St.Johns Match Monday 6th

On Monday the 6th of Feb Ferndale took a squad of players over to St.John's in Aberdare for a replay of the first match carried out before Christmas. It was an excellent trip with everybody being partnered with a St.John's individual for a doubles competition. The players representing Ferndale were:
Year 7
Ronan Comey
Eric Hughes
Mason Downie
Connor Wilshire
Year 8
Charlotte Slye
Year 10
Liam Winder
Chris Griffiths

The players were also accompanied by PE teacher Mr.Williams and 5x60 officer Chris Emsley. Everybody had a great time and are looking forward to St.John's coming back to Ferndale just before Easter.

North Wales Training Camp

Charlotte Slye was selected to travel to North Wales for a training camp this weekend. Charlotte travelled with several players from South Wales as well as national coach Ryan Jenkins who ran the session.Charlotte said she enjoyed the camp and came back feeling more confident in herself. Ryan said on his blog "the attitudes, motivation and pride was inspiring and it was nice to be part of it."
Well Done Charlotte and keep up the good work.

Catalunya Invitation Event Results

Chris was a member of the Cadet team that lost there 1st match 3-0 against Andalusia in the quarter final. The next match was a close encounter losing out to Oroso 3-1 in the 5th-8th play-off match. Chris was 2-0 up in his match here but sadly could not finish off the match losing 3-2. The final match the in the 7th and 8th play-off the cadet team won 3-0 with Chris winning his match 3-2.
In his individual group Chris won one match 3-1 and lost the other two matches 3-1 and 3-0, the 3-0 result against the number 1 seed. Chris finished 10th out of 16 in the singles event and is showing signs of stepping up on the continent and should hopefully start turning these close defeats in to victories soon.

Catalunya Invitation Event

Chris Griffiths is a member of the Welsh squad selected to go and compete in the above mentioned event in Barcelona. Good luck to Chris and keep up the good work.

Training Camp in Sheffield

The weekend of 14th and 15th of January saw Chris Griffiths travel up to Sheffield with Ryan Oyler and Lewis Williams to train with some of the BTTF Olympic squad. This is a fantastic opportunity for Chris to see how professional players conduct themselves on a daily basis. Chris was accompanied by Ryan Jenkins national coach and hopefully Chris will have learnt a lot from the weekend that he can bring back to Ferndale.

Junior 6 Nations Selection

Chris Griffiths has been selected to represent Wales at the Junior 6 Nations event on the 9th-11th of March. Chris will compete in the Junior team event along side Alex Prosser of Tonypandy and then play in the under 15 event for the singles. Well done Chris and good luck.

Cadet County

Last weekend Chris Griffiths represented Glamorgan county in the premier county division. Chris had a fantastic weekend pulling off some fantastic results and playing to a consistent high level for the whole weekend. If Chris keeps up these performances he will become a Welsh regular. Chris was in a team with:
Ryan Oyler
Callum Evans
Jac Jenkins
Soffi Jenkins
Caitlin Williams
Beth Roberts