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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

Fixture	Div or cup	Original date	New date*
Buccaneers v Lundin Lynxes	Div 2	20/11/25	09/02/26
Buccaneers v Tigers	Div 2	02/10/25	09/03/26
Lairds v Letham B	Div 3	30/9/25	31/03/26
Up4it v Villa	Div 1	16/12/25	tbc
Buccaneers v Chieftains	Div 2	04/12/25	08/03/26
Brechin v Defenders	Div 1	05/02/26	tbc
Telecoms v Crickety	Div 3	20/01/26	17/02/26
Villa v Knights	Div 1	01/12/26	tbc
Knights v Barons	Div 1	09/12/26	tbc
Villa v Brechin	Div 1	09/02/26	tbc

Brechin v Knights	Cup (Cchal)		Claim B
Up4it v Brechin	Cup (Stan)		Claim B
Brechin v Chieftains	Cup	09/10/25	Claim B
Buccaneers v Letham A	Cup	6/11/25	Claim B
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

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Season 2025/2026

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 2^nd 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 5^th 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 5^th 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 🏓🔥🏓