UST Traiectum has signed up to the 2026 spring competition with three teams. Here is all you need to know!

The teams

All teams are playing in the DUO competition of the NTTB, the dutch table tennis association. As we play in Utrecht, we are part of the Middle Region.

Team 1 – Third class

Team 1, consisting of Du and Tore, is playing in third class. Tore has played DUO competition before, but is coming off a half year break. For Du it is the first time playing dutch competition ever, and the first time playing competition in years.

Team 2 – Fifth class

Lucas, Maarten and Daniël form Team 2. They played as UST Team in the 2025 Fall Competition together and managed a 4th place in their pool.

Team 3 – Sixth class

In Team 3 Duco, Krijn and Bas keep playing, after also having played in last years competition on getting 3rd place in their pool. They are reinforced by Lars, new to competition, and Elif who has played competition before.

Week by week: The spring competition 2026

The season opener

On Tuesday the 20th of January all three teams had their first games. Since all teams played at home we could count on the support of our members who came by to cheer us on!

Team 1 starting convincingly, winning all four singles matches. Despite their best efforts the final double match was lost in a nail-biting fifth set that was ultimately lost 11-13.
Team 2 had a tough match-up: the strongest team of their pool by team rating Iduna 3 came by. After valiant fight Daniël and Lucas could count one win a singles match, loosing 1-4.
Team 3 played with Duco and Lars. Together they won two singles matches, thus it was 2-2 before the deciding double. That went into the fifth set, but was lost 9 points to 11.