New Ranking's After Welsh League

The new Junior Welsh rankings have been posted on the TTAW website following the first weekend of Welsh League. The Ferndale Boy's are ranked as follows:

Chris Griffiths - 6
Dylan Lewis - 9
Liam Winder - 10
Ethan Lewis - 22
Steven Fawkes - 30
Jaymz Tutton - 51


In the Girl's category we have Charlotte Slye in joint 10th position with Laura Edwards and Faye Evans.

Well done to all players and hopefully by the end of the season we can have an improvement on all these rankings.

Community Club Cancelled 14th of Dec

Due to poor weather I have cancelled the Community club this evening. Hope this has not caused any trouble but travel conditions seemed too poor.

End of Year Message from Stephen Gertsen

Below is a message from Stephen for all players:

"Hello Ferndale players

Wow I can’t believe how fast a year has gone since I left Ferndale Table Tennis club!! I’m so glad to see that you are all still playing and competing in tournaments around Wales and England. Despite leaving I always look out for your results and keep a eye on your progression and will continue to do so. I enjoyed coaching all of you and it gives me a lot of satisfaction seeing that you are all still involved in the sport and enjoying playing. Keep working hard at Ferndale with the sessions provided by the mad Scott Jonhston.....

I would like to wish everyone at Ferndale a great Christmas and a Happy New year. Hopefully I will see you all soon in the near future.

PS. Are you all Swansea City supporters now as we are the only club in Wales going places......."

Community Club Sessions

Wednesday the 14th will be the final Community club session before Christmas. The first session in the New Year will be on Wednesday the 11th as E3 sessions start on Monday the 9th.

Link with St.John Baptist High School

Monday the 12th saw the first day between Ferndale and St.John Baptist High School from Aberdare. The Aberdare boys are all studying GCSE PE and are using Table Tennis as part of their studies. It was a fantastic 1st event with Aberdare bringing over 15 players for the event. Ferndale had the following players representing the school:
Year 7: Ronan Comey, Eric Hughes, Kian Major, Liam Samuel
Year 8: Charlotte Slye
Year 9: Dylan Lewis
Year 10: Chris Griffiths, Liam Winder, Ethan Lewis
Year 11: Ryan Howells, Jamie Davies
The event was such a success that the schools are going to continue to meet at the end of every half-term along with some of the Aberdare players hoping to attend the Wednesday Community nights.

Return of Two Greats

This week has seen the return of two ex-ferndale representatives to training. Jamie Davies(on left) and Ryan Howells(right). The boys are taking Table Tennis as part of their GCSE studies for PE. It is good to see the boys coming back to the sessions and helping out with the new younger players.

North Gwent Cadet and Junior Open

Ferndale players had mixed fortunes at one of Wales biggest events a few weeks back. 

In the cadet event 3 players progressed through to the main event with one player failing to get through. Chris Griffiths won his group, only dropping one set in the process to Thomas Heydon. Ethan Lewis finished second in his group, losing out to Jac Jenkins 3-1. Dylan Lewis also finished second in his group losing out to Ryan Oyler 3-0 and winning a very close battle against Matthew Francis 3-2. Liam Winder was the only player not to progress through his group with him having two very difficult games. He finished thrid in his group, losing 3-1 to Callum Evans and Jamie Trevillion from England.

In the quarter finals Ethan Lewis lost out 3-0 to Callum Evans whilst there was an all Ferndale match between Dylan Lewis and Chris Griffiths. Chris won the battle 3-1. This lead to Callum Evans and Chris playing in the semi-final. Chris won the match in comfortable fashion 3-0. In the final Chris (number 1 seed) met the number 2 seed Ryan Oyler. In the final the seedings were switched as Chris struggled to get going in the final and lost 3-0

In the junior event all four Ferndale players qualified for the last 32. Dylan Lewis met number 1 seed Connor Edwards and fought hard but went down 3-0. Ethan Lewis lost out to Jamie Trevillion in a close 3-1 match with the third set going to deuce. There was another all Ferndale affair in round one with Chris and Liam meeting. Liam won the first but then Chris came back fighting and won it 3-1 but it could of gone to a fifth set with Liam losing the fourth set in deuce. This saw Chris being the last player for Ferndale in the under 18 event. In the quarter final Chris met Ryan Oyler in a repeat of the Under 15 final. This time Chris got revenge and won the match 3-1. This set up a semi-final match between Chris and Connor Edwards. Connor came out on top in this battle, winning 3-1 but the second end was a deuce set which Connor won and if Chris had taken that set the match could of finished differently.

Overall it was a good competition for the boys with them all competing well against a mixture of opponents. The boys should take confidence from this and take that in to the next event.