One of the highlights of the year was the achievement of Daniel Stone and Rex Wong who made up the Leamington League’s junior boys team which entered the National Carter Cup. This competition was inaugurated in 1966 and our duo lifted the crown for Leamington for the very first time. Bethan Jones and Susie Swan also did well in the Junior Girls Bromfield trophy making the final.
We also began a new venture. Table tennis England ran a pilot competition for Cadet (under 15) girls in an attempt to attract more girls to stay in the sport. We thought we would like to support this venture and entered two teams to play in our regional event at Wellingborough. However, we realised that our girls were very inexperienced and very young. As a result we started a weekly girls group to support them, led by our top lady, Monika and top girl, Susie. Despite being the youngest team in the event the A team emerged as Champions of division 3 on the final day of competition. Abbey, Isabelle and Leanne took the honours but the whole group deserve credit. Alice, Archie, Elsa, Julia, Kyra and Liv made the group such a success that we intend to keep it going in the coming season.
Another new venture for our club was the trial of a junior division. It comprised teams from our club and Eathorpe TTC in an effort to provide a stepping stone into the League proper. We are hoping to build on this and the Leamington League has taken a junior division under its wing for the coming season.
We had several champions at the Coventry League’s Closed championships. Monika Tomaszek became Ladies Champion, Dave Ramsey joined her to land the Mixed doubles title, Greg Swan took the over 50s crown, Jeff Harris became the over 60s champion and the pair combined to win the Veterans doubles. In addition Greg was runner-up in the Men’s singles and he and Jeff were runners-up in the Men’s doubles. To cap a great season in Coventry our team were joint winners of Division 1.
We made a conscious decision to split our strengths in the Leamington League after our A team landed the title by a land-slide in 2025. It proved a great decision as all three teams finished in the top 6. A were runners-up, C were 4th and B finished 6th . Survival was the name of the game in division 2 as we blooded several new players. This was accomplished with D ending up in 8th and E in 10th.
Our top side in Division 3 were G who were 6th . F were 10th and H were 11th.
Our young J team won promotion in the Autumn 2-a-side League and played in a very strong A division in the Spring. Otis Green, Shivam Gupta and Thomas Pinnington amazed us by winning 4 of their 8 matches. Our I team of Anay Aroon, Alfie Green and David Wong were runners-up in Division B. David Amos, Matt Hayes and Martin Msara in the guise of FC M won Division C with our K side in 5th . Harry Davenport, Campbell Turner and Stiaan Van Rensburg playing as Free Church L took the Division D trophy.