EIGHTY-EIGHT players will be competing for 22 trophies at this year's York & District Table Tennis Closed Championships, to be held at the York RI Gym this Saturday and Sunday.

This is the highest entry for many years.

In the Men's Singles, 10-time champion Martin Lowe, of Coneysthorpe, is the top seed, with University of York’s Calum Goodwin seeded two.

James Atkins and Yoni Caspi, both from the Topspin club, are seeded three and four respectively.

Lowe is also top seed in the Veterans' Singles, with Jon Wooldridge (Topspin) seeded second.

Holders Caspi and Joe Wright (Topspin) are top seeds in the Men’s Doubles.

Fourteen-year-old Moke Warburton (Coneysthorpe) is seeded one in the Ladies’ Singles, with Ruth Purseglove (Ryedale at RI) seeded two. Warburton is also the top seed in the Cadets and Junior Singles events, and in the Mixed doubles with Lowe.

First seeds are placed in the top half of their respective draws, and seeds two in the bottom half. Then seeds three and four, five and six, seven and eight are drawn into each half of the draw.

Events and seedings:

Men’s Singles (holder - Martin Lowe): 1 Martin Lowe, 2 Calum Goodwin, 3 James Atkins, 4 Yoni Caspi, 5 Joe Wright, 6 Aidan Ranftler, 7 Jon Wooldridge, 8 Filip Wojtkowiak.

Ladies' Singles (Cancan Zhang ): 1 Moke Warburton, 2 Ruth Purseglove.

Men's Doubles (Yoni Caspi/Joe Wright): 1 Joni Caspi / Joe Wright, 2 Calum Goodwin / Tsz Chung Tang, 3 Nathan Taylor / Jon Wooldridge, 4 John Farmery / Aidan Ranftler.

Ladies' Doubles (Marian Broadbent/Cancan Zhang): No seeding.

Mixed Doubles (Marian Broadbent/Aidan Ranftler): 1 Moke Warburton / Martin Lowe, 2 Ruth Purseglove / Adam Ridley.

U11 Singles (Alex Widdup): 1 Mia Longman.

Cadet Singles (Sam Lowe): 1 Moke Warburton, 2 Sam Lowe.

Junior Singles (Mikey Arnold): 1 Moke Warburton 2 Will Whattam, 3 Arthur Sorley, 4 Sam Lowe.

Junior Doubles (Arthur Sorely/Adam Stone): No seedings.

Veterans' Singles (Martin Lowe): 1 Martin Lowe, 2 Jon Wooldridge, 3 John Farmery, 4 Mick Wilcockson.

Veterans' Doubles (John Farmery/Martin Hood): 1 Richard Crowther / Jon Wooldridge, 2 John Farmery/Martin Hood.

Super-Veterans' Singles (Jeff Cohen): 1 John Farmery, 2 Mick Wilcockson, 3 Jeff Cohen, 4 Alfie Potter.

Over-70s Singles (Keith Webster): 1 Keith Webster, 2 Peter Harpham.

Div 1 Singles (Aidan Ranftler): 1 Calum Goodwin, 2 James Atkins, 3 Joe Wright, 4 Aidan Ranftler.

Div 2 Singles (Ben Lockyer): 1 Aidy McClaren, 2 Michael Connolly, 3 Ian Hilton, 4 Stephen Temple.

Div 3 Singles (Peter Smalley): 1 Sam Crutchley, 2 Mark Hodgson, Daria Golubova, 4 Marcin Ziolek.

Div 4 Singles (Doug Muirhead): 1 Ian Oxborough, 2 Kieran Podbury, 3 Nathan Fairburn, 4 Clive Pottage.

Hard Bat Singles (Filip Wojtkowiak): No seeding.

Mixed Plate (Richard McCarthy): No seeding.

Handicap Singles (Mikey Arnold): No seeding.

Handicap Doubles (Russ Barton/Adam Ridley): No seeding.