SENIOR
We had a great inter counties in
not get relegated. Thankfully
beat them 5-0 which meant no
relegation, none even dropped a game.
Our task was a big one in the semi vs
outside court and lost 3-0 to Phil
Nightingale, the 2nd game was 17-15 but
this seemed to fatigue Ben. i think the
big difference was that Phil plays
more tournament than Ben. Olly started
on the main court vs Joe Lee. Last
time they met Olly came from 2-0 down
to win 3-2. Today was a different
matter. Olly started with great purpose
and knew exactly what he had to do
win and kept his control and
concentration to win superbly 3-0. The best
Olly has played all season. I went on
vs tom Richards (world no.31) took the
1st game and was a nuisance for the
rest of the match and had a chance to go
2-2 but couldn't quite capitalise on it
and lost 3-1. 2-1 down with
playing Neil Frankland.
at times to keep Neil at bay and win
3-1. Tom went on vs Jason Barry in a
topsy turvy match. Tom won the 1st and
3rd convincingly and then 2nd and 4th
were a little tighter as Tom looked to
tire. The 5th was nip and tuck until
4-4 and then Tom proved to be more
consistent as he won the game and the
match for
Now to the final
We knew Herts were strong and we would
probably have to win at 3,4 and 5.
Ben went on 1st vs Keith Tim’s and put
in a great display of determination
and guts to take it to 5 games. to be
fair to him he had a couple of chances
to clinch in the 4th but it just went
away from him and little was left in
the 5th. 1-0 Herts
Olly played Adam Fuller and started
horrendously losing 1st game 11-1.
After a kick up the bum from Captain
Vole he git a little better and each
game got better as he went on to win
3-1 but his concentration from the
previous day was lacking. 1-1
The Vole played Chris Ryder (world
no.32) at 1st String. Having lost to him
for a few points the previous week he
looked to do better. the 1st game was
the same as last week losing 11-3.
However he found a little extra to take
the 2nd 11-4, he was up in the 3rd and
had chances to take it but started to
fatigue and that game and the next went
form his grasp. 2-1 Herts
to be very close. He had chances to go
2-0 up but failed from 6-0 up. It
went to 5 and Marc was tired and
started to tin out. A great victory to
2-2 and down to Pashers. He lost the
1st easily and won the 2nd easily but
that was it. His movement started to
let him down and
hold the ball made his movement look
worse.
to win 3-1.
A great weekend for
Tim