I dropped in and had a brief chat with Will Maybanks and Jeanette last night (Wednesday 23rd December 2009), Will is back in the UK from Hungary for approximately 3 weeks.
Will has been training hard in Budapest and playing in the Austrian Premier league at position no.2 for Linz. This means Will is getting to play all the better players in the opposing teams. Will has won 7 matches and lost 21, which shows he still has a long way to go. It is now half way through the season, and Will's coaches said if he won 10 matches in the whole season that would be a reasonable performance, so with Will improving all the time, hopefully he will beat the initial expectation and win even more matches in the second half.
William will be measuring his progress with a rare UK based tournament outing in Doncaster early in the new year, so it will be interesting to see how he gets on there... it's been over a year since Will competed here in the UK. Entrants for the Watford tournament will be pleased to here that the Doncaster grand prix tournament clashes with the Watford Closed so Will has withdrawn his entry from our local tournament!
Speaking with Jeanette (Will's mum) she indicated that she would be back on the Table Tennis scene playing in Watford after Xmas. Jeanette had a hip replacement some 12 months back, and is now ready to pick up the cudgels (or rather Table Tennis bat) again. I'm sure I can speak for all of us in welcoming Jeanette back into the fold, and we look forward to seeing her at the table again very soon!
Report by : Chris Ogle
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