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Players wanted for the new season
Winchmore Hill TTC seeks players to play in the North Middlesex TT
League this coming season. Any person who wishes to play for the
Club should contact Harold Webb on 01707 850313.
In the summer of 1945, the Tennis Committee suggested to the
Management Committee that a Table Tennis Section be formed as an
off-shoot of that Section. The proposition was agreed, and at the
end of its first season the Tennis Chairman, Mr. G.A. Roberts,
reported to the Club Annual General Meeting that "The opening
season had been very successful, the Men and Ladies having won their
respective competitions".
During the next few winters, four, and sometimes five, Mens and
Ladies teams played in the North Middlesex League. By the 1952/53
season the Mens 1st team had progressed from Division 5 to the
Premier Division and the Club had a team in each of the five
Divisions of the League, the Ladies competing in Division 3. Each
season there was a Club Championship and the Pavilion was used for
Inter-League matches. Unfortunately membership dwindled, support
promised did not materialise and at the end of the 1955/56 season
the section was disbanded.
The revival of the Section was a long time coming, but in August
1975 there was sufficient interest from a membership of
approximately 25 players for three teams to be entered in the North
Middlesex Table Tennis League for the season 1975/76. The Club
Championships were also revived and the Singles Champion was
presented with the Challenge Cup by the previous holder of 20 years
before.
Interest in the re-establishment of the Section was such that six
teams were entered in different Divisions of the League for 1976/77.
Membership came from other Sections of the Club but the increase in
the number of new members from outside the Club reflected the
growing impact of the Section in the League.
Steady progress continued during the next two seasons to the extent
that at the parent Club Annual General Meeting in 1979 the Sections
was officially recognised as a playing Section with representation
on the Management Committee.
Since 1979 the Section has maintained a sound nucleus of teams in
the NMTTL and has contributed well to the Parent Club.
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