Tombola Tournament 2023
Success for Sally & Malcolm!
With a rare break in the recent rain, the final of our 2023 Tombola Tournament took place on Friday 27 October as planned, in front of an excellent crowd that built throughout the match.
The two teams: Sally Bruner and Malcolm Locke against Stuart Angell and Kevin McBarron. This unusual doubles format is aimed at creating a level of unpredictability about the eventual winners, although I think it is fair to say the best pair won. Relative tennis newcomer Malcolm partnered one of the club's top talents, Sally. On the other side of the net, Kevin had returned to tennis this April after a 30 year gap while Stuart has for the last couple of years been transferring his county level table tennis skills to the larger format! Anybody's game?
The first set went quite quickly with Sally and Malcolm’s consistency not being matched by their opponents (6/1). However the quality of tennis was improving and Kevin and Stuart were not going to let this go easily taking the second set into a tightly fought tie-break which Sally and Malcom won (7/6). The rallies got longer, the crowd became more involved and a great afternoon was had by all. Congratulations to both finalists.
- Jeremy Hamer, Club Chairman