The End of Season Closed Tournament held at the Torbay Leisure Centre on Sunday 23rd April 2017
ANNUAL CLOSED TOURNAMENT - Torbay Leisure Centre, 23.4.17
Another excellent turnout of over 50 competitors playing in 14 different events, providing a full days entertainment of top quality, competitive table tennis.
The South Devon & Torbay Table Tennis League sponsor, Albany Florists's Sonja Ryland, was there to present the awards to the winners as well as collect a few herself!

The Burton Cup (Open singles) was won for the fourth year running by Kris Piwowar. Group winners being Kris Piwowar, Patrik Cincala, Dennis Gibbs, Naomi Jackson, Jon Cheung, Dan Barnett & Adam Shipway. To reach the final Kris defeated Ben Hoare, Jon Cheung, and Dennis Gibbs. His opponent in the final was Naomi Jackson who had beaten Mick Mercer, Sonja Ryland and, the number two seed, Patrik Cincala. While Naomi had played exceptionally well to see off Patrik in the semi-final, Kris prevented Naomi getting her smooth attacking game going and comfortably won 11-1, 11-6, 11-7.

Burton Cup winner Kris Piwowar with League Sponsor, Sonja Ryland
Naomi did however retain her ladies singles cup, defeating league sponsor, Sonja Ryland in a repeat of the 2016 final. 12-10, 11-2, 11-6.

Ladies Singles winner - Naomi Jackson
The Mens Doubles was a hard hitting affair between the holders Patrik Cincala & Kris Piwowar and a new pairing of Dennis Gibbs & Jon Cheung. In an entertaining and competitive encounter Kris & Patrik retained their title for the fourth successive year winning 11-9, 12-10, 15-17, 11-9.

Men's Doubles winners Patrik Cincala & Kris Piwowar
In the Mixed doubles the younger pair of Naomi Jackson & Jon Cheung defeated the veterans, Sonja Ryland & Dennis Gibbs, 11-7, 8-11, 11-9, 11-7.

Mixed Doubles Finalists - Dennis Gibbs, Naomi Jackson, Sonja Ryland & Jon Cheung
The ladies doubles title was retained by Naomi Jackson & Sonja Ryland with Elsa Perry & Ann Marie Gibbs runners up.
Patrik Cincala retained his veterans cup with an 11-7, 11-4, 7-11, 11-4 victory over Dennis Gibbs and Dennis Gibbs retained his Super vets (over 60) with a straight sets win over Bob Parkins, 11-8, 11-8, 11-4.
The Junior events were dominated by 9 year old Jakub Piwowar who won the Under 11, Under 13 & Cadet age groups and was only very narrowly beaten in the fifth game by Michael Hernandez in the Junior (under 18) event. Jakub beat Lucas Bradshaw in the Cadet final and Rowan Bayliss in both the under 13 & under 11 age group finals. Rowan Bayliss collecting silver medals & Jakub's younger brother, Kacper Piwowar, picking up bronze medals, in both the under 13 & under 11 competitions.
Jakub Piwowar with two of his many awards

Under 11 & Under 13 competitors with League Chairman, Geoff Read
Not content with winning just the junior events, Jakub Piwowar went on to win the Division 3 singles event beating Ben Hoare in the final 11-8, 11-4, 11-4.
Dan Webster-Hall beat Michael Hernandez in the final of the Division Two singles 7-11, 11-4, 11-9, 11-6

Division 2 winner & runner up - Dan Webster-Hall & Michael Hernandez
Dale Fabian defeated Lucas Bradshaw in the Fourth Division final, 9-11, 10-12, 10-12, 3-11.

Division 4 winner - Dale Fabian
A great day of table tennis, run very efficiently and well, by Nick Halse. Thanks Nick.
Check out more photos from the day in the gallery
As a supplement to the main closed tournament Jo Piwowar, Torbay Table Tennis Academy, ran an open under 11 & under 13 event. Briefly mentioned on the Tournament report here is a more detailed report on the events. A total of 11 children all from the Academy's junior ranks, with the exception of Rowan Bayliss from Newton Abbot TTC had an enjoyable afternoon at the Torbay Leisure Centre.
Under 11. 9 children took part in this event which was played in 3 groups of three. The top 3 then played each other in another group to determine the overall winner. While the 2nd placed boys all played off in a group to determine 4th, 5th & 6th place. The girls also played off in a group to see which girl was best on the day
Under 11 boys
1st Jakub Piwowar
2nd Rowan Bayliss
3rd Kacper Piwowar
4th Brodie Guthrie
5th Norbert Tomsia
6th Giacomo Giovannini
Under 11 girls
1st Aleksandra Lipka
2nd Amelia Wisniewska
3rd Amelia Hammond-Szymaniak

Under 13. 8 children took part in this event, which was run similarly to that of the under 11 event above. It was as you were at the top, with the same three boys coming through to the top group as in the under 11s, with a similar final order as well.
Under 13
1st Jakub Piwowar
2nd Rowan Bayliss
3rd Kacper Piwowar
4th Oliver Buzzo
5th Mitch Eagling
6th Brodie Guthrie
7th Norbert Tomsia
8th Giacomo Giovannini

Many thanks to Jo for running the event which was enjoyed by all.