St. Christopher Van Hire 3-7 Milton Keynes Topspin

League

Division One

Tuesday 6 November 2018

Set	Result	Games	Score	Match score
1	Dave Broome lost to Russell Penn	11-13, 11-6, 11-7, 3-11, 8-11	2-3	0-1
2	Fabrice Spelta lost to Mervyn Kelly	7-11, 10-12, 6-11	0-3	0-2
3	Paul Haigh beat David Wackrill	11-5, 11-9, 11-6	3-0	1-2
4	Dave Broome & Paul Haigh lost to Mervyn Kelly & David Wackrill	9-11, 11-7, 9-11, 9-11	1-3	1-3
5	Fabrice Spelta lost to Russell Penn	12-10, 11-8, 6-11, 6-11, 8-11	2-3	1-4
6	Dave Broome lost to David Wackrill	9-11, 7-11, 10-12	0-3	1-5
7	Paul Haigh beat Mervyn Kelly	11-5, 11-6, 11-7	3-0	2-5
8	Fabrice Spelta lost to David Wackrill	7-11, 8-11, 11-4, 6-11	1-3	2-6
9	Paul Haigh beat Russell Penn	6-11, 8-11, 11-9, 11-5, 11-5	3-2	3-6
10	Dave Broome lost to Mervyn Kelly	7-11, 11-5, 6-11, 12-10, 8-11	2-3	3-7

Team summaries

Team	Games won	Games average (%)	Points won	Points average (%)
St. Christopher Van Hire	17	42.50	363	49.45
Milton Keynes Topspin	23	57.50	371	50.55

Player summaries

Player	Sets played	Sets won	Games played	Games won	Games average (%)	Points played	Points won	Points average (%)
St. Christopher Van Hire
Dave Broome	3	0	13	4	30.77	244	114	46.72
Fabrice Spelta	3	0	12	3	25.00	220	98	44.55
Paul Haigh	3	3	11	9	81.82	192	113	58.85
Milton Keynes Topspin
Russell Penn	3	2	15	8	53.33	274	140	51.09
Mervyn Kelly	3	2	11	6	54.55	200	100	50.00
David Wackrill	3	2	10	6	60.00	182	91	50.00

Match details

Date	Tuesday 6 November 2018
Start time	19:30
Competition	League
Division	Division One
Venue	Forster Institute, Leighton Buzzard
Season	2018-2019
Games played	40
Points played	734

Report

Published 03/04/2025 06:20 by David Wackrill.

PEERLESS PAUL TOPPLES TOPSPIN TRIO

Topspin’s annual visit to the only subterranean venue in MK league (Forster Institute) resulted in our 6th win from 6 matches despite the brilliance of Paul Haigh who fought a one-man battle for the home side. Paul's fine touch tonight saw him race to straight game wins over Mervyn Kelly and myself with consummate ease before he found himself trailing by 2 games to Russell Penn. But Paul dug deep to raise his own game even higher and once he survived a tricky 3rd game, which stood at 9-9, Paul romped home in the 4th and 5th.

Paul’s win against me relieved me of my 100% record for the season and ended a run of 20 wins, which is the best in the Division since a Michael Wilkins 31 run of wins in 2015 was ended, ironically enough, by Russell Penn.

It was a good quality match with everyone playing pretty well. David Broome and Fabrice Spelta had also both taken Russell to a decider, David at one stage leading him 2-1 in games and Fabrice 2-0. The doubles went Topspin’s way with Mervyn and me besting Paul and David to continue Van Hire’s winless run this season. And in an big hitting finale Mervyn had to overcome David in yet another exciting 5-game set.