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Pudsey Table Tennis Strong Start

Having achieved promotion last year Pudsey Table Tennis Club made a strong start to life in Division 3 North of the Senior British League.

The team started their season against Hull CNTS with a 5-3 win. Man of the match, Chris Parker, won both of his games as did David Smith, one of which included winning a thriller 18-16 in the fifth end. Joanna Roberts took the final game to complete the win. The second match was against St Mary’s Hull which also ended in a 5-3 win with two vital wins from Phil Cawser.  In the next match Pudsey cruised to a comfortable 8-0 win over Ormesby. Pudsey failed to maintain their winning start in the last match of the weekend but showed great battling qualities scraping a draw against Uxbridge after being 4-2 down, with all the players winning one.
Ambitious club Pudsey entered a second team in division 4 of the British league. The team was a mixture of youth and experience and it was the youth who stole the limelight. In their first match against the Isle of Man, 15 year old Daniel Adams took two impressive wins, one of which included winning deuce in the final end. James Atkins, Chris Newsome and David Noutch also added one each to complete a 5-3 victory. In their second match they were slightly less fortunate as they were on the wrong end of a 5-3 score line to Drumchapel Glasgow.

Rotherham Scorpions and Northfield also got the better of the second team, 6-2 and 7-1 respectively. With Rudi Itoe and James Atkins both getting the better of Rotherham’s number one. 14 year old James also got a very impressive victory against Northfield’s Chris Jones.