Just a brief round up !
Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:00
Despite the worst weather of the year so far over the last couple of weekends, there were some matches to report on. Let's start with our Mixed A team who travelled up to Salisbury to play Riverside on the 2nd of Feb. After conceding a mixed match early in the season through a lack of female players we couldn't afford to lose another. Thankfully we had a big team out with Paul Scullard teaming up with Dita Mezihorakova and Magda Kornijczuk with Alex Billingham. Riverside also had a strong team but were missing their number 1 man. Paul and Dita breezed through 1 and 0 against the 2nd pair and 4 and 1 against the 1sts. Alex and Magda dispatched the 2nd pair 2 and 2 and played brilliantly against the 1st pair, both coaches, to take the rubber 7-6 7-5 . With a couple more wins we should survive in Div 1.
On the same day at home, our Men's B team took on' top of the table' Swanmore A. It was always going to be a tough prospect . It was great to see 2 of our youngsters, Freddie Swain and Sam Ardley debut for the team and they gave a great account of themselves winning 1.5 rubbers. Matt Pitman and Slavec Kornijczuk took a half against the 2nd and 3rd pairs and, playing as first pair, Simon Fox and Dan Kwiatkowski comfortably beat the 2nd pair 0 and 4 , lost to the 1st pair by the same score but then slipped up in the 2nd set against the 3rd pair for a half. That meant it was a narrow overall 4-5 loss. We can still gain promotion by winning the last two matches.
Waiting to hear from Roger about the Mixed C match scheduled for the 9th Feb which may well have been blown off by Hurricane Caira!