Another close win for the ladies. It was touch and go if they were going to play. Firstly because of the weather and secondly because there were only 3 available to play. One regular was at Wimbledon, one in Norway and one was down with Covid.
Huge thank you to Dylys who stood in at 2pm this afternoon to make up the team.
Excellent play from Debbie and Jane who came fighting back from 6-2 down in the final tie break to just loose at 10-8
Score Plystock 46 : Saltash B 42
Whilst the rest of the world was voting, or celebrating independence or something, our mens B side were struggling against Plympton C. Score 16 – 72.
Such a close result for the ladies tonight. It all came down to the final championship tie break to decide the winners.
Lots of long rallies, deuces, well returned lobs and tie breaks. Great play and effort from everyone.
Result : Plymstock 42 Tavistock D 51
A win with maximum points away to Tavistock, 21 – 72.
The match of Mens B vs St Budeaux, rained off on the 13th June, was finally played on the 27th June. It was a tough game. Two match tie breaks and one set tie break lost. Jack praised by the oponents for his tenacity.
Score Plymstock 26 : StBudeaux 69
Tim adds : A strong crosswind added to the challenge of playing tough opponents. Well played all.
Tavistock C 38 : Plymstock 45
Great first set win for Debbie and Vicky. Their tie break was close.
This somewhat avenges the only defeat so far, which was in the first match at home to Tavistock. Since then there has been a series of wins, albeit only by a few points. The end result is, so far, a mid-table position.
Mens A suffered their first defeat in week 6 – 18th June – against a very strong and much changed Devonshire side. Much changed that is compared to when we played away. Very strong first pair which, I’m told, included top division players. A tough night but, with 34 out of 36 points won against the second pairing, we only dropped 13 points on our neareat rivals 37-50, so still all to play for.
Spot the slight arithmetic error.
Plymstock 52 Plympton D 35
Jane and Karen fought hard, great 3rd set tie break but they got vital points overall which are so important.
Here are the rules
The draw was held on June 11th.
As of August, we have reached the knockout stage
Below is some background on how we got to this stage. It is incomplete. I’ll attempt to fill in the details next time I can copy stuff from the club notice board.
| Mixed Doubles Qualification Matches | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Games Won | |||
| Nicky Slight and Douglas Langford | vs | Debbie Bauckham and Jamie Johnson | |
| vs | Vicky Roberts and Chris King | ||
| vs | Jane Williams and Maurice Sebastien | ||
| vs | Karen Johnstone and Adam Clynch | ||
| Debbie Bauckham and Jamie Johnson | vs | Nicky Slight and Douglas Langford | |
| vs | Vicky Roberts and Chris King | ||
| vs | Jane Williams and Maurice Sebastien | 8 | |
| vs | Karen Johnstone and Adam Clynch | ||
| Vicky Roberts and Chris King | vs | Nicky Slight and Douglas Langford | |
| vs | Debbie Bauckham and Jamie Johnson | ||
| vs | Jane Williams and Maurice Sebastien | ||
| vs | Karen Johnstone and Adam Clynch | ||
| Jane Williams and Maurice Sebastien | vs | Nicky Slight and Douglas Langford | |
| vs | Debbie Bauckham and Jamie Johnson | 1 | |
| vs | Vicky Roberts and Chris King | ||
| vs | Karen Johnstone and Adam Clynch | ||
| Karen Johnstone and Adam Clynch | vs | Nicky Slight and Douglas Langford | |
| vs | Debbie Bauckham and Jamie Johnson | ||
| vs | Vicky Roberts and Chris King | ||
