Making up the Cambs team, Archway players Amber Lemmon, Cindy Xiao, Zihan Lin, Lewis Wu & William Wu Won Cadets Div.1b in the 2023-24 campaign.

They will move up to the Premier division next season.

Jiaji Wu in action at the UK Chinese Table tennis Championships in London, 23-24 September 2023, at the Morpeth Table Tennis Centre , winning the men's singles in the end.

The club is recruiting young players 5 upwards to join the next Hopes squads, and have opened up a satellite club at the Nene Park Academy school on Oundle Road on Monday and Thursday evenings from 5-7pm, if people wish to try it. Also following the junior sessions both evenings, there is an opportunity for adults and senior players to attend 7-9pm, further information can be obtained from Adam Jepson on 07584 916744.

In addition the club will be starting a junior coaching club for children aged 5 plus from Monday 2nd October from 4-7pm at Longthorpe Village Hall on Thorpe Road.

 Archway Peterborough are pleased to welcome Jenny to join the coaching team at the club. Jenny will assist current club coaches and concentrates on the next group of potential players to join the Hopes squad for players aged 5-7.

Jenny, a former coach at the Beijing Sports University. She was a former Women’s Team and Singles Champion of the British University and Colleges Table Tennis Championships, runner up at the European Universities and 3 times Singles Bronze medalist at the National College Table Tennis Championships of China.

A Level 2 coach with a MA in Physical Education (2:1), won several of Table Tennis England’s Grand Prix Women’s Singles events on the National Circuit, prior to Covid from 2017-2019 in Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Tipton and Preston.

Jenny joins the clubs long list of coaches with a proven track record of producing World, Commonwealth, European and National Gold medalists, including Jia Liu, Denis Neale, Hong Hong Peebles, etc.

Photo: Jenny coaching 8 of the new generation of potential stars at the clubs Lincoln Road venue on Saturday’s and Sunday’s.

Archway Peterborough are delighted to welcome Jiaji Wu Zhang to join the clubs Academy full time, whilst he resides in the City during the week.

Wu was a member of the Chinese Junior National team from 2009-2012, and Chinese Senior National Team from 2012-2015 (with notable squad players, Ma Long, Xu Xin, Wang LiQin and Wu Hao)

He played in the French Pro League A 2015-2019, UAE League 2021, German Bundesliga 1 2021-2022 and Chinese Super League 2023.

Wu was twice the Chinese Junior National Champion in 2009 and 2010. He won two Gold medals in the World Junior Championships in Slovakia in 2010, and Men’s Doubles Gold with LinGao Yuan in Japan Open 2011.

Just prior to the Pandemic, he received a Silver medal in the Mens Singles and Bronze in the Mens doubles at the Pan American Games in Lima. Wu currently represents Dominican Republic in all International events.

Photo and Video: Wu last week practising with England number 5 David McBeath at the Clubs Lincoln Road venue.