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| Nom | Home Player | Nom | Away Player | Result | Games |
| 1 | Tim Garner | 4 | James Robbins | 3 | 0 | 9/3 9/4 9/5 | | 3 | Neil Hitchens | 7 | Mark Lennox | 3 | 0 | 9/4 9/0 9/6 | | 6 | Andy Moore | 9 | Clive London | 3 | 0 | 9/2 9/1 9/7 | | 7 | Will Brownsdon | 20 | Ray Bushell | 3 | 2 | 10/8 9/5 5/9 9/10 9/1 | | 13 | Antonio Petronzio | 22 | Trevor Grant | 3 | 0 | 9/1 9/6 10/8 | | | | | | | | | | | Games: | 15 | 2 | |
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| | | Bonus: | 5 | 0 | |
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| | | Result: | 20 | 2 | |
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| Report: | Park Langley 1sts are always a tough nut to crack, but the absence of Steve London on the tropical fruit tour in South America certainly helped matters. Stepping up to top billing saw JEJ take on Tim, but on this occasion even the all and everything from James wasn’t enough as the apple of Dulwich’s eye Tim eased home in straight games.
On the adjacent court, olive oil Antonio was coping superbly with Trevor’s mixture if apparent disinterest and sudden bouts of quality play. There were no hand bags, but despite the relatively straight forward encounter the purses were waved at one another for pushing. Antonio held his nerve and edged a tight third to wrap it up three nil.
At second string it was never going to be easy for the Mark against Neil, but he is a player who is always a gutsy competitor and Mark showed he still has fire in his belly even when the odds are stacked by breaking his racket on his leg. Reports that it was already broken are as yet unconfirmed!
Clive had beaten Andy in their last encounter and the Dulwich man had clearly been in training for the 6 weeks he had stayed away from the court. Maybe no Rocky-style chicken chasing episodes but he was looking nimble and sharp as he raced through the games. Clive hung in as always, and recovered from 0-7 in the third, to almost take things to an extra game but the carrot of straight games win was too much of a carrot for Andy and he closed things out.
The crème de la crème of the night was the final and most entertaining encounter between Will and Ray. The former edged the first, cruised to the second, slipped on a banana skin in the third and then looked like he would wrap things up in style the fourth with a donut as he leapt to 8-0. Ray, as he is known to do, dug in deeper than an Alabama tick and forced his was back in to the game and the match to sneak it and set up a decider. Will clearly didn’t want egg on his face and turned up the heat once more to take the 5th and seal a five-oh for Dulwich.
Olleys as always supplied top quality grub, the banter was good and no sign of E.coli anywhere with just German beer rather than cucumbers being served!
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| Author: | TG |
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