Early Season Chronicles

Well the 2025-26 season has now started as a couple of clubs have begun and the first NLTTA tournament is just days away.

The Corner Brook Table Tennis Club is up and running and is operating out of the Civic Center Annex in Corner Brook. For more info contact Eric Cranford at ericcranford61@gmail.com. On the east coast, the Paradise Table Tennis Club has resumed its usual Monday night operation out of the Rotary Paradise Youth and Community Center. For more info on the Paradise Club contact Merv Greenham at merv37@hotmail.com

Also of interest is the addition of some Saturday evenings at the Rotary Paradise Youth and Community Center. Jiaqi Mu is the person looking after this.

He is also gauging the interest in having a 2 v 2 Team Table Tennis League which sounds like it could be a blast!!!!!!!!! Here are some of the details that are known at the this time.

Format

• Teams of 2 players.

• Matches are best-of-five: A1–B1, A2–B2, Doubles(A1+A2 vs B1+B2), A1–B2, A2–B1.

• Competition will use round robin format.

• Two divisions for balance:

• Group A: team rating ≤ 2800

• Group B: team rating ≤ 800

• Example: If your rating is 1200 and your partner is 1500, your combined team rating is 2700, so you’ll play in Group A.

Dates (Fall 2025)

• Oct 25 (8:30–10:30 PM)

• Nov 8 (7:00–10:00 PM)

• Nov 22 (8:30–10:30 PM)

• Dec 6 (8:30–10:30 PM)

Fees

• Free with Saturday membership

• $40 for non-members

For more info contact Jiaqi at Jackie010227@outlook.com and you can register HERE

Upcoming Tournament Schedule

Conne River is the host for the first tournament of the season with the Central Open set for September 20. Other NLTTA scheduled tournaments are the Paradise Open(to register click here) set for October 11 and the NL closed, also in Paradise, is set for March 21, 2026. Meanwhile the Canadian Table Tennis Championships are taking place in Winnipeg, Manitoba from July 17-23, 2026

Stay tuned for other tournament info and as always the info can be found on our website.

In order to help prepare players for tournaments/competitions that have Team and Doubles competition, such as Canada Games and the Atlantic Tables Tennis Championships, the NLTTA is conducting a survey regarding the inclusion of a Doubles event into NLTTA sanctioned tournaments.

We have created a short 6 question survey designed to gauge the interest of the table tennis community regarding adding doubles events to some NLTTA sanctioned tournaments. We ask that you take a few minutes to complete the anonymous survey and thank you for helping the growth of table tennis in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The button below will take you to the survey.

Doubles Survey

Thank you for your participation.

Canada Games 2027

The Quebec games are only 17 months away and the athlete selection process for the games has started in earnest. The first selection camp was held on September 6 in Gambo and tryout 2 is now confirmed for Saturday, October 4th at the Sukie Aggek Memorial Centre in Hopedale, Labrador. It will take place from 6-9pm with training camps happening Friday October 3rd 4-10pm, Saturday October 4th 3-5pm, and Sunday October 5th 3-9pm all at the Sukie Aggek Memorial Centre. Three coaches from St. John’s will be there for the weekend running a training clinic and assisting with the tryout Saturday night.

Below are the Selection points earned after the first selection tryout camp.

Boys	Girls
1st: Evan Denty, 30pts 2nd: Daniel Patey, 25pts 3rd: Alex Lin, 20pts 4th: Ryder Walters, 15pts 5th: Ben Menecola, 10pts 6th: Levi Johanson, 8pts 7th: Riley Fizzard, 6pts	1st: Peishan Chen, 30pts 2nd: Amy Peckford, 25pts 3rd: Courtney Aseo, 20pts 4th: Bianca Winters, 15pts 5th: Ashley Peckford, 10pts 6th: Carly Tatchell, 8pts 7th: Addie Babstock, 6pts

Let The Good Times Roll

As we enter the beginning of the season it is shaping up to be a busy one for sure especially for the juniors vying for a spot on the Canada Games squad.

The Paradise Open date of October 11 is fast approaching so now is the time to register.

We would also like to extend a big thank you to all coaches as it is National Coaches Week.

Don't forget to thank your coach for all they do.

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