Milton Keynes Bandits 6-4 Greenleys Monarchs

League

Premier Division

Wednesday 18 October 2017

Set	Result	Games	Score	Match score
1	Jamie Hendy beat Tomek Nowakowski	11-6, 11-9, 13-11	3-0	1-0
2	Matt Evans beat Oliver Horswell	11-7, 8-11, 11-5, 11-1	3-1	2-0
3	James Tapp lost to Dan Appanna	6-11, 13-11, 7-11, 7-11	1-3	2-1
4	Matt Evans & Jamie Hendy lost to Dan Appanna & Tomek Nowakowski	11-13, 8-11, 11-8, 11-8, 11-13	2-3	2-2
5	Matt Evans beat Tomek Nowakowski	11-3, 11-4, 11-5	3-0	3-2
6	Jamie Hendy beat Dan Appanna	9-11, 6-11, 13-11, 16-14, 16-14	3-2	4-2
7	James Tapp lost to Oliver Horswell	5-11, 7-11, 11-5, 10-12	1-3	4-3
8	Matt Evans beat Dan Appanna	11-9, 11-7, 11-8	3-0	5-3
9	James Tapp lost to Tomek Nowakowski	4-11, 9-11, 11-13	0-3	5-4
10	Jamie Hendy beat Oliver Horswell	11-8, 3-11, 4-11, 11-5, 11-3	3-2	6-4

Played on loan

Team summaries

Team	Games won	Games average (%)	Points won	Points average (%)
Milton Keynes Bandits	22	56.41	384	51.89
Greenleys Monarchs	17	43.59	356	48.11

Player summaries

Player	Sets played	Sets won	Games played	Games won	Games average (%)	Points played	Points won	Points average (%)
Milton Keynes Bandits
Jamie Hendy	3	3	13	9	69.23	260	135	51.92
Matt Evans	3	3	10	9	90.00	167	107	64.07
James Tapp	3	0	11	2	18.18	208	90	43.27
Greenleys Monarchs
Tomek Nowakowski	3	1	9	3	33.33	165	73	44.24
Oliver Horswell	3	1	13	6	46.15	215	101	46.98
Dan Appanna	3	1	12	5	41.67	255	129	50.59

Played on loan

Oliver Horswell played on loan from Greenleys Warriors in Division One.

Match details

Date	Wednesday 18 October 2017
Start time	19:30
Competition	League
Division	Premier Division
Venue	Milton Keynes Table Tennis Centre
Season	2017-2018
Games played	39
Points played	740

Report

Published 26/04/2025 03:36 by David Wackrill.

James Tapp writes...

MONARCHS LOSE THEIR CROWN TO BANDITS

A very different Monarchs side travelled to MK Centre this week, with Dan flanked by Tomas and assisted by Ollie from Division 1 high fliers Warriors.

Bandits fielded their fourth different combination, with Jamie, Matt and James playing for the first time together due to injuries for Mike and Dave.

A close match ensued, with Bandits taking the first two thanks to Jamie and Matt beating Tomas and Ollie respectively. James then went down to Dan with little effort from the Monarchs top man.

The doubles was a close affair, going to deuce in the fifth, with Dan and Tomas coming out of top to level at 2-2.

Matt beat Tomas to make it 3-2 to Bandits before Dan raced to a two nil lead against Jamie, undeterred, Jamie sneaked the third and then took the fourth to level the games.

The two players could not be split, and with Jamie 12-11 up, Dan played a cross court backhand that clipped the net and then took an edge. The whole room took a sharp intake of breath. Dan took the next point, and his serve, which had served him perfectly all night inexplicably went long. The tension didn’t drop, and in the end Jamie took the game and the vital point 16-14.

4-2 to Bandits, until an impressive Ollie took James 3-1 with some great looping and backhand smashes. He is surely someone we will see regularly in the Premier Division next year.

Matt beat Dan with some great play from both ends of the table to secure the draw for Bandits, but James didn’t get out of first gear all night and lost in three to Tomas before Jamie went on against Ollie. The youngsters fought out a tight first two games with honours even before Ollie took the third easily.

But one thing we have learned is that Jamie loves a battle and he took the fourth comfortably to take it to the decider and then closed out the win.

So Monarchs suffer their second defeat this season, perhaps the biggest upset since Wrexham knocked Arsenal out of the FA Cup in 1992?

Player of the match, Jamie Hendy.