Greenleys Glory 5-5 Milton Keynes Topspin

Wednesday 27 October 2021

Game Result Score Match score
1 Jacob Midson lost to David Wackrill (1-3) 11-9, 9-11, 6-11, 16-18 0-1
2 Christine Scaysbrook lost to Mervyn Kelly (1-3) 9-11, 11-6, 13-15, 6-11 0-2
3 John Stamp beat Russell Penn (3-1) 11-2, 11-5, 11-13, 11-5 1-2
4 Jacob Midson & John Stamp beat Mervyn Kelly & Russell Penn (3-0) 11-5, 11-5, 11-8 2-2
5 Christine Scaysbrook lost to David Wackrill (1-3) 8-11, 11-9, 7-11, 7-11 2-3
6 Jacob Midson beat Russell Penn (3-0) 11-8, 11-9, 11-5 3-3
7 John Stamp beat Mervyn Kelly (3-0) 11-9, 12-10, 11-6 4-3
8 Christine Scaysbrook lost to Russell Penn (1-3) 7-11, 2-11, 11-7, 10-12 4-4
9 John Stamp lost to David Wackrill (1-3) 8-11, 10-12, 14-12, 4-11 4-5
10 Jacob Midson beat Mervyn Kelly (3-1) 11-6, 11-13, 11-9, 11-9 5-5
Team Legs won Legs average (%) Points won Points average (%)
Greenleys Glory 20 54.05 368 51.40
Milton Keynes Topspin 17 45.95 348 48.60
Team Player Games played Games won Legs played Legs won Legs average (%) Points played Points won Points average (%)
Greenleys Glory Jacob Midson 3 2 11 7 63.64 227 119 52.42
Greenleys Glory Christine Scaysbrook 3 0 12 3 25.00 228 102 44.74
Greenleys Glory John Stamp 3 2 11 7 63.64 210 114 54.29
Milton Keynes Topspin David Wackrill 3 3 12 9 75.00 248 137 55.24
Milton Keynes Topspin Mervyn Kelly 3 1 11 4 36.36 222 105 47.30
Milton Keynes Topspin Russell Penn 3 1 11 4 36.36 195 88 45.13
Match date Wednesday, 27 October 2021 at 19:30
Competition League
Division Division One
Venue Great Brickhill Village Hall
Season 2021-2022
Legs played 37
Points played 716
Published 21/11/2024 15:31 by David Wackrill.
SLIP SLIDIN’ AWAYDAY AT GREAT BRICKHILL

With Greenleys Junior school suffering a leaking roof Stephen Baggaley had relocated his club’s Wednesday night’s fixtures this week to Great Brickhill Village Hall out in the sticks. Ironically the enthusiastic endeavours of the players in the three matches involved in the compact hall made the flooring ‘sweat’ after a couple of hours and playing conditions became far from ideal, some would say hazardous.

It was a bit chaotic on our table for a while but, amazingly, with the hall clearing of people the last set played with the match result in the balance went without a hitch. Some folk were effected more badly than others and I have to admit that I was one of the lucky ones, perhaps because of either my state of the art trainers or economic playing style (or a combination of both). Anyway, I won all my sets.

Again, for us at Topspin, similar to last week, a very tight match with nothing in it much to separate the teams. We shot off to a 2-0 lead when I beat Jacob Midson (18-16 in the 4th) and Mervyn Kelly triumphed over Christine Scaysbrook, but were then pulled back to 2-2 after a thumping win by big John Stamp, at 6’4” the tallest in the division, over Russell Penn and an equally emphatic doubles success. After that only a single set separated the teams until the end.

Russell scored a hat-trick last week, his first in 26 matches, but was well beaten in his first 2 sets here. Nevertheless, undaunted, he brought a steely determination to the table for his last encounter against Christine and won quite easily.
The final set was the best of the night with Jacob and Mervyn playing out some superb attacking rallies before the home side levelling the match.

If there was a man of the match then that would be me.