March saw Warrington Table Tennis Club hosting the Warrington and District 2010 Closed Championships with many of its members competing. Mark Bleakley almost managed a clean sweep - taking the mens singles, veterans singles and handicap singles. Warrington's Danni Eden impressed in the junior singles but had to settle for the runner-up spot, loosing to Daniel Wearden in the final.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Bleakley with his three trophies from the Warrington 2009/10 Season Championships. Mark also won the hard bats and mens doubles with fellow WTTC member Peter Flint

 

The Merseyside Open saw one of Warrington Table tennis Club's season highlights when, following a hard-fought tournament and one of his best ever personal performances, Andrew Harper was crowned Merseyside Junior Open Champion. Well done Andrew! 

 

 

 

 

 

Andrew, left, also saw victory in the Warrington Handicap Trophy below with fellow winners Stuart Hardy and Lyndsay Hardy. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Superstar Mark Bleakley turned in a season-topping top performance in the Warrington League first division, topping the singles chart with an impressive 58 wins out of 62 matches played - an impressive 94% win ratio. All of Warrington TTC's players did well throughout the season, with Peter Flint on 90% and Stuart Hardy, Andrew Harper, Lyndsay Hardy and Olivier Barthelemy all contributing to great season for Warrington TTC. 

The second division saw top performances from many of Warrington TTC's junior members: Martin Brown, Andrew Rhodes, Dan Pelly, Adam Tomlinson, Chris Brown, Danni Eden, David Eden, Tom Nolan, Daniel Clarke and Stephen Ince. The junior teams were captained by senior player and coach Kevin Eden, who managed to win every match that he played in the league during the season. Warrington TTC's junior players helped to secure 2nd place in the league for the first team and a respectable 10th place for the second team - great performances considering that 2009-10 was the first competitive season for several of Warrington's youngest players.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Above: Warrington TTC members showing off their 2009/10 season's achievements

 

At the recent ETTA 1* tournament, on 6 June in Burton-on-Trent, Danni Eden saw off the competition taking a deserved first place in the cadets age band, following several hard-won matches.  

 

 

Danni pictured left with her ETTA 1* tournament winner's trophy

 

Danni, along with teamates Andrew Rhodes and David Eden, finished runner's-up in the Lancashire and Cheshire Juniors First Division. The trio also played in the National Junior and Cadet Leagues, turning in a series of strong performances throughout the 2009/10 season. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Danni Eden, Andrew Rhodes, David Eden pictured with their runner's-up trophies.

 

Daniel Clarke reached the last 16 in the U12s National Finals at the Doncaster Dome - going out to tournament winner Marcus Giles. Daniel also delivered consistent performances in the Warrington League, the Stockport League and the National Junior and National Cadet Leagues.

 

 

Daniel Clarke pictured left with a collection of his medals from the 2009/10 season 

 

The National Cadet and Junior Leagues, which ran throughout the 2009/10 season at Halton, saw Warrington TTC's junior members all putting in fantastic performances and helping WTTC teams to respectable finishes in all three of the NCL divisions, a great achievement for those who were competing at this level for the first time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Players from WTTC's three 2009/10 National Cadet League teams, left to right: Daniel Clarke, David Eden, Tom Nolan, Luke Jones and Tom Peplow