TTV Super League
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| General Information | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2007 |
| Sport | Table Tennis Table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net... |
| Motto | Super League Super State |
| Country |  AustraliaAustralia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
| Current Teams | Ballarat Croydon Geelong Mornington MSAC Sunshine |
| Reigning Premiers | |
| Premiers | Geelong |
| Leading Players | |
| Male | Brett Clarke (MSAC) 16-4 |
| Female | Stephanie Sang (Sunshine) 9-1 |
| 2007 Season | |
| Season | 15/6/2007 - 12/9/2007 |
| Finals | 19/9/2007 - 26/9/2007 |
| Team Premiers | |
| Geelong | |
| Minor Premiers | |
| Geelong | |
| Leading Players | |
| Male | Brett Clarke (MSAC) 16-4 |
| Female | Stephanie Sang (Sunshine) 9-1 |
The Table Tennis Victoria Super League commenced on Good Friday
Good Friday
Good Friday , is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Jewish observance of...
, 6 April 2007, with its first ever Team Draft. The 2007 Table Tennis Victoria Super League will bring 18 of Australia’s top table tennis
Table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
players together in a 10 week series involving 6 clubs. The stakes are high, only months away from qualification for the Beijing Olympics all players will want to make their mark. Each team will involve 2 male players and a female. All players are State or National representatives. On the day there were 26 athletes, 17 male and 9 female, vying for 12 male places and 6 female places on six teams. The clubs that will be contesting the inaugural season are -
- Sunshine and Districts Table Tennis Association
- Mornington Table Tennis Association
- Geelong Table Tennis Association
- Ballarat Table Tennis Association
- Croydon and Districts Table Tennis Association
- Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre Table Tennis Team (MSAC)
Each of the competing teams has a "salary cap" of 500 points.
The weekly competition will be competed in the international standard venue of the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre
Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre
The Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre is an international sporting venue located in Albert Park, Victoria, Australia. The centre was opened on the 24th of July 1997 at a construction cost of A$65 million. The cost was funded by the State Government of Victoria and the City of Port Phillip...
(MSAC), matches will be contested weekly on a Wednesday night with a start time of 7.30pm, matches are likely to conclude within three hours. With the available facilities of this world class venue, the Super League will be looking to expand the knowledge of table tennis to not just the spectators, but into households with a TV series being filmed during the first seven rounds. Table Tennis Victoria (TTV) wishes that the exposure brought by the Super League will assist in the continued growth of the sport since the Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006.
Format
The format of the competition is as follows -| Match | Home | vs | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1-Male | 2-Male | |
| 2 | 2-Male | 1-Male | |
| 3 | Female | Female | |
| 4 | 1-Male | 1-Male | |
| 5 | 2-Male | 2-Male | |
| 6 | Mixed | Doubles | |
| 7 | Men's | Doubles |
The match will conclude once one team has reached an unbeatable four wins. The results will vary between 4-0 to 4-3.
Males
| 250 Points | 200 Points | 150 Points | 100 Points | 50 Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brett Clarke | Trent Carter | Brian Berry | Jesse Bricknell | Michael Brown |
| Kyle Davis | Robert Frank | Michael Lee | Edwin Cotter | Craig Carter |
| Simon Gerada Simon Gerada Simon Gerada is a right-handed Australian/Maltese Table Tennis Player. His father, Joe Gerada, who was born in Malta but immigrated to Australia three decades ago. Simon Gerada was born and brought up in Melbourne, Australia and began playing at the age of 9 after he witnessed his father win a... |
Dennis Makaling | Shyam Dhupelia | ||
| David Zalcberg David Zalcberg David Zalcberg is a left-handed Australian table tennis player. He is Jewish.- Table tennis career :... |
Jeff Plumb | |||
| David Powell | ||||
| Danny Semmler |
Females
| 150 Points | 100 Points | 50 Points |
|---|---|---|
| May Cho | Jenny Langridge | Simone Chuah |
| Jian Fang Lay | Avanti Sinha | Cassandra Ng |
| Stephanie Sang | Melissa Tapper | Annie Xiao |
Draft
The draft was conducted by local celebrities of Big BrotherBig Brother (TV series)
Big Brother is a television show in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for around three months, and there are usually fewer than 15 participants. The housemates try to win a cash...
fame - Dino Delic and John Bric.
As this was the inaugural draft, selection was made completely random when TTV CEO Dale Gilson, drew balls out of the Cup teams will be vying for. First pick went to MSAC, 2nd to Croydon, 3rd to Geelong, 4th to Ballarat, 5th to Mornington and the last pick was given to Sunshine. From this order came the first two rounds of the draft, with the second round the opposite order of the first. The first three players to be chosen have represented Australia at the Olympics, they went in order, Brett Clarke, David Zalcberg and Simon Gerada. Following was the three members of the Australian Junior Team that finished tenth in the 2006 World Junior Championships
2006 Junior World Table Tennis Championships
The 2006 World Junior Table Tennis Championships were held in Cairo, Egypt from 10 to 17 December 2006. The fourth edition of the tournaments consisted of mixed doubles competitions and singles, doubles and team competitions for both boys and girls....
coming in as, Kyle Davis, Trent Carter and Robert Frank.
2007 season teams
| Club | 1-Male | 2-Male | Female | Manager |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunshine | Robert Frank | Edwin Cotter | Stephanie Sang | Joe Gerada |
| Geelong | Simon Gerada Simon Gerada Simon Gerada is a right-handed Australian/Maltese Table Tennis Player. His father, Joe Gerada, who was born in Malta but immigrated to Australia three decades ago. Simon Gerada was born and brought up in Melbourne, Australia and began playing at the age of 9 after he witnessed his father win a... |
Dennis Makaling | Avanti Sinha | Mark Kilinski |
| Mornington | Trent Carter | Michael Lee | Jian Fang Lay | Jim Furness |
| Croydon | David Zalcberg David Zalcberg David Zalcberg is a left-handed Australian table tennis player. He is Jewish.- Table tennis career :... |
David Powell | Jenny Langridge | Phil Boyle |
| Ballarat | Kyle Davis | Brian Berry | Cassandra Ng | George Gardoz |
| MSAC | Brett Clarke | Jeff Plumb | Melissa Tapper | Chris Horwood |