5 ends and taking a game off Callum.
Colin also taking a game off Callum.
Good effort by the Crickety and will have learnt a lot so far since starting their first competitive season and putting 100 per cent into their games.
Div. 3 Player Of The Week:
Martin Turnbull 🏓🔥🏓
That's our league round-up guys after the 3rd week of league play.
As it stands in Div. 1 we have Aces top, holding a 5 game advantage over reigning champs Knights.
In Div. 2, Lundin Lasers hold a 2 game advantage over Truants.
In Div. 3, Prefects hold a 3 game advantage over Sputniks
Early days of course!
In the individual league averages,
Div. 1 averages are topped by Matt Craig, Daniel Tibbetts and Yubo Rasmussen all on 100%.
Div. 2 averages are topped by 6 players, namely, Adam Sitko, Fraser Smith, Roman Nydza, Graham Wood, Ian Farquhar & Rob McLean all on 100%.
Div. 3 averages are topped by 7 players all on 100%, by way of, Graeme Elrick, Andy Hughes, Eric Brown, Lachlann Henderson, Martin Turnbull, Peter Cassidy & Vladimir Janjic.
I would like to point out to all of our DDTTA members guys that there is exciting news from TTS. They have managed to secure D.I.S.C. on Mains Loan in Dundee for this season's Scottish National League tournaments starting this Saturday 5th of October where we have 2 senior Dundee teams taking on the might of other Scottish teams!
I urge our members who may have spare time this Saturday to come and check out the action and support our teams competing.
MON THE DEE!!
Cheers,
Ryan Doc
Joint DDTTA League Match Secretary
LEAGUE REPORT - Week commencing 22nd Sept 2025 (Week 2)
DIV. 1 ROUND-UP
Brechin V Defenders
7 3
Brechin were forced to play a reserve for tonight’s fixture against Defenders and Steve Stranock volunteered to assist.
Brechin ended up winning with Aaron Robertson and Derek Mitchell winning their 3 matches and the doubles.
Sandy Bertie managed to get a game from Aaron in match 4 however Richard Tough, Sandy and Scott Thomson all managed a win against Steve, who played well and managed to get a game from Sandy.
Aces V Villa
10 0
The local derby, Aces vs Villa, a cold Thursday night, electrifying inside, new club shirts exchanged, let battle commence!
First in the ring was Grant Williams v Gary Lowson, two heavy weights, the match was close and there were fiery exchanges from both sides, but Grant came out on top at the end of round 4.
Jos Berkout vs Jim Dyson, as always, a 5-game match, Jos leading 8 – 2 in the 5th but Jim threw the kitchen sink at him and levelled at 8 all! In the end Jos managed to scrape through at 11 – 9!
Next was Matt Craig vs Peter Dixon.
Peter had come out of retirement in search for glory but alas that was not going to be the case. Matt did not even perspire [he never does], turned up and worked his way past Peter.
Peter had some brilliant hits but when Matt started to get into his routine there was no stopping him.
As the night went on Villa got close but unfortunately not close enough.
The doubles game went to 5 as well, the end result was 10 – 0 but I must admit that the score line did not show the closeness of some matches. (Match Report courtesy of Jos this week).
Swots V Barons
7 3
Enjoyable match with lots of close 4 or 5 set matches.
2 singles wins each for Swots Ryan Campbell, David Smith and Nick Shepherd
Tony Nelson however was too strong for all, winning all his matches.
Up4it V Knights
3 7
David Hay was the star performer for Knights, winning all his games, as they swept aside Up4it.
Up4it's game plan was disrupted by the late withdrawal of a jittery Jacob Munro, leaving Paul Monteith to step in at the last minute.
Ryan Doc continued his great form of last season, beating Stuart Halliday and Andrew Nimmo.
Stuart also lost out to Paul who "edged" a close second set in a straight sets win.
Stuart got some solace with a comprehensive win against Gillian Edwards in game 8.
Great to see Stuart back playing in the top division after his injury layoff!
Up4it
Div. 1 Player Of The Week :
Davey Hay 🏓🔥🏓
DIV. 2 ROUND-UP
Tigers V Duffers
9 1
A Forthill derby here where Tigers served up a trouncing to the wily old Duffers team who are newly promoted to Div. 2.
Ping Xu got a consolation point for Duffers by beating Ken Head in match#8.
Good 100% evenings for Kenny McLaren and newbie Rob McLean.
Chieftains V Buccaneers
4 6
This match was a tight contest where the match swayed back n forth between the 2 teams that led to a final match decider between Fiona Kinloch of Chieftains and Murray Johnstone of Bucs.
Murray çame out on top in this mammoth final match with a come from behind victory, 11-9 in the 5th!
This sewed up the victory for the Brechin side.
Div. 2 Player Of The Week :
Murray Johnstone 🏓🔥🏓
DIV. 3 ROUND-UP
Sputniks V Telecoms
3 7
Telecoms were behind in this match until match#6 where they levelled to 3-3 and then the next 2 matches were pivotal in their success.
They won those next 2 matches both 12-10 in 5th set deciders!
Graeme Elrick proving to be the starman in this match!
Letham B V Missiles
8 2
A competitive and good-spirited opener to the season, with Letham B starting
strongly and Missiles battling hard despite being a player short.
Prefects V Scholars
10 0
A very convincing derby win here for Prefects against their St. Andrews rivals with only Charlie Ross of Scholars able to win a solitary set in the whole match for Scholars!
Well played Prefects!
