History

Ferndale Table Tennis club was first established as a TTk Greenhouse academy in 2007. The academy was overseen by Welsh International player Stephen Gertsen he was at the academy for 3 and a half years and had great success during his time here. Then ex-Scottish Junior International player Scott Johnston who was assistant coach at old TTk school Tonypandy and had previously helped Stephen with his coaching duties at Ferndale took over. Scott was in the position for a year. Scott moved on but the club has again managed to get a new coach who is going to continue to allow the club to grow. Gwyn Carvill from Bridgend TT club has now taken over at the school and will hopefully use his knowledge of the game and links within welsh table tennis to help the club go from strength to strength.

Monday, 7 March 2011

New Ferndale Blog

Hi Everybody

Welcome to the new Ferndale Table Tennis Academy blog. This is where you will get all the information you need about Ferndale training times, results and future events.

During the time that Stephen Gertsen left and myself starting Ferndale players have been very busy. Some of the players have been representing the school in English 4 star competions, Welsh league and even for Wales.

4 players have represented Wales in different events. Charlotte Slye represented Wales in a team of 4 girls and 4 boys. In this particular occasion the girls (Charlotte, Soffi Jenkins and Caitlin Williams) won 6-3, with Charlotte winning two games, 3-0 and 3-2, and losing one game 3-0.

Steven Fawkes, Liam Winder and Ethan Lewis have also represented Wales along with Ashley Stravakis, Sharlene Williams, Nicole Hall, Angharad and Megan Phillips. Wales won this match 9-7 with Ethan helping the team by winning his two matches 3-2. Liam and Steven found life harder but still performed well. Both boys were defeated with Steven losing his games 3-0 and 3-1 whilst Liam lost both his matches 3-0.

Results and selections like this show that Ferndale players are constantly improving and working there way up the Welsh ranking's and squad selections. The reports from two Welsh League weekends and the Easy Midlands 4 Star event will follow.
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