Milton Keynes Topspin 5-5 Greenleys Eagles

League

Division One

Monday 12 November 2018

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

Team summaries

Team	Games won	Games average (%)	Points won	Points average (%)
Milton Keynes Topspin	19	52.78	335	51.94
Greenleys Eagles	17	47.22	310	48.06

Player summaries

Player	Sets played	Sets won	Games played	Games won	Games average (%)	Points played	Points won	Points average (%)
Milton Keynes Topspin
David Wackrill	3	2	12	8	66.67	221	122	55.20
Mervyn Kelly	3	1	9	3	33.33	152	73	48.03
Russell Penn	3	2	11	7	63.64	199	107	53.77
Greenleys Eagles
Iain Lindsay	3	2	12	7	58.33	216	108	50.00
Dave Plumb	3	0	10	1	10.00	181	66	36.46
Barry Bishop	3	2	10	6	60.00	175	96	54.86

Match details

Date	Monday 12 November 2018
Start time	19:30
Competition	League
Division	Division One
Venue	Milton Keynes Table Tennis Centre
Season	2018-2019
Games played	36
Points played	645

Report

Published 02/04/2025 04:28 by David Wackrill; edited 1 times, last on 02/04/2025 04:28 by David Wackrill.

RUSSELL TO THE RESCUE AS HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF

My Topspin team kept our unbeaten record for the season after a gutsy display tonight. As an ecstatic Mervyn Kelly succinctly put it “We snatched a draw from the jaws of defeat”, coming back from 3-5 down when all seemed lost.

The crucial 9th set was played out between Russell Penn and Iain Lindsay. Earlier in the match Iain had looked invincible when beating me in 5 games first up and then Mervyn in straight games whereas Russell was in a bad shape, losing tamely to Barry Bishop and struggling against Dave Plumb, when forced to rescue game points in separate legs. Then I recalled Russell’s startling ability to pull the proverbial ‘rabbit out of the hat’ as history shows that he can turn his form round in a flash. I remembered that he turned over Dan Sawkiewicz and Michael Wilkins on different ocassions but in identical circumstances to the challenge he faced from Iain. And right from the start of the set he was all over Iain, hitting classy winners from all parts of the table to win comfortably with just a small blip at the end of the 3rd game when he allowed Iain to sneak home. Fantastic. No one in this division plays like Russell when he's in full flow.

I went on to seal the draw with a win over Dave in the final set. However once again this match showed how important the doubles can be as our loss here (Mervyn/me v Iain/Barry in an excellent set) cost us the team’s 100% winning record. So it was 2 wins each for Russell and me for Topspin and 2 wins each for Iain and Barry for Eagles. Good match and well played all.