It's funny you know, that many people think of Bath Street Marine Table Tennis Club as being for the 'more mature' adult! It may be true that the Club's ‘niche’ market is the ‘more mature’ adult, with vibrant daytime sessions of social table tennis almost every weekday morning. However, for a small club, we also have a very exciting and comparatively new junior section. Six juniors aged from 8 – 13 are now regularly meeting on a Monday afternoon after school for the weekly coaching session and two of these juniors have already made their full debut in the Liverpool & District Table Tennis League. We hope that some of these juniors will also be able to take part in the L&DTTL Junior Developme
A big part of any league table tennis match is the break for refreshments! It can often be a turning point in a match, either rejuvenating a struggling side, or slowing down a side that have started well! In the view of this writer, there is none better at refreshments than Bath Street Marine! One thing you can be assured of when visiting Marine for table tennis, whether that is for a league match or a social occasion, is that you will be made welcome, there will be a good atmosphere in keeping with the best traditions of sport, and there will always be a cup of tea and cake or biscuits. Depending on which team is playing, there may be just plain biscuits, trio’s or chocolate bars straight f
This week has seen six out of eight of the Club’s teams in the Liverpool & District Table Tennis League involved in derby matches, and what matches they have proved to be. Of the remaining two teams, the 1st Team had no match, and the E Team in Division 4 continued their positive start to the season with an 8:2 away victory against Sefton Park C. A good win in quite difficult conditions. The week started with the Division 3 encounter between Dave Noden’s D Team and Brian Crolley’s C Team. Brian was forced into a makeshift team for this important match, with Les Dodd coming up from Div 4 to replace Mal Kent and Ray Hibbs playing his debut match for the Club in place of Andy Cheung who was att
As everyone knows table tennis is a game for people of any age. Look at our club for example; we have at our coaching session Archie Mason, our youngest member, who is only 9 years old, and our oldest member is Don Gibson who celebrated his 85th birthday at the Club this year and is still playing each week (see News Stories 160714). Even though they are at opposite ends of the age scale, both are keen players. Our President Billy Clayton seems to have been playing for an eternity, but does anyone know how long table tennis has been about? Before I start, did any of us know that the Liverpool and District Table Tennis League, to which our club is affiliated, is one of the oldest leagues in th
In the blog of 14 September our reporter, Shining Star, reported that Club member Liz Adams had been on holiday on a Cliff Richard cruise. What we didn't know at the time however, was that whilst cruising the Mediterranean on Holland America's MS Oosterdam, Liz entered the table tennis competition. She didn't unfortunately get to play Sir Cliff! But Liz is a very useful left-hander and using all her experience managed to reach the final! However she was a little cut up to be beaten in the final by a surgeon, not just any surgeon though, 'a lovely surgeon' according to Liz! So lovely in fact that he even offered Liz his prize, a bottle of wine. Thinking that he might have another operation in
It's been a while since I last wrote, so hopefully I can catch up a bit now. Marine is still thriving on Wednesday mornings and two tables are now operating most weeks. Social table tennis is proving to be so popular that new people are arriving all the time, and sometimes no one knows who they are! it has been suggested that at this rate we will all need to wear a sticker with our names on so other people can identify us! Do remember, that if you introduce a new person do please let us all know who they are, we promise not to bite! The good news is that there is now social table tennis at least 3 mornings a week, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Oh, and by the way, has anyone noticed the lo
Life is tough in Division 3 of the L&DTTL this season for veteran Team Captain Brian Crolley and his men, Mal Kent and Andy Cheung. But this week the team managed their first win of the season; a fine team effort against Bootle YMCA B resulting in a 7:3 win. The team were joined this week by Dave Noden, substituting for Andy, whose D Team also play in Division 3 and have also been finding life tough with 2 draws and a win in their first 3 matches. Perhaps the most encouraging factor, as well as the two singles wins for each player, was the fact that Mal & Dave were able to combine to achieve an excellent doubles win to give that slight margin of difference between the two sides. On the night
