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| Report: | Well. I don’t know whether it was the balls, the courts or the gulf stream had blown the Bermuda Triangle over the DL Warehouse but there were some strange scenes on Tuesday night. Players swearing on court, swearing off court, argy bargy, doors being opened to yell at markers…all very out of character…the ladies tennis match next door were put right off their ground strokes. The only players who seemed to have their heads screwed on where at the bottom of the DL team and the top of Blackheath’s.
Frewin, the late draft at DL number five, stepped in and despite warning that “it’s been a while” played some tidy shots to record a 3-1 win over Critchley in what turned out to be a crucial win.
Lark v Taylor was a match that neither player was particular happy with, with the court conditions seeming to contribute to some untidy lengths and widths that made for a scrappy game with many decisions disputes. Phil’s typical game of attrition was hampered by injury and he succumbed in the fifth.
Carr v Piper saw the away man never really get going while Carr built on some reasonable form acquired over several weeks to take in three games, however this is being taken to the beaches of Puerto Pollensa for a couple of weeks from which it may not return.
Whiteman v Lepannen was also a physical affair with neither player really tuning in to where the other was. Or maybe they did and were just too stubborn to move. Either way Lepannen squeezed home in the fifth.
Snow v Porter was the last game on, and was really the only other game of the night to feature someone playing some decent squash. Porter certainly used his game to better effect on what both players seemed to think was a court that just wasn’t playing quite right, even after ditching the original ball. Whatever the reason it made for average play at times but a succession of kills at the front and some positive play saw the match finish in three straight games leaving the home skipper to take some deep breathes to avoid the second blow up of the night.
Thankfully the mysterious atmosphere in the Warehouse didn’t extend to the bar area where most players were pleased to forget about the squash and concentrate on a beer and building some bridges with ladies tennis.
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| Author: | Martin Snow |
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| Author: | Roald Piper |
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