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| Nom | Home Player | Nom | Away Player | Result | Games |
| 1 | Jamie Wilde | 2 | Mark Steeden | 3 | 2 | 9-11 11-8 9-11 11-9 11-6 | | 2 | Guy Olby | 6 | Matt Green | 3 | 0 | 11-7 11-1 11-7 | | 7 | Gordon McManus | 8 | Elliot Knight | 3 | 2 | 13-15 11-6 8-11 11-6 11-5 | | 11 | Andy Wilde | 9 | Steve Wyatt | 0 | 3 | 6-11 8-11 8-11 | | 12 | Dan Lark | 11 | Jack Breen | 2 | 3 | 6-11 9-11 11-6 11-8 6-11 | | | | | | | | | | | Games: | 11 | 10 | |
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| | | Bonus: | 5 | 0 | |
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| | | Result: | 16 | 10 | |
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| Report: | The first match on was ‘The Battling’ Mark Steeden versus the ever unpredictable Jamie Wilde. The match started off at a frantic and fast pace which Steeden was dominating and he was producing some excellent shots that forced Wilde into difficult situations which resulted in a number of errors. The first game went to Steeden and he started the second the same as he finished the first. However, Wilde somehow managed to hang in there and came in with a few forehand winners that secured him the second game. After a long pause before the third game Steeden returned to the court like a man on a mission and started frustrating Wilde with some good drop shots and he took the lead 2-1. A gruelling fourth game saw Wilde level the match at 2-2. The final game saw Steeden’s fitness finally start to wane and Wilde was able to unconvincingly capitalise and unfortunately finished the game with the worst shot of the match hitting the indent on the front wall thus making the shot un-retrievable and ended up winning 3-2. I’m going to be honest, Steeden came off looking distraught, and to be fair he played well and deserved the win more than Wilde.
Whilst the above match was taking place, Andy ‘Eastwood’ and Steve Wyatt were taking to the court. With a combined experience of over sixty years in squash this was due to be an excellent match. Unfortunately it was far from this. Eastwood had obviously left his magnum at home and Wyatt was able to capitalise on a poor performance from the old timer. Hopefully these two chaps will have the opportunity to play in the second half and it will be a better game.
Third match of the evening was Guy Olby versus Matt Green. Over the past few weeks, Olby has been starting to look more and more like ‘Tom Baker’ from the old Doctor Who series. However, Olby looked nothing like a aging time lord on court and after a slow first few points he was quickly into the match hitting some trademark back hand volleys. However Green was proving to be a fine match for Olby and was unlucky to lose the first game. However, this player never returned to the court and Olby was able to win in convincing fashion.
An excellent match was taking place on the other court between Jack ‘Confidence’Breen and Dan ‘The Axe Man’ Lark. Both players were exhibiting some odd styles of hitting the ball and it was making for interesting viewing. Breen seemed to be put off by Lark’s tactics of ‘hit the ball anywhere and run’. Breen was leading 2-0 however it was unconvincing and Lark managed to somehow level the match at 2-2 after some gruelling rallies. Breen then managed to find some composure in the final game and managed to win 3-2. After the match Breen was desperate to tell the crowd how recently he had been in Scott Sumner’s car and how they had driven from Bexley to Brands Hatch in 10 minutes going at roughly 160mph. I cannot verify if this actually happened but the way Breen described the experience it was as if he had never been in a car before. Obviously the experience of being a passenger in a car had affected his squash.
The final match of the evening was probably the pick of the bunch. Gordon ‘Dropshot’ McManus versus Elliot ‘I like to run’ Knight. Before the match started, captain Steeden gave Knight some top advice right out of the coaching manual: “all he does is the back hand drop shot just don’t put the ball there and you’ll be fine”. Those of you who have played McManus will know this to be true. However, Knight seemed to have other ideas and decided that he was going to try and ‘outshot’ McManus with some drop shots of his own. When this started to happen there was a lot of bad language coming from the watching Bexley supporters and some smirks coming from the David Lloyd team as they both knew there could only be one winner. With the first three games being very tight, Knight was just about on top 2-1, however in the next two games the McManus drop shot and flicks took their toll on Knight and McManus won 3-2.
An excellent evening and match that could have gone either way.
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| Author: | Jamie Wilde |
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