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Junior British Clubs League, Saturday Nov 24th.
Well done to our A team Luke, Marcus and Shishir on topping Division One. Played three games and won all three: Ackworth 6-3, Barnsley 7-2 and Draycott 8-1. It was a good all round team performance with Shishir and Luke 7 and Marcus 6 out of their 9 individual games played.
Christmas Party
Pudsey TTC Members' Xmas party and Presentation Night will take place on Saturday, 14 December 2024, at Pudsey Bowling Club. Cost is £12. Wear your Christmas jumper!
New for Junior Coaching from October 2024: Extra Sunday 3-hour session
With our thriving Junior section of now 22 members, we are currently full for all the coaching sessions at Pudsey BowlingClub and have a waiting list for Juniors!! To help get extra coaching to bring on the potential of our existing players we are going to hire the leisure centre on occasional Sundays for 3 hours. Watch out for details as they come up.
New for 2024-25: Pudsey TTC Club continues to grow in strength as we will enter a record 18 teams in various leagues this year!!
Pudsey TTC enter two teams in the Cadet British Clubs League and now two teams in the Junior British Clubs League as against one for 2023-24. This is a result of our successful coaching system. Meanwhile we'll be entering 11 senior teams in the Leeds League, up two from 2023-24. This is the impact of our successful Monday night open sessions at Pudsey Leisure Centre. In the Bradford League we have also increased our teams from one to two. We also have one team competing in the Senior British Clubs League.
Other Snippets
Interested in trying table tennis? Then come along to our Monday night member sessions at Pudsey Leisure Centre between 8 and 10 pm. Please contact Peter Thompson on 07774 740091 for more information on this session. No bat required: we will lend you one for the session!
Need new equipment? See our preferred supplier Custom Table Tennis for all your TT supplies.
We ask that members continue to check their emails for updates, as well as the website and the club's Twitter feed (also shown on the homepage).
Welcome
Pudsey Table Tennis Club, based in Pudsey, Yorkshire, is a Table Tennis England registered Advanced Premier Club.
This means that we have attained set standards in areas of club development, competition, management duty, facilities and other club activities. We pride ourselves on having a strong coaching structure with Table Tennis England qualified coaches from level 1 to senior level. Our coaches are responsible for many of the coaching sessions run in Leeds schools and our development of players can be seen in the number of players who have gone on to achieve county honours and England representative honours.
We are in the process of achieving Clubmark status - a Sport England Cross-Sport scheme that recognises safe, effective child-friendly sports clubs.
Membership and Competitions
The club has an open membership policy and has members ranging in age from 8 to 70, with males and females from all sections of the community. As a club we like to socialise and have many stories of past functions - playing at a club headquarters with a bar is an added advantage!
The club is affiliated to the Leeds League and also competes in events run by the Yorkshire Table Tennis Association and Table Tennis England.
Season 2024/25
Pudsey TTC continues to expand as a club with both increasing Senior and Junior membership. This season we have increased from nine teams to eleven in the Leeds League and increased from one to two in the Bradford League. The Leeds League will consist of 5 divisions: we have two teams in Division 1, three in Division 2, three in Division 3 and two in Division 4 as well as a beginners team in Division 5. The Bradford League has 4 divisions and our teams will compete in Division 1 and 2 this year.
In the Senior British League we have one team this year which will be competing in National Division C (2) of the Table Tennis England Senior British League.
We also have two Pudsey Cadet teams competing in the National Cadet League being held at Normanton Table Tennis Centre over 4 Sundays during the season and we have increased from one team in the National Junior league to two teams.
We are offering Pudsey Table Tennis Club shirts for sale. See the kit page for details.
Training
If you are interested in training and playing competitively, or receiving coaching, please contact Secretary Peter Thompson who will be happy to help.
Pudsey Bowling Club
Pudsey Bowling Club is the club's base and provides excellent facilities for competitions where two concurrent matches can be played. It is also used for some training sessions.
Pudsey Leisure Centre
The majority of club training sessions take place in the Pudsey Leisure Centre where up to 12 tables can be used for formal training and one-to-one coaching. Junior and Senior competitions are also held here on occasion.
History
Club President Granville Thornton founded the club as Bramley Ebenezer Table Tennis Club in 1970. Granville was elected as our first President at the AGM in July 2002.
The club was formed to provide alternative recreational facilities for children, both from the church in which the club was based, and the local community.
The club entered 2 teams, into the local youth league in 1970 and officially entered the Leeds League in 1973, and the Bradford League in 1984.
With the Closure of the church in 2004 the club found a new home at Pudsey Bowling Club. As a result of the success of this move the club was renamed Pudsey Table Tennis Club at the AGM in July 2005.
