Worst place you ever played.

[Highside]

What is the worst place you ever played a match in or even practiced for that matter ?

My worst or even strangest experience (apart from the early nice and freezing Ormesby) was playing in an old bomb shelter years ago, apparently the guy had kept it for reasons unknown to anyone but himself and converted it into .......... yes a Table Tennis room under his house.
The place was freezing and christ only knows what happened to it as i never did play there again.:covereyes:

[JKC]

Anyone else played at Wadsley Bridge in Sheffield. It is a converted barn and I use the term 'converted' loosely. Frost on the inside in winter a thick layer of dust/dried mud on a concrete floor. All the gas heaters seem to do is produce condensation to make the ball drop off your bat. Don't mention the conditions either or you get your head bitten off by the home team.

[Mrs Nickerbater]

A squash court with white balls & Two tables in it!!!

A gym with a mirror behind one end of the table!!!

@JKC is Wadsley bridge some hut in a park on its own? - might have played there aeons ago.

[SammyBoy]

I have to say i played at old Ormesby also, freezing in the old days oh how things move on we hope.

[Craig]

Pifco in Oldham. An electrical company which didn't seem to have a bulb so it was like playing down a mine and at the back of this small dark room was a large safe with a wooden block for a handle. Very nicely positioned at kidney height.:resent:

[DaveR]

Lol nice one Craig.....................played there if i remember rightly a few year back..........kidneys a bit damaged

[JKC]

A squash court with white balls & Two tables in it!!!

A gym with a mirror behind one end of the table!!!

@JKC is Wadsley bridge some hut in a park on its own? - might have played there aeons ago.

It is down a dark bumpy track which is very easy to miss, only a mile or so from Wednesdays ground. It is more a barn than a hut though.
I have had the experience of playing in a squash court with a white ball against 'Fringe' in the Mansfield League (my one and only season in that league). They refused to swap for an orange ball. I don't think new-fangled technology like the orange ball had reached those parts back then (over 10 years ago). Served them right though when we won the match and the league which they had held for the previous 700 years.

[FantasyCheeseBasin]

played in a carpeted sitting room in ashbrooke in a league game in northumberland league about 6 years ago,very odd playing on a carpet.

[The Windmill]

I played in a dusty shed on a farm full of rubbish and old farm equipment at Newton in the Northumberland league, while they demolished and rebuilt a new community centre. half way through the match the farmer walked in mid point carrying a portable gas heater. he then asked for help to bring in 3 more.

[DaveR]

loooooooooooooooooooooool played there done that !

Jesus what a place!

[Moggy]

Not the worst place I've played, as I quite enjoy playing there but one team in the IDTTL play in a old village hall, where the table sits in the center of the hall and the floor falls away about 8 inches as you move further from the table - in every direction around the room.

The hall also gets so cold during the winter, that after the first game you start to have problems seeing the ball during a serve because of the steam rising off your face.

[JKC]

There is a venue in Leeds with some sort of Gospel type Christian group praising everything they can praise in the next room which is only a very thin wall away. Even though it is incredibly loud I don't notice it when playing but it is quite funny when you are watching.

[Desmond]

The worst possible place is to play it in the open. Tried it once when our school hall has to be closed down for renovation. The ball was swirling all over the place... but it was good fun to be honest!

[Belisar]

Like a few of you I have played in a barn that seemed colder on the inside than on the outside. It had this horrible stone floor with small bobbles in it that meant the ball never bounced straight when it hit the floor. Always seemed to take two or three minutes to get the ball back every time someone missed the table because you had to chase it around the barn.

They then tried to lay a wooden floor over the top of the stone one but the damp got into it and it all warped. Now when you play you seem to be standing with one foot about 6 inches higher than the other.

Sitting there in several layers of jumper and with a bat so cold that the rubber played like glass - ah the memories.

[Robstar]

old newton takes sum beating the temperature its that cold u cant spin the ball lost to pop robson once and went down the pub didn;t bother playing other 2 his wife had 2 tracksuits on the table is poor and the floor a skate rink however understand new place excellent well done edwin

[MK Chris]

The worst possible place is to play it in the open. Tried it once when our school hall has to be closed down for renovation. The ball was swirling all over the place... but it was good fun to be honest!
Someone once said to me that trying to play table tennis outdoors is like trying to play football with a beachball.. I think that's quite a good analogy to be honest.

[Mr Wilko]

some place in yorkshire?? played there years ago had 3 different rooms (hovis you might know the place) it was always freezing cold , i think me harry and ed played you and your bro years ago in county that was bad mark smiyth used to paly there and him who wore a bandanner and football socks, (had a name like hendrix)

[Hovis Bread Eater]

Played in a DHL warehouse in the Lancashire Cheshire League when it was snowing outside and the only players and umpire was in the warehouse, everyone else was in the cabin keeping warm. It was in blackburn somewhere.