Greenleys Eagles 4-6 Milton Keynes Topspin

League

Division One

Wednesday 21 March 2018

Set	Result	Games	Score	Match score
1	Geoff Callaway lost to David Wackrill	8-11, 11-7, 11-13, 11-5, 8-11	2-3	0-1
2	Barry Bishop beat Mervyn Kelly	11-9, 16-14, 11-4	3-0	1-1
3	Dave Plumb lost to Russell Penn	9-11, 6-11, 10-12	0-3	1-2
4	Barry Bishop & Geoff Callaway beat Russell Penn & David Wackrill	10-12, 11-6, 11-3, 11-9	3-1	2-2
5	Barry Bishop lost to David Wackrill	2-11, 9-11, 6-11	0-3	2-3
6	Geoff Callaway lost to Russell Penn	8-11, 5-11, 7-11	0-3	2-4
7	Dave Plumb beat Mervyn Kelly	11-8, 7-11, 11-8, 11-8	3-1	3-4
8	Barry Bishop lost to Russell Penn	5-11, 7-11, 4-11	0-3	3-5
9	Dave Plumb lost to David Wackrill	12-14, 15-17, 14-12, 2-11	1-3	3-6
10	Geoff Callaway beat Mervyn Kelly	12-10, 11-7, 11-2	3-0	4-6

Team summaries

Team	Games won	Games average (%)	Points won	Points average (%)
Greenleys Eagles	15	42.86	325	48.51
Milton Keynes Topspin	20	57.14	345	51.49

Player summaries

Player	Sets played	Sets won	Games played	Games won	Games average (%)	Points played	Points won	Points average (%)
Greenleys Eagles
Geoff Callaway	3	1	11	5	45.45	202	103	50.99
Barry Bishop	3	1	9	3	33.33	164	71	43.29
Dave Plumb	3	1	11	4	36.36	231	108	46.75
Milton Keynes Topspin
David Wackrill	3	3	12	9	75.00	243	134	55.14
Mervyn Kelly	3	0	10	1	10.00	193	81	41.97
Russell Penn	3	3	9	9	100.00	161	100	62.11

Match details

Date	Wednesday 21 March 2018
Start time	19:30
Competition	League
Division	Division One
Venue	Greenleys Junior School
Season	2017-2018
Games played	35
Points played	670

Report

Published 26/04/2025 19:57 by David Wackrill.

This was my 50th match with Russell in my side. He always turns up, is as keen as mustard and 100% reliable. Russell’s also the 33rd player I’ve played 50 or more matches with as a team-mate, 3 of which are playing in MK this season – Julian Adams (252 matches as team-mate) and Sarah Hudson (118) & Gerald Ridgway (also 50). We celebrated tonight with a hat-trick each against the always useful Eagles side of Geoff Callaway, Barry Bishop and Dave Plumb. Russell was sensational and says this is the first time he’s beaten either Geoff or Barry, which I find hard to believe. His no nonsense hitting was surreal at times and well worthy of Guy Sparrow on the next table.

Bad night for Mevyn Kelly though, who never got going and continued his bad run. No win in his last 7 sets now. In fact Mervyn slumped below a 50% average for the first time tonight. He started the season with a maximum and it’s been downhill ever since, winning two-thirds of his season’s sets in the first third of the season, so the end has not come quick enough for him. And when you consider Mervyn's beaten Biao Wang & Ricky Taiwo he should be getting better returns than this.

So Topspin finish in 4th place and I’m looking forward to next year already.