| vs | Jane Williams and Maurice Sebastien | ||
Nick Slight and Debbie Bauckham vs Vicky Roberts and Jane Williams
| Mens Doubles Group 1 Qualification Matches | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Games Won | |||
| Dave Bate and Alan Harvey | vs | Ben Bracey and Pete Brownlow | |
| vs | Ian Cload and Ian Shannon | ||
| Ben Bracey and Pete Brownlow | vs | Dave Bate and Alan Harvey | |
| vs | Ian Cload and Ian Shannon | ||
| Ian Cload and Ian Shannon | vs | Dave Bate and Alan Harvey | |
| vs | Ben Bracey and Pete Brownlow | ||
| Mens Doubles Group 2 Qualification Matches | |||
| Games Won | |||
| James Driscoll and Tony Chenery | vs | Jamie Johnson and Douglas Langford | 0 |
| vs | Jack Morgan and Adam Clynch | 5 | |
| Jamie Johnson and Douglas Langford | vs | James Driscoll and Tony Chenery | 8 |
| vs | Jack Morgan and Adam Clynch | 8 | |
| Jack Morgan and Adam Clynch | vs | James Driscoll and Tony Chenery | 8 |
| vs | Jamie Johnson and Douglas Langford | 1 | |
| Mens Doubles Group 3 Qualification Matches | |||
| Games Won | |||
| Chris King and Dave Williams | vs | Peter Etchells and David Hayman | |
| vs | Maurice Sebastien and Brian Morgan | 8 | |
| Peter Etchells and David Hayman | vs | Chris King and Dave Williams | |
| vs | Maurice Sebastien and Brian Morgan | ||
| Maurice Sebastien and Brian Morgan | vs | Chris King and Dave Williams | 3 |
| vs | Peter Etchells and David Hayman | ||
| Ladies Singles Qualification Matches | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Games Won | |||
| Nicky Slight | vs | Debbie Bauckham | 8 |
| vs | Jane Williams | 8 | |
| vs | Karen Johnstone | 8 | |
| Debbie Bauckham | vs | Nicky Slight | 2 |
| vs | Jane Williams | 4 | |
| vs | Karen Johnstone | 5 | |
| Jane Williams | vs | Nicky Slight | 5 |
| vs | Debbie Bauckham | 4 | |
| vs | Karen Johnstone | 5 | |
| Karen Johnstone | vs | Nicky Slight | 2 |
| vs | Debbie Bauckham | 8 | |
| vs | Jane Williams | 5 | |
| Mens Singles Group 1 Qualification Matches | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Games Won | |||
| Dave Bate | vs | James Driscoll | 8 |
| vs | Steve Maller | 8 | |
| vs | Peter Etchells | 7 | |
| James Driscoll | vs | Dave Bate | 2 |
| vs | Steve Maller | 5 | |
| vs | Peter Etchells | 6 | |
| Steve Maller | vs | Dave Bate | 3 |
| vs | James Driscoll | 8 | |
| vs | Peter Etchells | 8 | |
| Peter Etchells | vs | Dave Bate | 7 |
| vs | James Driscoll | 8 | |
| vs | Steve Maller | 1 | |
| Mens Singles Group 2 Qualification Matches | |||
| Games Won | |||
| Chris King | vs | Jamie Johnson | 4 |
| vs | Douglas Langford | 8 | |
| vs | Dave Williams | 8 | |
| Jamie Johnson | vs | Chris King | 8 |
| vs | Douglas Langford | 8 | |
| vs | Dave Williams | 8 | |
| Douglas Langford | vs | Chris King | 3 |
| vs | Jamie Johnson | 0 | |
| vs | Dave Williams | 3 | |
| Dave Williams | vs | Chris King | 1 |
| vs | Jamie Johnson | 0 | |
| vs | Douglas Langford | 8 | |
| Mens Singles Group 3 Qualification Matches | |||
| Games Won | |||
| Tim Randell | vs | Ben Bracey | 6 |
| vs | Jack Morgan | 5 | |
| vs | Brian Morgan | 8 | |
| Ben Bracey | vs | Tim Randell | 6 |
| vs | Jack Morgan | 8 | |
| vs | Brian Morgan | 8 | |
| Jack Morgan | vs | Tim Randell | 5 |
| vs | Ben Bracey | 3 | |
| vs | Brian Morgan | 8 | |
| Brian Morgan | vs | Tim Randell | 1 |
| vs | Ben Bracey | 1 | |
| vs | Jack Morgan | 4 | |
Score Plymstock 64 – 34 Mannamead.
James and Chris dug deep in the second match, winning a second set tie break and the third set championship tie break! Devonshire C at home next week which may well decide the league