Div. 3 Player Of The Week :
Graeme Elrick 🏓💪🏓
Ryan Doc
DDTTA League Match Secretary
LEAGUE REPORT FOR WEEK COMMENCING 15TH SEPTEMBER
Welcome back guys to a new season of table tennis action in the Dundee & District league!
After last week's fixtures of cup action (please see cup section on website) it was down to the league business this week with the opening round of league fixtures taking place all around Dundee & District!
The league this season has been enlarged for the first time in years as we have a new club, Tayport TTC, and some new teams incorporated into our league this season!
This has meant an increase in size to all of our league divisions with 10 teams competing in Div. 3, 9 teams competing in Div. 2 and 8 teams competing in Div. 1.
Good news for our local tt scene!
With that said, let's get down to our opening week of tt action guys!! 🏓
DIV. 1 ROUND-UP
Barons V Up4it
1 9
A good opening night for new player to our league, Tony Nelson of Barons, going to 5 sets in all 3 singles matches against an Up4it team donning new strips for the season, but frustratingly only managed to win 1 of the matches.
Overall a comfortable night for up4it, must be their new tops!
100% night's play for Ryan Docherty and Gillian Edwards.
Defenders V Aces
1 9
A Forthill derby here to serve off the season for these 2 teams.
Not an easy opener for the newly promoted Defenders.
It turned out to be a relatively comprehensive nights work for Aces here with Jos Berkout the only player to drop a match for Aces in this season opener to Sandy Bertie who would have benefited from his early season tournament appearance at our inaugural Dundee Summer Smash.
100% night's play for Matt Craig and Grant Williams
Knights V Brechin
9 1
Reigning league champs Knights served off their league campaign with a home fixture at Ward Road Gym (WRG) against Brechin who have been dealt an early season injury blow with news that John Anderson may miss the whole season due to an ongoing issue with sciatica.
Therefore, Brechin are looking to recruit a new member to their squad.
This was always gonna be a tough opener for Brechin but made even harder with only 2 players, Derek Mitchell and Aaron Robertson playing.
Knights ran out comfortable winners here however, Derek Mitchell had a 5 set duece win against the returning Stuart Halliday, who had a year away from Div. 1 after a shoulder dislocation.
Aaron had 2 close matches with 4 set defeats to Stuart and Andrew Nimmo.
David Hay showing yet again good form proving he will be a tough nut to crack yet again this season.
100% night's for Davey Hay and Nimmo.
Villa V Swots
7 3
Ryan Campbell of Swots remained unbeaten in the singles while match of the night has to be the doubles where Peter Dixon and Gary Lowson overturned a 2-0 game deficit to triumph over Ryan and Nick Shepherd.
That doubles win proved to play a pivotal role in the match as it stretched Villa's lead to 5-2 and they never relinquished that lead to take the match with a 7-3 victory in the remaining singles matches.
Great to see old compatriot Peter Dixon making a return to our league for Villa after a few years away!
Div.1 Player Of The Week :
Ryan Campbell 🏓 🔥🏓
DIV. 2 ROUND-UP
Buccaneers V Lundin Lasers
2 8
A battle between last season's Div. 3 champs and last season's Div.1 relegated team.
Who would come out on top?!
Answer : Lundin Lasers.
A quite emphatic victory actually showing that the step up in divisions will be a tough ride for Bucs this season.
Adam Sitko and Roman Nydza will be happy to get two 100% evenings and get Lasers off the mark this season
Duffers V Chieftains
3 7
Another newly promoted team at home here, in Duffers, playing Div. 2 stalwarts Chieftains.
Would Duffers fair any better than their other newly promoted compadres?
Answer: no.
Duffers battled courageously after going 5-0 down to try and mount some kind of comeback and made the final scoreline look respectable.
Jim Tawse had a good start to the season winning all his matches which included a come from behind, 5 set battle with Ping Xu.
Truants V Comets
6 4
Both teams looked very smart in their club shirts this evening.
Player of the night was Fraser Smith of Comets.
After dusting off his bat after a summer break he went on to win all his 3 singles incuding a granny of his namesake, Ian Smith in the 5th set of match 3!
Fraser partnered Ian McLagan to win the doubles.
Despite this, Truants still managed to win the tie due to an evenly distributed 2 wins each by all of their players.
Div. 2 Player Of The Week :
Fraser Smith 🏓🔥🏓
DIV. 3 ROUND-UP
Crickety V Sputniks
0 10
The Youngsters from Brechin made their league debut against Sputniks and although they huffed and puffed lost out without taking a set.
Lewis Cameron was the closest with a deuce game against Richard Bellis.
Salar Qudrat was forced to concede his last game.
Lairds V Prefects
4 6
This was a hard match for Lairds tonight, although there were some close games, Prefects experience shone through.
It was good to see one of the most promising and youngest players DDTTA has seen in many a year make his league debut for Lairds in Munro Macintosh in this match.
I have big hopes for this young lad if DDTTA can provide him the coaching that he needs.
A solid 100% evenings play from the reliable Andy Hughes of Lairds made this a close match.
Well done Prefects!
Scholars V Larick Liners
8 2
Another team making their debut into our league in this match were Larick Liners who played a Fife derby match away to St. Andrews side, Scholars.
The opening match turned out to be the closest match in the whole contest where Gustavo San Roman won a close 5 setter against Jean Driscoll who can count themselves unlucky not to win all of their matches on their league debut.
Gustavo won all of his matches to ease Scholars to victory.
Div. 3 Player Of The Week :
Andy Hughes 🏓🔥🏓