Plymouth University second team contacted Plymstock because they needed some match practice. We were happy to oblige and quickly found out we had enough interest that our two courts would not be enough.
The venue we chose was Central Park which has perfectly adequate courts. Both men and ladies were available from both squads so we could have played mixed doubles. We decided however to play single sex doubles (*) as this would be more suitable for practising for the league matches in the coming season.
* Mostly single sex, on the University mens side was Amelie (hope I’m spelling that right) ably standing in for a man who failed to show.
The weather was good by recent standards. Which is to say that it only rained a bit.
We played all afternoon, through some rain as mentioned, and vaguely kept track of some of the scores. I think, approximately, the men slightly edged their matches for Plymstock and the ladies slightly edged their matches for the University. We’ll call it a draw.
If anyone feels there are too many pictures of the ladies and not enough of the men that is because your humble correspondant and photographer was also playing in the mens side and this complicates things.
Behind Nicky you can just make out Chris and Mark.