Plymouth and District Table Tennis Club

We have two more Championship tables arriving very soon. The club will look fantastic with all three on display. Come along and try them!
Open session times and details at PDTTC.COM

One of the first users of our World Championship table. Glad you enjoyed it Rufus!

New World Championship table in full use...

We have another major item arriving in about 10 days.... guess what it is!

It's arrived and all set up...

27/06/26
SAD NEWS - CECIL DOWNING

It is with much sadness that we have to announce that Cecil Downing, a League Table Tennis player for many years passed away on 26/06/2026.
Funeral arrangements will follow once known.
Our deepest condolences to his family at this time.

Something great is coming to the club next week...

Guess what it is

The funeral service for our dear friend Tony Bray will be held at The Park Crematorium, Merafield Road , Plympton PL7 1UG on Wednesday 10th June 2026 at 3:30pm

W/C 04/05/26 HANDICAP CUP - FINAL

The long-awaited Handicap Cup Final was played this week and two of the top two teams have made it through the group phase and progressed through from the quarter finals. Although the handicap is supposed to give every team a chance of reaching the final it might just go to prove the top players have the ability and knowledge of the game and therefore how to overcome diversity.

Note: Figure in [ ] indicate the players Handicap.

The Final: This is a race to 5 match points with a possible of 9 matches to be played.

It was Div One Champions, Molyneux Associates A, to take on the might of Shopfitting by SWS B, who finished league runners-up and the match was expected to be a close encounter with Molyneux slight favourites. Each match consisted of a race to 25 points for each of the two ends and the lowest ranked player started the match with their handicap instead of starting from scratch.

The first match saw Molyneux’s Glyn Price [+2] take on SWS’s hard back-hand hitting Dan Kayes [+3] and with loads of side spin Price kept Kayes to limited back-hand shots and thus Kayes played a more defensive game but lost out 20-25, 18-25.

Tony Sweet [0], who missed the two previous rounds, returned for Molyneux and outplayed Colin Mitchell [+3] in the first end 25-9 showing his ability to adapt to different styles of play. Mitchell had a much better second end but came short losing 21-25.

SWS then relied on the unbeaten player, Mike Griffiths [0] to pull a match point back beating Paul Haigh [+6] 25-21, 25-15 with some fierce attacking shots from the forehand and controlled punching backhands.

Kayes came out for his second match and surprisingly took the first end off Sweet 25-21 after playing some heavy back spin returns, deep from the table, from Sweet’s topspin shots. Sweet then turned the match around winning the next end 25-19 and won overall 47-41 to take his team to a 3-1 lead.

Griffiths then pulled a point back for SWS beating Price 25-20, 25-18, again with some fierce shots, although Price managed to block return a large amount, but ran short eventually.

Haigh then opened up a 4-2 lead for his team beating Mitchell 25-20 and 25-13 despite Mitchell serving long to Haigh’s backhand in the both ends; Haigh seemed to start getting the better of it and put Mitchell under pressure with top spin shots.

Then came the match that every player wanted to see. The top two players in the league stepped up to do battle. It started fairly evenly, with Sweet and Griffiths matching each other for points but Griffiths then opened up a 24-19 lead but could not finish it as Sweet pulled back to 24-a-piece. Griffiths then closed out the first set. With the match evenly balanced, no-one would predict the outcome as they came back to the table for the final set. With some absolutely fantastic table tennis the rallies were extreme but the competitiveness of both players was outstanding with Griffiths winning 25-21 (50-45).

Kayes then had to play Haigh and knew he had to win to take the overall match to the final game and with him winning the encounter the final was now level at 4-a-piece, with only one more match to be played.

It was now left to Price to take on Mitchell as everything relied on these two players. With controlled side spin and some great hitting, Price won the first end 25-13 leaving Mitchell a real uphill struggle to claw the match back for his team mates. Despite a truly great effort it was just too much for SWS and Price (50-36) gave Molyneux Associates the win and the trophy.

The overall competition was enjoyed by a very large number of players as many mentioned it was great to play different people of different abilities and standards. The League and the Executive Committee will now start to register teams and players for the new season starting in September and invite anyone wishing to play in the league to contact the club through the website PDTTC.C